Saturday, June 14, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Is America on the brink of economic and social collapse?

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Nation

Is America on the brink of economic and social collapse?: David Solway
Vet J.R. Salzman: ‘Why did you throw our sacrifices away?’: Twitchy
AZ to Congress: End 'Unconscionable...Manufactured' Border Crisis: Breitbart

While America Sleeps, A New Era of Terror in America Unfolds: Sara Noble
My Father and Hospitalists: Janine Turner
Fail: Twitchy

Cochran's “Indecent Acts With Animals” Earns $825k from McConnell: Riehl
Thad Cochran: Forget That I Forgot What I Forgot, I Did!: Dan Riehl
Rep. Kevin McCarthy's Immigration-Reduction Report Card: NUSA

5 Disastrous Obama Decisions That Blew Up In His Face: John Hawkins
Debt is No Salvation: Peter Schiff
Liberals Mourn Cantor : John Fund

Scandal Central

A Terrorist Released For Bowe Bergdahl Has A Role In 9/11: Hot Air
IRS claims to have lost key Lois Lerner emails: Moe Lane
DOD linked Benghazi attack to Al Qaeda 2 Days after attack: Dan Riehl

Did The IRS Really Lose Lois Lerner's Emails? Let a Special Prosecutor Find Them: Ron Fournier
Dang! IRS says Lois Lerner's emails done got wiped out in one of them there computer crashes: John Hayward
Rep. Jason Chaffetz: IRS testified that Lois Lerner’s emails were archived: Twitchy

Climate & Energy

EPA Wants To Control Puddles, Little Streams, Backyard Ponds: LoneCon

Media

15 Myths Millennials Accept as Fact: Taki's Mag
Columbine Survivor Pens Open Letter To Obama About Gun Control: Yehuda Remer
Online Journalism Is Suffering Print's Fate: Megan McArdle

Mark Levin: What Kind Of Mind In The White House Would Release Five Mass Murders: Breitbart
Incomie Inequality: Chelsea Clinton’s Salary For Doing Nothing Will Shock You: Sooper
Obama’s image hits record lows in trio of polls: Sean Sullivan, WaPo

World

Terrorist leading the ISIS rampage in Iraq was released from custody by Obama admin in 2009: Poor Richard
From Iraq to Ukraine: The disaster of Obama's world: Commentator
A Guide to ISIS, the Group That’s Tearing Up Iraq: DefenseOne

Amid Iraq Crisis, Kerry Flies to London to Recite Poetry: DC
Palin on Border Crisis: Congress Lacks Guts to Impeach 'Tyrant' Obama over Lawlessness: Breitbart
Shocking Videos: This is What Obama Has Wrought In Iraq [EXTREMELY GRAPHIC]: SHTFplan

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

New Ruling Shows the NSA Can’t Legally Justify Its Phone Spying Anymore: Wired
Coming Soon To Twitter, Ads Targeted To Weather Conditions: Martin Beck, MarketingLand
Even better than an app?: Seth Godin

Cornucopia

The Regals Have Landed: MOTUS
SCUM ALERT: Man Who Left Gun In Target Toy Department Identified By Police: Bob Owens
Tech Time Warp: 20 Years Ago, We Thought the Internet Would Bring Out Our Nice Sides: Wired

Image: Iraq conflict: Iran's Rouhani 'ready to help'
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QOTD: "It is not impossible to think that a tyrant, to the likes of Mao, Castro, Che, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and others, could possibly rise to power in America. It could be five, ten, twenty, or one hundred years from now — but future generations have the natural right to protect themselves from tyrannical government just as much as we currently do. It is safe to assume that this liberty that our forefathers secured has been a thorn in the side of would-be tyrants ever since the Second Amendment was adopted." --Evan Todd, a wounded survivor of the Columbine shootings

Friday, June 13, 2014

PILOT WHO RESCUED DOZENS AT BENGHAZI: A Competent Administration Would Have Saved Those Who Died

By Helle Dale


The pilot who flew the plane carrying U.S. diplomatic and CIA personnel from Benghazi, Libya, to U.S. military base Ramstein in Germany on September 12, 2012, broke his silence this week.

His eyewitness account further undermines the Obama administration’s false narrative of the Benghazi terrorist attack.

In an interview with Fox News’s Bret Baier, Eric Stahl, who recently retired as a major in the U.S. Air Force and whoserved as commander and pilot of the C-17 aircraft, made three revelations critically important to the investigation of the Benghazi Select Committee:

1. The CIA staff revealed that they overheard in real time the Benghazi attackers communicating with each other on U.S. State Department cell phones, presumably picked up as they rampaged through the compound. Their communications suggested nothing but a well-coordinated attack. For that reason, the people who were actually on the ground were mystified by the suggestions coming from Washington that there had been an anti-video demonstration in progress.

2. Upon arriving at Ramstein, the survivors were not questioned by the FBI initially, but instead were led away by U.S. ambassador to Germany Philip D. Murphy to be debriefed that same evening. The Select Committee will want to know what, if any, instructions they were given.

3. Finally, Stahl believes that a rescue attempt could have been made out of Ramstein. Rescuers could potentially have arrived in time to fight back the attack on the CIA Benghazi annex that erupted in the early morning and led to the deaths of Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. He also logically questions the U.S. military posture in Europe and the Middle East on the anniversary of September 11.

THE NEW THAD COCHRAN POSTERS ARE HERE! The New Thad Cochran Posters are Here!

Dan Riehl gives us a stunning insight into the doddering old fool towering intellect that is RINO incumbent Thad Cochran:

What would Mitch McConnell and his establishment buddies do with a so-called Tea party candidate who bragged about doing “indecent acts with animals”? Because Thad Cochran did it and they not only support him, Mitch McConnell just raised $825,000 dollars for him at a DC fundraiser... “It was an adventure to be out there in the country and to see what goes on,” Cochran said. “Doing all kinds of indecent things to animals.”

And Karl Rove and the rest of the RINO establishment losers dare to complain about stupid comments by Todd Akin? Will they renounce Cochran and support Chris McDaniel, a real Constitutional Conservative? No, of course not. Because they're losers and hypocrites -- the very same halfwits who told us Mitt Romney was the only one who could win in 2012. And that John McCain was the only one who could win four years earlier.

Our summer intern Biff Spackle has created an exclusive series of posters honoring the incumbent's formidable campaign.


BILL WHITTLE: Why Benghazi Matters

Here's a portion of Bill Whittle's latest epic Firewall:

Before we get into what Benghazi is, let’s address what it isn’t. It isn’t irrelevant, it isn’t trivial, and it isn’t a “witch hunt” as many prominent Democrats and their supporters desperately want you to believe.

For example, this graphic has been going viral: It shows the date and location of ten embassy or consular attacks during the Bush presidency, with a total of 60 people dead and the number of outraged Republicans set at zero; therefore these attacks happen frequently, therefore Benghazi is a hypocritical, witch hunt staged simply to get Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.

Unfortunately for the millions of people who have seen this graphic and passed it on, one of them – at least one – knows how to read, think and research.

Kyle Becker, at the Independent Journal Review, took a look at each of these ten attacks. In eight of them, the total number of Americans killed was – zero. It is not the responsibility of the US State Department and the President of the United States to protect the lives of foreign nationals, no matter how tragic or common these attacks may be. Their job is to protect American citizens and especially Consular personnel living abroad.

In 2003, a truck bomb killed 36 people, including nine American defense contractors. President Bush immediately called it a terrorist attack, the Saudis investigated and killed two of the attackers in the raids that followed.

On March 2, 2006, in Karachi, Pakistan, a suicide bomber killed 4, including an American diplomat named David Foy. It was instantly denounced as a terror attack; there were no advance calls for additional security; Mr. Foy was killed instantly with no possibility of rescue; and there was no cover-up or attempt to spin it other than what it was.

Every day in America there are over 6,000 burglaries. But one break-in may be more important than the others, because one of those burglaries – Watergate -- may go directly to the lawfulness, integrity and candor of the President of the United States of America.

Benghazi matters, because it goes directly to the two most important qualities in our elected officials: Competence, and Character.

Let’s go to competence first:

SMART POWER: Obama's Feckless Foreign Policy Threatens to Set the Entire Middle East on Fire

By Investor's Business Daily

Geopolitics: From Syria to Iraq to Afghanistan to Pakistan, the jihadist dream of a caliphate stretching from the Atlantic to the Himalayas is taking shape. It's aided by a feckless foreign policy not seen since Neville Chamberlain.

As President Obama learns about it in the newspapers, the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) is dismembering Iraq, adding Saddam Hussein's birthplace of Tikrit to the list of cities once liberated by the U.S. that are now flying jihadist flags. The war on terrorism is over all right, and Obama lost it.

An American official has told The Blaze that the U.S. Embassy, United Nations and other foreign organizations with a presence in Iraq are "preparing contingency plans to evacuate employees." We might soon see helicopters on the roof of our embassy in Baghdad in a scene reminiscent of the last days of Saigon as Iraq becomes Obama's Vietnam.

Unlike Vietnam, ISIS is not interested in liberating the homeland from colonial oppressors. ISIS and other radical Islamists have long proclaimed a goal of restoring a pan-Islamic state, a caliphate that extends from the Mediterranean coast to the Iranian border. One such Islamic empire, in the seventh century, spanned the Middle East, spread to Southwest Asia, North Africa and Spain, ending with the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258.

The largest and most powerful rebel force in Syria is Jabhat al-Nusra, with 7,000 fighters. It's a branch of al-Qaida in Iraq, from which it has received regular payments.

"It's now time to declare in front of the people of the Levant and (the) world that the al-Nusra Front is but an extension of the Islamic State in Iraq and part of it," Iraqi al-Qaida leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is quoted as saying recently in a piece on AlArabiya.net.

"This (ISIS' rise in Iraq) is of great significance," according to an assessment released Wednesday by the Soufan Group, a private security company. A restored caliphate will attract "many more disaffected young people ... from all over the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, lured by nostalgia for al-Khulafa al-Islamiya (the Islamic caliphate), which remains a potent motivator for Sunni extremists."

Larwyn's Linx: As Iraq Falls To Al Queda, Obama Jets to Palm Springs To Fundraise and Golf

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Nation

As Iraq Falls, Obama Jets to Palm Springs To Fundraise, Golf: Marooned
Ted Cruz: Obama responsible for sexual slavery, deaths of alien children: BPR
Cantor Fell Because He Wouldn't Fight the Good Fight: Rabbi Aryeh Spero

The Stupid Party: Erick Erickson
Amnesty Lite Is Still Amnesty: Thomas Sowell
McCarthy Path to Majority Leader Cleared: PJM

Obama Ramps Up America’s Destruction: David Limbaugh
Bergdahl Was Released from Coast Guard Due to Psychological Unfitness: Ace
Mississippi’s voter ID law could be example for nation: Steve Wilson

Senate Hearing Shows Partisan Divide on Illegal Influx into South Texas: CIS
Hey, You Know Who Else Is A Big Fan Of Gun Control?: Bob Owens
Where At Least I Know I’m Free…: WRSA

Economy

Popular Florida eatery tells vet ‘his kind’ not welcome; backlash follows: BPR
Krugman's Misleading Post on Coal: David Henderson
Ride Sharing Companies Warned To Stay Out Of Airports: CBS SF

Scandal Central

Obama's terrorist catch-and-release program is a success: RS
Open Borders: Entrenching the Fundamental Transformation of a Dying Nation: Sara Noble
Bill Whittle: Why Benghazi Matters: TR

Climate & Energy

Will EPA’s Carbon Plan Swing a Senate State or Two?: PJM
Professor’s fellowship terminated for speaking out on global warming in Wall Street Journal: WUWT
Canada Tells Obama: Stop Screwing Around With Keystone: Lid

Media

Stunning – Cincinnati Media Actually Broadcast The Reality Behind Racial Violence: Treehouse
This Journalist Died After Exposing Bowe Bergdahl’s Anti-Americanism: WJ
NPR Host Terry Gross Presses Hillary on Gay Marriage; Hillary Snaps: Ace

World

The Arab Spring Is Over Welcome To The Jihadi Spring: Jonah Goldberg
GREAT news: Arab Spring comes to Iraq at last!: Cold Fury
McCain Calls for Obama’s National Security Team to Resign Over Iraq: Kevin Baron

New Evidence Reveals Obama And Hillary Conspiring To End Criticism Of Islam In U.S.: Shoebat
Here comes the, er, cavalry? Iranian Revolutionary Guard heads to Iraq to take on ISIS: Hot Air
The Caliphate Forms Right Before Our Eyes: GoV

NYT Says ‘Tanks, of unknown origin’ Have Started Showing Up in Ukraine: Bryan Preston
"Harmless as an Enemy, Treacherous as a Friend": Mark Steyn
Veterans watch as Iraq teeters on the brink: Exam

Mark Levin: We cannot let Iraq fall; We need to unleash our bombers and kill the cockroaches: Scoop
Iraq has been begging for US air strikes since November: Matzav
Biden Once Called Iraq One of Obama's 'Great Achievements': WS

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Forrester: Mobile strategy 'requires overhaul of entire business operations’: ComputerWorld
Google Introduces Richer Flight Search Experience: SearchEngineLand
Setting HoneyTraps with ModSecurity: Adding Fake Hidden Form Fields: SpiderLabs

Cornucopia

Hillary At Homes (Trigger Warning: Contains Image Of Hillary): Earl of Taint
What An Obama Military Hashtag Attack on Boko Haram Might Look Like: Sooper
CSGV: THAT PRETTY MUCH SUMS IT UP.: Gun-Free Zone

Image: Ted Cruz: Obama responsible for sexual slavery, death of immigrant kids
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QOTD: “It’s important to understand what those numbers represent. These numbers represent children. Little boys and little girls, their parents are handing them over not to some noble social worker trying to help them. They are handing them over to international, global criminal cartels that smuggle human beings in. They put kids, among other places, on top of fast-moving freight trains. They are criminals who assault, sexually assault, and sometimes murder these children. These are little girls that are sometimes being sold into prostitution and sex slavery. The humanitarian crisis that comes from failing to secure our border is staggering.

...In 2011, there were roughly 7,000 unaccompanied minors who were apprehended...In 2012, that number rose to 14,000. In 2013, it rose to 24,000. And, in 2014, your agency is estimating it is going to be as high as 90,000. In 2015, the administration is estimating that it will rise all the way to 145,000. Mr. Secretary, you testified to this committee the increase is a result of violence in Central America and there is surely violence in Central America, but if you look at the statistics…midway through 2012, was when Administration unilaterally granted amnesty to some 800,000 people who had been minors, with the so-called DACA [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] proceeding. And, you can see sometime after that the numbers spike dramatically. Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came here illegally as children had no effect in causing a dramatic increase of children being handed over to international drug cartels to be smuggled in here illegally?" --Sen. Ted Cruz

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Rick Perry Jumps the Shark

All quotes are real, unfortunately.


Thanks, but I'll take a pass. Sure, Perry is far superior to Crispy Creme Christy, Jeb "Doin' It For Love" Bush, and Mike Hucksterbee.

But anyone who praises the likes of a Hillary Clinton -- she of the cattle future fortune, Whitewater land deals, the missing Rose Law Firm files, Johnny Chung, Hillarycare, the FALN terrorists, Marc Rich, Eric Holder, Fannie Mae, the New Square pardon scam, the Loral-China missile deal, Benghazi -- well, you get the picture. Oh, and those were all off the top of my head.

Very capable indeed, if we're talking about deconstructing the Republic, Cloward-Piven-style.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

IN CASE YOU'RE THINKING OF GOING TO A HILLARY BOOK-SIGNING: Here are the Rules

The prolific Caleb Howe relays this delightful set of instructions for those drones readers interested in the fascinating novel autobiographical tome entitled Profiles in Courage Bad Choices Hard Choices.

On Tuesday morning, Hillary Clinton kicked off her book tour promoting new release "Hard Choices", Hillary's "I'm running for President" tome that is all the buzz this week. One of the first folks in line for a signed copy was Maggie Haberman of Politico, who tweeted the list of guidelines handed out by handlers for those waiting. Haberman tweeted a picture of those rules.


...Use the bathroom before getting in line because you will lose your place. If this were a polling place Ed Schultz would call it racist disenfranchisement.

Howe was also able to obtain a secret second page of rules, regulations, requirements and advisories.

I have not yet confirmed whether attending the book-signing required a photo ID. If so, I fully intend to notify Eric Holder that Hillary's book-signing events are raaaaaaaaacist.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Imagining NASA's IXS Enterprise conceptual 'warp ship'

James Trew at Endgadget proffers one possible look at the future of space travel.

The image above is Dutch designer Mark Rademaker's CGI design concept; created to illustrate how NASA engineer Harold White's IXS Enterprise "Warp ship" might look. White has been researching into possible methods of propelling space craft beyond the speed of light. The strongest theory involves the disruption of space-time in front and behind the craft. White claims he has calculated a plausible method that improves upon an earlier theory by physicist Miguel Alcubierre, and is working towards a proof of concept for the idea. Rademaker's design shows large rings that would be used to create a "warp bubble" and was originally submitted for the Star Trek "Ships of the Line" 2014 calendar.

Faster, please.


Via: Mark Rademaker.

Larwyn's Linx: Cloward-Piven at the Border

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Nation

Cloward-Piven at the Border: John Hayward
Cantor Loses By 11 Million Voters: Ann Coulter
White House 'aiding and abetting felonies' by delivering 'flood' of illegals: DailyMail

Pelosi Fretting Over 2014 Midterms After Shocking Cantor Upset: HayRide
A 23 Year-Old Took Out House Majority Leader Eric Cantor: HayRide
Almost 40% more people turned out in VA-07 last night than in 2012 : Scoop

House Bill to Impeach Eric Holder Now Has 26 Co-Sponsors: ConTrib
Chicago police, ATF form Intel Center to fight “three-percenters”: Chris Eger
Hillary: I Was Once Poor Like You: RWN

David Brat's Victory Helps the GOP -- and the Establishment, Too: Ace
Cantor’s Defeat Shows Impact Of Obama’s Cynical Immigration Strategy: Morris
SecDef Chuck Hagel Run Over By Bus: Cube

Economy

19 Reasons to Laugh If You're Told The Economy Is In Good Shape: Snyder
Obamacare And The CBO — No Longer ‘Giddy’: Larry Elder
The big bank that blessed Brat's upset of Eric Cantor: Michael Santoli

Scandal Central

Obama’s inhumane retribution against Jan Brewer: Selena Owens
More On Bergdahl: The Anissa Files: Liberty Speaks
US agents heard Benghazi jihadis using State Dept. cell phones to call jihad leaders: JihadWatch

Climate & Energy

The Axis of Denialism: Mark Steyn
“EPA Pumps Up Benefits of Proposed Carbon Regulation”: PW
VA Spent Tens of Millions on Ads, Audits, Green Energy: WFB

Media

Establishment Media Start Dropping Bombs on Dave Brat: Bryan Preston
Why Cantor Lost – This Picture Says it All: VARight
Eric Cantor paid a lot for steak, should have paid for ads against David Brat: NakedDC

Washington Post: "ABC News’s Diane Sawyer destroys Hillary Rodham Clinton on Benghazi": John Lott
New York Times: 'Potent Voices of Conservative Media' Helped Brat Defeat Cantor: NB
Airbrush Alert: Ed Driscoll

Dave Brat talks to Chuck Todd, says he didn’t win by immigration alone: Scoop
First to Godwinize David Brat is…the Wall Street Journal?: Ed Driscoll
Lawsuit Alleging Silver Allowed Sexual Harassment in NY Assembly Moves Forward: MenRec

World

Meet Mohammed Fazi, one of five exchanged for Bowe Berdahl: Thomas Lifson
Iraq Asked U.S. To Bomb ISIS Staging Areas Before They Took Mosul, Obama Said No: WZ
Al Qaeda Militants Capture US Black Hawk Helicopters In Iraq: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Star Trek-Style Holodeck Coming into Focus at Lowe’s: Singularity Hub
Even Toilets Aren’t Safe as Hackers Target Home Devices: Amy Thomson
Radical human brain modification using high-powered lasers has been perfected: John Hewitt

Cornucopia

What are my rights at various “checkpoints”?: Flex Your Rights
Aggressive police raids for thee, but not for me: Radley Balko
They Said It Couldn’t Be Done: MOTUS

Image: SecDef Chuck Hagel Run Over By Bus
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QOTD: "We see the country slipping away, at least the kind of country that we want. Why is it so hard for these guys to articulate our principles? They talk about Reagan, but they're Rockefeller Republicans. And what's ironic about this is the main opponent to Reagan in 1980 was George H.W. Bush, and now it's Jeb Bush, his son, who seems to be the main opponent to conservatives who are trying to rally behind a candidate in order to take this country back. And when I say take the country back, I mean from a president who is an imperial president, who every day says he's going to act unilaterally and does across the board. We wake up in the morning,w e don't know the next outrageous thing he's going to do, and Congress acts like it has no power, it has power, it has the power of the purse, it's got the power to do other things, and it needs to do it. And they're afraid of Obama, they're afraid to take these steps, and you can see there is a growing anger among many American people, not just Republicans.

I'll tell you one other thing: You look at this election 2012 with Obama. Obama should have been beaten by a halfway decent presidential candidate in the Republican Party who could articulate the principles of the party and expose Obama's fecklessness and weakness. We didn't do it. Millions of people stayed home. And who were they? Reagan Democrats. Blue-collar Democrats. Stop chasing ethnic groups, stop chasing genitalia, talk to the American people about liberty, opportunity. Explain to them that Obama's wrong and we need to unleash the American people and the economy." --Mark Levin

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

DEAR SEN. McCONNELL AND SPEAKER BOEHNER: Here are the Terms of Your Surrender

My Dear Speaker Boehner and Senator McConnell,

The American people are tired. They are tired of your hatred for the conservative base, your insults of the American people, and your utter disregard for the Constitution.

In your petty quests for power, you both spend more time, energy and resources plotting against your party's base rather than fighting the most lawless and destructive president in American history. The national debt will have doubled under this President, the IRS and other arms of the government have been weaponized, the Justice Department is busy race-baiting and attacking Obama's political opponents, China and Russia are rapidly arming up, Iran is rolling non-stop to acquire nuclear ICBMS, and the Middle East is on fire.

And still you focus on pathetic political infighting, as if this is some sort of game.

We've had quite enough, thank you.

The following are the terms of your surrender and they are non-negotiable:

1. Speaker Boehner: you will, on or before the departure of Eric Cantor from the position of House Majority Leader, name a suitable and real conservative to that role (e.g., Jeb Hensarling or Jim Jordan).

2. Senator McConnell: you will, on or before the departure of Eric Cantor from the position of House Majority Leader, name Senator Ted Cruz to the post of Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee and, should the Republican Party take the Senate, will name him Chairman of that committee.

3. You will both cease pushing for any Amnesty, immigration or other deal until the border is secure from the unfolding humanitarian and refugee crisis.

Failure to meet these requirements will result in the following actions:

1. Speaker Boehner: I will do my level best to encourage the 30 percent of Ohioans who supported your primary opponents to vote for your Democrat rival. As you know, it would not take many Republicans to defect to unseat you. There is no point in having a Republican Speaker of the House if he or she has no desire to resist the increasing epidemic of lawlessness.

2. Senator McConnell: Likewise, I will do my level best to encourage the 40 percent of Kentuckians who supported your primary opponent to vote for your Democrat rival. Again, it would not take many defections to unseat you -- and based upon the polling, you could lose regardless. I am convinced that there is absolutely no point in having a Republican Senate Majority Leader who is unwilling to fight.

These are my terms and they are non-negotiable.

A reply is unnecessary. Your actions will suffice.


Feel free to reproduce this post in its entirety.

After Releasing Terrorists and Arming Them With Stinger Missiles, Obama Rails Against Guns to Promote a "Safer Society"

My memory may not be the best, but didn't the biggest mass-murder in history occur on 9/11/2001 when 3,000 people perished at the hands of Islamofascists?

Coming then as it does on the heels of the release of five of the most vicious, bloodthirsty terrorist generals in history, Obama's latest anti-Constitutional screed strikes me as unintentionally idiotic.

President Barack Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.

Gee, doesn't the U.S. have a Second Amendment which protects the government from encroaching on the citizens' right to keep and bear arms? And isn't Australia missing such a citizen protection clause in their highest law?

“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.

You mean gun control like that enacted by Chicago and Washington, DC which have both banned handguns for decades?

But the country needs “commonsense rules in place that make a dent in what’s happening,” he said, after an emotional appeal to the students and young people who were watching the Tumblr broadcast, which was advertised as a question-and-answer session about student debt... “My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.

You mean like keeping firearms away from the mentally ill, as the NRA has repeatedly suggested? Basic steps like that, which might require committing the truly insane as we did before the ACLU and the rest of the left wing radicals got their hands on the mental health system?

Does it seem odd to you...

MARK LEVIN TRANSCRIPT: Here's What I'm gonna do, Mitt Romney and Orrin Hatch, if you go after Mike Lee

Transcript of Mark Levin, 6/10/2014


You know what I've heard? On good authority, that Mitt Romney and Orrin Hatch want one of Mitt Romney's sons to go after Mike Lee in the Republican fight -- should there be one -- because they want to get rid of Mike Lee.

Who are the purists, exactly?

Who are the "Big Tent" guys, exactly?

Now let me tell you what I'm gonna do if these fools pull that. Listen to me, Orrin, I'm talkin' to you.

I'm going to go into your state and expose you. For your lies on this show.

I'm going to go into Utah, Mitt Romney, and expose you for the incompetent campaign you ran. The fact of the matter is, Mitt, while you play Mr. Nice Guy, you were behind the scenes trashing Republicans all the way to your "victory".

Let me tell you something, Mitt: You cost us. You cost us four years of Obama with your feckless campaign. Attacking one Republican after another in the primary... and it's like you surrendered in the general election. You're no Mr. Nice Guy... and, I know, the Republicans listening to me... folks, behind the scenes, this guy is trying to crush the conservative movement.

This "severe conservative"... he's going around the country endorsing every single establishment Republican he can against citizen candidates. It's time to wake up!

But if they... and you know I barely travel for anything... but if they.. I will go into Utah myself --and bring everyone I can find -- we will expose these people -- and let's have it out!


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Larwyn's Linx: Virginia Shocker: Cantor Canned

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Nation

Virginia Shocker: Cantor Canned: R.S. McCain
What Cantor’s Defeat Means: John Podhoretz
Chaos erupts at Cantor election night headquarters after his departure: WaPo

Bergdahl fiasco: Obama throws Chuck Hagel under the bus: Exam
Hatch, Romney Warned on Challenging Mike Lee: All-Out War: Scoop
Jarrett Met ‘Four Or Five Times’ With Illegal Activists: DC

Military Bases: Obama’s New Illegal Alien Dumping Grounds: Michelle Malkin
Current Refugee Crisis is Pure Cloward-Piven: TAB
Obamacore: Bad to the Core: Betsy McCaughey

Prosecute the President: Ben Shapiro
Police: Armed Civilian Who Stopped Las Vegas Attack a 'Hero': AWR Hawkins
Shootings Up 43% in NYC, But At Least There’s No More Stop and Frisk: JWF

Economy

People Heading To The ER In Droves Under Obamacare: Cove
Why Piketty's Book Is Garbage.: Instapundit
3 Major U.S. Airlines Fight to Cancel Cheaper International Travel: DS

Scandal Central

Hillary: Amb. Stevens In Benghazi 'By His Own Choosing': TR
Internal Memo Reveals High-Level Dissent on Border Surge Policies: CIS
Middle Eastern Men Are Getting Driver's Licenses With Hispanic Names: PoliceOne

Climate & Energy

Obama and Showtime Admit to Exploiting Extreme Weather Events to ‘Shift’ Public Opinion: MRC
Some Dems See “Climate Change” As A Winning Issue: Cove
Trampling Democracy to Fight Climate Change: Ramesh Ponnuru

Media

Review: Holder Is ‘Obama’s Enforcer’ of Racialist, Lawless DOJ Agenda: J. Christian Adams
MSNBC Host: Some Conservatives Shouldn't Be Allowed To Hold Office: TR
A Word To The Idiots Who Are Blaming Eric Cantor's Loss On Tea Party Jew Hatred: Lid

Mark Levin on Hannity: The Republican Party leadership better wake up!: Scoop
Brit Hume: Talk radio may have helped Dave Brat win, overcome money disadvantage: Scoop
Reuters Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Falls To Just 37.5%: WZ

A Word To The Idiots Who Are Blaming Eric Cantor's Loss On Tea Party Jew Hatred: Lid
WHOA: California Court Destroys Teacher Tenure Systems: Ace
Barack Obama: historically ignorant AND astoundingly hypocritical!: Moe Lane

Reading between the lines of Clinton’s ‘Hard Choices’: Jonah Goldberg
Clintons So ‘Broke’ They Had To Steal WH Furniture: S&L
Dead Broke? Hillary’s Up to Her Old Games: Dick Morris

World

White House: Some Soldiers Can Be Left Behind: Cove
Mosul falls to al-Qaeda as US-trained security forces flee: Hot Air
UNREAL: Hillary Blames Stevens For His Own Benghazi Murder: ConTrib

White House: The Taliban Five Aren't As Bad As You Think: ForPol
Obama finds a patsy: Sec. of Defense Hagel taking the fall for ‘bonehead Bergdahl trade’: BPR
White House: 90 staffers knew about Bergdahl swap, but Congress couldn’t be trusted: BPR

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This company will print the Internet and deliver it to your house: Caitlin Dewey, WaPo
Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang’s: Brian Krebs
Evernote hit by denial of service attack: ComputerWorld

Cornucopia

The Obama Impeachment Bible: Jeffrey Lord
Is Obama’s Illegal Alien Release Program an Impeachable Offense?: CHQ
One Picture: 50 Years of Federal Intervention in Eduction: DS

Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: DONATE TO DAVE BRAT NOW

QOTD: "The president was never interested in working with the opposition in Congress, since he always regarded those who were not on his side politically as not worth the effort to persuade (after all, he believed he had the mandate and the power to roll over them). The 2010 elections and the loss of the House proved disastrous for the White House agenda as a result. When you use straw men to mock the other major political party, while never talking to them, accepting their input, or showing any interest in compromise, it should come as no surprise when the legislative path becomes stagnant for nearly four years. As a result, the president has resorted to executive actions without the consent of Congress or, at times, in seeming contempt or disregard for the law. The Bergdahl decision fits the pattern, which can also be seen in ignoring statutory deadlines and requirements of Obamacare, bypassing Congress in the environmental area to give greater leeway to the EPA to create new law, abusing his recess appointment power, and making unilateral enforcement decisions on immigration policy ." --Rich Baehr

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

HEH: The Least Trusted Name in News

The science is settled:


Fortunately, MSNBC has a plethora of eloquent analysts like Al Sharpton, which should do wonders for their trustworthiness in the future.


SAY, @GOPLEADER ERIC CANTOR: How's That Amnesty Deal With @BarackObama Working Out For Ya?

An immense upset just occurred in Virginia's Congressional District 7. Dave Brat -- Tea Party Challenger -- just unseated the sitting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor.

Cantor, of course, had been secretly conspiring with the most lawless president in American history to pass various forms of Amnesty.



Gee, I guess Amnesty isn't the winning issue that Jeb Bush, Mitt Romney and the Chamber of Crony Capitalism say it is.

Well done to Dave Brat and all of the Constitutional conservatives who supported him. You can help him out here for the General Election in November.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

MAP: The Second-Largest Religion in Each State

At The Washington Post, Reid Wilson offers us this interesting perspective:

...Christianity is by far the largest religion in the United States; more than three-quarters of Americans identify as Christians. A little more than half of us identify as Protestants, about 23 percent as Catholic and about 2 percent as Mormon.

But what about the rest of us? In the Western U.S., Buddhists represent the largest non-Christian religious bloc in most states. In 20 states, mostly in the Midwest and South, Islam is the largest non-Christian faith tradition. And in 15 states, mostly in the Northeast, Judaism has the most followers after Christianity. Hindus come in second place in Arizona and Delaware, and there are more practitioners of the Baha’i faith in South Carolina than anyone else.

Over at WaPo, there's a county view and a few other interesting charts.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

SURPRISE: Networks Refuse to Disclose Obama's Role in Humanitarian Crisis on Our Unprotected Southern Border

When it comes to "fundamentally transforming America" -- candidate Obama's stated agenda -- I think we can officially hang the Mission Accomplished banner on the U.S.S. Refugee Crisis.

Late last week, detention centers along the U.S.-Mexican border were crushed with a new surge of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children, yet two of the Big Three networks have barely touched this new headache for the Obama administration. And not a single reporter or anchor on ABC, CBS or NBC have cited Barack Obama’s extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) as cause for a humanitarian crisis that has led to children as young as 9-years-old illegally crossing the border without their parents.

How many children have died, been subject to assault, and otherwise abused making the trek from Central America?

Curious how the progressives' old saw -- you know, "If we can only save one child!" -- is ignored completely when the deaths of countless kids helps advance their agenda.

NBC’s Ned Potter, in a June 8 Nightly News story, painted a stark picture of children leading other children across the border. However, he never mentioned Obama’s extension of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) as a cause of this “humanitarian crisis.”

...Over on CBS Charlie Rose and Norah O’Donnell invited Republican Senator Marco Rubio to discuss the topic on the June 10 edition of CBS This Morning, but neither one of the co-anchors asked the Florida senator if Obama’s extension of the (DACA) was even partly to blame. Rose, however, did find time to push Rubio on immigration reform, as he pressed: “You got into some political pushback on immigration reform. When will we see thorough immigration reform?”

Even the Sacramento Bee lays the blame for an "international crisis of unaccompanied migrant children at U.S. border" on President Oprompter.

...a sudden surge – from 13,625 in 2012 to 24,668 last year – in children traveling north on their own. Homeland Security officials expect 90,000 unaccompanied minors to be detained by border patrol this year, maybe more. And those are just the kids caught; it doesn’t include the many stranded alone in Mexico’s dangerous border towns.

More likely, the migration is a result of ambivalent immigration policy that is sending mixed signals abroad. While the Obama administration has deported a record 2 million people, the administration has also extended a compassionate arm to undocumented children. It’s no surprise, then, that there’s a widespread belief in Central America that if kids can survive the treacherous journey and get across that border somehow, they will be allowed to stay.

These deaths, these injuries, this abuse of children -- not to mention the utter disregard of the American citizenry -- is on Barack Obama and the rest of the Democrat Party.


Hat tip: BadBlue News

Larwyn's Linx: Cruz: Immigration Crisis 'Direct Consequence of Obama’s Lawlessness'

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Nation

Cruz: Immigration Crisis 'Direct Consequence of Obama’s Lawlessness': TR
Obama Dismantles Immigration Law, Creates an Immigration Crisis: Sara Noble
Obama using Cloward-Piven scheme to collapse immigration system: PR

Hillary: 'It Doesn't Matter' If Bergdahl Deserted: TR
Hillary: We 'Struggled' to Buy 'Houses' After White House: WS
2001 was Hillary’s Year of Great Fortune, not of being “dead broke”: LI

Here's Why Eric Cantor Should Be Defeated: ConHQ
The Prisoner Swap Deal: Thomas Sowell
Obama Thinks He Has It Rough Now?: Rich Baehr

'I've Had Enough': When Democrats Quit on Obama: Ron Fournier
It Has Happened Again, And You Still Sit On Your Arse: Karl Denninger
VA says more than 57,000 patients are waiting for first visit: WaPo

Economy

Obama is driving the country to ruin: Michael Goodwin
The Continuing Obamacare Nightmare: David Limbaugh
Chicagoans brace for property tax hike to pay for public-sector pensions: MP

Scandal Central

White House doesn’t even know if new Executive Order on student loans is constitutional: Scoop
US State Dept Still Won’t Say If It Paid to Get Bergdahl Back: Bryan Preston
How the Taliban Wound Up with Stingers: Black Five

Media

Pat Caddell: Bergdahl Press Conference Obama’s “Jump the Shark” Moment: Nice Deb
When Harry Met Hillary: Mark Steyn
Regulators wreck Uber innovation: Glenn Reynolds

World

Hillary Rewrites Her History on Israel: Noah Pollak
Five Damning Letters: Muslim Brotherhood Infiltration of Administration: Shoebat
Iran's Plan to Destabilize Egypt: Gatestone

Rampant Rumors of Amnesty in Central America: Why illegal minors are flooding America: Scoop
America Cannot Do a Damned Thing: Mona Charen
Jihadists Have 170,000 Missiles Aimed at Israel: Pamela Geller

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Virtual reality headset Oculus Rift meets the Bloomberg terminal: QZ
How the NSA Could Bug Your Powered-Off iPhone, and How to Stop Them: Wired
Google Embraces Docker, the Next Big Thing in Cloud Computing: Cade Metz

Cornucopia

Rand Paul: Swap 5 Dems for Marine Held in Mexico: ‘I’m Thinking John Kerry, Hillary …”: CNS
Good News! The Boob Belt is back.: MOTUS
War Gear Flows to Police Departments: NYT

Image: Hero of Seattle campus attack: Shooter looked sad
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Today's the Day in #VA07: Dave Brat for Congress!

QOTD: "Pentagon data suggest how the police are arming themselves for ... worst-case scenarios. Since 2006, the police in six states have received magazines that carry 100 rounds of M-16 ammunition, allowing officers to fire continuously for three times longer than normal. Twenty-two states obtained equipment to detect buried land mines.

In the Indianapolis suburbs, officers said they needed a mine-resistant vehicle to protect against a possible attack by veterans returning from war.

“You have a lot of people who are coming out of the military that have the ability and knowledge to build I.E.D.’s and to defeat law enforcement techniques,” Sgt. Dan Downing of the Morgan County Sheriff’s Department told the local Fox affiliate, referring to improvised explosive devices, or homemade bombs. Sergeant Downing did not return a message seeking comment." --Matt Apuzzo, "War Gear Flows to Police Departments"

Monday, June 09, 2014

SHOCKA: Obama Signs Executive Order Authorizing Even More Wealth Redistribution

By Lindsey Burke

President Barack Obama signed an executive order today expanding “Pay-As-You-Earn,” the already generous repayment option available to students with federal loans that factors in their current income when calculating their monthly student loan payments.

Before 2014, students had access to a plan that capped monthly loan payments at 15 percent of a student’s discretionary income—defined as “the adjusted gross income minus the federal poverty line that corresponds to your family size and the state in which you reside”—with any remaining balance being forgiven after 25 years, or 10 years for those working in “public service.”

Not content with that generous option, the Obama administration issued regulations last November that created the new Pay- As- You- Earn plan, which caps what students can be required to pay to just 10 percent of discretionary income. Under the new Pay- As- You- Earn program, loan forgiveness begins after just 20 years—not 25—and the 10- year forgiveness for government workers and those working in public service still applies.

The pending executive order will extend Pay- As- You- Earn to an additional 5 million borrowers. The option currently is open only to students who took out loans after 2007, but the White House will extend the option to all borrowers who meet income eligibility.