Larwyn's Linx: Barack Obama, Media Critic

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Nation

Barack Obama, Media Critic: John Hinderaker
Lying, Inc.: Victor Davis Hanson
Fun Contest: What Will the GOP Establishment Sell Out on Next?: Ann Coulter

Post For Albert: Butthurt Cream On Aisle Nine: Taxicab Depressions
Ted Cruz reels in big New Hampshire endorsements: Henry J. Gomez
Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s ‘Urban Agenda’: Larry Elder

On Iraq, Hillary Has Some Explaining to Do: Michael Warren
Jeb Bush’s Polish Problem: Leon H. Wolf
Patriot Games: Jeb Bush Offers Another Answer To Iraq Question: Ace

Democrats do the right thing on TPP: RS
Special Forces, Deputies Plan Week Long Exercises: WLTX
Why Is That Cop's Finger in Your Butt?: Jacob Sullum

Economy

Moody's downgrades Chicago schools, park district: ChiBiz
5 reasons Chicago is in worse shape than Detroit: MSN Money
Chicago's first junk-rating blow: $2.2 billion bank payout: ChiBiz

Scandal Central

Vermont driver’s privilege card fraud spreads to foreign countries: Bruce Parker
Two Indian-Americans arrested for H-1B visa fraud in US: DNAindia
New study says H-1B program undercuts U.S. tech jobs: David Weldon, FierceCIO

Media

Clinton Foundation donor can't explain role in Russian uranium deal: Sarah Westwood
Alan Colmes: FBI Should Investigate Clinton Foundation: Daniel Halper
Mika Brzezinski Calls Clinton’s “Moat” Barrier “Frustrating”: MSNBC

Popcorn: Left Slams 'Sexist' Obama Over Spat with Elizabeth Warren: Guy Benson
White Privilege: Another Liberal Distraction: Claire Hawks
University Report States That A Room Full of White People Is a Microaggression: RWN

Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future: AmPower
Smart Policing: Lock Up Liberals: Ann Coulter
Daily Show’s Jon Stewart roasts Mark Halperin’s interview of Ted Cruz: Erik Wemple

World

Qatar to Free Taliban Commanders Exchanged for Bergdahl: Breitbart
Obama Admin Is Training “About 90″ Syrians to Defeat ISIS …(That Ought to Do It): GWP
Leftism is Just Religion for the Godless, Continued: Ace

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

SEPTA Says Commuter Train Hit By Projectile Just Before Amtrak Train Derailed: CBS Philly
New blood tests, liquid biopsies, may transform cancer care: WRAL
The Ultimate Interface: Your Brain: Ramez Naam, SingularityHUB

Cornucopia

Document: Jade Helm Commander Plans to “Operationalize The CONUS Base": Old-Thinker News
“Why Is That Girl In the Senate Opposing My Plans?”: MOTUS
Government Censorship on the Rise: Betsy McCaughey

Image: Jeb Bush’s Polish Problem
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QOTD: "Hillary Clinton, to be candid, is a habitual fabulist. She entered public life lying about everything from her 1-1000 cattle futures con to the location of her law firm’s subpoenaed legal documents. Recently she has been unable to tell the truth in any context whatsoever. She will lie about big and small, trivial and fundamental, from the immigrant myths about her grandparents to the origins of her own name Hillary to her combat exposure in the Balkans. The subtext of “what difference does it make” was something like: “Even if you find out that I lied about the run-up to and follow up on the Benghazi killings, it won’t matter in the least to my career.” She was right, of course, in her assumption that lying had career utility and brought more pluses than negatives, as her current presidential campaign attests.

Her press conference on the disappearing emails was unique in American political history in that everything Ms. Clinton said was, without exception, a demonstrable untruth. It is not that no one believes her, but rather than no one can possibly believe her when she insisted that she would have needed multiple devices for multiple email accounts, or that public officials routinely alone adjudicate what is and is not public and private communications, or that other cabinet officers apparently created, as she did, exclusively private email accounts — and servers — for public business or that security personnel on the premises protect the airwaves from hackers. Even her own supporters know that she lied, and trust that it likely will not hamper her presidential run. Her life has become about as real as that of Annie Oakley’s.

Both Hillary and Bill Clinton lied about almost every aspect of the Clinton Foundation. She knew that the foundation was created to spend 90% on travel and insider salaries and benefits, and 10% on direct grants to charities, that it offered thin moral cover to skullduggery, and that it drew donations from zillionaires, who in turn offered Bill Clinton lopsided lecture fees that he otherwise would not have commanded, and expected favorable U.S. government treatment for their cash. Hillary assumed that beneath the skin of a “charitable organization” the three Clintons ran a veritable shake down operation that resulted in mother, father, and daughter becoming multimillionaires. The Clintons will expect the issue to dissolve, either on the premise that the notoriety cannot do much more damage to the already sullied Clinton name, or that the Democratic Party feels that it can nominate no other candidate who raises as much money and is so recognizable as the proverbial prevaricator Hillary Clinton." --Victor Davis Hanson