Friday, July 03, 2015

Larwyn's Linx: Senator Bob Corker, American Traitor

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Nation

Senator Bob Corker, American Traitor: RS
Obama Negotiators Claim They Have Super Plan to Make Iran Deal Transparent: Ace
Obama Administration Gets Caught Sweeping Iranian Violations Under The Rug: Lid

FBI Already Arrested 30 Americans Some Planning July 4th Terror Attacks: RWN
128 Unaccompanied Alien Children Caught at Mexican Border Per Day in May: CNS
Vigilance Is Patriotic: Michelle Malkin

On The Death Of The Rule Of Law, Part II: Camp o' the Saints`
Going with the Flow: Mark Steyn
Chevron's Last Days: Philip Hamburger

Republicans must use Donald Trump to move the ball forward: RS
Breaking Down Ted Cruz’s Plan for SCOTUS ‘Retention Elections’: Jim Geraghty
Soros helps pro-Clinton Super PACs to $24 million haul: Kenneth P. Vogel

Economy

19.8% of U.S. Workforce Was Foreign-Born in June: Rudy Takala
Rick Perry is the Republican Who Finally Said It: Erick Erickson
In Athens, scavenging from bins has become a way to survive: Telegraph

Scandal Central

Leaked: What’s in Obama’s trade deal: Michael Grunwald
House Committee Demands Emails About Oregon’s Failed $305 Million Obamacare Exchange: ATR
Family Of Seven Impoverished By Activist Oregon Gov’t Over Wedding Cake: Dana Show

Climate & Energy

Center for Biological Diversity petitions EPA to list CO2 as a ‘toxic substance’: WUWT
NY Times Loves How Communism Is Good For Cuba’s Environment: William Teach
States sue over EPA's unprecedented land grab: ATR

Media

The New York Times Celebrates Its Declaration of Surrender to Islamic Terror: RS
Space Retard George Takei Has More Stupid Shit to Say: Ace
‘BAN DEMOCRATS!!’ – Mark Levin’s awesome response to Obama shutting down Redskins new stadium: Scoop

Faith and “Thought” Leaders Respond to SCOTUS’ Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage: Politichicks
VIDEO: Katie Couric Interviews Ted Cruz: HayRide
Ted Cruz Answers: ‘Take’ Away Health Care From 16 Million People as President?: RWN

World

Ted Cruz: Obama Can Put an Embassy in CUBA But Not in Jerusalem?: Jerome Hudson
Met Police: London Sees 138% Increase in Anti-Semitic Incidents: Sol Rieger
UK Police Knew and Did Nothing to Protect Girls from Muslim Predators: Raymond Ibrahim

Boko Haram massacres praying Muslims: Laura Grossman
200 dead – Egyptian troops, Islamists, civilians - in major ISIS-Egyptian battle in Sinai: Debka
An utterly horrifying encounter with the FGM cutter women (GRAPHIC): Daily Mail

What’s Putin’s plan? Russian jet ‘shot flares at Swedish plane’: News.com.au
Dempsey report: Russia, China posing military threat; war with major power probable: JT
Through a Glass, Dishonestly: Theodore Dalrymple`

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Adena People and Prehistoric Colonization of North America: Ancient Origins
Assembly robot crushes worker at Volkswagen: The Local de
These Sneakers Are Made Entirely From Ocean Waste: Jamie Condliffe

Cornucopia

Do You Know When We Celebrate Our Independence From Mexico?: MOTUS
Confessions Of A U.S. Navy Submarine Officer: Tyler Rogoway
Homeless Piano Player Stuns His Florida Hometown, and Then the Internet: Tim Nudd

Image: An utterly horrifying encounter with the FGM cutter women (GRAPHIC)
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Time for a Conservative: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The litigious social justice activists have transformed common-sense vigilance into a prosecutable crime of paranoia or prejudice. CAIR and its ilk have succeeded in turning a large portion of America into security eunuchs who pay lip-service courage in times of crisis, yet recoil from the bold, unapologetic acts of self-protection that make such heroism possible in the first place.

Let’s not let them win.

This weekend, remember the passengers of United Airlines Flight 93 who refused to sit back on 9/11 and let themselves be murdered in the name of Islam without a fight.

Remember the passengers and crewmembers who tackled al-Qaida shoe-bomber Richard Reid on American Airlines Flight 63 before he had a chance to blow up the plane over the Atlantic Ocean.

Remember Brian Morgenstern, the teenage Circuit City worker who fearlessly contacted authorities when suspicious Middle Easterners brought in tapes of themselves shooting off guns and shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The men were convicted of plotting to kill American soldiers at Fort Dix." --Michelle Malkin

Thursday, July 02, 2015

Entertaining Hillary Emails o’ the Day: Just Knock Edition

I continue to work through the latest Hillary Clinton email dump.


Nothing to see here. Nothing at all.
 
 

The Crushing Implications of Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis

By Michael Snyder

The debt crisis in Puerto Rico could potentially cost financial institutions in the United States tens of billions of dollars in losses. This week, Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla publicly announced that Puerto Rico’s 73 billion dollar debt is “not payable,” and a special adviser that was recently appointed to help straighten out the island’s finances said that it is “insolvent” and will totally run out of cash very shortly. At this point, Puerto Rico’s debt is approximately 15 times larger than the per capita median debt of the 50 U.S. states. Yes, the Greek debt crisis is larger, as Greece currently owes about $350 billion to the rest of the planet. But only about $14 billion of that total is owed to U.S. financial institutions. But with Puerto Rico, things are very different. Just about the entire 73 billion dollar debt is owed to U.S. financial institutions, and this could potentially cause massive problems for some extremely leveraged Wall Street firms.

There is a reason why Puerto Rico is called “America’s Greece”. In Puerto Rico today, more than 40 percent of the population is living in poverty, the unemployment rate is over 12 percent, and the economy of the small island nation has continually been in recession since 2006.

Yet all this time Puerto Rico has continued to pile up even more debt. Finally, it has gotten to the point where all of this debt is simply unpayable

TWO SUPREME COURT JUSTICES MUST GO: The Case for Impeachment

By Cliff Kincaid

Justice Antonin Scalia said in his dissent in the same-sex marriage case that the ruling was a threat to our democratic form of government and constitutes a “judicial Putsch,” or secret power grab. He didn’t just say the majority was wrong or misguided; he essentially said they had conspired to overthrow our form of government. His position on the Court may have made it impossible to supply specifics. But one possible explanation of what he meant is that he saw a conflict-of-interest on the part of members of the majority, which required their recusal from the case.

Rather than investigate what Scalia is hinting at, our media have opened fire on Scalia for blowing the whistle on judicial corruption.

In fact, the push for gay marriage has been tainted by lies from the beginning. As Professor Paul Kengor notes, Obama himself was caught lying by his own adviser, David Axelrod, who now admits Obama favored gay marriage when he was publicly opposing it to get elected. “According to Axelrod,” Kengor told WorldNetDaily, “Obama supported gay marriage as far back as the mid-1990s, when he was an aspiring Chicago politician. He publicly suggested otherwise, however, in order to get votes, especially from African-Americans who rejected gay marriage in higher numbers than white Americans.”

Larwyn's Linx: Admission of Hillary’s classified emails opens door for feds to seize her servers

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Nation

Admission of Hillary’s classified emails opens door for feds to seize her servers: Times
Anything But Routine, Redux: In From the Cold
Bernie Sanders pulls in 10K for his “I’m not Hillary Clinton!” rally.: Moe Lane

Always Play On Offense: Erick Erickson
The Liberty to Take Liberties with Reality: Stuart Schneiderman
ISIS Publishes Map of July 4th FBI Command Centers : GWP

We are All Californians Now: Victor Davis Hanson
Avert Your Eyes and Hold Your Nose: Debra Saunders
Yes, SCOTUS, Congress wants to destroy our health care system: Larry Elder

Anti-Israel activist Max Blumenthal now a Hillary 2016 problem: William A. Jacobson
Jeb Bush Reveals His Anti-Israel Stance With Speech at Anti-Israel Conference: RWN
Gun-Grabbing Democrat Seeks Plea Deal for Arms Trafficking/Corruption: Bob Owens

Economy

Puerto Rico Goes Broke: John Hinderaker
What ‘Education’ Teaches: R.S. McCain
A tale of two debt crises: Is Puerto Rico America’s Greece?: Desmond Lachman

Scandal Central

Dozens of Hillary Emails Classified: Daniel Halper
Life in a Kleptocracy: The Z Man
RACISM: As a Mexican, I’m Offended at Obama Calling Us ‘GANGBANGERS'!: Sooper

Climate & Energy

Sustainability is the Left's New Code Word for Social Justice: Trey Sanchez

Media

Fukuyama: Democracy is not going to survive if people do not want democracy: Claremont
Media Hide Facts, Call Everyone Else Racist Liars: Ann Coulter
Greta demands Hillary remove ‘dishonest’ ad featuring her: Brian Maloney

Polygamy Is Here: RS
New York Times succinctly and unwittingly sums up Greece’s problem: Doug Powers
Walking While White – Family Of Victim David Poole: “He Will Not Recover”: Treehouse

World

Surprise! Obama's Lying To America About Iranian Compliance With Interim Deal: Lid
China Bans Islam And Says It Does Not Give A Darn To All The Cry Babies Who Complain: Shoebat
Obama has not severed his tied with the Muslim Brotherhood: JPost

Barack Obama BLOCKS SUPPORT to Kurds to Fight ISIS: GWP
Prelude to invasion? Russia to examine legality of Baltic States' 1991 independence: Marathon
UK: 100 Islamic supremacists each year spread hatred of the West at universities: Robert Spencer

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Credit Card Data Breach Confirmed At Trump Hotels: Chris Morran
It’s time to geek out over a new global bathymetric data set: Deep Sea News
What Did Galileo Invent?: Matt Wiliams

Cornucopia

Daniel George, Teen-Aged Almanac Maker: Boston 1775
Unique pre-Civil War Brooklyn Atlantics card for sale: The History Blog
Mark Levin’s awesome response to Obama shutting down Redskins new stadium: Scoop

Image: In Vienna, John Kerry shows he's determined to overcome any obstacle to reach Iran nuclear deal
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Time for a real conservative: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Does anyone really believe the Obamacare promises of quality, accessibility and low costs can be achieved while retaining our insurance-based system? Obamacare promised to add 30 million newly insured to Medicaid; force insurers to accept those with pre-existing illnesses; raise no taxes on the middle class to pay for it; force insurance carriers to allow “children” under the age of 26 to remain on their parents’ policy; allow you to keep your doctor and your plan — if you chose to; disallow carriers from “discriminating” against men and women in setting prices; save the “typical family” $2,500 in premiums; and not “raise the deficit by one dime.”

Even under Obama, there is no such thing as a free lunch. To pay for these government-imposed expenses, insurance carriers are seeking higher premiums while imposing higher deductibles and co-pays. Since health care is a “right,” since Obamacare was to be “affordable” and since the greedy, nasty insurance companies seek profits, the left will then say, “We have no alternative. Medicare for all!”

So, yes, Mr. Justice Roberts, Democrats who passed Obamacare without a single Republican vote absolutely seek “to destroy” and “not improve health insurance markets.” This is all according to plan." --Larry Elder

Wednesday, July 01, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: New Revelations From Hillary Clinton’s Latest Emails

I'm working my way through the latest Clinton email dump and there are several observations that stick out.

Hillary and her crew thought Barack Obama was a clueless amateur; "Journalist" David Broder of the Washington Post apparently allows Clinton ghost writers to pen his columns; disgraced, unindicted criminal Sandy Berger (of the shredded Top Secret Bill Clinton/Bin Laden memos) was a key adviser to Clinton; and, based upon the dozens and dozens of pages of fully redacted material, Granny Catlady was definitely sending and receiving tons of classified information through her compromised email server (which gives the feds the right to seize that box).

To wit:


Bonus Entertainment:

In Defense of Donald Trump (Not as a Presidential Candidate, But as Someone Willing to Break the Media Embargo)

Donald Trump is a self-promoting businessman, not a real presidential candidate. But he has, in the words of our favorite Bill Maher guest, broken through the media barrier as it relates to violent crimes committed by illegal aliens.

Here is the Los Angeles Police Department's list of "Most Wanted" criminal suspects:

-- Jesse Enrique Monarrez (murder),
-- Cesar Augusto Nistal (child molestation),
-- Jose A. Padilla (murder),
-- Demecio Carlos Perez (murder),
-- Ramon Reyes, (robbery and murder),
-- Victor Vargas (murder),
-- Ruben Villa (murder)

The full "Most Wanted" list doesn't get any better... There aren't a lot of Mexicans in New York state -- half of all Mexican immigrants in the U.S. live in either Texas or California -- and yet there are more Mexican prisoners in New York than there are inmates from all of Western Europe...

...The rate of rape in Mexico is even higher than in India, according to Professor Carlos Javier Echarri Canovas of El Colegio de Mexico... The only reason our newspapers aren't chockablock with reports of Latino sexual predators is that they are too busy broadcasting hoax news stories about non-existent gang-rapes by white men [like the Duke Lacross incident]...

DELIGHTFUL: New Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton a Huge Fan of Neo-Nazi, Hezbollah-Linked Author

The steady drip-drip-drip of Hillary Clinton's emails by the State Department appears to be an electronic version of Chinese Water Torture. Yesterday's release -- part of a monthly, rolling disclosure ordered by a federal judge sick of the Obama administration's stonewalling -- reveals that Hillary Clinton has a deep affection for a neo-Nazi kook.

...The issue with Max [Blumenthal] was whether Hillary could have Sidney as an advisor given Sidney [Blumenthal] ’s seeming support for Max’s antics, if not his anti-Israel agenda. Buzzfeed reported on the problem back in November 2013, Clinton Adviser Sid Blumenthal’s New Cause: His Son’s Anti-Israel Book…...

Max Blumenthal is toxic to any mainstream political candidate. Indeed, he’d be too toxic even to most left-wing candidates, his anti-Israel venom is so notorious.

Max’s anti-Israel conspiracy theories were a big hit with the Overland Park shooter. Liberal professor and author Eric Alterman termed Max’s book, Goliath, The Israel Haters Handbook... Recently, Max and a friend chased a German lawmaker into a bathroom because the lawmaker called them anti-Semites [see accompanying picture]...

[Now], the latest batch of Sidney’s emails shows that contrary to Hillary’s claim that she just received unsolicited advice, Sidney served a Svengali-like (or is it Rasputin-like) role in Hillary’s foreign policy thinking. Obama told Hillary to stay away from Sidney when it came to foreign policy, but Hillary seemed to be addicted to the long-time Clinton confidant...

...That would be issue enough, given Max’s desire to destroy Israel...

...As reported at The Washington Free Beacon, while Hillary was Secretary of State she approved of Max’s polemics in communications with Sidney:

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Clinton Lives the High Life While Unpaid Staffers Struggle to Survive

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Nation

Hillary Lives the High Life as Unpaid Staffers Struggle to Survive: Andrew Stiles
How Obama's Actions Line Up Exactly With "Rules For Radicals": Scoop
The Real Goal of the Same-Sex Marriage Movement: Ben Shapiro

Liberty or Equality? Founding Fathers knew you can’t have both: Myron Magnet
The Dred Scotting of Religious Liberty: Jeffrey Lord
The Emissary: On the Trail with Rafael Cruz: Andy Kroll

No Truce With the Left: Sultan Knish
No, intentionalism didn’t kill the rule of law: Protein Wisdom
Constitutional Ignorance and Dereliction: Walter Williams

NY Mayor Bill DeBlasio Wants to Make it Illegal to Smoke in Your Own Homes: Ace
Efforts to Draft Biden for 2016 Gain Steam: Andrew Desiderio
FBI investigating 11 attacks on San Francisco-area Internet lines: USA Today

And Chris Christie makes 14... It's not a horse race, it's a cavalry charge: WyBlog
Christie buys $300K of food & booze with NJ expense account: Mark Lagerkvist
If You Expect Chris Christie To Defend Your Second Amendment Rights, Think Again: Kevin Boyd

Economy

U.S. debt headed toward Greek levels: Jason Russell
The Warren Buffett Economy——Why Its Days Are Numbered (Part 4): David Stockman
Chicago Public Schools lays off 1,400 so it can make pension payment: Marathon

Scandal Central

Blumenthal's State Dept. role went far beyond Libya: Sarah Westwood
Ted Cruz on John Roberts: ‘He violated his oath,’ ‘he changed the law’: Times
Cruz: If you don’t like gay marriage judgment, you can just ignore it – it doesn’t apply to most states: Hot Air

Climate & Energy

On Global Warming: Follow the Money: John Hinderaker
EPA Raked Over the Coals: Betsy McCaughey
National Geographic: Yeah, Climate Change Part Of Reason For NC Shark Attacks: Cove

Media

Elites vs. Us: William Murchison
The New Religious Wars: LI
VIDEO: How Well Do We Know Hillary Clinton?: NRO

New York Times: The Ultimate in Hypocrisy: John Hinderaker
Kurtz: Golly, the media have turned into an intolerant mob lately: Ed Morrissey
Mob of 50 Black Teens Storm Georgia Walmart, Destroy and Steal Store: RWN

Hillary’s Homes are a Shocker for Young Adults: Kim Quade
45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes: Jake Tapper
George Will goes Medieval on Greece: Moe Lane

World

Revealed: Feds predicted surge of illegals, see another 127,000 this year: Paul Bedard
Total Number Of Syrian Rebels Obama Spending $500 Million To Train: “Fewer Than 100″: WZ
NYPD: Williamsburg Paintball Attacks Being Investigated as Pattern Of Bias Assaults: Mark Hirshberg

US Giving up on Military Inspections of Iran Nuke Sites: RS
Turkey Plans an Invasion of Syria: Michael J. Totten
This Is What World War III Will Look Like: P.W. Singer and August Cole

China crosses Obama’s cyber ‘red line’: Marc A. Thiessen
The World of Espionage in 2015: The XX Committee
OPM shuts down eQip system: Teri Robinson

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

It Is Time to Scrap the F-35 And Simply Begin Building Somewhat Updated F-15s Again: Ace
HP Sprout Is Perfect for Budding Artists: Mordechai Luchins
How do you solve a puzzle like neutrinos?: Lauren Biron

Cornucopia

The Left’s Hatred of July Fourth Explained: Glob
The Awakening Of A Conservative: Springer's Blog
Debris from failed relationships litter New York prison escape: LAT

Image: Markets bounce on leaked Athens bailout memo
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "I’ve seen [this hatred of traditional Chiristians] among many liberals I know. I’m not talking about leftists, who tend to hate religion in general (unless they’re members of one of the aforementioned leftist-oriented churches, or unless the religion is Islam). For decades I’ve heard casual comments about how awful fundamentalist Christians are, and this is from liberal Christians themselves, or at least liberals who were born Christian. Conservative Christians now equal hatemongers in many people’s eyes, and so whatever is done against them legally will not, I predict, ruffle so many feathers.

I’m not a Christian. I’m not even especially socially conservative. But it will ruffle my feathers if it happens, and I believe it will happen." --Neo-neocon

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Ted Cruz’s New Book Blisters Mitch McConnell and Other Members of the RINO Surrender Caucus

Wherein I highlight some of the key findings of Ted Cruz's new book, starting with MSNBC, which I read so you don't have to subject yourself to the filmy and unhygienic commentary.

“During my time in the Senate, I’ve been amazed how many senators pose one way in public — as fiscal conservatives or staunch tea party supporters — and then in private do little or nothing to advance those principles,” Cruz says in his new book, “A Time for Truth.”

... The Texas senator titled the first chapter of his book “Mendacity,” and spends its pages cataloging the ways Senate Republicans betrayed him and the conservative movement he stands for.

“[O]ne particular Politico reporter often seems like he is Mitch McConnell’s press secretary; nearly every attack from leadership gets echoed and amplified in his stories.”

... The chapter casts Mitch McConnell as its chief villain, accusing the Senate Majority Leader of cowering in fights over the debt ceiling and Obamacare, too afraid of bad headlines from the liberal media to stand up for conservative principles. But McConnell isn’t portrayed as merely a coward — he’s also a tyrant, who threatens Cruz with media smears and withheld funding unless he, too, capitulates to the liberal agenda.

“The Republican leadership’s attacks are amplified and made more effective by using friendly media outlets,” Cruz wrote. “When leadership is displeased, they place hit pieces with journalists only too happy to cooperate. Indeed, so much so that one particular Politico reporter often seems like he is Mitch McConnell’s press secretary; nearly every attack from leadership gets echoed and amplified in his stories.”

Union Bosses Simply Love the Obama NLRB’s New Rules Allowing Ambush Elections

By Labor Union Report

It has been barely over two months since the National Labor Relations Board enacted its controversial new rules to speed up union recognition elections and, already, union organizers appear thrilled with the progress.

Dubbed the NLRB’s “ambush-election rules,” the new rules went into effect on April 14th and are primarily designed to shorten union recognition elections from a then-median time of 38 days down to as little as 14.

The purpose, of course, is to give employers as little time as possible to respond to union organizing.

“Delay hurts,” says Kate Bronfenbrenner of the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, “because they [employers] can fire one more worker, or engage in five more captive-audience meetings or three more supervisor one-on-ones per person.”

It was Bronfenbrenner, the Director of Labor Education Research at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations, a former union organizer and long-time union advocate, whose flawed studies have been used in pr-union propaganda to first, attempt to effectively eliminate secret-ballot elections through card-check legislation then, later, to argue for the so-called ambush election rule.

Nothing to see here. Nothing at all. Just move along, Jake Tapper

Relayed by James:


Uhm, because it's Hillary Flippin' Clinton?

Or maybe the State Department's search function got copied over to her secret email server, but there was no hard drive installed, so it disappeared into the ether?

Or, because it's Hillary Flippin' Clinton?
 
 

Comments o’ the day, spotted at – of all places – The New York Times

Looks like even the denizens of the fever swamp have had enough of old Granny Catlady (e.g., "Benghazi Emails Put Focus on Hillary Clinton’s Encouragement of Adviser") as every day seems to bring new and scathing revelations of corruption and poor judgment. Some of the more upvoted comments are, in fact, quite derogatory of the Godmother.

Robert Dana NY 11937
I don't care for Mrs. Clinton. She is untruthful and extremely overrated. Much of her support is based on sympathy because she married a serial philanderer.

But lying is now, for the Democrat Party, the state of the art with respect to campaigning and governing. It's an indispensable part of modern liberalism. The whole point is that the Democrat elite and their bureaucrats know better. They know what's good for the masses. The masses are dumb and do not know what's good for them.

Almost every major action and policy initiative by Obama was based on a lie. Obamacare, the release of Bowe Bergdahl (or should I say the closing of GITMO), an "evolving" opinion on gay marriage, Al Qaeda being on the run precisely when an emabassy was sacked in Northern Africa, a withdraw from Iraq without consequences, an incipient ISIS characterized as the "JV", an effective deal with Iran on its nuclear program. I could go on and on.

Add to that a compliant media, and uneducated electorate and you have a perfect storm for disaster.

MP FL
Dems better find an ethical, honest person or there may be a big surprise come November 2016. There are millions of people who will not give their vote for this broke, incompetent liar.

jmr belmont
She is, for those of us old enough to remember, the reincarnation of Nixon with the bound transcripts of the WH taping system. The very act of having her own private email SERVER whilst she was SOS stinks to high heaven. And then being allowed to prepare by herself and her hand-picked staff, which emails to print onto paper...so Nixonian. These are public records, not here. She is a thoroughly and completely dishonest, disagreeable person, just like Nixon.

Larwyn's Linx: Hillary Clinton, Get This, Edited the Emails She Turned Over to the State Department

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Nation

Hillary Clinton, Get This, Edited the Emails She Turned Over to State: Ace
It Was Always About The Christians: The Z Man
Slave or Rebel? 10 Principles for Standing Up to Tyranny: John W. Whitehead

OPM and Obama's Politicization of the Federal Bureaucracy: Jim Geraghty
The Wildfire Burns: Erick Erickson
Obergefell v. Hodges and Tax Exemption for Churches: Lee Cary

Supreme Court Disasters: Thomas Sowell
John Roberts, Intimidated by the Left?: Carl M. Cannon
Jeb Bush Calls Southerners and the Confederate Flag ‘Racist’: Publius

The Formal End to Judeo-Christian America: Dennis Prager
Gay Marriage Still Doesn’t Exist, No Matter What SCOTUS Says: Matt Walsh
Same-sex marriage is only the beginning: Cal Thomas

The United States Of Calvinball. It's Time The Right Got In The Game.: Ace
President Obama Sends Out Email Calling For New Gun Control Measures: GSL
Illinois 24 hours away from government shutdown: Marathon

Economy

The Greek Crisis: Too Little Democracy, Too Much Bureaucracy: John Fund
Great Graphic: IMF and Sovereign Exposures to Greece: Marc to Market
Europe’s Attack on Greek Democracy: Joseph E. Stiglitz

Scandal Central

Oh Weird: The IRS Deleted 422 Backup Tapes With Lerner Emails: ATR
White House Blocking Release of Clinton/Obama Phone Call During Benghazi Attack: Treehouse
Newly Released Documents Confirm White House Officials Set Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi Response: JW

Climate & Energy

Lawless, Politically-Rotten Supreme Court Randomly Rules that Obama's EPA Rule is "Unconstitutional": Ace

Media

Media Outlets Kept This SCOTUS Decision Quiet: Sara Noble
Did the Gay Marriage Ruling Just Legalize Concealed Carry Nationwide? Legal Experts Weigh In: Benny Johnson
I Am Now a Blogger For Hire…: Glob

Reality Is Now Discretionary: Peter Kirsanow
Non-White Politicians Are Running for President and Liberals Can’t Stand It: Andrew Stiles
Όχι: Andrew Stuttaford

NBC Hack Savannah Guthrie Asks Ted Cruz If He Opposes Interracial Marriage: WZ
Why the College Board's New Standards Would Make Teaching History Even Worse: Kevin Gutzman
Terrell Owens Has Some Advice for Social Conservatives: Leon H. Wolf

World

Khamenei's 'Red Lines' Speech: MEMRI
Obama’s secret message to Iran ahead of Vienna talks: MEHR News Agency
Longtime Obama Official Rewrites Bush's Letter on Israel: Rafeal Medoff

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Could this new Google Techology lead to a new Era of Mankind?: The Spirit Science
The Automobile as We Know It Is Dead: Rob Enderle
Forrester Picks Social Depth Platform Leaders: Virginia Backaitis

Cornucopia

Charleston, SC & Detroit, MI: Compare and Contrast: MOTUS
Democrats 2016 -- 'THE YOUTH PARTY?' It's their SAME OLD SONG!: Obiter Dictum
PhotoShop Dump: Sondrakistan

Image: How Escaped Killers Richard Matt, David Sweat Were Caught
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: I Am Now a Blogger For Hire…

QOTD: "If the establishment press treated Richard Nixon’s missing audio the way they are treating the destruction of emails by the Obama IRS, Nixon would have served a full eight years as President." --Grover Norquist

Monday, June 29, 2015

THEY CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH: State Dept. Ejects, Threatens Journalist Covering Iran Nuke Talks

By The Tower

The State Department today refused to allow a reporter for the Washington Free Beacon to attend a press briefing given by lead negotiator Wendy Sherman and threatened to call security to have him removed. The Free Beacon reported:

Two State Department officials booted the Free Beacon from a room where Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, was talking to reporters, despite the Free Beacon’s being credentialed by the Austrian government for the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks. …

Melissa Turley, a State Department official, approached a Free Beacon reporter and demanded that he leave the room...

“You have a press pass from the [European Union], not from me,” Turley said, after being informed that the Free Beacon was officially credentialed to cover the event.

Both Turley and a second State Department colleague threatened to call “security” to remove the reporter.

The Free Beacon cited Western observers at the talks who attributed the State Department’s behavior “to jitters over media coverage revealing a still growing list of concessions being made to Iran by the Obama administration.” Such concessions include the administration’s reported willingness to allow Iran to limit inspections of military sites, which many experts consider a necessary element of verifying that Iran’s nuclear program is strictly civilian.


Read more at The Tower
 

NETWORK SPYING: This is really weird. And not in a good way weird.

So last month I was hacking together some software tools as a side project to make it easier for some folks I work with to compare Excel spreadsheets. For the techies reading along, it's some HTML 5 and jQuery, jQueryUI and Backbone that does everything in the browser. It handles all of the weird, one-off spreadsheets that have extra columns added, superfluous columns, etc. so you can quickly determine month-over-month what's changed.

Anyhow, the URL for the web page was completely private. It was never published anywhere. It couldn't be reached unless someone knew the URL.

Two people knew the URL; myself and a co-worker who tested the tool during the second half of May. Now check out who visited the page, courtesy of Google Analytics (the two redactions are my host networks) a couple of weeks after I launched the page.


I'm guessing that list represents the DOD, German intelligence, a European intelligence agency (likely the GCHQ, the UK's version of the NSA), China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), Korean intelligence, Japanese intelligence, Saudi intelligence and several others.

The question is how?

Let's back up the tracking to the first 24 hours the site was operating with Google Analytics. The very first external visitor was Google, which makes sense because I installed Google Analytics to track usage of the page.

Less than 24 hours later, the visitors looked like this:

Larwyn's Linx: Ayatollah Roberts and His Sharia Council

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Nation

Ayatollah Roberts and His Sharia Council: Kevin D. Williamson
Elena Kagan 2009: “There is no federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage”: LI
Post-SCOTUS Gay Marriage: Religious institution tax exemptions at risk: LI

Will Democrats Apologize for Slavery and Segregation?: Jeffrey Lord
The Top Five Most Racist Presidents: Renee Nal
Obama's Casual Slander of American Christians: Mark Hemingway

Hillary Clinton tickets given out free after they don’t sell: FAM
Why Does John Kasich Keep Lying About Obamacare?: Jason Hart
Al Gore: ‘Too Early’ To Back Hillary Clinton: iOTWreport

America – It’s Time To Go On Offense: Russ Hepler
If Dems Don’t Compromise On Gun Reciprocity, They Could Lose Big: Bob Owens
NYC Elected Officials Attend Meeting with Anti-Semitic Minister Louis Farrakhan: JPupdates

Gay marriage: Another reason Muslims may want to reconsider emigrating to America: John Ruberry
ISIS marks gay marriage ruling by throwing 4 gay men off a roof: Robert Spencer
Post-SCOTUS Gay Marriage: Religious institution tax exemptions at risk: LI

Economy

Ignoring Tsipras Plea For Calm, Greeks Storm ATMs, Stores, Gas Stations: ZH
What a Grexit Could Mean For the Euro: Walter Russell Mead
Everything to Know About Greece’s Economic Crisis: Geoffrey Smith

Scandal Central

Trey Gowdy Says He May Call On ‘Recalcitrant’ John Kerry To Testify About Hillary’s Emails: Chuck Ross
ATF’s Left Hand Doesn’t Know What Its Right Hand is Doing: David Codrea
Boehner Got $5M, Ryan $2M, McConnell $9M – Any Doubt Why TPA Passed?: Rick Wells

Media

Stay Classy, Gays! Priest Walking By NYC Pride Parade GETS SPIT ON!: Sooper
The Washington Free Beacon inadvertently narcs out school pepper smuggling rings.: Moe Lane
Ted Cruz Shows How to Handle Moonbats Who Exploit Tragedies: MB

‘Nobody is more read for Hillary than the mainstream media’: Ted Cruz strikes at the ‘docile’ press: Scoop
Coulter to PJM: Cut Off All Immigration, Focus on White Voters to Win: Nicholas Ballasy
Obergefell and the roadmap to drive Christianity from the public square: RS

World

Witness to French terror attack: I'm moving to Israel: Hayom
Turks break up gay pride parade with rubber bullets and water cannons: Marathon
Desmond Tutu: Once a hero, now forlorn anti-Israel loser: Michael Curtis

Islamic State uses US-made anti-tank missiles in Hasakah offensive: Caleb Weiss
ISIS and the Lonely Young American: Rukmini Callimachi, NYT
Unhappy anniversary: Islamic State calls for violence on first birthday: Marathon

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

EPA Administrator Says Over Half of Americans are Not ‘Normal Human Beings’: Frank Camp
Is facial recognition a threat on Facebook and Google?: Mike Elgan
Israeli Computer Expert Works to Simplify Cyber Security: Maayan Jaffe

Cornucopia

Why Four Justices Were Against the Supreme Court's Huge Gay-Marriage Decision: NatlJrnl
Greece: At Least It’s Not Detroit: MOTUS
NASA'S Put Space Shuttle Wreckage Into This Heartbreaking Exhibition: Attila Nagy

Image: Ayatollah Roberts and His Sharia Council
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TIME FOR A CONSERVATIVE: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Based on the research Coulter conducted, she concluded that a legal fix is not going to improve the immigration system.

“The entire thing has to be shut down. No more immigration for 10 years. We get our books in order. We assimilate the ones already here. Build a fence. Repeal anchor babies and then we start up with the pre-1970 immigration policies,” Coulter said.

“It’s not just Obama; Bush was the same way. Bush didn’t enforce it, either. The entire immigration bureaucracy is corrupt. It is run by and staffed by left-wingers who hate America who in other times would have been fighting with revolutionaries in Latin America and getting themselves arrested. Now they punish Americans here at home. They say we are racist, sexist, imperialistic, greedy, they want to transform America because they hate America,” she added.

Coulter told PJ Media that Republicans can win in 2016 without substantial support from the Hispanic community." --Nicholas Ballasy

Sunday, June 28, 2015

DETERMINING IF WE NEED ANOTHER BUSH AS PRESIDENT: Using the Common Core Method

I actually wrote a note to my contacts at the RNC (including Reince, who I'm 99 percent sure doesn't know me from Adam) which reads as follows:

Please check this story out. Consider what it means to many Americans. Until there is some legitimate effort to embrace the conservative base, the Republican Party stands no chance of winning the presidential election in 2016.

"Question: If John Boehner Was a Democratic Plant, What Would He Be Doing Differently?," by Jim Hoft

As a side note, you do realize that Jeb Bush has zero chance in a general election? Or has the Bush brand name secretly been repaired when I wasn't looking? Any cash you direct to Jeb!™ would be better invested by dousing it in gasoline and then applying a lit sparkler.

Best, Doug

For the rest of America, there's this:


Mathematicians have yet to invent a fraction small enough to represent the odds of a Jeb!™ presidency.

What's one over a googol?


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

The Supreme Court Has Ruled. Principled People Will Not Obey.

By Don Boys

Following the Supreme Court’s illegal, immoral, and incredible “gay” rights decision, the White House (owned by the American people, not the President) was flooded with rainbow-color lights in celebration of that disgusting, dangerous, and decadent decision. Such impudence and defiance was an insult to America and a goading of God. However, be assured that God sees the evil and the good and He is involved in our world. Sometime His judgment seems slow, but it is always sure and severe. Judgment is on the way!

Former U. S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson said about the Supreme Court’s authority, “We are not final because we are infallible; we are infallible because we are final.” That attitude is not only arrogant but audacious and asinine. However, the Supreme Court is not infallible (as only a fool would say) nor is it final (as only a fanatic would say). I remind you that their decisions are called, “opinions” and do not reach the level of the Ten Commandments–or even the Ten Recommendations. Same-sex “marriages” will continue to be abnormal, abominable, and aberrational even as shallow people applaud them.

Some have said, “The Court has spoken. That settles it.” Oh, really, what about Dred Scott? The Court, consisting of appointed, flawed individuals, has reversed itself over 200 times and it must be remembered that the Court is illegitimate when it usurps the position of legislatures. If the Court wants to write laws, they should resign, run for Congress, expose their financial souls and seek approval from the voters. The Justices are rogues in black robes drunk with power. The Court thinks it is omnipotent and omniscient and it seems to be almost omnipresent in our lives.

Larwyn's Linx: Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court

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SCOTUS

Constitutional Remedies to a Lawless Supreme Court: Ted Cruz
John Roberts: The Worst Supreme Court Chief Justice Ever: Michael J. Hurd
Levin: If Kennedy Had Been Honest About His Views, He'd Never Been Nominated: Breitbart

You Need To Go Order A Confederate Flag Cake To Support Free Speech: Greg Campbell
The Supreme Court Is a Political Branch, Not a Judicial One: Andrew C. McCarthy
Anti-Gay Marriage Hillary Shamelessly Hawks Gay Marriage Trinkets : John S. Roberts

Alito Warns: Defenders of Traditional Marriage Now Risk Being Treated as Bigots: CNS
Clarence Thomas: Decision Threatens our Nation's Religious Liberty: CNS
Supreme Court’s White Lie on Obamacare: Debra Saunders

Ted Cruz Has An EPIC Message For ‘Rogue’ Supreme Court Justices: WJ
Cruz to Propose Amendment: SCOTUS to Face “Retention Elections”: FreeLight
Court Decisions Give Cruz New Ammo for Old Targets: Patrick Svitek

Nation

The Progressive Timeline: The Z Man
Exclusive: The Arming of Benghazi: Catherine Herridge
The dozen rebels targeted by GOP leaders: Scott Wong and Cristina Marcos, The Hill

Economy

Beyond sad: The real unemployment rate was 42.9%, not 5.5%!: InvestmentWatch
Poll: 72% fear economic crash, concern 'highest ever': Paul Bedard
Open-Borders Sociology Prof. Behind New DHS Rule Freeing Illegal Alien Families: JW

Scandal Central

King v. Burwell: Intentionalism Trumps Textualism, and the Rule of Law Dies: Patterico
We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Fans: SDA
Obama has issued 19 secret directives: Gregory Korte, USA TODAY

Media

Violent Extremistan vs the dar al Gay: Mark Steyn
Why liberal racists are attacking Bobby Jindal: Seth Mandel
It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy: group marriage is the next horizon of social liberalism: Fredrik Deboer, Politico

Ancient Greeks: MagFarm
A Helpful Suggestion for the Liberal Mob: MB
MRC President Brent Bozell: GOP Should Consider Cancelling Univision-Sponsored Debate: MRC

World

Islamic State uses US-made anti-tank missiles in Hasakah offensive: Caleb Weiss
Obama World… US Troops Put on Drinking, Eating Restrictions for Ramadan: GWP
Tunisia to shutter 80 mosques after terror attack: JPost

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Meet The Mysterious New Hacker Army Freaking Out The Middle East: Sheera Frenkel
New Gun Test: Sig Sauer Air Pistols: Tom McHale
Timeless Mystery: How did a Swiss Ring Watch End up in a Sealed Ming Dynasty Tomb?: Liz Leafloor

Cornucopia

Right on Cue – Look Who Is Asking For “Their Rights” Now: iOTWreport
Firearms Numbers in the United States 1945 - 2012: GunWatch
Calls grow for probe of Clinton's private server: Sarah Westwood

Image: Hundreds rally for 'Confederate Pride' parade displaying controversial battle flag
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "With each decision of ours that takes from the People a question properly left to them—with each decision that is unabashedly based not on law, but on the “reasoned judgment” of a bare majority of this Court—we move one step closer to being reminded of our impotence" --Justice Antonin Scalia