Wednesday, April 06, 2016

America 1956 vs. America 2016

By Michael Snyder

Is America a better place today than it was back in 1956? Of course many Americans living right now couldn’t even imagine a world without cell phones, Facebook or cable television, but was life really so bad back then? 60 years ago, families would actually spend time on their front porches and people would actually have dinner with their neighbors. 60 years ago, cars were still cars, football was still football and it still meant something to be an American. In our country today, it is considered odd to greet someone as they are walking down the street, and if someone tries to be helpful it is usually because they want something from you. But things were very different in the middle of the last century. Men aspired to be gentlemen and women aspired to be ladies, and nobody had ever heard of “bling”, “sexting” or “twerking”. Of course life was far from perfect, but people actually had standards and they tried to live up to them.

So how did it all go so wrong?

GOOD NEWS: Obama Tells Landlords They Must Rent to Murderers, Rapists and Other Felons

By Blake Neff

The Obama administration released a warning Monday telling the nation’s landlords that it may be discriminatory for them to refuse to rent to those with criminal records.

The Fair Housing Act doesn’t include criminals as a protected class, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) says refusing to rent based on a criminal record is a form of racial discrimination, due to racial imbalances in the U.S. justice system [Editor's Note: perhaps someday HUD could examine "racial imbalances" in single-parent families].

YES, REALLY: Legacy Media Urge Illegal Aliens to Sign Their Kids Up for Medi-Cal Welfare Program

Because California is running a massive surplus and the federal government is a financial powerhouse.

In a few months, California will begin providing full Medi-Cal coverage to all low-income children – regardless of their immigration status.

Depending on whom you ask, 170,000 to 250,000 children who live in California and are in the country illegally will qualify.

Larwyn's Linx: Will Trump Learn from Wisconsin?

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Nation

Will Trump Learn from Wisconsin?: Roger L. Simon
Not Satire: Trump’s bonkers response to Ted Cruz’s win in Wisconsin: Renee Nal
Cruz, Sanders score decisive victories in Wisconsin: Steve Holland

Cruz Takes Lead for First Time in Reuters National Poll: NewsMax
The Frightening Cluelessness of Donald Trump: Peter Suderman
Poll: Trump backers want leader to ‘do anything to solve America’s problems’: John Sexton

Priebus: 'The party is choosing a nominee': Ryan Lovelace
#NeverRyan: Primary Challenger Nehlen Aims to Crush 'Paul Ryan POTUS Plans: CR Wire
Roger Stone threatens any delegate who tries to “steal” nomination from Trump: Hot Air

Requiem for a VA Victim: Michelle Malkin
Wisconsin Loser Donald Trump Issues Loser Statement On Losing: Caleb Howe
Cruz Pivots to General: 'Hillary, Get Ready': Michael Warren

John Kasich: The candidate who wouldn’t leave: Jonah Goldberg
Huma Abedin: Call Your Girlfriend: Stuart Schneiderman
Ethics report: Florida Democrat Grayson likely violated House rules: Fox

Middle class suicide; or he who pays the piper calls the tune: Bookworm
Lots More Guns, Much Less Violent Crime: Bob Owens
Homeless Man Escorted From De Blasio Presser... On Helping The Homeless: Twitchy

Economy

Sen. Cotton responds to latest HUD overreach: Paul Mirengoff
5 Bad Arguments for Cutting U.S. Defense Spending: Justin T. Johnson
Students Can’t Remember A Past They Never Learned: Pete Hoekstra

Scandal Central

Feds May Have Known Hillary's Unsecure Blackberry Was Been Hacked in 2009: Ace
Hillary Clinton Ties Emerge In Panama Papers: Chuck Ross
Supreme Court effective gives illegal aliens voting power: NewsMachete

Obama removing 'hardened terrorists' from Gitmo: Jamie McIntyre
Clinton Email Scandal: DOJ Veteran Says Hillary Should Be Indicted: IBD
Trump Could Face Fine for Illegal Electioneering in WI: Josh Denton

Media

CNN Host Ends Interview After Guest Mentions Hillary’s Defense of Child Rapist: Shifra
Flashback: CNN Dumps Former Trump Honcho Roger Stone For Racist, Sexist Tweets : Jordan Sargent
Halperin on Bernie’s NYDN Interview: Hillary Would Be ‘Creamed’ If She Gave Answers This Bad: Alex Griswold

The War on the Alt-Right: The Z Man
Planned Parenthood Activist Slams Hillary for Accidentally Calling Unborn Baby a “Person”: Conor Beck
MSNBC, How Low Can You Go?: The Cable Game

America Now Has an Official Language: Newspeak: Michael Cutler
Wow: Hillary Gets Tougher Questions on The View Than With George Stephanopoulos: Scott Whitlock
The Real Reason Trump Can't Break the GOP: Sean Trende

World

Germany Is Being Destroyed .. When This Flashes Over It's Gonna Be Ugly..: Feral Irishman
Writer Mark Steyn skillfully out-smarts the Open Borders advocates at Munk debate: Ann Corcoran
Trump: Block Cash to Mexico to Fund Wall: Daily Beast

The Religion of Colonialism: Daniel Greenfield
Report: Russia to start deliveries of S-300 missiles to Iran in coming days: JPost
Emirates Airline Creates Culture of Fear, 'Golden cage' for Crew.: MFS-TON

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

HP Debuts Skinniest Laptop Ever: Richard Adhikari
Is Alphabet Going to Build a City?: The Information
orrester Says 'Stop Marketing to Your Customers' #aadigital: Noreen Seebacher

Cornucopia

We Take A Day Off And Go For a Ride: MOTUS
What WAS The Case For The Income Tax?: The Arts Mechanical
For The Win Taxidermy...: Feral Irishman

Shakespeare was a Jewish woman, spoke Hebrew, book claims: Times of Israel
You had a bad day? California driver hit by bus after escaping dangling SUV on cliff: JPost
Found A Rolex Submariner Lost At Sea, Recovered 14 Months Later...And Still Works: Hodinkee

Image: Cruz Overtakes Trump in National Poll
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "We need to follow the rules, and under the rules, if no one gets to 1237 delegates --if nobody wins a majority before the convention-- then there are going to be two names on the ballot. My name and Donald Trump's name. And the convention will be decided by whoever can earn a majority of the delegates who were elected by the people. I think if we get to that situation, a contested convention, I think we will be in a very strong position to win a majority, become the nominee, and go on to defeat Hillary Clinton in November...

Where are the Rubio and Kasich delegates going to go? I think they naturally come to us." --Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)

Tuesday, April 05, 2016

Schumer Wants New Smartphone Gun Investigated

The loathsome gargoyle known as Chuck Schumer despises the idea of self-defense. Except, of course, when it comes to his own self-defense.

Capitalism, science and technology do not favor the statist.

The confluence of social networking, 3D scanning, 3D printing, nanotechnology, and advanced cryptography -- to name but a few -- mean that designing, building and sharing advanced weaponry will be as easy as buying a cheese-grater at Target.

The latest evidence? A firearm that bears an eerie resemblance to a smartphone:

The Iran Scandal and Obama's Consiglieri

By Wallace Bruschweiler

This past week, to our astonishment, we learned that the Obama administration is seriously considering further concessions to Iran, and allowing U.S. dollars to be used to facilitate trade with the terrorist-supporting regime.  Behind this latest concession - behind every action having to do with Iran, and for that matter most other actions of this so-called "Presidency" - we observe the power of a "consigliere," in name Valerie Jarrett.

Jarrett is the Iranian-born "Senior Advisor" to Barack Hussein Obama, but her true influence is akin to a "consigliere."  

LIFE UNDER THE FASCISTS: Senior Adviser Threatens GOP Delegates Who "Steal" Election From Trump

Well, this seems rather, eh, brown-shirty:

Roger Stone, a veteran Republican strategist and ally to Donald Trump, urged Trump supporters on Tuesday to hunt down any delegates who might try to deny him the nomination at the party's convention in July.

"We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal," Stone said, referring to any attempts by rival campaigns to sway delegate votes away from Trump. "We'll tell you who the culprits are. We urge you to visit their hotel and find them."

Stone also called for any and all Trump supporters, who are not delegates, to gather at the convention in Cleveland where "we're going to have protests, demonstrations."

Larwyn's Linx: I Want a President to Teach Liberals a Lesson

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Nation

I Want a President to Teach Liberals a Lesson: Christopher Chantrill
An Open Letter to Trump Supporters: Rebecca Hagelin
Oregon Governor, AG hold secret meetings with gun grabbers: Michael Strickland

Paul Ryan: Cruz win in Wis. could trigger open convention: Joel Gehrke
Koch Privately Committed To Getting Ryan Nominated In Cleveland: Source: PuffHo
The GOP’s (other) convention nightmare: Alex Isenstadt

White House Slashing U.S. Nuclear Stockpiles: Adam Kredo
Cruz snaring Trump's Arizona delegates: David M. Drucker
GOP Accused of ‘Stealing Delegates’ to Dump Trump: Rob Garver

Here’s Your List Of Hillary Clinton’s ‘Accomplishments’: IBD
Ted Cruz is Acting Like a Front Runner: Leon H. Wolf
If His Campaign Is Any Indicator, John Kasich Would Be The Worst President: JD Rucker

Economy

Obama: Not Renting to Criminals is Racist: Daniel Greenfield
Obama Pushing Banks To Make Risky Home Loans (‘Not The Onion’): Doug Powers
Urban Decay in Chicago: The abandoned Goodman Equipment plant: Marathon

Scandal Central

Gitmo population drops below 90 with release of two detainees: Jacqueline Klimas
Watchdog group sues for FBI records on Obama: Rudy Takala
Mossack Fonseca Has 441 U.S. Clients: Who Are They?: ZH

Climate & Energy

The Green Witch Hunt: Matthew Vadum
Mr. Trump: America’s Economic Problem Is Regulation, Not Trade: Doug Bandow
Mann’s Climate Madhouse Effect: Anthony Watts

Media

When Did It Become Controversial To Keep Men Out Of The Women's Bathroom?: John Hawkins
Merrick Garland married CNN’s David Gregory and Hillary aide attorney Beth Wilkinson: FAM
Chris Matthews: Wis. Talk Radio Hosts Like 'Million Little Mark Levins Out There!': Ken Shepherd

Magic Honky Theory: The Z Man
John Oliver shows how Congress members earn their money, literally (and sadly): The Week
Cuban State Media Slams Obama For Being “Dumb Negro”: BlurBrain

A Note to Conservatives Who Are Secular: Dennis Prager
Wisconsin Trump voters, unfazed by controversy, stand by their man: Byron York
CNBC's Steve Liesman Makes A "Discovery": Americans Are Increasingly Angry And They Want Trump: ZH

World

Obama's Bizarre Iranian Love Affair Continues: Roger L. Simon
Obama legacy: 150% more missiles sites in Iran than five years ago.: MFS-TON
Turkey: The Business of Refugee Smuggling, Sex Trafficking: Uzay Bulut

2,000 "Ticking Time Bombs" in U.S. --- and Counting: Leo Hohmann
Did they lie or did they just bow to Iran?: Matzav
Watch: 'Obama has been a tacit supporter of BDS': Eliran Aharon

Panama Papers Reveal Trail Of Money Circling President Putin: Interpreter
Trump Says He'll Eliminate $19 Trillion of Debt with Trade: Chris Deaton
Trouble on Europe's Eastern Front: Christine Nikol

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Theranos Promised a Revolution, but Delivered Dangerous Errors: Antonio Regalado
Programming language makes circuits out of bacteria: Jon Fingas
Samsung Galaxy S7 survives 16 hour immersion in a jar of water: AndroidCommunity

Cornucopia

I would pull for ISIS over Carolina!: AWD
Daughter Posts Screenshots Of Texting Her Mom – and IT’S HILARIOUS!: Katie McGuire
Top Ten Reasons Not To Vote For Hillary: Jeff Reynolds

Image: Villanova Wins NCAA Tournament On Kris Jenkins’ Buzzer-Beater
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Imagine a Western youth coming here and carrying out a suicide mission in one of our public squares in the name of the Cross. Imagine that two skyscrapers had collapsed in some Arab capital, and that an extremist Christian group, donning millennium-old garb, had emerged to take responsibility for the event, while stressing its determination to revive Christian teachings or some Christian rulings, according to its understanding, to live like in the time [of Jesus] and his disciples, and to implement certain edicts of Christian scholars…

Imagine hearing the voices of monks and priests from churches and prayer houses in and out of the Arab world, screaming on loudspeakers and levelling accusations against Muslims, calling them infidels, and chanting: 'God, eliminate the Muslims and defeat them all.'

Imagine that we had provided an endless number of foreign groups with visas, ID cards, citizenships, proper jobs, free education, free modern healthcare, social security, and so on, and later a member of one of these groups came out, consumed by hatred and bloodlust, and killed our sons on our streets, in our buildings, in our newspaper [offices], in our mosques and in our schools." --Nadine Al-Budair

Monday, April 04, 2016

REPORT: Donald Trump said to have "blackmail file" on Fox News' Roger Ailes

The Daily Beast's Harry Siegel points us to a fascinating tidbit from Gabriel Sherman's moronic profile of Donald Trump.

SCANDAL: V.A. Stiffing Doctors, Abusing Vets to End Challenge to Government Unions

By Luke Rosiak

A free-choice program implemented to get veterans crucial medical care is under siege because the Department of Veterans Affairs has not paid millions of dollars owed to the doctors providing it.

Now, the VA employee union, which opposes letting veterans get care outside their system in the first place, is citing VA employees’ failure as the reason to abort the fix.

Congress approved the Choice Card program in 2014 after a flood of media reports of veterans dying as VA facilities across the nation manipulated official data to conceal long delays in scheduling appointments.

UNEXPECTEDLY: Iran Caught Shipping Massive Weapons Cache to Yemeni Islamist Terrorists

By Investigative Project

A U.S. naval vessel intercepted a large Iranian weapons shipment, seizing massive quantities of arms and sophisticated weaponry destined for Yemen, the Pentagon announced Monday.

The seizure occurred in the Arabian Sea on March 28, officials said, marking the third interception of an Iranian weapons shipment in recent weeks. The ship was carrying 1,500 AK-47 rifles, 200 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and 21 .50-caliber machine guns. They were en route to Houthi insurgents battling in Yemen's civil war at Iran's behest.

The U.S. Navy let the crew go after seizing the weapons, in line with current rules of engagement, according to a U.S. official speaking with Fox News.

Larwyn's Linx: When Huma Met Hillary: ‘Our Eyes Connected’

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Nation

When Huma Met Hillary: ‘Our Eyes Connected’: Chuck Ross
Hillary Clinton: 'The Unborn Person Doesn't Have Constitutional Rights': Pam Key
Report: Clinton Pal Blumenthal Compares Israel to ISIS, Praises Terror Attack: Jon Nicosia

Tennessee GOP accused of removing Trump delegates: Jazz Shaw
Ted Cruz Appears To Get Most Of North Dakota’s National Delegates: Rob Port
Ted Cruz wins first 6 Colorado delegates, Donald Trump shut out: Denver Post

Why Voters Are Turning Off: Star Parker
New York Jews Really Hate Bernie Sanders: Daniel Greenfield
Footage Surfaces of Bernie Sanders Praising Communist Bread Lines: ProgsToday

Debunking the Anti-Cruz Fairy Tales: Renee Nal
Trump, Cruz Work to Block Kasich From Ballot at Open Convention: Ari Melber
Ivana Trump: We need immigrants to clean for us: Caitlin Yilek

Economy

Predictable liberal backlash to renewed work requirement for SNAP recipients: Jazz Shaw
Feds to Fine Schools for Ignoring Michelle Obama's Lunch Rules: Elizabeth Harrington
Report: Obama Admin’s Effort to ‘Eliminate Red Tape’ Adds $16 Billion in Costs: WFB

Scandal Central

A Nation of Laws—Sort Of: Victor Davis Hanson
Intel Analysts: We Were Forced Out for Telling the Truth About Obama’s ISIS War: Daily Beast
GOP Bigwig Alex Castellanos Claims House Speaker 'What Delegates Really Want': Breitbart

About the Panama Papers: Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer, Vanessa Wormer and Wolfgang Jaschensky
The Panama Papers: how the world’s rich and famous hide their money offshore: Guardian
"Unprecedented Leak" Exposes Criminal Financial Dealings Of Some Of World's Wealthiest: ZH

Media

DHS Won’t Tell You But Radical Islamists Are Actively Trying to Poison Us: Sara Noble
Foreign Newspapers Describe Barack Obama In One Word After Nuclear Summit: Sara Noble
Reddit’s firing up a thread on the Panama Papers leak: Jonathan Shieber

Trump Is Toast and Good Riddance: Kurt Schlichter
Fairy tales with a Second Amendment twist: Jazz Shaw
The Coming End of Vice Media & Click Bait?: GotNews

CNN's David Gregory’s Wife Is The Attorney For Hillary’s Ex-Aides In Email Investigation: Alex Pfeiffer
Obama Commutes the Sentences of Twelve Gun Offenders: Jenn Jacques
Scarborough: Anti-Trump conservatives 'as arrogant and unmoored' as MSNBC liberals: Eddie Scarry

World

World’s Largest Islamic Mosque Complex to be Unveiled in Maryland by Obama and ErdoÄŸan: Unveiled
The White House is accused of censoring French President Francois Hollande: Tim Blair
Boston: Virgin Mary Statues Beheaded, Vandalized with “Allah” Graffiti: Creeping

Isil plotting to use drones for nuclear attack on West: Ben Riley-Smith
Commander Reveals Iranian Navy's Plan to Deploy Warships in Latin America: FARS News
After Palmyra, Syrian troops take another IS-controlled town: CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Everyone is working on a hearable: Meet the Samsung Earcle: Sophie Charara
Artificial intelligence systems are beginning to surpass human creativity: Risto Miikkulainen, Sentient
GT&FQ M001 Rider automatic review: Watch Roundup

Cornucopia

We’re All Victims On This Bus; I Blame Bush: MOTUS
Don't Let It Come to This: MB
Studio sculpts giant coin, photographs it alongside normal objects to make them look tiny: Cory Doctorow

Image: Boston: Virgin Mary Statues Beheaded, Vandalized with “Allah” Graffiti
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Under our laws, currently, that is not something that exists. The unborn person doesn’t have constitutional rights." --Hillary Clinton

Sunday, April 03, 2016

GOPe BIGWIG CASTELLANOS: Paul Ryan 'What Delegates Really Want'

Yes, it appears they really will try to steal the nomination from Trump or Cruz.

And by they, I refer of course to the GOPe.

The following are the highlights of an essay sent by long-time GOP consultant Alex Castellanos to his NewRepublican.org mailing list (via Breitbart News):

Larwyn's Linx: "A Large Blob of Sheer Dumb Grossness"

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Nation

"A Large Blob of Sheer Dumb Grossness": Stuart Schneiderman
Mark Levin: Which are Three Top Responsibilities of Federal Government?: Michael Morris
Gates: Obama “double-crossed” me on defense budget: Ed Morrissey

The End of Mass Democracy: The Z Man
‘Godmother’ Hillary shows her mob boss side: John Podhoretz
How Hillary Clinton Bought the Loyalty of 33 State Democratic Parties: Margot Kidder

Why Does Liberalism Have “Favored Groups”?: Stephen M. Krason
LA Times: “L.A. Is Resegregating–And Whites Are a Major Reason Why”: Steve Sailer
Trump: Tweeting picture of Heidi Cruz was a 'mistake': Kristen East

Report: Delegates Ready To Flee Trump At Contested Convention: WZ
Priebus Won't Turn RNC Over to Trump If He Wins: Newsmax
How Cruz Wins This Thing: Joy Overbeck

Economy

Killing Knowledge in K-12: Bruce Deitrick Price
State Dept. hiring interior designers, salaries up to $141,000: Pete Kasperowicz
Taxpayers Billed $1.4 Million for Obama’s Argentina Trip: Elizabeth Harrington

Scandal Central

Huma Abedin “terrified” as FBI takes over State Dept investigation of top secret emails: Jazz Shaw
Four Hillary aides hire joint defense counsel: Thomas Lifson
Jade Helm; they’re baaack: Jonn Lilyea

Climate & Energy

16 Democrat State Attorneys General To Go After Companies Who Disagree With Climate Change Scam: J4A
A Solar Power Plant vs. A Natural Gas Power Plant: Capital Cost – Apples to Apples: Philip Dowd

Media

Surprise! ‘Middle Eastern’ Student Made Up Bogus ‘Hate Crime’ in Manhattan, Slashed Herself: JWF
Meet the Cry-Bully: a hideous hybrid of victim and victor: Julie Burchill
Trump's Cancer Spreads to Fox News: Steve Deace

Your Sunday BadPolitics News Show: Will They Steal The Election From Bernie Sanders?: American Digest
U.S. military suicides remain high for 7th year: Gregg Zoroya
The Objective Standard: Ted Cruz for President: Craig Biddle

German Television Pulls Satire Mocking Turkey’s Erdogan: Robert Mackey
Times Square Bomb Scare? NYC Tourist Area Reportedly Evacuated: DailyMail
Man Arrested in Connection to Incendiary Devices Found On Tyngsboro Power Lines: CBS Boston

World

Not All Muslims: A Message to Progressives: Dystopic
Europe Is Again at War: The XX Committee
Greece Demands Explanation From IMF Over Leaked Transcript: ZH

Duty. Honor. Country. -- Transcript of Final Moments of Russian Spetznaz Officer: American Digest
Air France stewardesses mutiny over order to wear headscarves: David Chazan
UN chief: world must resettle 480,000 Syrian refugees: Peter Foster, Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How to Hack an Election: Jordan Robertson, Michael Riley, and Andrew Willis
Lenovo May Face Claims Over Installed Malware: Matthew Renda
Space archaeologist finds potential Viking site in Canada: History Blog

Cornucopia

West Exit: American Digest
The Top 5 Best Affordable Automatic Watches: Watch Roundup
Trigger Warning: You Gotta Break a Few Eggs: MOTUS

Image: Carl Akeley Who?
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: " If every Muslim was like Mr. Shah, or the man who saved my family, we would value them more than we value you [progressives].

But, sadly, in the world we live in they are the exceptional individuals, and the generalizations still hold true at a meta-level. Muslims are not assimilating in large numbers. There are too many terrorists and criminals coming in with them. And, as it has been for nearly 1,500 years, Islam continues to have bloody borders and religious violence at a level far greater than Europe had even in the middle of the Crusades.

We conservative folks wish it were otherwise. But we live in the real world, Progressives, not the fantastical utopia you have constructed in your minds. We live in a fallen world, where hard choices must be made, where people must sometimes be turned away because you cannot help them, or because the risk to your own is too great to bear.

What good will be done when the West is gone, and the Islamic world is still eating itself? What will humanity’s future be like when you are gone, victims of an Islamic world that hates you as much as it hates us? You seem to think that you will be rewarded for your double-dealing, for your treachery, and for your blindness. But if we fall, you will go with us." --Dystopic

Saturday, April 02, 2016

FRANCE: Jihad in the Ranks of the Gendarmerie and the Army

By Baron Bodissey

Many thanks to JLH for translating this report from Junge Freiheit. The translator includes this note:

I can’t help wondering what the Foreign Legion must be like now.

The translated article:

OBAMA SCOTUS NOMINEE MERRICK GARLAND: Just another radical, leftist, antigun kook

By Institute for Legislative Action

Probably one of the earliest lessons most people learn in life is, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.” Nobody likes a hypocrite, and when you apply a standard to someone else, don’t expect much sympathy when that same standard gets applied to you.

Take Judge Merrick Garland, Barack Obama’s pick to replace Justice Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court. We’ve heard a lot recently from the president’s cheerleaders about who Judge Garland is.

THE OBJECTIVE STANDARD: Ted Cruz for President

By Craig Biddle

I haven’t said much about the 2016 U.S. presidential race, and I probably won’t say much more about it after this article, as I want to focus on more fundamental philosophic issues. But I’d like to say a few words about why I unequivocally support Ted Cruz for president and why I think all liberty loving Americans should as well.

Although not all of Cruz’s ideas are grounded in reality, and although some of them are dangerously false, Cruz regards ideas as important, and he has a body of principles that guide his thinking on political matters. Chief among these is his recognition of the fact that the U.S. Constitution is, as he puts it, “the supreme law of the land” and that the job of the president is to uphold and enforce it. “I will defend the Constitution—all of it,” promises Cruz.

Of course, I and other lovers of liberty take issue with Cruz about what the Constitution means in certain areas and about how best to enforce it. But many of Cruz’s ideas in this regard are substantially if not entirely good. Here are some representative instances (all quotations are Cruz’s own words unless otherwise noted):

Larwyn's Linx: What's the Matter with Ted Cruz?

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Nation

What's the Matter with Ted Cruz?: Andrew Klavan
George Soros’s Henchmen Attack Ted Cruz. Wall Street Journal Joins In.: Erick Erickson
Another Michigan city on the verge of becoming majority Muslim: Creeping

Don’t Like Trump? Think About This…: William Pollack
Is Trump’s campaign manager being lynched?: Jeffrey Lord
It’s Probably First Ballot Or Bust For Donald Trump At The GOP Convention: Nate Silver

Young Women Don't Like Hillary: Brian Lilley
Could Bernie really take New York away from Hillary Clinton?: Jazz Shaw
Brussels Attacks: Why America Needs Ted Cruz: Susan Brown

Trump: Now That I Think About It, Let's Leave the Abortion Laws As They Are: Ace
Democrats Banking on Trump to Win: Susan Wright
Donald Trump's bad week: Stephen Collinson

Economy

Number of Californians Moving to Texas Hits Highest Level in Nearly a Decade: Ali Meyer
The Effect of Welfare on Muslim Immigration: CJR
“Transgender” lawsuits have now reached the barber shop: Jazz Shaw

Scandal Central

Klein: Comey And ‘A Lot Of Other FBI Agents’ Will Resign If Hillary Is Not Indicted: Steve Guest
Most firms that gave to Clinton Foundation also lobbied State Department: Sarah Westwood
Police fume as another cop killed on duty and still no mention by Obama: Paul Bedard

Climate & Energy

Kill the Deniers — a government-funded fantasy play where “guns” solve climate issues: JoNova

Media

White House Scrubs Video of French President Saying “Islamist Terrorism”: Creeping
American Flag Deemed Unacceptable 'Political Statement' At Harvard: Robert Kraychik

PHOTO: Bill Clinton struggles to fill room in Wisconsin: Olaf Ekberg
Words ‘illegal’ and ‘alien’ banished from public libraries: Sam Rolley
Shock Video: Man Is Gunned Down on Chicago Street While Facebook Live-Streaming: Oliver Darcy

World

America's Invisible Wars: Emma Ashford
France Slowly Emerges from Denial and Starts Shutting Down Mosques: TTB
Migration 'has created 900 no-go areas in EU': Devastating report shows order breaking down: DailyMail

The Korean Anomaly: The Z Man
Ancient Qur’an Discovery Proves Islam Really Is A Religion of Peace: Dr. Timothy Furnish
Cruise For 1,700 School Kids Ends In Tragedy As Migrant Passengers Gang-Rape Girl: Oliver JJ Lane

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Would you like to be immortal? You may get your chance: Jazz Shaw
Hong Kong man builds his own Scarlett Johansson in robot form: David Nield
Another asteroid clobbers Jupiter: EarthSky

Cornucopia

BBC’s amazing, disastrous 1957 April Fools prank [video]: Holy Kaw!
Hillaryisms: Woodsterman
BREAKING: The Daily Wire Editorial Board Endorses Donald J. Trump For President: DailyWire

Image: Obama plays the clown by flashing the peace sign for nuclear security summit 'team photo'
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "When authoritarian regimes purge enemies of the state, they inevitably purge their best talent. The people left are toadies and rump-swabs with no ability to do much of anything, other than grovel to the boss. In this case, the boss is most likely an idiot." --The Z Man

Friday, April 01, 2016

OBAMA'S WAR ON CHEAP ENERGY: Media Silent as America's Largest Coal Mines Begin Mass Layoffs

By Jennifer

America’s two largest coal mines each laid off 15 percent of their workforce -- 465 employees -- in one day.

Not one national news outlet ran the story. This travesty deserves national attention.

Barack Obama and his EPA are continuing their War on Coal and War on Jobs... and no one in America -- except the miners, their families, and their communities -- seems to care.

BUT I'M SURE OBAMACARE IS AWESOME: Unaccountable V.A. Caught Coaching Employees on How to Cheat Oversight

By Jonah Bennett

Management at Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers in California selected and coached employees on exactly what to tell investigators about wait time manipulation, according to new inspector general reports.

According to two whistleblowers, management handpicked medical support assistants and told them what to tell the Veterans Health Administration Inspection Team, which visited the San Diego medical center in May, 2014, following the wait time manipulation scandal which rocked the Phoenix VA.