Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Larwyn's Linx: The Electoral College Stopped California From Picking Our Next President. That's A Good Thing.

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Nation

The Electoral College Stopped California From Picking Our Next President: Andrew Clark
Electors Get Police Protection from Crazed Leftists: Daniel Greenfield
It’s Official: Hillary Ran Most Incompetent Campaign In Modern History: Sean Davis

The Deranged Left: SDA
Sore Loser Symphony: It’s Time To Abolish The Electoral College: RWN
Where’s Outrage About Democrats ‘Undermining Electoral Process’?: Josh Feldman

Breaking: Electoral College Chooses Donald Trump as President: Ricochet
Electoral College votes to make Donald Trump president: Gabby Morrongiello
2 'faithless electors' try to vote for Bernie Sanders instead of Hillary Clinton: Exam

Man Who Loves Executive Orders Warns Successor About Using Same: RWN
Chicago's Gangland Counterinsurgency: War is Boring
Full List: Names of offenders granted commutation Monday by Obama: Breaking911

Economy

“Car Recession” Bites GM: Inventory Glut, Layoffs, Plant Shutdowns: Wolf Richter
Cuomo booked 200 hotel rooms for Clinton inauguration: Richard Johnson

Scandal Central

Understanding what's happening in North Africa in the context of The Clinton Foundation: Herschel Smith
FBI Ordered to Unseal Warrant Used to Get Clinton Emails During Weiner Probe: Chris White

Climate, Energy & Regulations

NYT: Global Warming Is Turning Polar Bears Into ‘Climate Refugees’: RWN

Media

The Fake News: The Z Man
Why won't mainstream media mention all the death and economic threats aimed at Trump Electors?: John R. Lott
Photo of Journalists Hanging With ‘Relaxed and Chatty’ Trump Earns Rebuke: J.D. Durkin

Who is Eric Garland?: Stuart Schneiderman
Charles Krauthammer: The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies: TulsaWorld
Audit of Everytown’s Claimed 200+ School Shootings Since Sandy Hook: Bob Owens

World

Iran: Defense Budget Increase Equals US ‘Ransom’ Payment: Meira Svirsky
Aleppo’s fall is Obama’s failure: Leon Wieseltier, Washington Post
New York Times in Full-Fledged Frothing Freakout Frenzy Over Friedman Pick: Ira Stoll

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead: BattleSwarm
Turkey, Russia: Ambassador's Murder Will Bend Relationship, Not Break It: Stratfor
Obama Heads to Golf Course After Hearing of Berlin Attack and Assassination of Russian Ambassador: Mediaite

Market Forces: Mark Steyn
Merkel Government Still in Denial: Vijeta Uniyal
Anti-Islam, Anti-Migration Wilders Widens Lead in Dutch Polls: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Deep blacks, bright future—where OLED screens go from here: Ars Technica
Virtual reality could be Nintendo Switch’s secret weapon: Wareable
Unravelling the Mystery of The Marcahuasi Ruins and Their Connection with Egypt: Ancient Origins

Cornucopia

A Republic, If You Can Keep It.: MOTUS
Naked PETA Protests: EBL (NSFW)
My favorite watches of 2016: Patrick Kansa

Image: Russian Ambassador Killed In Ankara, Turkey with English Subtitles
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QOTD: "[Scott] Pruitt’s is the most important nomination because it is a direct attack on the insidious growth of the administrative state. We have reached the point where EPA bureaucrats interpret the Waters of the United States rule — meant to protect American waterways — to mean that when a hard rain leaves behind a pond on your property, the feds may take over and tell you what you can and cannot do with it. (The final rule excluded puddles — magnanimity from the Leviathan.)

On a larger scale, Obama’s Clean Power Plan essentially federalizes power generation and regulation, not coincidentally killing coal along the way. This is the administration’s end run around Congress’ rejection of Obama’s proposed 2009-2010 cap-and-trade legislation. And that was a Democratic Congress, mind you.

Pruitt’s nomination is a dramatic test of the proposition that agencies administer the law, they don’t create it. That the legislative power resides exclusively with Congress and not with a metastasizing administrative bureaucracy... For some, this reassertion of basic constitutionalism seems extreme. If so, the Obama administration has only itself to blame. Such are the wages of eight years of liberal overreach." --Charles Krauthammer

Monday, December 19, 2016

THE OBAMA LEGACY: Best Post-Election Graphic Yet

Philip Bump at The Washington Post accurately captions it "The decimation of the Democratic Party, visualized."

As Dave Blount observes, "In 2008, the Democrat Party abandoned the last vestiges of moderation and threw itself behind the very personification of moonbattery, Barack Hussein Obama."

While Democrats have thus far blamed James Comey, Julian Assange, Russian hackers, Fake News, and (presumably) George W. Bush for their crushing losses, there's a much simpler explanation.

They nominated a thoroughly unlikeable, villainous harridan who pushed the party even further to the left thanks to the honorary President of Venezuela, Bernie Sanders, and President "I've Got a Pen and a Phone" Davis.

And while Democrats point to a popular vote victory for Hillary Clinton, that notion is also bogus:

BREAKING FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES' PAUL KRUGMAN: U.S. Becoming Either Nazi Germany or Roman Republic

By William Teach

The Sore Loser Symphony continues. Trump Derangement Syndrome reigns. Buzzfeed’s Chris Geidner lays out the Sore Loser playbook for how Democrats will attempt to block Trump. Michael Moore has his own Sore Loser request for the Electoral College. And then there’s Sore Loser Paul Krugman, who had nary a bad word or complaint about Obama during the past 8 years, proclaiming we’re either heading towards Nazi Germany or the Roman Empire:

Larwyn's Linx: Only a Counter-Coup Can Save American Democracy

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Only a Counter-Coup Can Save American Democracy: Paul Craig Roberts
John Brennan is completely unqualified to be Director of CIA: JihadWatch
A Spy Coup in America?: Robert Parry

Obama Appoints Cop Killer's Attorney to 6-Year Civil Rights Post: Debra Heine
Is Jerry Brown now President of California?: Leslie Eastman
Putin Didn't Hate Hillary, The Clinton Foundation Was Very Good To Him: Jeff Dunetz

Brilliant: Pete King Calls for Investigation of CIA Head John Brennan: Treehouse
GOP scraps plan to protect Ryan from coup: Exam
Bipartisan group of senators seeking panel on Russia hacking: Exam

Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump: Steven Shepard
New York Is Super Proud To Be A Sanctuary City: RWN
How Republicans' frightening power play in North Carolina will go national: Ryan Cooper

Economy

After 8 Years of Obama Zero Interest Rates, Fed Promises Constant Hikes for Trump: Michael Snyder
People on food stamps spent $608 million of taxpayer money on... soda pop: RWN
No, Obamacare Repeal Isn’t a Tax Cut for the Rich: David Catron

Scandal Central

At present rate, almost 14,000 Syrians would enter US this fiscal year, 98% Muslim: Ann Corcoran
The One Fact Democrats Don’t Want Electors To Consider Today: Joe Cunningham
‘Woman in Gold’ lawyer got looted Nazi art, now wants Abedin, Weiner warrants: Menachem Rephun

Media

WaPo Writes A “Where’s Waldo? Hillary Style” Story And Its Ludicrous: Nina Bookout
Lefty WaPo kook apparently wants Democrats to continue losing elections: Twitchy
Gun Control Thriller ‘Miss Sloane’ Has One of the Worst Opening Weekends Ever: Stephen Gutowski

How Women in Media Missed the Women’s Vote: Kay S. Hymowitz
John Podesta: FBI Didn’t Tell Him About Hack Until After Emails Leaked: David Bixenspan
Liberals attack 16-year-old who will sing at Trump’s Inauguration: Ryan Girdusky

World

Google’s new tech partner in Cuba blocks email accounts of the Ladies in White: Alberto de la Cruz
For What It's Worth: Mark Steyn
Iran Stages Massive War Drills In Show of ‘Supremacy’: Adam Kredo

Pentagon: China Threatened to Bankrupt Defense Contractor: Bill Gertz
"The Crescent Must be Above the Cross": Gatestone
It’s Not a War on Christmas; It’s a War on the Constitution: Peter Heck

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How the Art of Medicine Became a Business in the 21st Century: Michael F. Weisberg
Uber defies California, keeps self-driving cars rolling: AFP
Why your next chatbot should be human-augmented, not AI-augmented: Rick Ramos

Cornucopia

Vanden Brink: E.T.
No Chute: Some Crazy F'er
Obama Leaves Office In...: TickCounter

Image: Obama Appoints Cop Killer's Attorney to 6-Year Civil Rights Post
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QOTD: "The degree to which a political party leans libertarian is proportional to the number of years since the party last held the White House." --Orin Kerr (2013)

Sunday, December 18, 2016

Washington Post Suddenly Concerned About A Divisive Tone From The President

By William Teach

No, not the one who’s been in office for almost 8 years. Nor the one who seems to be involved in actual events. No, this one, as posed in the “news” section by Philip Rucker and John Wagner:

Trump’s tone could pose challenge as he seeks to govern a deeply divided nation

He strode out on a catwalk at a football stadium here to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama.” A 50-foot cedar tree, which aides installed behind his stage with a crane, was decorated with Christmas ornaments larger than human heads. His crowd, thousands deep, held up familiar signs (“Make America Great Again”) and reprised signature chants (“Lock her up!”).

LET 'EM MOVE TO CHAPPAQUA: 2% of All Haitians Now In Mexico, Poised to Swarm Into U.S.

By Alex Pfeiffer

Over 150,000 Haitians have immigrated to the northern Mexican state of Baja California in the past eight months, with many hoping to reach the United States.

El Universal reported Monday that the equivalent of 1.5 percent of Haiti’s population had immigrated to the Mexican state. Haitians receive amnesty through Temporary Protected Status and thousands who have migrated to Mexico have hoped to take advantage of this benefit or receive asylum.

Guess Who’s Behind Facebook’s New ‘Fake News’ Detector?

By The AntiMedia

As anyone active on the Internet is aware, there have been increasing calls for social media companies (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) to address the mostly manufactured crisis of “fake news” making its way onto people’s computer screens. The mainstream media, which finds itself increasingly viewed as untrustworthy by the American public, has latched on to the idea that the relatively free flow of ideas and opinions on the Internet actually poses a threat to our well-being.

As could be expected, political leaders jumped in early on this attack on independent media. In October, President Obama urged Americans to avoid independent news sources and stick with the mainstream, urging a kind of filter for information. He told an audience in Pittsburgh:

Larwyn's Linx: How Much Damage Can Lame Duck President Obama Do Before Leaving Office?

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Nation

How Much Damage Can Lame Duck Obama Do Before Leaving Office?: Alex Gorka
Time for a Complete Halt on All Immigration: Selwyn Duke
‘Media has devolved into a publicity department for the Democrat Party’: Bill Whittle

Here’s What Happens If ‘Faithless’ Electors Try To Overturn Election Results: Robert Barnes
More Intelligence Officials Are Disputing CIA’s Claims About Russian Hacking: Chuck Ross
“Faithless”—and Destructive: Matthew Hennessey

Why Such a Conservative Cabinet: Paul Mirengoff
SF Leftists Outraged, Fearful as Immigrants Take Over Their Neighborhoods: GayPatriot
Obama Threatens "Clear Message" to Russia, Boards Plane to Hawaii for 2 Weeks: GWP

Washington Post Suddenly Concerned About A Divisive Tone From The President: RWN
Spread of fake news helped by 'domestic propagandists,' Obama says: McClatchy DC
Democrats already accusing Trump of “treason” a month before he takes office: Jazz Shaw

Economy

Unionization Will Kill Free Market Ride Sharing Like Uber and Lyft: RWN
New York Times Wrong: Detroit Charter Schools Didn't 'Desert' Kids, the City Did: MiCapCon
An Early, Easy GOP Win for Reform: Republicans Should Scrap CFPB: Carrie Sheffield

Scandal Central

Report: 820,000 criminal illegals, 84% with felonies, serious misdemeanors: Exam
Maine Gas Distributor Won’t Deliver to Trump Supporters: Edmund Kozak
More states confirm suspected cyberattacks sourced to DHS: WSB-TV

Media

‘Media has devolved into a publicity department for the Democratic Party’: LI
Goldberg: Fake news is a long tradition from the mainstream media: Ed Morrissey
Celebrities Attack President-Elect Donald Trump over Violence in Aleppo: Breitbart

Thousands Help Lay Wreaths At Arlington National Cemetery: WZ
David Brock’s Media Matters Has Hidden $1,052,500 From The IRS Since 2010: TruePundit
SNL‘s Hillary Clinton Goes Full Love Actually on an Elector: Mediaite

World

Suicidal ISIS Car Bombers Are Unleashing Hell In Mosul: AINA
Royal Navy deployed to escort Russian frigate through the English Channel: DailyMail
Bavaria Home Minister Calls For Migrant Deportations After Cologne, Murders: Breitbart

The Butcher’s Bill of 1916: Europe’s Blood-Drenched Year of Horror: John R. Schindler
72 Years Ago: The Battle of the Bulge: BattleSwarm
Italy: Muslim migrants threaten workers “Give us more money or we’ll kill you!”: BNI

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Microsoft’s new plan is to flood your entire life with artificial intelligence: Dave Gershgorn
Listen to the mysterious 'alien song' heard deep in the Mariana trench: DailyMail
The US Navy’s Autonomous Swarm Boats Can Now Decide What to Attack: DefenseOne

Cornucopia

Wreaths Across America...Cape Cod Location: Norman Hooben
NO MO NO MO NO MO: MOTUS
Disturbing Artwork Has Been Found In Comet Ping Pong, Is This Modern Art Or Sinister Clues?: Fury

Image: Wreaths Across America...Cape Cod Location
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QOTD: "“What explains Trump?” bewildered journalists and “terrified” progressives continue to ask more than a month after the election. “How could this have happened?” Easy: people liked his message and they voted for him. Enough people in the right states pulled the lever for Trump that he was able to collect the number of Electoral College votes necessary under our system of government to win the presidency.

If you don’t like that he won, welcome to our system of government—you win some, you lose some. It’s been evident since at least the late 1960s, however, that many on the progressive Left don’t care much for that system of government. They don’t like certain freedoms that the Constitution guarantees. They don’t like the federal system of sovereign states that robs them of the centralized power they desire to wield. Mainly, they don’t like that our system allows Republicans occasionally to win." --Matthew Hennessey

Saturday, December 17, 2016

On Skipping Intelligence Briefings

By Stilton Jarlsberg

Mr. Obama is criticizing Donald Trump for missing some daily intelligence briefings (a criticism which we find valid, by the way), and saying that a president is "flying blind" without those briefings. But why in the name of Beelzebub's blast furnace didn't anyone say that to Obama for the last 8 years?!

Some reports say that Barry skipped as many as two thirds of his intelligence briefings, including the one the morning after the Benghazi debacle. Instead of attending the briefing, he flew to Las Vegas for a fundraiser at which he compared the "sacrifices" of Democratic fundraisers to the sacrifices of four still-warm murdered Americans.

THE MYSTERY: Russia's Doomsday Bomb

By Dr. Peter Vincent Fry

While liberal mainstream media concoct fake news that President-Elect Trump is Moscow's Manchurian Candidate, they ignore the latest real threat from Russia.

Russian state television "accidentally" disclosed plans for a robot submarine, reportedly armed with a massive 100 megaton warhead-the largest nuclear weapon ever deployed by any nation.  The submarine doomsday bomb would explode underwater to radioactively contaminate and inundate with tsunamis U.S. coastal cities and seaboard, where are concentrated much of America's military-industrial strength and population.

A diagram of the robo-bomb was shown on Russian TV, supposedly inadvertently, over the shoulder of a Defense Ministry officer.

Larwyn's Linx: Democrats are Willing to Provoke a War With Russia Over Lost Election?

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Democrats Willing to Provoke a War With Russia Over Lost Election?: Kemberlee Kaye
Law backed by Harry Reid will haunt Dems in 2017: Susan Crabtree
Russia mess: CIA ducks, accusations fly, questions dodged: Byron York

Assange Speaks: Our Source is Not Russia: GWP
Cops to Trump: Save Us: Jeff Roorda
Oops: DNC ignored repeated FBI warnings about cyber attacks: Scoop

The 5 Biggest Liberal Freak-Outs Over Trump’s Election: John Hawkins
What Facebook said to Newsbusters and What I heard: DTG
Hillary Clinton's holiday party 'like a wake': Fox

Here's how Republicans plan to repeal Obamacare within weeks: Philip Klein
Krauthammer: Trump's Cabinet a 'reassertion of basic constitutionalism': Eddie Scarry
Fiscal conservative Mulvaney picked as Trump's budget director: Exam

Economy

Obama issues regs for Obamacare despite law's uncertain future: Robert King
Again. Obama family will travel to Hawaii for holiday vacation: Post
DHS Hires FBI-banned CAIR to Train French Officials: Creeping

Scandal Central

AG Loretta Lynch rejects Obama plan for blanket pardon for illegal immigrants before Trump: Express
Napolitano: Election Fraud in Detroit Looks 'Organized, and Government Involved': Debra Heine
More Detroit Voting "Irregularities": 95 Poll Books "Missing" For Days; 5 Still AWOL: ZH

More voters will have access to non-English ballots in the next election cycle: Pew
Record Surge Continues At Border: Over 1,570 Apprehended Per Day Last Month: DC
“Planeload” Of FBI Agents Sent To Iceland To Frame Julian Assange: Herschel Smith

Climate, Energy & Regulations

Say, What Are Warmists In Obama Administration Hiding?: RWN
Trump appoints even more skeptics: JoNova

Media

Poor Michelle, she’s all out of hope.: Jenny North
Trump was right? The ‘failing NYT’ will rent 8 floors in its HQ to raise cash: Twitchy
The Last 10 Weeks Of 2016 Campaign Stops In One Handy Gif: 538

Voters oppose Clinton pardon by 3-1 margin: Exam
‘This wouldn’t have happened if HRC didn’t have a secret server’: Sean Spicer hits back: Twitchy
‘Biggest whopper yet’? Obama may have outdone himself with this line: Twitchy

MRC Study: Documenting TV’s Twelve Weeks of Trump Bashing: Rich Noyes
Obama hits press for 'obsession' with hacked Dem emails: Exam
The stunning winning images of the Travel Photographer of the Year revealed: DailyMail

World

Report: 1.5 Percent Of Haiti’s Population Has Migrated To Mexico In The Past 8 Months: DC
China stole US underwater drone in South China Sea as Americans watched: Fox
David M. Friedman is a Pretty Gutsy Pick for Ambassador to Israel: Resurgent

Obama Disappoints Leftists at Final Presser; Refuses to Take Responsibility for Aleppo Disaster: FreeLight
MEP Tells EU Bureaucrats They're Responsible For Migrant Rapes, Freak Out Ensues: InfLib
Cologne Police Unveil New Year’s Eve Security Plan to Prevent Recurrence of Mass Sexual Assaults: CNS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Another massive coronal hole turning to face Earth; last one brought 8 major quakes in as many days: Big Wobble
Westworld Is Strikingly Real: AI Could Be Conscious and Unpredictable: Nautilus
Kazuo Ishiguro: 'We’re coming close to the point where we can create people who are superior to others': Guardian

Cornucopia

The Prenda Saga Goes Criminal: Steele and Hansmeier Indicted On Federal Charges: Ken White
Sheriff’s probe finds Obama birth certificate ‘fake’: WND
Hawaii Bound and Down: MOTUS

Image: Clinton fingers 'Russian plot' and FBI for her loss; says Putin has a 'personal beef'
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QOTD:

Friday, December 16, 2016

COMMUNISM DOESN'T PAY: Two Grand Juries Circling de Blasio And His Administration

By ARP

The walls must be closing in on New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (D-NY). Out of the five(!) separate investigations into de Blasio and the shakedown operation masquerading as an administration he runs, two have moved forward to the extremely serious step of presenting evidence to a grand jury. The two criminal grand juries, one federal and one state, represent, the “strongest indication” yet that criminal charges are forthcoming, according to the New York Times, which broke the story:

HILLARY TELLS FUMING DONORS: Putin and Comey to Blame for Loss, Not My Palsied, Veiny Cat Smell

By Tyler Durden

Hillary Clinton attempted to explain to a group of exasperated donors (in the words of a Midwestern fundraiser "I’m not putting another f***ing dime in until someone tells me what just happened") why she lost. Her reasoning, echoing John Podesta's whiney op-ed (and every mainstream media narrative) is simple - it wasn't her flaws, it was FBI Director Comey and Russian President Vladimir Putin that caused her defeat.

When Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine greeted the very top fundraisers and donors to their failed campaign at New York’s Plaza Hotel on Thursday evening, Politico reports that many of them had one simple question in mind: where’s the autopsy?

SHOCKER: U.S. Deportations Fall to Lowest Level in 10 Years

Unexpectedly:

The Obama administration deported 333,341 unauthorized immigrants in the 2015 fiscal year, a decline of about 81,000 (or 20%) from the prior year, according to newly released data from the Department of Homeland Security. The number of deportations fell for the second year in a row and reached its lowest level since 2007...


...Deportations of immigrants with a criminal conviction fell 17% between fiscal 2014 and 2015, from 168,000 to 140,000. It is only the third time that the number of deportations of immigrants with a criminal conviction has fallen since at least 1981.

Kate Steinle could not be reached for comment.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Russian Hacking Conspiracy Theory Implodes

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Russian Hacking Conspiracy Theory Implodes: Mathew Vadum
Memo to Rural America: The Urban Elites Hate You: Steve Hayward
AG Lynch visits terror-linked mosque amid spike in fake hate crimes: Creeping

Reclaiming the Bill of Rights: AT
Labor Secretary Tom Perez Joins the Race for DNC Chair: Citizen Slant
Trump expected to name Sean Spicer White House press secretary: Exam

The rule of law: J.S. Anderson
If Russia Was Hacking, Why Did White House Only Complain After Hillary Lost?: ZH
Anti-Trump Activists Plan Road-Blocking 'Clusterf--k' for Inauguration: US News

Conway Responds to "Russian Hacking" Fables: RWN
Fake Newsweek Covers Fake Hate Crime Just as You'd Figure It Would: Ace
States Sue Feds Over New Life After People Regulations: RWN

Economy

Trump Armed with $100 Million in Sanctuary City Leverage: LifeZette
Obama's healthcare reforms will cost taxpayers extra $10bn next year: DailyMail
Tax Code Compliance Costs Economy $1 Trillion Annually: WFB

Scandal Central

Facebook to Label 'Fake News' with Help of Partisan 'Fact Checkers': Breitbart
Federal judge asks to see FBI search warrants used on Anthony Weiner's laptop: DailyMail
After $85 million in family travel, Obama looks forward to 'decent vacation': Exam

Facebook Declares War On “Fake News”: John Hinderaker
The real reasons for Russian electoral meddling: Rep. Chris Stewart
Somali Romance: GWP

Climate, Energy & Regulations

Final wind-turbine rule permits thousands of eagle deaths: US News
Trump names Zinke his interior secretary nominee: Joel Gehrke
Report: Democratic FCC chairman to resign: Exam

Media

Deserving Trust: Popehat
CNN: Romney refused to apologize to Trump, might have lost State job because of it: Hot Air
Kurt Eichenwald vs. Tucker Carlson: GWP

It’s Not Funny Anymore: Gavin McInnes
Ooh, It’s Like a Hate Wave!: Jim Goad
Attkisson – “Fake News” Is Leftist Propaganda Tied To Soros, Media Matters: Rick Wells

World

The Syrian War Condensed: A more Rigorous Way to Look at the Conflict: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Trump names David Friedman his ambassador to Israel: Exam
A Photographer's Journey Into Haiti’s Cholera Crisis: NatGeo

Samantha Power’s Powerlessness: Jonathan S. Tobin
1000 Muslims close London streets to chant Allahu Akbar and demand Islamic caliphate: Express
Fed Fallout Escalates: China Bond Market Crashes Most On Record, Yuan Plunges: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Former Pharma Execs Face Felony Charges For Generic Drug Price-Fixing: Consumerist
Possibly as Large as Jupiter: WaPo
Asteroid 2016 XK18 of 'uncertain orbit' to skim earth in just four days: Express

Here's How Much a StingRay Cell Phone Surveillance Tool Costs: Motherboard
The Great A.I. Awakening: NYT
New robot has a human touch: Cornell

Cornucopia

The 50 Best Conservative Columnists Of 2016 (8th Annual): John Hawkins
True Pundit to Publish New Exposé on NYPD Allegations of Hillary Email Contents: TruePundit
Who Hacked Up All These Hair Balls?: MOTUS

Image: The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming!
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QOTD: "Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald Wears Soiled Diaper as Hat, Smears Canned Chili Beans on His Pudgy, Naked Body Before Mating Noisily with Male Ostrich" --Headline at Ace o' Spades

Thursday, December 15, 2016

The Weirdness of Comet Pizza

By Dan from New York

Comet Pizza patrons play ping pong under a mural by Arrington de Dionyso. He pretends to be a musician, too.


Kids play ping pong under Arrie’s artwork. Guess he’s into severed heads.

The painting below is from his webpage.

HEH: Never-Was Has-Been Keith Olbermann Calls Trump ‘Treacherous Russian Whore’

Keith Olbermann? Is he still alive?


I guess selling 20 percent of U.S. uranium -- as Hillary did in a scandalous deal with the Russians -- is quite alright with Olbermann. No issues there.

Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

Larwyn's Linx: Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn’t Influence the Election

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Comey to Trump: The Russians Didn’t Influence the Election: Edward Klein
Possible Voter Fraud Uncovered In 37% Of Detroit's Voting Precincts: Hannity
Somali Refugees in the U.S.: Terrorists have families too.: Nayla Rush

Ohio Trump Voters Confident He'll Bring Change: RCP
How Clinton lost Michigan — and blew the election: Poitico
A Clinton Campaign Aide’s Typo Allowed Hackers To Access Podesta Email: Chuck Ross

Keith Ellison Lies to CNN: IPT
Democrats Don't Get To Tell Us Who's Qualified Or Not: Erick Erickson
Big business pressuring Trump to abandon pledges of mass deportation: Fox

Has Trump Nominated Too Many Military Leaders—Or Not Enough?: Victor Davis Hanson
But President Obama Said The Elections Were Not Rigged Before His Side Lost: Resurgent
New scapegoat for Hillary Clinton loss: Huma Abedin?: Ed Morrissey

Economy

Pension Collapse in Big D: Steven Malanga
Pension Ponzi Squared: NJ Wants To Sell Debt To Its Own Insolvent Funds: ZH
Illinois has highest black unemployment rate in the country: Illinois Policy

Scandal Central

Al Qaeda Boss: Saudi Terrorist Rehab Praised by Obama is “Hidden Radicalization Program”: JW
Insane, Anarchist Dems plot to rig Electoral College vote: Mirror
Campaign to Get Electors to Reject Trump Faces a Major Structural Hurdle: Mother Jones

Climate, Energy & Regulations

California Earthquakes Intensify: Pistachio

Media

Danney Williams may not need a paternity test to know if Bill Clinton is his father: AT
Trump doesn’t threaten only President Obama’s legacy. He could ruin Michelle Obama’s, too: WaPo
OSU Remembers Attacker As Victim Of Police Violence: Milo

Lying Leftists Organize Anti-Breitbart Blacklist to Scare Advertisers… And So Far It’s Working: Publius
What It’s Like Being Silenced: Danger and Play
Trump Mocks Hillary in WI: "I Offered Her 5 Cents on the Dollar" for Her Unused Fireworks: GWP

A Progressive’s Guide to Decoding a Trump Voter: Dave Carter
Forever Young: The Z Man
BuzzFeed Caught Spreading Fake News as Another Hate Crime Hoax Falls Apart: Ralph

World

Mexico’s Jorge Castaneda Has A Plan To Stop Donald Trump: Allan Wall
Anarcho-Tyranny—Where Multiculturalism Leads: Sam Francis (2004)
Mexico finds 2 border tunnels leading into US: AP

Sweden: Migration Board ignores new asylum policy, tries to stop deportation Muslim migrants: JihadWatch
Russia and Syria could be encouraging migrant sex attacks to oust Angela Merkel: DailyMail
Germany: Mass Sexual Attacks and Molestations Against German Children by Immigrants: Unveiled

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Report: Twitter Bounced from Trump Tech Meeting as Payback for Failed Emoji Deal: CitizenSlant
New world record: Scientists certify monster Atlantic wave 62 feet tall: WaPo
Finding North America’s lost medieval city: Ars Technica

Cornucopia

Da Svidaniya.: MOTUS
My President Was Black: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Pizzagate XIII: Who Really Leaked The DNC And Podesta EMails To Wikileaks?: Herschel Smith

Image: Mexico finds 2 border tunnels leading into US
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QOTD: "She’s [Hillary's] going to be on a coin someday. And her behavior has not been coinworthy." --Dave Chappelle

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

THE CPFB: Utterly Unconstitutional

By FreedomWorks

Two months ago, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit officially ruled that the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unconstitutional, a criticism that has been leveled at the agency since its creation in 2010. The court found that so much unaccountable power was concentrated in the person of the director of the CFPB that it could not pass constitutional muster. Under the court’s ruling, the director now will be removable at will by the president, just like the head of any other agency. This represents an important blow for the system of separation of powers enshrined in the US Constitution.

The CFPB, created by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, was intentionally created to be unaccountable to the American people and their elected representatives in many ways:

DEATH SPIRAL: Are you living in a state poised for economic collapse?

By Mac Slavo

Being on the hook is not going to be pretty when interest rates are raised back up, and debts come due. At a personal level, it will mean more stress and juggling to make ends meet. For the larger economy, it will mean cities and states unable to meet obligations or balance their budgets – ending in bankruptcy, and bailouts. Meanwhile, millions of people are relying on that money to keep coming in order to survive. Something is going to go very wrong.

Relying upon government to function and send you money is not a secure plan.

The mathematics are terrifying and dismal, and so is being caught up in these collapsing states.