Wednesday, August 27, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Will IRS’s Strategy of Destroying Evidence Pay Off?

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Nation

Will IRS’s Strategy of Destroying Evidence Pay Off?: Seth Mandel
Obamacare Ruins More Than Health Care: Richard E. Ralston
Congress’ Duty To Lead: Betsy McCaughey

Obama's Rousing Speech Brought Military Vets To Their Feet: Nice Deb
How Many Will Die?: Erick Erickson
‘Missile defense will never work,’ the Democrats cried: Moe Lane

If ‘evil’ doesn’t apply to Islamic State, what does?: Jonah Goldberg
Hidden Video: Mike Brown Accomplice Dorian Johnson: Treehouse
Protesters, lawmakers criticize Mexico's handling of Marine case: LAT

When Your Base Becomes Your Enemy: Erick Erickson
So. It is time for the gutter war in Florida-GOV.: Moe Lane
‘Shark-eyed sociopath’ Charlie Crist cruises to Dem nomination: Twitchy

Economy

Burger King Shrugged: Jon Gabriel
You Won’t Learn This with Common Core Curriculum: Dewey
ND Teacher of the Year accused of molesting student: EAG

Scandal Central

The IRS Scandal Has Arrived: Walter Russell Mead
Issa to Depose IRS Commissioner Over Uncovered Missing Lerner Emails: Breitbart
Allegations of Corruption by a S.C. Sheriff in Overriding ICE Detainers: CIS

Elijah Cummings’ Plan for a Police State Run by a Federal Czar: Sara Noble
Government to Track ‘False, Misleading’ Ideas on Twitter: Jon Gabriel
IRS Destroyed Lois Lerner’s Blackberry After It Knew Her Hard Drive “Crashed”: WZ

Climate & Energy

Climate Change to the Rescue?: Roger L. Simon
Obama going around Congress AGAIN in a push for new UN Climate Change rules: Scoop
Green Monster: John Stossel

Media

The Only JayVee Player on the Court: Mark Steyn
Finally a Lib ‘Journalist’ With Guts to Say He Wants Conservatives Banned from TV: Publius
Report: Patrick Fitzgerald warned Blagojevich about wiretap: IP2P

Leftist nuts starting to wonder: Why hasn’t Hillary said anything about Ferguson?: Hillary
Watch Rahm Emanuel Run from Paul McKinley’s Boo Committee: RebelPundit
Chuck Todd: Those Who Don’t Pay Income Tax Pay More than Rich by Playing Lottery, Slots: DSM

World

ISIS May Have MANPADS Now: This Ain't Hell
Guess How Many Young Brits A Week Become ISIS Terrorists: Clash
Decimated Hamas Accepts Ceasefire, Claims Victory: IPT

Anti-Semite Jimmy Carter Will Be Keynote at Muslim Convention: Sara Noble
BOOM! 15 Qassam rockets intercepted by Iron Dome at the same time: Scoop
Rotherham: Fear of all the wrong things failed 1,400 children: Isabel Hardman

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

This is Uber's playbook for sabotaging Lyft: TheVerge
If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit $100, watch out...: BingoBlog
China researches supersonic submarine: Register

Cornucopia

Those Who Go Unsung: Ben Shapiro
Pimp We Much: MOTUS
Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant: TSG

Image: Hezbollah Has Seized and Murdered Hostages, But Condemns Foley Killing
Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Defeat the Obamacare Six

QOTD: "Imagine that President Obama, immediately after his re-election, assembled a sort of reverse bucket list--an enumeration of the things he least wanted to do in his second term. What's on the list? By our reckoning the top two entries are obvious: 1. Sign legislation repealing ObamaCare. 2. Go to war in Iraq.

Now imagine that Lois Lerner had never been born and Obama narrowly lost in 2012. Fast-forward to the summer of 2014, and President Romney is facing the ISIS crisis. Romney announces U.S. air strikes in Iraq and demands that other countries cooperate: "From governments and peoples across the Middle East there has to be a common effort to extract this cancer, so that it does not spread."

Is there any doubt this would be contentious as hell? Democrats would denounce Romney as a war monger and accuse him of squandering one of Obama's "great achievements," the successful withdrawal from Iraq, by allowing the situation there to deteriorate so as to provide a pretext for military intervention. War protesters would fill the streets of American and foreign cities. Prominent leftists would denounce Romney--who avoided the Vietnam-era draft thanks to student and ministerial deferments--as a "chicken hawk." Opposition to the new Iraq war would mobilize the left, creating the prospect of a Democratic wave in November." --James Taranto

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