Friday, February 26, 2016

Make China Great Again!

Hmmm:


Hat tip: Commander Spicy Disco.
 

DEEP THOUGHTS WITH DOUG: I guess it's back to drug-testing the summer interns again.

Submitted by @BiffSpackle:


Perhaps Twitter's invaluable "Trust and Safety Council" can step in and stop the madness that is our summer intern program.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Rubio and Cruz take the gloves off against Trump

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Nation

Rubio and Cruz take the gloves off against Trump: W. James Antle III
USCIS Backs Up ICE: 'God Forbid' Rubio Gets Elected: Julia Hahn
How Cruz Could Win: Jeffrey H. Anderson

Sixteen Reasons Why Cruz Is The Better Anti-Trump Than Rubio: Carl Jackson, BCN
Pro-Trump robocall: 'Don't vote for a Cuban': Amy R. Connolly
Trump: I'm being audited: Ryan Lovelace

Justice Breyer: Eight-Person Court “Will Not Change” Supreme Court’s Work: AR2
Why Trump Is Winning: Scott Rasmussen
Trump's Lies Don't Seem to Matter: Brent Smith

Marco Rubio: Our issue is not with Islam: Pamela Geller
Clinton Fans Now Fret They May Get Wanted: Trump: Brendan Bordelon
Mrs. Clinton, Show Voters Those Transcripts: NYT Editorial Board

GOPe Rewarding a Corrupt IRS with a Bigger Budget: Daniel J. Mitchell
Reich: "We Have No Choice" But To Move to Single-Payer Healthcare: Ian Schwartz
CAIR vows to save US from Trump, Cruz, Geller, Spencer: Robert Spencer

Scandal Central

Donald Trump vs George Soros: Who is the bigger Democratic donor?: Mitchell Blatt
Rush Limbaugh: Ted Cruz fought the Washington Establishment, Donald Trump Donated to It: Scoop
Spy agencies: Clinton emails contain info which “closely matches” Top Secret documents: Jazz Shaw

Media

Dana Loesch and Matt Walsh on the Donald Trump Disaster!: Politibrew
A Grudging Admirer of Ted Cruz: Robert Charles
What Lindsey Graham said about Ted Cruz at #WPCFdinner is ‘utterly disgraceful’: Twitchy

World

Brexit: The Z Man
Flush with Obama cash, Iran awards funds to families of Palestinian terrorists: The Tower
Kerry urges Congress not to rush to renew Iran sanctions measure: Robert Spencer

Rubio, Cruz hit Trump for saying he'd be neutral on Israel: Ariel Cohen
Iran to Russia: Take $14bn and build us a modern army: DEBKAfile
The Great Wall of Jordan: How the US Wants to Keep the Islamic State Out: William M. Arkin

Anti-Islamization movement in Europe’s leading crusader Geert Wilder’s latest interview on Dutch TV: BNI
Total chaos in the Swedish police: 'Minimal risk of being arrested': SPEISA
Pictured: 1,000 migrants storm the Channel Tunnel in desperate bid to reach Britain: DailyMail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Mysterious 'Fast Radio Burst' Pinpointed for First Time: Ian O'Neill
BMI Is A Terrible Measure Of Health: Katherine Hobson
Judge Confirms CMU Paid to Break Tor: Threatpost

Cornucopia

Clinton’s HIV Scandal?: RWN
Obama Lies Compilation: Feral Irishman
How Close Was Donald Trump To The Mob? (7/2015): David Marcus

Image: Take off your shoes, Ted Cruz!
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Following Thursday's Republican presidential debate, Donald Trump discussed an instance in which he had to hire foreign workers.

"It's almost impossible to get help. And part of the reason that you can't get American people—you know, they want full-time jobs. This is a 4-month 5-month job."" --Shoshana Weissmann

Thursday, February 25, 2016

IN ONE WORD: Why Rubio Can't Win

By CR Wire

Tonight on his radio program, Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin explained why Marco Rubio is running to lose, the way he’s conducting his campaign.

Listen:

Marco Rubio will not win the Republican nomination because of one word: amnesty.

Rubio’s record as senator, his record as a pro-amnesty Republican, will prevent him from beating Donald Trump outright, Levin says.

The Rubio strategy, Levin says, appears to be destroy Ted Cruz, run for second place, and then try to win a brokered convention. This strategy gives Trump a free ride to victory.

And so, Levin argues, Rubio is playing spoiler for conservatism in this race.   


Read more at Conservative Review.
 

EXCLUSIVE: Spy photograph reveals first meeting of Twitter's "Trust and Safety Council"

In addition to banning Stacy McCain's Twitter account for the high crime of offending feminists, the social network's ill-named "Trust and Safety Council" has also banned the the Twitter account used to promote his book, Sex Trouble. With that said, I think it safe to say that the following anonymously sourced photograph captures the Council's most recent meeting.


Too harsh? I don't think so.
 

Larwyn's Linx: What would a President Marco Rubio do about immigration?

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Nation

What would a President Marco Rubio do about immigration?: John Fonte
Levin: Rubio's Disgraceful Tactics: CR Wire
Fully Delusional Cruz and Rubio Campaigns Ignore Trump As He Soars: Ben Shapiro

Scalia’s Passing: A Reminder of the Stakes: Paul A. Rahe
GOPe Plans To Go “Full Mississippi” on Trump To Destroy Him: Treehouse
Oh, by the way: Just 4% of all Super PAC spending has targeted Trump: Hot Air

Cruz versus Trump: The difference between a conservative and a populist: Bookworm
Hillary Doesn't Know Difference Between Constitution And Declaration: Hannity
Does Ben Carson Suspect His Campaign Was a Scam?: David A. Graham

Why Trump Isn't the Inevitable Nominee: Lou Cannon
Get Over It, GOP: Trump’s the Nominee: Fran Coombs
The Math: Why Cruz is the Only GOP Candidate that can Stop Trump: JD Rucker

Trump: The barbarian at the GOP gates: John Kass
RNC sees leverage over Trump: Daniel Strauss
Cruz Isn't Out, and Rubio Isn't a Shoo-In: Albert R. Hunt

Economy

An Escalating War on Cash: John Browne
How the Affordable Care Act Continues to Fall Short: Veronique De Rugy
Economic Inequality Summed Up in One Picture: MB

Scandal Central

Trump Heading to Trial Over Trump University Fraud Charges: LI
Lynch: Hillary e-mail investigation will get an “independent” review … to a point: Ed Morrissey
A bad day for the DOJ in court; a good one for electoral integrity: Paul Mirengoff

Lexington, MA Now Faces Semi-Automatic Gun Confiscation: Mike Sweeney
The Trashing of Bill’s Accusers: What Did Hillary Do — and Why Did She Do It?: Larry Elder
CNN: Trump’s body language like that of Mussolini: Brian Maloney

Media

If This isn't an Endorsement of Ted Cruz Nothing is! A Must Listen!: Politibrew
Twitter’s “Trust and Safety Council”: Orwellian, or just a really bad idea?: Ed Morrissey
The #FreeStacy Twitter Exodus Has Begun: Daniel Payne

California State University LA Bans Ben Shapiro: LI
A question for all you I-will-never-vote-for-Trump-even-if-he's-the-nominee conservatives: CainTV
Why I support Ted Cruz for president: Dan Patrick

World

The Tough Choices Of Overseas Intervention: Victor Davis Hanson
Israel says Iran building terror network in Europe, US: Himalayan
West told Ukraine to abandon Crimea, document says: EUobserver

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Death of Twitter: The Z Man
The Amazing True Story of How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident: Matt Blitz
Automakers Find Three Root Causes for Defective Takata Airbags: Clifford Atiyeh

Cornucopia

Suicide Is Painless.: MOTUS
The Mercedes-AMG C43 Coupe Is Like A C63 With The Volume Turned Down: Matt Robinson
There's a Word for This: Sondrakistan

Image: There's a Word for This
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "First comes legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border." --Sen. Marco Rubio, June 10, 2013, speaking in Spanish on the Spanish-language Univision television network

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

TOP 5 REASONS TO IMPEACH: IRS Chief John "One Step Shy of Perjury" Koskinen

By Sarah Feldspauch

Taxpayers deserve a transparent, accountable government, starting with Commissioner John Koskinen’s complacency in uncovering the truth in the Lois Lerner conservative targeting scandal. The agency has continually displayed extraordinary lack of responsibility.

Koskinen has also proven to be incapable of correctly handling taxpayer dollars, protecting them from identity theft, fraud, and even lied to the American people and Congress. Clearly, the agency is in desperate need of reform and new leadership.

The following are the top five reasons to impeach IRS Commissioner John Koskinen:

DEEP THOUGHTS WITH DOUG: This Episode --- Trump and the SuperPACs

Another submission by our summer intern, @BiffSpackle.


Larwyn's Linx: Rubio Needs to Step Aside and Clear the Field For Ted Cruz, Not Vice Versa

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Nation

Rubio Needs to Step Aside and Clear the Field For Ted Cruz, Not Vice Versa: Ace
Liberty—If You Can Keep It: Myron Magnet
With nomination looming, Trump slated to take stand in fraud trial: Michael Isikoff

Stat Crimes Matter: Heather Mac Donald
If Cruz Wants to Win, Thursday Night He'll Have to Knock Trump Out: Ben Shapiro
August 2013: Donald Trump Supports Amnesty: Dana Loesch

Judge unimpressed by Obama DOJ’s dive on non-citizen voting: Paul Mirengoff
Van Jones: Bernie Was For Civil Rights When Hillary Was For Goldwater: WklyStd
McConnell: No hearings or meetings with Supreme Court nominee: Politico

A Rubio-Cruz ticket might be the only way to stop Trump: Jonah Goldberg
The Conservative Case Against Marco Rubio: John Hawkins
Gun Maker Seeks Dismissal of Lawsuit Over Newtown Shooting: ABC

Nevada Caucus

Trump Wins Nevada. Rubio and Cruz settle nothing.: Leon H. Wolf
Trump Speech Falsely Tells Voters Cruz Left Nevada Before Caucus: CR Wire
Nevada caucuses: reports of double voting, Trump attire on poll staff: Nicky Woolf

Nevada entrance polls show Trump winning Hispanics: Al Weaver
Nevada: irregularities, disorganization and violations of caucus rules: Kyle Cheney
Caucus chaos in Nevada as voters report instances of possible fraud: David M. Drucker

Economy

H-1B Hell: Obama DOJ Throws Fired SoCal Edison Workers Under Bus: Michelle Malkin
Starving on the Prosciutto-and-Brie Poverty Diet: Michelle Malkin
Gullible Americans: Walter Williams

Scandal Central

Using @Twitter's own risk factor analysis to force it to respect viewpoint diversity: Bainbridge
Big Trouble for Hillary: Federal Judge Grants 'Judicial Watch' Discovery on Emails: Debra Heine
Obama says he will close Gitmo – give terrorists Miranda rights: FAM

Media

Red Ears Reveal Rubio’s Immigration Lies during O’Reilly Interview: Brenda Walker
Black Nationalist: ‘A Black Person Voting for Hillary Clinton Is Like a Jew Voting for Adolf Hitler’: Sam Reisman
Adam Baldwin sets the record straight, bids farewell to Twitter: Twitchy

Exclusive: Inside The Donald Trump Sexual Assault Lawsuit: Rachel Stockman
Brutal Ad Released Ripping Trump on Illegal Immigration Flip-Flop: DailyWire
Trump: 'I Really Don't Even Know What I Mean, Because That Was a Long Time Ago': Susan Jones

Twitter Doubles Down Stacy McCain’s SexTroubleBook account banned: DTG
'Average Mohamed' Cartoons Fight Radicalization in U.S.: Clarion
Federal Court Grants Judicial Watch Discovery on Clinton Email Issue: JW

World

Obama’s Plan to Close Guantánamo Would Establish Indefinite Detention on U.S. Soil: Murtaza Hussain
New York: Muslim rams patrol car, shoots two cops in Brooklyn: Creeping
Trump slams Iraq invasion, after first supporting it: Times of Israel

Russia wants to fly over U.S. with advanced digital camera: Times
Up to 5,000 Syria-trained jihadists back in Europe: EUobserver
68,000 migrants arrived in Greece in January: EUobserver

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The man who made 'the worst video game in history': Richard Hooper
The Eight Principles That Made Google the Most Innovative Company on Earth: Steven Kotler
These 5 Viral Puzzles Are Baffling the Internet—Can You Solve Them?: Sage Lazzaro • 02/23/16 12:44pm

Cornucopia

Einstein: He Really Was All That: MOTUS
Hitler 'had tiny deformed penis' as well as just one testicle, historians claim: Telegraph
Ronda Rousey on 'Tonight Show' Photoshopped Picture: It 'Goes Against Everything I Believe': NBC-4

Image: Red Ears Reveal Rubio’s Immigration Lies during O’Reilly Interview
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "On Friday, Breitbart News published an exclusive interview with Chris Crane, an ICE officer of 13 years and a U.S. Marine, in which Crane said Sen. Rubio treated law enforcement “like absolute trash” during his push to pass his 2013 amnesty bill. On Saturday, Rubio appeared on Fox News and implicitly denounced Crane and his service to the country. “He’s not an ICE official, he’s head of a union,” Rubio said angrily.

Miller, who worked for Sen. Sessions as Rubio sought to push the Gang of Eight amnesty bill through the Senate, explained that: “Chris Crane was a central figure in stopping the Gang of Eight immigration bill from becoming law. He did that in his capacity as the ICE Council President for America’s nearly 6,000 ICE officers and personnel. What that means is that the 6,000 ICE officers and personnel cast a ballot to pick one from among their own ranks to represent them nation-wide… He [Crane] was a central figure in exposing the Gang of Eight bill and stopping it.”

Miller explained that rather than rebutting ICE officer Crane’s specific accusations, Rubio responded by attacking Crane’s integrity... Rubio’s treatment of law enforcement and his implicit denunciation of Crane “really has become one of the central issues of the 2016 race,” Miller said." --Julia Hahn

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

SCORCHED EARTH FOR A GENERATION: President Hillary and the End of the Second Amendment

By Wayne LaPierre

“Only Eight Years of President Hillary Can Take the Supreme Court Away From Conservatives”

That headline on the Daily Beast website succinctly lays out the devastating threat to our liberty that defines the coming November elections—demanding that we as NRA members mobilize as never before.

You can bet that a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court will make sure to carry out her threat to “take back the Second Amendment” and that the protections of the First Amendment on free assembly and free speech—as exercised to perfection by NRA members—will be erased.

That entire progressive agenda is in danger if they “don’t get a lock on the White House and pack the bench for a generation.”

An Open Letter to Senator Sanders

By David Brock

Dear Senator Sanders,

I’m writing today to urge that you and your campaign immediately halt all negative campaigning against our party’s prospective candidate for the Presidency, Secretary Hillary Clinton.

After first pledging to wage a positive campaign for President, you and your campaign have for weeks now engaged in a relentlessly ugly barrage of false character attacks against Mrs. Clinton, including running negative TV advertising of the sort you promised you never would.

Following the Nevada caucuses, you had the opportunity to live up to the self-professed ideals of your own campaign by delivering an aspirational message of systemic change, but instead you chose to ramp up spurious negative attacks against the winner of those caucuses.

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: The Democrats's Phony Gun Violence "Epidemic"

By Richard Larsen

On the first day of the year, President Obama declared that he could “no longer sit around and do nothing about the epidemic of gun violence” in this country. The New York Times in December published a front-page editorial titled “End the Gun Epidemic in America.” But do we really have an “epidemic,” and at what point does hyperbole damage rational debate and resolution?

To illustrate how hyperbolic the notion of “epidemic of gun violence” is, let’s look at what real epidemics look like. Typhus, which spread throughout Europe during the Thirty Years War in the 1600s claimed over 10 million lives. It resurfaced during the 20th century, and caused several million deaths during WWI in Eastern Europe.

Larwyn's Linx: Refuting the Lies About Cruz Told by Rubio and His Supporters

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Nation

Refuting the Lies About Cruz Told by Rubio and His Supporters: Patterico
White House slashed NYC anti-terror funding to punish Schumer: Dan Friedman
Illegals will be voting in the 2016 election: Flopping Aces

Trump’s brilliant 30 second indictment of an open borders policy: Kevin Collins
LifeZette Exclusive: Sessions Says No to Rubio: Jon Conradi
The Math and the Map: Mark Steyn

Robert B. Reichhhh Produces the Best Campaign Ad Ted Cruz Could Wish For: EIB
Ted Cruz fires communications director after doctored Rubio video: Ace
A Republic If We Can Keep It – A Message To Ted Cruz Supporters: Treehouse

Bernie Sanders: the ghost of socialism past: The Z Man
Why Democrats Should Beware Sanders’ Socialism: Paul Starr, Politico
Constitutional Carry Convincingly Passes in West Virginia Senate: Bob Owens

Rubio's Rocky Road Ahead: Caitlin Huey-Burns
Suggested Cruz Campaign Reboot: Show, Don’t Tell: David Limbaugh
Paranoid Politics: Thomas Sowell

Economy

Bernie Sanders, Lifelong Stalinist: MB
Government Illegally Diverts Billions to Obamacare Reinsurance Slush Fund: ATR
Obama is looting the Treasury to pay off insurers: Betsy McCaughey

Scandal Central

Lawsuit: Obama DOJ Goes to Federal Court to Facilitate Non-Citizen Voter Registration: True the Vote
Almost 90,000 dangerous illegal immigrants go free: Paul Bedard
Obama Making Sure Non-Citizens Vote: Daniel Horowitz

Trump Threatens Private Donor For Contributing Against Him. That Should Scare You.: Ben Shapiro
Reporter has Hillary’s Wall Street speech transcripts: Olaf Ekberg
New Document in Criminal Corruption Case against Hillary Clinton in Whitewater Affair: JW

Media

Conservatives are prisoners of Twitter: William A. Jacobson
#FreeStacy: @rsmccain ‘Will Not Be Restored’; @SexTroubleBook Suspended: R.S. McCain
#FreeStacy – Another Conservative Dissident Is Banned And Put In The Twitter Gulag: NoisyRm

Biden in 1992: No hearings for GOP Supreme Court appointment: Joel Gehrke
Mark Levin on The Five: “The hate for Ted Cruz, the love for Marco Rubio is UNMISTAKABLE”: Scoop
Hillary tries preacher routine at gospel awards show: Olaf Ekberg

Actor Adam Baldwin Quits Twitter “For Good” In Protest Of The Platform Censoring Conservatives: Benny Johnson
Twitter Bans Conservative Blogger, “Kill Trump” Account Still Active 6 Months Later: Paul Joseph Watson
Twitters’ War Against Conservatives Widens: BattleSwarm

World

Obama Releasing Plan to Close Guantanamo: Molly O'Toole
Norwegian government: We will abandon international law if Sweden collapses: SPEISA
Moderate Malaysia: Muslims pressuring children in Catholic schools to convert to Islam: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

RIP Twitter: Larry Correia
OPM tech head resigns before having to testify: Rudy Takala
Bill Gates: An energy miracle is coming, and it's going to change the world: Drake Baer

Cornucopia

Blue State Nirvana: Photo Gallery of Abandoned Homes in Chicago: Marathon
Game of Thrones: Winter is Trumping: Exam
Pink Floyd Monday: MOTUS

Image: White House slashed NYC anti-terror funding to punish Schumer
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "I welcome Ms. Seymour’s retirement and hope that it will represent an important turning point at an agency plagued with mismanagement and negligence at the highest level. Last year, OPM fell victim to the worst cyber-attack in United States’ history largely due to internal failure within the agency to implement proper cybersecurity measures. Throughout the course of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into the hack, it came to light that OPM officials ignored an Inspector General’s cybersecurity recommendations, leaving the personal information of millions of federal employees, members of the U.S. military, and intelligence officials vulnerable to a hack.

The OPM attack was a failure at every level and will have security implications for decades to come. I look forward to a new day ahead at OPM and am eager to work to ensure that the necessary measures are taken to prevent a data breach of this magnitude from ever happening again" --Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC)

Monday, February 22, 2016

The Fed's Nightmare Scenario Is Rapidly Becoming Reality

By Peter Schiff

Operating under the mistaken belief that a modest dose of inflation is either a prerequisite for, or a by-product of, economic growth, the nation’s top economists have been assuring us for quite some time that inflation will stay very low until the currently mediocre economy finally catches fire. As a result, they believe that the low inflation of the past few months has frustrated Federal Reserve policy makers, who have been supposedly chomping at the bit to keep hiking rates in order to restore confidence in the present and to build the ability to cut rates in the future if the nation were to ever, god forbid, enter another recession.

OBAMACARE: A Naked Plot to Bankrupt America

By Cliff Kincaid

One topic of conversation in the Republican race for the White House has been whether President Obama has been incompetent, or actually knows what he’s doing. On the matter of Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Obamacare, self-declared socialist Professor Gerald Friedman seems to agree with conservatives that it can’t and won’t work. Friedman, a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) “Medicare for All” single-payer plan, says that Obama and his advisers knew that the ACA was a “bad idea” that would not control costs, and that a total federal takeover of the health care system was inevitable.

The problem with a federal takeover of health care is that it would bankrupt the U.S., leading to left-wing demands for even more federal control. This is how socialism is coming to America.

MARK LEVIN: It's Time for Marco Rubio to Stop Lying

By Mark R. Levin

A little while back, I argued that Marco Rubio's tactics in attacking Ted Cruz's Senate record on immigration and national defense, among other things, were Alinskyite.  They were and still are simply and demonstrably dishonest.  Yet he persists, knowing full well that by the time the truth catches up with him, if ever, the damage will have been done.  More recently, Rubio and his campaign team have intensified and broadened their Alinskyite tactics, now focusing on the ultimate personal smear -- that Ted Cruz is a serial liar.  Even in this, Rubio is not original.  Of course, Donald Trump has been calling his opponents liars as an almost Tourette's-like response against anyone who reminds him of his past but recent support for leftists and leftist causes, some of whom and which he still embraces. 

But Rubio's smears are part of a more deliberative and unrelenting propaganda campaign. They are now at the core of his campaign effort to dislodge Cruz and clear the field against Trump. 

Larwyn's Linx: Marco Rubio Has Said Different Things About Amnesty in Spanish and English

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Nation

Marco Rubio Has Said Different Things About Amnesty in Spanish and English: Patterico
A Three-Man Race After South Carolina: What We Learned: Jeremy Carl
Trump: The Low Risk Option: The Z Man

What Voters Did Not Vote For in South Carolina: Daniel Horowitz
Turning Against Trump: Bookworm
Ted Cruz is still the alternative to Donald Trump: Drew Ryun

Nasty: Clinton Campaign Calls 'Bulls---' on Bernie: Daniel Halper
Cruz’s Southern Firewall Cracks in S.C.: Alexis Levinson
Trump Smirks As Beltway GOP Crumbles: Olivia Nuzzi

Rubio Needs a Breakthrough Very Soon: Rick Moran
Jeb Bush's donors are already turning to their next loser, Marco Rubio: The Week
It Becomes Rubio’s Race To Lose: Erick Erickson

Mr. Trump’s Economic Nationalism: Jim Goad
Trump's Triumph: Destroying the Bush Dynasty: W. James Antle III
Trump Has Less than 5% of the Delegates He Needs to Win the Nomination: Leon H. Wolf

Economy

Why So Many Millennials Are Socialists: Emily Ekins and Joy Pullmann
Oracle Chief Ellison Gives $1 Million to Rubio: Max
The Drivers Of Inflation: Rent, Obamacare And Minimum Wage Hikes: ZH

Scandal Central

Every Day Carson Remains in the Race is Further Proof that His Campaign is a Scam: Leon H. Wolf
Did You Know Rubio’s ‘Gang Of 8’ Bill Would’ve Opened The Floodgates To Islamic Refugees?: Clash
Wage gap: One Hillary Clinton speech more than average CEO salary: Paul Bedard

New Jersey Town Offers Tips to Illegal Immigrants on How to Skirt ICE Raid: Warner Todd Huston
Obamacare and Medicaid: looting your estate after you die: Bayou Renaissance Man
New Records Reveal State Department Asked Hillary Clinton for Emails in July 2014: JW

Media

#FreeStacy — But From What? In Defense of Free Speech Legalism: Ken White
NYT reports on serious concerns with refugee terrorists in US: Ann Corcoran
The Rubio Menace: KausFiles

Why Charles Koch’s awesome Bernie Sanders op-ed matters in future elections: Taylor Millard
Rare Photo of Satan Attempting to Free Himself From Hillary’s Body: MB
The Media Failed to Tell You That ISIS Tortured Victims At Concert In Paris: Mirror

These turnout numbers for Democrats are amazing!: Moe Lane
Bush Whacked: Mark Steyn
‘A Real Moment of Patriotic Grace’: Johnny Dollar

World

DHS: 500,000 people overstayed their U.S. visas in 2015: Anna Giaritelli
'Harmless Curiosity': Media Downplay Muslim Women Casing Florida Synagogues: Tiffany Gabbay
How ISIS Takes Revenge on Russia: Anna Nemtsova

Emails suggest Clinton led Libya intervention: Sarah Westwood
Show This Column to Anyone Who Claims Bush Lied about WMDs in Iraq: John Hawkins
Maddening report on Obama’s dealings with North Korea before nuke test: Twitchy

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This Is Virgin Galactic's New Spaceplane, VSS Unity: PopSci
Zero Day Warfare: John Robb
Zika has been linked to birth defects. Now it may be causing paralysis.: Nick Miroff

Cornucopia

Individual Rights and The Role of Government in Society: Richard M. Ebeling
How social media is destroying the lives of teen girls: Mackenzie Dawson
Ivanka Trump Opens Up About Converting to Orthodox Judaism: Lesley Messer

Image: German shorthaired pointer named CJ claims best in show crown at Westminster
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Donald Trump is, in many respects, a vehicle to clear the decks of the GOP and the political class in general. He’s a protest vote that people hope will force reform on the GOP and maybe do some good in office. Voters are increasingly aware that he is the safe choice, if they want change. The down side is he turns out to be more of the same. The upside is we actually get something useful done." --The Z Man

Sunday, February 21, 2016

PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN CRAIG SHIRLEY: The Fall of the House of Bush

By Craig Shirley

That plummeting sound you hear is the fall of the House of Bush. Unfortunately for the family, it is not falling silently into the woods and there are plenty of people to hear it and witness it and, in time, kick over the dead embers of Bushism.

With Jeb Bush’s dismal loss in South Carolina comes the end of the Bush dynasty, which given the rise of President George HW Bush in 1980 (and even before with Senator Prescott Bush) as Ronald Reagan’s running mate, and later two presidencies, it lasted well over 30 years. Only the Adams’s, the Roosevelts, and the Kennedys could make the same claim as goes political dynasties

NATION'S IMMIGRATION OFFICERS: Rubio Betrayed Us... and America

By Julia Hahn

In an exclusive Q&A with Breitbart News, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Council President Chris Crane provides never-before-heard details about the 2013 Gang of Eight immigration fight that are likely to shake up an already tumultuous presidential race.

ICE Council President, Crane represents the nation’s approximately 5,800 frontline ICE officers, agents and personnel who are responsible for enforcing America’s immigration laws in all 50 states and U.S. territories. For the first time ever, Crane details his behind-the-scenes interactions with Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) as Crane sought to protect the nation’s ICE officers and national security.

Crane was integral to stopping Sen. Rubio’s amnesty plan from passing the House—which, as Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) recently explained, “was a near-run thing.”

In his responses, Crane addresses an incident—first detailed by Breitbart News— in which Marco Rubio stood idly by as Crane was ejected from a Gang of Eight press conference for trying to ask a question on behalf of law enforcement.

AN OPEN LETTER TO TED CRUZ: It's Obama, Stupid

By Dan Friedman

Dear Senator Cruz:

Whatever your strategy has been up until now, your problem is conventional political wisdom, which is always conventional but too often unwise. The reflexive response advocated by your "campaign professionals" to tilt at every canard that's aimed at you is worse than a waste of time, it's falling into the trap they have set for you. Unfortunately, the way things work nowadays, every public riposte only sells your competitors' product. Frankly, that’s a hack PR approach to politics.

Just look at the results of yesterday's South Carolina primary. The "establishment" has found their stalking horse - destroyer of hopes and ambitions - and Rubio is going to be breathing down your neck until the nominating convention.

Senator, this is the moment to turn your ship around and head to calmer waters and more productive fishing grounds.

Our nation and our world has suffered under almost 8 years of Obama's oppressive regime. If there's anything approaching a common denominator among Americans, it's that Obama has been a catastrophic failure - and anyone who doesn’t agree will never vote for you under any circumstances.

It's time you built your campaign around the simple idea that you are the only candidate in the race with the principles, political skills and intellectual depth to retrace Obama's steps, roll back his damage, put the genie back in the bottle and get America back on track again.

Senator, you need to reposition yourself. The hour is late, but not too late to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Please start today.

Sincerely,

Dan Friedman
NYC