Monday, April 15, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: Rubio: Heritage’s Cost Concerns ‘Not Accurate’

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Nation

Rubio: Heritage’s Cost Concerns ‘Not Accurate’: Corner
Secret Immigration bill to be released day before only hearing: DC
Rubio on Fox News Sunday: my immigration proposal isn't Amnesty: Scoop

More Gun Control Trickery: That Mr. G. Guy
19 Things That Should Make Democrats Feel Old: Glob
Invasion: AZ group documents border battle with revealing audio, images: Fox

NY’s Cuomo and DHS lie, collude on gun confiscation gambit?: ProWis
The RNC Power Grab: Will the GOP Ever Learn?: Ribali
Obama’s plan hatched at Columbia University says classmate: Events

Economy

The Radical Transformation of America’s Classrooms: CFP
The Unbridled Fury of the Obama Recovery: Innocent Bystanders
Draghi Behind Friday's Gold Selloff: Kitco

Exxon Mobil Is Behind Common Core: Sentinel
"Wise Men" Propose Theft to Bail Out Banks: Mish
100 Years Old And Still Killing Us: the Income Tax: Collapse

Scandal Central

Was Benghazi a Honey Pot Trap?: Ledeen
Perverts in Politics: JPA
Congress Guts Requirement For Online Financial Disclosure By Senior Officials: WZ

Climate & Energy

Sorry Global Warmists!! Liberal Thinktank’s Stats Show Decline in Natural Disasters for 2012: Sooper
House GOP proposal would overturn EPA regulations deemed harmful to the economy: Chron
Exxon propagandizes for Common Core during Masters: Twitchy

Media

MSNBC: The Network America Turns to for Irresponsible Speculation About News: RSM
‘SNL’ derides the Senate’s pointless, background check bill in gun control skit: RedAlert
The Media is Biased. Do Something About It.: FW

Anybody Else Starting to Suspect @AmandaMarcotte Eats Dead Babies?: RSM
News flash: Texas district attorneys NOT murdered by Aryan Brotherhood.: Moe Lane
80 Year Old With Gun Manages To Fight Off 5 Armed Robbers: WZ

MSNBC Marxist Harris-Perry: “We Need To Impinge On Individual Freedoms” For “The Common Good”…: WZ
Following Obama’s Lead, Collectivists Are Coming Out of the Closet: Nice Deb
It’s Time to Push for Impeachment Proceedings Against Eric Holder: Political Outcast

World

Mexico Registers 4,249 Drug-Related Killings in 4 Months: Borderland
John Bolton: Iran breaking out champagne while watching US deal with N. Korea nuclear threat: Scoop
Teenage Girls on Trial in Canada for Running Prostitution Ring: RSM

A word on elected Latin American dictators: Fausta
Chavez Successor Maduro Narrowly Elected to Lead Venezuela: Blaze
Venezuela: Maduro wins: Fausta

Honoring Margaret Thatcher – The Ultimate Progressive Hunter: NoisyRm
New rhetoric, same old policy: Phillips
Despite sequester, State Department ups support for the UN: Fox

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Report: Microsoft may also make smart watches: IT World
Rackspace to Offer Openstack Deployments for Service Providers: CIO
Investment Firm Expects AWS Will Hit $20 Billion In Revenues By 2020: Crunch

Cornucopia

The Fake Kim Jong-Un Snickers Ad Is Brilliant: BuzzFeed
Polarizing ‘R Us: MOTUS
Labor secretary nominee accused of 'quid pro quo' deal: Fox

Image: Fausta's Blog
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QOTD: "Former Ecuadorian president Osvaldo Hurtado writes in his book, Dictaduras Del Siglo XXI El Caso Ecuatoriano ("21st Century Dictatorships: The Case of Ecuador"), on how the self-named “leaders of the 21st century socialist revolutions” take over and destroy the democratic institutions in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela.

These 21st century dictatorships hold elections after instituting mechanisms, procedures and restrictions, and establishing advantages, which are all anti-democratic by eliminating the level ground for the election to take place.

As I have mentioned many times over the last nine years, Hugo Chavez’s rule focused on concentrating all power on himself. After his death, Maduro became acting president, against the provisions of the Venezuelan Constitution, in order for him to run as incumbent. That way he has full control of the entire electoral process, the media, and all Venezuelan institutions.

Keep that in mind tonight when you see the election results." --Fausta's Blog

Sunday, April 14, 2013

The Gang of Eight's Secret Amnesty Deal: Enforcement Will Not Come First [Sessions]

Guest post by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

When the Gang of Eight was first formed a publicly stated principle was the enforcement would come first—before legalization. Today, on the Sunday shows, Gang of Eight members admitted that they abandoned this principle and that, in fact, legalization—or amnesty—would come first.

This proposal offers immediate legalization with unfulfilled promises of enforcement in the future. This is contrary to the commitment they made to the American people and raises the same core problem as the 2007 proposal that was rejected by the American people. This should not surprise given that Gang of Eight has refused to meet with ICE officers while consulting with the special interests. The proposal will not stand up to scrutiny.

Another area of great concern in this proposal is the impact it will have on low-income Americans and those individuals and communities suffering from chronic underemployment. The guest worker program in this proposal represents only a fraction of the increase in legal foreign workers that will be rapidly introduced. Including those illegal immigrants that are legalized, this bill, over ten years, will result in at least 30 million new foreign workers—more than the entire population of Texas. While this may mean lower wages for the business lobby, and more political power for AFL-CIO leadership, it will be bad for American workers—union and non-union. And it will expose taxpayers to enormous long-term costs, including trillions in unfunded liabilities for Medicare and Social Security from which low-wage foreign workers will draw more benefits than they pay in. These programs need strengthening, not further weakening.


Editor's Note: A 1,500-page bill negotiated in secret is not acceptable. A bill that brings amnesty for illegal aliens before the border is provably secure is not acceptable. I am sick and tired of gangs of this and gangs of that operating as some sort of super legislature, negotiating in secret with special interests like the AFL-CIO, but hiding their machinations from the public and even other Senators.

This bill must be rejected.



WHO NEEDS AMNESTY? Millions of Illegal Aliens Ripping Taxpayers Off for $20 Billion a Year in "Tax Credits"

As the White House shuts down tours and air traffic control towers go dark thanks to the budget sequester, millions of illegal aliens will collect as much as $20 billion in cash from the taxpayers thanks to a widespread scam facilitated by the Obama administration. Ed Rubenstein, president of ESR Research and former chief economist for the Grace Commission on Waste in Government, has issued a new report entitled Defrauding the American Taxpayer: The Earned Income and Additional Child Tax Credits [PDF].

Rubenstein states that, "the IRS knowingly allows illegal aliens claiming children to get Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) cash payments of up to $5,891." Furthermore, “the General Accountability Office (GAO) estimates that 23 percent to 28 percent of EITC payments that totaled $55.7 billion in 2011 are issued improperly every year. The IRS facilitates this tax rebate fraud by issuing individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs) to people who lack valid Social Security numbers because they are not authorized to work in the U.S., and encourages them to file for tax credits.” A 2010 government audit found that 72 percent of tax returns filed by people using ITINs, rather than Social Security numbers, claimed the child tax credit.


That's not all, according to Rubenstein. He says that “the Child Tax Credit (CTC) program pays as much as $1,000 per child to families with children and incomes as low as $3,000. The IRS sends checks to anyone claiming the benefit, whether they have Social Security numbers or not. When a tax filer’s Child Tax Credit payment exceeds their tax liability, the IRS sends the filer an Additional Child Tax Credit (ACTC) refund check for the difference. Individuals can get an ACTC refund checks even if they had no income tax withheld or paid.”


Rubenstein asserts that the IRS has refused to stop the massive ACTC fraud by illegal aliens, which the Treasury Department says costs taxpayers $4.2 billion in 2010.

Fraudulent claims by illegal aliens cost taxpayers about $20 billion through abuse of the EITC (more than $15 billion by some estimates) and the ACTC (more than $4 billion). Worse still, many of the illegal aliens claiming the credit aren't even in the United States -- and many others may not exist at all.

Read the whole thing [PDF] -- and pass it on.

And every time Democrats whine and cry about higher taxes, tell them you're waiting for the IRS to stop the Illegal Alien Tax Credit scam that costs us $20 billion a year.


E.J. DIONNE: Apologist for Criminals, Propagandist for Statism

E.J. Dionne, the least well-known (and reportedly, the least well-liked) of the Washington Post's bevy of Statist writers, is both a big government propagandist and an enabler of criminals. Both assertions can be conclusively proven by analyzing his most recent editorial ("The end of majority rule?"), which seeks to twist the language to promote his radicalized positions.

The language the Statist uses is critical. And when it is employed dishonestly and when it is perverted, as Dionne does more often than Michael Moore super-sizes his order, we must deconstruct it and reject it like an Olajuwon blocked shot.

Such is the case here, where Dionne seeks to portray law-abiding citizens as criminals and extremists.

Universal background checks are supported by 91 percent of Americans. Yet there is enormous resistance in Congress to passing a strong bill to keep arms out of the wrong hands. What does “rule of the people” mean if a 9-to-1 issue is having so much trouble gaining traction?

Here, Dionne's intentionally shallow analysis overlooks the question asked of Americans. There is a big difference between "Do you favor closing the 'gun-show loophole'? versus "Do you favor universal gun registration, which historically has led to gun confiscation?"

The former, of course, is a straw-man. The latter is what Democrats intend, as seen this month in New York.

That said, it's irrelevant. Dionne is arguing for Congressional criminality, because the Second Amendment isn't up for a vote.

Further, Dionne uses the same bogus poll question approach to claim Americans don't care about the crushing debt this government is incurring.

...consider the Morning Joe/Marist poll last week showing 64 percent of Americans saying that job creation should be the top priority for elected officials. Only 33 percent said their focus should be on reducing the deficit.

Had the poll question been posed honestly, something along the lines of "Do you favor the collapse of Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid as their Trustees and Actuaries have warned, or do you prefer that the massive federal government bureaucracies instead tighten their belts?", what do you think the results would have been?

But the political far right is, among other things, a big business. The NRA’s chief concern is not sane public policy. Its imperative is to maintain market share within a segment of our country that views the federal government as a conspiracy against its liberties... Within this market niche, background checks are but a first step toward gun confiscation.

As I mentioned earlier, gun confiscation is precisely what is already happening in New York.

Further, the public statements of powerful Democrats like Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (and many others) make it clear that Dionne is either ill-informed or a bald-faced liar. Given his role at the Post, one can only assume the latter.

Dionne goes on to criticize the Constitution, claiming that it gives smaller states too much power.

...our Constitution combines with the way we draw congressional districts to overrepresent conservatives in both houses. The 100-member Senate is based on two senators per state regardless of size. This gives rural states far more power than population-based representation would. The filibuster makes matters worse. It’s theoretically possible for 41 senators representing less than 11 percent of the population to block pretty much anything.

Because Dionne and the rest of the temporary, power-hungry Beltway elites are impatient. They want "fundamental transformation" and they want it now. And the inconvenient barriers, the speed-bumps that our Framers put in place, all of these things are truly maddening for the greedy, the corrupt and their enablers like Dionne.

There is no immediate solution to the obstruction of the democratic will. But we need to acknowledge that our system is giving extremists far more influence than the voters would.

"Extremists". An "increasingly radicalized right".

Consider the hubris required to market naked agitprop in the form of these descriptions of Constitutional and Tea Party conservatives.

Those who want the federal government to live within its means, to abide by the nation's highest law, for politicians to honor the very oaths they took upon assuming office -- according to Dionne -- those citizens are the "extremists".

What would Dionne call Madison, Jefferson and Adams? What would he call Abraham Lincoln?

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

So far removed from Constitutional government has this federal leviathan become that Dionne can't see the very collapse he cheerleads.

The federal government is involved in every aspect of daily life -- from lightbulbs, to shower-heads, to ponds in your backyard, to gas mileage -- all of it unlawfully, according to the 10th Amendment.

The federal government is also financially imploding, printing millions of dollars an hour to sustain deficits never before seen in the history of the world.

Using standard accounting practices, the federal government is actually incurring over $6 trillion annually in new debt. This must be tacked on to the $80 trillion in existing debt and unfunded liability. Yet the entire size of the American economy, the worth of all goods and services produced, is only about $16 trillion.

The entire system, perverted by Cloward-Piven Democrats, useful idiots, and their sycophants like Dionne, is sliding into the abyss. And the people arguing for sanity are, in his estimation, "extremists".

No, Mr. Dionne: you and your Marxist ilk are the anti-Americans, the traitors and the criminals, you who are intentionally deconstructing this society.


Recommended Reading: "What I saw at the Coup"

ORGANIZED CRIME: Post Office Edition [Quinn]

Guest post by Jim Quinn, The Burning Platform

“One of the things the government can’t do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.” – Lee Iaccoca

You may have heard that the U.S. Post Office lost $16 BILLION last year. You may also have heard that Congress snuck a requirement into a bill that had nothing to do with the Post Office, mandating that they must deliver on Saturdays, even though eliminating Saturday delivery would save the Post Office $2 BILLION per year. Congress evidently can’t read a financial statement or interpret a chart. I’m sure the trends detailed on this chart will reverse themselves shortly.

Larwyn's Linx: Senate Uses Doctors for Gun Control

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Nation

Senate Uses Doctors for Gun Control: Wurzelbacher
RIVERDANCE With Blood: Bane
Hitler Survivor: Keep Your Guns and Buy More: Dollard

Don’t be fooled. Gun confiscation has already begun in NY: Hot Air
The Price of Utopia: Ricochet
Kermit Gosnell Should Receive The 2013 Margaret Sanger Award: LoneCon

Group documents massive flow of illegals, drugs, guns into U.S. from Mexico: WZ
The Militarized DHS: 5 Shocking Purchases: RWN
Fatal Arizona Home Invasion Sparks Fears of Mexican Military Involvement: Fox

Economy

Top Obamacare Adviser: Value and Volume, Not Patients: GWP
Remington Sells Out: FreePost
Schiff: "When People Realize Where All This Gold Is Going...": BMT

Obamacare Guide Now No. 1 on Times’ Best-Seller List: Max
WI Teacher: Conservatism restricts liberty, Liberalism expands it: Ace
FL vet refuses to remove military flags from restaurant: RWN

Scandal Central

VA Doctor (Psychiatrist) Exposes National Gun Confiscation Plan: S&T
Your Government Engaged In Kiddie Porn: Denninger
Surprise: Congress Exempts Most Federal Workers From Key Insider Trading Reporting Requirement: ZH

Climate & Energy

Gas News: North Dakota building first US oil refinery since 1976: AIM
It’s official: EPA delays climate rule for new power plants: WaPo
Obama Electric Car Company Fisker's Lawsuits Piling Up: GigaOm

Media

Salon.com shouts “Look, Squirrel!” to deflect #Gosnell outrage: LI
Jake Tapper Digs Into Gruesome Details Of Kermit Gosnell Case With Philadelphia Inquirer Reporter: Mediaite
Why Is the Press Ignoring the Kermit Gosnell Story?: Bloomberg

If the Police understand that giving media attention to Celeb "Swatting" encourages more of it...: Lott
White House Website Employs Gun Control Pop-Up Ad: CNS
Fat Cat Democrat: Bailey Connell

ESPN Claim: Two NASCAR Drivers Told To Avoid Interviews With NRA Logo In The Background: RWN
Dem Sen. Richard Blumenthal Uses Sandy Hook Massacre To Beg For $5 Campaign Donations…: WZ
It Wouldn't Take Long for Martial Law to be Imposed: WinSol

World

How Thatcher changed this Soviet man's heart and mind: Cube
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Says "Portugal Cannot Pay Its Debts", Calls for "Argentine-Style Default": Mish
EMU plot curdles as creditors seize Cyprus gold reserves: Telegraph

Geller Gets Two Speaking Engagements After New York Synagogue Cancels: Atlas
13th Century Church of Hagia Sophia to be Converted Into Mosque: Atlas
Turkey opts out of NATO talks with Israel: JPost

Judge: No Trial for Drunk Illegal Who Dragged Man to Death Because of ‘Unique Cultural Background’: RWN
The Crisis of Islam: Gatestone
U.S. may be wittingly funneling millions of dollars to Taliban in Afghanistan: JihadWatch

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Facebook Home - Great if you think privacy is dead: Naked Security
Is a Barbie body possible? [infographic]: AllTop
Why your clothes need a mobile upgrade: CompWorld

Cornucopia

Pimp My Gun: Guns
Ohio Police Chief Accidentally Eats Daughter’s Weed-Cake, Goes Insane: Gawker
Kobe Bryant Faces Possible Career-Ending Injury: Hello Beautiful

Image: Day by Day Cartoon, by Chris Muir
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QOTD: "...we also believe those checks have to be conducted in a way that protects privacy and civil liberties. So, in that regard, we think the current legislation, the current proposal on universal background checks raises two significant concerns."

"The first is that it treats the records for private purchases very differently than purchases made through licensed sellers. Under existing law, most information regarding an approved purchase is destroyed within 24 hours when a licensed seller does a check now, and almost all of it is destroyed within 90 days." --ACLU's Chris Calabrese, citing concern with Schumer's gun control bill

Saturday, April 13, 2013

At Least He's Honest

Jalopnik:



Hat tip: BadBlue Cars.

42: Jackie Robinson [Papa B]

Guest post by Papa B


Mama B and I saw 42 last night and it was a wonderful movie. It brought to mind my early memories of baseball and my first encounter seeing Jackie Robinson.

In 1944, we were living in Rogers Park in Chicago in an apartment on Sherwin Avenue next to Lake Michigan. I was 7 years old and fell in love with a girl named Jill Weintraub who lived in a house on the corner. You must understand how unusual this was. There were almost no houses in Rogers Park. Everyone we knew lived in small apartments in apartment buildings.

But Jill lived in this huge corner house and I was truly impressed. It turned out that her father was Phil Weintraub, a first baseman for the New York Giants. During the war years, many of the baseball stars (Williams, Musial, Feller, etc.) were in the military. In fact, Ted Williams was a pilot and served in three wars if memory serves. Because of the loss of their stars, teams seriously considered discontinuing baseball but fortunately they reconsidered and staffed the teams with many "has-beens" and "never will be's".

Phil Weintraub was a better than average player and had some pretty good stats. As I recall, he took me (with my girl friend) to my first game, where the Giants faced Cubs. As an aside, in those days, players made very little money and all worked in winter jobs. Phil worked for Kraft Cheese and after the war, when everyone returned, he lost his job to Johnny Mize, and moved to LA with Kraft and took my girlfriend away.

I started going to games regularly in 1947. From 1947 to about 1953, I would see 40 to 50 games a year, all at Wrigley Field. In 1946, we had moved from Rogers Park to Highland Park and I would take the North Shore from Highland Park to Howard Street, change to the “EL” and take it to the ballpark.

5 Super Happy Fun Facts for Taxpayers

Culled from The Wall Street Journal:



5

More than 2.5 million of the nearly 9 million Americans on disability are in their 20s, 30s and 40s.

4

The U.S. tax code is about 4 million words - 7 times the length of "War and Peace".

3

The tax code is so complex, 60 percent of Americans rely upon tax preparers while 30 percent have to buy software to complete their tax forms.

2

Even with all of the assistance, Americans spent 6.1 billion hours preparing their taxes last year.

1

That amount of time is equivalent to the productivity of 3 million full-time workers... wasted on preparing taxes.


I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

One thing's for certain: we need a flat tax or the Fair Tax if we really want this economy to grow. Which is why the Democrat Party opposes any attempt at reforming the monstrosity.


Standing in a River of Children's Blood

I refer not to the modern-day Mengele named Kermit Gosnell but instead to the loathsome, disgusting, hack Senator from Connecticut named Richard Blumenthal.

The [Newtown shooting] issue took a disgusting political turn on Thursday, though, when U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., used Sandy Hook to raise money. The money is not for one of the relief funds set up to help victims’ families, or to fund mental health services, or to support autism research.

“In the wake of the horror of the December 14, 2012, massacre of 20 beautiful children and 6 dedicated educators,” Blumenthal is asking supporters to send money to his 2016 re-election campaign!

“As your senator, I will continue fighting for the rights of all the people, not the special interests. But I need your help,” Blumenthal wrote in an email to supporters Thursday morning. “Please contribute $5 now as the Senate debate continues on common-sense gun reform legislation this week.”

Constant fundraising and the recent trend of fundraising off real-time reaction to the news of the moment have officially jumped the shark, courtesy of Blumenthal’s tasteless auto-appeal.

Senators are elected every six years in part to give them some time to legislate without an eye on the next campaign. But the campaign – and its drive for money to buy elections – is constant.

There are lots of ways and lots of time for Sen. Blumenthal to raise money for his re-election campaign before 2016.

Using the “horror” of the “massacre of 20 beautiful children” at a time when critical legislation honoring their memory is at stake to beg for $5 for your next political campaign is as tasteless as it gets.

After the controversy erupted, Blumenthal did not apologize. He actually defended his abysmal behavior.

These mutant politicians are the lowest of the low.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

Stories of Government: 30 Blocks of Squalor [Quinn]

Guest post by Jim Quinn, The Burning Platform

The joys of West Philly are multi-faceted. I’ve been getting off at the Girard Avenue exit of the Schulkill Expressway for six years on my way to work.

The Philadelphia Zoo parking lots are located directly in front of the exit ramp. I then proceed to 34th street and take my little shortcut through the hood.

About one year ago, a construction project began on the existing parking lot at 35th and Girard Avenue. I had no idea what they were building and why. Before long it became evident they were building a big ass parking garage. I was stumped. The zoo had multiple existing parking lots that were NEVER filled.

As the months went on I realized they were building the Shangri La of parking garages with a majestic glass tower in front. This is the final result.

Images of the Philadelphia Zoo's new parking garage before and after construction.

I began to wonder who came up with the money for this monstrosity, because the Philadelphia Zoo is a money losing non-profit that depends on donations for its continued existence. As I was driving down 36th Street a couple weeks ago I noticed a brand new sign telling me I was entering the Centennial District. That’s funny because I thought I was entering the slums of West Philly where no one works and everyone has an iPhone. This would be a more appropriate sign.

Illegal Immigration Propaganda [Simpson]

Guest post by James Simpson, Accuracy in Media

As we once again face the specter of illegal alien amnesty, and the permanent Democratic majority it will guarantee, it is critical to understand how the Left plays. They are unethical to the core, but we are so frequently deluded by their tactical use of language and emotion, that we are unequipped to deal with them effectively. The result: they win. This cannot happen again, unless we are all willing to start calling Obama “President for Life,” and Democrats, the “Commissars.”

Introduction

Changes in public perception happen gradually. This is a natural human survival strategy that mistrusts the unfamiliar. A campaign of public education has become necessary to help convince a wary public to accept new ideas or policies that might otherwise take too much time. But there is a difference between education and propaganda.

Our society relies for its security, stability and prosperity, indeed, its survival, on the rule of law. So the idea of giving special privileges to individuals whose very presence is prima facie evidence of lawbreaking, is instinctively rejected. It cannot be otherwise. To grant special privileges to criminals upends and subverts the rule of law on which we depend.

Our nation’s laws constitute a contract that every citizen implicitly agrees to respect. Those who violate it face sanctions of corresponding severity. If certain individuals can avoid sanction and gain special privilege through political power—despite their blatant violations—then the rule of law becomes meaningless, and is replaced by a society based on political power alone. That is called dictatorship. Yet this is what the illegal immigration lobby wants us to accept.

When individuals or organizations attempt to introduce ideas that are self-evidently destructive, like Nazism or communism, for example, a campaign based on propaganda is necessary. Unlike factual information, propaganda manipulates, using fear and instinct in combination with known psychological reactions. It is evident that the illegal alien lobby uses these methods.

Larwyn's Linx: Severed Spines and Seared Consciences

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Nation

Severed Spines and Seared Consciences: Ricochet
Illegal Alien Propaganda: Critical Lesson in Terminology and Tactics: Simpson
Gosnell's clinic never inspected after 1995: Here's why: WZ

Laws are for the Little People: Instapundit
Rep. Steve Israel introduces his 'undetectable' gun and magazine ban: Exam
MO House Committee votes to Nullify All Federal Gun Control Efforts: TAC

FASCISM: Mark Levin says powerful GOP Rep trying to kill his show: Scoop
Hey, Leftists: Shouldn't Giffords Surrender Guns Due to Brain Injuries?: Clash
Here's The Democrats' Plan To Get Gun Control Through The Senate: Howe

Economy

This is No Horror Movie. It's Our Tax Code.: FreeEnt
Political Donation: SCC
14 Of The Obamas’ Most Decadent Vacations On Your Dime: RWN

FL Teacher Made Students Agree to Give Up Constitutional Rights: Nice Deb
Rick Perry Reaches Out to CT Rifle manufacturer PTR: Come to Texas!: RWN
Screwed by the IRS: ABC

Scandal Central

Teen Intern at Gosnell Murder Factory: Aborted Fetus ‘Screeching’: JWF
Gosnell: Women tied down, forced abortions, bodies in jars, and a ‘Special Room’ for whites: WZ
Why Won’t Democrats Answer Questions About Kentucky Eavesdropping Scandal?: RSM

Climate & Energy

Obama's EPA And IRS Violate Our Constitutional Rights: IBD

Media

How did the three major networks cover the #Gosnell trial on their evening news shows tonight?: Scoop
Kirsten Powers Rips Virtual Media Blackout of Gosnell Trial: NB
Tweet to break the #Gosnell news blackout: LI

Sharyl Attkisson Reportedly Leaving CBS News: Ace
The #Gosnell Horror Prompts Flashback to Bush Derangement Syndrome: RSM
Gosnell Horror: Amanda Marcotte Just Making S*** Up: Ace

Investigation: Why did David Corn Run with a False McConnell Tape Transcript?: Tatler
Overreach? Feds Seek Life Imprisonment For Amish Beard-Attacking Bishop: Blaze
Dr. Kermit Gosnell abortion case: Why no national media spotlight?: LAT

World

North Korea's Rocket Capability Shouldn't Shock: IBD
GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert Accuses Obama Of Betraying Israel With New Shipment Of F-16s: WZ
Inside North Korea: Video and photos show true horror of Kim Jong-Un's evil regime: Mirror

Obama's Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay: AT
Iran test-fires three new missile types: Times of Israel
NY teacher faces disciplinary action for Nazi assignment: Times of Israel

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

Astronomers estimate 100 billion habitable Earth-like planets in the Milky Way, 50 sextillion in the universe: XT
Wide-scale attack against WordPress blogs reported: ComputerWorld
Street View Hyperlapse Tool Creates Mind-Bending Journeys: Mashable

Cornucopia

Exploitation “R” Us: UPDATED With Traveling Music!: MOTUS
How to spot a deranged gun lunatic .... in one easy lesson ....: WinSol
Media Battlezone: The Dead Baby Blues: LeatherPenguin

Federal Reserve to Print New Bill – Will Usher in 21st Century American Paradigm: SHTFplan
Gun vs. Bat: SCC
Bagpipes: WinSol

Image: White House Flickr Feed
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: WRITE YOUR REPS NOW TO DEFEND THE SECOND AMENDMENT

QOTD: "When people yap about “a woman’s right to choose”, this is what they are talking about.

And, while I have disgust for this Gosnell monster, let’s just remember: he’s just a hired killer. Who puts him to work? Who let him conduct his grisly “business”?

And who’s covering up for him now?" --Commenter at The Other McCain

Friday, April 12, 2013

Finally: a bumper-sticker guaranteed to kerplode the progressives' tiny, prehensile brains

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RED ALERT TRANSCRIPT: Mark Levin Says a Powerful Republican (*cough* John Boehner *cough*) is Trying to Silence Him

Biff Spackle emails the following transcript of Mark Levin's opening monologue tonight. Levin didn't name Boehner specifically, but only the Speaker is responsible for committee assignments.

Well, it's come to my attention that there's a Republican Congressman out there who doesn't like what I've been saying.

It's come to my attention that there's a Republican Congressman out there, a fairly powerful one, who doesn't like what I've been saying about him.

And you know what this Republican congressman wants to do about it...?

He wants our major affiliate in his district to remove this show.

This Republican Congressman who's fairly powerful is sliming around in the background, in the shadows, trying to get my show removed from one of the major radio stations in his district.

You know what they call that? They call that "fascism".

If that Republican Congressman succeeds, I will expose him on national radio. And I will go to his office with a microphone and I will shove it in his face and we'll have a discussion. You know who you are and I know who you are.

Now you may treat freshman members this way, you may treat conservative, Tea Party congressmen this way, taking them off committees, drying up their fund-raising, but you're not going to treat me this way.

I'm not a part of the club. I don't report to you.

But I'll be damned if I let any hack politician, whatever party, conduct themselves in this way and they think it doesn't get back to me. Oh, it all gets back to me. All of it.

Got that, tough guy? I just want you to be aware of this.

Can you believe this, ladies and gentlemen? If these one of these jerks is that brazen with someone who isn't junior to them in the house, how do you think they treat conservatives who don't go along?

I'm telling you: we have a real mob problem on Capitol Hill. And many of these Republicans are as deceitful and power-hungry and pathetic as their Democrat counterparts. These are not "good government" people. Anyways, a fairly powerful Republican.

But I'm not going to put up with fascism on my watch. No way. And you see, Congressman: you may not be up on new technology, but you're never going to be able to silence me. Ever. In your district or anywhere else. Because there are ways around: whether it's satellite, or the Mark Levin app, or the iHeartRadio app, but that station isn't going to do a thing about it, Congressman. Nothing.

I'd hate to sue him, too. Tortious interference with my living -- if you're going around acting like Al Capone, not as tough as Capone, but sliming around in the shadows -- that's not protected by the debate clause in the Constitution, Congressman.

You're too stupid to know that, I'm just letting you know. It's you against me in civil court... just letting you know. Stop trying to put the shoulder on my people, trying to get my show stopped in your district.

You figure the Democrats and the Left get this low, but this is just remarkable. Absolutely remarkable. I hate to say it, but I'm not surprised. I'm really not.


Update: Levin posted that it's not Boehner, but I will leave this story's headline as it is. The Speaker of the House controls all committee assignments and if Eric Cantor or Whatever-his-name McCarthy are the perps, Boehner's still pulling the strings.

Here's a political warning, John-John: you violate the Hastert Rule on guns or immigration or any other damn piece of the Constitution, you're going to see a political backlash the likes of which you can't imagine


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NEW SUPPORT GROUP: Gun Owners Against Illegal Mayors

Please help. It's for the children.

Gun Owners Against Illegal Mayors represents Americans united to fight the Bloomberg Gang, a band of organized criminal politicians. Originating in New York City, the Gang has recruited criminal mayors across the United States.

Some of the Gang's  members have been convicted of  assaulting officers and constituents, corruption, extortion, theft, obstruction of justice, bribery, perjury,  tax evasion, child porn, battery, and child molestation. They have attacked constituents and police officers, destroyed houses with sledge hammers, and even stolen gift cards donated for the poor. No crime is beneath them and no enormity beyond them.
The gang hides its intentions behind the deceptive title of "Mayors Against Illegal Guns." This criminal band  was organized by N.Y.  City  mayor Michael "Bloomie" Bloomberg, who is reported to have made  illegal gun purchases in several states, which interfered with  18 federal investigations.   No wonder that he and his illicit mayors would like to see us made helpless to resist their sociopathic drives.

We call upon Americans to unite against these thugs, and to demand that  the Department of Justice use its Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) powers to shut down "Mayors Against Illegal Guns."

Do not attempt to apprehend these mayors yourself. Call the authorities and leave the area. With alacrity.


Time to break the #Gosnell news blackout

William Jacobson at Legal Insurrection is on it:

The mainstream media is ignoring Kermit Gosnell’s abortion shop of horrors.

In addition to the near total blackout at newspapers like The NY Times and Washington Post and all major networks except Fox News, mainstream news sites like Politico are silent, with not a single story as of this writing. Compare that to when Politico turned over almost its entire homepage for a month to Herman Cain’s alleged paramours.


Starting At Noon today and continuing all day we are asking people to Tweet using the #Gosnell hashtag. You can Tweet this post using the link button above, or send the Broadcast tweet from the top of the sidebar.

There also is a Facebook page to Break the Blackout.


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Larwyn's Linx: Boycott Connecticut. Period.

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Nation

Boycott Connecticut. Period.: Denninger
Object Lesson: “Temporary” Amnesty Never Dies: Malkin
Obama's Tin Ear: Tatler

Silly extremist: the government has no designs on your firearms II: ProWis
Obama’s ‘Lying Problem’ about Firearms: Owens
Five Gun Amendments to Watch: Roll Call

The Chicagoization of America: Knish
What do cops think about more gun control laws?: Tatler
Silly extremist: the government has no designs on your firearms III: ProWis

Economy

Obama Debt: Over 8 Percent of $1 Quadrillion: Dossier
DOJ Spent $100 Million On Conferences In One Year: LoneCon
Europe could be bankrupted this year: Commentator

Obama Cynically Re-Nominates His Illegitimate NLRB: RS
Another day, another study noting our skyrocketing health premiums: WyBlog
On Losing Freedom: Stein

America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Stands Alone Against Unions, Illegals: RWN
Maryland to tax rain that falls on your property: Ace
The Pension Rate-of-Return Fantasy: WSJ

Scandal Central

Shock: 15-Year-Old Assisted in Abortions at Gosnell’s Horror Clinic: Tatler
Kentucky Dem reveals who secretly recorded McConnell meeting: Scoop
NY Gun Confiscation Underway: AmmoLand

"The Democratic Party is the most successful criminal organization in American history ...": RSM
Going Crazy for the Mentally Ill: RWN
ILL-inois: Chicago woman fights $105K in parking tickets for $600 car: Marathon

Climate & Energy

Sequestered Gore satellite apparently not affected by ‘sequester’: Watts

Media

Mark Levin: Sixteen Republicans who voted to kill filibuster today must be CHALLENGED and DEFEATED: Scoop
ANGRY WHITE DUDE'S THOUGHTS ON HIS APPEARANCE ON A BLACK RADIO SHOW: AWD
Pro-Gun-Control Senator Thanks CNN "For [Its] Support": Ace

Can You Imagine the Coverage If It Were Puppies?: RS
MSNBC's Idiot Race-Baiter Toure Started an Idiot Race-Baiting Newspaper in College: Ace
The brief, painful lives of Baby Boy A, Baby C, and Baby X: Pundette (2011)

Is Journalism Dead in Orlando?: I4AW
New Republic Goes Wobbly over the 17th Amendment: Driscoll
Facebook Founder Gets More Overtly Political: MB

World

Pentagon: Yes, North Korea Can Probably Nuke Us If They Want To…: WZ
North Korea Launch Zone Found: WFB
U.S. intel: NKorea has nuclear bomb small enough for a missile: CBS

Now we know North Korea's game...: III Percent
Secure As it's Ever Been: Drug Distributors Tied to Mexican Cartels Busted in Austin, Texas: Borderland
Quote o' the Day: Ushanka

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)

NASA to Capture Asteroid, Deflect It Towards Earth, and Get it Captured by Moon's Gravity: Ace
Bitcoin mining botnet has become one of the most prevalent cyber threats: SCMag
Fusion Rocket Could Hurtle Astronauts to Mars in 30 Days: TNW

Cornucopia

Conservatives devise campaign slogans for Weiner's next election: Hurst
What do people do when they're cut off from their guns? Make them: Croatian Å okac SMG: Forgotten Weapons
Guidance on the [Redacted] Threat: Cube

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Saturday May 25th, 2013: Gun Owners March On Washington D.C.

QOTD: "[Today] I had a long talk with John Coyne about race in America. We both think there is a lot more anger about race than is publicly acknowledged. Just for myself, I see it as the issue in America today. Will we have genuine equality of opportunity and consequences, or will we continue to favor certain groups because of genuine injustices from long ago? And will racial groups who are not compelled to face the consequences of their lack of self-discipline ever truly achieve or will they be like spoiled children forever. And how long will Americans who work want to support Americans who don’t? And are we ever allowed to talk about it or is freedom of speech secondary to political kowtowing to some racial groups?

It is probably too late already. Freedom is so hard to win and so easy to lose.

That is what the GOP should be about." --Ben Stein

Thursday, April 11, 2013

But don't worry, folks: Melissa Harris-Perry will succeed where Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot failed

Not only is the nutty professor -- Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC -- agitating for collectivization of child-rearing, now she's articulated her own "Bill of Rights":

Americans will always want some level of inequality, because it’s a representation of meritocracy. People who work hard and sacrifice and save their money and make major contributions — we think that they should earn a little more. They should have more resources, and that’s fine. But we also, however, have to have a floor under which nobody falls.


And if you’re below that — especially if you’re a child and you’re below that — we are not going to accept that. You do have the the right to health care, and to education, and to decent housing and to quality food at all times.

Alleged Professor Harris-Perry is either a Communist or unspeakably ignorant, because her bill of particulars bears an uncanny resemblance to the Soviet Union's Constitution of 1936, which guarantees the rights of the people including:

...Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to work, that is, are guaranteed the right to employment and payment for their work in accordance With its quantity and quality...

ARTICLE 119. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to rest and leisure...

ARTICLE 120. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to maintenance in old age and also in case of sickness or loss of capacity to work...

ARTICLE 121. Citizens of the U.S.S.R. have the right to education...

ARTICLE 122. Women in the U.S.S.R. are accorded equal rights with men in all spheres [including] prematernity and maternity leave with full pay, and the provision of a wide network of maternity homes, nurseries and kindergartens...

Not to worry, folks: Ol' Missy's certain she can get the whole central planning thing down this time. And if it costs 10 or 20 or 50 or 60 million lives to do so, as it did in the 20th century, that's okay. She's doing it for the children.


Hat tip: Mark Levin.

I don't think you're going to be outrunning this particular cop car...

In this case, the $550,000 Lamborghini Aventador Squad Car:

In a city of boundless bling, Dubai police also are in hot pursuit after adding a nearly $550,000 Lamborghini to its fleet.

The sports car, painted in green-and-white colors of the Dubai force, will not likely be roaring after law breakers. Instead, it will be mostly dispatched to tourist areas to show - in the words of deputy police director, Gen. Khamis Matter al-Muzaina - "how classy Dubai is."


Local media reports Thursday say the Italian-made Lamborghini Aventador is the crown jewel of a wider upgrade in Dubai police wheels. The force also is adding some American muscle car Camaros.

...the Lamborghini Aventador has a maximum speed of 217 mph and accelerates from zero to 60 mph in 2.9 seconds...

Dubai seeks to show it has rebounded from its debt crisis with brash plans that include the world's largest Ferris wheel and a satellite city named after the city-state's ruler.

My only question: what do you do with the perp?


Related: Luxury Cars Abandoned in Dubai


Hat tip: BB.