Doug Ross @ Journal: May 2015

Sunday, May 31, 2015

GREAT NEWS: All of Hillary's Sensitive Emails Were Seen by Huma Abedin and Therefore the Muslim Brotherhood

Aaron Klein reports on another fascinating chapter in the Clinton Cavalcade of Scandals:

A full review of Hillary Clinton’s personal emails released last Friday by the State Department finds Clinton’s senior aide, Huma Abedin, was exposed to highly-sensitive U.S. government information.
It was Abedin who forwarded to Clinton’s personal email address details about the initial establishment of the U.S. special mission in Benghazi, updates about security threats to both the mission and Ambassador Chris Stevens, intelligence on the growing terrorist threat in Libya and insider information on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi.
Abedin was privy to emails that contained the exact movements of Stevens while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for any American diplomat.
[Abedin has both] personal and family ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and other to Islamic supremacists.
The connections not only extend to her mother and father, who are both deeply tied to al-Qaida fronts, but to Abedin herself...

The 5 Most Anticipated Boxing Matchups

With the disappointing delays to Pacquiao-Mayweather -- both past their prime -- the question becomes: which yet unfulfilled matchup is most desirable?

HEAVYWEIGHT: WBA Champion Wladimir Klitschko (64-3-0, 53 KO) vs. WBC Champion Deontay Wilder (33-0-0, 32 KO).

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT: WBA Champion Sergey Kovalev (27-0-1, 24 KO) vs. WBC Champion Adonis Stevenson (26-1-0, 21 KO).

SUPER MIDDLEWEIGHT: WBA Champion Andre Ward (27-0-0, 14 KO) vs. WBC Champion Badou Jack (19-1-1, 12 KO).

MIDDLEWEIGHT: WBA Champion Gennady Golovkin (33-0-0, 30 KO) vs. WBC Champion Miguel Cotto (39-4-0 32 KO).

SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT: WBA Champion Danny Garcia (30-0-0, 17 KO) vs. WBO Champion Terence Crawford (26-0-0, 18 KO).

Any one of these fights would be fantastic, but only a couple are likely to occur in a reasonable timeframe.

It's a shame boxing isn't managed by a unified structure akin to the UFC or MLB. The matchups would be better, audience share higher, and the payoffs for fighters therefore richer.

Hat tip: BadBlue Sports News.

So the GOP Must Embrace Evil to Survive? Really?

By Lloyd Marcus

A black liberal columnist made the point in his article that the future of the GOP rests on it getting rid of its conservatives. Then, the GOP can modernize; attract more young voters of color by embracing open borders, amnesty, abortion and all the other filth coming out of the Democratic Party. Embracing this strategy is tantamount to embracing evil.

Many consultants and sadly, GOP politicians concur with the columnist's strategy. In essence, we are being told that the only way the GOP can win future elections is to embrace an anti-God and anti-righteous agenda. I can not and will not embrace this vile defeatist lie.

Democrats with mainstream media support have successfully branded the GOP as the party of “mean”. The truth is for decades the Democratic Party leadership has been the greatest dispensers of evil in America; hating morality while trashing all things wholesome and good.

As a matter of fact, the only behavior Democrats believe to be immoral causing them to respond with visceral hate is conservative, Republican and/or Christian.

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QOTD: "Having done an impressive job of demolishing the basic societal building block of the family, the left has now advanced to demolishing the basic biological building block of the sexes. Taken in tandem with the ever greater dominance of women at America's least worst colleges and the dispiriting permanence of the "he-cession" down the other end in the dismal, pitiful redoubt of the "man cave", we're well on the path toward the de facto abolition of man, at least in the manly sense." --Mark Steyn

Saturday, May 30, 2015

The Truth Behind Hillary Clinton's Various Facades

By Alan Caruba

Does it strike anyone as strange that the only candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States is the wife of a former President? There is no historic precedent for this, no way to measure this against how Americans have selected Presidents in the past.

Like most Americans, I first took notice of her when Bill began his campaign to become President. I recall being struck by the fact that in 1969 as a student at Wellesley College, her 92-page senior thesis was devoted to the community organizer, Saul Alinsky’s book. The title of the thesis was “There is Only the Fight…”: An Analysis of the Alinski Model.” She would request Wellesley to deny access to it.

Alinsky was a Communist. His twelve rules for radicals, unlike the Ten Commandments, are devoid of a moral message. Instead, the message is “this is how you can win.” Hillary would do well to review Rule 7, “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” She was already old news when she announced her candidacy and it is becoming older with every passing day as she fails to take questions from the media, participating in totally staged events to look like “one of the people.”

Neither She or Bill are "one of the people". They, like the Bushes, are political royalty. They have both been around a very, very long time.

Hillary, despite the millions of words that have been written about and by her, remains an enigma. Other than being farther to the Left than Bill, she is a woman whose “achievements” in life have largely been the result of having married Bill. She would spend eight years in the White House as the First Lady and, pursuing her college dreams of political power, they would move to New York State where she ran and won a Senatorial election.

There isn’t a single Senate bill that she introduced or that is credited to her. She is said to have worked hard and gotten along well with her colleagues, but her Senate years are a blur in her public life. Then she made a bid to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2008 and along came Barack Hussein Obama with whom the voters fell in love. When he was elected, he asked her to become his Secretary of State.

The Left’s Reign of Terror Continues in Martin O’Malley’s Baltimore

By Matthew Vadum

As Maryland’s largest city grieves for a mother and her 7-year-old son found shot to death, it is becoming clear that criminals emboldened by left-wingers are terrorizing the people of Baltimore like never before.

The city’s radical, left-wing, thug-loving mayor, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (D), has emasculated the local police she despises and abandoned her constituents by giving criminals a green light to do as they please. Police officers have been ordered not to do their jobs which is just as well because many of them are quite justifiably terrified of doing their jobs in the current environment. Mobs of as many as 50 people now routinely assemble when police arrive at crime scenes. Are they serving as community watchdogs or are they there to intimidate cops? Maybe both.

At this rate it won’t be long before Baltimore dethrones Detroit as the premier municipal showcase for left-wing urban policy failures. Ominously, this is America’s Mad Max-like future if it continues on the suicidal course set by President Obama, a man whose proudest accomplishment has been to serve as a rabble-rousing Marxist community organizer.

While the still-warm corpses of the city’s newest murder victims were being processed by authorities yesterday, panelists at the George Soros-funded Center for American Progress in the nation’s capital laid the blame for the rising tide of violence in Baltimore on everyone except the perpetrators.

SICKENING: Afghan Interpreter Murdered by Taliban While Waiting for Visa as ICE Frees Thousands of Violent Illegals

This is the kind of thing that should make you nauseous.

An Afghan interpreter for the United States military who had been waiting for over four years on the U.S. visa list was tortured and killed by insurgents earlier this year, raising concerns that other translators could meet a similar fate as American forces withdraw from Afghanistan.

Sakhidad Afghan worked as a translator for the U.S. Marines and Air Force since around 2008. Four years ago, he applied for a U.S. visa under a program for at-risk military translators. He was still on the waiting list when the Taliban reportedly kidnapped him from a bazaar this spring and executed him in the back of a trailer truck.

Each year, thousands of Afghan interpreters under threat from anti-American militants sit in bureaucratic limbo, waiting for visas they were promised by the U.S. military.

Contrast the disgusting treatment of our allies with the administration's handling of violent illegal aliens.

Back in 2013, Immigration and Customs Enforcement got ripped by Congress for releasing 36,000 violent criminal illegal aliens onto American streets. Those criminals had convictions of homicide, rape, child molestation drunk driving and more.
...Now, the agency has done it again and released more than 30,000 of the same type of criminal alien onto American streets last year ... "ICE released 30,558 criminal aliens in fiscal year 2014, which is down from the 36,007 criminals released a year before ... ICE didn’t release a breakdown of criminal offenses of the new 30,000 on Wednesday, but among the 36,000 released in 2013 were 193 homicide convictions, 426 sexual assault convictions, 303 kidnapping convictions and 16,070 convictions for driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol...

This kind of behavior is the entire Obama administration in microcosm.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

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Nation

Pro-Crime Policies Work!: Daniel Greenfield
Experts reverse-engineer Obama's speech-making template: Cube
Byron Wien: The Fed basically put $3 trillion into the stock market: Akin Oyedele

DC Suspends All Political Ads, Rather than Run Pam Geller's Mohammad Ad: Ace
Phoenix 'Draw Muhammad' Organizer: Family out of State for Safety: Breitbart
Islamists Promise 'Kuffar Blood' Will Spill at AZ 'Draw Muhammad' Contest: Breitbart

Absence Of A Smoking Gun Doesn’t Equate To Innocence: Jonah Goldberg
Is Obama Trade Deal Okay With Slavery? Really?: Mike Lux
Armed anti-Islam protesters and Muslims Clash in Phoenix: Scoop

The Left’s Dumb and Dumber Wars: Susan Brown
Comprehensive List of Martin O’Malley Tax Hikes: ATR
Phoenix Mayor stands up for free speech he doesn’t agree with: LI

Economy

IRS Admits Refunding Billions On Fake Tax Returns: Tyler Durden
Yikes: GDP Shrank to .7 Percent For First Quarter of 2015: Katie Pavlich
Salary Database Shows The Highs And Lows Of Silicon Valley Pay: BuzzFeed

Scandal Central

Bill Clinton Heroically Raised Money for the Tsunami Vicitms, By First Securing a $500,000 Payment: Ace
Bill Clinton Shakes Down Happy Hearts Charity: iOTWreport
Leak: Hastert Made Secret Payments to Pay Off Male Victim of Sexual Abuse: Ace

If Hillary becomes president, who will make her obey the law?: Byron York
IRS Hires $1,000-An-Hour Lawyers And It Might Have Violated Federal Law: Patrick Howley
‘The old Anthony Weiner excuse’: Twitchy

Media

Mark Levin: "If We Can't Win This Time Around, I Don't Think We're Ever Going To Win": RCP
PAMELA GELLER: Shuts Down Islamapologist Chris Cuomo And People Love It: Clash
Politico: "Phoenix Braces for Anti-Islam Rally": Ace

RNC Goes Populist: Hits Hillary's Financial 'Hypocrisy': Daniel Halper
John Podesta Comes Out as a Graftosexual: Ace
The Baltimore / Ferguson Bully Model: John Farnam

Does the Media Hold Anyone to a Lower Ethical Standard than the Clintons?: Jonah Goldberg
Charles Krauthammer BLASTS Rand Paul, His 'Ignorance Really Astonishes Me': Lid
Obama Hosts Q&A Session, Americans Ask Him Why He Sucks: InfoWars

World

Iranian Guard Commander says: “We will not rest until the U.S. is an Islamic Republic”: Shoebat
Kerry Attending Inauguration of Nigeria's New Muslim President, Who Advocated Shari'a Law: CNS
Jerusalem Post Editor Attacked by Arabs at ‘Coexistence’ ‘Hug’ Day: Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The NSA reportedly tried -- but failed -- to use a Stuxnet variant against North Korea: Katherine Noyes
Report: Comcast under investigation by FCC and DOJ around violating NBCU mandates: Daniel Frankel
Google and Levi’s are teaming up to make computerized pants: Kevin Roose

Cornucopia

When Your Name Becomes a Verb, Time to Move On: MOTUS
Guess Who?: The Burning Platform
What iPhone would have looked like back in 1984: Buster Hein

Image: The Hillary Clinton Paradox
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QOTD: "Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief. The issue here is not whether we broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests – we did. But you can’t hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few, sick twisted individuals. For if you do, then shouldn’t we blame the whole fraternity system? And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn’t this an indictment of our educational institutions in general? I put it to you, Greg – isn’t this an indictment of our entire American society? Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America." --The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof, offering a defense of the Clinton Foundation scandals

EXCLUSIVE: The Day-by-Day Clinton Scandal Tracker [Updated]

Just so you can keep 'em all straight. Summarized and sanitized for your protection!

29-May-2015

• Bill Clinton Heroically Raised Money for the Tsunami Vicitms, By First Securing a $500,000 Payment
• Does the Media Hold Anyone to a Lower Ethical Standard than the Clintons?

28-May-2015

• Bill Clinton Pleads for Donations As Scandals Scare Donors Off
• Sachs: Clintons ‘In Utter Pursuit of Money All The Time’
• Lifestyles of the Rich and Mostly Useless
• 2 days after Hillary became Secretary of State, Bill formed shell corporation to accept payments

27-May-2015

• Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit
• Clinton Foundation finds itself drawn into FIFA soccer corruption scandal

26-May-2015

• Hillary never disclosed secret shell company funneling income to Bill

25-May-2015

• Did Clinton pay-to-play arrangement hand over port container operations to UAE?

24-May-2015

• Emails reveal Hillary cared so much about Benghazi she slept through intel briefing 4 days later
• Stephanopoulos joined Bill Clinton on Pedophile Island
• The 15 Benghazi emails you need to read

23-May-2015

Friday, May 29, 2015

BOOM: 2 days after Hillary became Secretary of State, Bill formed shell corporation to accept payments

By Rush Limbaugh

There's a little story here at PJ Media: "I just thought I’d contribute a detail to the latest news about the Clintons’ byzantine financial arrangements, specifically the limited-liability company Bill Clinton used to channel his 'consulting' profits." This is something we learned yesterday, he's got a shell corporation, a pass-through, and he was using that to hide money. He was using that to shelter money. He started a consulting business, in addition to everything else, the Crime Family Foundation, the Clinton Library and Massage Parlor, the charitable foundation, all these things, and then he added a consultancy business to it, and the payments were funneled through the shell corporation.

The original Associated Press story said that WJC, LLC -- "William Jefferson Clinton "the 'shell company" in question -- was formed in Delaware in 2008. It’s more interesting when you find out the specific date." So PJ Media researched this. "I searched the database of the Delaware Department of State’s Division of Corporations. There is one listing for WJC, LLC." That's Clinton's. "According to the information on file, the company was formed December 3, 2008."

So you're saying, okay, big deal, big whoop. Well, no. Because Obama confirmed Hillary as his choice for secretary of state just two days prior. Obama names her secretary of state on December 1st, 2008. Two days later, Clinton forms his shell corporation, his pass-through corporation to accept payments for his new consultancy group.

Saudis Being Drawn Into Obama’s War

Dan from New York asks, "How do you say 'Thank you, Mr. Obama' in Arabic?"

Islamic State suicide bomber in women's garb kills three in Saudi Arabia
Maha El Dahan and Sami Aboudi, 29 May 2015

ABU DHABI/DUBAI (Reuters) - An Islamist militant suicide bomber disguised as a woman blew himself up outside a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing himself and three other people, the second attack of its kind in the world's top oil exporter in one week.

The bombing, which was claimed by Islamic State, could further escalate sectarian strife in the kingdom, where anti-Shi'ite sentiment has been stoked by a military campaign against Iranian-allied Houthi militias in neighboring Yemen since March.

The Interior Ministry said a suicide bomber disguised in women's clothes blew himself up outside the al-Anoud mosque's entrance in the city of Dammam during noon prayers.

Witnesses said a suicide bomber, who wore an Abaya used by women in Saudi Arabia, blew himself up in the mosque's parking lot when guards searching worshippers became suspicious of him.

These kinds of attacks validate Foreign Policy's recent prediction that "...the Islamic State may be debuting a new strategy: lone-wolf attacks inside the kingdom."

Consider: under Obama, Hillary and Kerry, we have been left with an Iran ("Death to America!") on the brink of nuclear weapons, ISIS, an Al Qaeda-run Libya, a blood-soaked Syria, and a collapsing Iraq.

A nuclear Middle East is the Democrat Party's "legacy", starting with Jimmy Carter and extending all the way to Obama and Hillary.

Apocalypse now, indeed.

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PASS THE POPCORN, NAHANNI: Nancy Pelosi says "The Clintons will have to answer for the Foundation"

That's what she said, although her speech was garbled by well nigh two dozen plastic surgeries (thanks to an estimate by Chuck Frobish of Chucks's Discount Plastic Surgery).

Nancy Pelosi told MSNBC that "the Clintons will have to answer for the foundation."
The comment came after Pelosi was asked about a story in the New York Times that states Bill Clinton accepted an award at a charity event only after that charity paid the Clinton Foundation $500,000.
"The former president of the United States agreed to accept a lifetime achievement award at the June 2014 event after Ms. Nemcova offered a $500,000 contribution to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. The donation, made late last year after the foundation sent the charity an invoice, amounted to almost a quarter of the evening’s net proceeds — enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia," the Times reported.

Frankly, the facial contortions Ms. Pelosi has tortured her face with look -- to me, at least -- somewhat painful.

One would think that after amassing well somewhere around $30 million as a "public servant", Pelosi would be ready to retire.

Although, like many members of the Senate, perhaps she's using the perqs of office as an assisted living center.

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“What would life be like without the NRA?”

By Allan D. Cors

As NRA’s new president, I am grateful to serve with you to preserve America’s unique freedoms.

I first encountered the National Rifle Association as an 11-year-old growing up in Ohio. Mentored by the NRA in the 1950s by men who had a passion for owning firearms and shooting, I learned the true meaning of our Second Amendment.

Recently, an old friend and I were remembering those remarkably free times: when “gun control” was not even in the lexicon; when a kid could take a shotgun or rifle to school and stow it in the cloakroom for after-school target practice or hunting.

My friend asked rhetorically, “What would life be like without the NRA?”

I know the answer to that question because I lived it.

Signing of the Gun Control Act on 22 October in 1968 by Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson

I was blessed to have been present—working as a staff attorney in Congress—at the beginning of all of the legislative battles that have been thrust upon us.

In that fight—which brought us the 1968 Gun Control Act—there was no NRA as we know it today. We had no means to assemble our collective power as individuals to influence government. “Lobbying” was just not proper.

The sad truth is that the majority of the NRA’s Board of Directors at that time didn’t see disaster in the offing.

Then came the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy (an NRA Life member), and of Martin Luther King Jr., himself a believer in armed self-defense.

As a young attorney, I served as minority counsel for the House Judiciary Committee. Universal, national gun control to most of us was a totally unacceptable, foreign concept.

Free to financially pillage and rape

By Jim Quinn

It’s always interesting to see a long term chart that reflects your real life experiences. I bought my first home in 1990. It was a small townhouse and I paid $100k, put 10% down, and obtained a 9.875% mortgage. I was thrilled to get under 10%. Those were different times, when you bought a home as a place to live. We had our first kid in 1993 and started looking for a single family home. We stopped because our townhouse had declined in value to $85k, so I couldn’t afford to sell. In 1995 I convinced my employer to rent my townhouse, as they were already renting multiple townhouses for all the foreigners doing short term assignments in the U.S. We bought a single family home in 1995 with the sole purpose of having a decent place to raise a family that was within 20 minutes of my job.

Considering home prices on an inflation adjusted basis were lower than they were in 1980, I was certainly not looking at it as some sort of investment vehicle. But, as you can see from the chart, nationally prices soared by about 55% between 1995 and 2005. My home supposedly doubled in value over 10 years. I was ecstatic when I was eventually able to sell my townhouse in 2004 for $134k. I felt so smart, until I saw a notice in the paper one year later showing my old townhouse had been sold again for $176k. Who knew there were so many greater fools.

This was utterly ridiculous, as home prices over the last 100 years have gone up at the rate of inflation. Robert Shiller and a few other rational thinking people called it a bubble. They were scorned and ridiculed by the whores at the NAR and the bimbo cheerleaders on CNBC. Something smelled rotten in the state of housing. We now know who was responsible. Greenspan and Bernanke were at least 75% responsible for the housing bubble and its eventual implosion, which essentially destroyed our economic system. They purposely kept interest rates at obscenely low levels, encouraging every Tom, Dick and Julio to buy a home with a negative amortization, no doc, nothing down, adjustable rate mortgage, so they could live the American dream of being in debt up to their eyeballs.

Greenspan and Bernanke were also responsible for regulating the Wall Street banks. They allowed them to leverage themselves 30 to 1. They allowed them to create fraudulent high risk mortgage products. They looked the other way as Wall Street sliced and diced these guaranteed to default mortgages into AAA rated derivatives that were then spread throughout the global financial system like ticking time bombs. As home prices rose three standard deviations above the long term average, these Ivy League educated geniuses cheered it all on. Bernanke saw no bubble, just as it was bursting. He saw no mal-investment or systematic risk from this orgy of greed and fraud. And then it all blew up in our faces, while the perpetrators walked away unscathed to pillage and rape once more.

GREAT NEWS: ICE Still Releasing Criminal Aliens Into U.S. Population at a Frightening Pace

By Jessica Vaughan

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published an investigative report on violent criminals released by ICE. Aptly titled "Convicted, but free to roam: Giving little notice, federal authorities have released thousands of detained undeportable immigrants — sometimes with grave results", the article tells the story of a rapist and a murderer turned loose by ICE. Such criminal alien releases are continuing at an alarming pace in 2015.

According to documents provided to the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing last month, ICE released 30,558 convicted criminal aliens in FY 2014. These individuals had been convicted of 79,059 crimes, including 175 homicides, 373 sexual assaults, 186 kidnappings, and 14,014 impaired driving offenses (see the listing of conviction categories here).

As of the end of March, ICE had released another 10,246 criminal aliens. This pace of criminal releases is down from 2013 and 2014 — but only because ICE is arresting far fewer people to start with, not because there are fewer to arrest. ICE arrests of criminal aliens are down 32 percent since this time last year, according to ICE records. Arrests of the most serious offenders are down by 22 percent over last year.