Thursday, January 22, 2015

OH, MY: Flight Logs Confirm Clinton and Dershowitz Flew on Pedophile Billionaire’s Sex Jet

Clinton 2016: This Time With Pants!

Bill Clinton took repeated trips on the "Lolita Express"—the private passenger jet owned by billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein—with an actress in softcore porn movies whose name appears in Epstein's address book under an entry for "massages," according to flight logbooks obtained by Gawker and published today for the first time. The logs also show that Clinton shared more than a dozen flights with a woman who federal prosecutors believe procured underage girls to sexually service Epstein and his friends and acted as a "potential co-conspirator" in his crimes.

Hillary's got to be livid.


A clear path to the 2016 nomination and now her philandering hubby finds himself entangled in a pedophilia scandal?

Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 in Florida to one count of soliciting underage girls for sex (and one count of adult solicitation), for which he served just over a year in county jail. But sprawling local, state, and federal investigations into the eccentric investor's habit of paying teen girls for "massages"—sessions during which he would allegedly penetrate girls with sex toys, demand to be masturbated, and have intercourse—turned up a massive network of victims, including 35 female minors whom federal prosecutors believed he'd sexually abused. He has reportedly settled lawsuits from more than 30 "Jane Doe" victims since 2008; the youngest alleged victim was 12 years old at the time of her abuse.

This is one sick dude. And it begs credulity to believe that Clinton knew nothing about the sex club Epstein is said to have operated for the rich, powerful and connected.

HEROES, NOT ZEROES: American Sniper vs. the State of Obama's Disunion

By Investor's Business Daily

Valor: When Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood talked to an empty chair at the 2012 GOP convention, many thought he'd lost it. Now more Americans are watching his story of hero Chris Kyle than saw the State of the Union.

There was a sense of irony in President Obama praising himself for a "persistent, steady resolve" in fighting an Islamic terrorism he refuses to call by name.

He delivered his State of the Union speech just as the U.S. military was moving the assault ships Iwo Jima and Fort McHenry into the Red Sea to evacuate American personnel, if necessary, from another of his success stories imploding into chaos.

Yemen is on the verge of following Libya's slide into a failed state dominated by Islamic radicals. The Islamic State that Obama silently watched grow remains in control of wide swaths of Syrian territory where many red lines were drawn in crayon.

It's also in control of Iraqi towns where Americans expended great blood and treasure before he threw their sacrifice away with a precipitate withdrawal.

Rather than a persistent, steady resolve, Americans see a callous cluelessness. After four Americans were murdered in a terrorist attack in Benghazi, they saw their commander in chief fly to Las Vegas for a fundraiser. Rather than march with a world protesting the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, they saw their president stay home to meet and greet the San Antonio Spurs.

Obama touts success where there are no successes, which is perhaps one of the reasons the ratings for his State of the Union addresses have steadily declined and why his policies, which he said were on the ballot in November, were soundly rejected by voters.

Obama's absence from the Paris march is reminiscent of the empty chair that Eastwood talked to at the 2012 Republican National Convention. It was meant to be a metaphor for Obama's all-style-and-no-substance presidency.

How to get an A in journalism professor DeWayne Wickham's class

A noteworthy observation about the First Amendment from our tireless free speech advocate, Mark Steyn:

~This is an American journalism professor in the 21st century:

The First Amendment ends at insulting Mohammed.

His argument is the classic Heckler's Veto. Because a not insignificant proportion of young Muslim men are bananas, they killed a bunch of people in Niger over the last Charlie Hebdo cover. Whether they even saw the magazine is unclear, but at any rate we should rein in free speech just in case the crazies are minded to kill any more people.

If you're in DeWayne Wickham's class at Morgan State and you'd like to get an A, why not threaten to kill him?

Indeed, it would be heartening if his entire class were to issue a mass death threat unless they're instantly upgraded to magna cum laude.

That's what Wickham's concessions on free speech do: Incentivize violence.


In addition to serving as a columnist and occasional television commentator, Wickham is a professor at Morgan State. Which tells you all you need to know about the state of higher education.


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Larwyn's Linx: New GOP "Border Security" Bill Removes Border Fences

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Nation

New GOP "Border Security" Bill Removes Border Fences: Neil Munro
Black Activists in Chicago Slam Obama's Illegal Amnesty: RebelPundit
House immigration plan slammed, spends $10b and deports no illegals: Exam

Obama Croons: I Did It My Way: Debra Saunders
Obama’s State of the Union: “Death is a tax loophole”: PW
Why Obama Fails: W. James Antle III

Young Lives Matter: RS
Renee Ellmers: Worse Than a Democrat: Leon Wolf
ERLC’s Russell Moore ‘Disgusted’ by GOP’s Decision to Drop Pro-Life Bill: ERLC

Trey Gowdy Has a Little Reminder for President Obama : IJR
Does Obama Believe What He Says Anymore?: Ron Fournier
Clinton plans to intimidate with fundraising ‘like nothing you’ve seen’: Hill

Economy

A Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea: Steve Berman
States Continue War Over Obamacare: Sharyl Attkisson
Teacher Tearfully Opts Out of Common Core: ‘Cruel and Harmful’: MenRec

Scandal Central

Facebook: Your Papers, Please!: Liberty Speaks
NYS Bombshell: Powerful Democrat Sheldon Silver to be arrested on corruption charges: RWN
DOJ Officials Say They Will Not Charge Ferguson Cop Darren Wilson With Civil Rights Violations: WZ

Media

Historic! 300 Million Americans Avoid Obama’s State of the Union as Ratings Plummet: JWF
Major Newspapers Blast President Obama’s Opposition to Bipartisan Iran Legislation: Tower
Chris Kyle Himself Had the Best Comeback to ‘American Sniper’ Critics in a 2012 Conan Interview: IJR

The New Yorker — Yes, the New Yorker — Finally Gets It About Islam: Michael Walsh
An important message for Bill Maher: Personal Liberty
Choke on it, Michael Moore: WZ

World

U.S. to Award Iran $11.9 Billion Through End of Nuke Talks: Adam Kredo
Democrat Senator Slams Obama on Iran: Ace
Obama uses SOTU to announce surrender to Iran: RS

'Islamization' Of Paris A Warning To The West: CBN
The Muslim population of America is expanding at warp speed: Carol Brown
Rick Santorum Again Questioning Legal Immigration: VDARE

Man Stabs 9 On Tel Aviv Bus; Mental State Preliminarily Diagnosed As "Palestinian": Ace
Election Envy: The Europeans and the Jews: Spengler
10 Israeli tourists hurt in anti-Semitic attack in Argentina: JPost

Netanyahu Accepts Invitation to Speak Before U.S. Congress Next Month: Tower
German anti-Muslim leader quits after photo of him posing as Hitler surfaces: The Week
Eric Pickles' letter to Muslim leaders: the text in full: Independent

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Progressive Insurance Dongle Hacked: Jeff Goldman
The Most Effective Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses: MarketingProfs
Apple's Time Machine, Cover Flow, and Safari for iOS Targeted in New Lawsuit: MacRumors

Cornucopia

Remembering the last lion: Victor Davis Hanson
NH Lottery launches $1 bacon-scented scratch ticket: WCVB
Crazy Alec Baldwin demands to know Dean Cain’s military credentials: Twitchy

Image: Obama Greeted By “Obama Sucks” Signs In Boise
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QOTD: "There is no assimilating invaders who wish to replace your society with theirs, whether they call themselves ‘immigrants,’ ‘refugees’ or ‘asylum-seekers’…When it comes to the soul of a country, there really can be only one." --Michael Walsh

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Democrat Senator Slams Obama's Pro-Iranian Propaganda

I think I have to rip off     just a bit     a bunch     oh, hell, almost all of Ace's bit on Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) trashing President Obama's pro-Iranian nuclear rhetoric.

"I have to be honest with you, the more I hear from the administration and its quotes, the more it sounds like talking points that come straight out of Tehran. And it feeds to the Iranian narrative of victimization when they are the ones with original sin," Menendez said during a Congressional hearing.

...Archliberals Brian Williams and Richard Engel also take Obama to task for his brazenly dishonest claims about national security.

Williams began by asking about Obama's claims about the state of the world, which seem to be entirely fantasized:

"Richard, we woke up here in the States this morning – new ISIS video. Two Japanese hostages," Brian Williams began. "They’re asking for $200 million, or they're going to assassinate both of them. Video of a Russian intelligence ship cruising into the harbor in Havana; it might as well have been 1962. And then this on-again, off-again possible coup in Yemen, a U.S. ally."

...Richard Engel delivered the coup de grace: "It sounds like the president was outlining a world that he wishes we were all living in, but which is very different than the world you just described with terror raids taking place across Europe, ISIS very much on the move."

...Obama is doing the same thing as a Soviet dictator claiming the sugar crop hit record levels when in fact it was a catastrophe. He is simply doing it with foreign policy -- an area in which American media have severely cut back on personnel, and so aren't as in strong a position to rebut him.


The folks over at The Tower have more on the first American president in history who seems hellbent on handing nukes to terrorists.


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OBAMA'S PARTNERS IN PEACE: Our Latest Bloody Terror Attack on Civilians Was "Brave and Heroic"

By IPT News

A Palestinian terrorist stabbed and injured nine Israelis, four of whom remain under serious condition, on Wednesday morning after boarding a Tel Aviv bus. Security camera footage obtained by Israel's Channel 10 shows the terrorist chasing after civilians running from the bus following the initial attack, stabbing a woman in the back, reports the Jerusalem Post.

Click here to watch the security footage.

Witnesses and police said the terrorist repeatedly stabbed the bus driver before attacking other passengers. Three Israel Prison Service officers driving behind the bus chased the terrorist through parking lots and alleyways before shooting him in the leg and arresting him.

The Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency, revealed that the 23-year old terrorist, Hamza Muhammad Hassan Matrouk from Tulkarem, admitted that he was motivated by this past summer's war in Gaza, recent Temple Mount unrest, and radical Islamic propaganda that glorifies "the reaching of heaven."

Hamas leaders quickly praised the attack and called for others to conduct similar attacks.

"A morning of resistance, a morning for the nation," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum wrote on his Facebook page, the Times of Israel reports. His post featured a photo of a combat knife on the ground surrounded by police tape.

Hamas official Husam Badran referred to the terrorist attack as "extraordinary" on Facebook and called for further "acts of resistance" by groups and individuals.

Hamas and Palestinian Authority officials and media frequently incite their populations to commit violence against Israeli civilians. Palestinian institutions systematically glorify terrorist attacks and praise the attackers, advocating for other Palestinians to emulate their violent actions.

Only an hour after the terrorist attack ended, Palestinian media glorified the Tel Aviv stabbing with numerous cartoons.

One of the cartoons, posted within 90 minutes after the attack, features a smiling terrorist with a bloody knife, praising the attack. The cartoon bus includes a Jewish star and the number of the bus line where the attack occurred with blood pouring out of the doors onto the street.

The images later were removed from Twitter, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Palestinian media often boasts of terrorist attacks shortly after they have occurred. Numerous social media posts, for example, called for a "Knife Intifada," an uprising that entailed widespread stabbing of Israeli civilians.

 

Click here for an Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) comprehensive report on recent Palestinian terrorist attacks and incitement to violence.

REPORT: Progressive Insurance Driving Tracker Lacks Basic Security, Allows Attacker "Full Control" of Vehicles

Well, this seems rather disturbing.

Corey Thuen, a senior researcher with Digital Bond Labs, reverse engineered Progressive Insurance's SnapShot device -- used in 2 million US vehicles -- and tested it on his 2013 Toyota Tundra truck. After picking apart the hardware and testing its wireless communications while plugged into the vehicle's ODP-II diagnostic port on the car's local network, Thuen found the Progressive dongle doesn't authenticate to the cellular network or encrypt its traffic. The firmware isn't signed or validated, and there's no secure boot function. Also, the device uses the notoriously unsecure FTP protocol.

The device runs on CANbus, the very same network where key vehicle functions -- including braking, park assist steering, and ECU -- are housed. It sends messages over the CAN to request information from the vehicle's computer systems, such as revolutions per minute, to calculate the driver's ultimate insurance policy rate.

"Anything on the bus can talk to anything [else] on the bus," he says "You could do a cellular man-in-the-middle attack" on the device's communications to Progressive, because there's no authentication or encryption. But a MITM would require spoofing a cell tower to capture the traffic, which Thuen did not test.

It would be easy for data to be leaked wirelessly. "What happens if Progressive's servers are compromised?" he says. "An attacker who controls that dongle has full control of the vehicle."

The official response from Xirgo, the manufacturer of the dongle device, and Progressive isn't exactly reassuring.

Xirgo had not responded to Forbes requests for comment. Thuen said he’d tried to disclose his findings to Xirgo but got no response. Progressive said it hadn’t heard from Thuen, but handed this comment via email to Forbes: “The safety of our customers is paramount to us. We are confident in the performance of our Snapshot device – used in more than two million vehicles since 2008 – and routinely monitor the security of our device to help ensure customer safety.

“However, if an individual has credible evidence of a potential vulnerability related to our device, we would prefer that the person would first disclose that potential vulnerability to us so that we could evaluate it and, if necessary, correct it before the vulnerability could be exploited. While it’s unfortunate that Mr. Thuen didn’t share his findings with us privately in advance, we would welcome his confidential and detailed input so that we can properly evaluate his claims.”

One could easily imagine an information warfare operation executed by an adversary of the U.S. that targeted automobiles; said actor could literally paralyze the economy by shutting down traffic across the country.


Hat tip: Real-Time Science & Technology News at BadBlue Tech.

STUNNER: Even Thoroughly Politicized DOJ Reluctantly Admits it Can't Find Reason to Charge Darren Wilson

It would seem that even the most corrupt Attorney General in modern American history (surpassing John Mitchell, in my view) couldn't find a reason to charge Officer Darren Wilson of the beleaguered Ferguson P.D.

Say, maybe it was the videotape of the "Gentle Giant" ripping off a convenience store and roughing up the owner. And all of the physical evidence at the scene. And the witnesses of every race that backed up Wilson's story. Et cetera.

The Justice Department is taking the final steps toward closing the politically charged investigation into the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and clearing the white police officer involved of civil rights charges.

Federal prosecutors have begun work on a legal memo recommending no civil rights charges against the officer, Darren Wilson, law enforcement officials said.

That would close the case in the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. An investigation by the F.B.I., which is complete, found no evidence to support the charges against the officer, the officials said.

Of course, facts, logic, reason and evidence won't sway the Leftist race-baiters bent on fomenting division and violence. But enough about MSNBC.


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Larwyn's Linx: The 112 broken promises Mr. Obama made in previous SOTU speeches

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Nation

The 112 broken promises Mr. Obama made in previous SOTU speeches: Jason Pye
In His Last State of the Union, Obama Disastrously Boasted of an End of War: Ace
Obama boasts he's "stopping" the "advance" of ISIS: WZ

Forever Determined To Let Us Know He Won: Erick Erickson
The Top Five Takeaways From The #SOTU: Caleb Howe
While Obama bashes constant fundraising...: WZ

WTH: Islamic Opening Prayer to Allah in the House of Reps: Clash
Congressman Confirms Obama Likely Blackmailing Petraeus: ConTrib
Early Presidential Prospects: Thomas Sowell

Economy

A Tale of Two Very Different Cities: Heather Mac Donald
Cadillac Tax: Clunker for Labor, Opportunity for GOP: Betsy McCaughey
Citigroup’s $150 Million in Currency Losses Deserve a Closer Look: WSOP

56% of Americans Think Obama Has Done Nothing To Help The Economy: Erick Erickson
Switzerland Wins As Its Central Bank Surrenders: Peter Schiff
Obamacare's Slow Death?: Richard A. Epstein

Scandal Central

McCaul Border Bill a Trojan Horse for Amnesty: Daniel Horowitz
TSA Whistleblower Confirms Illegal Aliens May Board Planes With CA Licenses: GotNews
The “NAACP Bombing” … or The Barbershop Bang?: Michelle Malkin

Climate & Energy

A 290% increase in the gasoline tax would be good for consumers: RS
Y2Kyoto: Horse, Barn: SDA
Obama: Greatest Danger Not Terrorism or Debt: It's "Climate Change": Treehouse

Media

Clint Eastwood Just Sent Michael Moore A Wake Up Call He’ll Never Forget: Qpolitical
CAIR Joins Lib Hate-Fest for American Sniper, Calls Chris Kyle ‘Hate-Filled Killer’: GWP
Shocker: MSNBC Guest Who Made Racist Remarks About Bobby Jindal is an Obama Donor: JWF

When Krugman Sneezes, Kausfiles Catches Cold!: Mickey Kaus
Rupert Murdoch Quietly Ditches Longtime Institution of the Page 3 Girl as "Old-Fashioned": Ace
MSNBC Hosts Lead Chorus of Vile Misogynist Tweets Against Republican Joni Ernst: Sooper

World

More on Islamic State, the God-damned* death cult now running large sections of Iraq and Syria: Moe Lane
Islamic State executing ‘educated women,’ UN says: Times of Israel
Report: ISIS Trying To Shoot Down U.S. A-10 Warthogs With MANPADS In Iraq: WZ

The Valerie Jarrett Comedy Hour: “We Do Think Our Strategy Is Working” Against ISIS: WZ
Israel Moves Tanks to Northern Border Following Hezbollah-Iranian Invasion Threats: GWP
Home Depot Just Made a Decision That Will Likely Alienate At Least Half their Customers: Steve Straub

Does Europe Have No-go Zones?: Daniel Pipes
Jews, outnumbered by Muslims, suffer under mob rule: Jonah Goldberg
NBC’s Richard Engel Blasts Obama’s Foreign Policy Claims as Wishful Thinking: WFB

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Hubble takes “largest picture ever” and it’s stunning: RedOrbit
Microsoft Research wants to use lasers to recharge phones: Slashgear
Dish found not to infringe Fox's copyright by letting users stream programs: IT World

Cornucopia

Film Study: Auburn most capable of replicating Ohio State’s success: Murf Baldwin
SOTU Preview: Dress to Kill and Soak the Rich: MOTUS
Obamacare Site Quietly Relays Personal Data To 3rd Party Advertising Companies: WZ

Image: The Top Five Takeaways From The #SOTU
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QOTD: "Barack Obama, commentators on both sides of the aisle have noted, often seems insecure. In an impromptu moment last night, he again had to point out he won twice. The left loved it. It was not in the prepared remarks, but in a speech entirely catering to the left, there was probably some planning.

It did, however, undermine all the bipartisan overtones of his speech. He may have won twice, but thanks to him, the GOP has won Congress, Governors Mansions, and State Legislatures galore in both 2010 and 2014. In fact, Barack Obama last night spoke to the fewest Democrats in Congress in 90 years.

...As you are reading this, Barack Obama’s tenure ends in less than two years. In a year, he will see a member of his own party distance himself or herself from the President in order to win. The President is right. He has no races left to win.

And thanks to his leadership, he has very little legacy to left to defend. The world is a far more dangerous place than when Barack Obama took office. The nation is far more divided. And Republicans should commit themselves to seeing that Barack Obama’s legacy lies on the ash heap of history." --Erick Erickson

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

THE REAL STATE OF THE UNION: By the Numbers

Say, I wonder if our beloved President will mention any of these stats?

$18.1 Trillion:
Total Debt Under Obama As Of January 14, 2014. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/14/15)
$10.6 Trillion:
Total Debt When Obama Became President On January 20, 2009. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/9/15)
$7.5 Trillion:
Amount Added To The National Debt Despite Obama's 2010 State Of The Union Declaration That He Would Not Leave "A Mountain Of Debt." (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/14/15; President Barack Obama, Remarks On The State Of The Union, Washington, D.C., 1/27/10)
$4 Trillion:
Amount Of Debt That Obama Once Called "Irresponsible" And "Unpatriotic." (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Fargo, ND, 7/3/08)
$1.8 Trillion:
Cost Of ObamaCare's Coverage Provisions Through 2024. (CBO, 4/14/14)
$1.3 Trillion:
Total Student Debt Held By Americans. (Federal Reserve Board Of Governors, Accessed 1/14/15)
$869.3 Billion:
Total Taxes In ObamaCare. (JCT, 6/15/12; CBO, 4/14/14)
$95 Billion:
Cost Of New Regulations Added Since Obama Became President. (American Action Forum, 1/6/15)
$60 Billion:
Cost Of Obama's Community College Tuition Plan Over Ten Years. ( The Associated Press , 1/9/15)
$3.4 Billion:
Average Amount Of Debt Added Daily Since Obama Became President. (U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/14/15)
$3.4 Billion:
How Much The Construction Of The Keystone Pipeline Would Contribute To GDP According To A State Department Review. (United States Department Of State, 1/14)
46.5 Million:
Average Number Of Americans Receiving Food Stamps In FY 2014. (Department Of Agriculture, Accessed 1/14/15)
13 Million:
Average Number Of Americans Who Have Joined The Food Stamp Program Since FY 2009. (Department Of Agriculture, Accessed 1/14/15)
7 Million:
Number Of Americans Who Will No Longer Have Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Due To ObamaCare. (Congressional Budget Office, 4/14/14)
5.5 Million:
Americans Who Have Fallen Into Poverty Since Obama Became President. (U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 1/14/15)
2.3 Million:
Americans Who Are Only Marginally Attached To The Labor Force. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/14/15)
401,000:
Construction Jobs Lost Since Obama Became President. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/14/15)
321,000:
Manufacturing Jobs Lost Since Obama Became President. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/14/15)
273,000:
Number Of People Who Left The Labor Force Between November And December Of 2014. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/14/15)
$56,492:
Current Debt Per Capita Under Obama. (U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 1/14/15; U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/14/15)
42,100:
Number Of Jobs The Construction Of The Keystone Pipeline Would Support Over Two Years According To A State Department Review. (United States Department Of State, 1/14)
$21,724:
Increase In Debt Per Capita For Americans Since Obama Took Office. (U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 1/14/15; U.S. Treasury Department, Accessed 1/14/15)
$4,154:
Increase In Family Health Care Premiums Under Obama. (The Kaiser Family Foundation, 9/10/14)
$2,484:
Decline In Median Household Income Since Obama Became President. (U.S. Census Bureau, Accessed 1/14/15)
1978:
The Last Time The Labor Force Participation Rate Was At Its Current level. (BLS, 1/24/14)
677:
Individuals Who Have Been Through Obama's Revolving Door. (Center For Responsive Politics, Accessed 1/12/15)
215:
Rounds Of Golf Obama Has Played Since He Has Taken Office. (Mark Knoller, Twitter Feed, 12/31/14; Mark Knoller, Twitter Feed, 1/4/15)
174:
Number Of Days Obama Has Spent All Or Part On Vacation. (CBS News, 12/22/14; Mark Knoller, Twitter Feed, 1/4/15)
100%:
Total Debt As A Percentage Of GDP Under Obama. (OMB, Accessed 1/14/15)
65.7%:
Labor Force Participation Rate When Obama Became President. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/14/15)
62.7%:
Labor Force Participation Rate In December. (Bureau Of Labor Statistics, Accessed 1/14/15)
65:
Number Of Fundraisers Obama Attended In 2014. (Mark Knoller, Twitter Feed, 12/2/14)
32.8:
Average Number Of Weeks Someone Will Be Unemployed. (BLS, 1/14/15)
14.5%:
Poverty Rate In 2013. (U.S. Census, Accessed 1/23/14)
13.2%:
Poverty Rate Before Obama Became President. (U.S. Census, Accessed 1/23/14)
6:
Veto Threats Issued By Obama In The New Year. (The White House Website, Accessed 1/19/15; ABC News, 1/16/15)
0:
Attempts To Actually Work With Congress

The Leading From Behind Twitter Stream, Episode 8,028

What do they call it again? Oh yeah, Smart Power™.


In related news, ISIS is executing educated women in Syria and Iraq (War on Women™), throwing homosexuals off the roofs of high buildings (caution: graphic photos) and engaging in a "crucifixion frenzy".

Oh, and another Islamic terror group, Boko Haram, is slaughtering thousands of innocents.

And while all of this is going on, President Obama is doing his level best to ensure that the world's greatest state sponsor of terrorism can finally get its hands on nuclear weapons. Which, should that happen, will result in terror attacks of unprecedented magnitude.

Yes, he's "historic", alright.


SEN. JEFF SESSIONS: McCaul Bill Breaks Republican Promise to Voters on Immigration

By Sen. Jeff Sessions

Republicans won a historic midterm vote on the promise to take real action—not symbolic gestures—to end the immigration lawlessness. It is essential that any immigration measures moved by the Republican Congress actually do the job. Too often, Congress will pass anything on immigration except that which will actually work. Indeed, the repudiated Gang of Eight bill was touted as the ‘toughest border security [and] enforcement measures in U.S. history.’

Unfortunately, border legislation being marked-up on Wednesday in the House Homeland Security Committee again fails to include the measures necessary to fulfill its promises.

One of the most dramatic ways in which the President has undermined immigration enforcement is by ordering agents to release apprehended illegal border-crossers by the tens of thousands. Yet the pending legislation does nothing to end this endemic practice of catch-and-release, ensuring large amounts of illegal immigration will continue unabated.

The Chairman McCaul proposal does not include the following reforms needed to achieve a sound immigration system: it does not end catch-and-release; it does not require mandatory detention and return; it does not include worksite enforcement; it does not close dangerous asylum and national security loopholes; it does not cut-off access to federal welfare; and it does not require completion of the border fence. Surprisingly, it delays and weakens the longstanding unfulfilled statutory requirement for a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.

If Congress learned anything from last year’s ongoing border disaster, it should be that border security cannot be achieved unless immigration agents are permitted to do their jobs and our laws are actually being enforced. A nation cannot control its borders if being caught violating those borders does not result in one’s swift return home.

As it stands now, Congress provides billions of dollars every year to the Department of Homeland Security for border security and immigration enforcement and yet DHS uses those resources to flout the laws Congress has passed, rather than to enforce them. Without ending catch-and-release, any additional funds for DHS will simply be used to facilitate the transfer of more illegal immigrants into U.S communities. Border security must be approached differently in a time when we have a President who makes up his own laws, and where illegal immigrants actually hope they will be apprehended so they can be released into an American city or town. We live in a new reality.

As such, it is essential that any border plan include some of the following measures, or that these measures be adopted first:

  • Mandatory E-Verify
  • Mandatory detention and repatriation for illegal entrants
  • Expedited deportation for border-crossers
  • Close asylum loopholes
  • Bar access to welfare and tax credits
  • Penalties for the Administration’s continued failure to implement the biometric entry-exit system as required by law
  • Penalties for the Administration’s continued failure to build 700 miles of double-layer border fence
  • Refusing visas to countries with high overstay rates or that will not repatriate their citizens

Americans have begged and pleaded for years for an end to the lawlessness. But the politicians have refused to listen. Time and again, proposals are offered with tough promises that the legislation does not fulfill. This time must be different. We cannot be satisfied with measures that create the appearance of doing something while changing little. We need reforms that actually work, protecting the jobs and communities of the American citizens we represent.”

NOTE: To read Sen. Sessions’ recent immigration handbook on an effective immigration strategy for the 114th Congress, please click here (PDF). You can contact Chairman McCaul by calling 202-225-2401.

Say, I wonder how President Obama did on his 2014 promises?

By Ben Shapiro

President Obama made a lot of promises about how he’d make the world a better place in 2014. He said he’d fight the bad guys, force them to back down, stand up for freedom around the world.

So, let’s test how he did.

In April 2014, the Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which literally means no education for girls, kidnapped 276 schoolgirls. On May 9, First Lady Michelle Obama posed with this sign:

Taking over President Obama’s weekly address, she said this:

"This unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education - grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls,' she said. 'Let us hold their families in our hearts during this very difficult time, and let us show just a fraction of their courage in fighting to give every girl on this planet the education that is her birthright."

A couple of weeks later, Obama himself spoke about Boko Haram in a speech at West Point:

"Tragically, no American security operation can eradicate the threat posed by an extremist group like Boko Haram. That is why we must focus both on rescuing those girls, but also on supporting Nigerian efforts to educate its youth."

So, what happened to the girls? Many of them were forced to convert to Islam and then forcibly “married” – i.e. raped – by the members of Boko Haram. Just days after Michelle Obama’s #BringBackOurGirls hashtag, Boko Haram reportedly drove 3,000 out of their homes and kidnapped their children. Just days after Obama’s West Point address, two of the girls were found buried and another two were found raped in the forest. In June, Boko Haram reportedly kidnapped another 91 girls. That came on top of the slaughter of an entire village the month before.

So yeah, that worked out well.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama: Let’s tax college savings plans

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Nation

Obama: Let’s tax college savings plans: RS
Obama declares war on the middle class: RS
President Obama sings the same old song: Cal Thomas

The Other State of the Union: American Sniper: DiploMad
‘Diversity’ in Action: Thomas Sowell
Untrue Truisms in the War on Terror: Victor Davis Hanson

Thousands Rally Against Radical Islamic Terrorism in TX: Warner Todd Huston
Islamists Encounter Resistance at Texas Convention: MB
CAIR Official Whines The Term “Islamist” Is Offensive: WZ

Sh** Hillary Says: WFB
The Closing of the Republican Mind: Erick Erickson
Rep. Blackburn: 'We Do Not Have a Revenue Problem': CNS

Economy

Swiss Shock: Gigantic Losses: Michael Snyder
'Free' Community College (Just Tax College Savings!): Scott Shackford
Government created the financial crises--and might be doing it again: Exam

Scandal Central

The Wrong Kind of Market Disruption: Bill McMorris
Muslim Brotherhood Agent Pelosi Wants On Intel Committee: ‘Allah Will Not Allow You To Stop Us’: Shoebat
Not Robbery, Execution ! – Saint Louis Hotel Manager Is 7th Murder In 24 Hour Span: Treehouse

Climate & Energy

Bigger problems than global warming: NASA discovers 8 new dangerous near Earth asteroids: WUWT
NASA Facing The Heat For Hottest Year Lie: Lid
Media Hype Davos Climate Change Focus as 1,700 Private Jets Fly In: MRC

Media

MSNBC: Bobby Jindal is ‘trying to scrub some of the brown off his skin.’: Moe Lane
Europe’s Islamic Go Zones: Sara Noble
This Professor Hopes SCOTUS Doesn’t Protect Speech He Doesn’t Like: CI

Chris Kyle’s Widow Overwhelmed By ‘American Sniper’ Success, Elites Unhappy: DC
13 Reactions Slam Comedian Seth Rogen’s Words About ‘American Sniper’: IJR
Michael Moore and Seth Rogen Pretend Their Tweets Didn't Criticize 'American Sniper': Tom Blumer

World

Moscow Conference Unites ‘Ferguson’, ‘Palestine’, Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine, US Hard Left: NoisyRm
Time to recognize Mexico as geopolitical threat: Frank Vernuccio
U.S. A-10 reportedly shot at by ISIS militants with Strela MANPADS in Iraq: Aviationist

11 Things About Islam’s ‘History Of Violence’ That You Probably Didn’t Know: IJR
Iran: IRGC General Killed in Yesterday’s Syria Air Strike: The Tower
Muslims Declare Jihad on Dogs in Europe: Soeren Kern

In Defense of Europe's So-called Far Right: Daniel Pipes
Terror Goal: Behavior Modification of the West: Dick Morris
When Normal Is Deadly: How Boko Haram Made Us Ok With Slaughter: Daily Beast

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Google may invest in SpaceX for Internet through satellites: CIO
Japanese androids hold news conference, chat with baby droids: CIO
Top-Secret Design Will Get Your Resume Into The Right Hands: Gizmodo

Cornucopia

35 Things Wrong With America: Roosh Valizadeh
MLK's ‘Arsenal of Guns’ Show He Was All About The 2nd Amendment!: Sooper
Barack Obama Marks MLK Day With A Picture Of . . . Barack Obama: WZ

Image: Lowell Birge Harrison, "Moonlight on the River" (1919)
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QOTD: "In this [2016 presidential] election, there is a great opportunity for the Republican Party. Voters are ready to seriously consider an alternative to the disastrous Obama policies. However, if the GOP offers only the “pale pastels” of another moderate loser and not the “bold colors” of a conservative, the party will surely lose again.

If Bush, Christie or Romney wins the nomination, millions of conservatives will stay away from the polls or vote third party. The days of holding one’s nose and voting for the Republican candidate as the “lesser of two evils.” are over." --Jeff Crouere

Monday, January 19, 2015

According to the government, there's no inflation. And there isn't. Unless you live in the real world.

By Jim Quinn

Government data reports are so funny. The blaring headlines today tells us that prices dropped in December. We are all saving billions from the drop in oil and gas. Hallelujah!!!

The corporate MSM never digs into the numbers to get the real truth. These reports and their distribution to the sheep are designed to keep you sedated and calm. Facts are not necessary. How this data pertains to your everyday life is not important to the .1% who control the flow of information.

Here is a link to the detailed inflation numbers by category. We already know they massage these numbers to achieve a happy ending, but even the massaged numbers tell an entirely different story than the one peddled to the masses by the government and corporate media.

Remember When Liberals Sided with U.S. Workers?

By Bill Chip


1991 Push to Allow Hiring of Illegals Stopped by Coretta Scott King Letter

Congress's frenzied reaction to President Obama's second-term push for "comprehensive immigration reform" (CIR) has revealed a split within the GOP, and within the conservative movement more generally. This split, which is not new, pits businesses that want to maximize access to low-cost foreign labor against "social conservatives" who are uncomfortable with the liberal project to transform American society through mass immigration. The split has been skillfully exploited by Democratic politicians and by mainstream media outlets that have been advancing the notion that CIR is inevitable.

Not so long ago, this conservative split on immigration policy was matched by a split among liberals or "progressives" on balancing the needs of native-born and foreign-born workers. Indeed, from the earliest days of the Republic, and even before, American reformers who fought against child labor, union-busting, and racial discrimination were also supportive of immigration restrictions that would balance the desire of aliens to relocate to this country with the desire of American workers to earn wages that permitted formation of a family. This created a split on the left, analogous to the longstanding split on the right, between those who viewed immigration restriction as discrimination against foreigners and those who viewed open borders as discrimination against American workers, especially minority workers.

Booker T. Washington, America's pre-eminent civil rights leader in the late 19th century, was unconcerned about accusations of "nativism" when he pleaded with Southern business leaders to look for workers "among the eight millions of Negroes whose habits you know" rather than to "the incoming of those of foreign birth and strange tongue and habits". The country's most authentic Mexican-American leader, Cesar Chavez, was unashamed to have his United Farm Workers report undocumented workers to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and he was joined in protests against the hiring of illegal immigrants by liberal icons such as Ralph Abernathy and Walter Mondale.

27 Facts That Prove Just How Badly Barack Obama's Presidency Has Devastated the Middle Class

By Michael Snyder

During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday evening, Barack Obama is going to promise to make life better for middle class families. Of course he has also promised to do this during all of his other State of the Union addresses, but apparently he still believes that there are people out there that are buying what he is selling. Each January, he gets up there and tells us how the economy is “turning around” and to believe that much brighter days are right around the corner. And yet things just continue to get even worse for the middle class. The numbers that you are about to see will not be included in Obama’s State of the Union speech. They don’t fit the “narrative” that Obama is trying to sell to the American people. But all of these statistics are accurate. They paint a picture of a middle class that is dying. Yes, the decline of the U.S. middle class is a phenomenon that has been playing out for decades. But without a doubt, our troubles have accelerated during the Obama years. When it comes to economics, he is completely and utterly clueless, and the policies that he has implemented are eating away at the foundations of our economy like a cancer. The following are 27 facts that show how the middle class has fared under 6 years of Barack Obama…

#1 American families in the middle 20 percent of the income scale now earn less money than they did on the day when Barack Obama first entered the White House.

#2 American families in the middle 20 percent of the income scale have a lower net worth than they did on the day when Barack Obama first entered the White House.

#3 According to a Washington Post article published just a few days ago, more than 50 percent of the children in U.S. public schools now come from low income homes. This is the first time that this has happened in at least 50 years.

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Nation

Who are the Real Deniers?: David Solway
The Power of Low-Level, Random, But Unceasing Muslim-on-Kafir Violence: GoV
While Jews Are Slaughtered, the Left Worries About Islamophobia: AmPower

Obama Warns Dems Not to Bow to (Jewish) Donors: Tatler
Obama: Europe Shouldn’t Respond with Hammer to Muslim Terrorism: FPM
Attack of the Open-Borders Leftists: The Fight To Ban “Illegal Immigrant”: VDARE

The Street Sweeper: Erick Erickson
The Subdivided States Of America: Derek Hunter
The Three Amigos of GOP Defeat in 2016: Jeff Crouere

Clinton Insiders Worried About Hillary ‘Laying Low’ Without a Message: WFB
Report: Harry Reid 'most vulnerable' in 2016, may retire: Paul Bedard
Happy B-Day Illinois CCW! 91K Permits, but Where’s the Bloodshed?: BuzzPo

Economy

Ted Cruz: Simplify tax code to abolish IRS as we know it: LI
GOP easily counters Obama’s pro-forma rhetoric on tax hikes: Moe Lane
What Oxfam doesn’t want you to know about global capitalism: Fraser Nelson

Scandal Central

Sen. Feinstein’s husband stands to profit big from government deal: ACC
‘Free Beacon’ Banned From Stand with the Prophet Event: WFB
How Multiculturalism Caused the Paris Terror Attacks: Bill Whittle

Media

‘American Sniper’ Shatters Records With $105 Million Weekend: Breitbart
Fresh Controversy Hits ‘Selma’: Algemeiner
Lives at home with parents, blocks traffic: LI

Charlie Hebdo Editor-in-Chief: Media Who Blur Cartoons ‘Insult Their Citizenship’: Elizabeth Allen
Marine Le Pen (NYT Op-Ed) – Don’t Play Word Games – Call This Threat By Its Name: Treehouse
As Four Jews Buried, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin Redirects Back to Palestinians: CAMERA

World

Jihad in France: It's Just Beginning: Guy Millière
Belgian terror cell head reportedly arrested, with Mossad's help: Hayom
Islamist militants 'plotting to target Germany anti-Islamisation marches': Telegraph

Israel Calls Hezbollah’s Bluff: AmInt
Up to 11 Killed in Reported Israeli Strike on Convoy of Hezbollah, Iranian Commanders in Syria: Algemeiner
Jewish kids in Antwerp watch as paratroopers guard against jihad [photos]: Twitchy

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Global Risks 2015: IoT Hacking Becomes a Bigger Threat: Gizmodo
Report: Inside North Korea's network, NSA saw signs of Sony attack: Jeremy Kirk
Chinese Spies Stole Australia’s New F-35 Lightning-II fighter Jet Design, Snowden Reveals: Hacker News

Cornucopia

How to teach your child to play with fire rather than curse the darkness.: MOTUS
My List of “Wrong stuff liberals believe in with a passion”: Dr. Tar
This Baby Turtle Eating a Strawberry Is the Most Adorable Thing You’ll Ever See: RWN

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QOTD: "President Obama’s former Secretary of Defense and Director of the CIA Leon Panetta said he believes there is an imminent threat of a terrorist attack to the United States.

Panetta said, “I don’t think there’s any question. I think what we’re seeing, as I said, is a much more aggressive chapter and a much more dangerous chapter in terms of the war on terrorism.”

Panetta said that Islamic extremist attacks in Paris and Ottawa, as well as the terrorist threat thwarted in Belgium, indicate a new era of combatting terrorism.

The former head of the chief intelligence-gathering agency said that it is clear that terrorist organizations such as ISIS are ramping up their recruiting efforts.

Referring to terrorist organizations, Panetta said, “They are engaged in a much more aggressive effort to conduct violence not only in Europe, but I think it’s a matter of time before they direct it at the United States as well. This is a real threat and we’ve got to be prepared to confront that.”" --Washington Free Beacon

Sunday, January 18, 2015

AMERICAN INTIFIDA: Democrat Leftists and Islamists Join Forces to Promote Terrorism

By Terresa Monroe-Hamilton

Trevor Loudon wrote an article that each and every one of us should read and take note of: Intifada USA? American Radicals Build Ties to “Palestinian” Revolutionaries. I agree completely with Trevor when he says that 2015 could usher in chaos, unrest and violence as we have not seen in our lifetime. The Communists are now joining hands in America with the Radical Islamists, forming an American Intifada – an uprising, resistance, revolt. They are using racism as the building blocks and their hate for America as the glue to forward massive havoc and violence in our streets.

The riots in Ferguson and New York were just the warm up act for these thugs. They are looking to create what they think is an American Spring, which will push every radical and Communist ideal there is out there. It will scream racism, go after the police and alphabet agencies, cry social and environmental injustice, push demands for Islamic acceptance and Shariah law – and in the mix will be the ever-present Jew-hatred which is the kindling for their hatred. In this twisted case, the enemy of my enemy is my ally. For the short term anyway.

The Dream Defenders

Taking the lead are primarily Black and Latino revolutionaries who claim to represent the movements for “black lives” and racial justice, who took a jaunt to Palestine to show solidarity against – you guessed it – Israel. Meet the Dream Defenders Palestine Delegation:

The Solution to the Growing Scourge of French Anti-Semitism

By Caroline Glick

January 16 is the nine-year anniversary of the beginning of the Ilan Halimi disaster.

On January 16, 2006, Sorour Arbabzadeh, the seductress from the Muslim anti-Jewish kidnapping gang led by Youssouf Fofana, entered the cellphone store where Halimi worked and set the honey trap.

Four days later, Halimi met Arbabzadeh for a drink at a working class bar and agreed to walk her home. She walked him straight into an ambush. Her comrades beat him, bound him and threw him into the trunk of their car.

They brought Halimi to a slum apartment and tortured him for 24 days and 24 nights before dumping him, handcuffed, naked, stabbed and suffering from third degree burns over two-thirds of his body, at a railway siding in Paris.

He died a few hours later in the hospital.

In an impassioned address to the French parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Manuel Valls gave a stirring denunciation of anti-Semitism, and demanded that his people stop treating it as someone else’s problem.

In his words, “Since Ilan Halimi in 2006… anti-Semitic acts in France have grown to an intolerable degree. The words, the insults, the gestures, the shameful attacks… did not produce the national outrage that our Jewish compatriots expected.”

Valls insisted that France needs to protect its Jewish community, lest France itself be destroyed.

“Without its Jews France would not be France, this is the message we have to communicate loud and clear. We haven’t done so. We haven’t shown enough outrage. How can we accept that in certain schools and colleges the Holocaust can’t be taught? How can we accept that when a child is asked, ‘Who is your enemy?’ the response is ‘The Jew?’ When the Jews of France are attacked France is attacked, the conscience of humanity is attacked. Let us never forget it.”

Valls words were uplifting. But it is hard to see how they change the basic reality that the Jews of France face.