Tuesday, March 17, 2015

BUMMER: Obama loses Israeli election to Netanyahu (UPDATE: includes funniest reactions to the losers)

Iranian-born Valerie Jarrett hardest hit.

Netanyahu faced an insurgent left-wing party, likely because of his hard line against both Iran and President Obama’s horribly failed foreign policy.

This is the first time the Israeli left came so close to coming back to full power in this post 9/11 world.


...Netanyahu’s Likud Party isn’t in such a strong position that it can control the whole government and seeing as how Israel is a Parliamentary system Netanyahu and Likud will now have to arrange a governing agreement with some of the lesser, left-wing parties.

But the fact that Bibi pulled this out at the last second is also telling. Israel is not ready to hand leftists full power.

Recall that Obama and his minions are reported to have spent U.S. taxpayer dollars to defeat Netanyahu.

Ted Cruz Befuddles MSNBC Hack on Congressional Role in Foreign Policy Using... History, Facts

For some reason, Ted Cruz decided to appear on MSNBC's The Morning Shmoe (Mark Levin's name for the lowest-rated news program on the lowest-rated network), where the combined IQ of the hosts -- the science is settled -- is roughly the square root of that of a goldfish.

Which makes Ted Cruz schooling Mika Brzezinski akin to teaching calculus to a Maine lobster.

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, okay, do you know exactly what the deal is to call it a bad deal? Do you have all the information? I don't think you do.

TED CRUZ: We don't. We have some that the administration has leaked. And oddly enough the administration leaks more details about the deal to the media than they actually inform Congress. But I can point out the idea you're suggesting, if I'm understanding you'll right, that Congress shouldn't be interfering in what the president is doing, from the beginning of our country, Congress has done so.

In 1987 Congress passed the Boland Amendment restricting the funding of the Contras in Nicaragua. Now Ronald Reagan at the time was trying to stop communists in Nicaragua. Now my guess is you probably would have been very supportive of the Boland Amendment which was literally ripping the carpet out from underneath what President Reagan was trying to do in Nicaragua.

Let’s go even further back. Woodrow Wilson, at the end of World War I, negotiated the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I. Went back to Congress, the Senate rejected it. Now on your view, I guess, you know, the New York Daily News would run a story on the front page putting the pictures of all the senators and calling them traitors.

SERIOUS QUESTION: Why doesn't Jeb Bush just run for the Democrat nomination?  

Jeb Bush has zero, none, zippo chance of winning the presidency. Should he somehow secure the Republican nomination -- an unlikely prospect given his bizarre and unpopular opinions -- the notion that he could both secure the support of a conservative base that he has demonized and insulted and the Democrat masses is delusional.

Rumor had it that his brother did cocaine at one point in his early years. Given his Quixotic quest, it could be that Jeb indulged in some serious hallucinogens. Jen Kuznicki explains the latest temper tantrum by "the Smart Bush":

...Using the same logic as President Barack Obama on Iran, Bush condescendingly stated in South Carolina this morning, “I have not seen, I don’t know if you’ve seen, a plan that says ‘we’re gonna deport everybody,’” Mr. Bush said at a breakfast event in Greenville Tuesday morning, kicking off a multi-day swing through the state.

So, according to Jeb, it’s either massively increase immigration on all levels, or deport everyone, a convoluted logic that rules Obama’s dealings with Iran; Obama’s way or war.

The plain fact is, that Jeb is pursuing illegal actions. It is the cornerstone of his campaign that we not enforce immigration law–another thing he has in common with the Imperial Obama... ...See, for Jeb Bush, obeying the law is too hard, and he conveniently gives no remedy for those refusing to “come out of the shadows.”

...[According to Jeb,] everyone who disagrees with him is an extremist candidate who wants to deport everyone, and then he says they don’t want to do anything but fear monger, when actually, they are more in line with what the American people actually know; you must enforce immigration law.

Given that Hillary is damaged goods, why doesn't Jeb try for the Democrat nomination? He has the name recognition, the far Left policy positions on Amnesty and Common Core, and the backing of crypto-liberal Karl Rove.

This isn't a joke.

Bush should switch parties and make a serious run for the Democrat nomination. Because what is a joke is the idea that he could win the presidency running as a Republican.


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Larwyn's Linx: Document theft and destruction nothing new for Hillary

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Nation

Document theft and destruction nothing new for Hillary Clinton: Paul Mirengoff
Clintons Cover-Up Team: John Fund
Psaki Sweater Bombs: Hot Air

A Monster of Our Own: Kevin D. Williamson
Obama’s Iran deal imperiled by… Democrats?: LI
“We live in constant fear of upsetting the WH [White House]”: Sara Noble

Two Warnings: Thomas Sowell
Hillary Clinton should face criminal charges: Joseph Curl
The 5 Most Profound Political Quotes Of The Last 5 Years: John Hawkins

Democrat-Controlled House May Add $100+ Billion In Deficit Spending: Ace
Pathetic Mitch McConnell finally plays "hardball": Ace
Draconian Chris Christie Gun Laws Brand Aspiring Police Officer a Felon: BuzzPo

Economy

Dems Choose Coercively Financed Abortion Over Fighting Human Trafficking: MB
Hillarynomics: Bill’s third term or Barack’s?: James Pethokoukis
White House Floats Bankruptcy Process for Some Student Debt: WSJ

Scandal Central

Obama’s Immigration Nightmare: Exponential Executive Lawlessness: David Limbaugh
Tu casa es mi casa: Economist
White House office to delete its FOIA regulations: USA Today

Climate & Energy

California Is Turning Back Into A Desert And There Are No Contingency Plans: Michael Snyder
Slip Sliding Away: Audubon

Media

Run, Al Gore, Run!: LI
The “Hillary Was Right to Break the Law Because Republicans Are Mean” Defense: GayPatriot
Dishonest Australian Correspondent Attempts To Turn M855 Into “Cop Killer” Ammunition: Bob Owens

Ron Fournier on Dems and Hillary’s Email: Don’t buy the spin, they are scared to death: Glob
‘Outstanding propaganda’! Valerie Jarrett touts Obama’s ‘uniquely American recovery’: Twitchy
Former White House Advisor: Hillary Clinton Email Scandal A ‘Pimple on the Ass of Progress’: Breitbart

World

Cotton Letter Smokes Out Dangerous Concession to Iran: David Gerstman
US intel report scrapped Iran from list of terror threats: Times of Israel
ISIS’ Soldiers Caught Cowardly Fleeing Battlefield in Attire that Would Get Them Killed Back at HQ: IJR

Hillary Clinton's Anti-Israel, Pro-Hezbollah Donor: IBD
Obama refuses to renew 40-year-old emergency oil supply pact with Israel: Pamela Geller
Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?: Jeffrey Goldberg

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Spam Filtering Service had access to Clinton Classified Emails: Marc Perkel
Xiaomi's fitness tech to help power smart shoes: Michael Kan
Adobe gets its docs ducks in a row with Document Cloud: iMore

Cornucopia

Obama’s Guiding Light: MOTUS
A Chess Tournament At The White House: Springer's Blog
Old Hippies Still Dying of Drug Overdoses by the Thousands: BlurBrain

Image: Israeli polls open with Netanyahu's power hanging in the balance
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QOTD: "Those who say that Hillary Clinton’s email scandal is the 1990s all over again may not know how right they are. We’re not just witnessing a replay of Hillary’s “rules don’t apply to me,” hunker down mentality. We’re witnessing a replay of document expropriation and destruction by Ms. Clinton.

This time, the documents in question are records, in the form of emails, that document her conduct as Secretary of State. In the 1990s, the documents Clinton stole and/or caused to be destroyed established her role as the attorney for participants in a fraudulent scheme called Castle Grande.

Clinton, working with Webster Hubbell and Vince Foster, stole hard copies of the billing records of the Rose law firm where they were partners. They erased the electronic version of these records. One set of these documents was later found in the White House, just outside Hillary’s private office, by an employee. Another set was found in Foster’s attic by his widow, some years after he committed suicide. Clinton’s time sheets (handwritten, as was the practice back in the day) were never found." --Paul Mirengoff

Monday, March 16, 2015

GOOD NEWS: Obama administration reports Iran and Hezbollah are no longer terror threats!

Oh, my goodness. What a relief! The 36-year long era of state-sponsored terror by the Iranian regime has finally drawn to a close.

An annual report delivered recently to the US Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, removed Iran and Hezbollah from its list of terrorism threats, after years in which they featured in similar reports.

The unclassified version of the Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Communities, dated February 26, 2015 (PDF), noted Iran’s efforts to combat Sunni extremists, including those of the ultra-radical Islamic State group, who were perceived to constitute the preeminent terrorist threat to American interests worldwide.

...The United States and other Western nations, along with a coalition of regional allies, both Sunni and Shiite, has been launching attacks against Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria in recent months. The Sunni group, also known by its acronyms IS, ISIS and ISIL, is an offshoot of al-Qaeda that has carved out a self-proclaimed caliphate across large swaths of Syria and Iraq, both of whose governments are allied with Iran’s.

The Shiite Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is funded and mentored by Tehran, has been fighting the Islamic State, independently of the American-led campaign, both in Syria and Iraq.

Meanwhile, the US has been engaged in marathon talks with Iran in an effort to reach an agreement on its nuclear program. Tehran, according to the National Intelligence threat assessment, has “overarching strategic goals of enhancing its security, prestige, and regional influence [that] have led it to pursue capabilities to meet its civilian goals and give it the ability to build missile-deliverable nuclear weapons, if it chooses to do so.”


I'm so relieved. After all of the years of killing American warriors, Iran has finally renounced terrorism and has become our ally.

Thanks, President Jarrett!


Hat tip: BadBlue News. Illustration adapted from TNR.

SECURITAY: Hillary's Super-Secret, Super-Secure Email Server Can Only Be Accessed with a... Web Browser

Crowd-sourcing at its finest.

Marc Perkel reveals that Hillary Clinton's personal email server has web access enabled, which means an intrepid password-guesser might be able to access all of the Pantsuit's yoga emails.

Although we don’t know what IP address Clinton’s real email is on. It’s interesting to note IP addresses in the DNS for the clintonemail.com domain. Most host names like www.clintonemail.com all map to some holding page of no importance. However that host mail.clintonemail.com maps to a different IP address 64.94.172.146, which is in a data center in the New York area, Internap.com. Interesting that her “home server” resolves to a data center. Seems worth investigating to me. mail.presidentclinton.com resolves to the same IP address and also uses MxLogic.

So I thought, what if she has web mail? And sure enough – I GOT A LOGIN PROMPT! https://mail.clintonemail.com And I have verified by the SSL certificate that this is indeed the clintonemail.com server – still online! Click here and type in mail.clintonemail.com

I already tried hillary2016 for the password and that didn’t work. But I’m looking at this and thinking WTF!

Is Hillary’s server secure? It get’s a B rating here. Only supports weak protocols...


Gee, no security risk here. No, nothing to see, just move along.


Hat tips: RF and BadBlue Tech News.

REVEALED: Obama using the U.N. to enter a "binding" Iran nuclear agreement without Congress

By David Gerstman

The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday (Google link) that Secretary of State John Kerry is still upset about the open letter Sen. Tom Cotton (R – Ark.) wrote last week that was signed by 46 other Republican senators arguing that it was Congress’ role to review treaties.

Mr. Kerry said on Saturday in Egypt that these American lawmakers were “wrong.”

“It is almost inevitable it will raise questions in the minds of the folks with whom we’re negotiating as to whether or not they are negotiating with the executive department and the president, which is what the constitution says, or whether there are 535 members of Congress,” Mr. Kerry told reporters in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

“Let me make clear to Iran…that from our point of view, this letter is incorrect in its statements,” he added. “As far as we are concerned, the Congress has no ability to change an executive agreement.”

It strikes me as odd that Kerry is doubling down on his non-binding argument. An executive agreement is not binding, unlike a treaty, and therefore not subject to Congressional review. It’s also odd that he claims, “as far as we are concerned.”

Shouldn’t the Constitution be the standard by which the Republican claims are judged? Finally, there’s Kerry’s famous declaration at the time the Joint Plan of Action was signed in November 2013 that the agreement was not based on trust. So if the agreement is not based on trust and it’s non-binding what “mechanism” will there to be verify that Iran isn’t overtly or covertly pursuing an illicit nuclear program?

More and more I’m convinced that Cotton’s reason for writing the letter was to smoke out the administration on this point.

It wasn’t unknown that the administration was portraying the emerging agreement with Iran as “non-binding.” Armin Rosen of Business Insider, for example, suggested this a week before Kerry and other administration officials admitted it. The problem of course with the administration’s position is, as Rosen wrote last week:

The US wouldn’t have a firm legal obligation to uphold the agreement, so Iran would have a built-in reason to assume American bad faith and push the limits of a future deal. In other words, without a legal guarantee on the US side, compliance with an agreement is potentially diluted Tehran’s side as well — and remember, this is a regime that hid the existence of two secret nuclear facilities and operated 20,000 uranium enrichment centrifuges in defiance of repeated UN Security Council resolutions.

One problem with Kerry’s harping on the Cotton letter is that it reinforces the weakness of the agreement that the United States is negotiating with Iran. The other problem is that despite the administration’s claim that the deal it is negotiating is non-binding, there is an effort to make this deal binding – on the United States.

30 Blocks of Racism, Incompetence and Collapse

By Jim Quinn

I haven’t provided an update from the 30 Blocks of Squalor in a while, so here are some reflections I’ve made over the last few weeks. It’s a hodgepodge of observations with no overall theme other than West Philly continues to deteriorate and slowly descend into chaos and collapse. It’s a microcosm of Philadelphia in general, which is a microcosm of the country overall. It’s like watching a slow moving disease ravaging a once healthy human being. I’ve made dozens of posts about the 30 Blocks of Squalor and have been accused of racism by delusional liberals. Describing the exact conditions in West Philly I have observed every day for the last eight years is considered racist by liberals, do gooders, and Obama lovers.

Philadelphia’s mayor is black. Its previous mayor was black. Its City Council is overwhelmingly black, with a few Hispanics and liberal union loving whites sprinkled in. Its police chief is black. Its fire commissioner is black. Its school district is run by blacks. The population of West Philly is 76% black. And you know who is racist? The black leadership of Philadelphia is racist.

Last week we had two ice/snowstorms that struck the Philadelphia area. By the morning all of the roads in my northern suburban area were plowed and easily drivable. When I got off the Schuylkill Expressway at Girard Avenue and entered West Philly, the land where snowplows and salt evidently don’t exist, it was like I had arrived in a third world country where government services were nothing but a dream. At least the inhabitants of West Philly understand they live in a third world environment as reflected in this photo from Lancaster Avenue in West Philly. It makes you wonder where that 3.72% they extract from my paycheck goes.

The City snow emergency plan for the black neighborhoods of West Philly is to wait until warm weather melts the snow. No effort whatsoever is made to clear the streets or even put salt down to make them safer for vehicle traffic. The racism is evident as you progress down 36th street towards University City. The demarcation line between the poor black neighborhoods and the rich white sections around the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University is Lancaster Avenue. Miraculously, as soon as you cross Lancaster Avenue the streets are clear of snow and easy to navigate. It seems money talks to the hypocrites at City Hall who pretend to care about those living in squalor, but leave them to fend for themselves during snowstorms, while clearing the streets for the lily white inhabitants of University City. This fits the definition of discrimination: the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people. The poor black people of West Philly are treated worse than the rich institutions of West Philly by the black government leaders of Philadelphia.

Larwyn's Linx: Trey Gowdy: House may go to court to get Hillary Clinton's email server

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Nation

Trey Gowdy: House may go to court to get Clinton email server: Susan Ferrechio
Obama to Senate: You are irrelevant on Iran: RS
Bolton calls Iran deal 'unprecedented' surrender: Mark Hensch

Many Conservatives are Blowing it on the Ferguson DOJ Report: Leon Wolf
Blood On Their Hands: Derek Hunter
St. Louis County Police: Suspected Shooter Of Two Cops In Custody: WZ

John Kerry: idiot and poltroon: RS
The Faustian Pact Between Obama And Iran: NoisyRm
Ted Cruz Blasts Obama: You Can’t Appease Radical Islamists Like Iran: Tatler

Jeb: amnesty is the “grown up plan” for immigration reform: Jazz Shaw
Stand for Truth, Stand with the People: Sen. Ted Cruz
Walker gets standing ovation in NH, but most in attendance still undecided: WKOW

Economy

It’s Official: Obama Deficits in 6 Years Exceed All Prior Presidents Combined: GWP
Thanks To Obamacare Nearly 200,000 In Colorado Will Lose Health Plans: LoneCon
"Cancel All Student Debt" - The Petitions Begin: ZH

Scandal Central

On Benghazi, a timeline of State Department obstruction: Byron York
Hillary Clinton Lies... A Lot: Ben Shapiro
Clinton camp issues clarification on deleted emails, claims ‘every’ message was reviewed: Fox

Climate & Energy

A Tale of Four Droughts: Victor Davis Hanson
Backyard burger and wiener roasts targeted by EPA: Paul Bedard
The Royal Society Misrepresents Climate Science: WUWT

Media

Politico sat on allegations Lois Lerner had prior history of targeting conservatives: T. Becket Adams
Arrest Made in Shooting of Ferguson Cops–Shooter Was a ‘Hands Up’ Protester: RWN
Black Girl Beats, Stomps White Girl and Her Little Brother While Her Friends Laugh: GWP

James Carville “suspects” fear of Louie Gohmert made Hillary hide emails: LI
Tolerance For Me. Not For Thee.: Erick Erickson
Elizabeth Warren ducking Hillary questions—No, make that all questions: Howard Kurtz

World

Kurds: ISIS is using chemical weapons on us: Noah Rothman
Islamic State overruns Iraqi Army brigade headquarters north of Fallujah: LWJ
Egypt sacks 41 judges for supporting the Brotherhood: sources: Yahoo!

Obama Administration: “The U.S. has great respect for the religious importance of a fatwa”: Treehouse
Saudis warn Iran deal could spur nuclear race in Mideast: Avi Lewis
RESET: U.S. Army sending armored convoy 1,100 miles through Europe: CNN

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Strange snafu hijacks UK nuke maker’s traffic, routes it through Ukraine: Dan Goodin
Who's afraid of the Apple Watch?: Daniel Eran Dilger
Alibaba uses facial recognition tech for online payments: Michael Kan

Cornucopia

The Ides of March Are Upon Us: MOTUS
Audience Participation: Preezy of the Steezy A to Zeezy: Sondrakistan
Dairy Queen Free Cone Day Is March 16: Consumerist

Image: The Ides of March Are Upon Us
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QOTD: "This administration, the Obama administration, will do virtually anything to prevent Hillary from becoming president." --Edward Klein

Sunday, March 15, 2015

IMMIGRATION: A Better Plan

By Heather Mac Donald


The lesson from the last 20 years of immigration policy is that lawlessness breeds more lawlessness. Once a people or a government decides to normalize one form of lawbreaking, other forms of lawlessness will follow until finally the rule of law itself is in profound jeopardy. Today, we have a constitutional crisis on our hands. President Obama has decided that because Congress has not granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens living in the U.S., he will do so himself. Let us ponder for a moment just how shameless this assertion of power is.

Article 2, Section 3, of the Constitution mandates that the president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This provision assumes that there is a law for the president to execute. But in this case, the “problem” that Obama is purporting to fix is the absence of a law granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens. Rather than executing a law, Obama is making one up—arrogating to himself a function that the Constitution explicitly allocates to Congress. Should this unconstitutional power grab stand, we will have moved very far in the direction of rule by dictator. Pace Obama, the absence of a congressional law granting amnesty is not evidence of political failure that must somehow be corrected by unilateral executive action; it is evidence of the lack of popular consensus regarding amnesty. There has been no amnesty statute to date because the political will for such an amnesty is lacking.

On February 16, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen halted President Obama’s illegal amnesty with a temporary injunction. The proposed amnesty program, Judge Hanen found, went far beyond mere prosecutorial discretion not to enforce the law against individuals. Instead, the Department of Homeland Security proposed to confer on illegal aliens a new legal status known as “legal presence.” But Congress has not granted DHS the power to create and bestow legal status. The amnesty program represented a “complete abdication” of DHS’s responsibility to enforce the law, Judge Hanen declared. Indeed, DHS was actively thwarting the express will of Congress.

Obama’s Treason Is the New Patriotism

By Daniel Greenfield

When Republicans complained that Obama refused to talk about Islamic terrorism, he accused them of playing into the hands of ISIS by demanding that he identify the enemy we’re fighting.

When they spoke out against his Iranian nuclear sellout, he accused them of “wanting to make common cause with the hardliners in Iran”.

Those hardliners would presumably toe a harder line than Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei who responded to Obama’s outreach in his first term by saying, “The Islamic peoples all over the world chant ‘Death to America!’” and who stated last year that “This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it.”

(The Supreme Leader of a country which stones teenage rape victims and rapes teenage girls so that they don’t die as virgins, also claimed that “The European races are barbaric.”)

If the moderate Supreme Leader that Obama is dealing with wants Death to America, what could the real hardliners want for America that’s even worse than death? A third term of Obama?

Meanwhile Joe Biden, Obama’s number two, accused Republicans of undermining Obama. This would be the same Biden who threatened to impeach President Bush if he bombed Iran’s nuclear program and who blasted Bush and the idea of an Axis of Evil at a fundraiser in the home of a pro-Iran figure.

Biden undermined President Bush’s efforts to rein in Iran’s terrorism by voting against listing the Revolutionary Guard, which was supplying weapons to help the Taliban kill American soldiers, as a terrorist group (a position he shared with Kerry, Hagel and Obama) and berating Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for not negotiating with Iran and Assad.

The toadying of “Tehran Joe” to Iran had already reached its absolute lowest point when Biden responded to the terrorist attacks of September 11 by suggesting, “Seems to me this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”

The administration that Biden is part of has instead been releasing $490 million a month to Iran.

Biden, along with Kerry and Hagel, became notorious as the Tehran Trio during the Bush years for their advocacy for Iran and Assad, and their appearances at pro-Iranian lobbying groups and fundraisers despite criticism from Iranian democracy advocates. Biden, Kerry and Hagel, Obama’s VP, the Secretary of State and the former Secretary of Defense, all appeared at American-Iranian Council events, a group whose founder stated that he is “the Iranian lobby in the United States.”

Treason doesn’t get more treasonous than that.

THIS IS WHY Hillary's email scandal captured the media's attention

Because President Jarrett wanted it that way.

Writing at The New York Post, Edward Klein reveals that "Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of state."

But she did so through people outside the ­administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House... In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.

Six separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been ­going on at the State Department. I’m told that the e-mail scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there’s more to come.

...“Obama and Valerie Jarrett will go to any lengths to prevent Hillary from becoming president,” a source close to the White House told me. “They believe that Hillary, like her husband, is left of center, not a true-blue liberal.” ... If she gets into the White House, they believe she will compromise with the Republicans in Congress and undo Obama’s legacy.

“With Obama’s approval,” this source continued, “Valerie has been holding secret meetings with Martin O’Malley [the former Democratic governor of Maryland] and [Massachusetts Sen.] Elizabeth Warren. She’s promised O’Malley and Warren the full support of the White House if they will challenge Hillary for the presidential nomination.”

And the media continue to pile on, almost as if they were taking orders from the White House.

Larwyn's Linx: Valerie Jarrett behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal

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Nation

Valerie Jarrett behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal: Edward Klein
Headed for disaster in the nuclear deal with Iran: Fred Barnes
Senate panel probes White House ties to anti-Netanyahu effort: Fox

Obama Screws the Middle Class Again: Rick Jensen
When Fraud Is The Government Model: Market Ticker
Why Won’t Anyone Challenge Hillary?: David Harsanyi

Ted Cruz: Obama legacy will be GOP president fixing his mistakes: Times
What Cruz Told Beck May Be Clearest Signal Yet He’s Running for President: Blaze
WV Senate OKs Article V convention to tackle budget issues: Joel Ebert

Standing Ovation: Rand Paul Blows Away Liberal Black Audience: Breitbart
REVOLT: County GOP votes “No Confidence” in Boehner-McConnell: LI
We need to hold this convention: Richard E. Hancock

Economy

Schools discovered in major student visa scam for illegals: Jazz Shaw
Obama, Wife Fly To L.A. On Same Day -- Different Planes: Rip Curl
The Entire White Fraternity System Is Totally Racist Or Something: RWN

Scandal Central

Obamnesty appears destined for Supreme Court: Brian Hughes
State Department contradicts Hillary Clinton's email claim: Philip Klein
Oklahoma Democrat Wants Christian Businesses To Self-Identify With Notices In Windows: Jawa

Climate & Energy

The First Family Fights Global Warming Fiercely!: Ed Driscoll
NASA Signals Crisis: “California Has About One Year of Water Left”: Mac Slavo
Al Gore Takes Fossil Fueled Flight To Tell Warmists To Organize On The Internet: RWN

Media

Post Pins Leaks About Hillary Clinton’s Emails on Obama Senior Adviser: Blaze
An Open Letter to hdr22@clintonemail.com: Maureen Dowd
Hilarity Ensues After DNC Chair Asks THIS Question On Twitter: Matt Schuck

When Journalists Rape: GoV
If It's Working, It's Only Because Some Of Us Are Helping: Springer
Pi Day Special: Common Core for the Common Man: MOTUS

Leftists: Damaged individuals who have formed a priesthood to take revenge on society: Bookworm
Dolce & Gabbana: “The only family is the traditional one”: Matthew Schmitz
The compassionate hearts at CSGV: Gun-Free Zone

World

Iran Deal Secrets Revealed – by Iran: Kenneth R. Timmerman
ISIS DAESH Videos: Urban Infidel
Netanyahu: I won't agree to rotation government with Herzog: Hayom

REPORT: Russian Hackers Infiltrate State Dept Email: Rip Curl
Killing Nemtsov: predicted by Putin, offed by the Motherland: Cube
Kremlin Publishes New Picture of Putin Amid Concerns About Absence: Interpreter

America is Losing the War Against Sunni Jihadists and Empowering The Shia Caliphate: Breitbart
Jon Voight supports Netanyahu in new ad, says Obama abandoning Israel: Scoop
Kerry says Iran deal hopefully in ‘next days’: Bradley Klapper

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This Chemistry 3D Printer Can Synthesize Molecules From Scratch: PopMech
First Active Hydrothermal System Found beyond Earth: SciAm
Modern shrimp evolved from seven-foot ‘sea monster’: RedOrbit

Cornucopia

James Bond Switches to HK VP9 in Spectre: ArmoryBlog
Bears' Rolle Accuses Tax Lawyer of $1.8 M Fraud: Courthouse News
Hey, Gun-Grabbers, It's Legal To Buy A Tank--and A Bunch Just Came Up For Sale! (2014): Bob Owens

Image: Kremlin Publishes New Picture of Putin Amid Concerns About Absence
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QOTD: "None of what you [Hillary] said made any sense. Keeping a single account mingling business and personal with your own server wasn’t about “convenience.” It was about expedience. You became judge and jury on what’s relevant because you didn’t want to leave digital fingerprints for others to retrace. You could have had Huma carry two devices if you really couldn’t hoist an extra few ounces. You insisted on piggybacking on Bill’s server, even though his aides were worried about hackers, because you were gaming the system for 2016. (Or even 2012.)

Suffused with paranoia and pre­emptive defensiveness, you shrugged off The One’s high­minded call for the Most Transparent Administration in History.

It depends upon what the meaning of @ is." --Maureen Dowd

Saturday, March 14, 2015

SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION: State Department kept just 61,156 emails of more than 1 billion sent

By Kathryn Watson

EMAIL ISSUES: A new report from the State Department Office of Inspector General finds that hardly any of the 1 billion emails State Department officials sent in 2011, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, were preserved.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — It looks like Hillary Clinton wasn’t the only one in the U.S. Department of State with email issues.

A new report from the State Department’s Office of Inspector General found that employees only archived 61,156 emails out of the more than 1 billion they sent in 2011, a year that falls right in the middle of Hillary Clinton’s four-year tenure as secretary of state.

To put that disparity in perspective, if each email created by the State Department that year were a sheet of paper, the paper stack would be more than 63 miles high, well into the thermosphere layer of Earth’s atmosphere and far higher than any plane can travel. But the archived portion of those emails or papers would only reach about 20 feet high, roughly the height of a two-story building.

“Federal law requires departments, agencies, and their employees to create records of their more significant actions and to preserve records according to government-wide standards,” the report reads.

THE 43 PICTURED? No, this is not Glock's first single-stack 9mm

The Firearm Blog has a reported reveal of the Glock 43, which they admit could be a Photoshop. The 43 may be Glock's long-anticipated single-stack 9mm.


I'll throw it out there: this is a Photoshop. Check out the official Glock teaser for the new sidearm:


Notice the differences in typeface. Knowing a few professional marketers who specialize in branding, well, they would no sooner allow variations in typeface as they would misspell the names of their companies.

I call BS on this one. Nice try, though.

With that said, I truly wonder whether the 43 will be the single-stack 9mm. Don't get me wrong, it's sorely needed. Trying to carry a 26 without printing is kinda like trying to conceal a waffle iron on your person.

But Glock has been anything but predictable over the years. The waiting will be over next week.


Hat tip: BadBlue Gun News

Federal Judge Not Only Halts Obama's Lawless Amnesty Order, But Also Demands He Do This

By Warner Todd Huston

The judge who put a halt to Obama’s amnesty plans was being pressured to put aside his ruling by Obama’s administration. But instead of bowing to pressure the judge demanded that Obama send his representatives to his courtroom to explain why they think they have the powers to even issue the amnesty and why they lied about what they’ve already done.

Obama’s team already admitted that they lied to federal Judge Andrew Hanen about what actions have been taken to push Obama’s amnesty and the judge is furious about it.

“The hearing is in response to a filing last week in which the government acknowledged three-year deportation reprieves were granted before Hanen’s Feb. 16 injunction, which temporarily halted Obama’s action, sparing from deportation as many as 5 million people in the U.S. illegally.”

The coalition of 26 states which had convinced Judge Hanen to temporarily block Obama’s executive amnesty charges that the government misled the judge about not implementing part of the plan before the judge halted it, giving the states more time to argue against the president’s unilateral action on immigration.

Judge Hanen is demanding that the administration explain why they issued amnesty papers to up to 100,000 illegals despite telling the judge they hadn’t made any such moves.

This brave judge is not buckling under Obama’s pressure and is instead bringing pressure of his own to bear.


Read more Warner Todd Huston at PubliusForum.com

HEY, N00BS: Laws are for the little people, not the Clintons!

By Investor's Business Daily

Transparency: Hillary Clinton insists she did everything by the book, that she broke no laws and heeded all regulations. That book is obviously not the State Department records management handbook.

The government's book says that you don't get to keep materials, classified or unclassified, in your personal possession and then get to sift through them at your leisure to decide which ones the government that paid you gets to see.

All documents are the property of the government. The State Department determines which ones are returned to you.

As Shannen W. Coffin, a contributing editor at National Review and senior lawyer at both the White House and Justice Department under President George W. Bush, points out, a provision titled "Removal Procedures" requires departing federal employees to relinquish any classified materials at the time of departure and to clear the removal through records-management officials.

State Department employees, from the secretary on down, have to abide by this process.According to Coffin, the records management handbook says, "(The) departing official or a staff member must prepare an inventory of personal papers and non-record materials proposed for removal."

Then the departing official must "request a review of the materials proposed for removal."

On leaving, the official must sign Form OF-109, a formal separation statement, certifying under penalty of law the departing official has "surrendered to responsible officials all unclassified documents and papers relating to the official business of the government acquired by me while in the employ of the (State) Department."

The employee does not get to determine what is classified or not, personal or not, and Clinton's assertion that she never emailed classified material is, as they say in court, irrelevant and immaterial.

Larwyn's Linx: 'The problem is not Netanyahu, the problem is Obama'

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Nation

'The problem is not Netanyahu, the problem is Obama': Israel Hayom
Now House writes Iran letter to Obama on Iran: Charles Hoskinson
Tom Cotton's Truth Bomb: Rich Lowry

It's Either Hillary or Biden: Daniel Greenfield
Hillary Is Being Investigated for a Possible Felony: Sara Noble
Comedic Gold At The Bloomberg View: RS

Democrats Have a Corruption Problem: Phil Kerpen
Valerie Jarrett: My 'Job' Is to Be Obama's 'Friend': Daniel Halper
Muslim Man Threatens Jews With Beheading Outside Synagogue: Western

Boehner House Reauthorizes $7.4B Amtrak Boondoggle: Daniel Horowitz
The FAA Says You Can't Post Drone Videos on YouTube: Jason Koebler
Hillary’s War on the Women Who Boinked Bill: John Hawkins

Economy

Mark Zuckerberg’s immigration hustle: Toshio Meronek
More Seattle restaurants close doors as $15 minimum wage approaches: RWN
Why Should We Care about Greece?: Michael Booth

Scandal Central

ATF Wants To Go After All 5.56 mm Ammunition, Not Just Green Tip: Herschel Smith
Clinton Faces Broader Email Deception Issue Involving Entire State Department: Michael Astrue
Star GOP Congressman Finances Lavish Life with Taxpayer Money: JW

Climate & Energy

It *may* be the last year of California as we know it. *May*.: Moe Lane
Al Gore: Climate Deniers Need To Pay A Price: P.W. Adams
GM recalls Chevrolet Volt over carbon monoxide: USA Today

Media

The Appalachian Messenger: WRSA
Still Not Ready for Her Closeup: Ed Driscoll
Giuliani: Obama to Blame for Ferguson Police Shootings--He Sets the Tone for the Nation: GWP

Reminder from Gawker: Hillary’s corruption is Obama’s too: Ed Morrissey
Poll: Benghazi getting worse for Hillary Clinton: Paul Bedard
Terri Lovell: On Feb. 25, as I listened to the Mark Levin show on the radio in my car: SignalSCV

Jake Tapper: Hillary’s Email Defense ‘Not Quite Accurate’: Ian Hanchett
Pic Of The Day: Obama Pinocchio: WZ
Republicans (and Democrats) in Congress Plan to Use a Fake Crisis to Raise Your Taxes: Leon Wolf

World

Obama’s Iran scheme is laid bare: Jennifer Rubin
France: Muslims assault, rob Jewish teens, screaming “dirty Jews, we will exterminate you": JihadWatch
Bibi in Serious Trouble with Only Days to Go Until Election: Avner Zarmi

Breaking: 15 DACA Amnesty Recipients Arrested: Daniel Horowitz
Let Us Count the Gulags: David Solway
Is Barack Obama a Christian?: Joy Overbeck

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FCC Cites Soros-Funded Group 46 TIMES In New Regs: DC
The Future of Autos: P&F
Comcast-TWC, AT&T-DirecTV merger reviews halted by FCC: Daniel Frankel

Cornucopia

"Adventure Is Calling II " Watch It Full Screen...: Feral Irishman
Bill Clinton Is My Daddy: Hideout
Alex Honnold's death-defying ropeless cliff climbs: Mark Frauenfelder

Image: So God Made A Clinton
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QOTD: "We have seen this again and again from this president — the complete contempt for coequal branches of government and determination to act in ways contrary to our constitutional structure and overwhelming public opinion (84 percent of Americans don’t favor a 10-year glide path to Iran getting a bomb). In the case of immigration, it took the form of an executive order overriding existing immigration laws under the theory that the president was using “discretion” to delay deportation of certain illegal immigrants. That is now in the courts. But his dual strategy of sabotaging strict U.N. resolutions and waiving U.S. sanctions is far more dangerous and nefarious. It gives primacy to an international body over Congress and the laws of the United States. It assumes sole authority in foreign affairs, something not envisioned in the Constitution, which divides powers between the two branches. Lawmakers have every right to feel as though they were misled and are being entirely marginalized once again.

A senior Republican on Capitol Hill tells me, “Everyone knows, including Democrats, that Obama and [Secretary of State John] Kerry are dangerously close to cutting a bad deal and lifting sanctions and shutting out Congress. If you don’t believe that just ask Democrats privately. They know it.”" --Jennifer Rubin

Friday, March 13, 2015

The Founders Didn't Fail. We Are Failing the Founders.

By Benjamin Weingarten

Conservatives are understandably depressed in the wake of Speaker Boehner and the Republican-controlled Congress’ predictable caving on executive amnesty.

Let me stop right there by emphasizing that I only said conservatives. Were our republic healthy, every single American would be depressed that President Obama’s amnesty—which on dozens of occasions he said he did not have the authority to enforce—will continue apace to the benefit of lawbreakers at the expense of American citizens.

Americans would be further demoralized at the notion that our president politicized the sovereignty of our nation represented by failing to protect its borders, all in a transparent attempt to win a permanent Democratic majority—which the shortsighted Republican establishment seem perfectly fine with, since they want immigration and the idea of “those racist Republicans” to become non-issues.

Some are lamenting the cowardice of our representatives, and to that I quote a former NFL Coach: “They are who we thought they were!

I have even seen one article arguing that the Constitution itself has failed. But the Constitution and our Founders did not fail. Human nature has not changed between 1787 and 2015. There were undoubtedly plenty of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century booze-swilling, cigar-smoking iterations of John Boehner lumbering around Capitol Hill.

What has changed is the size and scope of government, the number and composition of people who are voting, and the public’s general indifference to and acceptance of the greed, graft, lying, and all matter of corruption that have become commonplace in public life. There is also a heck of a lot more bread and circuses to keep us fat, happy, and distracted from what our supposed leaders are doing.

FORMER DOJ DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL: Hillary Clinton Broke The Law. Period.

Transcript via Real Clear Politics

MEGYN KELLY: Shannen, good to see you tonight. So, let's start with the broad brush, which is she followed all the rules, all the rules and she didn't commit any crimes whatsoever. You've been maintaining all along that's not necessary -- it's not true on the rules and it may not be true on the law if she concealed or destroyed federal records.

SHANNEN COFFIN, FORMER COUNSEL TO VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: It's demonstrably not true on the rules. She didn't comply with the Federal Records Act. And she clearly did not comply with her own records management handbook for the Department of State which sets out a very specific process about how you remove records from the department control.