Sunday, April 24, 2016

TRUMP CAMPAIGN CHIEF/LOBBYIST MANAFORT: Yeah, We're Secretly Working with Mitch McConnell

Paul Manafort is the new head of Donald Trump's campaign. A longtime Washington insider and heavy duty lobbyist for third world dictators, Manafort appeared this morning on Fox News Sunday and inadvertently let slip some revealing truths.
MANAFORT: ...What we're trying to do right now is work with the Mitch McConnells who we didn't depose in Kentucky even though he won the election and we worked with him to put a unity slate together. We're trying to bring the party together. That’s what --

WALLACE: Wait, because I think this is interesting. You're saying that you're working with the Senate majority leader, who to a lot of the grassroots is a symbol of the problem?

Larwyn's Linx: American Mogadishu: 1.2% of Somalia’s population has been resettled in America

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Nation

American Mogadishu: 1.2% of Somalia’s population resettled in America: Creeping
Saudi Influence in Washington Must End: Robert Spencer
With Obama's time running out, Muslim groups work to ban monitoring terrorists: BNI

Cruz Triumphant: Your Complete Saturday Delegate Battle Results: Caleb Howe
Why Sanders Supporters Won't Back Clinton: The Gaddafi Emails: The Inquisitr
Trump Adviser Lobbied for Jailed Muslim Brotherhood: CJR

White Lies Matter : Matthew Continetti
Sanders: 'Poor people don't vote': Curt Mills
Trump's Schizophrenia on Taxes and Obamacare: Jeffrey H. Anderson

Epic: Ted Cruz’s “War Room” ad.: Moe Lane
Trump Vets Chair: Charity Money? Not My Problem: Tim Mak
Go ahead, Donald, get 1,237; it won't matter: RNC delegate: Lori Ann LaRocco

Obama: Our criminal justice system imprisons too many criminals: Andrew Malcolm
Paying Bribes to Get Your Rights Back in New York City: Rob Morse
More than 500 pounds of explosives stolen from train: CBS News

Economy

Obama’s comments on free trade agreements show he doesn’t know what free trade is: Taylor Millard
UC Berkeley Touts $15 Minimum Wage Law Then Fires Hundreds After It Passes: WZ
Obama Boasts In Britain: I Saved The World Economy As President: Charlie Spiering

Scandal Central

More de Blasio cronies eyed as feds widen corruption probe: Post
Obama’s federalization of police grows nationwide: Cheryl Chumley
Obama just gave cops the OK to simply take your stuff: Ilya Shapiro and Randal Meyer

The NSA won't tell Congress how many Americans it's spying on because our democracy is broken: Russell Brandom
Judge Nap: FBI Has 'Overwhelming' Evidence to Indict and Convict Hillary: FNI
Claim: Harvard Law School protesters sought FBI investigation of their conservative critics: CollegeFix

Climate & Energy

Obama Declares America ‘the World's Second-Largest Source of Climate Pollution’: CNS
Oops! Federal Law Prohibits Obama Funding UN Climate Bureaucracy: Alex Newman
Clean energy poster child SunEdison files for bankruptcy: Matt Egan

Media

The Smug! It Burns!: MOTUS
In front, Trump shows no signs of 'toning it down' on campaign trail: Fox News
Sure sounds like Marco Rubio has given up on #NeverTrump: Hot Air

Beware of Sex in the Social Media Age (Because the Internet Is Forever): R.S. McCain
MTV wants its music back: Andrea Morabito
Washington Post's virtual Obama museum: 'Cool,' or 'cult worship'?: T. Becket Adams

World

How to Not Talk About Islam: Edward Cline
Kuwait set to enforce DNA testing law on all; Officials say tests won’t be used to find Jews: Kuwait Times
Of Churchill and Chumps: Scott Johnson

Germany: Muslim Immigrants Sexually Harassing German Schoolgirls ‘..Under Age 10..’: Unveiled
Putin: if Erdoğan doesn't stop backing terror in Syria, I'll restore Constantinople (Istanbul) to Christendom: AWD
UN torture watchdog urges Saudi Arabia to halt flogging, amputations: Arabian Business

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google believes its superior AI will be the key to its future: Nick Statt
Neil deGrasse Tyson is pretty sure the universe is a hologram: Jazz Shaw
Man 3D prints beautiful and functional violin on his hobbyist ROBO 3D printer: 3ders

Cornucopia

Nat'l Enquirer: John Kasich's real dad was the milkman: Cube
Guys Find Strange Tubes Buried In The Forest, Then They See What’s Inside: Robert Rich
University Investigates Satirical Newspaper Because it Hurt a Student’s Feelings: CI

Image: Man 3D prints beautiful and functional violin on his hobbyist ROBO 3D printer
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Cruz won at least 65 of the 94 delegates up for grabs Saturday (and he may have won more, but Kentucky's 25 delegates haven't revealed their leanings). The Texas senator has so thoroughly dominated the fight to send loyalists to the national convention that if front-runner Donald Trump fails to clinch the nomination on the first ballot, Cruz is well-positioned to surpass him — and perhaps even snag the nomination for himself — when delegates are free in subsequent convention rounds to vote for whomever they want...

...If Trump can dominate the remaining 15 primaries and acquire mandatory support from 1,237 delegates, he'll secure the nomination automatically. And polls show he has an edge in Indiana's crucial May 3 primary, where 57 delegates will be apportioned, and that he's pulling away in California — the biggest prize of the entire primary season — where 172 delegates will be assigned in a June 7 primary.

In the meantime, Cruz has owned the secondary battle to elect loyalists to the convention and can only work to limit Trump's gains over the next six weeks of primaries. Republican activists that tend to run to become delegates and vote in those obscure contests are typically more aligned with Cruz." --Kyle Cheney

Saturday, April 23, 2016

RAY MABUS AND BARACK OBAMA: Gutting the U.S. Military From Within

By Dr. Craig Luther

President Obama came into office in 2009 promising "transformation" and he has delivered on that promise. Over the past 7 1/2 years we've witnessed billion dollar deficits and the establishment of a highly politicized and inexorably failing health care system ("Obamacare"); the "weaponization" of government agencies (think, IRS, EPA, DOJ) to intimidate and attack his political opponents; the calculated and feckless decline of American power and influence throughout the world; relentless redistributionist policies; and the president's support (often with a wink and a nod) of thuggish (and sometimes violent) radical groups like "Occupy Wall Street" and "Black Lives Matter." As a result, America is "on edge" -- socially, racially, economically -- as it hasn't been for decades. Indeed, many have reached the sobering insight that America's best days may now be behind her.

CAN WE PLEASE TALK ABOUT THE REAL ISSUES? The Number One Threat to Our National Security

By Richard Larsen

The discourse on the presidential race has devolved to a point that the most pressing issues seem totally lost in the verbal brawls between candidates. The economic threats and risks to the republic should be the centerpiece of the campaign, for both parties, rather than relegated to a footnote to their public statements.

We have nearly $19 trillion in debt now as a nation. Eight years ago when it was $8 trillion, then candidate Barack Obama denounced the fiscal profligacy of such exorbitant debt, only to more than double it during his two terms. Even Hillary Clinton called it a “threat to our national security.” Why is this threat hardly even mentioned during this campaign?

Action Comics for the Modern Office Worker!!

I have no idea what our summer intern is drinking, but I'll have a double, please.


Larwyn's Linx: The Great Transition

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The Great Transition: The Z Man
The GOP may rig the convention — in Trump's favor: Tiimothy P. Carney
John Kasich wishes more Republicans liked Democrats’ ideas: Jason Hart

Report: U.S. to buy 32 tons of nuclear material from Iran: Kelly Cohen
Clinton Vows to Spend Every Minute as President to 'Change Gun Culture': Bridget Johnson
Massive Amounts of WMDs Were Found in Iraq: Steve Ahle

Ted Cruz might be the most qualified presidential hopeful in decades: Poor Richard
Despite NY Win, It Was a Bad Week for Trump: David Limbaugh
Trump is Going to Have Some Big Wins Soon. And He Can Still Be Stopped.: Erick Erickson

Trump aide accused of bullying Delaware GOP for delegates: Kyle Cheney
Has Hillary Clinton Outstayed Her Welcome?: T.A. Frank, Vanity Fair
Republican Senator Tries to Force Obama Administration to Follow Obamacare: WS

Economy

Ouroboros: The Z Man
Illegal Immigrants Account for $10.7 Billion of Nation’s Health Care Costs, Data Show: Matt Cover
No One Is Working In 1 In 5 Families: WZ

Scandal Central

Virginia Gov. uses executive order to give over 200,000 felons the right to vote for Hillary Clinton: Scoop
FBI may leak details of Clinton probe, Senate Judiciary head says: Rudy Takala
Money Trump Raised for Veterans is MIA: Kim Quade

Media

Chelsea Clinton babbles robotically about the Second Amendment and what her mother can do to it: Althouse
Reporter to Obama: Is It Any of Your Business Whether Britain Stays in E.U.?: Jack Heretik
Microaggressions: All Racism, All the Time: Paul Austin Murphy

World

ISIS suspect reveals plans to open up route from Syria to U.S. through Mexico: Fox News Latino
The Self-Contradictory Liberals: Denis MacEoin
Migrants versus the MAFIA: Cosa Nostra 'declares war' on refugees: DailyMail

Obama to make historic Hiroshima visit after G-7 summit: Nikkei Asian Review
White House Explains Why Saudi King Didn’t Really Snub Obama: David Israel
Saudis Celebrate King's 'Avoidance' Of Visiting Obama: Ali Waked

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

CDC secret warning on surge of illegal kids: 'Plan on many having TB': Paud Bedard
Controversial $400bn F-35 fighter jet now has computer 'brain' problem: DailyMail
Secret Court Takes Another Bite Out of the Fourth Amendment: Cindy Cohn

Cornucopia

Sovereignty In An Age of Bondage: MOTUS
Political Correctness and the Wussification of the Military: Susan Brown
Prince Once Wrote A Donald Trump Song And It Is Spectacular: Megan Apper

Image: White House Explains Why Saudi King Didn’t Really Snub Obama
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "The White House denied reports that the fact that Saudi King Salman failed to greet President Barack Obama at the airport, after greeting Gulf State representatives just before Obama landed, meant US-Saudi relations are in a crisis. Administration officials are insisting the president and the king “really cleared the air” in their Wednesday meeting afterwards.

When he arrived, the president was greeted at the airport by the governor of Riyadh, and the event was ignored by Saudi TV. That same day, King Salman bin Abdulaziz and senior officials were seen on state TV greeting the leaders of neighboring Gulf states who were arriving for Thursday’s summit of the Saudi-dominated Gulf Cooperation council, which Obama will address." --David Israel

Friday, April 22, 2016

ILLINOIS: Only 7,500 teachers getting $100K a year pensions... for life

By ACC

My family is full of teachers. I respect teachers. I value what they do. But let’s get real here. This – as my old buddy might say – is “a straight up jack move” from the unions. This is theft from the taxpayers. Sorry. I know your union “negotiated” the pensions with politicians which got money from your union but it is just stealing with the veneer of bureaucratic legitimacy. You know it. We know it.

The median household income (total) in Illinois is $54,916.

Larwyn's Linx: President Hillary Clinton

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President Hillary Clinton: Daniel Greenfield
Trump Lobbied Congress for Higher Taxes and Preferential Treatment: Jen Kuznicki
The accused pedophile behind the ‘bathroom bills’: Renee Nal

Who’s On Track For The Nomination?: Aaron Bycoffe and David Wasserman
L.A. Diary: Stoners for Trump, and a Case of ‘Cruz-mentum’: Michael Potemra
“Make PC Great Again” hats mock Trump over transgender support: Hot Air

Somali flow to America is three decades old with no end in sight!: Ann Corcoran
Firearms industry adds over 20,000 jobs due to booming sales last year: Matt Vespa
Why does the government hate innovation?: Matt Vespa

A Victory in the War for Free Speech: John Hinderaker
Trump, Clinton spared by Gaffe Immune Disorder: John Kass
Mother of Teen Slain by Illegal to Congress: ‘Do Something! It's Your Job’: Melanie Hunter

Economy

IRS Can Track Your Cell Phone, but Leaves Billions in Taxes Uncollected: Philip Wegmann
Get Ready for Huge Obamacare Premium Hikes in 2017: Eric Pianin
One Of The Largest U.S. Pension Funds Set To Cut Retiree Benefits: ZH

Clinton Embraces Largest Soda Tax Ever Proposed In America – What Won’t She Tax?: ARS
Chairman: 'Sunset' the Tax Code by 2020 if Tax Reform Not Passed: Nicholas Ballasy
Thanks, Obama: Firearms industry adds over 20,000 jobs due to booming sales last year: Matt Vespa

Scandal Central

Judge rejects DOJ's classified court filing on Clinton emails: Rudy Takala
Firms that paid for Clinton speeches have US gov't interests: Stephen Braun, Associated Press
State Department Office Removed Benghazi Files After Congressional Subpoena: Alana Goodman

Feds Blow Off House Subpoena For Obamacare Co-Op Docs: Kathryn Watson
CIA will pay $400K to family of contractor who was killed in Benghazi: DailyMail
President meets with Saudi ruler as secret report 'linking the Arab kingdom with 9/11 attacks': DailyMail

Climate & Energy

The Stuff Greens Keep Getting Wrong: Arts Mechanical
The Shaking Continues: The Most Dangerous Volcano In Mexico Has Erupted: Michael Snyder
Regulatory Arbitrage, Rent-Seeking and the Deal of the Year: Alex Tabarrok

Media

Trump Opposes North Carolina's Different-Gender Bathroom Law: "Leave It The Way It Is": Ace
The Tyranny of the Depressed: Stuart Schneiderman
Vox: The Reason People Are So Cruel On the Internet Is Altruistic Punishment: Ace

"But They're Only Changing the $20 Bill Because They Want a Woman and/or a Black On It": Ace
Cruz talks Trump on the Mark Levin Show: Mark Levin Show
New Report Finds Media Freedom Declined Globally: VOA

World

Where UNESCO and ISIS Converge: Caroline Glick
Ayatollah Lashes Saudis: ‘Corrupt, Sycophantic, Hollow Regime … To Hell With It’: CNS
Veiling Women: Islamists' Most Powerful Weapon: Giulio Meotti

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Gadget Ogling: A 360-Degree Cam, a Leveled-Up Kindle, and a Space-Saving Home Gym: Kris Holt
FBI paid over $1.34M for hack into San Bernardino iPhone, agency's director says: Roger Fingas
You can now be identified by your ‘brainprint’ with 100% accuracy: Kurzweil AI

Cornucopia

Prince Dead at 57: TMZ
Outfielder Breaks MLB Record With 105.5 MPH Laser Throw to Nail Runner at Home: Oliver Darcy
Man Buys Rolex Daytona For $543 in 1973, Takes It To Antiques Roadshow Where He's Told It's Worth...: Hodinkee

Les Enfants Terribles Part II, The End of History: MOTUS
Watch Out, Here Comes Hillary And Other Liberal Stupidity: Woodsterman
Pictures of hosts, not homes, key for Airbnb renters, study shows: David Shamah

Image: Kevin Smith on Prince
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Hillary Clinton had a man sent to jail for uploading a video about Mohammed. What do you think she’ll do [as President] to even more vocal critics of Islam? How long will it be until a new Supreme Court decides that a Mohammed cartoon is “shouting fire in a crowded theater” and not protected by the Constitution?

On gun control, Hillary Clinton managed to combine an attack on both of the first two amendments of the Bill of Rights by insisting, “We cannot let a minority of people... hold a viewpoint that terrorizes the majority of people.” What would she do to prevent them from holding that viewpoint? Or any other viewpoints that she doesn’t think people should be allowed to hold?

If you thought that conservatives were targeted under Obama, imagine what will happen under the woman who blamed all her problems, including her husband’s infidelity, on a “vast right-wing conspiracy”. Barack Obama is surrounded by radical leftists. Hillary Clinton’s circle however is filled with political thugs like David Brock and Sidney Blumenthal who channel her worst paranoid tendencies." --Daniel Greenfield

Thursday, April 21, 2016

THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: State Dept. Hack Who Issued Visas to 9/11 Hijackers Still Employed by State Dept.

Writing at PJ Media, Nicholas Ballasy passes along a story that -- in a sane world -- would startle regular Americans and merit front page headlines around the country. But, given the legendary incompetence of Democrat administrations, it's not and it won't. To wit:
The State Department official who issued visas to many of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists is still employed by the federal government...

...[A] former head of the visa section at the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, told PJM that Shayna Steinger approved 11 of the visas granted to the 19 9/11 hijackers. Fifteen received their visas at the Jeddah consulate.

Page 7 of the 9/11 Commission report states that “one consular officer issued visas to 11 of the 19 hijackers.” Those visas were reportedly approved between the years 1999 and 2001.

THANKS, OBAMA: Immigrant Population Poised to Hit Highest Percentage Ever

By Karen Zeigler and Steven A. Camarota

While they did not receive much attention when they were released last month, new projections from the Census Bureau show the enormous impact of immigration on the U.S. population. For the first time, the Bureau projected the future size of the immigrant (foreign-born) population and found that by 2023 immigrants will account for more than one in seven U.S. residents (51 million) — the largest share ever recorded in American history. Driven largely by legal immigration, not illegal immigration, the immigrant population will grow to nearly one in five U.S. residents (78 million) by 2060, the Bureau projects.1 The total U.S. population will grow to almost 417 million — 108 million more than in 2010.

Among the Census Bureau findings:

Larwyn's Linx: Clinton doubles down on anti-gun, Sandy Hook blitz in Connecticut

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Clinton doubles down on anti-gun, Sandy Hook blitz in Connecticut: Paul Bedard
Hillary's Campaign Manager: 'This Election Will Be About Trust': Guy Benson
In the Market for Fetal Body Parts, a Baby’s Brain Sells for $3,340: Kelsey Harkness

Lack of Indiana polling may be seriously distorting perception of GOP race: Philip Klein
How the Republican Race Plays Out From Here: Sean Trende
Ted Cruz Prepared For Convention Battle With Donald Trump: Chris Stigall

Response To The Plea Of The Trumpists: Camp o' the Saints
Yes, Trump’s proposal to bar Muslims from entering U.S. is constitutional: BNI
Levin Slams Cheerleaders at Fox for Trump Hype After NY Win: Tim Graham

Hillary: “We Have Just Too Many Guns . . . In Our Homes”: Keith Koffler
Yes, We Need a Canadian Border Wall: Michelle Malkin
McCain to skip GOP convention to focus on tough reelection campaign: Alexander Bolton

Economy

Obama Admin Awards $270K to Controversial Islamic Charity: Adam Kredo
This Rail System Costs Taxpayers $22 Per Passenger: Leah Jessen
Debunking VAT Myths: Daniel J. Mitchell

Scandal Central

Why Hillary Clinton Will Be Indicted for Mishandling Classified Information: Chetan Hebbale
Obama Administration Tells Supreme Court 'Lawfully' Doesn't Mean 'Legally': CNS
Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make: John W. Whitehead

Climate & Energy

Senators Demand Kerry Obey Law & Stop Funding of U.N. Climate Convention: LidBlog
Lithium War Heats Up After Epic Launch Of Tesla Model 3: James Stafford

Media

Brother, Can You Spare A Tubby?: The Z Man
Martin Luther King to go on $5 bill: Joseph Lawler
ESPN Fires Kurt Schilling For Posting Meme About How Women/Men Really Work: WZ

Bill Whittle Goes into the Lion's Den: FrontpageMag
What the media didn’t tell you: Muslim student who got kicked off Southwest Airlines: BNI
Irregularities plague U.S. presidential primary vote in New York: LegitGov

World

The Fallacy of Focusing on Islamic Radicalization: Daniel Greenfield
Iran Conducts Space Launch: Bill Gertz
Russia: History repeats itself: LibertyZone

The horrors of Hiroshima in context: Victor Davis Hanson
Obama meets with King Salman after being snubbed at the airport in Riyadh: DailyMail
Release the 28 Pages So We Can ‘End This Suicidal Phony Alliance with Saudi Arabia’: Creeping

Report: Obama Seeks Meeting With Iranian President: Adam Kredo
Mosul: At least 250 girls killed by IS after refusal to become sex slaves: NEOnline/GK
The Islamic State carries out deadly chemical attack on Syria army: IranAware

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

On the Road to Recap: Bill Gurley
How two tiny dots defy the history of life and the solar system: Colin Stuart
China & India may define the future of Insurance and InsurTech: DailyFinTech

Cornucopia

“That Thou wouldst spare us from mutually assured destruction, oh Lord hear our prayer.”: MOTUS
World's 'oldest dog' dies at 30 in Australia after going to sleep in her basket: BBC
Former Pro Wrestler Chyna Found Dead: John Hawkins

Image: The Islamic State carries out deadly chemical attack on Syria army
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "President Barack Obama has sent two letters to senior Iranian leaders in recent months requesting a meeting with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, according to Persian language reports recently translated by a Middle East research organization.

“President Obama asked to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in two secret letters sent in late March to both Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Rouhani,” according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, which translated a Farsi-language report published Tuesday by a website affiliated with Iran’s Green movement.

Obama purportedly wrote in the correspondence “that Iran has a limited-time opportunity to cooperate with the U.S. in order to resolve the problems in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen, and promised that if Iran agreed to a meeting between him and Rouhani, he would be willing to participate in any conference to this end,” according to MEMRI’s translation of the report." --Adam Kredo

Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Larwyn's Linx: Why You Don't Understand Trump

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Why You Don't Understand Trump: Captain Capitalism
Home field advantage: Trump, Clinton win New York: W. James Antle III
Cruz shows up Trump in Missouri delegate fight: David M. Drucker

Rush: If Trump wins 50% of vote in NY and gets 90% of delegates, is that “fair”?: Hot Air
Cruz on Trump: Campaign Seems Incapable Of 'Running A Lemonade Stand': Hannity
Wow! Check Out This Ted Cruz Radio Interview! Sparks Flyin'!: PolitiBrew

The Republican Race Becomes The People vs. The Delegates: Roger L. Simon
Stressed Kasich Snaps At Reporter, Snatches His Recorder: Shifra
Something Something Something Danger Zone: BattleSwarm

Vermont Gun Rights Group to Clinton: You’re a Liar!: Jenn Jacques
‘She’s the devil’: Sanders fans slam Hillary: Kyle Olson
Hillary on shameless pandering to black voters: ‘Is it working?’: Larry O'Connor

To #BlackLivesMatter, No Lives Matter: Heather Mac Donald
Uncovering the Hidden Truths of 9/11: John R. Schindler
Cruz Calls for Unity Against Trump: Michael Warren

5 Lessons From Trump's Big Win In New York: Ben Shapiro
Trump campaign pays Breitbart editor $8,000: Gabby Morrongiello
Report: Corey Lewandowski suffers embarrassing demotion: Twitchy

Economy

Obama's open-door immigration policy blamed for surge in rural gang crime: Paul Bedard
E-Verify And The Deep Duplicity Of Our Government On Immigration: John Derbyshire
The Appeal of Sanders and Trump in One Chart: Barry Ritholtz

Scandal Central

Sonia Sotomayor wants Religious Litmus Test!: Leslie Eastman
Rep. Kristi Noem: IRS Is Rehiring Employees Fired for Misconduct: Susan Jones
White House rejects demand to boost IRS integrity: Paul Bedard

Climate & Energy

Gavin Schmidt and Reference Period “Trickery”: Steve McIntyre
Pelosi’s Husband Invested in Solar Firm Weeks Before Lucrative Expansion: Lachlan Markay
Systematic Error in Climate Measurements: The surface air temperature record: Pat Frank

Media

WashPost's Sunday Front-Page Defines New York Values: 'Ted Cruz Is a Complete A--hole': Tim Graham
Paglia: Hillary Clinton Is ‘Utterly Corrupt,’ ‘Incompetent,’ ‘Soulless’: David Rutz
Hannity Tries To Ambush Cruz, Fails: Hank Berrien

How Democrats Win Debates By Corrupting The English Language: David Harsanyi
Ted Cruz on CNBC's Squawk Box: Stuart Schneiderman
Liberals Really Are This Intellectually Disabled....: Feral Irishman

Rapper's ankle bracelet goes off in White House: TMZ
Second New York Observer writer resigns over paper's endorsement of Trump: Gabby Morrongiello
Aspiring rapper killed after music video about guns turns into bloodbath: DailyMail

World

Nothing to Worry about from Middle-Eastern Refugees? Think Again.: Tammy Bruce
The Muslim Will vs. the Western Way: Raymond Ibrahim
Belgian police arrest 23-year-old Swedish national, charged over brutal Brussels attacks: NEOnline

Tommy Robinson, “enemy of the state”: Ted Belman
ISIS plans beach massacres in Europe: Speisa
Where the Streets Have No Jokes (cont): Mark Steyn

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Help us hack FOIA data at BuzzFeed's hackathon: Michael Morisy
Google just pissed off the entire TV industry: Matthew Hussey
12-Year-Old Israeli Girl Discovers Ancient Egyptian Amulet: AP

Cornucopia

The Home Stretch: Steve Berman
A Clever Little Dog Tricks His Big Friend To Get His Toy: Katie McGuire
Video: Shark surprises surfers off Sunset Beach as it goes airborne: OC Register

Image: Uncovering the Hidden Truths of 9/11
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "The #NeverTrump crowd and the #NeverCruz crowd should take a breather. The real enemies are not each other or even the the evil establishment (give Karl Rove and his white board a break). It is that other winner of Tuesday night's primary -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- now the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party, health and legal issues permitting. She is the one who will extend and expand the policies of Barack Obama that are changing the essence of our country. If you want that, keep fighting with each other." --Roger L. Simon

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Willful Blindness and Our Saudi ‘Friends’

By Andrew C. McCarthy

For many years, I was reluctant to write a memoir of my experience leading the investigation and prosecution of the jihadists against whom we are still at war over 20 years later. For one thing, while an exhilarating experience for a trial lawyer, it was also a very hard time for my family, for obvious reasons. Also, with all the tough judgment calls we had to make, we inevitably made some mistakes - "we" very much including me. A triumphant outcome has a pleasant way of bleaching away any memory of errors; to write honestly about the case would mean revisiting them. Who needed that?

And about that triumph: I had, and have, a gnawing sense that we failed. Yes, the conviction of the Blind Sheikh and his henchmen was a great law-enforcement success. Throughout the long trial and in the years that followed, though, I came to appreciate that national security is principally about keeping Americans safe, not winning court cases. Sure, winning in this instance meant justice was done and some terrorists were incarcerated. How safe, though, had we really kept Americans?

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump poised to win GOP primary in most liberal state in in the Union

By Cliff Kincaid

Donald J. Trump’s admission that two of his adult kids didn’t even bother to register as Republicans, in order to vote for him in the New York primary, says all you need to know about his attempted takeover of the GOP. Trump isn’t a real Republican and his kids aren’t committed to the party. They work for their Daddy.

The evidence is clear: the candidate who had no knowledge of the nuclear triad, which protects America from a Russian nuclear first-strike, and who flip-flops on every major issue, is still a Democrat.

At this late stage in the campaign, it is simply amazing that conservative media personalities and websites (such as the Drudge Report) are ignoring the evidence of Trump’s involvement with the Democratic Party and close relationship with the Clintons, and treating the businessman as an authentic Republican.

THANKS, JOHN KASICH: Ohio's budget-busting Medicaid expansion soars past $7.5 billion

By Jason Hart

Ohio Medicaid expansion costs sailed farther past Gov. John Kasich’s projections in March, as total spending on the program topped the $7.5 billion mark.

Expansion cost $411 million last month, making March the most expensive month yet. For the past six months, expansion costs reported by the Ohio Department of Medicaid averaged $394 million — dwarfing other state programs.

Kasich’s budget office reported $312 million in primary and secondary education expenditures, $186 million in higher education expenditures, and $170 million in justice and public protection expenditures in March.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama is leaving IEDs for the next President, just as Clinton did to Bush

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Obama is leaving IEDs for the next President, just as Clinton did to Bush: Flopping Aces
Why I Will Be Voting For Ted Cruz In The New York Primary: LidBlog
Clinton campaign blames Democrats’ ‘sexism’ for high unfavorable ratings: Olaf Ekberg

Clinton Surrenders to Yet Another Coughing Fit: Jenna Lifhits
Trump calls Hillary ‘crooked’ and Hillary ‘could care less’: Larry O'Connor
Democrats move to restore ATF powers: Jazz Shaw

The Legal Profession Continues to Steal our Sovereignty: Daniel Horowitiz
Obama DAPA Immigration Policy Is Illegal: Sen. Mike Lee
Nazi-aligned Muslim Brotherhood Day on Capitol Hill: Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.

Here's Why Trump's Long Con Works So Well: Ben Shapiro
Key Trump director quits as campaign restructures over last primary states: Sooper
The Obama Crime Wave Comes to Minnesota: John Hinderaker

Economy

Will Hillary Pay The Extra Taxes She Wants To Force On Other Americans?: RWN
UC Berkeley Forced to Cut 500 Jobs After $15 Minimum Wage Hike: Justin Holcomb
Wall Street Mega Donors Dominate Clinton’s Fundraising Committee Support: Rachel Stockman

Scandal Central

Why Did Congo Offer Clinton $650,000 For Two Pics And A Speech?: Richard Miniter
Inside Panama Papers: Multiple Clinton connections: McClatchy
Nine Gitmo detainees transferred to our friends the Saudis: Larry O'Connor

2012: Trump slams Santorum's lost delegates: 'he is badly organized and not a good manager’: Renee Nal
Photograph their families! Trump ally Gary Forbes plans to brutalize delegates, GOP leadership: Renee Nal
State Department Consents to Depositions Over Clinton Email Server: Alana Goodman

Climate & Energy

Bombshell: State Attorney Generals colluded with Green groups to punish political opponents: Chris Horner
The EPA's Scary Race Car Ban Proposal Is Dead: Matt Robinson
Email: Top radical Marxist EPA lawyer supports Obama Supreme Court pick: Kyle Feldscher

Media

Nehlen campaign: Michelle Malkin endorses Paul Ryan’s challenger, will host fundraiser in Kenosha: WisPolitics
GOP will blow up with or without Trump win, says Republican strategist Mary Matalin: BPR
Trying Not to Die: Erick Erickson

Mr. Trump: In Accusing Patriotic Delegates of Being Bought, You've Gone Too Far: JD Rucker
We Have A Thug Culture Problem, Not A Gun Problem: Bob Owens
ABC's 'Quantico' Goes After Cruz, Tea Party, Iraq War, and Glass Ceiling - All in One Hour!: Erik Soderstrom

In Its Efforts to Rewrite Political History, Here’s Other Scandals HBO Should Make Movies About: Joe Concha
Do Jews, Christians and Muslims Believe in the Same God?: Dennis Prager
Demonizing Christianity as a Global Menace: David Limbaugh

World

Good Thing No Israelis Were Present: AmInt
After Muslim terror attacks in 3 countries, DOJ launches Combating Islamophobia effort: Creeping
Dramatic Clash at the UN Security Council: Uzi Baruch

The Perilous Politicization of the Military: Jonathan F. Keiler
China Flight Tests New Multiple-Warhead Missile: Bill Gertz
US to Send Apaches, More Troops to Help in Mosul Fight: Tara Copp

The Sick Man of Europe: The Z Man
Obama Administration Urges States to Lift Sanctions on Iran: Eli Lake
White House hints Obama will veto Saudi immunity bill: Susan Crabtree

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Big Science is broken: Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
Amazon Echo is on sale for $153 for one day only: Harish Jonnalagadda
You Want to Build an Empire Like Google's? This Is Your OS: Cade Metz

Cornucopia

Tax Day 2016: MOTUS
Bulldozers Battle in China: Stephen Gutowski
Stunned Britons capture 'UFOs flying above major UK city' in astonishing footage: Express

Image: US to Send Apaches, More Troops to Help in Mosul Fight
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Over the weekend, 2016 Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump accused the Republican Party of stealing the nomination from him via a rigged system designed to deprive him of a rightfully-won victory. “I will say this,” said Trump in Staten Island. “It’s a rigged system. It’s a crooked system. It’s 100 percent crooked.” Trump then threatened, in purely Joe Pesci circa Goodfellas fashion, to burn down the house if he doesn’t get his way at the Republican National Convention: “The Republican National Committee, they’d better get going, because I’ll tell you what: You’re going to have a rough July at that convention. You’d better get going, and you’d better straighten out the system because the people want their vote. The people want their vote, and they want to be represented properly.”

Trump supporters cheer such nonsense. Trump isn’t being screwed. He’s winning more delegates than his vote share would warrant. In South Carolina, 68 percent of voters who didn’t vote for Trump are disenfranchised by his 100 percent delegate win – but that isn’t considered corrupt. Trump himself routinely brags about buying political figures, and says openly that he will bribe people in this process since “nobody has better toys than I do.” But he’s still the victim, according to his worshipful supporters as well as the chattering class who love him..." --Ben Shapiro

Monday, April 18, 2016

YES, REALLY: Trump ally advocates violence against GOP delegates and their families

By Renee Nal

We want each at-risk delegate, while in Cleveland, to receive urgent phone calls from their families and neighbors, that there is a massive demonstration happening in their front yard, with protesters waving signs that are warning that they not betray us. Keep the demonstrations peaceful, as long as that delegate does not switch his/her vote.” – Gary Forbes

It is time for Trump supporters to loudly denounce some of the very questionable behavior of Gary Forbes of “The Forbes Group,” who has been making some bizarre and frightening comments on his websites concerning GOP leaders and delegates across America who he feels are betraying Donald Trump.

GREEN CRIME GANG: Democrat A.G.'s Colluded With Eco-Nazis to Punish Political Opponents

By Chris Horner

Emails obtained by the Energy & Environment Legal Institute (E&E Legal) show that the offices of New York Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and those of other politically aligned AGs, secretly teamed up with anti-fossil fuel activists to launch investigations against groups whose political speech challenged the global warming policy agenda.

These emails, obtained under open records laws, shed light on what followed after a January meeting, reported by the Wall Street Journal on April 14, in which groups funded by anti-fossil fuel Rockefeller interests met to urge just this sort of investigation and litigation against political opponents.

LYIN' HILLARY: On 9/11/2012, She Told Egyptian PM the Benghazi Attack "Had Nothing to Do With the Film"

By Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch has obtained new documents from the Department of State containing the telephone transcripts from the evening of September 11, 2012, in which then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton informs then-Egyptian Prime Minister Hisham Kandil that the deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi “had nothing to do with the film.” The documents include previously unreleased telephone transcripts with world leaders about the Benghazi attack.

Larwyn's Linx: Cruz Wins Wyoming, Trump Threatens Chaos

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Nation

Cruz Wins Wyoming, Trump Threatens Chaos: Deanna Fisher
5 Reasons Ted Cruz Is The Best Choice For President: Jay Caruso
There is just so much wrong with Hillary: David Lawrence

New Poll is Big News for Trump in New York, Pennsylvania and California: Leon H. Wolf
Ted Cruz continues work to lock down Washington State.: Moe Lane
New York investigates mysterious voter fraud allegations: Jazz Shaw

Report: Trump hit on beauty pageant founder, contestants: Robert King
Cruz Campaign's Masterful Performance at GOP State Conventions: Rick Moran
Trump widens lead in California, nearing majority support: Jazz Shaw

Sleeping Dogs Are Waking: Victor Davis Hanson
Donald Trump isn’t the Biggest Loser in the Delegate Game: Leon H. Wolf
Sanders's scathing Clinton attack invigorates Brooklyn crowd: Niall Stanage

Economy

Fed Sends a Frightening Letter to JPMorgan; Corporate Media Yawns: WSOP
What in the World is Going on with Banks this Week?: Great Recession
U.S. Economy 2016: 3 Classic Recession Signals Are Flashing Red: Michael Snyder

The Entire Status Quo Is a Fraud: Charles Hugh Smith
Poster child for CA ‘living wage’ policies planning to start fleeing minimum wage increases: Moe Lane
Fiscal Cost of Illegal Aliens and Amnesty to the U.S. Taxpayer: Robert Rector and Jason Richwine (2013)

Scandal Central

FCC agents told to keep Obamaphone fraud secret from Congress until after approval to expand: BPR
Declassified Cable: Pakistani Intelligence Agency Funded Deadly Attack on CIA Personnel: CNS
Final proof Obama and Holder buried Fast and Furious: Sam Rolley

Climate & Energy

4 feet of global warming cancels big 420 rally in Denver: Twitchy
Another taxpayer-funded solar company fails: Jerome R. Corsi
Obama To Score Big Win On Paris Hotcoldwetdry Accord On Earth Day Or Something: Cove

Media

Poll: Vast majority of Americans don't trust the news media: CNS
Reince Priebus Schools Donald Trump On How Math Works: RS
Please DO NOT SHARE this “Bernie is My Comrade” graphic: LI

Great interview with @TedCruz on California radio show ‘John and Ken’: Scoop
Self-Identifying: College Students Unwittingly Reveal The Absolute Idiocy That Comes With It: Patterico
Mom Drops Logic Bomb on Militant Deviancy: MB

Is “The System” Really Rigged?: Derek Hunter
Obama's immigration order overreaches: Our view: USA Today Editorial Board
Rule 34 Blog: Via Ace

World

Thanks, Obama! Cuban Activist Living in USA for Nearly Half a Century Ordered Deported: JWF
Russian Jet Threatened U.S. Recon Aircraft: Bill Gertz
Coexist: Ferocious battle at Paris migrant camp: Refugees armed with metal poles clash with vigilantes: DailyMail

Obama’s Security Advisor: ‘Promoting Sustainable Development’ Will Help 'Defeat ISIL's Ideology': CNS
The Hijab and The Citadel: Toni Williams
Death Toll in Ecuador Rises to 272 After 'Strongest Quake in Decades': ABC News

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Wallpaper Camera Wraps Around Any Surface: Eric Niiler
British Airways plane possibly hit by drone near Heathrow: John Ribeiro, IDG News
ModPOS – The Mechanics of a POS Malware Framework: David Bisson

Cornucopia

(Photos) Abandoned homes in Chicago's violent Austin neighborhood: Marathon
Everything was going along fine until a big wind blew it over.: MOTUS
Photos: Texans begin 2016 cheerleader tryouts: Houston Chronicle Sports

Image: Everything was going along fine until a big wind blew it over.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Have we ever elected a president who was being investigated by the FBI? It makes me lose all faith in this country.

Trump is clumsy, bold, and outspoken. Yet he has the integrity of the police compared to a criminal gang like the Clintons." --David Lawrence