Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Larwyn's Linx: Administration's Free Rider Admission to the High Court

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Obamacare

Administration's Free Rider Admission to the High Court: CNS
Scalia quickly punctures the entire premise of Obamacare: Peth
Justice Scalia to Obama’s solicitor general: ‘We’re not stupid': DC

Constitution Law Epic Fail: NoisyRm
Day 2: ‘Train wreck for the Obama administration’: Malkin
Obamacare In Anthony Kennedy's Hands: AmSpec

Nation

Romney's advisor thinks Obama's Iran policy is terrific: Glick
Is Obama Killing His Senators?: Morris
Video: Florida Dems Paying People To Protest Allen West: MBT

Economy

The war on Wisconsin: Malkin
Obama's 2nd term: 40% tax hike, including on middle class: Peth
It's Official! Fed Now Buying Rock Solid Euro Bonds: ZH

Job Killers: Stossel
Chart Demonstrates Clear Financial Benefits of Obamacare: TLS
OWS Occupied Union Square: The Smoking Weed Edition: Urban Infidel

Trayvon

#FAIL: Democrat/MSM narratives fall apart in tragic #TrayvonMartin case: Toldjah
Spike Lee Tweets Zimmerman’s Address, Only It’s Wrong; Elderly Couple Now Lives in Fear: AllAm
Report: Trayvon Was the Aggressor, According to the Evidence: Patterico

Bounty-hunting Panther arrested for illegal firearm possession: WZ
Registered Democrat Killed Trayvon: Beacon
Trayvon protest turns ugly: High schoolers loot Fla. Walgreen’s: Twitchy

Scandal Central

Former Navy SEAL: Obama Using 'Classic Soviet Tactics' To Put U.S. In “Throes Of a Cold Civil War”: Nice Deb
Bolton: Obama’s Open-Mic Comments to Medvedev a ‘Fire Bell in the Night’: Bruce
DOJ 'Deeply Disturbed' by Leaked Fast and Furious Information: MainJustice

Climate & Energy

Coal Slotted to Die in America Tomorrow: RIP: Reason
As Promised… Obama Moves in to Kill Coal Industry With Onerous New EPA Regs: GWP
EPA Emission Rules To Effectively Ban New Coal Plants; Is Fracking Next?: IBD

Why, under the EPA’s new regulation, electricity prices will "necessarily skyrocket": Q&O
Study: Entire Planet Heated Up During Medieval Times Without Any Human CO2 Emissions: WZ
EPA CO2 Regulation Effectively Bans New Coal Facilities: Foundry

Media

CNN on ObamaCare at SCOTUS: “This was a train wreck for the Obama administration,”: Bruce
Former NAACP leader CL Bryant calls out Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for exploiting Trayvon Martin: Scoop
Wanda Sykes: GOP Field's So Weak It Should Surrender, South Is Toothless: NB

Race, exploitation, and the press in America: Fortnightly Review
Black Men Who Could Look Like Obama’s Son Arrested For Murder of White Mississippi State Student: JWF
Human Events Faces Shakeup, Layoffs: MediaBistro

Sinners In the Hands of Anthony Kennedy: Erickson
Compare The Left’s Reaction To Gabrielle Giffords And Trayvon Martin: Glob
Beastmode: Ragin' Cajun Blasts Individual Mandate: Beacon

World

Islamist Fellow Travelers: An IPT Series: IPT
Iran's plan for a second Holocaust must be stopped: AEI
Is This Thing On?: ForPol

Dennis Kucinich, Democrat Leftist for Radical Islam: Pipes
Forex: Silent run on euro periphery banks?: NASDAQ
Blaring sirens warn students of more rockets from Gaza: JWeekly

BBC reveals huge scale of honour attacks in Britain, fails to mention word “Islam”: Creeping
British Student Jailed over a Tweet: Cato
In Gaza, a PR power struggle: JPost

Report: Hamas, Iran coordinate response to Israel strike: ynet
A Warning Voice From Across the Water: Elephant
Does Obama have Israel's back or just the UN's?: Bayefsky

Sci-Tech

Popcorn Packs Antioxidants, Study Finds: ABC
Using Facebook At Work Makes Employees Happy: Insider
iPhone passcode cracking is easier than you think: CNet

Cornucopia

Crouching Tigers, Hidden Dragons: MOTUS
New Zimmerman/Martin Pics for Liberal Media Use: MB
Breaking: Liberal ‘Mainstream’ Media Releases New Photos Of Trayvon Martin And George Zimmerman: SHN

Image: iOwnTheWorld
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Every time the left wins an argument expanding the meaning of the constitution, the Court somehow got it right. Every time the left loses an argument over the constitution, the Court somehow became politicized. And while the right says the same on the opposite cases there is a fundamental difference.

The right’s position on constitutional jurisprudence boiled down to its essence is that every man and woman in America should be able to read the constitution and have a fair understanding of it and how government is supposed to work. One cannot read the constitution and legitimately understand exactly how an abortion right is extrapolated out of the Bill of Rights. Likewise, one cannot read the constitution and understand how a Congress of limited powers can compel any person to purchase a product he does not want.

...We have complicated our tax code, our regulations, and our legal system. In each we must now pay self-appointed experts trained in the art of gobbledegook to parse words, divine intent, and lobby for exceptions that prove rules... Our nation is no longer a nation of laws, but a nation of elites who interpret those laws for us. It has all led to a very logical place." --Erick Erickson

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Obama administration unveils 'Cash for Codgers' program; aims to save billions on health care for seniors

In light of new reports that health care premiums are rising three times faster than they did prior to the passage of Obamacare and that overall costs will tally hundreds of billions higher than predicted, Cub Reporter Biff Spackle files this exclusive report:

As part of the federal government's efforts to rein in health care spending, the Department of Health and Human Services has instituted a generous offer available to all U.S. residents.

The Senior Euthanasia Reimbursement Program (euphemistically known as "Cash for Codgers") will offer each family a cash honorarium for any senior residing in their household aged 65 and over. Said seniors will be dispensed with humanely, in accordance with the recommendations of Ezekiel "Doctor Death" Emanuel.

In these tough economic times, what's better than solving the entitlement crisis and addressing senior health care issues -- simultaneously? It very well could be the final solution to the fiscal challenges of government-run health care.


The race-baiters get what they wanted from Trayvon's death: civil unrest

The professional race-baiters -- including, but not limited to, Al "Not So" Sharpton and Jesse Jerkson -- raced to Florida even before all of the facts related to Trayvon Martin's fatal shooting were known.

The results? All too predictable.

Police: Trayvon protesters ransack store


North Miami Beach police said surveillance video shows dozens of high school students demonstrating in the Trayvon Martin case Friday ransacking a Walgreens store...

The incident occurred during a walkout from North Miami Beach Senior High School in support of Martin, 17, who was fatally shot in Sanford... Surveillance video shows dozens of teenagers running through the store. Police said about 80 to 100 students stormed in, ransacking the shelves, before the school's vice principal ordered everyone outside.

That legacy media still gives any credence whatsoever to the loathsome Sharpton is proof that they are an anachronism, as relevant as a fossilized pigeon in a tarpit.


Top 10 Reasons Obamacare IS Constitutional...

I can assure you, despite all of the hullabaloo from the hoi polloi, that Obama is entirely, 100% Constitutional, no if's and's or but's:

• Because Congress can compel Americans to engage in commerce in order to then regulate their activities under the Commerce Clause.

• Because the fee that every American must pay -- by dint of their mere existence -- for failing to comply with "the Individual Mandate" is either a "tax" or a "penalty", depending on which day of the week it is.

• Because health care is a unique market, one in which every American must participate at some point in their lives. Unlike the markets of, say, clothing, shelter, food, transportation, ...

• Because Congress has the right -- the obligation -- to trump God and the First Amendment in order to ensure that all Americans get free contraceptives and abortifacients.

• Because the "Consent of the Governed" is outdated and antiquated. Congress can do anything it wants, even if 63% of all Americans are opposed to their actions.

• Because a 2,200-page bill that not one member of Congress read -- much less understands -- is inherently Constitutional, as the noted legal scholar Nancy Pelosi insists.

• Because what could be more American than nationalizing one-sixth of the entire economy?

• Because a few masterminds in Washington will be able to manage that one-sixth of the economy more effectively than the entire private sector.

• Because government-run health care has turned out to be cost-effective, innovative, and efficient in delivering health care, except in countries like England, Canada and Sweden.

• Because every founder of this country -- every single Framer of the Constitution from James Madison to George Mason -- would agree with Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Barack Obama. That is, all Americans have the right to free health care, which must be delivered by a 15-member panel of elite masterminds overseeing an authoritarian, centralized, massive federal bureaucracy.


Larwyn's Linx: How to Talk to an Undecided Voter

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Nation

How to Talk to an Undecided Voter: ConCom
The Constitution vs. Obamacare: NRO
Supreme Court and Obamacare: Day One of the Hearings: LifeNews

The Left No Longer Finds Dissent Patriotic: RS
DCCC employs 9/11 Truther as spokesman: Beacon
Allen West Attacked by AstroTurf Leftist Organization: Shark Tank

Why the health care reform law is unconstitutional: Somin
Was Trayvon Martin a drug dealer?: Owens
Police: Trayvon Slammed Zimmerman’s Head Into Sidewalk: JWF

Economy

Why Obamacare is Illegal (and Why it Matters): Bruce
Side Effects: Doctors Fear Obamacare: Foundry
White House considered $170B soda tax to pay for Obamacare: Peth

Obamacare: Will the Court Vindicate Itself?: DLim
Harry Reid: We Need High-Speed Rail From the Desert to Vegas: Marfdrat
E-Mail to Corzine Said Transfer Was Not Customer Money: Yahoo!

Climate & Energy

If at first you don't succeed, re-brand!: Power Line
U.S. Oil Production Increases In Spite of Team Obama’s Best Efforts: PJM
East Coast poised to lose 50 percent of its oil refining capacity: Reuters

Media

No, Seriously, Zimmerman Said "Punks": Ace
Geraldo's Point: Sowell
An Unfortunate T-Shirt Hits Florida Streets In Wake Of Trayvon Martin Killing: TSG (NSFW)

Why Was NY Times Reporter Jeff Zeleny Doing Romney Campaign’s Bidding?: RSM
Santorum Chews Out NYT’s Jeff Zeleny: ‘Quit Distorting My Words… It’s Bullsh*t!’: Mediaite
Obama unwittingly cuts a campaign ad for the GOP: Beacon

World

Does Vladimir Putin know more about Obama’s second-term agenda than U.S. voters?: Peth
Obama To Putin: ‘More Flexibility’ After Nov: S&L
Obama’s Revealing Comments to Medvedev: Commentary

Congressman to Obama: You’d better not be trading away our missile defense, champ: Hot Air
Germany In the Grip of Muslim Terror: Creeping
Attention shoppers! Saudi man divorces wife over mall loudspeaker: JihadWatch

North Korean satellite launch a cover for Iranian long-range missile test: Matzav
‘Islamists’ To Write New Egypt Constitution: S&L
Elderly dying due to 'despicable age discrimination in NHS': Telegraph

Turner to Obama: What Flexibility?: Beacon
America’s caste system when it comes to mass murder: Bookworm
China unveils new legislation on police powers of detention: Guardian

Sci-Tech

Cameron: Earth's deepest spot desolate, foreboding: AP
Morphlabs Rolls Out All-SSD Private Cloud in a Box: Wired
Gravity-defying workouts lift fitness routines: Trib

Cornucopia

20 Of Trayvon Martin’s Tweets That Stand Out (Language Warning): Hawkins
To Hell With All Those Diet Trackers! Track Your Bacon Instead.: Mardrat
Batman Stopped by Police: CBS DC

Image: Urban Infidel
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "If the "necessary and proper" clause allows Congress to adopt the individual mandate, the same logic would justify almost any other mandate. Virtually every mandate has some economic effect and could be portrayed as a "useful or convenient" way to regulate some market. A broccoli mandate could be defended as an effort to regulate the market in food.

The threat to liberty raised by this case isn't just theoretical. Many industries would be happy to lobby for laws requiring people to buy their products, and Congress has a long history of enacting special-interest legislation." --Ilya Somin

Monday, March 26, 2012

Why do the Russians know more about Obama's agenda than America's citizens?

The administration can't be too fond of ABC News' Jake Tapper. Tapper reported early today that President Obama was caught on an open microphone telling Russian President Medvedev that once he's reelected, he won't have to bother with those pesky Americans who are worried about sharing missile defense secrets.

President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.

President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…

President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.

President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.

Senior GOP officials are rightfully concerned, given that missile defense is a critical element of U.S. national security.

“If there was any doubt how dangerous Barack Obama would be for America’s security in a second term, the president put all uncertainty to rest today,” said the source, who closely tracks foreign policy matters. “The president just told us that he is itching to hand over America’s most secret missile defense data to a country that is arming Syria and fueling Iran’s Bushehr reactor—and he would do it today but for his re-election concerns. With no political constraints in a second term, who knows what Obama will do.”

The adviser also said Obama’s remarks should cause concern among pro-Israel forces in America.

If this is what the president’s promising the Russians on missile defense, God only knows what he’s promising Arab leaders about Israel,” noted the souce. “If you think Barack Obama was bad for Israel in term one, put your seatbelt on and get ready for term two.”

Rep. Michael Turner, Chairman of a House Armed Services Subcommittee, is seriously ticked off and he said as much in a letter to the president that has undertones of a threat laced within it.

As you know, in the FY12 National Defense Authorization Act, Congress enacted, and you signed into law, a provision constraining your ability to share classified U.S. missile defense information with the Russian Federation. Congress took this step because it was clear based on official testimony and Administration comments in the press that classified information about U.S. missile defenses, including hit-to-kill technology and velocity at burnout information, may be on the table as negotiating leverage for your reset with Russia. Despite signing the FY12 defense authorization legislation into law, you then issued a signing statement signaling that you may treat that provision protecting U.S. missile defense information as non-binding. This morning’s comments, on top of that action, suggests that you and your administration have plans for U.S. missile defenses that you believe will not stand up to electoral scrutiny.

Congress has made exquisitely clear to your Administration and to other nations that it will block all attempts to weaken U.S. missile defenses. As the Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, which authorizes U.S. missile defense and nuclear weapons policy, I want to make perfectly clear that my colleagues and I will not allow any attempts to trade missile defense of the United States to Russia or any other country.

Once again, I've been forced to update President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts to include this missive:

"First President to Openly Defy a Congressional Order Not To Share Sensitive Nuclear Defense Secrets With the Russian Government.."


Of course they do: GM blames owners for Chevy Volt's melting cord problems

Aside from the occasional fires, explosions, and melting power cords, the Volt seems like an outstanding choice of vehicle.

...About eight months ago some owners of Chevy Volts complained that charging cords were overheating, sometimes to the point of melting. At the time, GM blamed owners, saying the wall outlets were the culprits. We now finally have GM addressing the safety concerns and agreeing to replace charging cords for all 9,500 Volts that have been sold since production began. But in what is becoming a new public relations precedent, the move is not being called a "recall."

The non-recall recall is instead referred to as a customer satisfaction action which is designed to "offer a more consistent charging experience." The political strategy is becoming more and more evident at GM as Chevy Volt sales continue to struggle...

...We now have the second non-recall at GM for the Volt. The first non-recall was for reinforcements to the battery pack after test vehicles at NHTSA ignited days after crash tests. In both cases, GM was adamant that there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Volt; it is either the fault of owners with faulty wiring or right-wing media sources. Just in case the denials are not enough to convince the voting...I mean the car buying public, GM has stepped up ad spending for the Volt on those TV networks that are accused of criticizing the car. The spending seems to be quieting the criticism.

And the Volt is truly a car for every American, what with a sticker price around the low, low price of $41K.

Considering that each Volt cost taxpayers a mere $250,000 apiece, that MSRP seems like quite the bargain.


I've got good news and bad news regarding the unelected, unaccountable fourth branch of government

I refer, of course, to Barack Obama's massive administrative state.

First, the good news: a federal judge, appointed by Barack Obama, just eviscerated the EPA for trying to shut down a massive coal-mining operation.

In yet another court case to limit what has been termed an Obama administration EPA power grab, a ruling has resulted in yet another court saying that the EPA is arrogating too much power.

The March 23 ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in the case of Mingo Logan Coal v. EPA came two days after the Supreme Court against the EPA in Sackett v. EPA.

This case -- like Sackett -- involved the EPA's enforcement of the Clean Water Act. Here, the EPA tried to withdraw permission to use two streams as discharge sites. The permission was granted three years earlier by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Just as the Supreme Court ruled in Sackett, the District Court ruled that the EPA's interpretation of its authority to enforce the CWA was erroneous.

Mingo Logan filed the lawsuit because the company believed that the EPA did not have the authority to modify or revoke the permit. They also thought the revocation was unlawful and the permit was still valid.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, wrote that the "EPA exceeded its authority." She also made the observation that the EPA's action was extraordinary.

"This attempt to withdraw the specification of discharge sites after a permit has been issued is unprecedented in the history of the Clean Water Act," she wrote.

The court ruling has received praise from several quarters -- most notably a Democrat governor and a Democrat senator.

And, now:

The bad news: "HHS Strong Arms Insurers in Nine States".

Top 10 Rejected Obamacare Slogans

10. Why choose an expensive treatment when pain-pills will do?
9. Assisted Suicide: Do it for the Children
8. We Put the Rash in Rationing
7. Ask Us About Our Discount Placebo Program!
6. Only Selfish People Beg for CAT Scans.
5. Take a Number! The Bureau of Health Waiting Rooms reports the average wait time is now down to 123 minutes (in some locations)
4. Quack isn't just the sound a duck makes: we're importing medical experts from Mexico as part of our new Health Amnesty Program!
3. Shut up, take a seat and wait for your number to be called, Mr. GB21708-4.
2. David Axelrod reviewing your medical records: what could go wrong?
1. Sound mind, sound body -- take your pick.
As health reform heads to the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government is going full bore on insurers who hike premiums to cover health care’s soaring costs, increases that ironically continue to rise in part due to health reform.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) late last week denied rate increases from two health insurers covering more than 42,000 Americans in nine states because they were too high, deeming them “unreasonable” premium hikes...

...The clampdown by HHS raises anew the debate over the role of the federal government in setting the costs of health insurance premiums, and why health reform has not stopped the rise in health-care costs, which continue to rise even after parts of the new law have already kicked in...

...The increases now in coverage costs are due to what insurers must now provide under the new law, despite President Barack Obama’s vow that the new law “could save families $2,500 in the coming years.”

Uhm, those are called lies marketing on the president's part.

Say, I wonder if mandating "free" contraceptives, covering "children" up to age 26, coverage for any and all pre-existing condition, and other draconian requirements are impacting insurance premiums?

You know, making them "unreasonable"?

And I wonder how price controls, like those HHS is trying to impose, have worked out in other countries? Say Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union, Italy and Greece?

Not too well, you say?

Oh, gee. But maybe our masterminds are just way smarter than their masterminds.


Sick: Obama Campaign Uses Trayvon's Death to Hawk Hoodies

Just when you think the record for cynicism has been set by this administration, they bust through to a brand new sub-basement of immorality.

The official Obama team is now pushing the Obama hoodie.

[There are significant exmaples] of the sentiment Barack Obama is stirring up by promoting hoodies. Along with that, an Internet search for George Zimmer's home phone number and street address documents that they are now being widely distributed by a large number of the same individuals seizing the "hoodie" sweatshirt as a symbol representing their anger. Many of those tweets are calling for Zimmerman's death.

Is there anything David Axelrod won't say or do to raise money?

For you drones and miscreants reading along: that's a rhetorical question.

As a reminder, the initial television reports of the incident included interviews with a witness who stated that Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman pummeling him.

The witness also said that as Zimmerman was being attacked by Trayvon Martin, he was screaming for help.

The neighborhood where Zimmerman was helping to patrol as part of a local watch program had suffered eleven (11) break-ins in recent weeks.

But when it comes to dividing Americans along racial, ethnic, income, religious or other arbitrary lines, no administration in history has created as much angst as this one. One can only come to the conclusion that President Obama and his supporters are rooting for civil unrest.


Two Charts That Illustrate How Obama, Pelosi and Reid Crushed the Economy

Two charts that depict the tragedy of lawless, temporary politicians whose poor decisions will take a terrible toll on countless, future generations*:

...The employment-to-population ratio displays a classic V-shape recession and recovery pattern in the 1970s and 1980s. In the recession and recovery of the early 1990s, however, the employment-to-population ratio instead displays a U shape, only returning to its pre-recession level three years after the peak in the unemployment rate. In the recession and recovery of the early 2000s, neither the participation rate nor the employment-to-population ratio returns to its previous level, so we see an incomplete U-shape pattern.

In the most recent cycle, the employment-to-population ratio traces out an L shape, but the unemployment rate falls because the participation rate declines substantially (a much more gradual decline was expected by many given the aging of the baby boomers); in other words, a larger share of the population is out of the labor force rather than participating and being unemployed.

I took the liberty of annotating the chart to illustrate a couple of salient details:


I added two vertical lines. The first line indicates the election of Barack Obama in November of 2008, when he and Bush 43 began collaborating on economic policies.

For instance, the initial bailout of GM and Chrysler (with TARP money for housing, mind you) was justified by both men in the name of preventing a complete collapse of the auto supply chain.

The second line, slightly to the right, represents the passage of the "Stimulus package".

It would appear that the policies of Obama and the 111th Congress made things worse, at least as compared to other major recessions.

And, based upon the labor-force participation rate, things haven't gotten any better, no matter how many times legacy media tries to shriek WE'RE IN A RECOVERY.


* The ludicrous hack Joe Weisenthal hardest hit.


Larwyn's Linx: Leveraging Racism for Chaos – Gateway to Communism

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Nation

Leveraging Racism for Chaos – Gateway to Communism: NoisyRm
Obama Campaign Video Isn't Morning in America: Barone
Sharpton and Jackson: Lynch Mob Racists: FPM

Doctor: Joe Biden Probably Has Brain Damage: JWF
Trayvon Case and Noted Civil Rights Leader... David Plouffe?: RSM
Hey Panthers, Going To Put a Bounty On These Guys?: JWF

How the Left perverts 'Natural Law': CFP
A roadmap to SCOTUS Obamacare arguments; 6 Twitter feeds: Twitchy
Great News: Jesse Jackson Calls for Race War: TAB

Economy

Biden Loses Temper, Explains His Version of Cut,Cap and Balance: Shark
Obama campaign engine revs up on the public dime, again: Riehl
Just 23% Rate U.S. Public Schools As Good Or Excellent: Rasmussen

And Now for a Postal Bailout: RS
Recovery In Action: Nearly $300 Billion Student Debt In Default: Reason
Texas law targeting illegals costs town $5 million: FNL

2012 Elections

Rick Santorum’s full interview on Face the Nation: Scoop
Paul Ryan would ‘consider’ VP slot: Twitchy
Obamacare's Contract Problem: Will

Scandal Central

Lawmakers faulted in Fast and Furious investigative leaks: DC
DoJ insider leaks Fast and Furious docs: Twitchy
No Justice, No Agitation: Power Line

Climate & Energy

EPA is too much even for an Obama-appointed judge: Surber
Ambler’s rebuttal to Mann in the Wall Street Journal: Watts
A Misguided Energy Policy: Santa Maria Times

Media

HHS Rally in Twin Cites blacked out by MSM: Ricochet
If Obama Had a Son, Would He Look Like Tyrone Woodfork?: JWF
Charles Johnson's Ignorance Over Trayvon Photo Flap Tops Memeorandum: Riehl

25 Gannett Wisconsin "Journalists" Caught Signing Petition to Recall Governor Walker: NB
Trayvon Martin was punching Neighborhood Watchman when he was shot: NoisyRm
NBC/MSNBC hack Karen Finney now blaming Rush, Newt and Rick Santorum for Trayvon Martin shooting: FAM

In Debunking Myths About Obamacare, Washington Post Forgets To Debunk Them: Pirate's Cove
CNN Money caught changing their headlines and story on the failure of green jobs, protecting Obama again: FAM
Krauthammer Smacks Down Shields on Ryan Plan: 'Your Guys Haven’t Introduced a Budget at All': NB

Forbes Article Calling Obama the ‘Manchurian Candidate’ Disappears Down the Memory Hole: GWP
Caption Obama at the DMZ: Powers
CBS’s O’Donnell Hits Ryan with White House Talking Points, Then Cues Up Softballs to Schumer: NB

World

The Crisis of Jewish Leftist Islamism: Sultan Knish
Top Saudi Cleric Issues Fatwa: Destroy Churches: Mead
Amid chaos of uprising, crime wave hits Syria: AP

12 Rangers get Silver Stars for Afghan heroics: ArmyTimes
CIA’s Counterterror Chief a Muslim Convert: OTB
After all the trouble I went to get out of Cuba...: Babalu

Pics From the Front: WZ
The Case for Banning Sharia Law in America: Creeping
Brother of French jihadist: “I am very proud of my brother…approve of what he did”: Creeping

Sci-Tech

Airplane air: Does it really make you sick?: Fox
The Stanford Education Experiment Could Change Higher Learning Forever: Wired
James Cameron Now at Ocean's Deepest Point: NatGeo

Cornucopia

Great African-Americans Who'd Each Make a Far Better President Than the Abysmal Obama: TAB
The Man Who Wrote the Blueprint for Obamacare from His Prison Cell: NewsReal
Obama's Son: iOTW

Image: AP/Washington Times
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "Senior White House advisor David Plouffe predicted Sunday that Republicans will come to realize they made a big mistake by constantly calling the president’s sweeping healthcare reform law “ObamaCare.”

“I am convinced that at the end of this decade, Republicans are going to regret turning this into ‘ObamaCare,’” he said on Fox News Sunday.

The remarks come two days after Obama’s reelection campaign similarly embraced the term that conservatives have used to bash the healthcare statute that Democrats passed in 2010." --The Hill

Sunday, March 25, 2012

No wonder Obamacare forces insurers to cover "children" up to age 26: unemployment for 18-24 year olds is 46%

If we get a couple more years of Obamanomics, I see Kathleen Sebelius requiring health insurers to cover "children" up to age 45.

A month ago, Zero Hedge readers were stunned to learn that unemployment among Europe's young adults has exploded as a result of the European financial crisis, and peaking anywhere between 46% in the case of Greece all they way to 51% for Spain...

Which makes us wonder what the reaction will be to the discovery that when it comes to young adults 18-24) in the US, the employment rate is just barely above half, or 54%, which just happens to be the lowest in 64 years, and 7% worse than when Obama took office promising a whole lot of change 3 years ago.

Oh, and I forgot the main point of the Zero Hedge article, which wasn't unemployment.

Fitch discloses something rather troubling, namely that of the $1 trillion + in student debt outstanding, "as many as 27% of all student loan borrowers are more than 30 days past due." In other words at least $270 billion in student loans are no longer current. That this is happening with interest rates at record lows is quite stunning and a loud wake up call that it is not rates that determine affordability and sustainability: it is general economic conditions, deplorable as they may be, which have made the popping of the student loan bubble inevitable. It also means that if the rise in interest rate continues, then the student loan bubble will pop that much faster, and bring another $1 trillion in unintended consequences on the shoulders of the US taxpayer who once again will be left footing the bill.

Oh, and kids: you know better than anyone that student loans can't be discharged. Bankruptcy won't do it. Maybe death will.

And, of all age groups, "this is the one that has actually seen its wages drop the most under the Obama administration."


Trayvon, Zimmerman and the President: Someone behaved stupidly

When it comes to cynical politicians, we appear to have one of the all-time best in our current president.

President Obama, during a brief Rose Garden press conference meant to announce his nominee for World Bank president, ventured into the high-intensity controversy over the unarmed black teenager fatally shot in Florida -- calling the case a "tragedy" and saying if he had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon." ... The death of Trayvon Martin, 17, is now under investigation by the Justice Department and FBI... Obama, asked about the case Friday, noted that he doesn't want to interfere with the probe being led by his attorney general, Eric Holder. But he made clear that he empathizes deeply with the parents in the case...

What this article won't tell you is that Obama never takes extraneous questions from the press after making a statement. But in this case, he paused momentarily at the end of the briefing, leaving time for a pre-planned question to be asked.

Leave it to the peerless iOwnTheWorld to pwn this crass setup of a question and answer.

The press also failed to mention that the initial television reports interviewed a witness who stated that Trayvon was on top of Zimmerman pummeling him.

The witness also said that as Zimmerman was being attacked by Trayvon Martin, he was screaming for help.

The neighborhood where Zimmerman was helping to patrol as part of a local watch program had suffered eleven (11) break-ins in recent weeks.

Like the 2009 incident in Cambridge -- in which the president humiliated himself by claiming that police "acted stupidly" before he had learned anything about the case -- we have another example of stupid behavior.

We have someone in a position of great power, who is willing to foment civil unrest without the benefit of any of the facts related to the incident.

But November is coming.


Exclusive Movie Trailer: The Crisis-Maker

Perfectly suitable for turning into a campaign ad, I suppose.


Larwyn's Linx: The 4 Best Legal Arguments Against ObamaCare

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Nation

The 4 Best Legal Arguments Against ObamaCare: Reason
What Wickard Has Wrought: Liberty Legal
Three Winners from American Thinker: babalu

Dick Morris: Obama Has Assumed Dictatorial Powers!: Nice Deb
Sonny Johnson Delivers Red Meat at ‘Road to Repeal’ Rally: GWP
George Zimmerman: Wanted Dead or Alive: Hayward

Black Panthers Offer A Bounty For The Capture Of George Zimmerman: Ace
Black Panthers Call For Lynching Of George Zimmerman: Jawa
Witness Says Trayvon Martin Attacked George Zimmerman: AmPower

Economy

The Sun Also Sets: Nation's Bankruptcy About to Hit 'Sudden' Phase: Steyn
Free Medicine or Free Market Medicine: Elephant
Corzine is Going to be the Best Show Since Watergate: ZH

2012 Elections

LOUISIANA PRIMARY RESULTS HQ: Santorum Wins by Wide Margin: RSM
Lisa Graas: Santorum’s Secret Weapon: RSM
Republican turnout up in primaries: Moran

Scandal Central

British News is Covering Robocall Scandal…Where Is the U.S. Media?: GWP
Obama’s Chevy Go Cart Shockingly Needs New Charging Cord: STACLU
Assault on Batteries: JPA

Climate & Energy

Ministry of Truth Begins the ‘Rehabilitation’ of Obama’s Energy Record: RS
Oh, my: NY Times credits Bush, Cheney with US energy surge: Hot Air
OZ Voters Send Message To Labor Carbon Tax Monkeys: Soylent (NSFW)

Media

Mark Steyn: The Mohammed Merah Story Can Now Proceed According to Time-Honored Tradition: Ace
CAIR: Supporting America...: Anti-CAIR
Trayvon Martin, my son, and the Black Male Code: CNS

ToDaZeD Raaaacist Post: Sondrakistan
AP Running Photoshopped Image Of Trayvon Martin: Riehl
As Media Reports Conflict, Why Was Trayvon Martin Photo Altered?: Riehl

Random Thoughts About The Shooting of Trayvon Martin: Ace
America Without Obama Video – No Eric Holder – No Kagan – No Sotomayor: MagNote
Spike Lee retweets George Zimmerman’s address: Twitchy

Probably the best ad so far of the campaign season – Welcome to Obamaville: FAM
Six Major Errors in Obama Movie: Breitbart
What About Allen Coon?: AT

World

Ruling: Gays Have No "Right" To Marriage In Europe: Wolf Howling
'French teacher asked minute's silence for Merah': JPost
Sgt. Robert Bales Returned to Military Base in Between Shooting Spree: ABC

Sci-Tech

AT&T Charged US Taxpayers $16 Million For Nigerian Fraud Calls: Slashdot
Japanese CCTV camera scans 36 million faces per second--and recognise anyone it's seen before: Daily Mail
And then along came a spider: Elephant

Cornucopia

Ar Che' - Fundamentally Changing Riverdale: iOTW
“It’s Hard Out Here For a Pimp” Obamacare Hashtag to Follow: MOTUS
WTF Theatre Episode 7: #ILikeObamacare: Dewey

End of Argument: C&S
Remember Who We Are: Krista Branch
Mike Tyson set to tell his story in Las Vegas: Reuters

Image: Sonny Johnson Delivers the Red Meat at ‘Road to Repeal’ Rally in DC
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "A teacher asks Jon McNaughton, "Why are you just painting propaganda?

McNaughton answers: Artists have always used their skills to communicate to the world what they believe. To think that we live in a country without significant peril is to not see the forest for the trees. What is happening in America is bigger than any party. As a teacher you are in a precarious position. You must open the eyes of your students, but conservatism is often frowned on in the public schools. "Propaganda" is a word used to describe media used by Fascist and Communistic regimes to influence the people. I am a single individual who is using his First Amendment rights to speak out against a president and an administration which is harming our country. I see real propaganda every day from the mainstream media as we are told what to think about government and society." --Artist Jon McNaughton, American Digest

Saturday, March 24, 2012

Open Letter to Obama Shlockumentary Maker Davis Guggenheim

Davis 'Leni Riefenstahl' Guggenheim is the director of the Barack Obama campaign film 'The Road We've Traveled'. Interviewed a couple of weeks ago by Piers Morgan, Leni could not find a single fault with President Obama.

Davis Guggenheim: "Well, I mean the negative for me was, there were too many accomplishments. I had 17 minutes to put them all in there."
Piers Morgan: "Oh, come off it! You can't say that with a straight face. Come on."

Davis Guggenheim: "I'm looking at you right now with a straight face."

Piers Morgan: "The only negativity about Barack Obama is there are too many positives?"

Davis Guggenheim: "That was the negative -- excuse me, that was the negative for me."

As a public service, I have created the following movie-related poster -- an adaptation of Pee Wee's Tiny Adventure (also directed by Guggenheim, I hear) that outlines just a couple of Obama's flaws.


Perhaps Leni will consider including a few of President Obama's Historic Firsts in his next hagiography of Dear Leader.


If you've been waiting for Obama Nail Polish™, I have only two words for you. You're welcome.

They're real. And they're spectacular.

No, really.

[T]he Obama campaign is again trying to inspire the youth vote in a way that goes beyond the same old buttons, lapel pins, and posters. In fact, we recently heard that the POTUS has teamed up with cosmetics company Le Métier De Beauté to create a set of three mini nail polishes — in patriotic red, white, and blue, of course — plus a simple black carrying case, all emblazoned with the horizon symbol from 2008.

I get the impression that the Axelrod Obama campaign would sell tiny urn necklaces with Stanley Ann Dunham's ashes in them if they thought they could raise six figures.


Top 15 Signs at the #RallyForReligiousFreedom You'll Never See in Legacy Media

Crowds across the United States -- from San Diego to Washington, D.C. -- participated in the Rally For Religious Freedom.

In San Diego, one of the more impressive displays included...

...an "Impeach Obama -- Lawless Prez" sign dragged behind an airplane over San Diego.

The crowd roared.

Shhh... no one tell Sandra Fluke (pronounced "Fluck").

Uh oh, this must be a religious extremist. Someone tell Homeland Security.

Oh no: college students who oppose Obamacare. Say it ain't so!

Yes, all ages, races, creeds and colors participated in these rallies. Because religious freedom doesn't discriminate. But Obamacare does.

Even the White House saw protesters.

Curious how we didn't hear about any of these rallies in legacy media.

Nor see any of these signs.

Maybe they're hoping we'll go away. Along with the Constitution.

Fat chance.

Even kids know better.

It's time to Stand Up For Religious Freedom.


Hat tips: Western Journalism, Catholic News Agency, Jason W. Hoyt, Kathryn Jean Lopez.

Global Warming Comics -- The Fraudulent And The Immoral

One of the great warriors against the United Nations' Global Warming Scam is Christopher Lord Monckton. Lord Monckton is touring the United States giving presentations to a variety of interested parties.

On Wednesday, he presented to the California State Assembly to describe the extent of the climate fraud and its sheer immorality, representing nothing less than a war against the world's poorest people.

The following text is Monckton's, which I've left outside of the normal "block quote" in order to format the presentation.


Two-thirds of the warming predicted by the IPCC’s (non-peer-reviewed) models is supposed to arise from temperature feedbacks. None of these feedbacks can be measured. There is no consensus about how big they are. There are powerful scientific reasons to suspect the IPCC has very greatly overstated them...

The principal conclusions of each of the four IPCC Assessment Reports are questionable:

2007: The IPCC twice concludes that the rate of warming is speeding up and we are to blame. But it uses a false statistical technique to reach its conclusion.
2001: The IPCC concludes that today’s temperatures are warmer than in 1300 years. How it reached this conclusion is under criminal investigation.
1995: The scientists had concluded that no discernible human effect on climate could be found. Just one man rewrote the report to say the opposite.
1990: The IPCC predicted rapid warming. A generation has passed and the predicted warming has not happened...

...This and many other [of the IPCC's] predictions are overblown:

• Global temperature is rising more slowly than IPCC’s least estimate;
• Sea level has been rising for eight years at just 1.3 inches/century;
• Ocean heat content has barely risen in 6 years;
• Hurricanes and tropical cyclones are quieter than for 30 years;
• Global sea-ice extent has changed little in 30 years;
• Methane concentration is up just 20 parts per billion since 2000;
• The tropical hot-spot the IPCC predicts as our footprint is absent;
• Outgoing radiation is escaping to space much as usual.

California’s carbon tax, with other statewide measures to curb CO2 emissions, will cost $450 billion by 2020. Even if 25% of California’s emissions are abated by 2020, just 0.4% of global emissions will have been abated; CO2 concentration by 2020, instead of the business-as-usual 413 parts per million by volume the IPCC predicts, will be 412.9 ppmv; just one-thousandth of a Fahrenheit degree of warming will be abated; the cost of abating the 0.3 F° warming the IPCC predicts to 2020 by measures as cost-(in)effective as California’s policies would be $180 trillion, or $25,500 per head of global population, or a third of global GDP over the period; and the cost of preventing the 6 F° warming the IPCC predicts by 2100 would be $2700 trillion, or more than 10 times the maximum 3%-of-GDP cost of climate-related damage arising from not mitigating this predicted 21st-century warming at all.

Environmental over-regulation, cap-and-tax, “renewable”-energy mandates, and a 40-year ban on most offshore drilling are crippling California. The Monterey Shale holds 15 billion barrels of oil, yet over-regulation has cut production by more than a third to just 200 million barrels a year. Now 11% are jobless in California, second only to Nevada in the US (50% are jobless in construction); the 2012/13 State deficit is $6 billion; unfunded pension liabilities are $250 billion; 50,000 rich Californians (one-third of them) fled in 2007-2009, taking their businesses and jobs with them: twice as many firms fled the once-Golden State in 2011 as in 2010; Intel says it will never build another plant here; Globalstar, Trizetto, and eEye fled in just one month; Boeing, Toyota, Apple, Facebook, and DirecTV have all fled. The wagons are heading East.

The bottom line: No policy to abate global warming by taxing, trading, regulating, reducing, or replacing greenhouse-gas emissions will prove cost-effective solely on grounds of the welfare benefit from climate mitigation. CO2 mitigation strategies that are inexpensive enough to be affordable will be ineffective; strategies costly enough to be effective will be unaffordable. Focused adaptation to any adverse consequences of any warming that may occur is many times more cost-effective. Since the premium greatly exceeds the cost of the risk, don’t insure. Every red cent spent now on trying to stop global warming is a red cent wasted. Don’t mitigate: sit back, enjoy the sunshine, and adapt only if and when and to the extent necessary. That, however unfashionable, is the economically prudent and scientifically sensible course.


Larwyn's Linx: President Obama's Hall of Blame

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Nation

President Obama's Hall of Blame: Dossier
IPAB's seven deadliest sins: Fox
What about murders closer to home?: Trentonian

Classy: Obama pimps “BFD” t-shirt on Twitter: Twitchy
Fourth Largest Gun Maker In US Is Out Of Guns: ZH
Religious rallies across USA protest birth-control mandate: USA Today

Economy

Memo Reveals: Corzine Stole Investor Funds, Perjured Himself: GWP
The RNC Doesn't Forget: 'Happy Birthday, ObamaCare!': WS
Paul Ryan’s Budget Proposal Makes Defense a Priority: Foundry

No Inflation? General Mills Begs to Differ: ZH
Where is the Unemployment Rate Headed? : Mish
Ben Bernanke, Inflationist Jackass: Mish

2012 Election

Santorum: 'I Would Never Vote for Barack Obama': WS
Gingrich Suggests Obama Acts Like a Muslim: PolWire
Palin’s favorability higher among GOP than Romney, Santorum: Hot Air

Scandal Central

DIRTY LIBS ARE BUSTED – Robocall Scandal About to Break Wide Open: GWP
Documents: White House was all-hands-on-deck as Solyndra collapse neared: Hill

Climate & Energy

Barry O: You Know, We’re Just Producing Too Darn Much Oil and Natural Gas For Our Own Good: Tatler
Green climate fund looking to UN for diplomatic immunity protection from lawsuits: Watts

Media

Politico: The Only Thing the Democrats Misjudged About Obamacare Was Everything: Geraghty
Paul Krugman Says GOP Lying About Obama Wanting Higher Gas Prices....But Obama Did in 2007: NB
Conservatives take over #ILikeObamacare: Twitchy

Pushback: Levin’s Landmark Legal pushes for probe of Tea Party-bullying IRS: Malkin
Gutfeld: So Media Matters wants a war, ‘why won’t the right give them one?’: DC
Mark Levin's Landmark Legal Calls For Investigation Of IRS-EO Over Possible Tea Party Intimidation: Riehl

Hannity: Sarah Palin talks about the left’s hateful rhetoric and their hypocrisy: Scoop
Oprah visits Orangeburg mother who killed her kids: WIS-TV
Gingrich: Obama’s Comments On Trayvon Martin Were ‘Disgraceful,’ ‘Appalling’: Mediaite

World

Muslim fanatic uploaded video showing him executing a helpless, terrified 8-year-old girl: Post
The Islamization of Moscow: Creeping
Hundreds of Beitar Jerusalem fans beat up Arab workers in mall; no arrests: Haaretz

Navy denies involvement in strikes against al Qaeda in Yemen: Hill
Washington and Jerusalem differ on Iran: Haaretz
Report: Iran planned to bomb Israeli ship in Suez Canal: Haaretz

Sci-Tech

25 Infosec Gurus Admit to their Mistakes…and What They Learned from Them: Tripwire
Davis vs. Goliath, Revisited: Claims Journal
Is the new iPad truly 'resolutionary'?: USA Today

Cornucopia

"Your Next Guinness Is Courtesy of a Fallen SEAL": BlackFive
The Ayes have it: Get ‘er done!: MOTUS
Instructors teach gym-goers how to survive the 'Hunger Games': Fox

Image: Weekly Standard
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Rick Santorum for President

QOTD: "...so Media Matters — that tree house of trolls who continue to disappoint their parents — are spending $100,000 on ads to unseat Rush Limbaugh. Remember, Rush doesn’t hold an office — he hosts a radio show. So it’s a campaign against someone simply because he hurts their feelings. Now, to parrot my acting coach, what’s the motivation? Is it really about decency? No, this is simply manufactured outrage masquerading as concern. Remember, Rush already apologized, but that didn’t matter because Media Matters really wants annihilation. After all, Rush excels at exposing tools like them. So they want his scalp.

If they want a war, why won’t the right give them one? Why so timid all the time? If advertisers are bowing down to senior fellows toiling away in soiled underpants, shouldn’t Rush’s listeners fight back? I’d also say let’s make Media Matters’ life miserable but they’re already there. It’s got to be rough when your mom asks, ‘David, why don’t you get a job?’ And David says, ‘I work at Media Matters.’ And then mom quietly weeps.” --Greg Gutfeld