Saturday, May 10, 2014

Obama's Top 7 Lawless Actions

By Amy Payne

Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has released a list of “lawless” actions by the Obama administration. Heritage legal experts Elizabeth Slattery and Andrew Kloster have also been following this closely and issued a report earlier this year. Here are seven of the most egregious examples of the administration’s overreach.

1. Delaying Obamacare’s employer mandate

The administration announced that Obamacare won’t be implemented as it was passed, so employers with 50 or more employees don’t have to provide the mandated health coverage for at least another year (and longer if they play their cards right). Slattery and Kloster observe that “The law does not authorize the president to push back the employer mandate’s effective date.”

2. Giving Congress and their staffs special taxpayer-funded subsidies for Obamacare

It was uncomfortable for members of Congress when they realized that, through Obamacare, they had kicked themselves and their staffs out of the taxpayer-funded subsidies they were enjoying for health coverage. But the administration said no problem and gave them new subsidies. In this case, “the administration opted to stretch the law to save Obamacare—at the taxpayers’ expense.”

3. Trying to fulfill the “If you like your plan, you can keep it” promise—after it was broken

Larwyn's Linx: Benghazi: Dems Frantic Over Special Committee

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Nation

Benghazi: Dems Frantic Over Special Committee: VictoryGirls
The AWOL Commander-in-Chief: Andrew C. McCarthy
Nancy Pelosi aborts Democrats from Select Committee: Exam

Illegal Alien Gangs Commit Majority of Crime in U.S.: MagNote
GOP Primary Voters: Determined to Nominate Electable Candidates: RWN
Obama flexing his executive muscle on immigration reform: The Hill

#NCSEN: Key Hagan goes for broke, ‘fully embraces’ Obamacare: Toldjah
VA workers were taught to manipulate records: Fox
Why did NY GOP lawmakers fund the SAFE Act?: LI

Economy

Study: Obamacare employer mandate to hit low-wage workers hardest: BarbWire
The New Normal: how much does it cost if it’s free?: Cold Fury
California vs. Texas - Proof that Conservativism Beats Liberalism: EagleRising

Scandal Central

Cleta Mitchell: New Front In IRS Scandal: Nearly 1 in 10 Conservative Donors Audited By IRS: Nice Deb
SWAT: Manufacturing The Justification To Kill?: McDaniel
Tom Cotton talks to Cavuto about why Benghazi is important and why Democrats are politicizing it: Scoop

Climate & Energy

Environmentalists Have Lost the Climate Change Debate: David Harsanyi
Experts Warn Congress: Attack On Power Grid Could Lead to “Catastrophic Civilian Casualties”: SHTFplan
LEED-ing taxpayers to waste money?: Pete Sepp, US News

Media

Democrats Fundraise Off Book Advocating Impeachment of Obama: WS
Four Pinocchios to Obama for “500 Republican filibusters” claim: Hot Air
MLK III Says Blacks Should Engage With The Tea Party . . . Touré Left Speechless…: WZ

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz sinks to new lows w/ #Benghazi tweet: Sister Toldjah
EMAILS: Democrats Admit They’re Worried About Obama’s Impeachment: ConTrib
Flashback: 2000 SC Presidential Primary and Palmetto Journal: Jeff Quinton

DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz sinks to new lows w/ #Benghazi tweet: Toldjah
“Moms Demand Action” Caught Red-Handed Lying About “Open Carry” Demonstration: BuzzPo
Bill Maher Battles Huffington over Islam: Liberals Too PC to Ever Condemn It: Mediaite

World

The West Needs to Wake Up: Paul Weston
Al Qaeda calling for jihad car bomb attacks on American soil: JihadWatch
NYC Imam Calls Jews a “Cancer”; Leads Push to Scrub Islam From 9/11: Cassy Fiano

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Selfie helpie: Israeli innovation transforms phone camera imaging: Times of Israel
Moto E surfaces in press shots on retailer website: Slashgear
The US is opening up the Smithsonian's digitized art collection: Engadget

Cornucopia

Wonderful: Video of Homeless Man Given a New Home Goes Viral: GWP
Just in time for Mother’s Day: the Little Bag of MOO Essentials: MOTUS
Triple Amputee Veteran’s “Screw You” Letter To Obama Goes Viral!: RWN

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QOTD: "A commander-in-chief does not get to vote “present.” Over 19 months have elapsed since terrorists savagely attacked the United States in Benghazi. Yet we are still waiting, ever waiting, for an account of where the president was, what he was doing, and what if any directives he gave during the hours and hours during which Americans were being tormented and killed.

If the president’s name were Bush or Reagan, we would long ago have had a minute-by-minute accounting of his every move. And if the incident involved some faraway American warrior’s slaying of a jihadist emir, we would long ago have had a Situation Room photo depicting Obama as maestro . . . with an accompanying soundtrack of classified leaks portraying his courage while others were under fire.

Benghazi, however, is a catastrophe wrought by Obama’s pro-Islamist policies, one that puts the lie to his oft-repeated claim to have “decimated” al-Qaeda. So with Benghazi we get the stonewall, a barricade his praetorian media have been only too happy to fortify." --Andrew C. McCarthy

Friday, May 09, 2014

I don't know who this Touré character is, but I have a picture proving that he is a nasty little punk

"Touré" -- if that is his real name -- is reportedly an MSNBC "personality", which is why no one has ever heard of him.

In the photo below, he's holding up a copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals, a veritable bible for community agitators who despise America, capitalism, and the free market. It describes how to overthrow the U.S. government and install a Marxist regime. You know, the kind that has succeeded so well in Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, the Soviet Union, et. al.

That said, don't you love how these Leftist punks -- with their massive carbon footprints and riches amassed through their good fortune to live in America -- undermine the very society that has given them limitless wealth?


How did Touré earn an umlaut over the 'e'*?

From what I can discern, it was his record-setting levels of hypocrisé.


* I know it's not an umlaut, but what is it really called?

GOP will start Benghazi probe alone after Pelosi aborts Dem participation

When it comes to double standards and intellectual dishonesty, the modern Democrat Party takes the cake.

Recall that Republicans participated in Democrat-initiated Select Committees -- most notably those related to Watergate and Iran-Contra -- but Nancy Pelosi and her sycophants in the House have never been big fans of integrity or patriotism.

Writing at Washington Examiner, Susan Ferrechio describes their latest pathetic maneuver.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has rejected the terms of a GOP-created select committee on Benghazi, but Republicans are moving ahead without them...

...Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected the panel's terms in letter to Boehner that was in response to GOP proposal about the select panel would operate.

Democrats say they are concerned it will not allow their party to participate fairly in the investigation, which will involve subpoenas and viewing of classified materials related to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

According to a Democratic leadership aide, Pelosi rejects a rule that will not prevent chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., from issuing unilateral subpoenas without consulting with Democrats. The rules would also allow Republicans to prevent Democrats from interviewing witnesses.

Sounds like Republicans are giving Democrats all the deference they are due after the GOP was shut completely out of giving input into the health care abortion that became Obamacare.

Benghazi is a big deal. It is a scandal. American heroes were fighting for their lives, fighting for hours against hundreds of Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, screaming into comm systems for help because they knew -- they knew -- a Commander-In-Chief would never leave any man behind.

But they were wrong.

The President and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were AWOL. It was 3AM in Benghazi... and no one answered the calls for help.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

You know that totally insane Benghazi conspiracy theory? Yep. It keeps getting less insane each and every day

Was the Benghazi debacle, as "The Citizen's Committee on Benghazi" asserts, really a failed kidnapping attempt? Was it part of a broader plot to trade a U.S. Ambassador for the release of the “Blind Sheikh”, Omar Abdul Rahman?

It sounds insane, yet each and every day more evidence emerges to support it.

In October of 2013 (via the outstanding PJMedia), Arabic language media offered compelling evidence that tied the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi to Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood.

Multiple Arabic media sources have reported that the purpose of the Libyan intelligence chief’s recent trip to Cairo was to share information about Mursi’s involvement.

Other Arabic sources (1, 2, 3), including Masress, have reported on the details of the charges being filed against Mursi. They involve his release of [terrorist Mohammed Jamal] Al-Kashif... If Mursi was involved, what were his possible motives? Indisputably, the two most prominent voices as of late demanding the release of “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdul Rahman were Ayman Al-Zawahiri and Muhammad Mursi. Interestingly, Mursi made such a demand before and days after the attacks in Benghazi.
Word of Egypt's involvement in the assassination of Ambassador Christopher Stevens had circulated in intelligence circles since September. Raymond Ibrahim reported then on a troubling Libyan intelligence document. It asserts that the Muslim Brotherhood, including Egyptian President Morsi, were involved in the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
On Wednesday, June 26, several Arabic websites ... quoted the intelligence report, which apparently was first leaked to the Kuwaiti paper, Al Ra’i... It discusses the preliminary findings of the investigation, specifically concerning an “Egyptian cell” which was involved in the consulate attack. “Based on confessions derived from some of those arrested at the scene” six people, “all of them Egyptians” from the jihad group Ansar al-Sharia (“Supporters of Islamic Law), were arrested.

According to the report, during interrogations, these Egyptian jihadi cell members “confessed to very serious and important information concerning the financial sources of the group and the planners of the event and the storming and burning of the U.S. consulate in Benghazi…. And among the more prominent figures whose names were mentioned by cell members during confessions were: Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi; preacher Safwat Hegazi; Saudi businessman Mansour Kadasa, owner of the satellite station, Al-Nas; Egyptian Sheikh Muhammad Hassan; former presidential candidate, Hazim Salih Abu Isma’il..."

This jibes with original reporting from September 2013 by Walid Shoebat. A cellphone video taken during the attacks depicts gunmen running toward the camera. At one point an approaching gunman cries, "Don't shoot us! We were sent by Morsi!"

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But where did this theory originate?

In October of 2012, a comment by "Kozy" posited that the Benghazi attack was an "October Surprise". Easily dismissed at the time as some sort of conspiracy nonsense, with each passing day the scenario appears to become more plausible:

Starting in late March, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz begs the State Department for more security assets. These requests are flatly refused.

Also early in the year (February, March and April), White House visitor records show several lightly documented -- and possibly confidential -- visits by Hillary Clinton to the White House.

In May, U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz is swapped for Chris Stevens.

In June, Egyptian President Morsi publicly pledges to secure the release of 'The Blind Sheikh', the extremist cleric responsible for the first World Trade Center attack.

Also starting in June, Ambassador Stevens' security teams are systematically removed from Libya, despite increasingly urgent requests and dire predictions. As the State Department itself confirmed in testimony before Congress, there were no budget cuts involved: the removal of security occurred at the sole discretion of the Secretary of State. By the time of the 9/11 attack, Stevens has not a single personal bodyguard. These stunning actions effectively remove any barriers to the capture of the Ambassador for use as a hostage.

Did back-channel communications between the White House and the Blind Shiekh's legal representatives confirm that a swap could be achieved with a high-level hostage exchange? Were the Sheikh's cronies informed that Ambassador Stevens had no security in Benghazi? This would enable the Sheikh to be secured through a trade after capturing Stevens; after all, the ambassador has had his security teams completely stripped away.

Someone -- it is not clear who -- arranges a meeting between Stevens and Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akinin in Benghazi, not Tripoli, late in the evening of 9/11. It is during this meeting that terrorist checkpoints are established around the compound. The terrorists know precisely where Stevens is and are prepared logistically to capture him.

The initial attack involves only small arms fire. In fact, no one appears to have been killed at the consulate by gunfire. Smoke inhalation was reportedly the cause of the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and attache Sean Smith after a fire was ignited by terrorists. In other words, the lack of RPG and mortar rounds during the initial attack means it is possible that the operation was a "smash and grab" designed to capture the Ambassador, not assassinate him. RPGs were only used later at the annex, hours later, after Stevens was known KIA.

And, as stated above, during the initial attack, a video shot via camera phone records men yelling "Don’t Shoot us! We were sent by Morsi!"

Hostage swap

Under this operating theory, had all gone according to plan, the Obama administration would have secretly facilitated the capture of Ambassador Stevens. This would have permitted Obama to safely trade the Ambassador through the release of the Blind Sheikh.

The trade of the Sheikh for Stevens would have occurred, of course, just before the election. Obama would take very public credit for Stevens' safe return as well as a newly strengthened relationship with Egypt's Morsi.

Photo ops featuring Obama and Stevens would be splashed along the campaign trail, ostensibly solidifying the president's foreign policy qualifications.

Sound too far-fetched? Consider the following unanswered unanswered questions:

Why did State repeatedly deny requests for more security in Benghazi, despite increasingly dire predictions? Instead, State completely stripped security from Stevens. No credible explanation has been offered for the removal of security by the White House or the State Department. It has been confirmed that the budget excuse proffered by State was completely false.

Who arranged Stevens' meeting with Turkish Consul General Ali Sait Akinin in Benghazi, not Tripoli, so late in the evening on 9/11?

Why on 9/11 -- of all dates -- was there no special security posture ordered in diplomatic installations around the Middle East?

Why did so many people in the administration publicly lie about the nature of the attack when it was clear from the onset that it was an organized attack by terrorists?

Why is President Obama lobbying so hard for the release of Muslim Brotherhood terrorists including Mursi?

Why did the president disappear after getting word of the attack and never even visit the Situation Room during the 10-hour running gun battle (according to spokesman Tommy Vietor)?

Why did he reportedly refuse security briefings in the aftermath of the attack, instead simply departing for a fundraiser in Las Vegas?

The operating theory being: the President didn't need to stay informed after hearing of the attack. He didn't need any briefings. He knew exactly what had happened.

A review of the Complete Benghazi Timeline makes some of these anomalies apparent. It's time for the Select Committee on Benghazi to uncover the truth.

Four dead Americans and their families deserve the truth, not lies and cover-ups, about what happened and why.


Fast forward to May 2014 and this "crazy conspiracy theory" is still as viable an explanation as any we have. There must be a damned good reason for all the obstruction and obfuscation by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

Never -- never -- in our nation's history have our people been left behind, allowed to be slaughtered without lifting a finger to help. I keep thinking of Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty, as they drew their last breaths, realizing that the country they had dedicated themselves to had let them down.


Hat tips: Wanda and MOTUS.

Larwyn's Linx: Trey Gowdy owns media on questions surrounding Benghazi and an AWOL President

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Trey Gowdy owns media on questions surrounding Benghazi: Sister Toldjah
IRS Audited 10 Times More Tea Party Donors Than Average Citizens: Jon Gabriel
Pelosi: Benghazi Probe Disrespectful to Those Killed in Benghazi: Glob

Common Core Backlash Claims New Political Casualties: Michelle Malkin
Trey Gowdy and the Real Lesson of Watergate: AmSpec
Open Borders: Mexican Drug Cartels in 1200 U.S. Cities: Sara Noble

WaPo: There’s a new Republican dark horse emerging for 2016: Hot Air
Eric Cantor is NOT Invincible: VA Right
Obama Unleashes the Left: Daniel Henninger

Detroit Grandma Shoots Way Out Of Ambush With Her Legal Handgun: Bob Owens
Debut Hearing for HHS Nominee Suggests Smooth Path to Confirmation: PJM
Federal Judge Adelman Disparages Minorities in Voter ID Ruling : MediaTrackers

Economy

Obamanomics: More Businesses Shutting Down than Starting Up: WS
Another Bell-Ringing Discrepancy: Gallup vs. BLS Unemployment Rate: Mish
25-54 Labor Force vs. Employment; Men vs. Women; Cyclical vs. Structural: Mish

Janet Yellen’s Bathtub Economics: David Stockman
Economist: Dodd-Frank Hasn't Fixed Anything: PJM
Einhorn Finds Dinner Chat With Bernanke ‘Frightening’: Bloomberg

Scandal Central

EPA boss’ emails show a coordinated state, federal effort to skirt transparency: CEI
What happens next for Lois Lerner?: Ace
Big Legal Blunder: Statement of Former IRS Official Lois Lerner’s lawyer William Taylor: Gretawire

IRS finally agrees to turn over ALL Lois Lerner emails, a day after she's found in criminal contempt: DailyMail
Feds give $20 million loan to company owned by Biden 'friend' and donor: Exam
Gov Jobs – EPA $122,000 per year watching porn 2-6 hrs per day: Politisite

The Cavalry That Never Came: Mark Steyn
Kerry to visit Mexico on day of Benghazi hearing, despite subpoena: Fox
Health Insurance Official: Many of Obamacare’s “Eight Million Enrollees” Are Actually Duplicates: RWN

Climate & Energy

White House Science Advisor John Holdren sued over emails: WUWT
Coldest Year On Record So Far In USA: Steven Goddard
NBC Expert: Network Selectively Edited My Remarks to Support ‘Global Warming’: MRC

Media

The Benghazi Deniers: Rich Lowery
Dave Ramsey Needs Your Help!: Nicholas Paleveda
Indie film about Gosnell abortion murders needs your help: Unyielding

Lockett & Load: Ann Coulter
Gohmert Grills Comcast Lawyer: Is Comcast Blocking Glenn Beck's Purchase of a Cable Network?: Ace
Google targets Conservative blogger Weasel Zippers, cancels site’s ad revenue: Poor Richard

World

Hillary's State Department Refused to Brand Boko Haram as Terrorists: Josh Rogin
After 3 Weeks, FLOTUS Takes Bold Action To Help Save Kidnapped School Girls: Jawa Report
'Hands off' list? Senator questions whether DHS allowing those with terror ties into US: Fox

Flashback- Clinton: “Poverty” Behind Boko Haram, ‘Not Radical Islam’: PunditPress
Hitler Survivor: Obama Transforming U.S. Into Totalitarian Regime: WND
WHOA: Obama's Unsecured Libyan Weapons Went to Boko Haram: Commentary

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FCC chairman’s fast lane plan meets resistance from two FCC commissioners: Jon Brodkin
Giants of Tech Lobbying Unite to Kill FCC's Plan to Allow Internet Tolls: DailyTech
Drone Strikes Downtown St. Louis Building: CBS St. Louis

Cornucopia

How Far We Have Shifted To The Left In 50 Years: Reprint From 1963 Congressional Record: NoisyRm
What is this mysterious aircraft filmed 'blitzing Taliban base in Afghanistan'?: Daily Mail
Was an EMP Attack Just Tested on the United States?: Jason Kissner

Image: Firenado
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QOTD: "[Hillary] Clinton... has been a vocal advocate for the 200 Nigerian girls kidnapped by Boko Haram... [but what she] didn’t mention was that her own State Department refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the U.N. headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen senators and congressmen.

“The one thing she could have done, the one tool she had at her disposal, she didn’t use. And nobody can say she wasn’t urged to do it. It’s gross hypocrisy,” said a former senior U.S. official who was involved in the debate. “The FBI, the CIA, and the Justice Department really wanted Boko Haram designated, they wanted the authorities that would provide to go after them, and they voiced that repeatedly to elected officials.”

In May 2012, then-Justice Department official Lisa Monaco (now at the White House) wrote to the State Department to urge Clinton to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. The following month, Gen. Carter Ham, the chief of U.S. Africa Command, said that Boko Haram “are likely sharing funds, training, and explosive materials” with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. And yet, Hillary Clinton’s State Department still declined to place Boko Haram on its official terrorist roster." --Josh Rogin

Thursday, May 08, 2014

CBS: State Run Media

Guest post by Andrea Lafferty

Recently revealed White House emails show that the Obama Administration knew the September 11, 2012 attack on the consulate in Benghazi was a planned terror attack – and they lied to the American public anyway, blaming the loss of American lives on a video that no one had ever seen.

On September 12, 2012, the day after the attack, CBS News president David Rhodes spoke to the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and spoke about how he thought the attack would be covered by the news:

David Rhodes
“Now we don’t think that [story’s] going to last, as far as it being about the people we lost and the unfolding situation which is pretty remarkable in our life time. Our government thinks that, you know, there’s a really good chance this was not just a spontaneous mob reaction to what some thought was an offensive film but actually a coordinated effort timed to the 9/11 anniversary.”

On September 14th, a full three days after the incident and in the face of CIA intelligence showing a terror link to the attack, David Rhodes’s brother and then White House Deputy Strategic Communications Adviser Ben Rhodes instructed Ambassador Susan Rice“to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure or policy.” All in an effort to make Obama look like a statesman with mere months to go before the November election.

This direction is one that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney would repeat time and time again on September 14th, telling reporters “we do not at this moment have information… that would indicate that any of this unrest was preplanned… The cause of the unrest was a video… ”

From this point on, CBS News repeated these talking points, going so far as to remove a portion of a 60 Minutes interview with President Obama recorded on September 12th where the president acknowledged that the attack was not tied to an offensive video, instead “that there are folks involved in this who were looking to target Americans from the start. ”

SWEET: Fly like a bird with the Oculus Rift immersive flight simulator

As a quick introduction, the Oculus Rift device is a virtual reality display designed to provide an immersive experience. The company behind it was recently acquired by Facebook -- for reasons yet undetermined -- but this application is way cool.

The quest for a device that will allow humans to soar like birds has led to some strange contraptions over the years... But this one could outdo even the most bizarre designs – and you don’t even have to take off from the ground to use it.

The Birdly machine lets you flap your way through the air in a similar way to the red kite that it’s modelled after.


...Developed by the Zurich University of the Arts, a motor translates hand movements from a simulator into the flapping of virtual avian wings...


Meanwhile, an Oculus Rift VR headset provides a stomach-churning bird-eye-view of the flight.

If that wasn’t enough, the system also replicates the headwinds that a red kite would face using a fan... Users will even smell whatever landscape they’re flying over...

‘Soundwise you perceive only the roaring of the wind and the flaps of the wings,’ the designers write on their website... ‘The olfactoric feedback is based on the location which the bird flies over in the scenery and ranges from the scent of a forest, soil, to several other odours of the wilderness.’

This is so cool.


Hat tip: BadBlue Tech News

Please tell me this is not a real news story

Dude.

Some bald men are finding a permanent cure for their embarrassment... [and] are turning to a procedure called “micropigmentation,” which is similar to getting a tattoo.

The process uses a small three-point needle to create the look of a closely shaved head. It is becoming popular among Hollywood celebrities such as Bruce Willis, Vin Diesel, Jason Statham and Pitbull.

It’s an ink we apply to the head to make it look like men have hair,” said Julissa Rosado of His Hair Clinic... Tattoo artists apply small dots to the scalp in a pattern that re-creates the look of lost hair.

...It usually takes two to three treatments to fill in the scalp for a natural, close-cropped look. The cost for micropigmentation ranges from $1,600 to $5,000.

...Before Barzily was a practitioner, he had the procedure, too... “I’ve gone through four hair transplants,” he said. “Over $30,000 down the drain on procedures that didn’t take. This is the only thing that worked. Before that, I lived under a hat. Now my hats decorate my walls.”

Couple of possible problems. So what happens if you hair color turns to gray? And what happens if you lose more hair?


Hat tip: @EdMorrissey

HILLARY BLASTED FOR "GROSS HYPOCRISY": Despite Pleas, Refused to Name Boko Haram as Terrorist Group

Guest post by Investor's Business Daily

Dereliction: For two years on Hillary Clinton's watch, the State Department refused to designate a Nigerian Islamist group as a terrorist organization. This group has murdered thousands as it wages a real war on women.

Sometimes Hollywood celebrities get it right, as Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneres and others did in a protest outside the Beverly Hills Hotel. That property is one of the Dorchester Collection of hotels owned by the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, who has announced his country's embrace of Shariah law.

The protesters recognize that Shariah law is a brutal criminal code employed by Islamists that prescribes amputations and floggings, plus the stoning to death of those who violate its rules or simply for the crime of being too Western.

Case in point: the Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram, which means "Western education is a sin."

When the Global Terrorism Database of the University of Maryland's National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism compiled its list of terrorist organizations and ranked them by the number of their terror acts in 2012, Afghanistan's Taliban came in first. Boko Haram was not far behind.

The world's attention is now focused on the kidnapping of some 300 girls from the Chibok Government Girls Secondary School in Lagos, Nigeria.

"I abducted your girls," a man claiming to be Abubakar Shekau, the group's leader, said in a video seen by the Guardian newspaper. "I will sell them in the market, by Allah. I will sell them off and marry them off. There is a market for selling humans."

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has joined the campaign to free the girls, expressing her concern in a May 4 tweet with the hashtag "BringBackOurGirls." On Wednesday, she called the abduction "abominable" and "criminal."

"It's an act of terrorism," she said, "and it really merits the fullest response possible, first and foremost from the government of Nigeria."

Yet for two years, the State Department refused to acknowledge the growing threat and barbarism of Boko Haram. As Josh Rogin at The Daily Beast reports, the Clinton State Department "refused to place Boko Haram on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011" after the group bombed the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria.

Veteran Rep. Tom Cotton Destroys Democrats and Their Fake Outrage Over the Politics of Benghazi

As The Right Scoop observes, Cotton should have dropped the mic when he finished decimating the disgusting tactics of the Left.

Mr. Speaker, couple lessons I learned in the Army were you moved to the sound of gunfire and the most important step in the troop leading procedures is to supervise the execution of you orders.

When Americans were fighting for their lives in Benghazi, Barack Obama did neither. He sent no quick reaction force and didn’t even stay in the situation room to supervise the execution of his orders. We expect more from the lieutenants in the army than our president gave us that night.

For two years he’s covered up this failure of leadership by stonewalling. Not anymore. We will now get to the truth.

But what do our colleagues on the other side of the aisle say to this? They express great outrage at politicizing this matter.

When I was leading troops in Iraq in 2006, men and women who were being shot at and blown up by al Qaeda, where was the outrage as they fundraised endlessly off the Iraq war?

Where was the outrage as they viciously attacked our commanders?

Where was the outrage when they said soldiers were war criminals?

Where was the outrage when they said the war was lost?

Where was the outrage when they said only high school dropouts join the Army?

Forgive me if I don’t join my democratic colleagues in their fake outrage. Four Americans lost their lives that night in Benghazi. They deserve justice and the American people deserve the truth.

One other lesson I learned in the Army is that we leave no man behind. And we will not leave these four men behind.

That's what these disgusting losers on the Left don't seem to understand.

Men were fighting for their lives, fighting for hours against hundreds of Al Qaeda-linked terrorists, screaming into comm systems for help because they knew -- they knew -- a Commander-In-Chief would never leave anyone behind.

But they were wrong.

The President and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were AWOL. It was 3AM in Benghazi... and no one answered their calls for help.

Where the hell were they?


Hat tip: BadBlue News

FED CHAIR YELLEN: Yes, Under Democrat Policies, the Country Is Indeed Headed for Economic Collapse

Obama appointee and Federal Reserve Chairman Chairwoman Chairperson Janet Yellen had some truly ominous -- but not unexpected -- tidings for Congress.

Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen, referencing the Congressional Budget Office's long-term budget projections, told the Joint Economic Committee of Congress today that under current policies the federal government’s deficits “will rise to unsustainable levels.”


...Yellen made her statement about unsustainable deficits when she was questioned by Sen. Dan Coats (R.-Ind.). Coats remarked that businessmen in Indiana told him that their businesses were underperforming at this time because of the uncertainty they felt as result of federal taxation and regulatory policies.

"...I agree with you,” said Yellen. “My own discussions with businesses, I hear exactly the same things that you are citing: concerns with regulations, about taxation, about uncertainty about fiscal policy... [the] combination of demographics, the structure of entitlement programs, and historic trends in health-care costs, we can see that over the long-term deficits will rise to unsustainable levels relative to the economy.

When -- not if, when -- the economy does collapse, who do you Democrats think will be hardest hit?

Will it be the oligarchs like Clinton, Obama, Reid and Pelosi? Will it be the elites in the ruling class?

No, of course not, drones. It will be the elderly, the poor, and the infirm.

Most importantly, it will be our daughters and sons, our grandchildren, and generations yet unborn, who will face the results of this bizarre form of national suicide.

The alarm klaxons have sounded, over and over again, warning us, blinking red, flashing every possible signal that the insane policies of endless borrowing and printing and spending must end.

And still Democrats and the media ignore those indicators, gleefully following Duck Dynasty, NFL team names, Amanda Knox, and some racist kook billionaire, instead of what is truly important.

The fuse has been lit and time grows short.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Congress to Investigate Potential Obama Crackdown on Drudge, Hannity

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Congress to Investigate Potential Obama Crackdown on Drudge, Hannity: TR
What could go wrong? Feds begin rollout of 'Internet driver's license': TechDirt
Some Keys To Success For The Gowdy Committee: David Bossie

House Finally Holds Lois Lerner In Contempt Of Congress: John Hawkins
Benghazi Committee to Include Five Dems, Call Amb. Stevens’ No. 2: PJM
Don't be fooled: The #TeaParty IS Winning: ConHQ

Did Hillary Send Talking Points to Rhodes?: Dick Morris
Gun Grabber Chris Christie Dodges Political Bullet: Betsy McCaughey
Another Obamacare Lie: 8 Million Are Not Enrolled in Obamacare: Sara Noble

Common Core Assignment o' the Day: Daniel Greenfield
America’s Red Guard: Daniel Greenfield
The President’s Non-enforcement Power: LibertyLaw

Economy

Labor Force Participation Rate Drops to 62.8%: Bankrupting
Sequester Resulted in One Layoff: WFB
Fantasy Healthcare Scenario, Reader Anecdotes, Wildcards: Mish

Scandal Central

Darrell Issa threatens EPA official with contempt: Exam
Barack Obama refutes Carney on #Benghazi talking points: AEI
Net Neutrality's Death Could Spark Populist Revolt: Ron Fournier

Climate & Energy

Dems soiling their armor over coming Obama climate regs: David Freddoso
The Warm Must Go On: Mark Steyn
EPA official spent 2-6 hours a day watching porn while on the clock: Daily Mail

EPA’s "Dept Of Homeland Security" Blocking Investigations: Cove
The Climate Change Debate Is Over, And Environmentalists Lost: Federalist
In One 2-Minute Monologue, George Will Destroys WH's Dire Warnings on 'Climate Disruption': TR

Media

Trey Gowdy discusses Benghazi and Select Committee on Morning Joe: Scoop
NBC's Chuck Todd Spins on Benghazi Special Committee: 'Nothing More Than a Partisan Stunt': MRC
Paper Savages Rahm: 'An Elitist Whose Swagger Doesn't Match His Triumphs': WS

Mark Levin hits back HARD against attacks on the Tea Party by the Republican Establishment: Scoop
Epic: In 2 minutes George Will DESTROYS White House dire warnings on “Climate Disruption”: YC
Are You the Biggest Victim?: Daniel Greenfield

Women Columnists Practically Plagiarize Each Other to Attack Monica Lewinsky: Rush
Saving Barack Obama: Power Line
Lawyering Up: Day by Day

World

Did Russian Planes Take Down LAX Air Traffic Control Systems?: SHTFplan
What do the Putins of the world want?: Victor Davis Hanson
Washington’s strategic mistake in Iraq: Abandoning Iran’s opposition: AIM

Ecuador: Patton Boggs to pay Chevron $15 million: Fausta
White House Memo Blaming Video was Sent to Muslim Brotherhood Operative: Daniel Greenfield
Shoplifting while Muslim not a crime in New York City: Creeping

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Level3 is without peer, now what to do?: I, Cringely
Virtru Encrypts Your Email, Lets You Recall or See If It's Forwarded: LifeHacker
This Was the Best Watched Solar Flare Ever: UniverseToday

Cornucopia

Not In The News Weak: MOTUS
Hilarious: Al Sharpton Versus the TelePrompter: JWF
Bald Men Turn To Ink Procedure Known As Micropigmentation: CBS New York

Image: Not In The News Weak
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: I Gave $100 to Thom Tillis’s Campaign

QOTD: "The Obama administration’s wider policy failures in the Middle East are significant, and they are partly the product of wishful thinking, partly the product of its narrow ideology, and partly the product of the fact that the American public to which he ultimately answers is itself incoherent on the question of what we should be doing there and how we should be doing it. But, even disinclined as I am toward being overly generous to President Obama, he is not the first president to underestimate the dangers and difficulties of the Middle East. The idea that the deaths in Benghazi, horrible though they were, would have been his undoing in the election if not for his administration’s disinformation campaign is probably wishful thinking. But for politicians of President Obama’s genus, truth is simply another multiple-choice proposition, and he and his people chose the version that best suited their immediate needs. One of the many problems with having a government dominated by law-school graduates is that lawyers suffer from a collective delusion that clever argument has a truth of its own, a unique moral weight independent of the facts. Recall that in the 1990s Bill Clinton was openly admired by Democrats for his deft touch with a lie: If you are winning, this line of thinking goes, then at some level you are also right.

In other words, the Obama administration did not mislead the American public about Benghazi out of political necessity; it misled the American public out of habit. And why wouldn’t it? From the economic effects of the stimulus bill to the GM bailout to blaming last quarter’s poor economic numbers on the fact that it is cold during the winter, the Obama administration has an excellent record for wholesaling fiction to the American electorate, which keeps enduring it. There is apparently enough collective intelligence in the Obama administration to hold in general contempt the wit and attention span of an American public that has elected it twice." --Kevin D. Williamson

Wednesday, May 07, 2014

PIC: Michigan Militia?

Hmmmmmmmmm.........?



Related: Obama's "Civilian National Security Force" resurfaces (3/12/2009).

THUNDER: Experts Shred Obama Administration's Laughably Fraudulent Climate Scam

Guest post by David M. Taylor

The Obama administration today released its third National Climate Assessment (NCA) predicting a series of calamities and urging action on the president’s climate agenda.

It stands in contrast to the conclusions of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, which released its latest scientific reports in September and March.

A third report in the Climate Change Reconsidered series is due this summer to coincide with the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change from July 7–9 in Las Vegas.

This laughably misleading report is the predictable result when hard-core environmental activists are chosen to write up a climate assessment for, and subject to the approval and revisions of, the Obama administration. It is like the punch line to a bad joke: "How many environmental activists does it take to put together an alarmist global warming report?"

PIC: Reaction of insurers when asked whether premiums would go down by $2,500 as Obama promised

I think the word is dumbfounded.


In August of 2013, Obama had accumulated more than 250 documented lies -- almost as many as rounds of golf -- so what's another hundred or so among friends?


SUH-PRIZE, SUH-PRIZE: Hillary Clinton Wants the Benghazi Scandal to Just Disappear

Of course, one would expect this kind of response from miscreants who left American heroes to die on the battlefield awaiting help that would never come.

...Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday there’s “no reason” to continue making inquiries into the 2012 terrorist attack.

“Of course there are a lot of reasons why, despite all of the hearings, all of the information that’s been provided, some choose not to be satisfied and choose to continue to move forward,” Clinton said. “That’s their choice. And I do not believe there is any reason for it to continue in this way, but they get to call the shots in the Congress.”

A select committee has been formed in Congress with seven Republicans and five Democrats, led by Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) to try to get to the bottom of the assault and any White House cover-up to shield President Obama and Clinton herself, who was Secretary of State when the attack happened.

Hillary Clinton is trying to position herself as a moderate, but she is anything but.

She is the Grandmother of Obamacare and her past involves in so much skulduggery that her closet contains a whole damn mausoleum.

She is a radical Leftist whose policies would be every bit as corrupt and destructive as those of Barack Hussein Milhaus Obama.


Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

IT'S ANOTHER HISTORIC FIRST: Obama Creates Secret Police Unit Inside EPA to Block Investigations

Guest post by Bankrupting America

This week, the inspector general’s office from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused a small unit within the agency of operating illegally as a “rogue law enforcement agency” that has been blocking independent investigations of the EPA for years. Here are the top five things you should know about the unit and the investigation.

  1. What Is The Office Of Homeland Security Within The EPA? As explained by the Associated Press, the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) is a small unit, only about ten employees, that is run by the administration’s political staff.
  1. Why Is OHS Being Accused Of Acting As A “Rogue Law Enforcement Agency”? Patrick Sullivan, the assistant inspector general at the EPA, wrote in prepared testimony for a congressional hearing that “the Office of Homeland Security has repeatedly rebuffed and refused to cooperate with the OIG’s ongoing requests for information or cooperation.” By being uncooperative the OHS has impeded Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigations. The inspector general’s office is a nonpartisan, watchdog group within a government agency to conduct audits and make sure that the agency is not being fraudulent or wasteful. However, according to the Washington Post, the OHS “has been the primary contact [with the FBI] on all investigations with a connection to national security.”

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Administration Still Withholding Documents about Benghazi Attack

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Nation

Obama Administration Still Withholding Documents about Benghazi Attack: JW
Gun Control: Mark Steyn
We now know where Obama was during Benghazi attack : Anthony Martin

Gallup: More Americans Were Insured Back In 2008: S&L
Kerry Now Says He Will Comply With Benghazi Subpoena: Blaze
Obama Advisor Taunts Congress: 'Nothing You Can Do To Stop Us.': GayPatriot

Time for Truth & Consequences on the Benghazi Cover Up: FPM
The Left’s Phantom Wars: Ben Shapiro
Lindsey Graham: Obama 'Virtually AWOL as a Commander-in-Chief': Breitbart

The Lying and Dying at the VA: Betsy McCaughey
Hillary Clinton Pushes Obamacare, Gun Control, Social Equality: NewsMax
Chicago Sports Record Shootings In Last 72 Hours: BuzzPo

Economy

Moral Bankruptcy: Thomas Sowell
No Fear: Mish
Own a small business? Brace for Obamacare pain: LVRJ

Scandal Central

Total Chaos: PA Democrats Walk Out of Hearing on Members Taking Bribes: PJM
Obama Has Political Operatives Working Inside The EPA Blocking Investigations: LoneCon
Koch Who?… Soros & Far Left Billionaires Form New Alliance to Hijack 2014 Election: GWP

Benghazi Email on' Video Protest' Talking Points Released; Most Redacted: PunditPress
Radical Democrat State Rep. Stacey Newman Thinks “Benghazi” is a Punch Line: MoTorch
Cantor: ‘IRS Should Not Be Used as a Tool to Affect Political Gain’: WFB

Climate & Energy

White House: No one can stop our War on Energy: John Hayward
Obama's EPA Has "Secret Police" Blocking Independent investigations: Lid
Climate Change Is Real. Too Bad Accurate Climate Models Aren't. : Federalist

Media

New Survey of 1,000 Journalists: Four Times More Identify as Democrats Than Republicans: NB
The Burying of a Scandal: TV News Hides the Facts on the IRS’s Targeting of Conservatives: MRC
Liberals Want To “Assassinate” Trey Gowdy After He’s Tapped To Lead Benghazi Select Committee: WZ

Meet the White, Male Leftists Who Kept a Black Woman from Speaking at Rutgers: PJM
Rutgers disinvites a second African-American commencement speaker: WyBlog
Lewinsky writes about affair with Bill Clinton: CNN

Gowdy rebuffs Pelosi: Select committee won't be evenly divided as ‘elections have consequences’: Scoop
Rep. @DarrellIssa Is A Phony: Camp o' the Saints
Vanity Fair revisits Bill Clinton’s ‘war on that woman’: David Freddoso

Employer-based Healthcare: By 2020, 90% of Large Company Workforce dumped into Obamacare: Mish
CBS' David Rhodes on 9/12/12: Government Believes Benghazi a Terror Attack: John Sexton
#bundyranch: Decency: WRSA

World

Russian Strategic Bombers Flying Along California Coast: Breitbart
Benghazi: Op Zero Footprint – US, Allies Freak Over Gaddafi Demand for Gold for Oil – End Is Near: MagNote
Massive Explosion in Qazvin, Iran: May Have Nuclear Origins... Roads Blocked Off for 2km: GWP

It’s Come to This: Obama Disappointed with the World: JWF
Boko Haram and the shame of the Left: Commentator
Boko Haram commits another mass abduction of girls in Nigeria.: Instapundit

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Warrantless Cellphone Searches: Are They Legal?: PJM
Previewing a new Classroom: Google
Game of Thrones Makes History With 200,000 Strong Torrent Swarm: TorrentFreak

Cornucopia

Breaing! Angry White Dude to buy Los Angeles Clippers!: AWD
Outrage Brigades Attack MSNBC, SNL: Jon Gabriel
Obamacare ‘Doomed’ Under Constitution’s Origination Clause: Hideout

Image: Kerry Now Says He Will Comply With Benghazi Subpoena
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Matt Bevin for U.S. Senate

QOTD: "By suppressing bond yields The Fed has taken a means of faking growth and embedded the cost of that into every portfolio that includes long-dated loans such as mortgages and Treasuries. This cost will remain until those debt instruments mature or are prepaid, and there won't be as many prepayments (in the private sector) as usual since the instruments were issued during a time of intentionally-suppressed rates.

That cost accrues because the discounted price of the instrument is higher than it would otherwise be, and the yield lower. Whether that cost shows up in the form of capital depreciation or lower coupon doesn't matter; it cannot be evaded.

In effect what The Fed has done is provide a temporary "goose" to economic activity totaling several trillion dollars over the last four years but the price of that "goosing" has been distributed to, and embedded in, the portfolios of those who hold these instruments including the bonds held by Social Security and Medicare along with private pension concerns.

You didn't hear "QE" described this way, probably because there would have been an immediate call to indict, prosecute and imprison the entire FOMC for fraudulently manipulating economic reports and statistics were it to have been accurately described but mathematically it is this way.

I've been pointing this out since the beginning of "QE" -- but the fact is that nobody wants to talk about it in detail because as soon as you do you're forced by nothing more-complicated than basic Algebra to admit that all of these machinations are nothing other than a scam intended to mislead both business people and the general public, willfully and intentionally engaged in by Congress, The President and The Fed all acting together." --Karl Denninger

Tuesday, May 06, 2014

TED CRUZ: Dude, The Truth Isn't Partisan

Guest post by Rob Bluey

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is frustrated by the Obama administration’s “stonewalling” on the Benghazi investigation – and he wants answers about the 2012 terrorist attack.

Speaking to Fox News’ Neil Cavuto yesterday, Cruz said: “We have four dead Americans. We have the first dead U.S. Ambassador killed in service since 1979. In the 19 months that have followed, we don’t have a single dead terrorist or a single terrorist apprehended, and what we have seen from the president and Senate Democrats has been stonewalling.”

Here are the four questions Cruz wants the Obama administration to answer:

  1. Why did the State Department repeatedly refuse to provide additional security as was requested by personnel on the ground?
  2. Why did the United States not have military assets in place to protect American men and women on Sept. 11, 2012, when there was increased terrorist activity in the region?
  3. During the Benghazi attack, why didn’t the United States send in forces to protect the four men who lost their lives?
  4. In the 19 months that have followed, why has no one been apprehended, and no one been brought to justice?

Last year, Cruz introduced a Senate resolution calling for a joint select committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks. The House of Representatives is moving forward with its own select committee, which will be led by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.

“The truth shouldn’t be partisan,” Cruz said. “Finding out what happened, finding out how we could have prevented it, and acting to actually apprehend these guys, should not be partisan.”


Related: Q&A: Does a Benghazi Select Committee Matter?