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Wednesday, June 26, 2013

A Modest Proposal [Updated]

Guest post by David Hague

Dear reader, in 1729, Jonathan Swift suggested in his "Modest Proposal" that, "'in order to Prevent the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Our Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick". He encouraged the starving Irish people generate income and reduce expenses by selling their babies to the rich to be consumed by the rich as new source of food. This Juvenalian satire disgusted his readers but was successful at bringing the plight of the Irish to a wide audience. Perhaps it is time for the Baby Boom [BB] generation to recognize the plight of our children before they decide that we BBs should be sauteed, fricasseed, or boiled and served for dinner.

Guess who is being served for dinner?

I modestly propose that the children of baby boomers [BBs] prepare to eat their parents in order to prevent them from becoming a burden on society. Whether our children fry, boil, roast bake or BBQs all us BBs, the end result would be to put a stop to the BBs incredible and wanton accumulation of global government debt that will be passed on to future generations. In the unlikely event you disagree with my proposal let me explain my rationale.

You got some 'splaining' to do!

Dear reader, As Ricky Ricardo often said to everyone's favorite redhead, "Lucy, You got some 'splaining' to do" I feel that the BB generation, like Lucy, is going to find themselves being asked some hard questions by our children and, like Lucy will have some 'splaining' to do avoid being converted into a soufflé or a stew.

You are not the boss of me

My conviction that we, the BBs will find ourselves under harsh lights in the interrogation room [or the kitchen] came to me gradually. As an imperfect father I felt my children should take responsibility and control of our own lives.

Watch what I do and don't do it

When each of my two daughters turned five, the age at which they felt I was no longer 'the boss of them', I acquiesced and left them in charge of our own destiny. The only advice I gave them was to look them in eye, fully aware of my own imperfections and tell them that if they wanted to be successful they should watch what I do and don't do it. Fortunately for them, their mother is a goddess who kept watch over them.

Our children's future will be significantly less than they could wish for

Flash forward twenty years to the present and to a recent family dinner at which my daughters were sharing our hopes and dreams for the future. Careers, goals, buying a house starting a family were all part of the lively conversation. Much to my surprise they asked my opinion on the myriad choices they faced.

Sadly my compulsive study of economic and financial events left me in an awkward position. I naturally wanted to share their excitement and enthusiasm for all the opportunities and experiences that the future can hold. However there are two gifts that we BBs are leaving our children that will likely ensure our children's future is significantly less than they would wish for.

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#MASEN: Yet another lesson for Karl Rove, John Boehner, Jeb Bush and the Rest of the Republican Establishment Dopes

Courtesy of Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank), the accompanying chart illustrates the turnout and results for the last three Massachusetts Senatorial elections.

This year, former Naval Aviator and SEAL Gabriel Gomez faced off against a washed-up, liberal loser and perma-pol named Ed Markey. Markey had served in Congress since about 1912, if memory serves. And had Gomez been able to energize little more than half of the folks who had voted for Scott Brown, he'd have won the election.

But Gomez, for all of his impressive credentials, offered a political philosophy of pure mush. He offered no reason for a conservative to back him. On Fox News, he proudly proclaimed his support of Amnesty for illegal aliens, his belief in global warming, advocacy for gun control, and similar leftist leanings.

So why would anyone bother voting? All of those big government, Statist policy prescriptions came for free -- no strings attached! -- with Ed Markey.

Once again, there is a lesson for the Beltway establishment types like Karl ("1.8 percent victory rate") Rove. Not that they'll bother to absorb it, because they're too dense. Conservatism wins. Liberty wins. Constitutionalism wins. It wins every time when articulated by a coherent voice who doesn't pander, but explains and deconstructs the failures of the hard left Democrat Party.

A Marxist Lite philosophy can't win for Republicans. Dependence on big government, just not as big as the Democrats' idea of big government, can't win. No, Constitutional Conservatism can and will win.

And the pathetic clowns like Rove and Boehner will continue to lose elections and support until they finally comprehend this oh-so-difficult concept or they are booted out of power, which ever comes first.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: Bringing Mitch McConnell Out of the Shadows

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QOTD: "Whatever the wisdom of the Iraq war in the first place, when Obama came to office in January 2009 the war was won. Al-Qaeda in Iraq had been routed. Nouri al-Maliki’s Shiite government had taken down the Sadr Shiite extremists from Basra all the way north to Baghdad. Casualties were at a wartime low; the civil war essentially over.

We had a golden opportunity to reap the rewards of this too-bloody war by establishing a strategic relationship with an Iraq that was still under American sway. Iraqi airspace, for example, was under U.S. control as we prepared to advise and rebuild Iraq’s nonexistent air force.

With our evacuation, however, Iraqi airspace today effectively belongs to Iran — over which it is flying weapons, troops and advisers to turn the tide in Syria. The U.S. air bases, the vast military equipment, the intelligence sources available in Iraq were all abandoned. Gratis. Now we’re trying to hold the line in Jordan.

Obama is learning very late that, for a superpower, inaction is a form of action. You can abdicate, but you really can’t hide. History will find you. It has now found Obama." --Charles Krauthammer

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Eric Sevareid’s Law

Excerpted from Thoughts on Immigration into the United States, by Albert A. Bartlett:

When we’re searching for solutions to the problem of growing demand exceeding supply, we should never forget Eric Sevareid’s Law. Sevareid was a national journalist, and he observed that:

“The chief source of problems is solutions.”

As an example: the actions of the Congress to encourage domestic production of ethanol from corn were offered as the solution to the problem of impending shortages of automotive fuel that are the result of population growth. Corn is being diverted from the food supply to the fuel supply. As a direct consequence, the price of corn has risen rapidly and this affects the prices of all manner of food items. The higher food costs are the new problem caused by the solution to the problem of the impending shortage of automotive fuel. In the U.S. and abroad, this higher cost of food is a hidden tax on all who eat.

Ronald Reagan, in one of the finest speeches of the last century, put it this way: "For three decades, we've sought to solve [these] problems... and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."

Hat tip: Lee.

President Obama Declares War on Electricity

Today's declaration by President Obama that he would bypass Congress in enacting even more onerous regulations on power plants is, according to the Competitive Enterprise Institute, "Undemocratic, Bordering On Authoritarian."

President Obama’s climate agenda released today is being done without public or congressional support and is being pursued in this way because he knows the peoples’ elected representatives would never approve these plans, say experts at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

“Obama’s all-pain, no-gain agenda will cost jobs, drive up prices and have little effect on global emissions,” said Myron Ebell, director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment. “It is undemocratic, bordering on authoritarian.

“It confirms the Obama administration’s all-out war on coal, calls for more negotiations on a treaty the Senate will never ratify and displays an alarming lack of knowledge about the state of climate science. Congress should move immediately to defund as much of this as possible.”

... “He doesn’t want to go through elected officials because he knows if he put this plan in a bill and submitted it to Congress, it would be dead on arrival,” said Marlo Lewis, senior fellow in CEI’s Center for Energy and the Environment... all three elements of the president’s plan should be opposed. “Renewable energy is costly, intermittent and unreliable,” Lewis said. “If it weren’t a bad buy for consumers, Congress would not need to subsidize it in perpetuity, and 30 states and the District of Columbia would not need to mandate its use.”

...But the administration’s proposed CO2 emission limits for existing power plants pose “the biggest risk to consumer welfare and the economy,” Lewis said.

Christopher C. Horner, senior fellow at CEI and author of the 2012 “The Liberal War on Transparency,” research for which turned up the secret “Richard Windsor” email address of former EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, said the proposal – which would drive a stake through coal-fired power plants nationwide – should come as no surprise...

“He warned us in the now-famous YouTube video he would shutter all existing coal-fired power plants and “bankrupt” anyone who tried to build a new one – even though they provide 40 percent of our electricity and much of our competitive advantage.”

Seeing as how coal remains the largest single source of electrical power in the United States, Obama's Castro-like declaration means just one thing.

He has declared war on electricity and, therefore, the livelihood of each and every American.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

How can illegal aliens be in "the shadows" when each one receives thousands of dollars in benefits each year?

Out from the shadows: We are told -- or rather, instructed -- by the Beltway ruling class that our duty as Americans is to bring illegal aliens "out from the shadows". Never mind that we can find illegal aliens wherever we turn.

Illegal immigration costs American taxpayers more than $110 billion each year.

Worse yet, we're starting to discover all of the nuggets hidden inside the Corker-Rubio-Schumer Amnesty Crap Sandwich -- you know, that other bill no one bothered to read. Some of the pieces of undigested corn:

BUSINESSES GET TAX BREAKS FOR HIRING ILLEGAL ALIENS OVER CITIZENS

Well, now we know why the corporatists like Karl Rove and Jeb Bush support this madness. According to Sen. Ted Cruz, businesses get a tax break for hiring a legalized illegal over an American citizen.

...the “bipartisan” immigration bill creates a $5,000 incentive per employee for businesses to hire workers legalized under the immigration bill, in preference to citizens or legal immigrants.

BORDER SECURITY IS LEFT UP TO THE DISCRETION OF... JANET NAPOLITANO

Have you seen those commercials on television that assert the Rove-Rubio-Schumer Amnesty bill is "conservative"? The ones that say the border will be secured? Can you guess what I'm going to say next? Yep: it's bullcrap.

The new version of the “Gang of Eight” bill, repackaged with the “border surge” amendment from Sens. Bob Corker (R-TN) and John Hoeven (R-ND), would grant the Secretary of Homeland Security the authority to decide whether or not to implement the border security technology and fencing provisions in the bill...

Ignoring them would result in no repercussions whatsoever.

In short, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano gets to veto any of the border security measures passed by Congress.

DHS HAS NEARLY TOTAL DISCRETION OVER WHO GETS TO STAY IN THE U.S.

Another loophole in the McCain-Graham-McConnell Amnesty bill gives Napolitano complete latitude over who gets to stay in the U.S..

The Secretary can do pretty much whatever she wants in terms of waiving removal or deportation of a person attempting to enter the country or in the country illegally based on her determination of the “public interest"... There are similar provisions in section 3215 as to admissibility into the United States...

The section not only guarantees that a single family member being lawfully in the country will allow the full immediate family to stay, but it also will provide the Secretary — Janet Napolitano now — with broad discretion to allow anyone to stay for almost any reason.

THE 9/11 TERRORISTS COULD HAVE RECEIVED AMNESTY UNDER THE RUBIO-SCHUMER-CORKER BILL

Walid Shoebat observes that many of the 9/11 terrorists violated the terms of their visas and others overstayed their visas. Under the Mendendez-Graham Amnesty Bill, these terrorists could have been rewarded with citizenship.

If this amendment – or something like it – is part of any final bill that becomes law, obtaining a work visa will become quite desirous on the part of those who plot against the U.S. Are there stealth jihadists out there who would set out to acquire a work visa if they knew that once it expired, they could overstay it, not only without consequence, but with the reward of citizenship?

What about that secure border?

Perhaps in another ten years, we can make it contingent on giving stealth jihadists the right to vote.

William A. Jacobson summarizes the Senate's undemocratic process: "The rush to a vote in the Senate does not allow time to fully understand all the provisions. And that’s why the rush is taking place."

This bill must be stopped in the House. We will need to put maximum pressure on the feckless House leadership and every Republican member of Congress. Gird your loins.

Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Larwyn's Linx: The Lies These Political Hacks Told Us

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Nation

The Lies These Political Hacks Told Us: Erick Erickson
Levin: Immigration will pass unless we scare the hell out of House GOP: Scoop
Restraining the Ambitions of the State: John Hayward

Pass Amnesty Bill and Kiss Your Base Good-Bye, Republicans: Bryan Preston
Dems Struggle With Scandals; GOP Can’t Agree on Policy: Michael Barone
Cruz Wins White House Dossier 2016 GOP Presidential Poll : Keith Koffler

Schumer-Corker-Hoeven Overstay Provisions Overstated: CIS
#MCCAINANSWERYOURPHONE: Jennifer Burke
Immigration Bill Almost Done: P&F

Prominent Blacks Deserting the Liberal Plantation: Rosslyn Smith
The Case of the Missing White Voters: Sean Trende
Cruz Crushes Amnesty Backers--Compares Bill to Obamacare: Matthew Burke

Economy

Senate Bill: Employers Will Fire Americans, Hire Amnestied Workers: Susan Berry
Sturm Ruger latest looking to transition out of slave state CT: Bob Owens
Eight of top 10 states for job growth: Republican governors: David Freddoso.

HHS opens new Obamacare hotline available in over 150 languages: Caroline May
Amnesty Bill Has Taxpayer Subsidized ObamaCars for Youths: Matthew Boyle
New amendment adds jobs bill to Gang of Eight immigration plan: Exam

Scandal Central

Have you noticed growing assaults on free speech? Here? And here? And here?: Andrew Malcolm
The Real IRS Scandal: Gary Shapiro
IRS Sent $7,319,518 in Refunds to One Bank Account Used by 2,706 Aliens: CNS

Yes, IRS harassment blunted the Tea Party ground game.: Instapundit
CBO: We can’t tell you how much illegal immigration would go down under bill meant to solve illegal immigration: HA
Drug cartels in Oregon: Violence in the Northwest: Borderland

Climate & Energy

Obama Launches New Global Warming Video as Phony "Consensus" Crumbles: William F. Jasper
Obama climate plan may ricochet on EPA pick: Andrew Restuccia
Obama’s EPA Gets U.S. High Court Hearing on Coal Pollution: Greg Stohr

Media

Conservatives Must Use Immigration Deform Like Obamacare in 2014: Daniel Horowitz
DeMint: Immigration Bill Is “Going to Cost Americans Trillions”: Sarah Edwards
Mark Levin reads GOP amnesty votes, apologizes for endorsing Orrin Hatch: Scoop

Republicans: What Are You Smoking?: David Limbaugh
Dust-up leaves NBC’s David Gregory licking his wounds: Michael Dorstewitz
NBC's Gregory Longs for 'Government Playing a Bigger Role' in Economy: Kyle Drennen, MRC

Gay Left Celebrates Disney Airing Same-Sex Couple on Kids’ Show: MRC
The libertarian moment has arrived: Anna Zetchus Smith
The Spit Roasting of Paula Deen: Jim Goad

World

Edward Snowden: Obama is getting his clock cleaned: Flopping Aces
Snowden Snowballs Into Colossal Embarrassment for Obama and his Foreign Policy: Bridget Johnson
Jimmy Carter Compares Catholic Church To Saudi Arabia’s Fundamentalist Islamic State: WZ

Sci-Tech

Spear-phishing against the Financial Times: FT
How To Conduct Your Own Google Design Sprint: Jake Knapp, FastCoDesign
Facebook bug discloses user info, existence of shadow accounts: Net Security

Cornucopia

Where There's Smoke There's Failure : Hopenchange
Obama Tightrope Act: “I'm up in the spotlight, oh does it feel right”: MOTUS
Carlton Draught: Beer Chase: Clemenger BBDO

Image: Where There's Smoke There's Failure
Sponsored by: NAME EM & SHAME EM - 15 "Republicans" Who Voted For Amnesty Bill

QOTD: "The sponsors of the Corker-Hoeven substitute fell short of the votes they expected tonight to advance what they had erroneously billed to other Senators as a strong border security amendment. Failure to capture the votes they anticipated for this motion demonstrates the building unease this 1,200-page legislative monstrosity has created. I expect that unease will increase as Senators learn more about what’s really inside this proposal.

The Gang of Eight and their allies revealed their true tactics tonight. They shut down debate and blocked amendments to a 1,200-page immigration bill that no one has read. It was anything but the open and fair process that they had promised.

What we know for absolute certain is that this bill guarantees three things: instantaneous amnesty, permanent lawlessness, and a massive expansion in legal immigration that will reduce wages for working Americans. This legislation is a crushing blow to the working people of this country, a surrender to illegality, and a capitulation to special interests over the interests of the citizens we pledged to represent." --Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

Monday, June 24, 2013

The Ammo Shortage By the Numbers

The experts at AmmoLand downplay the conspiracy theorists and simply put elevated ammo prices on market dynamics:

I haven’t seen anything that suggests foul play of any kind, to me, it’s strictly supply and demand, and it shows you what panic in a market looks like... Rationing and price spikes are the result of demand far outstripping supply...

...A trusted source provided this:

“Take for example .22LR ammunition. The industry as a whole (all manufacturers combined) is setup to produce 4,200,000,000 (4.2 Billions) .22 LR annually. That is running all the machines, full capacity all the time, all manufacturers together.

There is NOTHING they can do to produce more.

That corresponds to 230,137 cartridge per State per day, which is 460 bricks of 500 .22lr per day per State. That means that if less than 50 people per day in each State are buying 10 bricks of .22, it is enough to dry up the entire supply as it is being manufactured.”

News from ammo makers seems OK too, but it’s right to be wary. Trust but verify. How do you do that?

If you don’t have ammo, you’re stuck in a high market. If you’re like many Americans, you’ll comfortably ride this out until the market corrects.

Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News.

Eight of Top 10 States For Job Growth Share Windmill Farms and GOP Governors, But Mostly GOP Governors

Writing at ConservativeIntel, David Freddoso points us to the following data:

...the RNC needs to do more to showcase its governors and their successes. Here’s one of the things they should be talking about...

According to today’s release by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 31 of the 50 states have experienced significant job growth over the last 12 months.

It might not come as a huge surprise, but states with GOP governors (8 of the top 10) and right-to-work states (7 of the top 10, in bold) dominate the top of the list in terms of job growth over the last 12 months...

...some of the Republican governors of states not on this list are still okay. Gov. John Kasich’s Ohio doesn’t appear above, but in May it had a stronger month than any other state, gaining 32,000, jobs, or about as many as Maryland gained in the last year. Wisconsin’s Scott Walker is looking increasingly safe for re-election thanks to fiscal reforms and strong job creation last month (10,400) helps his cause...

Would that we had these kinds of conservatives in the Senate.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

My Gun Is Bigger Than Yours [Papa B]

Papa B:

Related: BadBlue Gun News.

GENIUS: Senate Republicans pass yet another immigration bill that the Obama administration is certain to ignore

I know why the Democrats want Amnesty for illegals: it guarantees them a brand new voting bloc dependent upon their big government handouts.

But perhaps the geniuses John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Marco Rubio -- ostensibly Republicans, but in truth of unknown political affiliation -- can explain the following to me. Why would an administration that has gleefully flouted and ignored existing immigration laws decide to rigidly enforce this latest monstrosity?

That's a rhetorical question.

Just minutes ago, the RINO establishment teamed with the hard left Democrat Party to pass the Corker Amendment that not one member of the Senate has read or understands. The vote was 67-27 to advance this Obamacare-like bill.

Here is the Hall of Shame: These are the 15 RINOs who betrayed the trust of the American people.

Corker        Alexander        Ayotte          Chiesa
Collins       Flake            Graham          Hatch
Heller        Hoeven           Kirk            McCain
Murkowski     Rubio            Wicker

The American people are orders of magnitude smarter than their representatives: Rasmussen reports that only 28 percent believe the administration will secure the border if the Rubio-Schumer Amnesty bill passes.

Larwyn's Linx: Mass illegal alien amnesty violates our founding principles

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Nation

Mass illegal alien amnesty violates our founding principles: Michelle Malkin
What’s Really Inside the Amnesty Bill? We’ve Got to Pass it to Find Out: Tatler
Monday is Lawmageddon: William A. Jacobson

Why Immigration Reform is the Panama Canal Treaty Redux: Power Line
ICE union president: Rubio ‘directly misled law enforcement’: Caroline May
Schumer: Mass Demonstrations if Amnesty Bill Blocked: Alexander Bolton

Every One of You Can Be Primaried: RWN
A Wide-Ranging Interview With Sen. Ted Cruz: Flash Report
Schedule: Senate Going for Broke on Amnesty: Dan Holler, Foundry

Economy

Massive Fail: Teaching Instruction An “Industry Of Mediocrity”: Mead
Calif. working to put illegals under Obamacare coverage: Joe Saunders, BPR
Jeremiah Wright Was Right!: Minority Report

BIS: Denninger (And A Few Others) Are Right: Karl Dennninger
An Immigration Plan in the National Interest? Nah.: Elephant
China Crashing: Shanghai Composite Tumbles Most Since 2009: ZH

Amnesty is Obamacare 2.0: Kickbacks and carve-outs: Toldjah
The Global Currency Crisis Awaits: Mish
IRS Line Dance: RWN

Scandal Central

Revealed: DOJ, NH criminally investigate James O’Keefe’s Voter ID expose: J. Christian Adams
Loathsome Sen. Bob Menendez Implicated in Yet Another Potential Sex Scandal: Madeleine Morgenstern
The Bracken Effect: An American Communist Putsch: NoisyRm

Climate & Energy

The 'Great Renewables Scam' unravels: Peter C. Glover

Media

Ride the David Gregory Recursion: Ed Driscoll
CNN: Scandals Eroding Trust Young, Low-Information Voters Had In Obama: WZ
Glenn Greenwald and David Gregory Spar Over Role of Journalism in Edward Snowden Story: Chris Ariens

Poll Results: Conservative Bloggers Hate The Senate Immigration Bill: RWN
Kristol: GOP Senators Should Block Immigration Monday, Let Us and Them Read the Bill: Daniel Halper
Schieffer to GOP Sen. Jeff Sessions: 'Do You Think Republicans Get It on Immigration?': Noel Sheppard

WaPo's 'Fact Check' Falsely Slams Sen. Cruz (And Me) On Immigration: Jed Graham, IBD
Former Federal Prosecutor: Obama Admin Appears To Have “Flubbed” Snowden Case: WZ
Gibbs to Obama: Be More Transparent on NSA: Breitbart

World

How ignorant Britain sneers and sniggers at the threat from Iran: Melanie Phillips
AWESOME: London Imam unable to refute Robert Spencer’s claims about Koran: Scoop
Saudi National Injured in Boston Marathon bombing supported by Huma Abedin Defender?: Shoebat

As Obama calls for surrender talks to Taliban, they shoot dead 10 foreign tourists, including one American: Atlas
Canada: Moderate Muslim group rallies against jihad terrorism, draws 24 people: Atlas
Islamic jihadists in Gaza fire six rockets into Israel: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech

NSA Chief: Chinese Cyber-Theft ‘Most Significant Transfer of Wealth in History’: Eliana Johnson, NRO
Snowden says NSA hacked Pacnet, Chinese telcos: SCMag
Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA: Rebecca Greenfield

Cornucopia

What Kind of Coward Is Edward Snowden?: Danbo Jangles
Stay Focused: the Shell Game Continues: MOTUS
Word: Western Rifle Shooters Association

Image: Unreal Photos From Shackleton's 1915 Antarctic Expedition
Sponsored by: RED ALERT: CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW - TELL THEM TO KILL THE AMNESTY BILL!

QOTD: "It’s true, we have a two-party system in America: The Evil Party, and the Stupid Party. And every once and a while the Evil Party and the Stupid Party get together to pass something really evil and stupid. That’s called “bipartisanship.”" --M. Stanton Evans via Power Line

Sunday, June 23, 2013

G.O.P. Apparently Stands for "Greedy Old Punks"

If I served in Congress over the past four-and-a-half years and had witnessed:

• The Republican Party being completely shut out of any input into the massive health care reform law -- Obamacare -- that was rammed through Congress on Christmas Eve using procedural tricks, backdoor deals, outright bribes and intimidation...

• The administration trotting out various parties to lie under oath to Congress including, but not limited to, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, Janet Napolitano, James Clapper, Douglas Shulman, and Lois Lerner...

• A series of scandals unprecedented in American presidential history -- from running thousands of guns to Mexican drug cartels to falling asleep during a terrorist attack -- that make Watergate look like a theft of Girl Scout cookies.

What kind of people allow themselves to be treated like this?

Who allows themselves to be slapped around like a bunch of punks?

Well, it would seem that the Republican establishment fits this description.

I say this because despite being punked over and over and over again, the Beltway establishment Republicans are still cooperating with the likes of Obama, Chuck Schumer, and Robert ("Hey, little girl!") Menendez to pass an immense Amnesty bill that not a single person has read.

Let me repeat: not a single member of Congress understands what is in this "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" bill.

What we know about it thus far is devastating. The Corker Amendment was crafted in secret by special interest groups. We know that it will devastate the American economy by increasing unemployment, lowering wages, and building a massive new dependency class.

The Republican Party is a Hazmat zone.

Aside from some Constitutionalists like Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Jeff Sessions, Rand Paul and a few others, the party has abandoned its base for the siren song of Karl ("1.3% victory rate") Rove and the nerds at The Wall Street Journal.

It's time to politically obliterate the RINO establishment and replace it with Constitutionalists. Because the RINO establishment are nothing but greedy old punks.

HONG KONG TO ERIC HOLDER: Stuff It

The government of Hong Kong issued a press release today in response to a DOJ extradition request for Edward Snowden.

Ouch. It would appear that Hong Kong is treating Eric Holder with all of the respect and deference he deserves.

Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.

FACE THE NATION: Sen. Jeff Sessions Eviscerates the Rubio-Schumer-Corker Amnesty Bill

The Rubio-Schumer Amnesty bill -- and the so-called Corker Amendment -- represent a crime against the American citizenry and an affront to every legal immigrant. Appearing on Face the Nation this morning, Senator Jeff Sessions spoke truth to power.

This bill grants amnesty first and a mere promise of enforcement in the future, even with the Corker-Hoeven amendment, all of which has been put in now on a 1,200 page [bill] we’ll vote on Monday afternoon that no one has read… These promises of 20,000 agents won’t take place and are not required until 2021… It [even] has a specific provision that says the Sec. Napolitano does not have to build a fence if she chooses not to… And CBO concludes that the legal immigration will be dramatically increased… Why would any Member of Congress want to vote for a bill, at a time of high unemployment [and] falling wages, to bring in a huge surge of new labor that can only hurt the poorest among us the most?

On The Rush To Vote: This bill grants amnesty first and a mere promise of enforcement in the future, even with the Corker-Hoeven amendment, all of which has been put in now on a 1,200 page [bill] we’ll vote on Monday afternoon that no one has read… I think if people find out that this amendment does not accomplish what the sponsors believe it does, then I think the bill could be back in trouble again... Why would any Member of Congress want to vote for a bill, at a time of high unemployment [and] falling wages, to bring in a huge surge of new labor that can only hurt the poorest among us the most?

No Added Border Security: These promises of 20,000 agents won’t take place and are not required until 2021, no money is being appropriated for that, it's merely an authorization... It [even] has a specific provision that says the Sec. Napolitano does not have to build a fence if she chooses not to. And she has publicly said that she thinks we have enough fencing.

On CBO's Finding That Bill Will Depress Wages: The reason why this amendment was thrown in here at the last minute is because the promises were not fulfilled, and this amendment does not fulfill its promises either, frankly.... We are going to have amnesty first, no enforcement in the future, and we're going to have continued illegality—at least 75% according to the CBO report. And CBO concludes that the legal immigration will be dramatically increased…We're going to have lower wages and higher unemployment according to the CBO analysis of this bill.

This bill is a disaster. If it passes, it guarantees at least three things will happen to the U.S. over the coming decade:

• We will see the arrival of tens of millions of mostly low-skilled workers who will be dependent on the American taxpayer to survive.

• That influx of low-skilled labor will translate to Lower wages for American workers across the board.

• And that surge assures higher levels of unemployment for American workers.

There's a reason the Democrats and Pseudo-Republicans are trying to rush this bill through the Senate. They don't want you to know what's in it.

It's time to take action. Call your Senator and two other Senators now: Say No to Amnesty. And then call them again on Monday.

The Top 150 Conservative Websites, June 2013

Here are the latest standings of conservative news and opinion sites, which are ordered using their Alexa traffic rankings. Yes, some of these are center-right, libertarian, or more middle-of-the-road sites, but they are included because they do publish center-right opinion pieces on a regular basis.

Rank	Website	Traffic Rank
1	foxnews.com	169
2	wsj.com	330
3	telegraph.co.uk	337
4	theblaze.com	1022
5	nypost.com	1193
6	breitbart.com	1541
7	zerohedge.com	2164
8	washingtontimes.com	2810
9	dailycaller.com	2951
10	weeklystandard.com	3755
11	realclearpolitics.com	4161
12	townhall.com	4451
13	nationalreview.com	4921
14	newsbusters.org	5813
15	hotair.com	5865
16	mediaite.com	6255
17	freerepublic.com	6556
18	pjmedia.com	6606
19	washingtonexaminer.com	6731
20	investors.com	7508
21	cnsnews.com	7947
22	twitchy.com	9341
23	rushlimbaugh.com	9705
24	reason.com	10406
25	americanthinker.com	11606
26	thegatewaypundit.com	12393
27	lifenews.com	16168
28	westernjournalism.com	16372
29	freebeacon.com	16502
30	redstate.com	18794
31	ace.mu.nu,mypetjawa.mu.nu,rhymeswithright.mu.nu	20861
32	humanevents.com	21089
33	powerlineblog.com	21358
34	therightscoop.com	23547
35	wattsupwiththat.com	23996
36	spectator.org	24847
37	michellemalkin.com	27598
38	mises.org	28148
39	canadafreepress.com	28433
40	weaselzippers.us	29050
41	thenewamerican.com	36198
42	spectator.co.uk	37423
43	whitehousedossier.com	38014
44	market-ticker.org	39931
45	freedomworks.org	40086
46	legalinsurrection.com	46626
47	althouse.blogspot.com	46894
48	atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com	47460
49	jihadwatch.org	48527
50	numbersusa.com	50768
51	marklevinshow.com	52310
52	globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com	60250
53	rasmussenreports.com	62961
54	rightwingnews.com	63507
55	badblue.com	63660
56	firstthings.com	63877
57	memeorandum.com	66077
58	anncoulter.com	69448
59	hannity.com	70630
60	commentarymagazine.com	72238
61	realclearmarkets.com	72752
62	volokh.com	75395
63	mrc.org	80174
64	ricochet.com	81792
65	the-american-interest.com	82956
66	borderlandbeat.com	85265
67	atr.org	92475
68	iowntheworld.com	97712
69	linkiest.com	98860
70	judicialwatch.org	100451
71	theothermccain.com	107738
72	outsidethebeltway.com	118287
73	israelhayom.com	120263
74	danielpipes.org	120852
75	riehlworldview.com	121610
76	freeenterprise.com	122526
77	maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com	128373
78	american.com	128476
79	moonbattery.com	131896
80	wizbangblog.com	134382
81	steynonline.com	138353
82	city-journal.org	138993
83	patterico.com	143245
84	aim.org	146345
85	aei.org	146920
86	jammiewf.com	149237
87	lonelyconservative.com	151334
88	climateaudit.org	156432
89	directorblue.blogspot.com	157023
90	angrywhitedude.com	157862
91	boortz.com	170747
92	datechguyblog.com	178986
93	conservatives4palin.com	180799
94	gatestoneinstitute.org	181324
95	punditpress.com	183100
96	sayanythingblog.com	187241
97	creepingsharia.wordpress.com	211628
98	fireandreamitchell.com	221864
99	americandigest.org	225263
100	ihatethemedia.com	231712
101	floppingaces.net	243398
102	dennisprager.com	245314
103	justoneminute.typepad.com	255728
104	hillbuzz.org	260879
105	gaypatriot.net	265998
106	americanpowerblog.blogspot.com	285657
107	theblogmocracy.com	289981
108	conservativedailynews.com	291743
109	winteryknight.wordpress.com	299974
110	blackfive.net	304161
111	smalldeadanimals.com	314264
112	israelmatzav.blogspot.com	315754
113	proteinwisdom.com	315928
114	sultanknish.blogspot.com	332572
115	yidwithlid.blogspot.com	337165
116	shark-tank.net	344248
117	imao.us	346736
118	theobjectivestandard.com	353334
119	cafehayek.com	355622
120	memri.org	359987
121	babalublog.com	360238
122	allamericanblogger.com	391159
123	thepiratescove.us	397531
124	independentsentinel.com	404350
125	menrec.com	407301
126	maggiesnotebook.com	407765
127	dailypundit.com	413946
128	noisyroom.net	424938
129	michellesmirror.com	442694
130	sweetness-light.com	444016
131	nicedeb.wordpress.com	446343
132	trevorloudon.com	446717
133	carolineglick.com	452551
134	dougpowers.com	464783
135	curmudgeonlyskeptical.blogspot.com	478992
136	investigativeproject.org	490812
137	soopermexican.com	502046
138	scaredmonkeys.com	502734
139	hopenchangecartoons.blogspot.com	534353
140	rightpundits.com	535327
141	capitalismmagazine.com	538468
142	moelane.com	550926
143	zombietime.com	576259
144	bobmccarty.com	590173
145	the-american-journal.com	608586
146	hyscience.com	616842
147	themellowjihadi.com	623796
148	bookwormroom.com	628004
149	newsrealblog.com	635293
150	thecampofthesaints.org	644685
151	americanglob.com	669058
152	economicnoise.com	677330
153	sundriesshack.com	706734
154	pointsandfigures.com	725696
155	chris-floyd.com	741580
156	coldfury.com	758088
157	publiusforum.com	784536
158	iowahawk.typepad.com	784661
159	conservativehideout.com	798211
160	nakeddc.com	825198
161	tammybruce.com	846631
162	reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com	848000
163	claremont.org	849262
164	punditandpundette.com	858959
165	cfif.org	880400
166	worldthreats.com	905162
167	wyblog.us	913234
168	politicsandfinance.blogspot.com	972952
169	sondrakistan.com	983221
170	sweasel.com	998337
171	jenkuznicki.com	999276
172	ashbrook.org	1019634
173	radicalislam.org	1037697
174	strata-sphere.com	1090003
175	conservativecommune.com	1104132
176	chicagoboyz.net	1124632
177	badeagle.com	1158812
178	qando.net	1172976
179	polipundit.com	1182654
180	therightplanet.com	1183153
181	gatesofvienna.blogspot.com	1184791
182	varight.com	1282320
183	nlpc.org	1357739
184	nicedoggie.net	1359176
185	formerspook.blogspot.com	1449850
186	marathonpundit.blogspot.com	1496203
187	libertypundits.net	1599624
188	troglopundit.wordpress.com	1657628
189	rlc.org	1661386
190	astuteblogger.blogspot.com	1677200
191	joshuapundit.blogspot.com	1697172
192	faustasblog.com	1805657
193	larryelder.com	1813515
194	primordialslack.com	1897938
195	simplyjews.blogspot.com	1909247
196	parkwayreststop.com	1912891
197	stoptheaclu.com	1977637
198	bizzyblog.com	2010323
199	blog.heritage.org	2144773
200	laborunionreport.com	2150918

Why does the "Top 150" list have 200 entries? The same reason the Big Ten has, like, 48 teams. Update: Inevitably, some sites are inadvertently omitted from the list (and this is always Biff Spackle's fault). The superb The People's Cube should be #97 on the list and The Looking Spoon should be #103.

• The Top 150 Conservative Websites, October 2012.

• The Top 150 Conservative Websites, July 2012.