Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Trump and the Road to Progressivism

By Robert Eno

Today, the New York Times reports that long-time Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone expects Trump to campaign to the “left of Hillary Clinton” on a variety of issues.  This of course is not a surprise to anyone who has been paying attention to Conservative Review Editor-in-Chief Mark Levin.  Levin has been warning about the progressive roots of populism for months now on his radio and television programs. The Trump camp has gone so far as to say every position Trump has taken up until now is just a “suggestion.”

GENTLEMEN, START YOUR SHREDDERS! Schedule of Depositions Revealed in Clinton Email Scandal

By Judicial Watch

Judicial Watch announced today that it has scheduled the depositions of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin, as well as top State Department official Patrick Kennedy, and former State IT employee Bryan Pagliano regarding the creation and operation of Clinton’s non-government email system. The first witness, Lewis A. Lukens, will be deposed on Wednesday, May 18.

Larwyn's Linx: Congressman: Classified Details of Iran’s Treatment of U.S. Sailors Will Shock Nation

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Nation

Classified Details of Iran’s Treatment of U.S. Sailors Will Shock Nation: Adam Kredo
Clinton’s Crimes and Comey’s Choice: Kurt Schlichter
FBI Tracking 1,000+ Islamic Terror Cases & Growing Across the US: Creeping

Chaos at NV Dem Convention as Sanders Delegates Oddly Disqualified: Ronn Blitzer
Did Nevada Democrat Party Just Steal Another State From Bernie?: Claire Bernish
Liberals make ‘torturous’ old arguments about voter ID in court: M.D. Kittle

Christina Aguilera: Hillary ‘stared’ at my chest!: Olaf Ekberg
LOL! Donald Trump Refers to Elizabeth Warren As Pocahontas: ProgsToday
Sidney Blumenthal Won’t Say If He’ll Continue Advising Hillary If She’s Elected: Chuck Ross

Sorry, Liberals, But Gender Is Not a “Social Construct”: John Hawkins
America Today Resembles 1910 More Than Postwar Era: Michael Barone
Trump v. Clinton … and Bush: Laura Ingraham

Loretta Lynch’s abuse of the law: Robert Knight
Obama seeks $1 billion for monument to himself: The Horn
Supreme Court punts on Little Sisters birth control mandate case: Robert King

Economy

States strike a blow against corporate welfare: Alison Acosta Fraser
Clinton: I'd put Bill 'in charge of revitalizing the economy': Jessie Hellmann
America's top 10 job-killing companies: Heather Long

Scandal Central

Financial analyst alleges major holes in Clinton Foundation records: Sarah Westwood
DHS Official: ISIS Training Terrorists South of Border With Help from Mexican Drug Cartels: GWP
Nutjob Navy secretary: Green energy saves Marines' lives: Jacqueline Klimas

Media

Of cabbages and kings: my response to a Trumper: PW
CNN: Email Investigation Worries Clinton Campaign Most Because They Can’t Control It: David Rutz
$40 Million Lawsuit Settled by Bank Over Hitler Training Video: Menachem Rephun

Cartoonist Draws Crucified Children, Blames NRA: Victory Girls
Breitbart, ‘Renegade Jews,’ And The Anti-Semitic Wing Of The Trump Movement: Ben Shapiro
MSNBC: Clinton’s Jeffrey Epstein Connection Could ‘Blow Up’ Campaign: David Rutz

World

Government Debates Cyber Counterattacks as Chinese Cyber-Attacks Continue Unabated: Bill Gertz
Maduro Announces Emergency Measures as Socialism Collapses in Venezuela: MB
CIA watchdog 'accidentally' deletes torture report, destroys physical copy: Rudy Takala

Obama: By Almost Every Measure, America and World Are Better Than 8 Years Ago: CNS
Islamist London: Andrew McCarthy
Erdogan's passion for building mosques in Europe: Giulio Meotti

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The FBI has quietly been hacking Americans for 20 years: Chris Smith
IBM Watson: Machine-Of-All-Trades: Thomas Claburn
Some Thoughts on Facebook and Conservatives: Erick Erickson

Cornucopia

Trump: Orange Is the New Black: MOTUS
Barack Obama, the Bathroom President: John Ruberry
Woman bitten by shark admitted to hospital with shark still attached to arm: FoxNews

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Monday, May 16, 2016

DEAR DEMOCRATS: America Ain't Denmark

By Richard Larsen

At a recent Democrat presidential debate, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said we “should look to countries like Denmark…and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.” The good senator should either rephrase his statement, or look more closely at the data. Democratic-socialism may work in some places in Europe, but was never intended, nor can it work, in the United States of America.

Another of Sanders’ erroneous statements regarding Denmark was when he claimed that Denmark’s economic model “provides extraordinary security and opportunity.” It does provide security, but little opportunity, economic or otherwise.

The 10 Most Dangerous Lies About Criminal Justice "Reform"

By Daniel Horowitz

The cool kids in public policy circles these days are all about “criminal justice reform.” Their most immediate cause célèbre is the passage of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act of 2015 (S.2123) [my analysis on the old version can be viewed here]. While we’ve covered this issue from many angles in the past, I felt a need to summarize the basic problems with its entire premise, as well as the specific legislation that, barring an outcry from the public, will come to the House and Senate floors this spring.

Astoundingly, some Republicans are trying to make the case that this is really part of a conservative agenda. Here is a list of talking points from their playbook to allure conservatives into supporting this bill and the broader effort in regards to criminal justice “reform.”

Larwyn's Linx: Why Bill Clinton's 26 Trips on the Lolita Express Child Rape Jet Matter

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Nation

Why Bill Clinton's 26 Trips on the Lolita Express Child Rape Jet Matter: Daniel Greenfield
Trump on Obama's mind at Rutgers commencement: Nicole Duran
Surge of immigrants seeking citizenship, voting rights before elections: Paul Bedard

Enemies Foreign and Domesticated: The Feminization of American Males: Bill Buppert
A ‘Golden Opportunity’: Camp of the Saints
"Ferguson Effect" in Full Bloom: SCC

2016 is Tame Compared to 1884: Rick Marschall
Hillary is One Weak Nominee: David Niose, Salon
Report: Bill Clinton Directed $2 Million "Charity" Owned by a "Special Friend": Ace

Trump, Ryan and the Islam Problem: Roger L. Simon
Trump's Muslim Ban? Just A Stray Thought: JOM
Obama’s Bathroom Decree Unburdens Us All From Reality: Derek Hunter

Economy

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Economics of Redistribution in One Image: Dan Mitchell

Scandal Central

Obama doesn’t think rapists, armed robbers, drug dealers are criminals: Kyle Smith
Clinton E-mails: Is the Fix In?: Andrew C. McCarthy
Indiana High Court: People Cannot Resist Illegal Entry by Police Into Homes: Fox

Media

Anti-Zionist-Not-Antisemite Of The Day: Jason DiPietro (Massachusetts): IsraellyCool
CNN’s Jake Tapper Brutally Fact Checks Clinton’s Email Claims: Tré Goins-Phillips
Ben Carson accidentally confirms Trump’s VP shortlist to the WaPost: Twitchy

Clinton’s Alleged Ex-Lover: Hillary a ‘Terrorist,’ ‘Sex Addict’ Bill Told Me He Had 2,000 Women: Aaron Klein
Bathrooms are just the beginning: a scary look into the trans movement’s end goals: Claire Chrteien
Chris Matthews Spends Entire Segment on Hillary’s Interest in UFO’s: Curtis Houck

World

Israeli leader: Iran mocks WWII Holocaust, prepares another: AP
Six arrested for smuggling weapons to Islamists in Sweden: Speisa
Mass riot in Copenhagen: Speisa

Merkel says Brexit would bring “instability” to Europe. A bit like her migrant crisis: Douglas Murray
Trump Predicts Refugees With ISIS Phones Will Commit 9/11 Size Attack In The U.S.: Andrew Kaczynski
Tensions rise in Germany: refugee centres targeted by 45 arson attacks in just 5 months: Suz Elvey

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

FDA to Fast-Track Possible Cure for Cancer: Ace
Scientists made see-through wood that's stronger than glass: Mat Smith
University Students Program Digital Recreation of London in 1666, Before the Great Fire: Ace

Cornucopia

Justice Clarence Thomas remembers Scalia at Hillsdale commencement speech : Scoop
Your Centralized Whiteness Offends Me.: MOTUS
Decider’s #SquaresOfThrones – Here’s How To Find Your Square!: Mark Graham, Decider

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QOTD: "Mark Penn, who owns a public relations firm handling communications for the Barack Obama Foundation, credited Obama with uttering the “stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy.”

In a March 2012 email sent to Hillary Clinton’s private email address, Penn lambasted Obama for his statement to then-Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that he would “have more flexibility” on missile defense issues after the 2012 election.

“This could be about the stupidest thing ever said by a president in foreign policy,” wrote Penn. “To explicitly say that he is laying low on nuclear defense policies because of his election right now and tell your opponent that is to politicize all foreign policy, evidence weakness that can be exploited by others, and undermine the administration’s credibility. “" --Brent Scher

Sunday, May 15, 2016

FEEL GOOD STORY: Armed Robber Ventilated by Citizen While Trying To Hold Up Convenience Store

By Bob Irwin

The Tampa Bay Times reports this week (5/10/2016) in Riverview, a man who tried to rob three other men at a convenience store on Tuesday was killed when one of his intended victims fatally shot him.

The attempted robbery took place around noon at Ace Beverage Castle at 9401 U.S. 301 S. The would-be robber, age 24, wearing a bandana and carrying a 9 mm handgun, walked up to a man who was standing behind the business and tried to rob him.

DAVID PETRAEUS GOES NUTS: Warns Americans Not to Succumb to "Islamophobia"

By Lawrence Sellin

Retired U.S. Army general and former CIA director David Petraeus recently wrote an article entitled "David Petraeus: Anti-Muslim bigotry aids Islamist terrorists."

Thank you, sir, for the clarification. Up until now, I had believed Barack Obama; that Islamic terrorism was caused by climate change.

Petraeus' premise is that "inflammatory political discourse...against Muslims and Islam...including proposals from various quarters for blanket discrimination against people on the basis of their religion... will compound the already grave terrorist danger to our citizens... directly undermine our ability to defeat Islamist extremists by alienating and undermining the allies whose help we most need to win this fight: namely, Muslims."

Larwyn's Linx: Trump the Disrupter; Inside the GOP effort to draft an independent candidate to derail Trump

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Nation

Trump the Disrupter: Lawrence Kudlow
Inside the GOP effort to draft an independent candidate to derail Trump: WaPo
Report: Romney recruiting Kasich, Sasse for third-party option: Jessie Hellmann

Diversity Sucks: The Z Man
The Deadly Crossing on the US-Mexico Border: Sharyl Attkisson
Cuban refugees arriving in El Paso getting lost: Genevieve Curtis

Clinton Machine Steals Nevada: BattleSwarm
Nevada Dem convention devolves into chaos: Jessie Hellmann
Barbara Boxer has a meltdown when Sanders fans boo her at NV convention: BPR

Worker at LA Mosque may have been involved in 9/11 jihad attacks: Robert Spencer
Clinton Starts with a Decisive Advantage: Rothenblog
The Secret History of the Democrat Party: Power Line

Economy

Venezuela Is Falling Apart: The Atlantic
Why Has US Treasury Stopped Blacklisting Terror Charities?: Clarion Project
Third Graders Forced To Read Transgender Book About ‘Boy in Dress’: Steven Crowder

Scandal Central

Hidden Microphones Exposed As Part of Govt Surveillance Program In Bay Area: Jackie Ward
Hillary and her ‘coke habit’: Sally Miller
Emails raise more questions of Clinton infosec practices: Jeremy Seth Davis

Media

Media lay the groundwork for Hillary, the victim: Eddie Scarry
A New Report Examines How Donald Trump Is a Creep Around Women: Peter Wade
Alan Grayson gets into heated spat with MSNBC anchor: Jessie Hellmann

World

Venezuelans Now Killing Cats, Dogs, and Birds For Food Because Socialism: Matt Vespa
Venezuela Apocalypse: "Countless Wounded" After 5,000 Loot Supermarket Looking For Food: ZH
Maduro orders seizure of closed factories, jailing of owners: Valentina Oropeza

The Selling of the Iran Deal: Mark Hemingway
Iran Tortured This Marine, But The US Government Wouldn’t Do Anything About It: WZ
Brazil: Cuban “doctors” under investigation over fake diplomas: Fausta

Report: U.S. Under Obama Has Halted Battle Against Charities Funding Terrorism: Natalie Johnson
Syrian Asylum Seeker Linked to Mass Killing Is Arrested in Sweden: C.J. Shivers
Obamas host Nordic leaders at state dinner as show of unity against Putin's aggression: DailyMail

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Artificially Intelligent Lawyer “Ross” Has Been Hired By Its First Official Law Firm: Futurism
‘Slam-dunk’ find puts hunter-gatherers in Florida 14,500 years ago: Bruce Bower
The future soldier will be part human, part machine: Cadie Thompson

Cornucopia

Don’t Call; I Don’t Care: MOTUS
Historic 1886 Winchester rifle draws world record-breaking $1.2 million at auction: Jennifer Harper
Woman Follows GPS, Drives Car Into Canada's Georgian Bay: Julia Jacobo

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QOTD: "At least 75 homegrown violent extremists were found to be operating across the United States in 2015, with the largest portion of these individuals pledging allegiance to the ISIS terror group, according to recent figures published by New Jersey’s Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.

The largest number of homegrown extremists were caught providing material support to various terror organizations, while at least 21 percent of the terrorists were found to be planning attacks in the United States, according to the figures.

Another 10 percent successfully carried out terror attacks in California, New York, Tennessee, and Massachusetts, according to the data, which shows that the New York City area was home to the largest number of violent extremists." --Adam Kredo

Saturday, May 14, 2016

OH, NOES: More Clinton Emails!

By Judicial Watch

This week we received Department of State emails showing that, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as

secretary of state, Laura Pena, a top aide to Clinton, helped push through the political appointment of Bryan Pagliano, a former Hillary for President IT director, to a political position in the IT group at the State Department.

Yes, that’s a bit odd.

Larwyn's Linx: Clinton E-mail Trove Likely in Russian Hands... The Global Outbreak of Mental Illness

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Nation

Clinton E-mail Trove Likely in Russian Hands: Joseph Klein
The Global Outbreak of Mental Illness: Robert Spencer
Meh from Jeh, Trash from Ash: WeaponsMan

Hillary Clinton, the Conveniently Negligent Queen: Pepe Escobar
Report: Homegrown Muslim Extremists Planting Roots Across US: Creeping
Hillary already worrying about Ohio — and it’s only May: Olaf Ekberg

Will the Trump Nomination Change Our Polarized Partisan Patterns?: Michael Barone
‘If Hillary Clinton Is [Elected], Half the Military Is Gonna Get Out’: Breitbart
Plotting Jihad in the Poconos—Who the Hell is Fethullah Gulen?: Paul L. Williams

Sex and State Power — What’s Behind Obama’s Transgender Push: Bookworm
Obama has nationalized our bathrooms: Chris Pandolfo
Trump campaign eyes #NeverTrump blacklist: Politico

Economy

Pension Debt Exceeds 40k Per Household: AmInt
Illinois state workers highest paid in nation: Illinois Policy
Obama Food-Stamp Free-for-All: Feds Bust Largest Fraud Operation in U.S. History: JW

Scandal Central

Sham Clinton Charity Gave $2 Million to Company Owned by One of Bill’s Girlfriends: JWF
Uh Oh: New Emails Reveal Hillary Also Used Non-Secure Phone Lines: Hannity
Flight logs show Bill Clinton flew on sex offender's jet much more than previously known: Malia Zimmerman

House Panel To Hold Impeachment Hearings For IRS Commissioner: WZ
Obama Did Not Blacklist a Single Islamic Terror Charity: Daniel Greenfield
How come Benghazi investigators have never spoken to THESE people?: Doug Powers

Climate, Energy and Regulations

Federal Regulation Cost Reaches $1.885 Trillion: CEI

Media

Author of NYT Rhodes Profile Speaks Out: ‘I Stand Behind Every Single Word’: Alex Griswold
(Photos) The abandoned homes of Chicago's violent West Englewood neighborhood: Marathon
Barack Obama HS students 'live streamed themselves having a threesome on Facebook: DailyMail

We Are Not Your Asian American (Political) Sidekick: Razib Khan
Mark Levin: ‘The Minimum Wage Is a Job Killer’: Michael Morris
Woman Hitchhiked Through The Middle East To Prove Muslims Are Peaceful...: Yes I'm Right

World

Pentagon: China Restructures for War: Bill Gertz
The Chinese Navy Is Behind America in One Key Area (But Not For Long): Robert Beckhusen
German refugee shelters facing Sexual Assault and hate crime problem.: MFS-TON

Belgium paid Al-Qaeda terrorist nearly €80k in ‘moral damages’ – reports: RT
Austria Alarmed Over Spike In Gray-Haired Migrants Claiming To Be Children: Jacob Bojesson
Brazil Faces Slew of Problems Ahead of Olympics Opening Ceremony: Julia Jacobo

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Next America: Paul Taylor
Are You Ready to Push the Limits of Your Digital Experience?: David Aponovich
Infested: an itchy, fascinating natural history of the bed bug: Cory Doctorow

Cornucopia

What I’ve Learned as a Jail Doctor: Alia Moore
Don’t Call; I Don’t Care: MOTUS
World's Oldest Person, a Woman From Brooklyn, Dies in New York City at Age 116: Jennifer Peltz

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QOTD: "...the Post says the FBI tried to ask Mills about “the procedure used to produce [Clinton’s] e-mails to the State Department.” Mills’s lawyer promptly called timeout, leaving the room with Mills so they could consult. When they returned, Mills was not required to answer the FBI’s question on this crucial topic. It turns out the Justice Department’s lawyers had made an agreement with Mills’ lawyer — seemingly unbeknownst to the FBI — that this topic would be off-limits due to “attorney-client privilege..."

...[But] Mills was not Clinton’s lawyer — not at the State Department and not in the production of the e-mails to the State Department nearly two years later. Mills was a government official when the improper e-mail communications arrangement was in use. Her own actions and communications with Clinton and others in connection with the production — and destruction — of e-mails is highly relevant." --Andrew C. McCarthy

Friday, May 13, 2016

PLAYBOY: Entertaining Infographic Describes Everything About Politics You Need to Know

Dan Mitchell relays an entertaining infographic from Playboy that, while clearly satire, is "very clever and effective because it does a good job of capturing stereotypes from each group" (caution: language warning).

GOOD NEWS: Your Local Energy Companies Now Engaged in "Power-Shaming"

How much you wanna bet that the following is the result of a federally-funded program initiated by the rogue, lawless, and completely out-of-control Obama EPA?

To, wit: here is a snip from my latest online energy bill:


Gee, I wonder if they take square footage into account? (Hint: it would appear not).

Alas, no one appears to have told the marketing geniuses at Fizbin Power & Light that the entire climate alarmist campaign is a bunko scam that the globalist kooks at the UN admit is intended to exterminate capitalism.

Larwyn's Linx: Washington’s Idiotic Echo Chamber... Feds open Texas border to 4,000 Cubans

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Nation

Washington’s Idiotic Echo Chamber: Michael J. Totten
Feds open border to 4,000 Cubans, interviewed just 1 hour before release: Paul Bedard
Ending The Ruling Class: Cold Fury

The Post Turtle President Speaks: Scott McKay
House GOP wins Obamacare lawsuit: Robert King
Federal judge rules Obamacare is being funded unconstitutionally: David G. Savage

Millennials embrace socialism, but do they know what it is?: Jonah Goldberg
Is Hillary Rodham Clinton Destroying the Democratic Party?: Andrew Zarowny
Why Trump Is Smart to Drag Bill Clinton's Past Into the Race: Matt Lewis

On Crime, Will the Party of Reagan Become the Party of Bill Ayers?: Andrew C. McCarthy
Democrat Wonderland: Detroit's Educational Catastrophe: Beth Hawkins
Democrats Aim to Retake House: James Arkin and David Byler, RCP

Economy

The Rise Of American Socialism: Paul R. Gregory
Save the middle class, try capitalism!: Phil Shiver
The McClatchy Company Will Make American Employees Train Their Foreign Replacements: NUSA

Scandal Central

Clinton Charity Aided Clinton Friends: James V. Grimaldi
Obama’s Latest Amnesty for Drug Dealers: Freeing drug dealers, terrorizing communities: Daniel Greenfield
Flint: Never let crisis dollars go to waste: Exam

Climate, Energy and Regulations

UN climate chief candidly admits goal is not environment but to end capitalism: Poor Richard
Bill Nye Is A Huckster: David Harsanyi
Government Regulations Likely to Backfire Again: Brent Smith

Signs Of Thaw After Trump-Ryan Meeting: WZ
Clinton lucky social media wasn’t around early in her career: John Kass
Interpreting the Latest Clinton Email Scandal Tea Leaves: Jonathan F. Keiler

Media

US Veterans & Zombies: This Will Be Epic: Liberty Speaks
Before Trayvon Martin Was a Symbol, He Was a Teenager: John H. Richardson
A Matter Of Principle – A Note From A Constitutional Conservative: NoisyRoom

Leaked Documents Confirm Facebook Deciding Which News Stories Trend: Allum Bokhari
White House to issue decree on transgender toilets in public schools: Anna Giaritelli
The Key to an Unhappy Marriage: Stuart Schneiderman

World

Socialism extends its losing streak to 0 for 447: BattleSwarm
The Facebook Wrath of Khan: Danushha V. Goska
Muslims in Copehagen demanding that area become sharia zone: Vlad Tepes

The Curious Case of the Missing Iranian Nuke Talks Video at the State Department: Debra Heine
Islamic Sheikhs gave Bill and Hillary more than $100 million to buy influence: BNI
Yazidi Girl Exposes ISIS Rape Hellhole: Raymond Ibrahim

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Simple Ideas that are bordlerline genius: Dumpaday
That time the Air Force dropped a nuke on South Carolina: MuckRock
Wendy’s Serves Up Big Kiosk Expansion As Wage Hikes Hit Fast Food: Jed Graham

Cornucopia

Discovery in Art History: a Soviet - American bond !: Genosse Dummkopf
Lord Love a Duck: MOTUS
ToDaZeD yet another oppressed group: Sondrakistan

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QOTD: "Obama appears not to understand that ideology is alive and well and shapes life in profound ways. Societies are based on core ideological principles that cannot be randomly combined according to “what works.”

Economic, political, and social systems are like three-legged stools. The three legs of the capitalist or free enterprise stool are democratic/pluralistic public choice, a non-interventionist state, and a rule of law that protects personal and economic liberty. The three legs of the socialist stool are a one-party state, pervasive intervention in economic affairs, and a lack of a rule of law to guard personal and economic freedom.

The capitalist stool stands higher and is more stable than its socialist counterpart. Centuries of history show that capitalist, free enterprise economies have been able to grow, provide rising living standards, and innovate new technologies, contrary to Karl Marx’s belief they would inevitably collapse. Consider Germany and Korea: At the time of separation, North and South Korea had the same per capita income. Today, the Communist North has the same subsistence income as 65 years earlier, while the capitalist South’s has increased ten-fold with a thriving middle class. When the Berlin wall fell in 1989, curious West German visitors to the elite Wandlitz housing compound were surprised that East Germany’s top leaders did not live much better than they. In fact, their greatest privilege was a store stocked with West German goods within the compound grounds. Even the countries cited by the Left as positive examples of “democratic socialism”—Sweden and Denmark—gained their affluence through a century of free-enterprise growth, and they revert back to first principles when they stray too far from the model..." --Paul R. Gregory

Thursday, May 12, 2016

HILARIOUS: DOJ that donated tens of thousands to Hillary certain to treat her crimes with the utmost of objectivity

By Matthew Vadum

Employees of the U.S. Department of Justice have given so much money to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign this time around that critics justifiably doubt the agency can handle her private email server case fairly and impartially.

In what appears to be a super-sized potential conflict of interest, Clinton, a pathological, self-serving liar who doesn't mind if Americans die to further her political ambitions, has accepted almost $75,000 in campaign contributions in the current election cycle from employees at the Justice Department, the cabinet bureau that will eventually decide whether to prosecute the Benghazi bungler for her use of a hacker-friendly home-brew email server while top U.S. diplomat.

The server is at the heart of the scandal over Clinton's mishandling of an Islamic terrorist attack in militant-infested Benghazi, Libya on the 11th anniversary of 9/11 that left four Americans, including U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens, dead. Even now, almost four years after the assault, the Obama administration has failed to provide an autopsy report about Stevens who was initially reported to have been ritualistically sodomized before being murdered by Muslim terrorists.

FORMER OBAMA DEFENSE SEC: Yeah, Barry was never serious about stopping Iran from getting nukes

By The Tower

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta would “probably not” believe that President Barack Obama was serious about his promise to take action to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb if Panetta could make his assessments over again, he conceded in a New York Times Magazine article published on Thursday.

Panetta, who was the director of the CIA from 2009-2011 and then served as defense secretary until 2013, told reporter David Samuels that one of his most important jobs in the Pentagon was preventing Israel from launching a preemptive strike against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak wanted to know if the president was serious about his commitment to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

ISLAMIC REFUGEES: It's not assimilation, it's infiltration

By Lawrence Sellin

Let us first, dispense with the pretense.

Every notion we in the West have adopted in terms of dealing with Muslims, both individually and collectively, is wrong.

It is a policy based more on political correctness than on rational analysis, more on a misunderstanding of culture than religion.

Larwyn's Linx: Obama DOJ Will Not Seek Death Penalty For Benghazi Attack Mastermind

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Nation

Obama DOJ Will Not Seek Death Penalty For Benghazi Attack Mastermind: Tammy Bruce
‘The Answer Is Liberty’ -@ProteinWisdom: Camp of the Saints
Trump surges against Clinton in new national poll: Kelly Cohen

WV: Hillary loses 2/3 of support from 2008: Kyle Olson
Clinton's favorability rating trend points to a Trump landslide in November: Sierra Rayne
Flashback: Hillary Clinton Threatened Bill’s Accusers in 1998: Kristinn Taylor

In Alien vs. Predator, I'm for Predator, Because He's OUR Predator: Spengler
Trump Can Win: Larry Elder
Ryan warns: Unifying around Trump is 'going to take some work': Susan Ferrechio

White House’s Susan Rice: U.S. national security agencies are too white: Times
Elites Can Afford To Support Looser Immigration Policies: Victor Davis Hanson
Gun Control Group Moves to Block Missouri’s Constitutional Carry: Stephen Gutowski

Paul Ryan, Marco Rubio: It's Kind of Important to Beat Hillary: Ace
Citadel maintains its dress code: Parker Lee
FBI's Comey: Not a 'security review' of Clinton server, it's an investigation: Josh Gerstein

Economy

Stanford: Public Pension Debt Jumps 84%, to $4.8 trillion: Chriss W. Street
Humana Seeks 50% ObamaCare Premium Hike In Michigan: IBD
Administration Paves Way for States to Bail Out Remaining Obamacare Co-Ops: Melissan Quinn

Scandal Central

Former DOJ Official: Email Case Against Hillary Clinton 'Stinks To High Heaven': Patrick Howley
Ex-DoJ Official: FBI has more than one way to bag Clinton associates: Rudy Takala
Benghazi Shocker: Two Service Members Say They Were Armed And Ready To Rescue: Jeff Dunetz

Climate, Energy and Regulations

Wyoming welder, facing $16M in fines, beats EPA in battle over stock pond: Fox
Dutch Geologist Calls Climate Science A “Mass Hysteria” …”Historians Will Shake Their Heads In Disbelief”: NTZ
MIT Lecture Explores Link Between Islamophobia and Global Warming: Morgan Chalfant

Media

A Hostile Cultural Environment: Stuart Schneiderman
Pediatrician Asks, Why Can’t I Talk To You About Guns In The Home?: Herschel Smith
Chelsea's Husband to Close Greek Hedge Fund After Losing 90% of Value: Daniel Halper

Be nice to Hillary Clinton online — or risk a confrontation with her super PAC: Evan Halper
‘Clinton Cash’ doc set to stir up controversy as it debuts at Cannes: Dana Kennedy
Trump hammers Hillary for 'bad judgment' in Instagram video: DailyMail

World

Iran Shows Off Third Underground Missile Site: Bill Gertz
Of Course Obama Is Going to Hiroshima: Aaron MacLean
Is ISIS Moving To Texas?: Jeff Dunetz

The West Lies Down Before Saudi Lies: Raymond Ibrahim
PA PM: We're following the path of the Nazi Mufti: Dalit Halevi
London Muslim Mayor Puts Wife in Hijab AFTER Election: Jim Hoft

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Compression tool 7-Zip pwned, pain flows to top security, software tools: Darren Pauli
Now You’re Printing with Water: Kristina Panos
Solar-Powered Tuk Tuk to Travel More Than 6000 miles: PopSci

Cornucopia

This Actor Made A Movie Trailer Using Random People On The Street And It's Epic: Allison Bagg
Ted Nugent’s video share explodes heads: Bernie Sanders pulls gun, shoots Hillary over gun control: Carmine Sabia
"As Barack says, a three letter word: Jobs!" –Joe Biden: MOTUS

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QOTD: "The FBI is probably going to be successful in seeking charges against at least some of Hillary Clinton's associates, according to a former Justice Department official, if not Clinton herself. If it isn't because of classified information, he suggested, it will be because they talk too much and are ill-equipped to defend against charges of public corruption.

"My sense is that the bureau will refer a criminal case over," Matthew Whitaker, who served as a U.S. attorney under President George W. Bush, told the Washington Examiner. "I don't know if it's going to be against Hillary Clinton or others in the inner circle who were actually doing the work of taking classified documents and stripping off information, but my sense is that there will be people charged in this case."" --Rudy Takala

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

MAYOR OF LONDON THREATENS TRUMP: Let Muslims in or they will attack America!

By Blake Neff

The new Muslim mayor of London has issued a warning to Donald Trump: Moderate your stance on Muslims, or they will launch more attacks against America.

Trump recently praised Sadiq Khan for winning London’s mayoral race, and said he would be willing to create an exception in his policy restricting Muslim entry into the United States in order to allow Khan to visit.

GRASSROOTS: Clinton Super PAC attacking Hillary Online Critics

Evan Halper at The Los Angeles Times describes the ongoing trainwreck that is the Hillary Clinton campaign. Vast right wing conspiracy, indeed.
Hillary Clinton's well-heeled backers have opened a new frontier in digital campaigning, one that seems to have been inspired by some of the Internet's worst instincts. Correct the Record, a super PAC coordinating with Clinton's campaign, is spending some $1 million to find and confront social media users who post unflattering messages about the Democratic front-runner.

In effect, the effort aims to spend a large sum of money to increase the amount of trolling that already exists online.