FLOWCHART: The Scientific Method - Then and Now

The "Global Warming" "Climate Change" "Climate Disruption" scam represents the greatest forced transfer of wealth in world history.

Hat tip: @BobEwoldt.

OH, MY: Leading Democrats Now Leaking Reports That They Believe Obama is "Incompetent" and "Detached"

I'll alert the media.

Didn't we tell these nitwits this, oh, six years ago (e.g., "Photos: The Illustrated Results of Obama's "Community Organizing"")?

Daniel Halper relays word from CNN where, apparently, Democrats feel comfortable leaking their 2014 distancing strategies for dissemination.

CNN's John King reports that Democrats are privately calling President Obama "detached," "flat footed," and "incompetent."

"Forget for a moment that Republican outrage," said King on his CNN show this morning. "More and more Democrats in key 2014 races are calling for the president to get a spine, they say, and fire his Veterans Affairs secretary. And what more and more Democrats are saying privately is scathing, calling the president and his team detached, flat footed, even incompetent.

"Maggie Haberman," said King turning to a panelist, "that's what strikes me, what democrats are saying privately in the wakes of the healthcare.gov problems, they see a president who doesn't want to take command, doesn't want to act fast. Raising the competence question. Some Democrats, who believe in government, [are saying] this White House doesn't appear to have its hand on the lever."

Haberman of Politico agreed, cited more examples, and added: "All of this adds up to somebody who just doesn't seem at all involved."

Gee, ya think?

What: did the 175 rounds of golf give it away?

Or the constant fundraising?

Or the detailed focus on NCAA brackets and other sporting events versus, say, chemical weapons in Syria, nukes in Iran, and the annexation of Crimea?


Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Surrenders Border: Some Wonder If It's Time To Form Posses to Fight Drug Cartels?

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Nation

Obama Abandons Border: Time To Form Posses?: Bob Owens
To Honor America's Veterans, Obama Heads to Golf Course: TR
Obama blames Founding Fathers for Congressional gridlock: Times

Spoiled Hollywood Leftist Elliot Rodger Mass Murder at UCSB: AmPower
Hollywood Director’s Son Kills Six in Shooting Rampage: R.S. McCain
Obama’s Staggering Record of Failure: Peter Wehner

Obama’s Predictable Response to VA Problems: Rick Jensen
How Hillary's Chinese baggage could see the light of day: Thomas Lifson
Allen West Demands a “Convention of the States” to Stop Obama: ConTrib

Free Ice Cream Cones: Easy Opinions
Oklahoma Lawmakers Overwhelmingly Vote to Repeal Common Core: Breitbart
2012 FBI Homicide Stats Are Out : Fists beat Rifles: iOTW

Economy

Facts Are Stubborn Things--As Thomas Piketty Just Found Out: Ricochet
Not Missing Out This Time: Thomas Purcell
GOP Looks Forward with New Agenda for Poor and Middle Class: PJM

Ex-Bundesbank Official: Current Economic System "Pure Fiction": Mish
No Inflation Friday: 42.4% Increase In The Price Of Being... Poor?: ZH
Economist Warns Recession is Beyond Control: FreePost

Scandal Central

RESIGN: Kevin D. Williamson
Obama’s HUD Pick Misused Agency Funds for Low-Income Housing as Mayor: JW
LIAR: Failed Oregon Exchange Director Still Paid $15K a Month: WZ

Climate & Energy

Delay EPA power plant rules, senators demand: Instapundit
Warming: Chicago beaches open with record low lake temperatures, hypothermia danger: Marathon
Good News: Energy Prices Set To Spike: Pirate's Cove

Media

Is the “conspiracy theory” theory setting the stage for the end of America?: Nox & Friends
The Darwinian Dead End: Feminists Subtract Themselves From the Future: R.S. McCain
ESPN's Stephen A. Smith Called 'Uncle Tom' for Defending Mark Cuban: TR

MSNBC Seeks to Discredit Benghazi Investigation: Roger Aronoff
Touré clobbered for foul idiocy about white privilege of Holocaust survivors: Twitchy
MSNBC's Harris-Perry Likens NBA to Slavery: Breitbart

Todd Zywicki on "Operation Chokepoint": Instapundit
Ben Carson: VA Mess Predicts Even Worse Outcome for Obamacare: Todd Beamon
Justice Is Dead In Amerika: Paul Craig Roberts

World

Sheikh Who OK’d Killing Americans in Iraq Gets White House Reception: Patrick Poole
#Who’s My Little Golubushka?: MOTUS
China And Russia Hold "Massive" Joint Naval Drill: This Is What It Looked Like: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Net neutrality debate Part I: How we got here: CNet
Surveillance technology companies are arms dealers, says researcher: FierceGovernmentIT
These are the customized Lamborghinis of Japan's underworld: Verge

Cornucopia

This Texas Gun Store Is Changing Their Sign Every Week: FreePatriot
One man, two horses, and Old Glory: Rapid City Journal
Remembering Those Who Fought This Memorial Day: ASMBA

Image: School’s Out Forever: Photos from Chicago’s shuttered public schools.
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "Every time business picks up at a paper-plate factory in Sheboygan, the president attempts to seize credit for the three jobs therein created. If you had attended the 2012 Democratic convention, you’d have thought that Barack Obama personally pulled the trigger on Osama bin Laden and had donned green eyeshades to turn around the financial affairs of General Motors. Strangely, after having bragged about saving GM, the Obama administration wishes to accept no responsibility for the deadly, possibly criminal, and certainly negligent actions of that firm during a period in which the U.S. government was its principal shareholder. Who knows how many people are dead or injured because GM refused to improve faulty switches? Who knows how many veterans are dead because of the VA?

If you want credit for the happy unexpected consequences of every snail hiccup across the fruited plains, then you have to take responsibility for the actions of your government — the things that are, after all, directly your responsibility.

President Obama clings to his sad little throne even more desperately than does General Shinseki. Faced with evidence of the incompetence of his administration, the president pronounced himself outraged, vowed that he would not tolerate it, would not stand for it — he in fact did everything except take responsibility for the actions of his government. The dishonesty and malpractice he vowed never to tolerate were, after all, the actions of his own administration, and the fact that they (may have) happened at some degree of separation from his own sacred person is hardly a defense. We made the head of the VA a cabinet-level position in order that the secretary might report directly to the president. The president, however, must be paying attention. President Obama was not." --Kevin D. Williamson

Stephen A. Smith Rips the Racialists

You gotta listen to this. The context: in a wide-ranging interview, NBA owner Mark Cuban had a few comments about appearances:

I know I'm prejudiced and I know I'm bigoted in a lot of different ways. If I see a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street, I'll move to the other side of the street. If I see a white guy with a shaved head and tattoos, I'll move back to the other side of the street. None of us have pure thoughts; we all live in glass houses.

After all the faux outrage, ESPN analyst Stephen A. Smith backed Cuban up. And he was promptly slammed by the usual batch of racialists.

Smith's response is well worth watching.

"Sometimes it is how you represent yourself!"

Smith describes his personal journey to success and explains it's all about hard work.

"This is the road you gotta climb... everyone can't be Jay-Z!"

I commend Stephen A. Smith. What he speaks is truth. Plain and simple, it's truth.


Hat tip: BadBlue Fame

"Why Our Political System's Screwed, in One Very Basic Chart"

Behold: the fatal chart of our Republic:

This proves that we're all hypocrites, or unable to control our political destinies, or both.

That chart, along with a bunch of other disturbing data, comes courtesy of the National Journal. Even though voters claim to hate Congress now more than ever, not a single incumbent has lost a primary.

...NJ explains this with the usual "politics is local" wisdom: We hate Congress, but we like our individual congressional representative. Plus, most districts are gerrymandered in partisan ways. And of course, there's always the chance that those incumbents can lose the general election, though they rarely do...

This is why I don't call it a reelection rate; I prefer the term "recidivism rate."


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

THE FREEDOM INDEX: Find Out Where Your Congressional Representative Stacks Up

Great data spotted at The New American.

The Freedom Index: A Congressional Scorecard Based on the U.S. Constitution rates congressmen based on their adherence to constitutional principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, national sovereignty, and a traditional foreign policy of avoiding foreign entanglements. The percentages below are cumulative scores are based on key votes from 1999 through 2013. Click on a senator's or representative's name to get a detailed breakdown of his or her voting record. Current Members of the 113th Congress

Alabama Sen. Jefferson Sessions - 71% Sen. Richard Shelby - 64% Dist.2: Martha Roby - 61% Dist.3: Mike Rogers - 54% Dist.4: Robert Aderholt - 57% Dist.5: Mo Brooks - 73% Dist.6: Spencer Bachus - 53% Dist.7: Terri Sewell - 15% Alaska Sen. Mark Begich - 15% Sen. Lisa Murkowski - 50% Dist.: Don Young - 56% Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake - 81% Sen. John McCain - 63% Dist.1: Ann Kirkpatrick - 23% Dist.2: Ron Barber - 13% Dist.3: Raul Grijalva - 29% Dist.4: Paul Gosar - 75% Dist.5: Matt Salmon - 73% Dist.6: David Schweikert - 83% Dist.7: Ed Pastor - 22% Dist.8: Trent Franks - 75% Dist.9: Kyrsten Sinema - 15% Arkansas Sen. John Boozman - 55% Sen. Mark Pryor - 20% Dist.1: Eric Crawford - 61% Dist.2: Tim Griffin - 65% Dist.3: Steve Womack - 58% Dist.4: Tom Cotton - 60% California Sen. Dianne Feinstein - 13% Sen. Barbara Boxer - 14% Dist.1: Doug LaMalfa - 65% Dist.2: Jared Huffman - 35% Dist.3: John Garamendi - 14% Dist.4: Tom McClintock - 93% Dist.5: Mike Thompson - 20% Dist.6: Doris Matsui - 20% Dist.7: Ami Bera - 10% Dist.8: Paul Cook - 55% Dist.9: Jerry McNerney - 15% Dist.10: Jeff Denham - 60% Dist.11: George Miller - 24% Dist.12: Nancy Pelosi - 17% Dist.13: Barbara Lee - 28% Dist.14: Jackie Speier - 23% Dist.15: Eric Swalwell - 35% Dist.16: Jim Costa - 18% Dist.17: Michael Honda - 23% Dist.18: Anna Eshoo - 20% Dist.19: Zoe Lofgren - 24% Dist.20: Sam Farr - 22% Dist.21: David Valadao - 40% Dist.22: Devin Nunes - 55% Dist.23: Kevin McCarthy - 68% Dist.24: Lois Capps - 21% Dist.25: Howard McKeon - 51% Dist.26: Julia Brownley - 10% Dist.27: Judy Chu - 21% Dist.28: Adam Schiff - 18% Dist.29: Tony Cardenas - 31% Dist.30: Brad Sherman - 21% Dist.31: Gary Miller - 60% Dist.32: Grace Napolitano - 22% Dist.33: Henry Waxman - 19% Dist.34: Xavier Becerra - 20% Dist.35: Gloria Negrete McLeod - 33% Dist.36: Raul Ruiz - 15% Dist.37: Karen Bass - 24% Dist.38: Linda Sanchez - 24% Dist.39: Edward Royce - 73% Dist.40: Lucille Roybal-Allard - 21% Dist.41: Mark Takano - 30% Dist.42: Ken Calvert - 51% Dist.43: Maxine Waters - 27% Dist.44: Janice Hahn - 33% Dist.45: John Campbell - 71% Dist.46: Loretta Sanchez - 26% Dist.47: Alan Lowenthal - 30% Dist.48: Dana Rohrabacher - 76% Dist.49: Darrell Issa - 52% Dist.50: Duncan Hunter - 76% Dist.51: Juan Vargas - 30% Dist.52: Scott Peters - 15% Dist.53: Susan Davis - 17% Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet - 10% Sen. Mark Udall - 21% Dist.1: Diana DeGette - 19% Dist.2: Jared Polis - 25% Dist.3: Scott Tipton - 76% Dist.4: Cory Gardner - 72% Dist.5: Doug Lamborn - 78% Dist.6: Mike Coffman - 75% Dist.7: Ed Perlmutter - 15% Connecticut Sen. Christopher Murphy - 15% Sen. Richard Blumenthal - 10% Dist.1: John Larson - 21% Dist.2: Joe Courtney - 17% Dist.3: Rosa DeLauro - 20% Dist.4: James Himes - 11% Dist.5: Elizabeth Esty - 25% Delaware Sen. Thomas Carper - 14% Sen. Chris Coons - 11% Dist.: John Carney - 11% Florida Sen. Marco Rubio - 78% Sen. Bill Nelson - 14% Dist.1: Jeff Miller - 69% Dist.2: Steve Southerland - 73% Dist.3: Ted Yoho - 85% Dist.4: Ander Crenshaw - 52% Dist.5: Corrine Brown - 20% Dist.6: Ron DeSantis - 85% Dist.7: John Mica - 57% Dist.8: Bill Posey - 88% Dist.9: Alan Grayson - 23% Dist.10: Daniel Webster - 64% Dist.11: Richard Nugent - 69% Dist.12: Gus Bilirakis - 62% Dist.14: Kathy Castor - 11% Dist.15: Dennis Ross - 78% Dist.16: Vern Buchanan - 58% Dist.17: Thomas Rooney - 73% Dist.18: Patrick Murphy - 20% Dist.19: Trey Radel - 70% Dist.20: Alcee Hastings - 23% Dist.21: Theodore Deutch - 14% Dist.22: Lois Frankel - 25% Dist.23: Debbie Wasserman Schultz - 15% Dist.24: Frederica Wilson - 21% Dist.25: Mario Diaz-Balart - 46% Dist.26: Joe Garcia - 15% Dist.27: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - 42% Georgia Sen. John Isakson - 53% Sen. Saxby Chambliss - 59% Dist.1: Jack Kingston - 63% Dist.2: Sanford Bishop - 28% Dist.3: Lynn Westmoreland - 73% Dist.4: Henry Johnson - 17% Dist.5: John Lewis - 25% Dist.6: Tom Price - 73% Dist.7: Rob Woodall - 67% Dist.8: Austin Scott - 73% Dist.9: Doug Collins - 68% Dist.10: Paul Broun - 90% Dist.11: Phil Gingrey - 65% Dist.12: John Barrow - 31% Dist.13: David Scott - 20% Dist.14: Tom Graves - 82% Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz - 5% Sen. Mazie Hirono - 12% Dist.1: Colleen Hanabusa - 20% Dist.2: Tulsi Gabbard - 40% Idaho Sen. James Risch - 85% Sen. Michael Crapo - 68% Dist.1: Raul Labrador - 89% Dist.2: Michael Simpson - 55% Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk - 34% Sen. Richard Durbin - 11% Dist.1: Bobby Rush - 23% Dist.2: Robin Kelly - 26% Dist.3: Daniel Lipinski - 20% Dist.4: Luis Gutierrez - 21% Dist.5: Mike Quigley - 16% Dist.6: Peter Roskam - 69% Dist.7: Danny Davis - 24% Dist.8: Tammy Duckworth - 15% Dist.9: Janice Schakowsky - 23% Dist.10: Bradley Schneider - 15% Dist.11: Bill Foster - 13% Dist.12: William Enyart - 20% Dist.13: Rodney Davis - 65% Dist.14: Randy Hultgren - 73% Dist.15: John Shimkus - 53% Dist.16: Adam Kinzinger - 59% Dist.17: Cheri Bustos - 17% Dist.18: Aaron Schock - 67% Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly - 23% Sen. Daniel Coats - 71% Dist.1: Peter Visclosky - 28% Dist.2: Jackie Walorski - 55% Dist.3: Marlin Stutzman - 80% Dist.4: Todd Rokita - 71% Dist.5: Susan Brooks - 55% Dist.6: Luke Messer - 65% Dist.7: André Carson - 16% Dist.8: Larry Bucshon - 67% Dist.9: Todd Young - 60% Iowa Sen. Thomas Harkin - 14% Sen. Charles Grassley - 61% Dist.1: Bruce Braley - 19% Dist.2: David Loebsack - 17% Dist.3: Tom Latham - 50% Dist.4: Steve King - 66% Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts - 61% Sen. Jerry Moran - 64% Dist.1: Tim Huelskamp - 88% Dist.2: Lynn Jenkins - 75% Dist.3: Kevin Yoder - 70% Dist.4: Mike Pompeo - 66% Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul - 94% Sen. Mitch McConnell - 62% Dist.1: Ed Whitfield - 52% Dist.2: Brett Guthrie - 68% Dist.3: John Yarmuth - 19% Dist.4: Thomas Massie - 100% Dist.5: Harold Rogers - 52% Dist.6: Garland Barr - 65% Louisiana Sen. David Vitter - 58% Sen. Mary Landrieu - 20% Dist.1: Steve Scalise - 74% Dist.2: Cedric Richmond - 23% Dist.3: Charles Boustany - 58% Dist.4: John Fleming - 82% Dist.6: Bill Cassidy - 68% Maine Sen. Angus King - 15% Sen. Susan Collins - 40% Dist.1: Chellie Pingree - 28% Dist.2: Michael Michaud - 28% Maryland Sen. Benjamin Cardin - 17% Sen. Barbara Mikulski - 13% Dist.1: Andy Harris - 78% Dist.2: C. Ruppersberger - 16% Dist.3: John Sarbanes - 17% Dist.4: Donna Edwards - 21% Dist.5: Steny Hoyer - 16% Dist.6: John Delaney - 21% Dist.7: Elijah Cummings - 22% Dist.8: Chris Van Hollen - 18% Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren - 0% Sen. Edward Markey - 22% Dist.1: Richard Neal - 20% Dist.2: James McGovern - 24% Dist.3: Niki Tsongas - 16% Dist.4: Joseph Kennedy - 31% Dist.6: John Tierney - 26% Dist.7: Michael Capuano - 27% Dist.8: Stephen Lynch - 25% Dist.9: William Keating - 24% Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow - 18% Sen. Carl Levin - 12% Dist.1: Dan Benishek - 66% Dist.2: Bill Huizenga - 75% Dist.3: Justin Amash - 92% Dist.4: Dave Camp - 52% Dist.5: Daniel Kildee - 40% Dist.6: Fred Upton - 48% Dist.7: Tim Walberg - 69% Dist.8: Mike Rogers - 51% Dist.9: Sander Levin - 17% Dist.10: Candice Miller - 51% Dist.11: Kerry Bentivolio - 80% Dist.12: John Dingell - 21% Dist.13: John Conyers - 28% Dist.14: Gary Peters - 17% Minnesota Sen. Al Franken - 7% Sen. Amy Klobuchar - 7% Dist.1: Timothy Walz - 17% Dist.2: John Kline - 55% Dist.3: Erik Paulsen - 69% Dist.4: Betty McCollum - 21% Dist.5: Keith Ellison - 23% Dist.6: Michele Bachmann - 80% Dist.7: Collin Peterson - 46% Dist.8: Richard Nolan - 35% Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran - 54% Sen. Roger Wicker - 52% Dist.1: Alan Nunnelee - 64% Dist.2: Bennie Thompson - 26% Dist.3: Gregg Harper - 67% Dist.4: Steven Palazzo - 66%

Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt - 55% Sen. Claire McCaskill - 17% Dist.1: Wm. Clay - 24% Dist.2: Ann Wagner - 63% Dist.3: Blaine Luetkemeyer - 70% Dist.4: Vicky Hartzler - 63% Dist.5: Emanuel Cleaver - 23% Dist.6: Sam Graves - 56% Dist.7: Billy Long - 62% Dist.8: Jason Smith - 75% Montana Sen. Max Baucus - 19% Sen. Jon Tester - 22% Dist.: Steve Daines - 60% Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer - 70% Sen. Mike Johanns - 68% Dist.1: Jeff Fortenberry - 55% Dist.2: Lee Terry - 56% Dist.3: Adrian Smith - 69% Nevada Sen. Harry Reid - 17% Sen. Dean Heller - 73% Dist.1: Dina Titus - 10% Dist.2: Mark Amodei - 68% Dist.3: Joseph Heck - 63% Dist.4: Steven Horsford - 13% New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen - 9% Sen. Kelly Ayotte - 68% Dist.1: Carol Shea-Porter - 18% Dist.2: Ann Kuster - 20% New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez - 19% Dist.1: Robert Andrews - 19% Dist.2: Frank LoBiondo - 45% Dist.3: Jon Runyan - 50% Dist.4: Christopher Smith - 45% Dist.5: Scott Garrett - 72% Dist.6: Frank Pallone - 24% Dist.7: Leonard Lance - 60% Dist.8: Albio Sires - 11% Dist.9: Bill Pascrell - 24% Dist.10: Donald Payne - 26% Dist.11: Rodney Frelinghuysen - 40% Dist.12: Rush Holt - 26% New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich - 11% Sen. Tom Udall - 21% Dist.1: Michelle Lujan Grisham - 25% Dist.2: Stevan Pearce - 55% Dist.3: Ben Lujan - 19% New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand - 10% Sen. Charles Schumer - 14% Dist.1: Timothy Bishop - 20% Dist.2: Peter King - 44% Dist.3: Steve Israel - 18% Dist.4: Carolyn McCarthy - 19% Dist.5: Gregory Meeks - 19% Dist.6: Grace Meng - 15% Dist.7: Nydia Velázquez - 25% Dist.8: Hakeem Jeffries - 35% Dist.9: Yvette Clarke - 23% Dist.10: Jerrold Nadler - 23% Dist.11: Michael Grimm - 51% Dist.12: Carolyn Maloney - 21% Dist.13: Charles Rangel - 18% Dist.14: Joseph Crowley - 21% Dist.15: José Serrano - 23% Dist.16: Eliot Engel - 18% Dist.17: Nita Lowey - 15% Dist.18: Sean Maloney - 20% Dist.19: Christopher Gibson - 71% Dist.20: Paul Tonko - 20% Dist.21: William Owens - 22% Dist.22: Richard Hanna - 50% Dist.23: Tom Reed - 65% Dist.24: Daniel Maffei - 22% Dist.25: Louise Slaughter - 20% Dist.26: Brian Higgins - 16% Dist.27: Chris Collins - 60% North Carolina Sen. Kay Hagan - 13% Sen. Richard Burr - 57% Dist.1: George Butterfield - 16% Dist.2: Renee Ellmers - 63% Dist.3: Walter Jones - 78% Dist.4: David Price - 19% Dist.5: Virginia Foxx - 71% Dist.6: Howard Coble - 66% Dist.7: Mike McIntyre - 45% Dist.8: Richard Hudson - 70% Dist.9: Robert Pittenger - 55% Dist.10: Patrick McHenry - 72% Dist.11: Mark Meadows - 75% Dist.12: Melvin Watt - 23% Dist.13: George Holding - 68% North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven - 56% Sen. Heidi Heitkamp - 21% Dist.: Kevin Cramer - 55% Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown - 24% Sen. Robert Portman - 50% Dist.1: Steve Chabot - 63% Dist.2: Brad Wenstrup - 60% Dist.3: Joyce Beatty - 26% Dist.4: Jim Jordan - 80% Dist.5: Robert Latta - 72% Dist.6: Bill Johnson - 66% Dist.7: Bob Gibbs - 66% Dist.8: John Boehner - 53% Dist.9: Marcy Kaptur - 30% Dist.10: Michael Turner - 47% Dist.11: Marcia Fudge - 20% Dist.12: Patrick Tiberi - 52% Dist.13: Tim Ryan - 26% Dist.14: David Joyce - 50% Dist.15: Steve Stivers - 57% Dist.16: James Renacci - 61% Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe - 72% Sen. Thomas Coburn - 82% Dist.1: Jim Bridenstine - 90% Dist.2: Markwayne Mullin - 70% Dist.3: Frank Lucas - 59% Dist.4: Tom Cole - 53% Dist.5: James Lankford - 66% Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden - 17% Sen. Jeff Merkley - 13% Dist.1: Suzanne Bonamici - 29% Dist.2: Greg Walden - 48% Dist.3: Earl Blumenauer - 21% Dist.4: Peter DeFazio - 32% Dist.5: Kurt Schrader - 23% Pennsylvania Sen. Patrick Toomey - 67% Sen. Robert Casey - 10% Dist.1: Robert Brady - 21% Dist.2: Chaka Fattah - 19% Dist.3: Mike Kelly - 60% Dist.4: Scott Perry - 70% Dist.5: Glenn Thompson - 68% Dist.6: Jim Gerlach - 40% Dist.7: Patrick Meehan - 56% Dist.8: Michael Fitzpatrick - 46% Dist.9: Bill Shuster - 56% Dist.10: Tom Marino - 57% Dist.11: Lou Barletta - 60% Dist.12: Keith Rothfus - 75% Dist.13: Allyson Schwartz - 12% Dist.14: Michael Doyle - 30% Dist.15: Charles Dent - 45% Dist.16: Joseph Pitts - 63% Dist.17: Matthew Cartwright - 35% Dist.18: Tim Murphy - 47% Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse - 11% Sen. John Reed - 14% Dist.1: David Cicilline - 27% Dist.2: James Langevin - 20% South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott - 81% Sen. Lindsey Graham - 63% Dist.1: Marshall Sanford - 85% Dist.2: Joe Wilson - 60% Dist.3: Jeff Duncan - 85% Dist.4: Trey Gowdy - 80% Dist.5: Mick Mulvaney - 78% Dist.6: James Clyburn - 20% Dist.7: Tom Rice - 70% South Dakota Sen. Tim Johnson - 16% Sen. John Thune - 57% Dist.: Kristi Noem - 69% Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker - 66% Sen. Lamar Alexander - 54% Dist.1: David Roe - 74% Dist.2: John Duncan - 81% Dist.3: Charles Fleischmann - 69% Dist.4: Scott DesJarlais - 78% Dist.5: Jim Cooper - 23% Dist.6: Diane Black - 66% Dist.7: Marsha Blackburn - 63% Dist.8: Stephen Fincher - 74% Dist.9: Steve Cohen - 21% Texas Sen. John Cornyn - 69% Sen. Ted Cruz - 95% Dist.1: Louie Gohmert - 75% Dist.2: Ted Poe - 71% Dist.3: Sam Johnson - 65% Dist.4: Ralph Hall - 60% Dist.5: Jeb Hensarling - 66% Dist.6: Joe Barton - 61% Dist.7: John Culberson - 65% Dist.8: Kevin Brady - 57% Dist.9: Al Green - 24% Dist.10: Michael McCaul - 61% Dist.11: K. Conaway - 62% Dist.12: Kay Granger - 51% Dist.13: Mac Thornberry - 54% Dist.14: Randy Weber - 70% Dist.15: Ruben Hinojosa - 21% Dist.16: Beto O'Rourke - 30% Dist.17: Bill Flores - 68% Dist.18: Sheila Jackson-Lee - 24% Dist.19: Randy Neugebauer - 65% Dist.20: Joaquin Castro - 25% Dist.21: Lamar Smith - 54% Dist.22: Pete Olson - 72% Dist.23: Pete Gallego - 15% Dist.24: Kenny Marchant - 68% Dist.25: Roger Williams - 75% Dist.26: Michael Burgess - 66% Dist.27: Blake Farenthold - 71% Dist.28: Henry Cuellar - 18% Dist.29: Gene Green - 27% Dist.30: Eddie Johnson - 19% Dist.31: John Carter - 58% Dist.32: Pete Sessions - 61% Dist.33: Marc Veasey - 25% Dist.34: Filemon Vela - 25% Dist.35: Lloyd Doggett - 25% Dist.36: Steve Stockman - 95% Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch - 58% Sen. Mike Lee - 91% Dist.1: Rob Bishop - 68% Dist.2: Chris Stewart - 65% Dist.3: Jason Chaffetz - 80% Dist.4: Jim Matheson - 35% Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy - 16% Sen. Bernard Sanders - 27% Dist.: Peter Welch - 24% Virginia Sen. Mark Warner - 13% Sen. Timothy Kaine - 0% Dist.1: Robert Wittman - 66% Dist.2: E. Rigell - 68% Dist.3: Robert Scott - 23% Dist.4: J. Forbes - 57% Dist.5: Robert Hurt - 71% Dist.6: Bob Goodlatte - 61% Dist.7: Eric Cantor - 56% Dist.8: James Moran - 20% Dist.9: H. Griffith - 80% Dist.10: Frank Wolf - 49% Dist.11: Gerald Connolly - 15% Washington Sen. Patty Murray - 11% Sen. Maria Cantwell - 13% Dist.1: Suzan DelBene - 30% Dist.2: Rick Larsen - 18% Dist.3: Jaime Herrera Beutler - 67% Dist.4: Doc Hastings - 56% Dist.5: Cathy McMorris Rodgers - 64% Dist.6: Derek Kilmer - 25% Dist.7: Jim McDermott - 25% Dist.8: David Reichert - 39% Dist.9: Adam Smith - 20% Dist.10: Denny Heck - 20% West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin - 35% Sen. John Rockefeller - 13% Dist.1: David McKinley - 63% Dist.2: Shelley Capito - 46% Dist.3: Nick Rahall - 34% Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson - 86% Sen. Tammy Baldwin - 27% Dist.1: Paul Ryan - 58% Dist.2: Mark Pocan - 40% Dist.3: Ron Kind - 23% Dist.4: Gwen Moore - 24% Dist.5: F. Sensenbrenner - 77% Dist.6: Thomas Petri - 61% Dist.7: Sean Duffy - 63% Dist.8: Reid Ribble - 72% Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso - 80% Sen. Michael Enzi - 71% Dist.: Cynthia Lummis - 80%

Read more at The New American.

ANOTHER @BIFFSPACKLE EXCLUSIVE: Republicans are Racist, Misogynistic, People-Haters

From the pen of our summer intern, @BiffSpackle.

You can see the rest of Biff's comic collection here.

Larwyn's Linx: Another Day, Another Series of Horrific Stories Out of Veterans Administration Facilities

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Nation

Another Day, Another Series of Horrific Stories Out of the VA: Jim Geraghty
Top Black Democrat Turns On Obama, Says He's Lying About VA Scandal: IJR
Kelly File: Obama Has Already Ignored 3 IG Reports on VA Failures: FNI

The Hillary-Industrial Complex: NRO
All Hell Breaking Loose and Dems J**king Off on Twitter: Ace
Rockefeller Defends His Race-Baiting: Keith Koffler

Source reveals to me what really happened in Benghazi: Allen West
Cruz Warns Dems Plan to Repeal First Amendment: TR
John Conyers loses appeal to be put on Michigan primary ballot.: Moe Lane

Economy

Why didn’t Piketty’s Harvard publisher spot the errors FT exposed?: SpecUK
Obamacare’s Economically Destructive Welfare Expansion: RWN
Weird: Gun-Free Restaurants Keep Drawing Armed Robbers: Poor Richard

Freeloader-in-Chief: ‘I Don’t Take Free Food’: JWF
As Gold Manipulation Comes To Light, Trends Makes More Sense: Kid Dynamite
Driverless cars could cripple law enforcement budgets: NetworkWorld

Scandal Central

DOJ Used Lois Lerner to Build Criminal Case Against Nonprofits: JWF
Sorry, John Kerry Can't Testify About Benghazi; He Is Just Too Busy: ZH
The Benghazi YouTube Video Narrative Began the Night of the Attack, Says Issa: VictoryGirls

Inequality Before the Law: Mark Steyn
Hillary Stacks the Benghazi Select Committee: Arnold Ahlert
What Else is Obama Hiding?: JW

Climate & Energy

Climate Alarmist Who Warned Of Global Cooling In 1975 Admits He Was Wrong: LoneCon
End Crony Capitalism, Sell Federal Land, Limit Tax Breaks for the Rich: RWN
Alternative Energy Breakthrough: AmDigest

Media

Our Veterans Administration: Ushanka
Andrea Mitchell to Dem Congressman: 'Why Even Play the Game' of GOP's Benghazi 'Witch Hunt'?: MRC
Democrats' Ridiculous Bossy Bumper Sticker Just Begs to be Photoshopped : PJM

What White Democrats Really Think About Black Americans: Patricia L. Dickson
Networks Cover "Bridgegate" More in 4 Days Than the VA Scandal In an Entire Month: Ace
Call (of Duty) Waiting: Hopenchange

CNN: Where News Goes to Die: Ed Driscoll
Group Behind ‘Pitfalls Of Working With White People’ Received Nearly $1 MILLION in Public Grants: GWP
Amazon Engaging in Digital Book-Burning?: NYT

World

New Ad Campaign “Truth About CAIR” Hits NYC Subway Platforms: Creeping
Syrian female refugees on sale on Facebook; women sold in mosques: JW
Bosnian refugee in Sweden: “What I fled from in 1992 has now arrived here.”: JW

Jews, Get Out of Europe: P. David Hornik
Accommodating CAIR at 9/11 Memorial Like Giving Nazis Veto Power at Auschwitz Memorial: BCF
Home Depot’s Double Standard: Fires Christian, Allows Terror-linked Muslims to Proselytize: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google offers best argument for broadband competition: Marguerite Reardon
Short-Throw Touchscreen Projector Means There's No Remote To Lose: Gizmodo
Marc Andreessen on net neutrality: Marginal Revolution

Cornucopia

They All Look Like Game Show Hosts to Me.: MOTUS
Something Wonderful: Story of My Life - ThePianoGuys: American Digest
Thoughts on Liberty (Updated): DeRP

Image: The Rash
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: BOOM: Chris McDaniel for Senate

QOTD: "The United States Government is corrupt. The IRS is corrupt, the EPA is corrupt, the Department of Justice is corrupt. They use their powers selectively to chastise their political enemies. In a hyper-regulatory state, there are laws against everything, and everyone is guilty of being in breach of at least 300 of them at any hour of the day. I have no use for Dinesh D'Souza, for example, but it seems obvious that he's been set up as this season's Benghazi video maker. There are gazillions of $20,000 campaign-finance infractions across America, but the only guy that's been singled out is the fellow who made a hit anti-Obama movie. As John Hayward puts it, he's been

'...busted for doing 59 in a 55-mph campaign-finance zone in your little compact car, while huge semi trucks full of political cash blast past you at a hundred miles an hour without the cops batting an eye.'

D'Souza's enemies are gloating. As is the habit in the American system, he will most likely be prevailed upon to cop a plea in return for a reduced sentence. And everyone else will get the message: If you make a film or write a book attacking Obama, make sure it's a flop - or anyway not so big a hit it catches the regime's eye." --Mark Steyn

PICS: OFA fanatics' "Like a Boss" meme completely pwnt by Ted Cruz and the entire Interwebz

Someone who no longer works at Organizing For Alinsky came up with this brainstorm:

Shuts down Veterans’ memorials #LikeABoss pic.twitter.com/N9XQPWoGl3

— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) May 23, 2014

Ted Cruz, however, really is a boss:

Scandal Déjà vu: As Veterans Needlessly Suffer, President Obama Refuses to Hold Anyone to Account

By Investor's Business Daily

Scandal: While his clueless Veterans Affairs secretary stays, the president issues his response: If reports are true, people will be held accountable — that is, as soon as he gets the inspector general's report in August.

'If these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful and I will not tolerate it, period," the president said, drawing a red line in his first public comments in weeks on the issue after a meeting with Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki at the White House.

His faux outrage and emotionless tap-dancing differed little from his comments when the IRS was found to be targeting Tea Party groups to aid his re-election.

"If in fact IRS personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous and there's no place for it," he said then, promising to wait, yep, for an inspector general's report.

Veterans are tired of waiting for reports. There have been at least 50 of them, as senators pointed out to Shinseki at a hearing, not counting the transition briefing President-elect Obama received in 2008 about a problem he pledged to address in 2009.

Now he has to wait for one more?

As the Washington Times notes, Obama's transition team was warned in 2008 of no less than three audits that showed the VA Department was misreporting wait times for medical treatment, including one audit revealing delays nearly 10 times worse than officially acknowledged. As we have noted, Obama promised then to fix a situation he now says he doesn't have enough data on.

Obama, at his meandering presser Wednesday, said he wants "to know the full scope of this problem, and that's why I ordered Secretary Shinseki to investigate."