Friday, February 05, 2016

NICE WORK, LI'L FALWELL: Evangelical Trump Drops F-Bomb in Major Speech With Kids in Audience

Last week, Iowa evangelical leader Robert Vander Plaats expressed surprise and confusion over the endorsement of Donald Trump by Jerry Falwell's son:

I’m just confused and flabbergasted by the endorsement. I don’t think his endorsement is going to move people. I think when people see Trump is not a conservative—he’s pro-choice. He’s not going to stand up for marriage. He’s not going to stand up to an activist court. He wants to make deals with the establishment and he’s shown judgment and temperament that people are very concerned [about].

As if to reinforce the notion that Trump is an opportunistic chameleon, today Mr. Trump dropped the F-bomb in a major speech in front of thousands of children.

Yes, Rubio's Amnesty bill provided legal status, work permits for criminals

By Jeremy Beck

Fact Check's Robert Farley looked into Ted Cruz's claim that Marco Rubio's immigration bill would have granted legal status (and work permits) to criminal aliens. Farley's piece, "Cruz Distorts Rubio's Immigration Stance," was picked up by USA Today and The Huffington Post among others.

Farley concluded that, "one could argue that Rubio’s plan would allow those convicted of some misdemeanor crimes to obtain legal residency, but Cruz’s blanket claim that Rubio “advocates amnesty for criminals who are here illegally” omits the criminal exceptions that Rubio has outlined."

U.N. TO OBAMA BFF IRAN: Hey, if you could stop raping and executing 9-year olds, that would be greaaaaaaaaat

By Russ Read

The U.N. body charged with protecting the rights of children has told the government of Iran that its laws allowing sex with girls as young as 9-years-old and capital punishment of minors must be changed.

The U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child announced it’s condemnation of Iran’s practices Thursday after 18 experts completed a review of 14 countries, including Iran. Iran’s current law allows the state to execute minors for capital crimes, a violation of international agreements as well as the forced marriage of young girls.

Larwyn’s Linx: Exposed: Open-borders GOP lobbyists attack Sessions, Cruz

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Nation

Exposed: Open-borders GOP lobbyists attack Sessions, Cruz: Michelle Malkin
Former Amarillo Resident Sounds the Alarm on Islamic Resettlement: MB
Obama reinstates ‘catch-and-release’ policy for illegal immigrants: Stephen Dinan

Issa: FBI Has No Choice But To Recommend Clinton Indictment: Katie Pavlich
Cruz Bleeding the Man Who Would Be President: Lawrence Person
Pathetic Jeb reduced to begging for applause at NH campaign stop: Shawn Langlois

Trump's cash crunch: Frank Friday
Marco Rubio: The Remainderman: Buchanan
Oh-Oh!! Democratic Party in trouble in Iowa!: Gretawire

Hillary’s Iowa ‘Win’ Is A Big Loss For Democrats: Jonah Goldberg
Hillary's Painful Explanation: $675K For Goldman Sachs Speeches: Hannity
An Open Letter to Jeb Bush: Mona Charen

The Democrats' New Game for Protecting Hillary: Ace
Obama at the Mosque: Patterico
Obama invited Hamas-linked CAIR official to visit Baltimore mosque with him: Robert Spencer

Economy

Welfare moms unhappy with free lodging, prepared meals, WiFi, maid service: Ed Straker
Obama Administration Misled Americans During the 2013 Debt-Ceiling Debate: Veronique De Rugy
The nation's least-competitive job market: Chicago: Katherine Davis

Scandal Central

Carol Bundy Sends: WRSA
Judge Wants Explanation from State Department on ‘Newly’ Discovered Clinton Records: JW
20 Planned Parenthood Clinics Have Harvested Body Parts From Aborted Babies: Micaiah Bilger

Climate & Energy

Obama to propose $10-a-barrel oil tax: Michael Grunwald
With Zika, Time to Bring Back DDT: Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Hillary Clinton Says Six Figures in Fossil Fuel Contributions Is ‘Not Very Much’: Jill Pape, Greenpeace

Media

Frank Luntz Plays Favorites With Marco Rubio: S.V. Dáte
NYT: Cruz Victory Not Historic; He Doesn’t Meet “Conventional Expectations” of a Latino: Patterico
In Iowa Cruz Fared Better Than Rubio Or Trump With Young And Blue Collar Voters: LoneCon

On Seeing Clearly And Acting Sincerely: Liberty's Torch
Strong Man: Five Reasons this is a very bad idea: Gail Boer
What if there really ‘is’ a specific plan to transform America into an Islamic nation by 2020?: BNI

World

Non-Islamic Islamic State Savage Child Abuse Continues: Jawa Report
While we obsess over Trump, something TRULY terrifying is happening: Allen West
Conquest: 16 Million Migrants Heading to Europe This Year: Pamela Geller

IDF Preparing for Arrival of ISIS on Syrian Border: Yaakov Laapin
HAMAS Pal Jimmy Carter Prefers Trump to Cruz: Debbie Schlussel
Freedom of Navigation in a Chinese Gulag: Peter Navarro

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot: Yongdong Wang
Mother Knows Best: The Audacious Epigone
The WW2 flying wing decades ahead of its time: Stephen Dowling

Cornucopia

CLAIM: Michelle Obama has plastic surgery at Walter Reed on taxpayer’s dime: Coach Is Right
Breaking the Diddle Report: WFB
Gun Control: iOTW Report

Image: Insiders: Bernie scored in debate with Wall Street slams
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "The Director is somebody who cares a great deal about national security and with the body of evidence, he really has no choice but to refer this for indictment. We have communications back and forth to the President from Hillary Clinton's private email, we have 1300 sensitive documents, 22 classified at the highest level, this is well past anyone claiming that they didn't know.

In this case she made a choice. She made a choice to have a private server, she made a choice to use it with highly sensitive material, she made a choice to receive and re-transmit documents that should have been classified and have later been classified. These choices are what the prosecution will really be about." --Rep. Darrell Issa

Thursday, February 04, 2016

HIJRAH: Why Is Small Town America Being Flooded With Islamic "Refugees"?

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Looks like my old stomping grounds in Montana are heating up. People there are not taking Obama’s plan to force refugees on them lying down. There was a protest in Missoula, Montana at 10 a.m. this morning over that very issue. It is just one of many battles brewing out there in small town America.

Small towns in the sparsely populated parts of America are the perfect place to relocate these refugees. Especially if your agenda includes politically terraforming the country. The West is historically conservative in their politics. Many are Republicans and Libertarians. Even the Democrats hearken back to an earlier time when they were more conservative in nature. Obama and the Democrats can’t have that. They need to have an entire country willing to submit to Marxist diktats. They need areas seeded with those who will vote Democrat and ensure that they stay in power no matter what.

VILE: Torrent of Appalling, Anti-Israel Screeds Discovered in Hillary Email Dump

By Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Server dump reveals Clinton confidants savaging Prime Minister and plotting against Israel

Earlier this week, I wrote about Hillary Clinton’s interactions with Sid Blumenthal and her troubling praise of his son, Max Blumenthal’s anti-Israel agenda. Mr. Blumenthal, one of her most trusted advisers, sent her dozens of anti-Israel articles, ideas and advice during her time as Secretary of State. But the stream of anti-Israel advice received by Ms. Clinton was much more comprehensive. Now, we see emails between Ms. Clinton and other advisors and the results are equally appalling.

"Select, Do Not Settle"

By Dan from New York

When I was a kid growing up in NYC, a big men’s clothing store (Barney’s) used this as its tagline: “Select, Don’t Settle.” Many years later, the thought now applies to Ted Cruz. It about sums it up for me. He’s going to be a great president. The antidote to eight dismal years of Obama’s regime. And best of all...

Larwyn’s Linx: Trump Drops 9 Points in First National Poll Since Iowa

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Nation

Trump Drops 9 Points in First National Poll Since Iowa: RightPundit
The Null Party: The Z Man
Lunch Money Surrendered: David Thompson

Damning Op-Ed: How Hillary's Top Aides Are Rabidly Anti-Israel: Tiffany Gabbay
Trump Handles Iowa Loss as Well as Expected: Kemberlee Kaye
After Iowa: Thomas Sowell

Trump drew record number of new people to vote against him: Ed Straker
Yes, Carson's Iowa troubles are his own fault: Robert Eno
Trump, Who Compared Carson to Child Molester, Feigns Outrage For Carson: Resurgent

Ted Cruz unplugged; says Trump is "losing it": CBS News
Moonbat Jimmy Carter backs Trump in GOP race for President: Jack Blanchard
Anti-Wall St. crusader Hillary explains accepting $675k from Goldman: Doug Powers

What’s the Point of Jeb Bush Now?: Erick Erickson
Top Rand Paul Super PAC Donor Endorses Ted Cruz: CR Wire
Cruz has More Cash on Hand than the RNC: CR Wire

New Hampshire Target: Marco Rubio: Ben Domenech
The Establishment Is Dead: Ben Shapiro
Uh Oh, Was Marco Rubio Guilty In The Ben Carson Dropout Rumor?: Jennifer Burke

Economy

Donald Trump: Clueless About Free Trade: Larry Elder
The regrettable decline of higher learning: Victor Davis Hanson
$19 Trillion And Counting: Veronique De Rugy

Scandal Central

Sources, Methods and Lives: The Ground Under Clinton Continues to Crumble: Andrew Napolitano
Did Marco Rubio’s Donors Fund a Book That Put $800,000 Into Rubio’s Pocket?: S.V. Dáte
Hillary Clinton's Abuse of Classified Info Goes Back Decades: Daniel Greenfield

Climate & Energy

Dr. John Christy’s powerful Senate testimony yesterday: Anthony Watts
Climate alarmists manipulate the data to make 2015 look like the hottest year on record: Stephen Frank

Media

The Establishment Media Misses The Real Message In Cruz’s Iowa Victory: CHQ
Shoot Don’t Shoot: Kenn Blanchard
Poll: Cruz and Rubio Gain After Iowa: Morning Consult

Cruz: Democrats will win if Rubio is GOP nominee: Ryan Lovelace
Mark Levin has an idea for Trump: Scoop
What a Scott Brown Endorsement of Donald Trump Says: DTG

World

Obama Visits An American Mosque: Herschel Smith
Will Banning Muslim Migration Ruin the Anti-ISIS Coalition?: Sultan Knish
‘Hijab Barbie’ could be coming next: Carmine Sabia

Why I am a member of Peace When: The Augean Stables
Calculation error: Iran’s $50 billion signing bonus is suddenly $100 billion: J.E. Dyer
Finally, Obama Will Confront America’s Most Dangerous Enemy: Leon H. Wolf

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The F-35’s Terrifying Bug List: Patrick Tucker
Germany's Fusion Reactor Creates Hydrogen Plasma In World First: Robin Andrews
Birds Of Prey Take Down Rogue UAVs: Kylie Bull

Cornucopia

Donald Trump's Amazing Statement About Ted Cruz's Iowa Win: The Erick Erickson Show
“Obviously You Don’t Know Much About Adventures.”: MOTUS
Math Is Hard: Illinois Policy

Image: How a Trump Tantrum Alters the Race
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "After suppressing his inner rage at having been beaten for about 24 hours, Trump broke loose with a bizarre Twitter barrage accusing Cruz of having stolen the caucus from him. Trump’s accusation of fraud are predictably lame, bitter, and lacking in credibility. Since no one is claiming that Cruz’s people actually stole votes or falsified the results, all this amounts to is comical and childish sour grapes, especially since they come from a candidate that has spent the last six months hurling abuse at any and all rivals.

Perhaps Trump’s fans will buy into his sense of grievance, but it remains to be seen whether this sort of thing, which reflects the flip side of the confident, brash personality that voters seemed to like, will do him any good. But whether this is one more misstep by Trump in the wake of his foolish debate boycott or not, it’s pretty clear that Cruz won’t be forming any coalition with him." --Jonathan S. Tobin

Wednesday, February 03, 2016

GOPe FAUX CONTROVERSY #705: CNN and Rubio Campaign spread rumors that Carson was dropping out

Renee Nal, writing at Trevor Loudon's site, offers a comprehensive timeline of the rumors that spread like wildfire during the Iowa Caucus votes that Ben Carson had dropped out.

The always erudite and reasoned intellect known as Donald J. Trump, who recently likened Carson to a child molester, immediately called Cruz a cheater and demanded that Iowa re-convene their cauci.

But the facts, as Nal documents, are very different than the reality distortion field that often surrounds Mr. Trump.

"A REAL DUMMY": Mr. Trump's Impressive Talent as a Lying Bully Exposed (Chapter #633)

The tireless Jeff Dunetz has broken another intriguing scoop regarding Donald J. Trump's impressive talent as a world-class lying bully.

The backdrop of the story is simple: a political consultant named Cheri Jacobus was approached by the Trump campaign in May of 2015. A few days ago, though, the Trump campaign recounted the employment situation differently:

THE REAL MARCO RUBIO IN A SINGLE TWEET: "Legalization Comes First -- It Is Not Conditional"

Marco Rubio has spent his entire Senate career fighting tooth and nail for Amnesty.

In advancing his "Gang of Eight" immigration scheme, he collaborated with the loathsome Chuck Schumer, along with Dick Durbin, Michael Bennet, Bob ("Want some candy, little girl?") Menendez, Jeff Flake, and the same-sex senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

Most importantly, however, Rubio told a Spanish language television audience his real plan for legalizing the 20 million or more illegal aliens in the U.S.:

Larwyn’s Linx: The Real Story Coming Out of the Iowa Caucuses

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Nation

The Real Story Coming Out of the Iowa Caucuses: Amanda Carpenter
The Revolt: The Z Man
Ted Cruz's meteoric rise, explained: Andrew Prokop

Choose Your Heresy: Ace
The Top 10 Things You Need to Know About Ted Cruz: Erica Grieder
Dishonest Media Coverage of Last Night's Iowa Caucus: Scoop

Marco vs. Hillary: The Z Man
Hillary’s ridiculousness is approaching critical mass: Flopping Aces
Incredible winning rate of Hillary Clinton's coin flips to break caucus ties: John R. Lott

Chicken Little Chuckie Schumer: America’s Disease-Fighting Phony: Michelle Malkin
What’s the Deal with the Dems?: Patterico
Jeb Bush and the Perils of High Expectations: Candace Smith

Cruz Is The New Frontrunner: Ben Shapiro
How Ted Cruz outfoxed Donald Trump in Iowa: Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Ted Cruz, Triumphant: David French

Economy

Chris Christie's Political Arrogance: John Stossel
The US Debt Just Exceeded $19 Trillion. Here’s How We Got Here.: Romina Boccia
15,029 Chicago school employees make over $100k, despite poor results: Steve Gunn

Scandal Central

Did C-SPAN catch Hillary caucus shenanigans?: Olaf Ekberg
Former I.G.: Powerful Democrat Women Standing in Way of Hillary Indictment: John Sexton
More Emails Emerge Showing Iowa’s Tom Harkin Pressuring Hillary To Hire His Daughter: Chuck Ross

Climate & Energy

How West Virginia Is Leading the Charge Against Obama’s Environmental ‘Power Grab’: Philip Wegmann
YouGov Poll Finds Hardly Anyone Takes Global Warming Seriously: MB

Media

Rubio Copied an Obama Speech--And Obama’s Speechwriter Just Called Him On It: AddictingInfo
CNN, NOT Cruz staff, responsible for Ben Carson campaign suspension ‘rumor’: Renee Nal
Sen. Sasse: Trump Should Answer Policy Questions or Leave Race: WS

Campus Comstocks and the Constitution: Jay Weiser
Where Have All the Men Gone?: Stuart Schneiderman
Isn’t It Strange?: Walter Williams

World

U.S. Judge Challenges Government’s Effort to Drop Charges Against Iran Sanctions Violator: The Tower
Six technologies that the U.S. military is betting on: Brendan Orino
That's How You Do It: Conservative Papers

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Depth-Sensing Cameras Will Soon Turn Every Smartphone into a High-Quality 3D Scanner: 3Dprint
Cody Wilson Announces Impending Release of 3D Files for $150 Machine Gun: 3Dprint
The Secret UX Issues That Will Make (Or Break) Self-Driving Cars: Fastcodesign

Cornucopia

GOPe Finds Itself in Deep Dukakis After Iowa: AWD
Watch A Man Eat Hillary Sticker Behind Her At Post-Iowa Caucus Speech: WS
We Are Refugees Song: Mohammed

Image: YouGov Poll Finds Hardly Anyone Takes Global Warming Seriously
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Love him or hate him, Cruz knows the Constitution. By high school he had memorized the thing, thanks to an after-school program run by the Free Enterprise Institute, which had the teenage Cruz studying the Federalist Papers and traveling the state with a troupe of like-minded adolescents billed as the “Constitutional Corroborators.” His undergraduate thesis, at Princeton, was about the historical and theoretical underpinnings of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. After attending law school, at Harvard, he landed clerkships in a federal appeals court, then at the Supreme Court. And so on.

In light of his lifelong obsession with the subject, I am reasonably confident that Cruz’s diabolical plans, and thirst for world domination, are ultimately constrained by his own fealty to the supreme law of the land. What’s more, Cruz has specific expertise in the constitutional limits of the office he’s currently aiming for. His arguments against the president’s executive overreach have been backed by unique professional credentials, which actually exceed Obama’s. Both men are graduates of Harvard Law, and have been professors of constitutional law. Cruz is also the person who has successfully argued, at the Supreme Court, that an executive order issued by George W. Bush amounted to an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers." --Erica Grieder

Tuesday, February 02, 2016

Failed Dept. of Education Cyber-Security Chief Ran Car Detailing, Home Theater Businesses On the Side

By Ethan Barton

Hundreds of millions of Americans are at risk of identity theft because the Department of Education’s cyber chief spent his time detailing cars and allowing his office’s morale to crumble.

The Department of Education’s inspector general has repeatedly reported the agency is “vulnerable to security threats.” The watchdog simultaneously investigated Chief Information Officer (CIO) Danny Harris – who received more than $200,000 in federal bonuses – for side businesses that involved his subordinates, according to House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz .

LIMBAUGH: Trump Lost Iowa Because He Attacked Cruz ‘Like A Liberal Democrat'

By Christian Datoc

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said Tuesday that Donald Trump lost the Iowa caucus because his criticism of Ted Cruz made him sound “like a liberal Democrat.”

“I don’t think Trump skipping the debate had a thing to do with what happened last night,” began Limbaugh. “This is a Republican primary. It’s Iowa. Conservatives win in Iowa.”

The Constitution, Donald Trump and the Sarah Palin I Used to Know

By Jen Kuznicki

How is it possible to suggest that after all the exposure that Donald Trump has had, the positions he’s taken, and the smack he’s talked, that he is a constitutional candidate who most represents the constitutional restoration of our government, free market capitalism, and a return to our Judeo-Christian principles?

It seemed awfully strange that Sarah Palin would try to help Donald Trump, given that her most memorable speeches and work always seemed to track toward our founding and constitutional principles. I have been a Palin fan since 2008; in fact, my first ever published piece was in defense of this great Hockey Mom from the Great White North, who thought outside the box and drove the establishment crazy. She was the first true maverick of recent years.

Larwyn’s Linx: Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk

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Nation

Hillary Clinton Put Spies’ Lives at Risk: John R. Schindler
Behind Closed Doors, Media and Government Buzzing about Hillary’s Emails: Jon Gabriel
That ever changing Clinton email defense may be running out of excuses: Bruce McQuain

Hawkeye Humiliation: Cruz Crushes Cartel: Daniel Horowitz
Cruz, Rubio Over-Perform on Caucus Night: Reid Wilson
Don­ald Trump leav­es Iowa with a whim­per: Josh Kraushaar

Sanders: Iowa has begun a 'political revolution': Philip Klein
The Return of the Middle American Radical: John B. Judis
How Clinton is plotting to go after Trump: Glenn Thrush

Give 'Em a Few More Days, And Everyone Will "Know" That Rubio Won Iowa: Ace
The RNC Shoots Itself in the Foot (Again): Daniel Larison
Dear American Muslims, Can We Have An Honest Talk?: John Hawkins

Trump's Answer About His Past Devotion To Universal Healthcare Is Unsettling: Red Dawn
Jeb Spends $2,884 Per Iowa Vote: Daniel Halper
Donations to Jeb Bush's Super PAC Dry Up: RightPundit

Economy

National debt hits $19 trillion: Pete Kasperowicz
25% of Feds Would Consider Leaving Their Jobs if Trump Becomes President: Eric Katz
Obama Partners w/Outsourcing Corps Taking US Jobs: Daniel Greenfield

Scandal Central

Hillary’s Email Scandal Envelops the Intelligence Agencies: Jed Babbin
Three Big Unanswered Questions About Hillary Clinton's Emails: Mark Hemingway
Hedge Fund Billionaires And Untraceable Money Fill Rubio Super PAC Coffers: Paul Blumenthal

Climate & Energy

Ted and Trump Take Different Tracks on Ethanol: Maria Noon

Media

Breitbart News: The conservative outlet is taking swings at all of Donald Trump’s opponents: Callum Borchers
The Fundamental Rules of Politics Still Apply: Erick Erickson
Is Donald Trump #Winning, Charlie Sheen Style? We're About To Find Out.: Ben Shapiro

What "Anti-Establishment" Trump Has Said About Pelosi, Reid, Hillary, Schumer, and Obama: Ben Shapiro
Can We Shoot All the Pollsters Now?: Erick Erickson
Iowa Rejects Donald Trump’s Politics of Jackassery By 75%: Erick Erickson

Ted Cruz top Google search for how to caucus for Iowa: FAM
The United States of Trump: Cal Thomas
2016's first loser: Trump's unsophisticated, shoe-string campaign catches up with him: Politico

World

You Won't Believe What's Happened Since Friday...: Clarion
Terror Suspect Was Placed in Charge of Hillary’s Security During Libya Visit: MB
Israel lifts post-attack restrictions on access to Ramallah: DailyMail

Refugees 'will cost Germany €50bn by 2017': EUobserver
Here’s How This Bus Driver Handled a Young Refugee Punk: “Kept Beating Him Senseless”: Mac Slavo
Bearded infidels in the EU capital: Nikolaj Nielsen

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Big Data on the Beat: Predictive policing has arrived.: David Black
16 Vehicles of the Special Operations Forces: Tactical Life
9mm vs. .40 Caliber: Sydney Vail, M.D.

Cornucopia

Sixty Percent Unfavorable Rate = Trump Not Electable: MB
What Hillary Just Said on Camera Could Cost Her the Election: RWN
MOTUS’ Handy Hawkeye Cauci Guide: I’d Caucus For That Guy Even If: MOTUS

Image: Ted Cruz Wins Republican Caucus
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "From my re­port­ing in the fi­nal week of the cam­paign, the signs of Trump fa­tigue were all over. A rally in Coun­cil Bluffs on Sunday hardly filled the middle school gym­nas­i­um, and drew out-of-state gawkers, mem­or­ab­il­ia seekers, and Iowa voters who were there just to see the spec­tacle. His lead­ing sur­rog­ate, Sarah Pal­in, was re­ceived with si­lence in in­tro­du­cing him Monday in Ce­dar Rap­ids. Empty seats con­tin­ued at his events. He not­ably de­clined to pre­dict vic­tory on Monday’s morn­ing shows.

It was clear that the pub­lic’s ob­ses­sion with polls had ob­scured cent­ral real­it­ies about the tra­ject­ory of the race. Cruz had a well-or­gan­ized ma­chine that was far more valu­able than the hype man­u­fac­tured by Trump. Ru­bio’s as­pir­a­tion­al mes­sage caught on late, as his crowds got big­ger and his sup­port inched up­wards. Trump’s sup­port­ers were ideo­lo­gic­ally all over the map, and many of his col­lege-edu­cated back­ers de­fec­ted to Ru­bio at the last minute. (En­trance polls showed Ru­bio was seen as the most elect­able Re­pub­lic­an, con­trary to all the me­dia polls show­ing Trump with that ad­vant­age.)

Even with Trump’s de­feat, this is now a true three-can­did­ate race. Cruz has ce­men­ted his stand­ing as the can­did­ate backed by the con­ser­vat­ive grass­roots—which should hold him in good stead for a long while. His or­gan­iz­a­tion was the best in the state. He’s now hop­ing to beat ex­pect­a­tions, and more im­port­antly, fo­cus his at­ten­tion on South Car­o­lina, where evan­gel­ic­als play an even lar­ger role in the state’s polit­ics than in Iowa." --Josh Kraushaar

Monday, February 01, 2016

NEW EMAILS REVEAL: Hillary and State Department Operated Secret I.T. Network to Skirt Rules

By Judicial Watch

‘We should … set up a stand-alone PC in the Secretary’s office, connected to the internet (but not through our system) to enable her to check her emails from her desk’

Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials to set up a “stand-alone PC” so that Clinton could check her emails in an office “across the hall” through a separate, non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton computer system, Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, “The stand-alone separate network PC is a great idea.” The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State.

RUBIO CAMPAIGN ADMITS: Uhm, Yeah, Marco's "Gang of Eight" Amnesty Bill Really Didn't Secure the Border First

By Julia Hahn

In a remarkable interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer following Thursday night’s presidential debate, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)’s campaign spokesman, Alex Conant, admitted that the 2013 Gang of Eight bill, which Rubio co-authored and ushered through the Senate, did not secure the border first.

In the Friday interview, Blitzer pressed Conant on whether in 2013 Sen. Rubio “called up the [former] Florida governor [Jeb Bush] and asked him for his support for a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants in the United States.” Conant dodged the question twice, refusing to directly answer whether Rubio had called Governor Bush to ask for him to endorse the 2013 amnesty bill. Rubio’s bill, unlike Jeb’s book, pushed citizenship for illegal aliens of all ages.

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Iran Wants to Buy 500 Planes and Resume Flights to the U.S.

The headline and the story courtesy of Ed Driscoll at Instapundit:

Iran will need hundreds of new aircraft as it rejoins global aviation networks, a move that could include direct flights to the U.S. for the first time in 36 years...

...Years of sanctions have left Iran's airlines with outdated and unsafe aircraft. With those restrictions now lifted, Iran is looking to spend heavily with Boeing (BA) and Airbus (EADSF), Iranian transport minister Abbas Akhondi told CNN.

Larwyn’s Linx: The Coming Wave of Oil Refugees

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Nation

The Coming Wave of Oil Refugees: Michael Meyer
NYT Reporter: Clinton’s Problem is the FBI, Not Republicans: David Rutz
Plan to infuse small towns with Muslim migrants meets resistance: Leo Hohmann

Trump Questions: Erick Erickson
Iowa poll reveals a line of attack that could sink Trump: Philip Klein
Wow: Ted Cruz Converts Iowa Farmer Angry About Ethanol Subsidies: Sooper

Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll: Still Trump: Patterico
Seven Questions About Iowa: Patrick Ruffini
Cruz caucus eve rally filled with parting shots at Trump: W. James Antle III

Hillary Pretends To Bash Wall Street Because Iowa Feeling “The Bern”: Thornton McEnery
Feeling and Fleeing the Bern in Iowa: Roger L. Simon
A Felon By Any Other Name: Derek Hunter

Economy

The Fed Is Freaked Out about the Financial Markets: Larry Kudlow
Teachers' Unions vs. Better Schools: Diana Furchtgott-Roth and Jared Meyer
Democrats in Congress waste $2 million protecting Clinton on Benghazi: Sam Rolley

Scandal Central

The Connection Between Malheur, Putin, The Clinton Foundation, And Big Money: Herschel Smith
Too Dangerous to be President: Flopping Aces
Microsoft on the hot seat in Iowa: Mario Trujillo

Climate & Energy

California of the Dark Ages: Victor Davis Hanson
Clinton: ‘Deploy Half a Billion More Solar Panels by End of My First Term’: Penny Star
Quartz: Fix the Climate, or be Overwhelmed by African Climate Migrants: Eric Worrall

Media

FBI Video of LaVoy Finicum Shooting – and Why CTH Is Reluctant to Engage: Treehouse
NAACP leader uses F-word to apologize for using T-word after N-word meeting: Olaf Ekberg
Fox Makes It Easy for Amnesty: KausFiles (2015)

Video: Hillary Clinton is finally confronted with her classified data non-disclosure agreement: Jazz Shaw
ABC Touts Hillary Dismissing E-Mail Scandal; NBC Promotes 'Exclusive Look' at Hillary App: Curtis Houck
Koch network spent nearly $400M in 2015 (and still have less influence than the Times or Post): Jonathan Swan

World

Obama To Visit Maryland Mosque Tied to Muslim Extremists, FEMA Grants & State Dept: Creeping
Children Burned Alive But Rest Assured Obama Will Ignore Them: Sara Noble
‘Tsunami of money’ from Saudi Arabia funding 24,000 madrassas in Pakistan: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Got Entropy? Moar Cryptography and Security Hints for Beginners: Stop Shouting!
License Plate Readers in Texas Are Now Also Debt Collectors: Yael Grauer
Computer Criminal Faces 35 Years in Prison for Passing U.S. Military Data to Islamic State: David Bisson

Cornucopia

Men and Women are fundamentally different: Darleen Click
Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon: C&S
Why This Female Cannot Support Donald Trump: Susan Brown

Image: Internecine Politics – Fox News Debate Executive’s Daughter Is Marco Rubio Press Secretary
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: