Thursday, December 24, 2015

Larwyn’s Linx: A Top Ten List of Hillary’s Lies, Scams, Hustles and Deceitfulness

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Nation

A Top Ten List of Hillary’s Lies, Scams, Hustles and Deceitfulness: Edward Klein
The Great Republican Revolt: Who Benefits?: Paul Mirengoff
Cruz surges in key state polling, but national polling conflicting: LI

Next President Could Repair Much of Obama’s Damage: MB
The Elite Who Are Destroying America: R.S. McCain
Literally a Terrible Candidate: Jonathan S. Tobin

15 Questions in Search of a Democratic Debate: Larry Elder
Hillary plays the teary eyes and bullied cards, again: LI
Hillary Hints At Defeats In Iowa And NH: Dick Morris and Eileen McGan

President Trump: The Z Man
Lying About Gitmo: Stephen F. Hayes
4 concealed carriers use guns to stop violent crimes... in the last week: John Lott

Economy

Government Causing Higher Tuition, Administrative Bloat in Higher Ed: Dan Mitchell
The business lobby wins on unskilled guest workers: Timothy P. Carney
Schools using tuition vouchers see dramatic improvement: Jason Russell

Scandal Central

Politicians Without Borders: John Stossel
Immorality and Contempt for Liberty: Walter Williams
The Death of Gratitude: Victor Davis Hanson

Climate & Energy

Cheap Oil Puts the House of Saud at Risk: David P. Goldman
1800s Poverty Diseases, Malnutrition Surge in Green Britain: Eric Worrall

Media

Mark Levin shreds Wall Street Journal: 'Delusional. Unprincipled. Cronies.': Paul Bedard
Frum on the class war between the corporate and working class wings of the GOP: Ace
Only six GOP candidates likely to make next debate stage: Hadas Gold

WaPo Lets Cartoonist Go After Ted Cruz's Five and Seven Year Old Daughters: "Fair Game": Ace
Secret Recordings of Cruz Shows Nothing Secret At All: Amanda Carpenter
Ted Cruz hits back with his own cartoon of liberal media: FAM

Ask Uncle Max: Schmuck, Putz, or Schlong?: Son of Spengler
Penny Nance discusses Donald Trump's Electability with Conservative Women: CNN
City Councilors Call For Hagen To Apologize Or Resign: Fox 21 KQDS

World

Report: French Jews Fleeing to Israel in Record Numbers: Tiffany Gabbay
How Saddam Hussein Gave Us ISIS: Kyle W. Orton
ISIS Defenses Slow Iraqi Advance: Ghassan Adnan and Matt Bradley

Year-End DHS Memo: Deportations Plummet in 2015: Brenda Walker
ISIS and the Take-Out Myth: Paul Pillar
Chipotle Hires Illegals From Mexico–And Gets E. Coli With Them: Federale

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

AI ‘alarmists’ nominated for 2015 ‘Luddite Award’: Kurzweil AI
Magnesium Nano-composite Has 'Record Breaking' Strength-to-Weight Ratio: Jamie Condliffe
Google Working on an AI-Powered Messaging Service: Alistair Barr

Cornucopia

40 Of The Most Bad-Ass, Masculine, Manly, Alpha Male Quotes Of All Time: John Hawkins
Can You Find the Trans-Panda in the Sea of White Privilege?: MOTUS
FIFY: Sondrakistan

Image: The business lobby wins on unskilled guest workers
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "On the heels of polls showing Bernie Sanders chopping 15 points off Hillary’s lead in Iowa — narrowing her advantage to 50-45 — Hillary Clinton has sent out an email to her supporters today (Wednesday, Dec. 23) warning them to brace themselves for the chance that she might lose Iowa or New Hampshire.

In a highly unusual email headlined “If We Lose Iowa Or New Hampshire”, Hillary speculates that she might meet defeat in the first two contests with Bernie Sanders ...

...Anticipating the possibility — or likelihood — of one or two early defeats, she writes: “If we lose in Iowa or New Hampshire, we’re going to need to dig in and work that much harder to make sure we win the nomination. I’m going to fight as hard as I can to earn every last vote.”

The stunning admission that Sanders might capture one or even both of the two earliest states is unprecedented. Sanders has always led in New Hampshire with RealClearPolitics.com polling average showing him up but 51-43 over the last seven polls." --Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

TWISTED: The Moral Inversion of WaPo Cartoonist @AnnTalnaes

By now, only six people in the United States are unaware of the Washington Post's latest clowntastic screwup, in which a "political" "cartoonist" named Ann Talnaes depicted Senator Ted Cruz's five- and seven-year old daughters as monkeys.


But T. Becket Adams had the best response:

WON’T YOU PLEASE HELP? I'm a single tweet away from 700 retweets on my latest Granny Catlady meme

Brother, can you spare a tweet*?


Interesting side-note: it appears that Her Royal Catlady once supported racially profiling Muslims and even restricting immigration. To be fair, though, she thought this particular video had only been stored on her email server.

* Special thanks to Hollywood legends Adam Baldwin and James Woods.

GOP NOMINATION TRACKING CHART: And Some Thoughts About the Current State of the Race

The accompanying chart represents the current trending chart for the Real Clear Politics average.

• I’d be interested in knowing exactly how many tens of millions of dollars the donor class has blown on Yeb Bush. Even more interesting would be to know how pissed off they are at the RNC and its bevy of Roveian scam artists "consultants" who promised yet another winner and instead delivered a turd.

• Ben Carson's star had begun to fade even prior to the Paris terror attacks, but the former neurosurgeon went into freefall as national security took a prominent place on the debate stage.

Larwyn’s Linx: Cruz: Mitch McConnell Is ‘Most Effective Democratic Leader In Modern Times’

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Nation

Cruz: McConnell the ‘Most Effective Democrat Leader In Modern Times’: Breitbart
Quinnipiac Poll: 50% Would be "Embarrassed" By a President Trump: Ace
Ted Cruz Rising: Stuart Schneiderman

Hillary: No I Won't Apologize For My Latest Terrorism Video Lie: Ace
Obama’s Jihad Denial Gravely Endangers the Nation: Andrew C. McCarthy
Suddenly, Guns Are a Problem: John Hinderaker

Trump, Borders and Masculinity: The Iron Legion
Jeb Bush, take your ball and go home: L. Todd Wood
Quinnipiac National Poll: Cruz Surges to Virtual Tie With Trump: Sandy Fitzgerald

Donald Trump and the American Future: David Horowitz
Hillary Is the Islamic State’s Best Recruitment Tool: Ben Shapiro
It’s Time For The Other 13 Candidates to Drop Out: Ann Coulter

Economy

Gem Buried in Spending Bill: Double H-1B Fees for Outsourcers: David North
Chicago schools’ credit rating sinks below ‘junk’ status: Victor Skinner
Cal prof wonders if 200,000 jobs lost to minimum wage bump is positive: Peter Fricke

Scandal Central

Washington Post depicts Ted Cruz’s children as monkeys. And won’t apologize for it.: Moe Lane
Navy SEAL, dog handler: How a failed mission to rescue Bowe Bergdahl caused irreparable loss: Dianna Cahn
Whistleblower: Islamic Groups Control Narrative Of American Law Enforcement: Pamela Gelller

Harry Reid Under Investigation for Bribery in Utah: PC Graveyard
Vets Still Waiting For Real Reform: Betsy McCaughey
As Muslim women, we ask you not to wear hijab in name of interfaith solidarity: Asra Q. Nomani and Hala Arafa

Media

‘It’s Because I’m Black, Isn’t It?’ : Kevin D. Williamson
"Swedish Problem" Here: Muslims Gang Rape woman in upscale DC exurb; media silent: Stop Shouting
Hiding Hillary: Third Dem Debate Has Lowest Viewership Yet For Any 2016 Debate: Doug Mataconis

Report: Some Jersey City Muslims did celebrate 9/11: Creeping
Pathetic Don Lemon Cuts Off Interview With Kurt Schlichter Cuz He Can’t Handle The Truth: Sooper
Survival tip: Don’t Bring a Brick to a Gunfight: WeaponsMan

Cruz Talks to Steyn: Mark Steyn
Where is the reporting on Iran's Islamic terrorist groups that are as monstrous as ISIS?: Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Muslims Gang Rape 39 year old woman in upscale DC exurb; crickets in major media: Stop Shouting

World

The Pentagon’s Groveling Apology to China for Flying Near a Contested Island: Tom Rogan
Pew Poll: 63 Million Muslims Support ISIS in Eleven Countries: Jim Hoft
Sinister theory: why Mexican government can’t take down fugitive drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzmán: Christopher Woody

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Juniper Backdoor Picture Getting Clearer: Michael Mimoso
15 years ago the CIA tried to predict the world in 2015. Here's what they got wrong: Telegraph
What Happens If Two Driverless Cars Crash? Lawyers Drool: Bloomberg

Cornucopia

White men must be stopped: The very future of mankind depends on it: Frank Joyce, Salon
Keep Calm and Coup D’etat: MOTUS
Ultimate Warrior: One-Third Of WrestleMania VI Competitors Now Dead: ThePostGame

Image: Navy SEAL, dog handler: How a failed mission to rescue Bowe Bergdahl caused irreparable loss
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "I doubt you can find anyone in science claiming that only 75% of intelligence is inherited. The general consensus is 90% and there are many who argue it is closer to 98%. But, you have to leave room for the one true faith so we’ll pretend education and parenting have some significant role.

Of course, even if we accept the lower number it means that 90% of education theory is just nonsense. If little Johnny has a native IQ of 85, he’s never going to be college material. The configuration of the school and the efforts of the teacher will not change that enough to make the effort worthwhile...

...At some point, it is going to be impossible to be both a Progressive and a scientist.

Even more amusing is that at some point, Progressives will be forced to oppose abortion. After all, if IQ is genetic, so is sex and color and sexual preference. Once parents can test for homosexuality and abort the gay fetus, how long before the Cult moves to stop it? Maybe we will live to see Progressive hipsters picketing Planned Unparenthood." --The Z Man

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

HILLARY AND THE U.N.: Your 2016 Democrat Running Mates

By Anne Bayefsky

Islamic activists say 9/11 and San Bernardino were terrible — because of their effects on Muslims.

Over at the United Nations, they are laying the groundwork for the 2016 American presidential election — on behalf of the Democratic party. The perceived golden ticket? Playing the victim card. Wild and repeated accusations are being hurled against the GOP of systematic racism, xenophobia, and, in particular, “Islamophobia.”

On December 18, 2015, the U.N. hosted two panels under the title “The Changing Dynamics of Islamophobia and Its Implications on Peaceful and Inclusive Societies.”

The predominant theme was victimhood. There were frequent mentions of 9/11, but not of the 2,977 who died, or their families. The alleged victims of 9/11 of interest to the U.N. gathering were the entirety of American Muslims.

ISIS, ISIL AND DAESH: The Administration’s Words Matter

By Richard Larsen

Last week President Obama addressed the nation in a rare Oval Office speech. The intent was to assuage concerns that the government isn’t doing enough to protect us from radicalized jihadists, like the couple in San Bernardino last week. But the speech may have raised more questions and apprehensions than provided answers or assurances. And perhaps the largest is in the language used to describe the threat.

The speech made reference to ISIL sixteen times. This is itself significant. ISIL is one of the retired acronyms the organization that prefers to be referred to as the Islamic State has used. The original acronym they employed was ISIS, or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. ISIL, however, has much more broad regional significance, for it stands for Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.

THE RUBIO UNLIMITED MUSLIM IMMIGRATION BILL: Are Establishment Republicans Fools or Traitors?

By Lawrence Sellin

Senate bill 153, the Immigration Innovation Act (or I-Squared), led by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), would allow for virtually unlimited Muslim immigration into the United States. Several of Rubio's most prominent financial backers are among the bill's boosters. Rubio's campaign theme, "A New American Century," employs a euphemism commonly used to describe demographic transformation of the United States brought about by immigration.

A recent Pew Research report found that "nearly all Muslims in Afghanistan (99%) and most in Iraq (91%) and Pakistan (84%) support sharia law as official law."

Yet in the last five years, the U.S. has issued 83,000 green cards to Pakistan, 83,000 green cards to Iraq and 11,000 green cards to Afghanistan.

Are the GOP Elites Starting to Get the Picture Now?

By Sara Noble

Ted Cruz just soared in the latest national poll to a statistical tie with Donald Trump according to a new Quinnipiac national poll. Many are starting to see Cruz as the moderate version of Donald Trump, but also as someone who can radically reverse the damage from seven years of Obama and years of GOP apathy and elitism.

It’s interesting that this poll followed the cromnibus vote. Cruz came out quickly and strongly against it.

Larwyn’s Linx: Time to Thin the GOP Herd

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Nation

Time to Thin the GOP Herd: Jon Gabriel
IQ Is Not Real!: The Z Man
Emerson College Poll: Trump 36%, Cruz 21%, Rubio 13%: Treehouse

The Islam Terror Truthers: Sultan Knish
CAIR and Co. Warn 2016 Candidates Against Spewing ‘Islamophobia’: CNS
Hispanics Vow to Register 1 Million New Voters Against Trump, GOP: Max

Sessions: Ted Cruz Critical to Blocking Amnesty: Daniel Halper
Why Donald Trump Performs Better in Online Polling: Kyle Dropp
The Known, and Unknown, Unknowns in the GOP Race Ahead: Michael Barone

Open-borders money backs Marco Rubio: Michelle Malkin
The Busybody Left: Thomas Sowell
Ted Cruz supersizes his campaign: Katie Glueck

Hillary Clinton's Christmas present to the GOP: Hugh Hewitt
Hillary's comms director utterly terrified facing questions from Stephanopoulos: Althouse
Lakeisha Holloway won CARE Role Model award in 2012: FAM

Economy

Why Are We Disappointed in the Next Generation?: MagFarm
How the USDA Raises Your Grocery Bill: Michael Shindler
The Mall of America is suing Black Lives Matter protestors: Insider

Scandal Central

CAIR’s ‘Deputy Hamas’ Teaches Radical Mosque to Use Guns: Joe Kaufman
U.S. lets in four times as many suspected terrorists as it keeps out: WaPo
REPORT: Facing Investigations, DOJ Claims Right To Avoid Investigations: Robert Gehl

Media

LIES the President, Pentagon and Obamedia MAY have told me: Stop Shouting
Of Course: Obama Blames the Media for Stoking ISIS Fears: JWF
Mika Brzezinski Broke Down And Told The Truth About Hillary’s Cowardice In Facing The Media!: Sooper

The Sessions-Cruz Video Fox News Doesn’t Want You to See: Daniel Horowitz
Veterans to Trump supporters: Promote major movie about Hillary’s Benghazi lies: Jim Kouri
With nothing much else going on, Obama to appear in season premiere of Comedians In Cars: Danette Chavez

Donald Trump Epic Interview With George Stephanopoulos: Treehouse
Trump: "Speaker Ryan is a Coward and Worse": Trump the Media
Trump Is Factually Right on Putin and Journalists: Anatoly Karlin

World

Iran Refuses To Fulfill Its Obligations Under JCPOA, Demands U.S. Lift Sanctions First: MEMRI
Obama Admin: Congressional Crackdown on Terror Will Violate Iran Deal: Adam Kredo
ISIS Stopping Civilians Leaving Ramadi Before Attack: Iraq Defence Ministry: AINA

Obama's Fire Sale Foreign Policy: Claudia Rosett
When Self-Defense is Outlawed, to Run Away is Your Only Defense: WeaponsMan
S-400 Missile Radius: ISW

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Biggest US electric company battles off steady cyberattacks: WRAL
Intelligence Network in the Human Brain Discovered: Neuroscience News
Researchers identify quantum cryptography key vulnerability: Jeremy Seth Davis

Cornucopia

20 Ways To Tell If You Might Be A Liberal: John Hawkins
Blue State Utopia: The Abandoned homes of Harvey, Illinois: Marathon
Hmmm: Guy With ‘F*** Cops’ Tattooed on His Forehead Arrested in Armed Robbery: JWF

Image: Hillary's communications director utterly terrified facing questions from George Stephanopoulos
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "“According to the Obama administration’s latest interpretation, the nuclear deal allows Iran to test ballistic missiles in violation of international law, but does not allow Congress to prevent terrorists from coming into the United States." --Omri Ceren

Monday, December 21, 2015

WE’RE IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: No, Really, This Just Happened Edition

Ever get the feeling that Obama just doesn't care any more? That he's mailing it in?

Yeah, me three.


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

WHITE HOUSE: Congressional Crackdown on Terrorists Attempting to Enter U.S. Will "Violate Iran Deal"

Just when you thought the Obama administration had maxed out the Insane-o-Meter, it pulls another rabid killer rabbit out of its hat. An incredulous Adam Kredo reports:

Senior Obama administration officials are expressing concern that congressional attempts to tighten laws preventing terrorists from entering the United States could violate the Iran nuclear agreement and prompt Tehran to walk away from the agreement.

NOT SHOCKING, LITERALLY: Obama’s Iranian Partners in Peace Trying to Bring Down U.S. Electric Grid

By The Tower

Iranian cyber-attackers have been targeting the U.S. electrical grid’s networks and stealing highly sensitive data, an Associated Press investigation revealed on Monday.

Brian Wallace, a researcher at the cyber-security firm Cylance, discovered that critical files from Calpine Corporation, which operates 82 power plants in 18 states and Canada, were stolen in a breach that began around August 2013 and may be ongoing. The information in those files included passwords, diagrams, and sensitive engineering designs of power plants, at least one of which was marked “Mission Critical.” After analyzing circumstantial evidence, investigators concluded that the data was compromised by Iranian hackers.

Larwyn’s Linx: Transitioning to the Post-Obama Era

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Nation

Transitioning to the Post-Obama Era: Victor Davis Hanson
Saturday Night Leftist Lunacy: Matthew Vadum
Has Hillary Seen ISIS Recruitment Video Featuring Her Husband Bill?: ProgsToday

Poll: Cruz hits 40 percent in Iowa, tops Trump: Al Weaver
Mitch McConnell Warns YOU: Don't Vote For Trump -- Or Cruz: DC Whispers
Sessions on ‘Gang of Eight’: ‘Every Step... Ted Cruz Was on My Side’: Jeff Poor

Calls Grow For Hillary to Return Funds from Radical Islamic Movement: Creeping
CISA Is Now The Law: How Congress Quietly Passed The Second Patriot Act: ZH
Bloomberg group cheers gun control in GOP budget, wants more: Paul Bedard

Does Hillary’s Potty Break Matter? DEPENDS.: Caleb Howe
Up to 40 people hit in car crash on Las Vegas strip: FAM
Homeless Man Allegedly Lived In Army Barracks As Soldier For 8 Months: Blake Neff

Economy

Obama Abruptly Waives 1980 Foreign Investment in Real Property Tax Act (FIRPTA): Gordon Long
Obama Increases Deficit $1 Trillion a Year: Jim Hoft
Paul: Nobody read the $1.1 trillion omnibus bill: Bradford Richardson

Climate & Energy

Climate Change for Dummies: Bill Whittle

Media

NYT: Oh that part embarrassed the boss? So sorry, we'll delete it ASAP.: NewsDiffs
CBS Edits Out Criticisms of U.S. Policy From Frank Luntz Focus Group With Muslim Americans: Zaid Jilani
Pew: Homicide Rates Cut in Half Over Past 20 Years (While New Gun Ownership Soared): Mises

The Debate Democrats Can’t Have: Noah Rothman
Calls for DNC Chair’s Ouster Becomes Serious Issue Heading Into Saturday Debate: Joe Concha
Why Donald Trump Says: “Pan The Crowds”: Treehouse

World

Review of the Final Report on Combat Terrorist and Foreign Fighter Travel Task Force: Stop Shouting
Iran Is More Deeply Tied to ISIS Than You Think: Benjamin T. Decker
In Secret Recordings, Ex-Argentine FM Admits Iran Behind Massive 1994 Terror Attack: Eamonn MacDonagh

Muslim migrants reveal their real agenda for flooding Europe: BNI
Notorious Hezbollah Terrorist Samir Kuntar Killed in Israeli Air Strike: The Tower
Islamic State supporters show training camp in the Philippines: Caleb Weiss

Islamic State has tens of thousands of blank passports: JPost
If the Taleban takes Helmand, then Afghanistan could go the way of Syria: Ahmed Rashid
Forget Climate Change — It’s Jihad Time in the Maldives!: GoV

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Military bosses reveal survival system that is in place if America's power systems are wiped out: Daily Mail
Kelly's Wave: Kelly Slater Wave Company
Hacked: The Twitter Account of Controversial Pharma CEO Martin Shkreli: Samburaj Das

Cornucopia

Don't Turn Your Back To The Light: MOTUS
NOTAM: Bring the heat, Bring the Stupid
Girl's Facebook Post Goes Viral...: RightPundit

Image: Don't Turn Your Back to the Light
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD:

Sunday, December 20, 2015

EX-OBAMA DEFENSE SECRETARY: White House Tried to "Destroy Me"

By The Tower

In a shocking interview in Foreign Policy Magazine, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel accused White House officials of trying to “destroy” him personally in his last days in office. The comments have sent a stream of commentary across Washington and suggest a further erosion of the President’s legacy on foreign policy.

Hagel resigned in late 2014 after he took issue with the administration’s decision-making process, and especially President Obama’s decision not to punish Syria for its use of chemical weapons, ordering the military to stand down on August 30, 2013. This came in the wake of the President’s declaration that the use of chemical weapons would be a “red line.” In Hagel’s view, he told Foreign Policy, “A president’s word is a big thing, and when the president says things, that’s a big deal.” Hagel’s critique of the decision-making process was covered in an earlier post.

PUTIN THE IMMORTAL: Strange Pictures Fuel Rumors That Russian President is a Vampire

Well, it's on the Internets and it's The Daily Mail, so the story has got to be true.

A photograph from almost 100 years ago has some on social media convinced that Russian leader Valdimir Putin is immortal.

The picture, taken in 1920, shows a Russian solider who has an uncanny resemblance to the country's current leader...

THANKS, PAUL RYAN: GOPe/Democrat Budget Funds a Quarter Million Islamic Migrants In a Single Year

By Julia Hahn

The House passed Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, negotiated with Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). A majority of House Republicans voted for the measure, which fully funds Obama’s refugee resettlement operation, all Mideast immigration programs, Sanctuary Cities, Obama’s continued executive amnesty for DREAMers, and the resettlement of illegal aliens within the U.S. interior.

In perhaps a display of loyalty to Ryan, three-fifths of the Republican conference supported his legislation, and even gave him a standing ovation following the bill’s passage.

In passing this legislation, the House has approved funding for the issuance of nearly three hundred thousand visas to migrants from Muslim countries in the next year alone.

The Disqualification List For President

By Karl Denninger

If you vote for, support, donate to or otherwise have anything to do with these candidates you are a traitor to this nation and deserve to be stripped of your citizenship and deported to North Korea.

The list now includes:

  • Senator Lindsey Graham
  • Senator Rubio, who did not show up to vote.

Why?  Not just because they voted for or didn't show up on the Omnibus spending bill, which for all intents and purposes gives Democrats everything they wanted.

Larwyn’s Linx: Movement to Primary Speaker Paul Ryan Out of Congress Picks Up Steam

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Nation

Movement to Primary Speaker Paul Ryan Out of Congress Picks Up Steam: Jim Hoft
Pelosi Explains Support for Ryan Budget: ‘They Were Willing to Concede So Much’: CNS
McConnell: Let’s not nominate a bunch of crazy Tea Party people, folks: Jazz Shaw

Air Slowly Going Out of Rubio Balloon: Michael Walsh
Jeff Sessions: Ted Cruz stood with me against Gang of 8 bill: Scoop
Trump Surges Ahead Again In Post-Debate Polling: Doug Mataconis

Why Now? FBI Decides Terror Motivated Chattanooga Shooter: Meira Svirsky
Obama Rips FBI Immigration Suggestion: “You Sound Like Trump!”: DC Whispers
1-Page Amendment Proves Rubio's Lying About Cruz On Amnesty: Politistick

Democrats Dance on the Grave of the Republican Party: PC Graveyard
As Muslim population in US increases so do terrorist threats: Study: Base
Federal judge rebukes Hamas-linked terror org CAIR: Robert Spencer

Economy

Hillary: ObamaCare Destroys Full-Time Employment: MB
Minnesota Public School Students Sing 'Allahu Akbar’ During 'Holiday' Concert: Creeping
Burger King goes halal: DC Clothesline

Scandal Central

Obama Homeland Security Shut Down Probe into Islamic Jihadis: Philip Haney
IRS to require non-profits to obtain Social Security numbers of donors: CR
DHS Sec. Protecting Muslims from McCarthyism his Communist Grandpa Lived Under: JW

Media

WSJ to Trump: Nice Little Business You Got Here, Shame if Anything Happened to It: Steve Sailer
No Explanation For Why Hillary Clinton Disappeared From Democratic Debate: Brian Anderson
Don’t blame Trump … blame America: Rex Murphy

The Farce Awakens: DBD
An Interview with Antonio F. Branco: LI
Marvel Legend Stan Lee on His 'Amazing Fantastic Incredible' Life: NBC New York

World

Watch Out, America: China's Powerhouse Navy Is on the Rise: Dean Cheng
Calais Explodes Into War Zone As Muslim "Refugee" Hordes Overwhelm Police: Walid Shoebat
ISIS Selling Yazidi Women and Children in Turkey: Uzay Bulut

Why Obama calls ISIS 'ISIL': INN
Nine-year-old girl pregnant after rape by at least 10 ISIS-members: Speisa
Saudi Arabia forms ‘Islamic Military Coalition’ of 34 countries to end ISIS: Mirror

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Why Blockchain is the New Website: William Mougayar
Tech Giant Juniper Finds Government Backdoors in its Software: Kit Lange
Probing to Find XSS: BruteLogic

Cornucopia

Cruz Christmas Classics: Ted Cruz
In Memoriam 2015: Tucker White
The Force Awakens with the 12 Most Expensive Star Wars Collectibles: Robb Report

Image: The Force Awakens with the 12 Most Expensive Star Wars Collectibles
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "It's Christmas, and Ryan is Boehner on steroids. Trump exists because the base of one half of the two-party one-party state can't see what it gets from the arrangement. The new Speaker is now Exhibit A for that argument." --Mark Steyn

Saturday, December 19, 2015

PURE EVIL: Chicago’s Property Tax-and-Graft Scheme Revealed

By Mike Shedlock

On October 28, the Chicago City Council passed the largest property-tax hike in modern city history by a vote of 36-14, approving Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s 2016 budget proposal.

Taxpayers will have to fork over another $588 million property-tax hike to be phased in over the next four years.

Some businesses and taxpayers will simply flee, joining what now is best viewed as the "Great Illinois Exodus".

Someone always benefits from these tax-and-spend schemes. Who is it?