Thursday, July 09, 2015

I’VE HAD ENOUGH: How About You?

By John Velisek, USN (Ret.)

I think back on the days of my childhood, days when all the kids in the neighborhood I lived in would get together for a game of stickball. All colors, all nationalities, everyone would play. Some better than others, but everyone would play until our mothers called us home at dark for dinner. The only break would come when the ice cream truck came by, and if someone didn’t have the dime for ice cream, someone else would buy it for them.

Times have changed, but the basic principles of how I was brought up have stuck with me. It doesn’t make for a tranquil way of life these days. There is a choice which must be made by every one of our citizens. Do we keep those old values, or do we toss them to the side for a more modern way of living our lives?

For me, I’ve had enough. There are certain things I am tired of:

I’m tired of partisan politics, of politicians working only to line their pockets and those of family and friends.

I’m tired of election promises never kept and the lying that has somehow become an accepted part of their everyday lives.

THE DEMOCRAT OPEN BORDERS CROWD: Accessories to Rape, Mayhem and Murder

By James Simpson

And should be charged as criminal accomplices and dealt with accordingly. Does that sound outrageous? Sure it does, but withhold judgment until you read this post.

It is absolutely indisputable that San Francisco's sanctuary policies contributed to the horrific, senseless, shooting death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle on July 2. Francisco Sanchez, the illegal alien who admitted killing her, has said that it was the city's sanctuary policies that attracted him to it. City leaders have Kate's blood on their hands. But that blood is a drop in the bucket compared to the outrages regularly being committed by the illegals among us, while politicians of both parties sing their praises.

Donald trump has been roundly criticized by both Democrats and Republicans for saying that 80 percent of women crossing the border are being raped. NBC decided to drop his popular show, The Apprentice, and the Miss Universe pageant he produces. Mexico says it will withdraw its entrant to the pageant based on Trump's offensive statements. ESPN, NASCAR and others have piled on. But Trump was just quoting an article from Fusion magazine. The piece, "Is rape the price to pay for migrant women chasing the American Dream?" leads off by saying:

Before they can reach the American Dream, many migrant women have to survive a Mexican nightmare. A staggering 80 percent of Central American girls and women crossing Mexico en route to the United States are raped along the way, according to directors of migrant shelters interviewed by Fusion.

Could it be any clearer than that? Democrats have long since abandoned even a shred of honesty, but are Republicans again rebranding themselves as "The Party of Stupid?" How about "The Party of Insufferably Mindless Idiots?" Is that what they should be called, or maybe just the cowards, frauds and hypocrites they are?

In fact, the problem is infinitely worse than the article reveals.

Try to imagine what would've happened if Bush had made THIS mistake...

But when President Barack Hussein "57 States" Obama says it, well, it ain't news, Sparky:

Obama: “We’re speeding up training of ISIL forces”

The thing is, we are training ISIL forces. We have given weapons to groups that the Pentagon has designated as “moderate” — groups such as the Free Syrian Army, which has collaborated with the Islamic State. The Obama Administration’s avid and fruitless search for “moderates” to fight the Islamic State has put the U.S. in the position of training and arming a great many jihadis for the Islamic State. Obama’s statement was not a mere slip of the tongue. It was the most Freudian of all Freudian slips.

“President Obama says ‘We’re Training ISIL': White House Website ‘Corrects’ His Remarks, by Paul Joseph Watson, D.C. Clothesline,

The White House.gov website has corrected an embarrassing mistake made by Barack Obama during his press briefing Monday about the Islamic State when the President said that U.S. forces were “training ISIL.”

During his speech, Obama uttered the line, “with the additional steps I ordered last month, we’re speeding up training of ISIL forces.”


No double standard here, folks. Just move along.


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Larwyn's Linx: Hillary to CNN: I was never subpoenaed. Gowdy: Um, here’s the subpoena

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Nation

Hillary to CNN: I was never subpoenaed. Gowdy: Um, here’s the subpoena: Guy Benson
Hillary's Ties to the Violent Extremist Saul Alinsky: Stanley Kurtz
Senators to DHS Chief: Why Are You Helping Sanctuary Cities?: Katie Pavlich

The Stupidity of Sophisticates: Mark Steyn
A plea to resist the Court on same-sex marriage: Lyle Denniston
Chicago Has Had More Than 12,000 Shootings Since 2010 (MAP): Tanveer Ali

Democrats Scurry from Sanctuary Ship: Debra Saunders
Donald Trump Was Right: John Hinderaker
Stop Complaining About Donald Trump: Erick Erickson

Bernie Sanders Is The Future Of The Democratic Party: David Harsanyi
In Portland, the Mania of Bernie: Scott Johnson
Fiddling Away the Future: Walter Williams

Economy

The Credit Warp: The Z Man
State-Based Accounting 101: Ranking Fiscal Condition: Veronique De Rugy
Chicago, state lawmakers consider tax hikes of 30%: ABC-7

Scandal Central

Federal Judge Drops the Hammer on Obama Administration Immigration Defiance: Matthew Clark
BOMBSHELL: FBI, DOJ Colluded with IRS, Lerner to “Bring Criminal Charges” Against Conservatives: Matthew Clark
Massive Government Overreach: Obama’s AFFH Rule Is Out: Stanley Kurtz

Hillary: My Secret Emails are a Phony Scandal and I Won't Discuss the Clinton Foundation: Guy Benson
Rand Paul Highlights Hillary Clinton’s False Testimony To Congress: Treehouse
Gowdy wants to grill Huma Abedin about Benghazi: Elise Viebeck

Climate & Energy

Money No Object: Obama Orders Solar Panels Put On Subsidized Housing: S&L

Media

The New Totalitarians Are Here: Tom Nichols
Donald Trump's Blinding Achievement: EIB
Progressives Are Now Openly Rewriting the Racist History of the Democratic Party: Glob

CNN: Hillary Clinton Lied About Never Receiving a Subpoena: WFB
Hillary: Faxing Was Difficult Because It Was A Secure Fax: S&L
ESPN fires Keith Olbermann (again): FAM

World

Is Putin Playing Puppetmaster in Greece?: The XX Committee
The Market Crash and the End of Chinese Passivity: Noah Rothman
Cubans pay the price for Obama’s ‘engagement’ with the Castros: Jeff Jacoby

The Next Big Battlefield is Europe: Baron Bodissey
'Hamas Aiding ISIS in Egypt to Prepare for Next War with Israel': Ari Soffer
How my family recovered a painting stolen by the Nazis and sold it for $2.9 million: Peter J. Toren

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Technology the Focus of NYSE, United Airlines Problems: eWeek
Air force drops dummy nuclear bomb in Nevada in controversial test to update cold war arsenal: Daily Mail
The Look Of Funny: How The Onion's Art Department Works: Fastcodesign

Cornucopia

Museum of Communism in Prague imitates the People's Cube: Cube
See If You Can Find the Victim Here.: MOTUS
Political insider Tony Rezko released to halfway house: Carlos Sadovi

Image: Bernie Sanders Is The Future Of The Democratic Party
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Time to Drop the Hammer: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "The Greek problem would not be a big problem if people would keep buying Greek bonds at 2% rather than demanding 10% or more. Across the West, budgets are based on paying debt service at near zero rates. If borrowing costs reverted back to historic norms, every nation in the West defaults within five years.

That means all efforts, like we’re seeing with the Euro, are aimed at keeping those borrowing rates low. They have no choice. Even small hikes could make some American states insolvent. Given the way government debt works, a small default can unleash hell on the biggest states, which is why Puerto Rico is a big deal.

The West is trapped in a box of its own making. There are two ways out of it. One is everyone commits suicide and the other is to begin restructuring so that over debts levels begin to decline as borrowing rates slowly return to normal. The latter is politically impossible so that leaves the former." --The Z Man

Wednesday, July 08, 2015

U.S. MAP OF "SANCTUARY CITIES": Where Local Governments Violate Federal Laws, Endanger Citizens

By Bryan Griffith and Marguerite Telford


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More than 200 cities, counties and states across the United States are considered sanctuary cities. These state and local jurisdictions have policies, laws, executive orders, or regulations allowing them to avoid cooperating with federal immigration law enforcement authorities. These “cities” ignore federal law authorizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to administratively deport illegal aliens without seeking criminal warrants or convictions from federal, state, or local courts. Although federal law requires the cooperation, the Department of Justice has never sued or taken any measure, including denying federal funds, against a jurisdiction. On the contrary, the present administration has made it difficult for the states and localities which choose to aid in enforcing immigration laws. Federal law was labelled voluntary by the administration in a November 2014 policy memorandum signed by the Homeland Security Secretary.


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BOOM: Secret Emails Withheld by State Dept. Reveal Hillary Clinton Tied Directly To Benghazi Video Lie

By Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch announced today that newly revealed testimony from the Obama State Department under court order directly ties Hillary Clinton, for the first time, to the now-debunked Benghazi talking points used by United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice to claim that the attack was the result of a “spontaneous protest” gone awry. The Obama administration also sent false talking points about the attack to Congress. The State Department is refusing to divulge the contents of the email, citing a discretionary “deliberative process” privilege.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit in July 2014 seeking records related to the drafting and use of the talking points (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). The lawsuit sought records specifically from Hillary Clinton and her top State Department staff about the Benghazi talking points scandal:

Copies of any updates and/or talking points given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency concerning, regarding, or related to the September 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Any and all records or communications concerning, regarding, or relating to talking points or updates on the Benghazi attack given to Ambassador Rice by the White House or any federal agency

The litigation forced the State Department to request government-related emails from former Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, and senior aide Jake Sullivan. Sullivan and Mills provided documents to the State Department responsive to Judicial Watch’s request on June 26. Abedin has yet to comply with the request from State in Judicial Watch’s case.

One of the documents identified by the State Department from Sullivan includes an email chain from September 29, 2012, which discussed the talking points, and was originally included in the 55,000 pages of documents Clinton provided to the State Department. The initial email was sent to Clinton’s secret email account and to Mills, while the follow-up was sent by Mills to Sullivan and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Strategic Communications Philippe Reines.

However, an unnamed agency staffer initially determined at an unknown time that a “talking points” email was not relevant to Judicial Watch’s request for emails about the Benghazi “talking points.”

According to the ACLU, La Raza, the New York Times, and the SSA, 75% of illegal aliens commit felonies

By Ronald W. Mortensen

Did Donald Trump overstate the level of crime committed by illegal immigrants? Not according to the ACLU, the National Council of La Raza, the New York Times, and the Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to these organizations, as many as 75 percent of illegal immigrants use unlawfully obtained Social Security numbers to pay payroll (Social Security) taxes. That, in turn, means that the vast majority of illegal immigrants are committing multiple federal and state felonies including forgery, Social Security fraud, perjury on I-9 forms, and identity theft.

It also means that potentially millions of Americans, including an untold number of innocent children, are victims of identity theft when their Social Security numbers are used by illegal immigrants. Of course, the ACLU, La Raza, the New York Times, and the SSA conveniently overlook that connection and they are never challenged by the media or politicians.

TRUMP CARD: What ever happened to the Democrat warcry of “If we can only save one child?”

By Karl Denninger

So Donald Trump was wrong?

Sure he is....

Between November 1, 2013 and October 31, 2014, there have been 4,317 charges of child sexual assault filed against illegal aliens in North Carolina, according to the citizens advocacy group known as NCFIRE.

12 months, 4,300 charges of sexual assault on kids by illegal invaders.

In one state.

So you're "offended" that Donald Trump made a point of this eh?

How about the kids who were assaulted?  How do they feel about our black-hearted President and the entire US Congress that refuses to stop the invasion of people who sexually abused them?


Read more at Market Ticker
 

Larwyn's Linx: The human cost of Obama’s immigration policy

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Nation

The human cost of Obama’s immigration policy: RS
Smug SF Sheriff Blames Everyone Except Himself For Kate Steinle Murder: Treehouse
Illegal alien with 3 DUIs drives drunk again and kills American teen: John Brodigan

12 Times The Obama Administration Caved to Iran on Nuclear Deal: David Rutz
Hillary Clinton Promises Citizenship For 20 Million Illegal Aliens: Brian Anderson
Official: ‘All Nuclear Activities of Iran Will Continue’ Under Obama Deal: Sara Noble

Conservative Revolt Brewing Against Scott Walker Over Dayspring Hire: John Hawkins
A Legacy of Cliches: Thomas Sowell
Is Your Church Abetting Sanctuary Nation?: Michelle Malkin

Socialist Bernie Sanders Rising in Iowa Polls; Hillary Camp Concerned: Victory Girls
Trump: 'Infectious disease is pouring across the border': Jesse Byrnes
Why Obama and Hillary Must Stop Donald Trump at All Costs: Wayne Root

Economy

Government Crushes People – Then Writes Them Checks: Seton Motley
How stupidly obvious WAS this end result of the SF minimum wage hike?: Moe Lane
MAP: Greece isn’t the first nation to default on a sovereign debt: Rick Noack

Scandal Central

Grassley Probing Clinton Aide’s Dual Role at State, Clinton Foundation: Alan Goodman
New Documents Reveal DOJ, IRS, and FBI Plan to Seek Criminal Charges of Obama Opponents: JW
We ‘refuse to comply’: Christian bakers won’t be bullied by gag order: Michael Schaus

Gun used in pier killing had been stolen from federal agent: Jaxon Van Derbeken
250 Murders by Criminal Illegals Intentionally Released in 2014: Kurt Revere (4/15)
Obama warns ICE officials will pay price for disobeying amnesty order: BPR (2/15)

Climate & Energy

Your Stupid Electric Car is Killing Gaia: JWF
Aussie climate scientists: Please don’t examine our work too closely: Eric Worrall
“Deniers” in their midst – All is not well in Nobel Prize Land: WUWT

Media

Obama’s Daughter Scores Internship With Notorious Sex Offender: JWF
Feds Raid Home of Subway Spokesman Jared Fogle: Madeleine Morgenstern
Billionaire Malibu Environmentalists And “Every BAYWATCH Fan In Kazakhstan”: VDARE

Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview: Lloyd Grove
Another Day, Another Leftist Fraud: Steven Hayward
Charges pressed against top Dem activist who threatened 12-year-old Obama critic: Lauren Cooley

World

Is Iran promoting ISIS as the new Palestinian leadership?: David Spengler
Iran Now Demands Weapons Embargo Be Lifted in Any Deal: Clarion
Syria: Obama-backed rebels persecute Christians, force them from their homes: Robert Spencer

Happy Tuesday: 45 ISIS Fighters Eat Poisoned Meal And Die: Tammy Bruce
Misunderstanderers of Islam Burn Alive Mothers and Sons Who Refuse to Join Terror Group: Clarion
Rapid Reaction?: In From the Cold

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Amazon Is Data Mining Reviewers’ Personal Relationships: Chris Morran
Instagram Blocks Users From Displaying Israeli Flag: WZ
The Apple Watch Is a Certified Brick: Frida Garza

Cornucopia

Ideologies v. Guns, and Hope as a Strategy: Charlie Foxtrot
#BetterIdeas-R-Us: MOTUS
Is The .22LR Ammo Drought About To End?: Bob Owens

Image: Hillary Plays the Victim in CNN Interview
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QOTD: "We have to ask the question: who does it benefit for the talks to drag on, while Iran continues making more bomb-grade nuclear material? Who does it benefit when Iran suddenly decides to back away from any inspections, never mind the unannounced “snap” inspections we’ve been calling for? ...

...After all the questioning “why not walk away?” there’s just one question remaining: why would Obama want Iran to have a nuclear bomb? Because that’s exactly what he’s doing." --Steve Berman

Tuesday, July 07, 2015

RUH ROH: Bernie Sanders Rips Obama’s Fictional Labor Reports; "Real Unemployment is 10.5%!"

Self-professed Socialist and Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls as Granny Catlady's campaign continues to implode. Most recently, Sanders drew a crowd of 7,500 in a city with 66,000 residents (in other words, over 48%, but I'm no mathematician, my numbers could be off).

Earlier today, Sanders ripped a key White House economic fable stating that the real U.S. unemployment rate is double what the Obama administration claims.
“When you talk about the economy we also have to have an honest assessment of unemployment in America,” Sanders told a crowd of 7,500 gathered at a presidential campaign rally in Portland, Maine.

“Once a month the government publishes a set of figures, and the last figures they published said that official unemployment was 5.4 percent,” the Democratic nominee continued, slightly misstating the Labor Department’s most recent report which put June’s unemployment rate at 5.3 percent.

“But there is another set of government statistics,” Sanders continued, “and that that real unemployment if you include those people who have given up looking for work and the millions of others who are working part-time 20, 25 hours a week when they want to work full-time, when you all of that together, real unemployment is 10.5 percent.”
Aside from being a radical Marxist kook, Sanders has plenty of other skeletons in his closet.

Pass the popcorn, Nahanni.


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REALLY COOL GRAPHIC: 15 Years of Asset-Class Returns

Really cool graphic by Novel Investor relayed by Barry Ritholtz: knowing what you know now about the tech implosion in 2000 and the subprime meltdown in 2008, any patterns you can discern?

Click to explongify

Hat tip: BadBlue Money News.
 

WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Iran Revolutionary Guards to Get Huge Cash Infusion From Obama’s Nuke Deal

By The Tower

The sanctions relief that is slated to accompany the emerging nuclear deal with Iran will likely enrich and further entrench Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Reuters reported on Monday.

The Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, is more than just a military force. It is also an industrial empire with political clout that has grown exponentially in the last decade, benefiting from the favor of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, himself a former guardsman and, most recently, from the opportunities created by Western sanctions.

A Western diplomat who follows Iran closely told Reuters that the IRGC’s recent annual turnover from all of its business activities was estimated to be around $10-12 billion. …

It was the IRGC, unquestioningly loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that suppressed student protests in 1999 and also silenced the pro-reform protests that followed Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election in 2009.

According to Reuters, $12 billion would equal about one sixth of Iran’s economy.

As Nuke Talks Grind On, Iran’s "Moderates" Call for Israel’s Destruction

By The Tower

Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran and an ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, called for the destruction of Israel and described the country as “alien” and “temporary,” according to a report Monday in Iran’s official IRNA news agency. Rafsanjani, who heads the powerful Expediency Council, which advises Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made the comments in an interview with a Hezbollah-affiliated news outlet.

In response to a question why the Zionist regime has done its best to prevent the path for reaching a nuclear agreement between Iran and the West, Ayatollah Rafsanjani said that even Tel Aviv knows well that Iran is not after acquiring nuclear weapons.

‘By doing so the Zionist wish to keep Iran engaged in problems permanently, knowing that the Islamic Republic’s political, economic, cultural and propagation status will all improve after such an agreement,’ he said.

Asked about the future of the Palestinian nation, Rafsanjani said that he still believes that eventually one day the forged and temporary Israeli entity, which is an alien existence forged into the body of a nation and a region be wiped off the map.

Rafsanjani, who along with Rouhani is often characterized as a moderate, appears to associate Israel’s destruction with the completion of the nuclear deal.

Iran’s top leaders have a long record of threatening Israel’s existence. Khamenei last year tweeted out “9 key questions about the elimination of Israel.”

The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs published a study (.pdf) in 2012 cataloging the various calls Iran’s leaders have issued for Israel’s destruction.


Read more at The Tower
 

TED CRUZ LEVELS POLITIFACT: ‘Noxious Yellow Journalism’

By Jon Cassidy

In his new book, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, calls out “a new, particularly noxious species of yellow journalism that is beginning to infect what passes for modern political discourse. It’s called ‘PolitiFact.’”

Cruz gives three reasons PolitiFact sucks: selection bias, liberal bias and inability to differentiate fact from opinion.

We’ve been pointing out those exact problems, and many others, for years now. In fact, among the dozens of articles we’ve done on PolitiFact’s shortcomings, there’s a 14-part series on this exact fight: PolitiFact vs. Cruz.

Now, W. Gardner Selby of PolitiFact Texas has already responded with a glib little column pointing out a slight error in Cruz’s book. Congratulations to Selby. That’s already more substantive than just about any of the attacks on Cruz he’s written.

The final score for our 14-part review was Cruz, 12, PolitiFact, 1; and one disqualification when both sides were wrong.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Recalls That Time Roosevelt Out Debated Hitler

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Nation

Obama Recalls That Time Roosevelt Out Debated Hitler: Erick Erickson
Obama blames GOP for illegal alien murder of woman in SF: RWN
Chicago’s Strict Gun Laws Show Promise, Only 64 People Shot Over Weekend: IHTM

Is the World Becoming Fed Up?: Victor Davis Hanson
Deleted Hillary Emails Probably Relate to 'Clinton Cash' Deals>: Breitbart
Classified Clinton emails require seizure of server, Judicial Watch says: Times

Death by Peonage: The Z Man
Greece and Puerto Rico: Previews of Coming Attractions: Michael Pento
Obama Ties Budget Veto Threat to National Security: Steven Dennis

Paging Ted Cruz and All the Candidates. Take on the Vichy GOP.: Erick Erickson
Trump Doesn’t Exist in a Vacuum: Joe Cunningham
Democrat Senator: 1st Amendment Doesn’t Apply To Individuals: BlurBrain

Economy

China Attempts to Prop Up Stock Market After Steep Declines; 1929 Flashback: GEA
It Is NOT Priced-In, Stupid!: David Stockman
AP: Mass Unemployment, Lower Wages Is ‘New Normal’: S&L

Social Security expansion: Better than Greece!: Andrew G. Biggs
Health Insurers Ask for 54% Premium Increase to Pay for Obamacare Mess: GWP
Non-working America soars by 640,000 in one month to new record of 93.6 million: MyBudget360

Scandal Central

Former Scott Walker Aide Sues prosecutors for WI John Doe “Home Invasion”: LI
Murderer: I Chose SF Because It Is A 'Sanctuary City': Breitbart
Another Woman Shot Dead in “Random Act of Violence” While Walking In Hollywood: Treehouse

Climate & Energy

Marxist Center for American Progress helped craft EPA talking points, emails show: Lachlan Markay
After ruling, Morrisey pivots to EPA’s “navigable waters” battle: MetroNews WV

Media

Cincinnati Mob Beats White Male Victim, “simply for being white”, While Rioting In Fountain Square: Treehouse
Leftists Want Minnesota Flag Taken Down Because It Shows White Man Working: RWN
Krugman Essentially Correct on Greece; Chance of Escape: Mike Shedlock

Insufficiently Independent to Hold an Independence Day Parade: Mark Steyn
Declaration should still wake the powerful up at night: Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Progressive Responses To Spree Killings OF Non-Muslim Nonblacks BY Muslims And Blacks: VDARE

Legendary CNN Anchor To Concealed Carry Opponents: “Shut The F–k Up About It.”: Bob Owens
Geraghty: On Gay Marriage, ‘Press has Decided One Side is Evil’: Matt Philbin
A Visual Guide to Puerto Rico’s Debt Crisis: Michael Johnston

World

The Price of Flesh: Selling Women in the Islamic State Caliphate: Clarion Project
Why Benghazi Continues to Make a Difference.: Nicola Vandiver, Politichicks
Iran’s Dubious Track Record: Behnam Ben Taleblu

Obama Lies Again: “Deports” 900,000 Illegal Aliens—They NEVER Leave the U.S: Stephen Frank
US jets scrambled to intercept Russian bombers off California, Alaska on July 4: Lucas Tomlinson
‘Rape Trees:’ Proof of Massive Number of Sexual Assaults Occurring on Border: UFP (2014)

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Oregon Is First State to Charge Drivers for Each Mile They Drive: Susan Jones, CNS
Hackers Installed Sophisticated Malware on U.S. Computers. Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?: Andrea Castillo
Infographic: Charting the world’s sixth mass extinction: Amanda Shendruk

Cornucopia

5 Political Characters of Americans: Journal of the American Revolution
Signers of the Declaration Coloring Books & Sticker Packs: MP
Time To Greece That Squeaky Wheel?: MOTUS

Image: South Carolina Senate expected to vote to remove Confederate flag
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: IT'S TIME: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "Amid all this leftish high-fiving about court decisions and executive orders, we forget political and electoral reality. Barack Obama has done more to destroy liberal political power in the Congress and in the statehouses than any Democratic politician since the 1920s. His executive orders and neglect of enforcing existing law have green-lighted the executive power of the next Republican president in a way that Richard Nixon could hardly imagine. He has discredited the idea of a disinterested media to such a degree that its biased audits of the next future Republican administration will be seen as laughable.

Europe and the United States are seeing glimpses of the ultimate leftist trajectory — a mixture of Greece and Detroit, de facto non-enforcement of the law, the Iranian nuke deal, a new McCarthyism, and race, class, and gender hatred — and are becoming afraid and perhaps appalled. A growing number of people sense that 21st century leftist elites are not pragmatic working people, but a privileged sect that callously experiments with other people’s lives on the understanding that they are insulated and immune from the inevitable disasters that follow from their own ideas.

A great pushback is awakening here and abroad, but its timing, nature, and future remain mysterious." --Victor Davis Hanson

Monday, July 06, 2015

GRANNY HILLARY: Obama’s Deal With Iran Won’t Stop Them From Launching Lots of Terror Attacks

I paraphrase, but only just a skōsh..

Leading Democratic presidential candidate, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, says that even with a nuclear deal Iran will still be “the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism,” Yahoo! politics reported Friday.

“But even if we do get such a deal, we will still have major problems from Iran,” she said. “They are the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism. They use proxies like Hezbollah to sow discord and to create insurgencies, to destabilize governments. They are taking more and more control of a number of nations in the region and they pose an existential threat to Israel.”

“So even if we are successful on the nuclear front, we still are going to have to turn our attention to working with our partners to try to rein in and prevent this continuing Iranian aggressiveness,” Clinton said.

Various critics of the nuclear deal with Iran have raised similar concerns that the deal will only fuel Iran’s efforts to destabilize the Middle East. These critics include Foreign Policy editor David Rothkopf, former secretaries of state Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, former State Department official Aaron David Miller, and Washington Institute for Near East Policy fellows Mehdi Khalaji, Soner Cagaptay, and James Jeffrey.

Last week, the U.S. State Department released a report calling Iran a state sponsor of terrorism.


So why isn't Hillary speaking out directly against this insane deal?

Alas, that too is a rhetorical question.


Hat tip: BadBlue News.
 

CHALK UP ANOTHER NEEDLESS DEATH: Thank the Democrats’ Treasonous Quest for Open Borders

By Dan Cadman

By all accounts Kate Steinle was a vivacious young woman with a bright future ahead of her — until she met her death at the hands of an illegal alien while strolling on a San Francisco pier with her father, who witnessed the fatal shooting. The alien was quickly apprehended by police and identified as Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, a citizen of Mexico with seven felony convictions and five prior deportations from the United States.

According to media outlets, Lopez-Sanchez was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who discovered that there was an outstanding warrant for a drug violation and did the right thing: They turned him over to the police for prosecution and filed a detainer requesting that they get him back at the conclusion of the charges. That's where things went seriously wrong.

What did the district attorney's office do? They promptly declined to prosecute and the warrant was dismissed. (I would bet good money that, whether they admit it or not, the reason they wanted to drop the charges is because they figured the subject could just be dumped back on the federal government saving them time and headaches while compounding someone else's.)

Meanwhile, Lopez-Sanchez had been booked into the San Francisco County Jail. What did they do? Refuse to honor the detainer filed by the agents who had given them the subject to prosecute in the first place, simply releasing him instead to the street, where he wandered around until he shot Ms. Steinle to death.

The Dukes of Hazzard vs. Today’s Slave Markets

Yet another must-read from Sultan Knish, aka Daniel Greenfield.

On Mad TV in the nineties, there was a routine where some fast-talking dude would pull out a business card with a flourish while intoning the word "Bam!"

And, Bam!

When Obama condemned Christianity for the Crusades, only a thousand years too late, in attendance was the Foreign Minister of Sudan; a country that practices slavery and genocide. Obama could have taken time out from his rigorous denunciation of the Middle Ages to speak truth to the emissary of a Muslim Brotherhood regime whose leader is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. But our moral liberals spend too much time romanticizing actual slaver cultures.

It’s a lot easier for Obama to get in his million dollar Cadillac with its 5-inch thick bulletproof windows, a ride Boss Hogg could only envy, and chase down a couple of good ole boys than it is to condemn a culture that committed genocide in our own time, not in 1099, and that keeps slaves today, not in 1815.

Even while the Duke boys were being chased through Georgia, Obama appeared at an Iftar dinner; an event at which Muslims emulate Mohammed, who had more slaves than Robert E. Lee. There are no slaves in Arlington House today, but in the heartlands of Islam, from Saudi mansions to ISIS dungeons, there are still slaves, laboring, beaten, bought, sold, raped and disposed of in Mohammed’s name.

Slavery does not exist under the Confederate flag eagerly being pulled down. It does exist under the black and green flags of Islam rising over mosques in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and America today.

What exactly does it say about a society -- and a political party -- that will tar a decades-old TV show while ignoring real crimes against humanity?

Talk amongst yourselves.


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Larwyn's Linx: Kerry: I Need a 'Couple' More Days to Negotiate 'Privately and Quietly' With Iran

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Nation

Kerry: I Need a 'Couple' More Days to Negotiate 'Privately and Quietly' With Iran: WS
Why Trump Matters: The XX Committee
Cruz: Supreme Court justices 'put on an Obama jersey': Barbara Boland

Enough: I'm Tired and You Should Damn Well Be Too: John Velisek, USN (Ret.)
Wife beater patriotism: Bookworm Room
Call for an 'Assembly of the States' in May 2016: Breitbart

82 shot, 15 dead in Chicago this weekend: where's Sharpton and Deray?: Patriot
Secret Same-Sex Wedding At White House: WZ
Obama disappears, abandons press corps: Barbara Boland

Cruz Campaign and Supporters Raise $51 Million in Three Months: LI
Cruz: Trump Exposes GOP 'Washington Cartel' Attitude: Breitbart
Joe Biden Expected to Announce 2016 Presidential Run: LI

Economy

Don't Look Now, But... China: Steven Hayward
Rick Perry is the Republican Who Finally Said It: Erick Erickson
Yay Obamacare! Health Insurers Seek 20% To 40% Increases In 2016: WZ

Scandal Central

Benghazi Breakthrough: JW
Will Samantha Power Be the First American UN Ambassador to Abandon Israel?: Shmuley Boteach
Congressman: No Border Wall Because Rio Grande ‘Unites’ U.S. and Mexico: Nicholas Ballasy

It Happened Again: Local PD Failed To Report Illegal Alien, And Now Someone Is Dead: Robert Gehl
Plan to curtail public records laws sparks uproar: Madeleine Behr
In New York, yard sales now come under the heel of regulators: Sara Noble

Media

Hume: Hillary’s Private Email Saga ‘So Clinton-Esque,’ ‘You Never Quite Get the Whole Truth': WFB
CNN Panel Rips Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Roping Off Reporters: It’s ‘The Worst Visual Metaphor’: WFB
‘This is glorious': Jake Tapper OWNS lefty trolls over diversity of Sunday show guests: Twitchy

Al Jazeera Creates Video Mocking Americans On July 4th: WZ
Al Jazeera: Six Rotten Things About America: Springer
#ComPRESSed Candidate: Highlights from Chuck's Interview with Ted Cruz: NBC News

The Red State advantage for families: RS
Mark Levin's New Blockbuster 'Plunder and Deceit' Sets the Stage for 2016 Debates: Breitbart
Hillary Clinton Just Wants to Eat Some Pie: Glob

World

War Against Human Nature: 100% Failure: R.S. McCain
Final Push For Iran Deal As Netanyahu Blasts Western Collapse: Joel B. Pollak
Those Moderate Muslims!: SDA

Greece has become a battleground for the worst ideas of the 20th century: Janet Daley
EU warns of Armageddon if Greek voters reject terms: Telegraph
After The “No” Vote, Soft Grexit Landing Now EU’s Best Option: Walter Russell Mead

Greece May Start Printing IOU Currency: Glob
The Greeks have voted ‘no’. Now, the real crisis will begin: Fraser Nelson
Weapons Caches Found in 40 Tunisian Mosques: GoV

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Big Brother “Pay-by-the-Mile” Track and Tax Driving Scheme Being Rolled Out Now!: Truthstream Media
Having problems activating Windows 10? You're not alone: Mark Wilson
Fred Wilson: The Next Reddit Will Likely Be Built on the Bitcoin Blockchain: Jason Del Rey

Cornucopia

Celebrating the Fourth of July in 1777: Boston 1775
Ronald Reagan on July 4, 1986: Ruthfully Yours
Obama: Muslim, Napoleon Bonaparte redux or worse: Dan Miller in Panama

Image: 'We used to diet like you in UK. Now we worry if we'll eat at all,' writes Liz Jones in Athens
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Time for a Conservative: TED CRUZ FOR PRESIDENT

QOTD: "...when did Americans ever get asked if they wanted the Federal government to stop enforcing our borders? When did developed countries decide that having actual borders is a violation of basic human rights? I can’t recall any referendum on that.

This is an issue across the Western world. So far, only Australia and Israel have taken robust steps to halt migrant flows, but they have shown that admitting large numbers of illegal immigrants is a choice, not a fait accompli or a fact of life that developed countries can do nothing about. Given the enormous migrant flows facing Europe now, this is sure to become a bigger and more contentious issue in many countries.

All these are critical matters that merit serious discussion, not rabble-rousing. Yet when the mainstream powers-that-be stifle such necessary discussion, confining it to the fringes, don’t complain when fringe characters are the ones talking about it." --The XX Committee

Sunday, July 05, 2015

6 MOST POWERFUL COMMENTS ON THE GREEK DEBACLE: Left-wing Fantasists vs. One World Fanatics

Fiat currency printed ad infinitum on presses controlled by the political class and their corporate cronies, eco-Fascists, and One World Government Marxists -- what could possibly go wrong?

Greece is only the first domino to fall, and fall it will, whether this month or next. Then the rest of the dominoes will follow, smashing creditors along the way on a path once called contagion. Though it's truly not a virus, it's mathematics triumphing over political fantasists. And the turn of the United States will itself eventually come, unless and until we begin electing leaders with virtue.

People in the mold of Reagan and Cruz. People apart from the system, willing to speak truth to power.

6. Janet Daley, The Telegraph
Greece has become a battleground for the worst ideas of the 20th century: Which of these do you find more repugnant: an autocratic European Union which is no longer bothering to conceal its intention to displace an elected government, or a shambolic clique of Left-wing fantasists who are propelling a country – and its hapless population – into economic ruin and political chaos?

5. The Z Man:
The Greek Revolution: The problem at the core of global finance is that there’s no market mechanism to restrain public debt. The whole point of a floating currency regime is to disguise public debt in order to avoid making tough choices about the welfare state. It’s not an accident that since the Louvre Accords the size and scope of government has skyrocketed throughout the West.

In other words, a currency system based on credit has worked at hiding the cost of government. In fact, it has been so good at it no one noticed that Greece was running up debt at an alarming rate. In the old system, Greece would have been facing double digit borrowing rates long before they reached this point...

...The only people with the ability to pay sovereign debt are the tax payers.