Thursday, May 05, 2016

Despicable Weasel Harry Reid (Which Is the Term He Prefers, I Hear) Finally Breaks the Hypocrisy-Meter

By ARsquared

In advance of Harry Reid’s press call on the Supreme Court this afternoon, AR2 thought it was important to again point out his past hypocrisy and his tendency to play politics with this issue.

Remember, in 2005, Reid said on the Senate floor that nowhere in the Constitution “does it say the Senate has a duty to give presidential nominees ‘an up or down vote.’”

OH, MY: More Hillary Emails That Were Hidden From State Department Probe Uncovered

By Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch today released new State Department emails (one batch of 103 pages, the second of 138 pages) that again appear to contradict statements by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com system until March 18, 2009.

Judicial Watch recently released Clinton State Department emails dating from February 2009 that also call into question her statements about her emails.

Larwyn's Linx: The Reagan Coalition Is Dead. What’s Next For Conservatism?

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Nation

The Reagan Coalition Is Dead. What’s Next For Conservatism?: John Hinderaker
Republican voters have spoken and they want Donald Trump: Philip Klein
The Warning Shot: The Z Man

Clinton Machine Shifts Focus and Increases Plan To Destroy Bernie Sanders: Treehouse
Trump victory speech: ‘We are going after Hillary Clinton’: Larry O'Connor
Longtime Clinton Donor: “She should not be allowed to run in the election”: JWF

Can Hillary Be Stopped? There is a Way: Brian Darling
Reince Priebus: Trump's win ‘probably good for our party’: Nolan D. McCaskill
Warren pledges to 'fight my heart out' to defeat Trump: Cyra Master

America’s Last Election: Politically Short
Millions of Us Are Strangers in Our Own Party: Daniel Horowitz
On The Democratic Revolution In America: Camp of the Saints

Economy

Denying the Obvious: Our Tax Dollars at Work at the NCTC: Christopher W. Holton
Where's The Beef? ‘Lies, Damned Lies, And Statistics’: Rob Arnott and Lillian Wu
China Warns 'Will Respond To Trump Presidency': ZH

Scandal Central

Bernstein: There Will Be 'Very Damaging' Leaks From Hillary Email Investigation: Ian Hanchett
‘Obama Plans to Reduce Screening for Refugees to 3 Months’: Clarion
Judge OKs deposition plan in Hillary Clinton email case: Josh Gerstein

Climate & Energy

Hillary Clinton’s photo-op with an out-of-work coal miner goes terribly, horribly wrong: BPR

Media

Bidding Farewell to Politics: Herschel Smith
I Am More Qualified For President Than Trump Or Clinton, And So Are You: Paul David Miller
UK Advertising Watchdog Moves To Ban "Idealised" (Hot) Images Of Women: Liam Deacon

Nosedive: GOP's view of Cruz his 'worst in Gallup's history': Paul Bedard
RedState: Trump-Boosting Is Causing Fox to Lose to CNN: Tim Graham
Dueling NYC tabloid covers sum up the mood in the GOP this morning: Twitchy

World

Secret German White Paper Reveals True Scale of Germany's EU Army Ambitions: Donna Rachel Edmunds
EU Plans $290,000 Per Person Fine on Countries Refusing “Fair Share” of Refugees: MishTalk
How Recep Erdogan became the most powerful man in Europe: Douglas Murray

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Researchers Believe They May Have Located a Famous Ship Once Owned by Captain Cook: Natalia Klimczak
EHang reveals plans to deploy its passenger drones for emergency organ deliveries: Brian Heater
New Study Challenges Consensus on Link Between Dietary Fat, Heart Disease: Barbara Hollingsworth

Cornucopia

MOTUS’ Twilight Nocturne Lounge: A Legendary Evening at P’jazz: MOTUS
911 Records: Caller Claimed Prince Was Gripped by ‘Uncontrollable Cocaine Habit’: Tom Sykes
Diamond the Size of a Tennis Ball Could Fetch $70 Million: Jill Lawless

Image: EHang reveals plans to deploy its passenger drones for emergency organ deliveries
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "I, and many others, have said repeatedly that Trump is no conservative. He is, however, pro-America. His slogan, make America great again, resonates with conservatives of all stripes. On the other hand, it is anathema to liberals, who believe that America never was great, and certainly don’t want her to start being great now. And Trump, like no one else, pushes back against the Left’s efforts to suppress free speech, which usually go under the too-generous rubric of political correctness.

A new conservatism is, to paraphrase a long-dead crank, struggling to be born. It will not emerge between now and November, but the next six months should shed considerable light on the shape of the conservative movement in a post-Reagan era." --John Hinderaker

Wednesday, May 04, 2016

ON TRUMP: Quotes of the Day

The Z Man:

We have two primaries going on in which immigration is the defining issue. On the one side, the guy promising to build a wall and bar Muslims from entry crushed the field, despite being outspent a million-to-one. On the other side, the old-time socialist, who preaches worker’s rights and obliquely opposes the immigration lobbies, is making life hell for the party candidate...

Larwyn's Linx: Donald Trump wins in landslide in Indiana, Ted Cruz drops out

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Nation

Donald Trump wins in landslide in Indiana, Ted Cruz drops out: W. James Antle III
Trump at 56 Percent Among Republicans Nationally: Keith Koffler
Why Trump won, and how the pundits missed it: Samuel Gonzalez

Bernie Sanders pulls off upset in Indiana: Ariel Cohen
DNC chair: We should go to closed primaries: Ed Morrissey
Hillary Gets Thumped in Indiana, Then Begs on Twitter for Money: Jim Hoft

Aztlan Rising–Anti-American Movement Among Mexican-Americans: James Kirkpatrick
Everybody Take a Deep Breath: BattleSwarm
Trump clinches, Cruz bails and the media face a new Republican reality: Howard Kurtz

Congratulations to Mr. Trump and Therefore Hillary Clinton: John Hawkins
Democrats in Disarray: Sanders Wins Indiana in Upset: Tammy Bruce
Unhappy with Trump as the Nominee? Some good advice here.: Instapundit

They Are Both the Devils We Know: John Podhoretz
Trump Has Already Written Off Conservatives: Amanda Carpenter
How Ted Cruz Got Indiana Wrong: Adam Wren

Economy

The Trump Campaign Shows Its Policy Chops: Betsy McCaughey
There Is No Charity in Bureaucracy: Theodore Dalrymple
Money Down a Hole: John Stossel

Scandal Central

DHS admits deportations of illegal immigrants cut nearly in half: Paul Bedard
Tale of Two Tribes: ‘Climate Refugees’ vs. EPA Victims: Michelle Malkin
“Climate Hustle” demolishes climate alarmism: AIM

Media

Trump: I'm Not Saying Ted Cruz's Dad Killed JFK, But I'm Not Saying He Didn't Kill JFK, Either: Ace
FOX News Allows Trump to Smear Ted Cruz: LevinTV
A Stupid, Fact-Free Accusation from a Stupid, Fact-Free Candidate: Jim Geraghty

After Indiana Victory, CNN Badgers Sanders on When He'll Quit: Nicholas Fondacaro
Beck: "Huge Drudge Font Size" Mocking My Fast For Cruz A Sign America Is "Done": Tim Hains
Donald Trump steamrolling toward nomination despite negative ad blitz: Michael Beckel

World

Iran: US using the Islamic State “to destroy Islam’s attractions”: Robert Spencer
Palestinian Children Kill Israelis in Hamas “Play”: Steve Emerson
Report: Missile launcher that downed MH17 belongs to the Russian army: Georgi Gotev

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How to tease out patterns in divergent data stacks: Noel Yuhanna
10-year-old uncovers Instagram security flaw, earns top bug bounty reward: Charlie Osborne
Full Width Justification: xkcd

Cornucopia

When I met Bill Clinton and the first time we were together: Sally Miller
Prediction markets bet against brokered convention, choose Trump: Paul Bedard
A Bad Goodbye: MOTUS

Image: Iran: US using the Islamic State “to destroy Islam’s attractions”
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "The most important criticism to be made of the welfare state is that it protects people from the consequences of their bad choices and therefore fosters and encourages those very choices, which generally follow the line of least resistance or favor instant gratification over longer-term desiderata. The welfare state undermines the taking of individual responsibility, especially where the economic difference between taking it and not taking it tends to be rather small, at least in the short-term.

Moreover, charity given as of right, for that is what the welfare state does, favors the undeserving more than the deserving, in so far as the undeserving have a capacity and even talent for generating more neediness than the deserving. (They also tend to be more vocal in their demands.)

The welfare state in fact dissolves the very notion of desert, because there is no requirement that a beneficiary prove he deserves what he is legally entitled to. And where what is given is given as of right, not only will a recipient feel no gratitude for it, but it must be given without compassion—that is, without regard to any individual’s actual situation. In the welfare state, the notion of a specially deserving case is prohibited, for it implies a distinction between the deserving and the undeserving. In my career, I was many times startled by the unfeelingness of welfare bureaucrats in the face of the most appalling, and non-self-inflicted, suffering." --Theodore Dalrymple

Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Larwyn's Linx: This is How Democrats Will Absolutely Destroy Donald Trump if He’s the Nominee

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Nation

This is How Democrats Will Absolutely Destroy Donald Trump if He’s the Nominee: CR
Hoosier Values are On the Line: Steve Deace
$20 Million to Bury Trump in June: Erick Erickson

Cruz Will Win Indiana if Media Spin is Ignored: JD Rucker
A Dark Time in America: Dennis Prager
Indiana: Last Chance to Save the Country: Leon H. Wolf

Clinton Was Never Intended to be the Democrat Nominee: Joe Herring
One Year of Silence on Hillary Clinton Uranium Deal: Peter Schweizer
Obama Jokes About Making a Ton of Money Giving Speeches At Goldman, Like Hillary: Ace

Time to Tutor Trump: Jed Babbin
Who Will Be Trump's VP?: Roger L. Simon
Appeals court reverses ban on Sheriff Joe Arpaio workplace raids: AZCentral

Tom Cotton on the revised leniency for drug felons bill: Paul Mirengoff
‘Dreamers’ flip off Trump supporters, shout expletives at passing cars: Kyle Olson
CNN Finally Admits: There's No Way in Hell Donald Trump Can Win the General: PJM

Economy

In 6 Months Since Budget Deal: Debt Up More Than $1 Trillion: CNS
Obama Admin to Open Federal Jobs to Criminals: Daniel Horowitz
Detroit teachers: Illegal sick-out Monday, illegal sick-out on Tuesday: Marathon

Scandal Central

Obama Budgets More for Illegal Alien Minors Than Retirees Get From Social Security: MB
Heads up: Major analysis of Clinton Foundation scandals coming: Thomas Lifson
Does this DOJ memo hint that criminal action against Hillary is forthcoming?: Rusty Weiss

Climate & Energy

Big Green's Dirty Power: Sultan Knish

Media

Video: Ted Cruz vs. Low-IQ Trumpkin: Patterico
A short comment on Forward Observer's "Introduction to Counter Intelligence": Stop Shouting!
Hillary Clinton's Latest 'Racist' Gaffe: Hannity

Michael Savage: Obama will sabotage economy on way out: WND
Fox is Bleeding Viewers – I Wonder Why?: Brent Smith
Krauthammer: We've 'Always Known' Saudi Arabia Is Responsible for 9/11: Nicholas Fondacaro

World

Thanks, Obama: Doctor who helped CIA track bin Laden still languishes in Pakistan jail: Telegraph
''Traitor'' - German Minister chased away by angry mob: Speisa
ISIS member executes his own mother in public: Speisa

FBI Informs 3,600 New Yorkers They Are on ISIS Hit List: Clarion
New report from CIS: Obama’s illegal aliens disguised as refugees: Ann Corcoran
Who is the Host and Who is the Guest?: Hugh Fitzgerald

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Foreshock? A Significant Earthquake Just Hit The New Madrid Fault Seismic Zone: Michael Snyder
Venture Into a Surreal Salt Mine 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie: Laura Mallonee
Breitling Exospace B55 Connected Watch Review: Ariel Adams

Cornucopia

“Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above.”: MOTUS
Muslim woman suing Long Beach Police for allegedly removing her supremacist headbag during arrest: BNI
Portrait of the director as a young man: J. Edgar Hoover's FBI file (Part 1): Beryl Lipton

Image: Venture Into a Surreal Salt Mine 2,000 Feet Below Lake Erie
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Yesterday morning, a CNN panel finally admitted what many Cruz supporters have been saying for months: there's absolutely no way in hell that Donald Trump can win the general election.

...[One key] weakness that won't just "decrease" his chances of winning but annihilate them: his horrendous favorability ratings among women...

...An astonishing 66% of female voters have an unfavorable opinion of Trump. That's two thirds. Now, if Trump wins 75% of the male vote, he may still be able to win, but that's not going to happen. The electorate is simply too divided for him to do so." --Michael van der Galien

Monday, May 02, 2016

OUR FEDERAL HOUSING VOUCHER PROGRAM: The Poverty Creator

By Kathryn Watson

Federal officials spend more tax dollars on Section 8 housing vouchers than they do on cash welfare, and the program often perpetuates poverty rather than alleviating it, according to an urban housing expert.

“Its incentives are completely skewed,” Howard Husock, vice president for policy research and director of the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative at the Manhattan Institute, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

“You’ve ‘hit the lottery’ and you’re set for life,” said Husock, referring to those who receive housing assistance for decades, a lifetime or even generations, while others wait for years on a waiting list. “Not only do you hit the lottery and you can sit back and have a housing unit for life, but remember, your deal is you pay 30 percent of your income in rent, but what it means is for every additional dollar you earn, you pay an additional 30 cents in rent,” he said.

The Wall Street Journal Falls for Pathetic Pallywood Propaganda

By Yaacov Ben Moshe

This is another classic example of Islamic “fauxtography” (Ed.: also known as Pallywood). The picture is so obviously staged that I feel embarrassed for the photo editor who selected it. To imagine that a toddler could be pulled out of the wreckage alive is fanciful enough but, okay, miracles do happen.

But look again. How could the grimy “rescue worker” possibly have dug the baby out of the rubble. The kid doesn’t have a spot on his clean white tee shirt and socks. And don’t tell me that the dust on the rescue worker is light colored and wouldn’t show, I’ve raised six kids and I know that a white tee shirt shows everything! That kid’s mother must have known he would be starring in the latest promo shots for the Jihad and put him in a brand new outfit. Anyway, the child’s pants are dark blue and nothing shows there either.

CONGRESS? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING CONGRESS! Rogue Obama EPA Stashes Billions in Slush Fund Accounts

By Ethan Barton

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials have accumulated at least $6.3 billion in more than 1,300 obscure spending accounts akin to slush funds that are essentially beyond congressional, media and public scrutiny.

The accounts – which were created through EPA’s Superfund program – are not technically secret because the agency officially acknowledges their existence. But getting concrete details about deposits and expenditures is extremely difficult.

The EPA deposited more than $6.3 billion into an estimated 1,308 special accounts between 1990 and 2015, according to the agency’s website, and has spent more than half of the total. The agency doesn’t publicly report individual special account balances or expenses.

RAMIREZ CARTOON: If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Join ‘Em

The brilliant Michael Ramirez of Investors Business Daily illustrates the stark contrast between Constitutionalism and Populism.

And, with a sigh, this post's author intoned for the 828,000th time: "And for you hardcore Trump-supporting readers, I would vote for Trump in the general over a Democrat because I would vote for a used Kleenex over a Democrat. But, to be perfectly honest, I have no idea what Mr. Trump's real positions are and neither do you."

Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

Larwyn's Linx: In Indiana, Cruz Contrasts Character with Trump

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Nation

In Indiana, Cruz Contrasts Character with Trump: Chris Deaton
That Awkward Moment When Trump Supporters Learn He's the Establishment: Soshable
GOP Leaders Surrender to Trump: Josh Kraushaar

Mexico Is Sending Us Colonists, Not Immigrants: Tom Tancredo
WaPo Buries Uncomfortable Fact: Gruesome, Slashing Killer Is An Illegal Alien: Tim Graham
Islamic terror attack at South Florida synagogue foiled by FBI; 1 arrested: Pamela Geller

Anti-capitalist May Day marchers injure police officers, destroy property in Seattle: Twitchy
Governor Nikki Haley Testifies Guantanamo Bay Transfers To US: C-SPAN
Bill Clinton Met With Hostility, Boos in West Virginia During Campaign Stop: Carly Hoilman

If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em: Michale Ramirez
Trump Denies Mike Tyson Is a Rapist: Shoshana Weissman
Trump 38%, Clinton 38%: Rasmussen

Economy

These Expensive DOJ Offices, Rented With Your Money, Are Empty!: J. Christian Adams
As deadlines come and go, Puerto Rico's debt crisis grows: Story Hinckley
Obama's Economy Is Bad; Clinton's Would Be Worse: RCP

Scandal Central

Obama Frees USS Cole Bombing Terrorist: Daniel Greenfield
Trump Sued By Teen ‘Sex Slave’ For Alleged ‘Rape’ — Donald Blasts ‘Disgusting’ Suit: Radar
Benghazi: What Did Bill Clinton Know & When Did He Know It?: JW

Media

Fox News Reaps the Reward for Becoming the Trump Channel: Surpassed by CNN: MB
American Terrorists Shout 'Make America Great Again!' on ABC's 'Quantico': Erik Soderstrom
About that Detroit Comeback: John Ruberry

Fighting Back against Political Correctness on Campus: Stuart Schneiderman
The Thing I’ve Gotten Most Wrong in My Career: Erick Erickson
Meet Cora Segal: The Fattest, Most Entitled SJW/Feminist In Human History: DownTrend

World

Islamism's slow genocide against Christianity: Noah Beck
Turkey blackmails Europe with its own instability: Spengler: David P. Goldman
Albanian Jihad Recruiters Convicted and Sentenced: GoV

Iran to Build Seven New Nuke Plants By 2020: Adam Kredo
John Kerry Betrayed America to Follow International Law: Sara Noble
The Congo's Small, Little, Mini War: The NYT's Fear: Steve Sailer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Are we alone? A new twist on the famous Drake Equation ups the odds that we aren’t: Anthony Watts
Sony files to patent new contact lenses that can record video, store it, play it back: DailyMail
3D printed rotary engine restores vintage WWI fighter plane for Topeka museum: 3ders

Cornucopia

Keeping It Classy Around Here Since 2009: MOTUS
9/11 monuments across America are defaced and neglected: Susan Edelman
Exclusive: “Sugar” Shane Mosley Makes Heroic Rescue Of Baby In 405 Freeway Wreck: CBS-LA

Image: Obama's Economy Is Bad; Clinton's Would Be Worse
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "What makes this GOP sur­render [to Trump] so re­mark­able is that, by not fight­ing Trump more ag­gress­ively, Re­pub­lic­ans are act­ing against their own self-in­terest. This rarely hap­pens in polit­ics. As I’ve out­lined pre­vi­ously, a Trump nom­in­a­tion risks severe down-bal­lot losses. Cruz, while a weak nom­in­ee, would be more likely to keep the party (un­com­fort­ably) to­geth­er—with a fight­ing chance to de­feat Hil­lary Clin­ton. It’s why Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, in a tough reelec­tion bid of his own, pub­licly an­nounced that he voted for Cruz in his blue-state primary." --Josh Kraushaar

Sunday, May 01, 2016

SORRY, FOLKS: Donald Trump Is the Washington Establishment

For the 840,000th time I must remind the hardcore Trump supporters that I am not, nor will ever be, a #NeverTrump drone. I would support Mr. Trump over Hillary Clinton, because I would support a four day-old tuna sandwich over Hillary Clinton.

There's an important opinion piece by former U.S. prosecutor and staunch Constitutionalist Andrew C. McCarthy that every GOP primary voter should read. You say you want the key graphs? Boom.

Donald Trump is the Washington establishment. The fact that he has not previously held public office does not make him an “outsider.” Hell, Reince Priebus — the head of the Republican National Committee — has never held public office. If the ruling class were just the officeholders, it would be short-lived. The Donald Trumps who pay the freight are the Washington establishment’s lifeblood. They are joined to the officeholders at the hip . . . or hadn’t you noticed Governor Christie shadowing The Donald?

The new Trump bumper-stickers are here! The new Trump bumper-stickers are here!

Given the latest revelations from (an almost certainly plastered) John Boehner that he despises Ted Cruz and adores Donald Trump -- who he says is his golfing and texting buddy -- our summer intern Biff Spackle suggests the following bumper sticker for the real estate magnate.


Add this to the pile of evidence -- such as the Trump campaign's admission that it is scheming with Mitch McConnell -- that far from being anti-establishment, Mr. Trump is the establishment.

There is only one real anti-establishment candidate in this race and his name is Ted "Lucifer" Cruz.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Is John Boehner auditioning to be Trump’s running mate?

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Nation

Is John Boehner auditioning to be Trump’s running mate?: Ed Morrissey
Trump: ‘For every terror case known to public, there are dozens, dozens more’: Creeping
Pete Wilson endorses Cruz: 'He's not anti-immigration, hardly anti-Latino': Anna Giaritelli

Trump Thumps the Ruling Class: George Neumayr
If Trump doesn’t get to 1,237, Cruz could win the Convention: Robert Eno
I wonder when the Trump backers will realize they’ve been had.: Andrew C. McCarthy

The Great Culture War: The Z Man
Ten Reasons Moderates Should Vote for Ted Cruz: Dan McLaughlin
What Hillary Clinton said behind closed doors: Chicago Tribune Editorial Board

Gun taxes, thought policing and the triumph of the 'Force Left': Dustin Howard
Jewish reporter: Trump supporters bombarding me with anti-Semitic rhetoric: Times of Israel
If the Donald Loses in November, It Won’t Be #NeverTrump to Blame: Jonah Goldberg

Economy

Lies, Lies and OMG, More Lies: Jim Quinn
“Nothing Is Real… All Of This is... To Keep People Believing The System Is Working”: Mac Slavo
Five of six F-35s unable to take off during testing because of software glitches: DailyMail

Scandal Central

“Safe Pathways”: Newspeak for Muslim Refugee Resettlement in Your Neighborhood: Creeping
Hillary Clinton's Damning Emails: Ray McGovern
SSA Putting Millions of Americans at Risk for Identity Theft: Elizabeth Harrington

Climate & Energy

Elon Musk, Crony Capitalist: Veronique de Rugy
The EPA stashes billions in unaccountable slush funds: Rick Moran
James Hansen gets grilled by attorney in Omaha after spewing nonsense: Anthony Watts

Media

A Viral Video Illustrates Why Target Is Making Me Rethink My Opposition to Boycotts: David French
Should We Arrest Louis C. K.?: Kevin D. Williamson
Networks Blackout Hassan Scandal: Bill McMorris

Could Someone Please Buy Poseur Donald Trump a Clue?: Political Clown Parade
'Clinton Cash' rears its head again, just as Hillary is getting a leg up over Bernie: DailyMail
At Correspondents Dinner, Larry Wilmore Smears Fox News as Racist, Hailing Obama as 'My N***a': TIm Graham

World

Russian Warplane Flies Within 50 Feet of U.S. Spy Plane in Asia: Bill Gertz
China Successfully Tests Hypersonic Missile: Bill Gertz
Baghdad in state of emergency as protesters storm Green Zone, parliament: Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY

Muslim suspects arrested in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy in Rome and the Vatican: BNI
Go ahead, insult: We need to stop the preferential treatment of Islam : Ole Martin Moen
Islamic 'state' Struggles to Overcome their Budget Deficit.: MFS-TON

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The incredible mystery of the ‘alien spacecraft’ that lies at the bottom of the Baltic Sea: New.com.au
Declassified files released of atomic relic of the Cold War: USS Independence (CVL-22): Anthony Watts
5 Of The Most Innovative Wristwatches Ever Made: Elizabeth Doerr

Cornucopia

Liberal (cough cough) Logic: Woodsterman
Woman kicks man's ass after he harasses her in an elevator: Gabe Bergado
Three Years Ago- Alexis Deacon Talks To Mark Levin: Queen of Liberty

Image: Muslim suspects arrested in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy in Rome and the Vatican
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Help Protect Our Constitution: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Want to know why Obamacare is fully funded? Why the meager spending caps enacted in 2011 were busted? Why the debt limit was suspended so Washington could zoom past its $18 trillion credit line? Why Obama’s lawless executive order granting de facto amnesty to illegal aliens is proceeding apace? Why Obama is emptying Guantanamo Bay and planning to transfer detainees into the United States? Why the EPA continues to implement Obama’s climate-change agenda despite a Supreme Court stay of its anti-coal regulation? Why no official was impeached and no funding was slashed when the IRS was used as a political weapon against conservative groups? Why the Justice Department has a $27 billion budget that pays for its paralyzing investigations of the nation’s police departments while the attorney general threatens new legal action against climate-change “deniers” and “anti-Muslim” speech?

Thank John Boehner. To fight Obama on these and other progressive priorities would have required exploiting Congress’s constitutional authority, particularly the power of the purse. Boehner and other GOP leaders were given this power because voters believed their promises to fight. Empty promises.

While Boehner was surrendering, Donald Trump was backing him to the hilt: a staggering $100,000 contribution to the Congressional Leadership Fund — Boehner’s super PAC, formed largely to fend off conservative primary challenges against GOP establishment loyalists. It should be easy to remember that number, $100,000. It is the same amount Trump gave to the Clinton Foundation. That’s even more than the $60,000 Trump gave to Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, the super PAC of Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (along with a $5,200 contribution to McConnell’s reelection campaign)." --Andrew C. McCarthy

Saturday, April 30, 2016

A TERRIFYING GLIMPSE INTO GERMANY'S FUTURE: The Refugee Hostel

By Stephen Brown

They fled religious hatred, rape and violence in their homelands for the “safe” haven of Germany -- only to encounter the same, brutal conditions in their new accommodations: the refugee hostel.

Violence in refugee centers became a national topic in Germany last October, only weeks after Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel invited into Europe one million, mainly Muslim, refugees. But exposure of this disgraceful situation appears to have had little effect, as German newspapers are reporting this month that conditions remain unchanged.

FORMER CIA ANALYST: Hillary Clinton's Unencrypted Personal Email Server May Have Led to Benghazi Attack

There's an important article over at Consortium News by longtime CIA analyst Ray McGovern, who prepared Presidential Daily Briefings for presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan, and which highlights an interesting point I hadn't come across before.

Namely, that Hillary's use of an insecure personal email server -- that was almost certainly hacked by America's enemies -- could very well have exposed Ambassador Steven's lack of security in his Benghazi compound, thereby leading directly to the terror attack that killed four Americans.

Larwyn's Linx: Sen. Mike Lee Calls Mark Levin, Goes Nuclear On John Boehner And Pete King!

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Nation

Mike Lee Calls Mark Levin, Goes Nuclear On John Boehner And Pete King!: HayRide
Political Parties Can Die: Pointman
The GOP Establishment: They Are Who We Thought They Were: Josh Hammer

Game-Changing Poll Shows Ted Cruz Crushing Trump in Indiana: Caleb Howe
Education or Indoctrination?: Ace
Will Rioters Hand the Election to Trump?: John Hinderaker

Can Republicans Govern Their Mouths?: Stuart Schneiderman
Donald Trump Isn’t the ‘Presumptive Nominee’ — Not Yet, Anyway: Michael Barone
Hillary Gets Elected if Trump Gets Nominated: Resurgent

Simple Patriotism Trumps Ideology: Peggy Noonan
Real Collusion? Trump Team Admits It's Secretly Working With McConnell: Jen Kuznicki
When Hillary Clinton Put A 14-Year-Old Rape Victim Through Hell: Jeff Dunetz

Economy

Conservatives Can’t Let Obamacare’s Collapse go to Waste: Joshua Withrow
Feds to Pay California to Finance Free MediCaid Health Care for Illegals: Stephen Frank
As Obamacare Collapses, Prepare for Single Payer: Sara Noble

Scandal Central

Here Comes the Obama/UN Refugee “Surge”--Rebranded “Safe Alternative Pathways”: William F. Jasper
Report: Clintons Are Paying Legal Bills For Aide Who Registered Private Email Address: Chuck Ross
Lynch: No deadline for Clinton email probe: Rudy Takala

Hillary Clinton Email Scandal Explodes: State Department Buried Secret Message: Radar
Rutland VT area legislators blast mayor for secrecy on refugees: Jasper Craven
“Fight for $15” PR Firm Now Embroiled In de Blasio Fundraising Scandal: AR2

Media

Trouble in Liberal Paradise: Bill Clinton Insults Obama 4 Times In 5 Weeks: Hannity
Man Gives Ted Cruz Copy Of Communist Manifesto To Sign, He Gives It Back With...: WZ
1 Million Have Now Signed on to #BoycottTarget Pledge: Melanie Hunter

If Conservatives Want To Change America, We Need To Embrace Boycotts: John Hawkins
Report: Abedin brought to tears by Clinton carrying her own bags: Rudy Takala
Jane Sanders: It would be nice if FBI moved along Hillary Clinton email probe: CBS News

World

Trump's foreign policy painted as 'radical,' Trump really echoes Reagan and ... Ike: Laura Ingraham
All Belgian residents issued with iodine tablets to protect against radiation: Matthew Holehouse
'We're gonna build a wall, and it's gonna be beautiful': Speisa

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Automat of the Future: The Z Man
China Debuts Anbot, The Police Robot: PopSci
Developer hacks Apple Watch to boot and run Windows 95: Benjamin Mayo

Cornucopia

Minnesota man claiming to be Prince's 'love child' asks to be in charge of his $300MM estate : DailyMail
This time, it’ll work (cont’d): Sondrakistan
Tech Tip o' the Day: C&S

Image: Make Mexico Great Again
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QOTD: "Israel isn’t my country, but it is my country’s ally, and it is impossible for a liberty-loving American to fail to admire what the Jewish state has done.

And that, of course, is why the Left wants to see the Jewish state exterminated." --Kevin D. Williamson

Friday, April 29, 2016

REAL HEROES: Sheriffs call for Americans to defy unconstitutional gun laws

By Mac Slavo

As the federal government continues in its quest to restrict the rights of gun owners across the country, local law enforcement is stepping up their response.

For many, it is one of a line in the sand against a bevy of agencies based in Washington, and partnering state agencies, who have violated the constitution.

EXCLUSIVE: Secret Agenda for the 2016 Democratic National Convention Revealed!

Cub Reporter Biff Spackle scoops the world with this exclusive, tippity-top secret agenda for the DNC.

2016 Democrat National Convention
Schedule of Events

 7:00 pm OPENING FLAG BURNING
 7:15 pm PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE UNITED NATIONS
 7:20 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Hillary Clinton
 7:25 pm OPENING ISLAMIC PRAYER - Rep. Keith Ellison
 7:45 pm CEREMONIAL TREE HUGGING - Leonardo DiCaprio
 7:55 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Joe Biden
 8:00 pm MUSICAL INTERLUDE ON GLOBAL WARMING: John Kerry and James Taylor
 8:30 pm TRANSGENDER WEDDING PLANNING - Caitlyn Jenner
 8:55 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Hillary Clinton
 9:00 pm CLOSING GITMO: WHAT COULD GO WRONG? - Barack Obama
 9:30 pm MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN - Cindy Sheehan and Sean Penn
 9:55 pm SECURING YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL SERVER - Bryan Pagliano
10:00 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO the late VP Joe Biden
10:05 pm COLLECTION DRIVE FOR THE OSAMA BIN LADEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND - Barbra Streisand
10:30 pm FREE THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS FROM GUANTANAMO BAY - Barack Obama
11:00 pm OVAL OFFICE AFFAIRS - A POEM BY William Jefferson Clinton
11:45 pm Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Nancy Pelosi's Rack
11:50 pm A PLEA FOR MASS PARDONS OF VIOLENT FELONS - Howard Dean
12:15 am FREE THE MINUTEMEN UNLAWFULLY IMPRISONED IN GITMO - Michael Moore
12:25 am Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Beyonce
12:30 am SATELLITE ADDRESS - Vladimir Putin
12:45 am NOMINATION OF HILLARY CLINTON - Senator Chuck Schumer
1:00 am Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy SINGS NATIONAL ANTHEM
1:05 am CORONATION OF HILLARY CLINTON
1:30 am Actor Portraying Ted Kennedy PROPOSES A TOAST TO Mary Jo Kopechne
1:35 am Bill Clinton asks actor Portraying Ted Kennedy to drive Hillary home.

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Larwyn's Linx: John Boehner: Trump is my golfing and texting buddy; Cruz is “Lucifer in the flesh”

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Nation

John Boehner: Cruz is “Lucifer in the flesh”; Trump is my golfing and “texting buddy”: Hot Air
5 Signs Donald Trump IS The Establishment...From The Last 24 Hours Alone: Ben Shapiro
Cruz Fires Back At Boehner: He Let 'His Inner Trump Come Out': Hank Berrien

Trump Supporters Beaten, Cop Cars Destroyed By Protesters In Costa Mesa : Chris Buskirk
Mexican Flag-waving Mob Harasses Motorists Outside Trump Rally in CA: Steve Sailer
Trump needs just 287 more delegates to clinch GOP nomination: The Hill

Trump and the Mob: Tom Robbins
Report: Bernie Supports Won't Back Hillary Even if He Endorses Her: Jim Hoft
Indiana: #Nevertrump’s Last Stand?: Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley

Cruz's VP Gambit: Caitlin Huey-Burns
How Dennis Hastert Could Elect Donald Trump President: Jeff Greenfield
Brother of San Bernardino gunman charged with marriage fraud conspiracy: DailyMail

Mike Lee Demands Boehner Apologize for Lucifer Comment: CR Wire
The Cruz/Fiorina Ticket- Finally, We Have Fighters: Jen Kuznicki
John Kasich Isn’t Exactly The Huggable Centrist Of Lore: Scott Greer

Economy

A Retrospective On Obama’s Economic Prowess: MOTUS
Obama is First President Ever to Not See Single Year of 3% GDP Growth: Jim Hoft
ICE Released 86,288 Criminal Aliens from 2013-2015: Melanie Hunter

Scandal Central

Bill’s aide may be the nexus between the Clintons’ political and financial interests: Monica Crowley
Whistleblower: Cockroaches Served for Dinner at Chicago-Area VA Hospital: Tori Richards
DOJ Claims Revealing FBI Declaration Will Jeopardize Clinton Email Investigation: Rachel Stockman

Media

Gun Violence Spiked In Chicago Right After The Laquan McDonald Video Release: 538
How and Why the Conservative Media Sold Its Soul To Facilitate Trump’s Nomination: John Ziegler
Reagan's family lashes out at Will Ferrell: 'Alzheimer's is not a comedy': Jessie Hellmann

24% Opt Out of a Clinton-Trump Race: Rasmussen
Movie Based on ‘Clinton Cash,’ Book Exposing Clinton’s Corruption, Debuting at Cannes: Jeff Dunetz
Steve Deace Slams Trump Supporter for Lying on Air: CR

The Left Horrified As Liberal Comedian Turns On Them – Destroys Obama On National TV: RWN
Ken Livingstone’s career-ending interview – ‘a real anti-Semite doesn’t just hate the Jews in Israel: Steerpike
HuffPo: Shooting In Self-Defense Is Illegal Because It Denies Violent Criminals A Fair: Brian Anderson

World

China Tests New Weapon Capable of Breaching US Missile Defense Systems: Franz-Stefan Gady
Dershowitz Blasts Obama for Treatment of Netanyahu Who is ‘Owed an Apology’: UnitedWithIsrael
Iran State TV Airs Video Encouraging Children to Fight in Syria: CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?: Daniel Engber
French Government Rejected Israeli Tech That Could Have Prevented Terrorist Attacks: Avi Green
U.S. judges can now issue search warrants on computers in any jurisdiction: VB

Cornucopia

"There Is a Crack in Everything. That's How the Light Gets In.": American Digest
The Incredible Watches (And Cars) Of Briggs Cunningham: Benjamin Clymer
Crying Orange Man of Tan-Zany-A: Sondrakistan

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QOTD: "This is a wakeup call to the American people who are supporting Donald Trump, thinking that he’s the guy who’s going to rail against the establishment—he’s not. He is the establishment. He’s the golfing buddy, the texting buddy, of John Boehner. The same guy that praises Hillary Clinton, that praises Bernie Sanders. So if you’re out there thinking that Donald Trump can somehow be the guy who can take down the establishment, think again because quite the opposite is true." --Sen. Mike Lee

Bonus QOTD: "The Clinton Foundation was a convenient way to warehouse hundreds of Clinton campaign people until Hillary announced her candidacy. The foundation was enriched by contributions from individuals and countries who would benefit from State Department actions while Hillary was Secretary of State.

Hillary and Bill received enormous speaking fees- Bill from some of the same individuals and countries while Hillary "served”. Hillary argued that she has shown her philanthropic nature by donating some of her gigantic speaking fees to charity. Which charity? The Clinton Foundation,of course, which was employing her future campaign team." --Rich Baehr