Larwyn’s Linx: Comparing the Establishment's and the Base's View of the GOP Hierarchy

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Nation

Comparing the Establishment's and the Base's View of the GOP Hierarchy: Ace
Key Battle of GOP Debate features Megyn Kelly’s Attack on Cruz, Trump: Sara Noble
Annals of the .00002%: WeaponsMan

GOP Post Debate Poll: Donald Trump and Ted Cruz Biggest Winners: Treehouse
The fundamental national security differences between Cruz and Rubio: Bookworm
Jeb (3%) Bush Threatens to Kill the Republican Party: Ace

On His Watch: Abe Greenwald
Obama: Concerns jihadis will be among Syrian refugees unfounded: Robert Spencer
House Democrats Push Ban On Too Much Liberty, Freedom: Bob Owens

Freddie Gray Trial: Hung Jury, All Charges, Mistrial Declared: Andrew Branca
Vetting Obama’s witless vetters at DHS: Michelle Malkin
FOIA Request Finds FBI Chart Showing CAIR’s Ties To Hamas: WZ

Rubio Bill Expanded Visa Program Used by San Berno Terrorists: Daniel Horowitz
Ted Cruz: Happy Conservative Warrior: EIB
GOP debate number five: Cal Thomas

Economy

Dems’ favorite part of $1.1 trillion spending bill: Michelle Malkin
$1.1T omnibus quadruples unskilled guest workers: FAM
The Alinsky-ite Obama has succeeded: the American middle class is dying: Pew

Scandal Central

JW: Suspicious Middle Eastern Group Surveilling U.S. Mexican Border: Treehouse
Confirmed: Clinton Server Emails Were ‘Top Secret’: JWF
DHS Should Release All Documents Regarding San Bernardino Terrorist, says Congress: AIM

Controversial Muslim cleric giving Clinton millions: The Horn
White House Opens Door to CAIR Rep, Ignores Muslim Reformers: CJR
Sen. Corker to Get Scrutiny in Wake of Disclosure Omissions: NLPC

Climate & Energy

E.P.A. Broke Law With Social Media Push for Water Rule, Auditor Finds: Timothy Courtney

Media

Active Shooter Response For Non-Idiots: Bob Owens
An amazing interview with Kurt Russell on Gun Control: John R. Lott
The surprising ineffectiveness of Super PACs in 2016 (so far): Lee Drutman

Salon: Trump or Cruz Supporter? You Want Civil War: James Kirkpatrick
Hillary Says Relatives of Benghazi Heroes Are Liars: MRC
Does the Truth Matter to Hillary Clinton Supporters?: Roger Aronoff

World

The Death of Islam: The Z Man
Saudi Anti-Terror Coalition: Dead on Day One?: Stop Shouting
Just Like Us! Really?: Robert Satloff (2008)

Our Timid Military Leaders: Walter E. Williams
Muslim Refugees Are Pawns of An Extortion Racket: Brent Smith
Jihadis Now Sending Letters to Swedes: Convert to Islam or Face Beheading: JWF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Russia and China's "Enhanced Human Operations" Terrify the Pentagon: Eric Tegler
The Sharing Economy Goes to the Office: James Delmore
New transparent metal could make screens cheaper: Futurity

Cornucopia

Tour de Force: The Minuteman Missile Historic Site Ranger guide: Allan Lasser
A Hollywood Christmas Story: Larry Elder
7 Hilarious Vids That Explain How Awful Jeb Was At The Debate: Sooper

Image: Freddie Gray Trial: Hung Jury, All Charges, Mistrial Declared
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: #ConstitutionMan: Ted Cruz for President

QOTD: "Islam never made it out of the Middle Ages until Western prosperity overflowed its cups and brought material wealth to the Arab world. Even so, Iraq is still a Medieval society equipped with satellite dishes and mobile phones. Their culture, economics and politics remain locked in the amber of a bygone age. Even their revolutionaries sound like extras from a B-movie about the Crusades.

That’s not just a reality we in the West accept. It is a reality that every Muslim from the Arab world faces and grapples with every day. The culture that produced him lost to the culture that confronts him. No one stands in line for the latest Muslim mobile phone. There is no Muslim Silicon Valley. The armies of Allah throw rocks at the space ships and lasers of the infidel. To be a Muslim is to be a loser.

That daily reality is in his pocket when he looks at his cell phone. It is on TV where all the actors wear Western clothes. It is in his house where his sister demands to wear makeup and live on her own, dating men outside the family. Even at mosque he is reminded that he is on the losing side of the fight. He rides a Western made bus or drives a Western made car. He texts his coreligionists on an iPhone, not a Mohammad Phone.

There is an argument that Islam is on the rise. As we see Muslims pouring into Europe and even America, the argument goes, Islam is like rising flood waters, about to wash away the West. That misses what’s happening at the roots of Muslim culture. Every one of those Muslims is on a journey that will end as it did for John the Savage in Brave New World ... Those Muslims on the road to Berlin can either abandon themselves and their identity in order to join their new world, or, they can embrace death. The self-detonation phenomenon is just a dramatic way of choosing the latter.

The thing is, both choices have the same implication, the death of Islam as an organizing philosophy." --The Z Man