Sunday, February 16, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Obama's clever campaign to constrict the flow of criticism

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Nation

Obama's clever campaign to constrict the flow of criticism: Andrew Malcolm
A ‘Very Cruel’ Medicare Rule is Costing Seniors Dearly: Amac
Are Feds poised to mandate all doctors participate in Obamacare?: Marc Siegel

Obama's Terrorists Are America's Freedom Fighters: Christian Mercenary
Trey Gowdy on Nancy Pelosi: ‘Mind-Numbingly Stupid’: GWP
Is Hillary Blocking Next Generation of Democrat-Marxists?: Alex Seitz-Wald

Economy

The Obama's celebrate income inequality...: Adrienne
$205 Trillion in Unfunded Liabilities: Laissez Faire Today
Senate Hid Key Vote on Increasing Debt Limit from Public View: CNS

The GOP Should Use the Power of the Purse: Andrew C. McCarthy
1% of Households Will Pay 80% of California’s Income Taxes: Daniel Greenfield
Obamas enjoy another round of separate vacations; must be nice: BPR

Scandal Central

Most of Our Federal Budget Is Being Doled Out for Redistribution: Sara Noble
Coulter Dismantles Lawless Obama: He Is Vetoing Legislation!: Scoop
New questions: If Obama met Sebelius 18 times, why was he so unaware?: BPR

Climate & Energy

Climate scientists slam Obama science czar’s ‘pseudo-science rambling’ on global warming: DC
Califorinia Drought Is Not About ‘Climate Change’ – It’s About Failed Liberal Policy: GWP
Government’s Land Grab on Behalf of the Defunct Dusky Gopher Frog Continues On: Sara Noble

Media

Jonathan Turley: Liberals Will Come to Regret Obama's Unconstitutional Power Grabs: Ace
Forward: "Aleksey"
Judge Jeanine: Mr. President, Why Don’t You Use That Phone To Make A Local Call?: Scoop

World

Expert: Iran ships a dry run for later nuclear/EMP attack; humiliate Obama: Paul Bedard
What if the president never intended to roll back Iran’s nuclear program?: Michael Doran
How Obama Officials Cried ‘Terrorism’ to Cover Up a Paperwork Error: David Kravets

Crickets from White House as Venezuelans Risk All to Throw Out the Chavistas: Tatler
Cooling Kills: Governments Must Shift to Cold Preparation: PJM
Soros Boasts of Spending $100 Million on U.S. Immigration Reform Push: CNS (2013)

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Nike designer says self-lacing 'Back to the Future' shoes will arrive in 2015: Verge
Google cloud gets on board with HIPAA: Erin McCann
More retailers, and ballparks, take a swing at location-based data: Zach Miners, IT News

Cornucopia

Sharing Love (Editor's warning: do not eat or drink while viewing this post): Hopenchange
"The World Will Have A Generation Of Idiots...": Act Well Your Part
Disgraceful ‘who’s the baby daddy?’ assignment has parent ‘beyond fired up’: BPR

Image: Another blast of snow makes its way into northeastern US
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QOTD: ‘The House should sharply reduce IRS funding until the agency is more responsive.” Well, I’d have omitted everything after “funding” but this was still an astute observation, offered at the conclusion of Thursday’s excellent Wall Street Journal editorial. I’m grateful to have smart guys on the team, even if slumming with us power-of-the-purse radicals may get them booted from the GOP’s “We’re only one-half of one-third” circle of submission.

The editors were exercised over the revenue agency’s latest shenanigans, which include covering up its past shenanigans — the willful targeting of conservative groups in order to frustrate their opposition to Obama-administration policies. And now, in the ultimate act of chutzpah, the IRS is attempting to codify the abuse as standard operating procedure.

While the country partied pre–Super Bowl, President Obama got in the spirit by hilariously claiming that there was really “not even a smidgen of corruption” in the IRS’s politicized harassment of his political adversaries. Now it’s true that, five years in, the president’s Most Memorable Mendacity Cup runneth over. Yet the “smidgen” may take its place alongside such faves as “If you like your health-care plan, you can keep your health-care plan”; “We’ll lower premiums by $2,500”; “Al-Qaeda has been decimated”; “the most transparent administration ever”; “shovel-ready jobs”; “You didn’t build that”; and the claim that the Benghazi massacre was triggered by “the natural protests that arose because of the outrage over the video.” --Andrew C. McCarthy

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