Friday, January 16, 2015

The New Genocide

By Bill Whittle

I remember the first time I heard the world “Palestinian.” I was thirteen years old. The 1972 Munich Olympics were coming to an end, and I had been fascinated by American swimmer Mark Spitz and his seven gold medals, and had a big crush, for some reason, on Russia Gymnast Olga Korbut.

You’re still a boy at 13 – or I was, anyway. And when the first reports came in that Israeli athletes had been taken hostage by a Palestinian Group called Black September, I remember clearly having what seemed like a very adult idea at the time: namely, that I had thought the entire idea of the Olympics was based on the ancient idea of a truce; that enemies could take two weeks off and come together and compete at sports instead of hacking each other to death. It seemed a good an honorable thing to do. Who breaks a truce held under a burning flame? Wasn’t that the entire purpose of lighting and then extinguishing the flame – that was the duration of the cease-fire? Wasn’t the burning fire symbolic of sanctuary from violence, if only for a few days?

Apparently not. On September 5th, Palestinian terrorists broke into the Israeli compound at the Olympic Village in Munich. I didn’t know too much about Israelis either, to tell the truth, but I was learning fast. Two members of the Israeli team were killed near the dormitories, but we soon discovered that Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and Weightlifter Yossef Romano fought back with teeth, fists and a fruit knife, slashing, wounding and knocking unconscious several of their murders before being shot to death at point-blank range.

The Palestinians then took nine hostages, nine athletes visiting under the flames of truce land where so many of their relatives had been murdered just a generation before.

Then Jim McKay said this:

DENNINGER: How is it that no one is ever held accountable for the failures of government?

The Market Ticker points us to the catastrophic fail that is the Department of Homeland Security under the most feckless, criminally stupid, and corrupt transparent administration ever.

Homeland Security spent $50 billion over the past 11 years on counterterrorism programs, but the Department cannot demonstrate if the nation is more secure as a result.

[Sen. Tom] Coburn also found that 700 miles of the nation’s southern border remain unsecured. The DHS is not effectively administering or enforcing the nation’s immigration laws, while only 3 in 100 illegal immigrants will ever face deportation.

The report also found that the DHS spends more than $700 million annually to lead the federal government’s efforts on cybersecurity, but struggles to protect itself, federal and civilian networks from the most serious cyberattacks.

The Department has spent $170 billion for natural disasters since 2002 because of an increased federal role in which the costs of small storms are declared “major disasters.”


In short, DHS has done nothing of use in its time on the planet.

It cannot demonstrate any impact in reducing terrorism.

It cannot secure the border.

It cannot prevent or deter hacking, nor has it improved security of the nation's computer infrastructure.

It has blown ridiculous amounts of money on storm damage repairs, but only because small storms are rapidly declared "major disasters" and thus the font of federal spending opens.

In short "DHS" does nothing other than waste money and funnel it to friends and family.

Yet here's the punchline:

Even with the grim findings, Coburn expressed optimism about the Department’s future if Congress acts swiftly to address the problems in the report.

Uh huh.

If you had a department in a company that had five tasks and executed rationally on none of them you'd fire everyone involved. You certainly wouldn't allow it to go on for more than a decade before taking that action either.

But see, that's the problem with government. It never shrinks because nobody is every held accountable for failures nor do they lose their job when they either are incompetent or worse.

A corollary observation: government never shrinks, it always grows larger. Like some sort of tumor on the body politic, agencies expand in good times and bad. At best, incompetence and unaccountability are the hallmarks of most federal agencies. And, at worst, like the IRS under Steven Miller and Lois Lerner, government becomes weaponized against the very people who fund it.


Hat tip: BadBlue Prep News.

L'EMBARRAS: The Obama State Department

Our summer intern Biff Spackle (on Twitter @BiffSpackle) has a little fun with the sheer, unvarnished idiocy of President Jarrett, who was certainly behind this bizarre display.


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Larwyn's Linx: Terrorist Nation

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Nation

Terrorist Nation: Bill Whittle
Muslims Establishing No-Go Zones In America: NoisyRm
The Importance of Blasphemy: Sultan Knish

Valerie Jarrett wonders: Why not pass a bill on immigration?: Quentin Kramer
Yesterday's House Floor Vote Revealed Solid and Not-So-Solid Allies: CIS
Mark Levin: Boehner is 'play acting' because he thinks you're stupid: Scoop

Duke Cancels Muslim Call To Prayer Following Backlash: TR
A House Divided – America’s Tribal Rivalries: Sara Noble
Bush, Clinton, And The Political Class: Scott Rasmussen

Economy

California health care system enters death spiral: Stephen Frank
Obama to Add to $18 Trillion Debt with $4 TrillionBudget: Daniel Greenfield
The Six Conundrums of Socialism: FPM

Obama’s ‘free’ community college plan to make college more expensive: EAG
Obama to Further Tighten the Noose on ‘Big Awl’: RWN
Poll: Only 1 in 4 buy Team Obama's claim unemployment improving: Paul Bedard

Scandal Central

Obama sticks another thumb in Congress’s eye, releases 5 more from Gitmo: BPR
IT’S ON: NRA Sues Pennsylvania Cities For Illegal Gun Control Laws: Bob Owens
Video: Trey Gowdy Sets House on Fire: Declan Finn

New Documents: Lois Lerner Further Implicated in IRS Cover-up: JW
“Fast Track” to Delegate Enormous Power to Obama: GOA
Court Weighs Ohio's Taxation of out-of-Town Athletes: ABC

Media

A Partyist Solution to Partyism: John O. McGinnis
HEH: This Is Obama’s Last Foreign Policy Chance: Leslie H. Gelb
American Sniper: Movie Review And Self Reflection: Dana Loesch

Feminist Demands 2015: The Satire Version: Pocket
Chris Kyle’s Widow Breaks Down On Fox News, Says Upcoming Film Is ‘Authentic’: DownTrend
Protest Morons Block Traffic in Boston: JWF

World

Jihad,Islam and The French Farce In Paris: Joshua
Pure evil: ‘US Consulate in Jerusalem arming Palestinian guards’: Hooben
Valerie Jarrett on WH Response to Paris Attacks: ‘We Certainly Got the Substance Right’: WFB

Saudi Arabia Building An "Apartheid Wall": Lid
Boko Haram satellite images reveal destruction caused by militants: DailyMail
Pope Francis Defends Charlie Hebdo Killers: GWP

Mexican Consulates To Start Issuing Birth Certificates To Its Citizens In America: WZ
The latest to justify religious violence: Pope Francis: Hot Air
Islamic violence must end. The lives of billions are at stake: Michael Curtis

What is to be done: Velociworld
ISIS's Psychological War on U.S. Troops: Eli Lake and Josh Rogin
Europe’s Leading Rabbi Says Jews Should Arm Themselves: JWF

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Obama calls for government-run broadband service: Rick Moran
Great Expectations: The Rise and Fall of Google Glass Explorer Edition: DailyTech
Google search starts linking directly to event tickets: Engadget

Cornucopia

Obama Makes Some Changes: Springer
Fundamentalists and the Media: LL101
Hang it up, France: LI

Image: Kerry in Paris to Give 'Big Hug' to France
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QOTD: "I find myself increasingly repulsed by Muslim practices and beliefs. Middle Eastern, African, Asian, American, the country of origin makes no difference. Women and children treated as chattel, genital mutilation, child brides, honor killings, culturally accepted pedophilia, the black drapes and head coverings, no rights, no votes, little to non-existent educational opportunities, no voice, no choices, no recourse. Persecution of homosexuals. Imprisonment, stoning and whipping for morality crimes. Lack of free speech. The foul treatment of non-Muslims in Islamic countries. The demented hatred of Jews. Sharia Law. Wahhabism. Madrasas. Blind obedience to Mullahs... Hell, I even dislike their dislike of dogs....

My lip curls at their love of theocracies, a willingness to subjugate themselves to the whims of dissolute rulers along side an ancient text they can’t even begin to comprehend, subsuming their divine individuality to a tide of dogmatic mandates. I have no use, or respect, for the people who follow this religion. I’m past tired of their bombing, shooting, acid throwing, coup d’etat loving, rioting asses and it looks like the rest of the world could stand a break from these murdering bastards, too." --Daphne

Thursday, January 15, 2015

GENIUS: Freed Gitmo Detainee Opens ISIS Base in Afghanistan

By Judicial Watch

As President Obama frees droves of terrorists—including five Yemenis this week—from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo news reports confirm that a Gitmo alum who once led a Taliban unit has established the first Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) base in Afghanistan.

His name is Mullah Abdul Rauf and international and domestic media reports say he’s operating in Helmand province, actively recruiting fighters for ISIS. Citing local sources, a British newspaper writes that Rauf set up a base and is offering good wages to anyone willing to fight for the Islamic State. Rauf was a corps commander during the Taliban’s 1996-2001 rule of Afghanistan, according to intelligence reports. After getting captured by U.S. forces, he was sent to Gitmo in southeast Cuba but was released in 2007.

Rauf’s Department of Defense Joint Task Force Guantanamo file describes him as being closely associated with several senior level Taliban commanders and leaders. It also says that Rauf admitted involvement in the production and sales of opium as well as associations with criminal elements within the Taliban and the Northern Alliance. From the file: “Due to recent findings that detainee may have had a more important role within the Taliban than previously thought detainee’s intelligence value has been updated from low to medium due to his possible knowledge of: (1) Taliban leadership, (2) Taliban command and control.”

Rauf is one of a number of Gitmo terrorists who have returned to the fight after getting released, yet Obama continues freeing captives to keep his campaign promise of closing the prison. Just this week he let four Yemenis go, despite the risk that they will likely join Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based terror group that claimed responsibility for last week’s attack in France. In fact, dozens of freed Gitmo detainees have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the country where the 2009 Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained. In 2010 Judicial Watch reported that a number of high-ranking Al Qaeda militants in Yemen—once held at Gitmo—may have been involved in a sophisticated scheme to send bombs on a U.S.-bound cargo plane.

STIMULUS: ICE Begins Releasing Deportable Aliens to Work in the U.S.

By Jessica Vaughan

Most of the attention directed toward the president's executive actions on immigration has been focused on the plan to issue work permits to potentially five million illegal aliens who are the parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents (LPRs). But these are not the only illegal aliens who are getting work permits as part of the executive amnesty. Starting almost immediately after the president's announcement in November, ICE offices around the country were directed to go through their caseload of illegal aliens in the process of being deported and start releasing all those who, by the stroke of the president's pen, were no longer priorities for enforcement. And, under current policy, many illegal aliens who have criminal records and/or prior deportations also are getting work permits.

According to media reports, as of the end of 2014, more than 600 detained illegal aliens were freed by the executive action, 200 of whom were in Arizona.

Who gets a "get out of jail free" card?

"This vote represents one of the most important constitutional votes that has ever come before this body"

By Sen. Jeff Sessions

Today the House of Representatives acted to defend the American people, the Constitution, and the authority of Congress. They have voted to fully fund the Department of Homeland Security while denying the use of any funds to carry out the President’s illegal amnesty.

President Obama’s executive-ordered amnesty eliminates the immigration laws that exist today in order to force onto the nation immigration measures that Congress has repeatedly refused to pass. His action is unlawful, unconstitutional, and in violation of our legal heritage. At the time of our founding, even British kings had long been bound by acts of Parliament. This idea of the legislature—the people’s representatives—as the lawmaking body represents centuries of human progress and legal history that forms the foundational base of our Republic.

President Obama himself has emphatically declared many times that he lacked authority to execute this nullification scheme, correctly asserting that only an Emperor could issue such edicts.

Larwyn's Linx: The White House unveils its violence incentive system

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Nation

The White House unveils its violence incentive system: DTG
Free Speech Can Get You Killed? Support It Anyway.: Elise Cooper
Offenders Of The Western Faith: Victor Davis Hanson

The demographic shriveling of the Democratic party continues: Moe Lane
A Divided Establishment, For a Change: Leon H. Wolf
Obama White House Explains Why It's Avoiding the Term 'Radical Islam': CNS

Josh Earnest: Obama Will Try To Stop ‘Anti-Islam’ Articles: S&L
California Dem Senate Candidate Under Fire from Pro-Israel Activists: WFB
AFDI descends on San Fran with some inconvenient Islamic truth: iOTWreport

FBI Arrests ISIS-Backer Planning Bombing, Shooting at U.S. Capitol: Sooper
Ted Cruz Was Named World’s Best Debater in ’90s: GotNews
Romney: His Defeats Are His Credentials: Dick Morris

Economy

CA Residents Angry With DMV Clogged By Illegal Aliens: Breitbart
Scott Walker on school choice: ‘I trust parents’: EAGnews
The illegitimate Dodd-Frank law has nothing to do with the financial crisis: AEI

Scandal Central

America on the Precipice of Immigration Anarchy: Michael Cutler
ICE Begins Releasing Deportable Aliens to Work in the U.S.: CIS
More Lies: White House Says Only 6.8% of Gitmo Detainees Have Returned to Terrorism: GWP

Democrats will appoint Muslim to the House Intelligence Committee : Daily Mail
Obama DOJ Caught Targeting Legal Gun Dealers: GWP
“New Information” from State Dept. on Benghazi: Sharyl Attkisson

Climate & Energy

As Steyn Goes, So Goes Mann: Mark Steyn
Climate Change Alarmists Bully Media to Call Skeptics ‘Deniers,’ WaPo Agrees: NB
Oil's Price Crash Is Going To Rip The Global Economy To Shreds: Michael Snyder

Media

A Mayor, A President And Freedom Of The Press: Patterico
Martin Wolf’s Childlike Regulatory Faith: Alex J. Pollock
Glenn Greenwald Versus Charlie Hebdo: On the Wrong Side of Freedom: Cathy Young

Colossal Collapse of Al Gore Connected TV Network Will Cause Fox Fans to Rejoice: RWN
Obama Backs Primary Muslim Terror Objective: MB
This is What Journalistic Bravery Looks Like: AmInt

Mark Levin Rips 'Self-Hating Jew' Jon Stewart Leibowitz and 'Anti-Semite' Jimmy Carter: Scoop
Krauthammer: Everyone Knows What Radical Islam Is Except Obama: RCP
Duke University becomes a Parisian suburb: RS

World

Sen. Tom Cotton: U.S. Has ‘Surrendered Repeatedly to Iran’s Demands’: Kate Scanlon
Vicious Anti-semite Jimmy Carter Wants ICC To Investigate Israel For “War Crimes”: WZ
Why as a Pole I back UKIP immigration policy: Tomasz Zajaczkowski

Iran Building Missile Sites in Syria: Adam Kredo
Polls show British Jews fear for future in rising anti-Semitic climate: Times of Israel
Open Letter to the French President: A Palestinian Journalist in Ramallah

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The 10 Best Cars At The Detroit Auto Show: PopSci
Lawyers request to consolidate suits of former Sony employees: Danielle Walker
Report: RadioShack may file for bankruptcy next month: Mashable

Cornucopia

Day by Day: Chris Muir
Sky News Won’t Show Charlie Hebdo Cover But Showed Playboy Featuring Virgin Mary: Glob
Joining Forces: “Team-Plants” and Hollywood: MOTUS

Image: The 10 Best Cars At The Detroit Auto Show
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QOTD: "Almost half of British Jewish people fear they have no long-term future in Britain or Europe, while nearly one in two British people hold anti-Semitic views, a pair of surveys published on Wednesday showed...

...The CAA said 2014 saw the most anti-Semitic incidents recorded by police since records began 30 years ago.

Official figures from London’s metropolitan police showed anti-Semitic crimes more than doubled in the capital between November 2013 and November 2014, compared to the same period a year earlier." --AFP

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Meet the Radical Marxist that Union Fat Cats Want to See Occupy the Oval Office in 2016

By Labor Union Report

While many on the Left (and the Right) believe that the Presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton is a foregone conclusion, there is another woman that many on the Left—and of greater importance, within labor’s ranks—would rather see become President and they are beginning to voice their preference ever more loudly.

Enter Democrats’ more liberal senator from Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren.

Last week, the AFL-CIO hosted a “wage summit” and Warren–not Clinton–was among the keynote speakers.

  • View Warren’s full speech here.

Though, in the past, she has claimed she is not running for President, Warren is receiving much more attention from the institutional Left—including the ever-important union bosses—than the presumed nominee.

However, what AFL-CIO boss Richard Trumka said about Warren—and, to a lesser extent, Clinton—is causing concern for Clinton supporters:

Top 10 Stories From the Future

Courtesy of The People's Cube


It has become our New Year tradition to team up with Will Beria, our Listmaster of Things that Didn't Happen, and make an official statement. See our lists for the years of 2012 and 2013.

This time, however, instead of a summary of things that didn't happen in the past year, we are offering a list of Top Ten Things To Come in the coming year.

"I putt with Charlie"

Best. One. Yet.


I can't find the original artist on the web (i.e., "A 57th State Production"), but alert me in the comments if you know who created this particular keeper. Credit where due and all that.


Hat tip: Lee.

Larwyn's Linx: Men In Burqas

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Nation

Men In Burqas: Camp o' the Saints
The Troubling Math of Muslim Migration : Ian Tuttle
CAIR asks Fox News to drop 'Islamophobe' commentators: Thomas Lifson

Cassandra C. versus the Little Eichmanns: RS
Hey, How’s America’s Rail Security Doing?: Michelle Malkin
The Problem With Romney Nostalgia: Jonah Goldberg

Ted Cruz Just Auditioned to Be the Right's Bold Leader in 2016: Rebecca Nelson
Cruz: Abolish The IRS: Rachel Stoltzfoos
Ted Cruz on Mitt Romney: No need for ‘mushy middle’: Ben Schreckinger

House conservatives plot to blow up Republican Study Committee: Hot Air
Conservative Revolt Splits House GOP Group: Daniel Newhauser
Soros-funded MoveOn.org behind move to draft Warren for 2016: NECN

Economy

Bipartisan support to sellout the American tech worker: Breitbart
Two Cheers for Bad Governance!: Stephen Green
Terror Attack In France Rooted In Entitlement: Rachel Marsden

Scandal Central

Hotter Than Lava: Julia Angwin and Abbie Nehring, ProPublica
Boehner's bartender planned to poison him: CNN
Photo: Clinton with disgraced pedophile Epstein's social fixer at Chelsea's wedding: DailyMail

Media

‘WTF?’ ‘Did the Jews have guns?’ WaPo says Paris hostages were murdered in ‘shoot-out’: Twitchy
Gun control advocates attack American Hero Chris Kyle: John Lott
Sheriff Arpaio Invites Sharpton to Undergo Use-of-Force Scenario: PoliceMag

NY Times Misses a Detail: “What do we Want? Dead Cops!” That detail.: WeaponsMan
New York Times Endorses Thought Crimes: Erick Erickson
John Stewart Is A Major-League Hypocrite: HayRide

World

Angela Merkel Joins Pro-Nazi Muslim Brotherhood at German Rally : GWP
Boko Haram’s Radical Islamic Jihadist Army Barbarically Murders 2,000 More: RS
If This Guy Can Get Elected...: uShanka

Obama lies when the truth will do: Charlie Hebdo edition: CSIB
Levin: Obama should have sent Al Sharpton to Paris: Breitbart
Oxford University Press bans sausages, pigs from children’s books in effort 'to avoid offence': DailyMail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Convoluted Trail Linking North Korea to Sony: TNW
Study Suggests Wi-Fi Exposure More Dangerous To Kids Than Previously Thought: Forbes
NASA’s 10 rules for developing safety-critical code: SD Times

Cornucopia

C'mon people: Springer's Blog
Last night, I dreamed of a world without peas.: MOTUS
Sterling Archer Romantic Advice: Sterling Malory Archer

Image: The Islamic sermon that taught me what’s happened to Birmingham
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QOTD: "The president’s flat line response to the Charley Hebdo massacre and then the terrorist attack on the kosher market in Paris (which he failed to characterize as an act of anti-Semitism in his public statement after it happened) illustrated his lack of comfort on this terrain. This is a president that has spent his time in office trying desperately to reach out to the Arab and Muslim worlds to change their perception of the United States. That he has failed in this respect is no longer in question but his disinterest in taking part in a symbolic response to extremist Islam stands in direct contrast to his eagerness for détente with an Iran that is the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism. The cold shoulder he gave the Paris march resonates not so much because of the odd and very conspicuous absence of an American representative of any stature, but because it fits with the perception of his attitudes.

If he and his defenders think this is unfair, that is understandable. But a president who disdains acts of moral leadership cannot complain when they are judged as having failed to send the right message to the world. A president who thought of himself as the leader of the free world would not have made such a mistake. One that disdains that title couldn’t help but make it." --Jonathan S. Tobin

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

ICEBERG, DEAD AHEAD!

By Jim Quinn

Based on the average of four separate valuation models that have been accurate in assessing whether the stock market is overvalued or undervalued over the last century, the stock market is currently over valued by 89%. The stock market was overvalued by 88% before the 1929 Crash. It was “only” overvalued by 74% in 2007 before the last Crash. It has only been more overvalued once in market history – 2000. I wonder what happened after that?

If you were paying attention in Statistics class in college, you know that when something reaches 2 standard deviations from the mean, you’ve reached EXTREME levels. The market valuation is now past 2 standard deviations. Anyone staying in the market or buying today is betting on the market to reach 2000 internet bubble proportions. I’ll pass. You will be lucky to “achieve” a negative 2% nominal return over the next ten years. After taking inflation into account you will likely end up with a -5% to -10% annual return, with a crash thrown in for good measure.

Can a Republican Governor Start to Fix the Nation's Worst Economic Mess in Illinois?

By Investor's Business Daily

State Government: Bruce Rauner became Illinois' 42nd governor on Monday, the first Republican since 2003. He inherits a state that's been dubbed "America's Greece," but it's another opportunity to show what a GOP chief executive can do.

A big part of the GOP tsunami in 2014 occurred at the state level, with Republicans expanding their hold on governors' mansions and legislatures with wins in blue states such as Maryland, Massachusetts and President Obama's Illinois.

The number of GOP governors has grown to 31 from 21, control of legislatures has expanded to 68 of 98 partisan legislative chambers, and Republicans now have total control of some two dozen states.

There's a reason for this success, and it's the fact that GOP governors tend to promote a free-market economy with lower taxes, less regulation and a generally friendlier business climate that emphasizes wealth creation rather than redistribution.

According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nine of the 10 fastest-growing state economies last quarter had GOP governors, including North Dakota with its fracking boom and 8.4% growth rate. Six of the 10 worst-performing states were run by Democrats. We'll refrain from another Texas vs. California comparison.

Surrounded by Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin, where GOP governors Rick Snyder, Mike Pence and Scott Walker turned their states around by taking on public-sector unions and enacting right-to-work laws, Illinois has languished as the bluest of blue states, an example of the atrophy that dominance by statist Democrats can impose.

GOOD NEWS: Democrats' Latest Economic Plan Goes Full-Bore Marxist

By James Pethokoukis

There’s been a big gap between how Democrats have described America’s economic problems and the scope of the solutions they’ve offered. Recall President Obama’s late 2013 speech where he declared the “dangerous and growing inequality and lack of upward mobility that has jeopardized middle-class America’s basic bargain” to be the “defining challenge” of our time. Strong stuff.

But what have been the subsequent policy prescriptions? Relatively small stuff, like raising the minimum wage. You can debate whether it’s a good idea or not, but only 3% of workers age 25 and over earn the minimum wage or less. Raising it to nearly $10 would raise incomes of only 11% of workers who live in poor households. Or take the “free” community college proposal. Attendance is already essentially free for many students. What’s more, research on student outcomes suggest, notes AEI’s Andrew Kelly, that “pushing tuition to zero may not be a silver-bullet solution to lackluster student success.”

Party progressives, such as Elizabeth Warren, have pushed for bolder policies. And a new proposal by Rep. Chris Van Hollen — the ranking minority member on the House Budget Committee not some radical back bencher — certainly qualifies. This from ace Washington Post reporter Lori Montgomery:

The question is...

...at this point, should we send it back?



Hat tip: Papa B.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Couldn’t Make the Paris Rally - The NFL Playoffs Were On

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Obama Couldn’t Make the Paris Rally - The NFL Playoffs Were On: Sara Noble
Islam’s One-Two Punch: Violence Then Moonbattery: Moonbattery
Obama Wasn't There: GayPatriot

Barack Obama’s Harriet Miers moment. Seriously.: Moe Lane
Kerry: You People Quit Criticizing Us About The Paris March: Patterico
Jake Tapper: President Of France Was First To Visit U.S. After 9/11: WFB

Here’s Who Is And Isn’t Publishing The New Charlie Hebdo Cover: Austin Hunt
Tweets of the Day, …It Really IS All Valerie Jarrett’s Fault edition: Moe Lane
Islam Gets Special Treatment: Dennis Prager

Snowden and Russian Intelligence: An Update: 20 Committee
Romney And The GOP’s Five-Ring Circus: Moe Lane
Twitter account for CENTCOM hacked by (maybe) ISIS: Sooper

Economy

Letter: Why aren’t we taking care of our own poor people first?: RRW
Meet the ‘Other’ Woman Union Bosses Want in the Oval Office: LUR
Basic Economics: Walter Williams

Scandal Central

Unanswered Benghazi Questions: 7th in a Series: Sharyl Attkisson
Snowden and Russian Intelligence: An Update: 20 Committee
Holder Accuses GOP of Intentionally Using Voter ID Laws to 'Depress the Vote': Breitbart

Climate & Energy

College Prof Retires and Admits Global Warming is a Lie: CI
Slate Proves Beyond A Shadow Of A Doubt That Global Warming Science Is Bunk: DownTrend
Kerry: Climate Change 'Enormous Cloud Hanging Over All of Us': WS

Media

The Media’s Standard in the Terrorist Fight: Erick Erickson
The Trouser Press: Mark Steyn
The Last Garrison of Defense for Obama’s Legacy is Manned by Jonathan Chait: Leon Wolf

NBC Silent on 2,000 Dead in ‘Deadliest Massacre’ by Islamist Group: Kristine Marsh
Black Mob Brawl Hits Major U.S. City: Paul Bremmer
Nitwit Liam Neeson Doesn’t Think You Should Have A Right To Bear Arms: Bob Owens

World

Is Paris Burning?: Cal Thomas
Au revoir les juifs et La France: LI
How did the Charlie Hebdo Terrorists Plan Their Rampage?: Jack Dunphy

Argentina’s Tampon Shortage: AmInt
Putin Playing The Great Game Of Civilizations While West Chips Away At Russia’s Finances: NoisyRm
Of all the EU failures, its policy on asylum seekers is the worst: Telegraph

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Ivy League’s meritocracy lie: How Harvard and Yale cook the books for the 1 percent: Lani Guinier
Viking Runes as Encryption in the 1500s: Bruce Schneier
NASA’s 10 rules for developing safety-critical code: SD Times

Cornucopia

Join me in asking CAIR to respond to Egyptian president’s call for religious reform : Allen West
Terrorists Get Inspired By A Whoremaster: TSG
Is the White House a ‘Sleeper Cell’?: Roger L. Simon

Image: How did the Charlie Hebdo Terrorists Plan Their Rampage?
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QOTD: "The attack on Charlie Hebdo in France was not cyber [like the attack on Sony that George Clooney so vociferously protested]. It was more serious. It was the murder of 12 journalists for exercising their freedom of speech. And while millions of people expressed solidarity with the slain journalists, and their right to speak freely, Clooney has been silent. No petition. No newspaper ad. No online petition...

Liberals in show business are afraid of getting killed by Muslims, you see. And apparently they’ll defend–though not to their deaths–the rights of Muslims to kill them." --Warner Todd Huston

Monday, January 12, 2015

Guess who will grace the next cover of #CharlieHebdo?

CNN has the story, but not the cover itself.

Editors of the Paris-based satirical magazine released the cover of their next issue on Monday night, and it shows a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed, holding up a sign with the now-famous slogan "Je Suis Charlie."


That slogan has become a rallying cry in the wake of the horrific shootings that left 12 dead at the magazine's offices last week.

...The new cover was shared by Liberation, a French newspaper that lent office space to the surviving staff members of Charlie Hebdo... Liberation's news story about the new cover said it was specifically meant to depict Mohammed.

...Many major news organizations, including CNN, have refrained from showing any of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons that purport to show the prophet. Executives at CNN have cited concerns about the safety of staff members and sensitivity about Muslim audiences.

Frauds. Punks. Cowards. Either you believe in freedom of speech or you don't.

So we know where CNN stands. Or rather squats. On its knees, in a pose of submission.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.

RESET: Russia Names NATO its Number One Military Threat

By Investor's Business Daily

New Cold War: A revised Russian military doctrine identifies NATO as Moscow's No. 1 threat, as the Obama administration announced it was returning control of 15 bases in Europe back to the host governments.

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave President Obama a lump of coal in his Christmas stocking in the form of a revised strategic doctrine.

It re-emphasizes that NATO, notwithstanding President Obama's "flexibility" and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "reset" button, is the No. 1 strategic threat facing Russia.

We are reminded of Obama's rebuke of Mitt Romney in the third presidential debate, when the GOP nominee was ridiculed for listing, in response to a question, Russia as our No. 1 strategic geopolitical threat.

"The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because ... the Cold War's been over for 20 years," said the president who promised the Russians more flexibility as he disarmed the United States.

Apparently Putin does not share the view that the frigid era of confrontation is over.

The latest Russian strategic doctrine, the fourth since the end of a Soviet Union whose demise Putin has mourned and whose territories he seeks to reclaim, comes after the 2008 war against the former Soviet republic of Georgia, its annexation of Crimea and its creeping invasion of Ukraine.

Russian strategic doctrine was revised by Boris Yeltsin after the USSR's demise. It was revised again in 2000 under Putin, and again in 2010 by Dmitry Medvedev.

Some would argue the newest incarnation merely gives shape for the first time to Russian neighbors' fears and has a few disturbing new wrinkles that bear watching in light of a staggering Russian military renaissance.

The doctrine announces Russia intends the "lawful use of the armed forces . . . to ensure the protection of its citizens outside the Russian federation."

This was the pretext Moscow used to seize the Crimea and Nazi Germany's excuse to annex Austria and the Sudetenland prior to World War II. This is not good news for the Baltic states NATO is obligated to defend.

Bold Career Move by @BenAffleck

I guess good ol' Ben stands with Charlie, too.



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