Saturday, October 31, 2015

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED: Former Adviser Reveals Obama Wanted to Impress Muslims by Ditching Israel

By Daniel Greenfield

Jennifer Rubin has an excerpt from an interview with Dennis Ross, a former senior adviser to Obama.

"When the president comes in, he thinks we have a major problem with Arabs and Muslims. And he sees that as a function of the Bush administration — an image, fairly or not, that Bush was at war with Islam. So one of the ways that he wants to show that he’s going to have an outreach to the Muslim world is that he’s going to give this speech in Cairo. So he wants to reach out and show that the US is not so close to the Israelis, which he thinks also feeds this perception. That’s why there’s an impulse to do some distancing from Israel, and that’s why the settlement issue is seized in a way."

It's not news, but it is confirmation that Obama deliberately sought to alienate and distance Israel. And would have done so regardless of who was the Prime Minister of Israel.

MAP: Did your state silently absorb more Syrian Muslim Refugees (with likely ISIS infiltrators) this month?

By Ann Corcoran

The Obama Administration says they will resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the US in FY 2016 which began October 1. Here is a map showing where the first 187 Syrians have been placed (as of today)*. Two weeks ago, it had been only 51 (see here), but Kentucky is still the number one destination (here with 26).

Of the 187 admitted to the US this month, 183 are Sunni Muslims. There were 3 Catholics and 1 Christian. That is 98% Muslim. Last year the percentage of Muslims in the Syrian flow to America was 97%.

If Obama wants to get 10,000 in here in one year, they will surely have to step this up. I expect the slow start involves the problem they are having doing the security screening. He will have to get almost 900 a month in here to make his quota.

War of the Worlds

By Jim Quinn

“We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own. We know now that as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacence men went to and fro over the earth about their little affairs … In the thirty-ninth year of the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. It was near the end of October. Business was better. The war scare was over. More men were back at work. Sales were picking up.” – Opening monologue of War of the Worlds broadcast – October 30,1938

It was 77 years ago this week that Orson Welles struck terror into the hearts of Americans with his live radio broadcast of the HG Wells classic War of the Worlds. The broadcast began at 8:00 pm on Mischief Night 1938. As I was searching for anything of interest to watch the other night on the 600 cable stations available 24/7, I stumbled across a PBS program about Welles’ famous broadcast. As I watched the program, I was struck by how this episode during the last Fourth Turning and how people react to events is so similar to how people are reacting during the current Fourth Turning. History may not repeat exactly, but it certainly rhymes.

Larwyn's Linx: RNC to NBC: You're Fired

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Nation

RNC to NBC: You're Fired: Ace
Paul Ryan's Debt-Limit Disaster: David Harsanyi
RNC Cans NBC After Levin Calls For Priebus Firing: CR Wire

Time For a Debate Moderated by Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin: John Hayward
Establishment RNC Does Not want a Debate with Conservative Moderators: Godfather
Yeah, Jeb Bush Is Probably Toast: 534

Ted Cruz’s ‘Secret’ Skill That No President Has Likely Had Since Thomas Jefferson: IJR
Why Jeb Bush Should Not Be The Republican Nominee in 20 Quotes: John Hawkins
Jeb Campaign Facing Cash-Strapped Weeks Ahead: Todd Beamon

Zombie Candidate: Establishment Declares Jeb Dead Man Walking: Ben Shapiro
Granny Clinton Snags Key Communist Endorsement: JWF
The “National Debate” About Gun Control Is Over. Gun Control Lost.: Bob Owens

Economy

The Death of the American Welfare State: Daniel Greenfield
The Commerce Department’s GDP numbers don’t make any sense: John Crudele
Senate approves budget deal and here’s how they voted: Scoop

Scandal Central

I spent a week pouring over the Benghazi hearing transcript. Here's what I concluded: Jay Cost
German Official Sent ‘Classified’ Email That Was Forwarded To Hillary Clinton: Chuck Ross
Hundreds of new Clinton emails classified: Sarah Westwood

Dept. Of Education Issues Guide Urging Schools To Help Illegals Apply For Amnesty: Chuck Ross
Elijah Cummings Wins Pea Brain Award for IRS Defense: MB
Networks Censor Latest Hillary E-Mail Dump, But Find Time for Giant Flying Pumpkin: Curtis Houck

Climate & Energy

Did Federal Agency Commit Climate Fraud? Sure Looks Like It: IBD
Ted Cruz: ‘Climate Change Is Not Science -- It’s Religion’: Michael W. Chapman
Today in Liberal Tolerance: Steven Hayward

Media

Rush Limbaugh: ‘Ted Cruz scares the heck out of the Establishment’: CR Wire
Ted Cruz’s Epic Takedown of CNBC Scored Highest in History of Pollster Luntz’s Focus Group: Michael Cantrell
"Experts" struggle to explain rise in Cleveland gun violence: Mark Gillespie

DSM-IV 301.95 Progressive Personality Disorder: A Classic by John Moore: American Digest
Here Are The 7 (Non-Benghazi) Lies The Press Refuses To Take Hillary To Task For: Hannity
Video Comparison: CNBC’s Insulting Questions To CNN’s Softball Questions Of Democrats: Sooper

World

Obama to Troops If you like your boots not being on the ground in Syria, you can keep them: Doug Powers
Amnesty: Israelis Shooting Knife-Slashing Terrorists Using Disproportionate Force: Daniel Greenfield
Syrian citizen-journalist and friend both found Beheaded in Turkey: MFS-TON

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

University Students Find 1000s of Medical Studies Presented to FDA Riddled with Fraud: TSW
Judge rules man had right to shoot down drone over his house: CNet
Fortran, assembly programmers ... NASA needs you – for Voyager: Shaun Nichols

Cornucopia

Don't Nuke Me, Bro: Truesbury
Ted Cruz Is Right: Let Limbaugh and Hannity Moderate a GOP Debate!: Joan Waaaaaaaaalsh
Trick or Trick: Dan Youra, UToons

Image: Jeb Campaign Facing Cash-Strapped Weeks Ahead
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QOTD:


Friday, October 30, 2015

I’M SICK OF THIS S***: Time for Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity to Moderate a GOP Debate

Writing at Breitbart, John Hayward points us to an excellent missive by the Ronald Reagan PAC imploring the Republican candidates to use real debate moderators.

...the Republican National Committee has chosen liberal moderators to handle the Republican presidential primary debates. To the surprise of nobody, the [CNBC] debate that ensued consisted of moderators insulting, demeaning and embarrassing the Republican candidates who participated.

Indeed, in the words of Reagan’s own Attorney General Ed Meese, “After 15 minutes it was clear that this was not a debate, but a verbal shooting gallery set up by CNBC, with the targets the Republican candidates and the shooters their biased antagonists from the press.”

...The Republican National Committee offered sanctioned debates to left-leaning networks such as NBC and CNN, yet offered nothing to actual conservative opinion leaders such as ... Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity ... and Mark Levin, who together influence more Republican primary voters than all the television networks combined. As a result, the past three debates have come across as reality television instead of a serious debate on the issues.

Hayward adds some compelling observations:

SICK: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Endangers Military by Playing Politics with Weapons Purchases

By Institute for Legislative Action

In 1995, Bob Dole said of Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), “[t]he most dangerous place is between him and a camera.”

Last Friday, Schumer publicly announced a plan to require bidders for a $580 million Department of Defense contract to supply the U.S. Army with handguns to submit to questioning regarding efforts to push a gun control agenda. The fact is, Schumer’s attempt to subject the vital fighting equipment of our nation’s servicemen and women to petty politics is nothing more than a cynical attempt to indulge his lust for press coverage, and is a reckless and dangerous threat to the safety of our service men and women.

The sole intent of the DOD procurement process should be to equip our fighting men and women with the best arms for their mission. To factor in the supplier’s willingness to kowtow to Schumer’s gun control demands alongside criteria such as accuracy and reliability risks supplying our troops with inferior equipment. Our soldier’s lives rely in part on the functional capability of their weapons, and to suggest that these soldiers should be used as a political pawn to enact gun control the Senator cannot achieve through our democratic process is reprehensible.

The specifics of the proposal are outlined in a letter from Schumer to Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh.

This Is What The "Invasion Of Europe" Looks Like

By Tyler Durden

On Monday, we brought you a series of still shots along with a video which depicted the scope of Europe’s migrant crisis via drone footage.

The point in highlighting the imagery was to demonstrate just how futile the EU’s effort to establish a series of refugee “holding camps” along the Balkan route to Germany is likely to be. 


TED CRUZ GOES NUCLEAR ON GOPe: Mitch McConnell "Has Proven to be a Very Effective Democratic Leader"

By Kate Scanlon

In a speech Thursday on the Senate floor, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, sharply criticized the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, a budget deal between former House Speaker John Boehner and President Barack Obama.

Cruz said the deal is yet another example of the failure of the “so-called Republican majority” to deliver on their promises to the American people.

“Now, if someone is an effective Democratic leader, you would expect them to be able to pass legislation when a majority of Democrats supported it and a majority of Republicans opposed it,” Cruz said. “Indeed, if you’re a partisan Democrat, that would be almost the definition of an effective Democratic leader.”

“Nineteen times in the last ten months this so-called Republican majority has passed legislation, has had a vote succeed where a majority of Democrats supported it and a majority of Republicans opposed it,” Cruz added.

Cruz said that Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., “has proven to be a very effective Democratic leader.”

Larwyn's Linx: Debate 3: Ted Cruz Changes the Game

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Nation

Debate 3: Ted Cruz Changes the Game: C. Edmund Wright
Ted Cruz Destroys The Left-Wing Media : Renee Nal
Secret Bush Document: "American Voters Have A.D.D": David Catanese

The Days Of American Despotism: Politically Short
CNBC debate marked end of Bush family’s hold on Republican politics: Scott McKay
Jeb’s Dead: Adiós Amigo: Jonathan V. Last

Jeb Bush donors try to make sense of Wednesday night: CNN
Jeb Bush Spent Millions Of Dollars On Planes, Trolleys And Consultants: IB Times
The Moment You Realize We've All Been Had: Matt Drudge

Ted Cruz Had a Very, Very Good Night: Erick Erickson
Team Trump and Team Carson Organize Non-RNC Debate Meeting: Treehouse
How to Fix the GOP Debates: Steven Hayward

Economy

Budget Deal Passes, Top 7 Observations: Daniel Horowitz
John Boehner’s final betrayals: Chip Wood
Budget Scheme Passes Senate at 3AM: 2-Year CR With Unlimited Debt Ceiling: Treehouse

Why Family Structure Is So Important: Jonah Goldberg
Nearly EVERY 8th Grader in Detroit Public Schools Not Proficient in Math, Reading: Tiffany Gabbay
Two Ex-Disney Workers Displaced by H1B Foreigners Speak: Matthew Boyle

Scandal Central

Clinton Foundation hires Wall Street executive: Sarah Westwood
Impeachment for embattled IRS head moves forward: Sarah Westwood
Clinton Pressed On Scandals By NH Voter: GOP War Room

Media

CNBC Hit By Cruz Missile: MOTUS
GOP Wins, CNBC Loses Last Night’s Debate: Fran Coombs
Trump Accuses Debate Moderators Of Using Fake 'Unnamed Sources': Hannity

Ted Cruz smacks down entire panel of smug, incompetent, liberal moderators: Michael Dorstewitz
Charlie Rose Sticks Up for Hillary in Interview With Rubio: Daniel Halper
ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser links tea party to Islamic State: Times

Levin Calls for Reince Priebus to be Fired: CR Wire
CNBC moderators, press crushed by the Boulder debate: Eddie Scarry
CNN’s Deplorable Sally Kohn Lies About “Children” Killed With Guns: Bob Owens

World

War of Extermination: Camp o' the Saints
US Spied on Israel, Prepared to Destroy Israeli Bombers to Protect Iran: Lori Lowenthal Marcus
Turkish Government Seizes Opposition TV Stations: AmInt

The 6 Reasons China and Russia Are Catching Up to the U.S. Military: George Washington
Russian aircraft approach USS Ronald Reagan, prompting US fighter jet scramble: Erik Slavin
Austria Stops Criticizing Hungary's Border Fence, Builds Own Border Fence: Daniel Greenfield

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

While Amazon doubles its number of warehouse robots to 30K, competing systems emerge: Frank Tobe
22 Ancient Shipwrecks Discovered in Greek Waters: Archaeology
Are Movie Theaters About to Disappear? How VR Will Remake Hollywood: Alison E. Berman

Cornucopia

Happy-Warrior Cruz CRUSHED It Last Night...: Reaganite
Hillary Posts Missive About GOP Debate… Instant Karma Pays A BRUTAL Visit: CP
Melissa Harris-Perry Needs a Trip to Hard Work U: Michelle Malkin

Image: Mark Levin Calls for Reince Priebus to be Fired
Sponsored by: Ted Cruz Post-Debate $1 Million Dollar Money Bomb to Crush the Media

QOTD: "People like the Koch Brothers should really be forming paramilitary units for the purposes of rescuing what European Treasures they can, such as the aforementioned Throne [of Charlemagne], the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo’s David and Pieta, Magna Carta, etc." --Bob Belvedere

Thursday, October 29, 2015

SAY, IS THIS A CLINTON INITIATIVE? NY Obamacare Exchange Enrolls Hundreds Who Appear to be... Dead

By Rusty Weiss

An audit by the State Comptroller’s Office has revealed that hundreds of dead people were enrolled in New York’s health exchange, with nearly two dozen of them enrolling after death.

Medicaid payments totaling over $300,000 were paid out to a majority of the deceased individuals.

Via Politics on the Hudson:

A state audit Thursday found that New York’s health exchange enrolled hundreds of dead people at a $325,000 cost to taxpayers.

Between 2013 and 2014, the health exchange during its infancy improperly enrolled 354 deceased individuals that the state Health Department identified as active Medicaid recipients.

As a result, Medicaid inappropriately paid $325,030 in claims associated with 230 of the 354 deceased enrollees, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said in the audit.

The Times Union is reporting that of the 354, at least “21 of those people officially enrolled after they had died.”

It’s unclear what health services were provided for those not among the living...

MARCO RUBIO: Young, Stupid Americans Simply Incapable of Competing With Foreigners for Tech Jobs

By Julia Hahn

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told a nationwide audience in Wednesday’s CNBC Republican presidential debate that companies are importing foreign graduates because American college grads just can’t do the work.

The claim came when CNBC’s John Hardwood asked Rubio if he was undercutting American professionals by supporting a bill to let companies import more foreign temporary H-1B “guest workers” for white-collar jobs. Rubio evaded the question by blaming Americans’ supposed lack of skills.

"We need to get back to training people in this country to do the jobs of the 21st century… The best way to close this gap is to modernize higher education so Americans have the skills for those jobs,” Rubio claimed. The “ideal scenario is to train Americans to do the work, so we don’t have to rely on people from abroad,” Rubio declared.

According to labor experts and U.S. census data, foreign workers are often used to replace employed American workers, and the U.S. labor market is now flooded with under-employed Americans hoping to pay off their college debts and earn a decent wage.

“It’s ironic that Rubio would basically blame American workers for not being skilled and trained [even though] American workers in his own state, who have the skills and were doing their job, were replaced by H-1B workers, who had less skills,” Howard University professor Ron Hira told Breitbart News.

COMFORTING: Obama Assures Americans He’s Really Not "Out to Take Everyone’s Guns Away"

By David Codrea

“Please do not believe this notion that I’m out to take everyone’s guns away,” Barack Obama pleaded in his Tuesday speech before the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Conference in Chicago (watch here).

“Nobody is doing that. We’re talking about common sense measures to make sure criminals don’t get them.”

Actually, plenty of people are doing that, from increasing calls to repeal the Second Amendment to Hillary Clinton asserting the Supreme Court got it wrong when it ruled 2A an individual right, to Hillary and Obama himself entertaining Australian-style “gun control,” which entailed gun bans and government collection of firearms. That’s what “progressives” mean by “common sense measures.”

Next we need to look at who Obama was talking to. The globalist IACP is on record opposing citizen ownership of militia-suitable ammunition, firearms and body armor. They oppose efforts to roll back restrictions on the right to bear arms. They’re for enforcing existing Intolerable Acts, a “no guns” list, waiting periods, and ending private sales. And those are just the cards they’ve shown. For now.

It’s fitting the group met in Chicago, home of Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, a monopoly of violence fanatic who has condemned gun owners for being politically active, and told them he’s training his guys to shoot first and ask questions later when encountering armed citizens. Bearing in mind that with “progressives,” every day is Opposite Day, we can see how that would be championed as a “common sense gun safety measure.”

So must be this revealing endorsement:

Larwyn's Linx: Cruz and Rubio Stand Out, Trump Stands Down, Bush Misses an Opportunity

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CNBC Assault Debate

Cruz and Rubio Stand Out, Trump Stands Down, Bush Misses an Opportunity: WSJ
Winners and Losers from the #CNBCGOPDebate: Leon H. Wolf
Dear Jeb Bush, It's Time To Take Your Campaign Out Back And Shoot It: Erick Erickson

GOP Debate: Poisonous Moderators and a (Sometimes) Unified Right: Kimberly Ross
'Extremely disappointing': RNC head slams CNBC debate moderators: Fox
Trump, Carson take back seat at latest GOP debate: Post

CNBC Moderator Attacks Rubio With Claim He Had Admitted Was False: Derek Hunter
Bush debate strategy backfires, raising new questions about his faltering candidacy: AP
Here Is Why I Do Not Blame the RNC For the CNBC Debate: Erick Erickson

GOP debate winners and losers: The Hill
Media, moderators come under attack: Ben Kamisar, The Hill
Glenn Beck Names Debate ‘Winners’ As He Thinks ‘Americans Will See It’: The Blaze

Nation

Here Are The 3 Promises Paul Ryan Made To House Conservatives: Sean Hannity
Paul Ryan embraces Failure Theater on the budget deal: RS
Cruz: Obama – Boehner Budget Deal Ridiculous, Deceitful, and a Disgrace: George Rasley

Obama's latest lie: If you like your guns you can keep your guns: WyBlog
"We Are in the Ascendant. America Is Ours": Jerry Kammer
Hillary Supporters at Campaign Event Can't Name Accomplishments: Daniel Halper

Dem Whip says Ryan an 'outstanding' choice for speaker: Kelly Cohen
Ted Cruz and the 54 Million Evangelicals: Steven Brodie Tucker
Time for John Kasich to Shut Up and Go Home: RS

Economy

Will Adverse Selection Force ObamaCare into a Death Spiral?: Lambert Strether
ObamaCare premiums soar 60% in Mississippi: Ed Morrissey
The Death Of Monetary Policy (In 1 Dismal Chart): ZH

Scandal Central

Sick: Latest Planned Parenthood Video Could Show Evidence Of At Least Brutal 3 Crimes: Hannity
Obama admin helps Muslims win big religious liberty lawsuit; why not Christian bakers?: BPR
Global cooling deniers refuse congressional subpoena on flawed ‘pausebuster’ paper: Anthony Watts

Media

The White House Said YouTube Videos Don’t Cause Crime. Except in Benghazi.: Michael Qazvini
An Open Letter To Donald Trump…: Treehouse
GOP Establishment’s Rick Wilson: Donor Class Must ‘Put a Bullet in Donald Trump': Tony Lee

How the Budget Deal Paves the Way for President Hillary Rodham Clinton: Rush Limbaugh
NYT Calls Jill Biden a Doctor 3 Times More Often than Ben Carson: Jenna Lifhits
#LoudonClear: What is the REAL reason for amnesty?: Renee Nal

World

You'll Never Guess The Politician Sanders Loved Most in 1985: Aaron Bandler
Culture Clash: How ISIS Could Send Europe Over the Edge: Riyadh Mohammed
In Latest Escalation, Australia May Join US, Send Warships To China Islands: ZH

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Autonomous Weapons: John Robb
"Microdrone" maker allegedly lied to army about specs, sold used units as new: Shawn Musgrave
Twitter finally has a plan to make money off “logged-out users”: Alice Truong

Drone Flies Into Electrical Lines, Knocking Out Power in West Hollywood: sUAS News
Drone carrying drugs, hacksaw blades crashes in Oklahoma prison: Martyn Williams

Cornucopia

Mean Reversion, Small Sample Size and the Mets: RP Seawright
Woman Molested During Flight From Dubai: TSG
Who won the CNBC GOP Debate?: The Blaze

Image: How the Budget Deal Paves the Way for President Hillary Rodham Clinton
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QOTD:

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

The Death of Central Banking in One Chart

By Tyler Durden

Perhaps "The Japanification of Monetary Policy" would have been a more appropriate title... "well it didn't work for them, so we should all try more of it" appears to be the repost of policy-makers worldwide which, inevitably, will lead to the total collapse of their credibility (and the every 'faith' of the world's investors shattered).

The most dangerous misconception about our criminal justice system

Earlier this week, Heather Mac Donald testified on criminal justice and the deincarceration movement before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

"The most dangerous misconception about our criminal justice system is that it is pervaded by racial bias"

Today I want to examine the broader political context of the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act. We are in the midst of a national movement for deincarceration and decriminalization. That movement rests on the following narrative: America’s criminal justice system, it is said, has become irrationally draconian, ushering in an era of so-called “mass incarceration.” The driving force behind “mass incarceration,” the story goes, is a misconceived war on drugs. As President Barack Obama said in July in Philadelphia: “The real reason our prison population is so high” is that we have “locked up more and more nonviolent drug offenders than ever before, for longer than ever before.” In popular understanding, prisons and jails are filled with harmless pot smokers.

The most poisonous claim in the dominant narrative is that our criminal justice system is a product and a source of racial inequity. The drug war in particular is said to be infected by racial bias. “Mass incarceration” is allegedly destroying black communities by taking fathers away from their families and imposing crippling criminal records on released convicts. Finally, prison is condemned as a huge waste of resources.

Nothing in this dominant narrative is true.

Good Riddance To Johnny Lawnchair: The Fastest Fold On The Potomac

By David Stockman

There are few political hacks in Washington more deserving of everlasting ignominy than retiring speaker John Boehner. So here’s a vehement good riddance to the man who has single-handedly destroyed whatever pathetic semblance of fiscal responsibility that remained in Washington.

The so-called bipartisan budget deal he confected as a parting gesture doesn’t even deserve to be called a farce. It’s actually just an extension of Washington’s pathological lying to the American public about the monumental fiscal calamity now brewing.

The chart below shows the patented formula—– employed for the second time since the sequester mechanism was put in place during the debt ceiling crisis of 2011.

It will increase spending by $85 billion in the here and now by busting the FY 2016 and 2017 caps. This new red ink will then, purportedly, be off-set way down the road with gimmicks, imaginary IRS audit revenues and hazy disability benefit reforms which will never materialize. Never.

Indeed, these people are beyond shame.

HILLARY LETS IT SLIP: If Elected President, She Will Indeed Try to Confiscate Your Guns

By John Farnam

It slips out:

As Hillary Clinton floundered on the witness stand last week, despite withering help from her Democrat apologists who dutifully fell in line and insisted that she can do no wrong, her speech last Friday on the subject of private ownership of guns by American citizens has gone largely unreported.

Last Friday, Clinton, in a rare moment of honesty, advocated for the forced confiscation of privately, legally-owned guns from otherwise innocent American citizens.

She extolled the virtue of the “Australian Model,” which in 1996 was a universal gun “buy-back” program. She went on to say that such a system “would be worth considering (in America) on a national level.”

Larwyn's Linx: These Illegal Immigrant Crime Statistics Should Scare The Living Daylights Out Of You

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Nation

These Illegal Alien Crime Stats Should Scare The Living Daylights Out Of You: Hannity
Illegal Alien Drunk Driving Killer Back in U.S. Four Days After Deportation: Mark Tapson
Families of Victims Murdered By Illegalss To House GOP: 'No Paul Ryan': Julia Hahn

White House Denounces FBI for Doubting the Narrative: Steve Sailer
Obama Blatanty Lies About Violence As He Proposes More Gun Laws: Bob Owens
3 Ways Conservatives Can Stop the Coming GOP Sellout Theater: Brian Darling

A Closetful of Hillary Clinton’s Immigration Costumes: Michelle Malkin
No, Hillary Didn’t Care About Chris Stevens: Ben Shapiro
Sorry, Hillary Clinton. VA Corruption Widespread: Betsy McCaughey

Trump No Longer Dominating Polls: Patterico
Bush team 'cringes' as Jeb talks like a loser: Byron York
What's behind Trump's collapsing Iowa poll numbers?: Daniel Allott

Economy

The Fed’s Counterfeit Prosperity: Dan Bongino
Inside the Secretive Circle That Rules a $14 Trillion Market: Nabila Ahmed
Insurance premium increase of 85 percent a stunner: Fellowship of the Minds

The Cost of Stupid: The Z Man
Latest Obamacare Fiasco: Most Low-Income Workers Can't Afford "Affordable Care Act": ZH
Meet The "Million Dollar Shack": Documentary Lays Bare California's Housing Bubble: ZH

Scandal Central

House GOP Introduces Measure to Impeach IRS Head Koskinen: Jon Gabriel
How Do You Spell Apparent Fraud? The Clinton Foundation, Shady Accounting and AIDS: Ken Silverstein
How the FBI Could Derail Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run: Liz Peek

How the FBI Could Derail Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Run: Daniel Greenfield
Benghazi Committee Narrows In On This High-Ranking State Department Official: Chuck Ross
Obama Cronies "Protected Wall Street's Most Criminal From Prosecution": Mac Slavo

Climate & Energy

Climate: Throwing Uncertainty for a Loop?: Steven Hayward
Business, states open legal fire on EPA’s Clean Power Plan rule: George Russell
White House report shows high cost of EPA rules: John Siciliano

Media

This May Be The Most Biased ‘Poll’ On Gun Control You’ll Ever See: Rusty Weiss
Watch for Shenanigans! CNBC Debate Moderator’s Most Biased Moments: Geoffrey Dickens
What’s Happening At Ole Miss Is An Absolute Catastrophe: HayRide

FBI Chief in Trouble w/White House for Talking About Ferguson Effect: Daniel Greenfield
Saudi-Born Singer Defends U.S. Constitution & Laws on Arab Television: Trey Sanchez
Carson Now Leads Fading Trump Nationally in NYT/CBS Poll: JWF

World

Naval Aviation Command Board — Worse than we Thought: WeaponsMan
Don’t Make the Muslims Angry: Daniel Greenfield
The Watchman Show: Terror Wave Against Israel: Erick Stakelbeck

Obama Intends To Bring European Chaos to America: Elephant
The Immigration Crisis Exploited To Force Europe To Embrace Its Destruction: Christopher J. Green
John Bolton: Germany’s Syrian Refugee Pledge Puts U.S. at Risk: Nicholas Ballasy

80% of London Muslims Support ISIS: Daniel Greenfield
10 Things to Know About the Latest Wave of Palestinian Terror: Yishai Fleisher
After Months of Waiting, US Finally Begins Patrols Near China's Man-Made Islands: Ankit Panda

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

First drive: the new Honda NSX, Japan’s 573bhp hybrid supercar: Paul Horrell
Meet the RX Vision, Mazda’s gorgeous rotary-engined sportscar: Jack Rix
Secrets under the Al-Aqsa Mosque: A Photographic Essay: Lenny Ben-David

Cornucopia

Jeb’s donors are not excited about his campaign anymore: Ann Telnaes
Meet The "Million Dollar Shack": Documentary Lays Bare California's Housing Bubble: MOTUS
What Fox News All-RINO panel will say after 3rd GOP debate: MFP

Image: House GOP Introduces Measure to Impeach IRS Head Koskinen
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QOTD: "The Clinton Foundation has until November 16 to amend more than ten years’ worth of state, federal and foreign filings, but it’s going to be virtually impossible to do so without acknowledging that it has engaged in massive accounting fraud since its inception...

...[Financial whistleblower Charles Ortel, who helped expose massive financial fraud by GE, GM and AIG,] is hardly alone in raising questions about the Clinton Foundation’s accounting practices. Earlier this year, the watchdog group Charity Navigator put the Clinton Foundation on its “watch list” of dubious non-profit groups and politely described its business practices as “atypical.” A New York Post story about the development noted that in 2013 the family’s foundation “took in more than $140 million in grants and pledges in…but spent just $9 million on direct aid.”

...The problem, Ortel says, is that filing correct returns is impossible for the Clinton Foundation without admitting to criminal felonies. “The foundation has never filed a legitimate, independently certified and complete audit of their financial statements since it was founded, as is required under state, federal and foreign law” he told me during one of multiple phone conversations. 'The IRS has let them get away with serious fraud.'" --Ken Silverstein

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Clinton Foundation Must Restate All Tax Filings by 11/16; Were AIDS Drugs Used to Launder Money?

It's not only the FBI -- which is investigating her mishandling of classified files -- that has Hillary Clinton worried. The Clinton Foundation's financial skulduggery is also set to return to the spotlight. Ken Silverstein has the very interesting tale.

The Clinton Foundation has until November 16 to amend more than ten years’ worth of state, federal and foreign filings, but it’s going to be virtually impossible to do so without acknowledging that it has engaged in massive accounting fraud since its inception

...the [Clinton] foundation portrays itself as do-gooder nonprofit organization but a cursory look reveals questionable and incomplete disclosures of its activities and accounts, as well as incredible misspending of donor money, virtually since its inception...

...the problems appear set to catch up with the foundation (now formally known as the Bill, Hillary, & Chelsea Clinton Foundation), which has until November 16 to amend more than ten years’ worth of state, federal and foreign filings. According to Charles Ortel, a financial whistleblower, it will be difficult if not impossible for the foundation to amend its financial returns without acknowledging accounting fraud and admitting that it generated substantial private gain for directors, insiders and Clinton cronies, all of which is against the law under an IRS rule called inurement.

While inurement may sound obscure to the layman, it’s an ancient legal principle and the IRS is very clear that it is verboten. If you are familiar with it, it becomes immediately clear that Bill Clinton – and arguably Hillary and daughter Chelsea as family members and fellow Clinton Foundation trustees – could have big problems come November 16. So, too, could Clinton cronies like Ira Magaziner (see below) and Doug Band, a Clinton administration and former Foundation insider who subsequently became a founding partner of a bipartisan business swamp called Teneo Holdings...

...“It’s illegal to set up a foundation whose primary purpose is to create financial gain,” said Ortel – who helped expose massive financial fraud by GE, GM and AIG, thereby helping trigger the 2009 financial collapse...

God, Obama and Post-Constitutional America

By Kenneth Levin

"Nam homo proponit, sed Deus disponit," wrote the medieval cleric Thomas a Kempis. "For man proposes, but God disposes."

The observation that human intent, however well conceived and deftly pursued, is commonly frustrated, does not require the invoking of God. One can, for example, comprehend the frustrating agent as fate, fortune or simply the exigencies of worldly existence.

But the founders of our republic considered the particular circumstance of people’s aspirations and intent being frustrated by the heavy hand of government, and in addressing this phenomenon they clearly attached importance to invoking God.

In the Declaration of Independence, they assert, of course, "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." They further assert that the proper role of government, indeed the raison d'etre of government, is to secure these God-given rights.

All the signers of the Declaration were Christian, but they did not all comprehend God in the same way. Nor were the distinctions simply a reflection of sectarian theological differences. Some, including Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration, were sympathetic to Enlightenment-inspired deism, belief in a creator who does not directly intervene in the world but established it with rationally comprehensible natural and moral laws. He was critical, for example, of elements of the Gospels that he believed did not meet the test of reason.

SHOCKER: Boehner, McConnell and Obama package another two-year budget blowout and debt limit increase

What's another few trillion among friends, especially when the bills will be due in a decade or two?

John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, and Barack Obama have crafted yet another out-of-order budget deal in secret. Par for the course with this egregious crew, members of Congress and the American public were not consulted.

Their "deal" would increase the debt limit for another two years, adding another trillion dollars to our kids' bill, increase spending by $80 billion, and yields the hilarious promise of "entitlement reform" at some point in the future. That last bit is supposed to make you believe that all of these insane IOUs will be paid for, eh, later.

Last week, the House Republican Study Committee offered a serious plan that was -- you guessed it -- completely ignored by the Beltway Cartel.

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Donald Trump Delenda Est: Leon H. Wolf
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Environmental Activist Visits North Dakota, Makes Things Up: Rob Port
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'Bull****!' Rudy Giuliani Reveals Tense Run-In With Benghazi Spin-Master Susan Rice: Hannity
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Clinton Paying a Price Now for Her 2012 Lies About Benghazi: Michael Barone
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QOTD: "Conservatives who supported an effort to oust Speaker John A. Boehner pointed to a budget deal emerging Monday as a prime example of why the House needs new leadership.

...Members said they were not provided enough details Monday evening to judge the substance of the deal but complained about the process by which it came together and the way it could advance quickly in a matter of days, just before Boehner’s departure.

Despite the consternation, there appeared to be a pathway with a combination of Democratic votes and national security hawks in both chambers.

...In announcing the deal during the closed-door meeting, Boehner effectively “threw the committee chairmen under the bus,” Fleming said." --Lindsey McPherson

Monday, October 26, 2015

THE NFL MUST BE VERY PROUD: The Houston Texans’ Uday Aboushi Publicly Supports Terror Attacks on Israel

By Joe Kaufman

NFL football player Oday Aboushi arrived in South Florida this weekend to play against the Miami Dolphins, this time in the uniform of the Houston Texans, as the team he previously played for, the New York Jets, waived him in the offseason. And while the team he plays for may have changed, his actions as an anti-Israel Muslim extremist remain fully intact.

Normally, Sunday is game time for National Football League (NFL) players, but since the Texans’ Week 5 game against the Indianapolis Colts was played on Thursday, October 8th, the upcoming Sunday was an open date. Oday Aboushi, Offensive Lineman for the Texans, used the opening to take to Twitter. What he tweeted would soon become a matter of huge controversy.

On Sunday, October 11th, Aboushi retweeted a tweet that was made the same day by a personal friend of his, Linda Sarsour, the Executive Director of the Arab-American Association of New York. It was a photo of a Palestinian toddler holding a good-sized rock in each hand, walking towards Israeli soldiers. The message Sarsour wrote above the picture, which Aboushi also tweeted, was “The definition of courage. Palestine.”

Sarsour’s post drew the ire of Democrat Councilman of Queens, New York, Rory Lancman. Lancman answered Sarsour’s tweet with one of his own, writing “No, the definition of barbarism.” He then sent a message addressed directly to Sarsour, stating “You must be especially proud of the 13-yr-old Palestinian who stabbed the 13-yr-old Israeli. Barbarism,” and Lancman added a link to the story.