Saturday, December 12, 2015

ONE CHART: Conclusive Proof That Barack Obama is the Greatest Gun Salesman in the History of the World

Writing at The Trace, Adam Weinstein tells us something that we already knew: Barack Obama's unconstitutional gun control actions and rhetoric have spurred the greatest firearm buying frenzy in world history:

In the first five years of Barack Obama’s presidency, the number of guns manufactured in the United States soared astronomically, according to a new report released yesterday from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

DAYAM: Army Unveils World’s Dopest T-Shirt Cannon for Navy Game

Spotted over at BadBlue Sports News via Bleacher Report:


No injured spectators have been reported as of yet.

Another Day, Another Democrat Hack Spitting on the Constitution

By Karl Denninger

Nothing like flatly ignoring the Constitution's due process protections, right Malloy?

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy plans to sign the first executive order in the nation to ban the sales of guns to people on federal government watch lists.

"We intend to prevent, by executive order through my powers as governor, those on government watch lists from obtaining a permit to purchase a firearm in Connecticut," the Democratic governor said in a news conference Thursday.

That might pass muster if you'd been convicted of a crime.

Well, this news is a bummer for the Anti-Bill of Rights Crowd

Spotted over at Ace's place:


Also spotted there: an excellent missive by Charles C.W. Cooke on the Second Amendment.

Larwyn’s Linx: DHS Unable to Give Number of Syrians in U.S. or Number of Expired Visas

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Nation

DHS Unable to Give Number of Syrians in U.S. or Number of Expired Visas: Adam Kredo
Georgia: Two (more) Afghan military trainees disappear: Creeping
Trump: You Should Ban Islamists, Not Muslims: Daniel Pipes

GOP preparing for contested convention: WaPo
GOPe Prepares Brokered Convention Strategy to Stop Trump: Ben Shapiro
Hillary 2 Hours Late to Rally, Audience Groans: Michael Warren

Top US Imam, Professor: Muslims Can Take Property of “Filthy” Christians, Jews: GWP
‘Misunderestimating’ the American People: Michael Barone
Gun Control and No Fly Lists Won’t Fix This: Susan Brown

Clinton fundraises with Solyndra financier: Sarah Westwood
Ted Cruz Is More Dangerous Than Donald Trump: Jake Flanagin, Quartz
Jeb! Haz Plan...: Treehouse

San Francisco is a Sanctuary City for Criminals But Not for the Cops: PC Graveyard
Hamid Mohamed Ahmed Ali Rehaif (Muslim illegal) arrested: FAM
GOP Finds Unlikely Ally in ACLU on Gun Control: Frank Camp

Economy

Hillary’s campaign promises would increase Fed Govt spending by 30%: GraniteGrok
Reminder: Obamacare is Hurting Real People: Guy Benson
The day of reckoning has arrived for oil prices: Euan Mearns

Scandal Central

Under the Radar: Josh Gerstein
Go figure: State Dept can't find emails of Hillary’s private IT tech who plans to plead the 5th: Doug Powers
ACLU Board Member Resigns After Urging People To Kill Supporters Of Trump: CBS Denver

Climate & Energy

Doom: ‘Climate Change” Is Slowing The Earth, Making It Wobble: William Teach
Attribution of Surplus CO2 in the Atmosphere: Ari Halperin
Down to the wire: Delegates at Paris climate conference finally agree draft: DailyMail

Media

Detroit Free Press Uses Pro-Terror Anti-Semitic Imam to Call Trump a Bigot: Daniel Greenfield
Muslim Migrant Rapes US Woman While Chanting Allahu Akbar: Treehouse
Another “Random” Murder, This One Of A Six Year Old: James Kirkpatrick

Why I Joined the NRA Yesterday: John Hawkins
Larry Kudlow: Seal the Borders. Stop Giving Out Visas Until We Sort This Out.: Ace
John Kass: Gee, Obama's Sure Quiet About the Chicago Police Shooting Cover-Up, Huh?: Ace

World

Islamic State Manifesto Details Paris Attacks, Describes Expansion Plans: John Rossomando
US military fails to ‘decimate’ Islamic State leadership despite thousands of airstrikes: Bill Roggio
Time will not prove as kind to Angela Merkel: Chris Carter

Gitmo Is Turning into a Revolving Door for Terrorists. Will Democrats Notice?: Jim Geraghty
A Jihad Army Walking into Europe: Baron Bodissey
ISIS release chilling new 'end of the world' video showing final battle with 'crusaders': Mirror

Yezidi Leader Tells Congress: ‘Because We Are Not Muslims...We Are Being Burned Alive’: Zachary Leshin
Indian Urdu Daily: Murder Apostates That Hindu Groups Converted: MEMRI
No charges for men who posed as 'sharia police': The Local de

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Number of reports of mass cell phone buys grows in Missouri: Linda Russell, KY3
Sick Footage Shows What Muslims Could Do With HUGE Stock Of Cellphones: Amanda Seha
The Navy’s newest ship breaks down, limps into port: David Larter

Cornucopia

Power to the People!: MOTUS
Need A Laugh? Watch This Prius Owner Freak Out: Chicks on the Right
Emails to Dolan detail priest’s alleged ‘pee-drinking’ sex romps: Post

Image: Terror Hunt in Geneva: Traces of Explosives Found in Car; Suspects Believed to Have Come from Syria
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Have you watched the news about President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton loudly demanding justice in the Laquan McDonald case in Chicago? No?

Me neither. I haven't seen word one from the mouths of Obama or Clinton about any of it. All I've seen are tepid, tapioca statements from their spokesmen.

That silence interests me. Sometimes, what politicians avoid, what they won't say, is more compelling than their dog and pony shows and photo ops.

Yes, Clinton did back a call for a Justice Department investigation of Chicago police when the mayor was still in denial. But since then, crickets. She and other national Democrats are keeping their hands off Chicago. And I'm sure you know why.

The guy who runs Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, is their guy." --John Kass

Friday, December 11, 2015

JAYVEE NEWS: ISIS May Have Syrian Passport Printer

By Russ Reed

The Islamic State may have gotten a passport printer, and could be using it to send militants into the United States carrying Syrian passports that are by all appearances authentic, according to a Homeland Security intelligence report.

ISIS likely obtained an intact passport printer and “boxes of blank passports” from a Syrian passport office in Deir ez-Zour when it took the city last summer, the report, obtained by ABC News, states. The group’s de facto capital, Raqqa, also has a printing office according to the document.

THANKS, PAUL RYAN: New Spending Bill Funds Hundreds of Thousands of Aliens from Jihadi Regions

By Julia Hahn

As the government’s funding deadline approaches, Senior Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) and Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) warn that unless changes are made, “The omnibus [spending bill] would put the U.S. on a path to approve admission for hundreds of thousands of migrants from a broad range of countries with jihadists movements.”

As we near a vote on the year-end government funding bill, we believe it is essential that Congress take strong steps to restore the security and financial integrity of our immigration system. In recent months, we have seen immigrants in the United States implicated in terrorist activity hailing from countries including Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Somalia, Sudan, Ghana and Saudi Arabia, to name a few. The risk is not limited to Syrian migration, but encompasses a wide-range of countries and the ever-present threat of post-entry radicalization.

Larwyn’s Linx: Yuge Lead for Donald Trump in New Gravis Marketing National Poll

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Nation

Yuge Lead for Donald Trump in New Gravis Marketing National Poll: AmPower
Tripwire: GOPe Will Use “Mississippi Strategy” Against Trump: Treehouse
Hillary Clinton’s most repugnant lie: Post

The American Reboot: Richard Fernandez
Are Democrats Trying to Establish a Right To Immigrate to US?: John Hinderaker
Sessions on Leahy Amendment: ‘Where Is the Bill’ to Protect Americans’ Rights?: NRO

Immigration and Our Founding Fathers’ Values: Michelle Malkin
CBS/New York Times Poll: Donald Trump Still Expanding Massive Lead: Treehouse
Cruz jumps ahead of Trump in Iowa: Chad Groening

Random Family: The Farook-in-Laws: Steve Sailer
Multiple cell phone purchases at 3 Missouri Walmarts raise suspicions: Andrew Lynch
Illegal Alien from UAE Arrested in FL for Possession of Ammo: Caroline May

Economy

GOP Leaders Silent on Refugee Funding in Omnibus: Julia Hahn
Sessions exposes Ryan, McConnell plan to fund Islamic "refugees": Matthew Boyle
Visitor from Another Planet: The Z Man

Scandal Central

WHOA: DHS, State Halted Investigation Into Islamist Group Linked To San Bernardino Terrorists: Federalist
Report: Islamic Cleric Laundering Taxpayer Money Into Clinton Campaign: Chuck Ross
BOLO – Missing Afghan Military Trainees Still on Loose – Names and Passport Photo’s Released: Treehouse

Media

Zuckerberg Has Islamic Terrorists' Backs: Richard Adhikari
Bloomberg Poll: Nearly Two-Thirds of Likely GOP Primary Voters Back Trump's Muslim Ban: Max
So Josh Earnest, how many mass shooters have been on ‘no-fly’ list you’re so obsessed with?: Doug Powers

The Media Are the Biggest Backers of the Trump Campaign: Leon H. Wolf
Terror Stalks Philadelphia, It Says Here: WeaponsMan
Buzzfeed Asks Mark Zuckerberg To Shut Down Anti-Muslim Speech, Including Trump’s, on Facebook: Sooper

World

Tripoli Response: DoD had forces available to respond: Rodney Graves
Venezuela: Opposition gets qualified majority. What next?: Fausta
Keeping Extremists Out: A History of Ideological Exclusion; the Need for Its Revival: James R. Edwards Jr. (2005)

Who Will Fill the Void After ISIS?: Brent Smith
Persian Gulf Muslim States Have Accepted No Syrian Refugees: Richard Pollock
The depraved Calais migrant muggers who target teenage schoolgirls: Express

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Verizon Has a Bad Idea: Carl Weinschenk
Tesla Model S Owners: You May Want To Double Check That Motor: Liane Yvkoff
Skyscraper computers chips outperform conventional by 1000 ties: NextBigFuture

Cornucopia

SLL: Who Needs Enemies?: WRSA
Obama visits Chipotle, pledges to bring more viruses to US: Cube
it’s like today’s wedgie only bigger: Sondrakistan

Image: US officials search for missed red flags ahead of shootings
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD:

Thursday, December 10, 2015

MARK LEVIN: Constitutional Hulk

Our summer intern Biff Spackle appears to have been indulging in mushrooms.


5 Facts About Muslims In Europe

Writing at Pew Research, Conrad Hackett offers us five interesting data-points regarding the Muslim population in Europe. It is especially relevant today, given the mass migration of Libyan, Syrian and other Islamic refugees into Eurasia.

1. Germany and France have the largest Muslim populations among European Union member countries...

TRUMP IS RIGHT: No More Soft Targets

By Karl Denninger

Trump did what Trump always does when he gets the mic -- he said what he thinks.

The Donald called for an immediate halt to all Muslims coming to America -- as tourists, as refugees, as immigrants.

Not permanently, but for now, until we figure out exactly what we did wrong, how we can fix, and we fix it.

“Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life,” Trump said in a statement.

The reaction from the others in the race -- and Muslims -- was immediate and loud.  He was called racist, unhinged, divisive, dangerous, a demagogue and more.

Larwyn’s Linx: After Jihadist Mass Murder, CAIR’s Sharia Agenda Rolls On

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Nation

After Jihadist Mass Murder, the CAIR’s Sharia Agenda Rolls On: Andrew C. McCarthy
Trump is Not a Fascist, But Obama is an Authoritarian: CR Wire
Liberal Nihilism in a Nutshell: Victor Davis Hanson

Calling Out Islam Terrorism Truthers: Daniel Greenfield
Trump's Luck: New Details Emerge on San Bernardino: Steve Sailer
Public discontent has fueled the Trump phenomenon: Victor Davis Hanson

Ban of Muslims and Others Already U.S. Law: 8 U.S. Code 1182: MagNote
Steve King: Even Muslims In Congress Won't Renounce Sharia Law: TPM
Cops in London: Trump's Not Wrong About No-Go Zones!: DailyMail

Wishing Terrorism Away: Larry Elder
Voters to Obama: Yes, We Are at War with Radical Islam: Rasmussen
Texas Imam Agrees With Trump About Halting Muslim Immigration: Brian Carey

Mass Buy of Cellphones Bought By "Immigrants" at Rural Walmart Sets Off Alarms: GWP
Jimmy Carter Banned Iranians, Deported Students During Hostage Crisis: Creeping
Democrats’ Biggest Vulnerability In 2016: National Security: Josh Kraushaar

Economy

Hillary Clinton intervened for mining firm while secretary of state at son-in-law's request: Fox
Clinton's Ties To Off-Shore Tax Havens: GOP
America's Road To Serfdom: 51% Of Renters Are Over-40 Years Old : ZH

Scandal Central

Pantsuit Gangster: Clinton Met with Son of Mob Boss Seeking Favors for Votes: JWF
VA refuses to fire people for having sex in the office — or selling heroin: Hot Air
Houston: Nation of Islam training Baptist church on weapons: Creeping

Media

Americans Are Ignoring Radical Gun Laws: Bob Owens
Dishonesty, Stupidity, Insults, and Other Problems with the Gun Control Debate: Mark Hemingway
Jump If You Insist, But The Rest Of Us Will Pass...: Springer

NY Daily News Sinks To New Low, Cover Depicts Trump Beheading Statue of Liberty: Tammy Bruce
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Says "ISIL" to Insult and Threaten Israel: GWP
Exclusive: Activists increasingly accuse Facebook of bias against conservatives: Renee Nal

The R Word: The Z Man
Why Trump's Winning: 9 Facts About Islam The Media Doesn't Want You To Know: John Nolte
Compare and Contrast: Obama and Cruz: Stuart Schneiderman

World

While we fight over Trump, France closes 3 mosques, finds hundreds of weapons: Jazz Shaw
America's Muslims object to Obama's push for more self-surveillance: JihadWatch
Child marriages make up one third in Turkey: İZMİR – DoÄŸan News Agency

Defense Secretary Ash Carter: We Have Not Contained ISIS: Rusty Weiss
Are we witnessing a worldwide “Hijrah” (i.e., jihad by emigration)?: Bookworm
New Report: 93% Increase In Immigration From Saudi Arabia: Daniel Horowitz

Hasta la Vista, Socialism! : John Hinderaker
Obama BFF Castro's Greatest Atrocities and Crimes Against Humanity: Babalú
All you need to know about Russian Intervention in Syria in one stunning Infographic: Aviationist

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Pretty Certain Dr. Craig Steven Wright is Not Satoshi: Bitcoin Air
Microsoft: 2016 Will Be The Year Of AI: Fastcodesign
Deep learning identifies dangerous roads from sound input: Martin Anderson

Cornucopia

Imperial German Sabotage Operations in America, 1914-17: WeaponsMan
“Where’s My Effing Spectre!?”: MOTUS
Six Controversial Paintings Gov. Mark Dayton Doesn’t Want You to See: Brian Sikma

Image: Cops in London: Trump's Not Wrong About No-Go Zones!
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Let’s be very, very clear: the Founding Fathers would have been appalled by the 2013 ordinance [banning semiautomatic assault weapons and magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition] passed by Highland Park, and if the Founders were alive today, there is a good chance that Highland Park’s leaders would have been roughly pulled from their homes and tarred and feathered in disgrace before their homes were burned to ash. Men like Jefferson and Adams were patriots who had just won a long and costly war that was triggered by a gun control raid on April 19, 1775 in the towns of Lexington and Concord, and did not suffer fools.

Unfortunately, the Robert’s court is feckless and craven. They passed on hearing the case because they know that if they took it up, they must overturn it. Once they overturned it, the precedent would once and for all gut the basis of all assault weapons bans on any level of government, henceforth." --Bob Owens

Wednesday, December 09, 2015

GOOD NEWS: Obama has no response to Iranian Ballistic Missile Tests

By The Tower

Senators Kelly Ayotte (R – N.H.) and Mark Kirk (R – Ill.) expressed their concern on Tuesday regarding the White House’s lack of response to the two reported ballistic missile tests Iran carried out since the nuclear deal was announced.

In a letter sent to President Barack Obama, the senators wrote that “it is not clear” that the administration took any steps to confront Iran following the launch of a ballistic missile in October, and inquired about plans to address Iran’s latest test, reportedly carried out last month.

SHOCKA: San Bernardino Terrorists Have Ties To Radical Islamic Organization In New York

By Rusty Weiss

The terrorist couple from San Bernardino and their mother had stickers and certificates of appreciation for membership in the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) in New York, a group with known ties to terrorist organizations, and a group whose members and speakers have included Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical preacher who had significant ties with three of the 9/11 hijackers.

LA TIMES: Say, Trump Could Be Right

By David Mills

They didn’t come right out and say it, but they certainly implied it (emphases mine).

FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, began scheming to carry out a terror attack long before they were engaged and before she moved to the United States on a fiancee visa last year…

MARK LEVIN: Marco Rubio Now Resorting to Obama-style Alinsky Tactics to Attack Ted Cruz

By Mark R. Levin



Attorney, author, and radio host Mark R. Levin
I was among the first national radio hosts to support Marco Rubio in his uphill Republican primary campaign for the Senate against the unprincipled Florida Governor Charlie Crist.  Back then, he ran as an unabashed Tea Party conservative.  I also supported Mike Lee and Ted Cruz, among others, in their campaigns against the entrenched GOP establishment.  But soon after arriving in Washington, Rubio decided to throw in with these politicians – including John McCain and Lindsey Graham and take an active leadership role in the Gang of Eight fiasco.  As he runs for the Republican presidential nomination, Rubio has attempted to redefine his position on immigration yet again, resulting in his utter incoherence on the subject. 

Moreover, Rubio’s views on foreign policy are also more in line with McCain-Graham pseudo-conservativism.  It is a kind of naïve and radical interventionism, involving endless demands for American ground forces, that President Ronald Reagan would never have supported – and did not.  For example, Rubio’s support for the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, joining with Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and, of course, McCain and Graham, has not led to democracy.  Instead, Libya has become another extremely dangerous and growing stronghold for Islamic terrorists and a direct threat to our country.  “Democracy projects” have also led to the overthrow of the Shah of Iran during Jimmy Carter’s presidency, ushering in the current Islamic terrorist state that directly threatens America, as well as the more recent rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which was eventually ousted by the Egyptian military, and so forth.  Democracy requires more than an election.  It requires, first and foremost, a civil society.  I’ve talked about this a great length on my radio program.        

But my commentary here is not intended as a thorough analysis of immigration and foreign policies, which may come in a later essay.  This is a friendly warning to Marco Rubio and his campaign donors, advisers, and consultants that they cannot wash away some of Rubio’s less than stellar legislative actions and related positions and pronouncements by embracing and unleashing Saul Alinsky-type tactics against Ted Cruz or other conservatives.  Such unprincipled ambition has not and will not go unnoticed by conservatives.     

Larwyn’s Linx: The Rubio Campaign Employs the Lowest of Alinsky Tactics Against Cruz

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Nation

The Rubio Campaign Employs the Lowest of Alinsky Tactics Against Cruz: Mark Levin
Massive worldwide support for sharia law among global Muslim community: Sierra Rayne
Virginia blogger: Trump is right and you must call Congress tomorrow!: Ann Corcoran

Ted Cruz surges into second in national Republican primary polling: Philip Bump
This is what it’s like to be a Bush stuck at the bottom of the polls: Ed O'Keefe
One Picture – Carly Fiorina Iowa Town Hall Monday Night: Treehouse

National Security Profiling Is a No-Brainer: Michelle Malkin
Trump on Shutting Down Muslim Immigration Until Threat Understood: Creeping
Mark Levin: Let’s Have a Thoughtful Discussion About Muslim Immigration: CR

GoPro Box In Mom’s Car, Straw Gun Purchases By Muslim Convert: Treehouse
Should We Religiously Profile?: Ben Shapiro
Uber Driver With Permit Shoots Gunman In Chicago’s Logan Square: Herschel Smith

Economy

Report: Govt. Wastes Billions as National Debt. Approaches $19 Trillion: JW
Surrender-Monkey Republicans Give Away All Leverage... Again: Logan Albright
9 Harmful Policies GOP Must Block in Budget Bill: Daniel Horowitz

Scandal Central

DHS Head Goes to Terror-linked Mosque to Excoriate Citizens Opposed to Islamic Terrorism: Creeping
Who Are The Most Frequent Victims Of Anti-Religious Hate-Crimes? (Hint: It's Not Muslims): Hannity
U. Chicago Student Who Threatened to Kill White Devils Allowed Back on Campus: CI

Last chance to block Obama’s diktat on how we shall live: Paul Mirengoff
Trump’s Proposal Is Prudent, Wise, Brilliant and Long Overdue: Treehouse
Liberty, Fraternity, Security: John Stossel

Climate & Energy

Mark Steyn’s illuminating and entertaining testimony to the Cruz hearing on climate today: WUWT
We Were Hoaxed: That Climate Change Real Estate Agency Is 100% Fake: Laura Bliss

Media

How Donald Trump Plays the Media: EIB
Mark Levin: Barack Obama Is An Anti-Semite, "How Dare You Lecture We The People?": RCP
Gun Control: An Incipient Tyranny's Desperate Last Stand: Enough!

Five Questions the Islamophile Establishment Can’t Answer: MB
What If Ted Cruz Wins Iowa?: 538
Jeb Bush's super PAC launches ad assault on Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz: Colin Campbell

World

Trump is just like Hitler. Or Jimmy Carter.: Daniel Greenfield
Ammunition and IS videos found in French mosque raid: Middle East Eye
I Do Not Fear Terror Because I Am Redeemed, And I Have Been Predestined To This War: Herschel Smith

Submission Was the Motive: Esther Goldberg
North Korea prepares for nuclear tests as Kim Jong Un survives 'assassination attempt': Express
Donald Trump represents the views of millions of Americans. Does the BBC not realise this?: Rod Liddle

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Columbia engineers build biologically powered chip: DeepStuff
Can physical activity make you smarter?: Kurzweil AI
For male peacock spiders, the best dancers get the girl: Sarah Zielinski

Cornucopia

“Flowing Like Water.” Obama’s Speech Causes Gun Sales Spike: Bob Owens
The timing is right for a populist surge: Rachel Marsden
Before and After Photos of Obama Show Why He Rushed Through His Oval Office Speech: Virginia Kruta

Image: Two Afghan Pilots Missing From Air Force Training In Georgia
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QOTD: "What is the nature of a religion, where the more 'devout' you become, the more you want to kill people?" --Lawrence Sellin

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

WHO TOLD THEM TO STAND DOWN? Military Was Set to Launch Benghazi Counterattack Within 40 Minutes

Ironclad evidence that the Pentagon was prepared to rescue Ambassador Chris Stevens and other diplomatic personnel in Benghazi, Libya has emerged.

The newly released email completely contradicts "the claim from Hillary [Clinton] and Leon Panetta that no forces were available and within reach to provide help to the compound that was under siege."

The billion dollar question remains: was it Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or Valerie Jarrett who gave the order to stand down?

TOM FRIEDMAN’S UTOPIA: Breathing the Air in Red China is Like Smoking 40 Cigarettes a Day

By Nick Sorrentino

Image: The EconomistThe free market is often blamed for pollution. The the unbridled greed of capitalists is the reason rivers flow red, forests are felled, and air is made hard to breathe. And historically speaking there is some truth to this. However what is often left out of this critique is the degree to which governments encourage environmentally damaging actions.

Almost invariably serious environmental degradation happens as a result of a lack of property rights. (In one form or another.) This is not always true by any means but it is generally true. Those areas where no one has any responsibility, where no one is held accountable, are often the most polluted. Oceans, rivers, remote rain forests are all commons and as such are abused.

The One Chart That Destroys the Democrats’ Apoplectic Gun-Grabs

Fascinating chart spotted over at Granite Grok:

Gun murder rates in states where people are heavily armed are much lower than the low gun ownership states.

The ten lowest gun ownership states average 3.9 gun murders per 10,000 people. The ten highest gun ownership states average about half that at 2.0 murders per 10,000 people.