Monday, November 30, 2015

THE REAL 2016 ELECTION: The Bipartisan Political-Media Establishment vs. the American People

By Lawrence Sellin

The 2016 election is not a contest between the Democrat and Republican ideologies, nor is it a choice among various approaches to address the nation's problems, but something far more fundamental.

It is a battle between the entrenched power of the bipartisan political-media establishment versus the rights and liberties of the American people.

University of Chicago Surrenders to Jihad

By Karl Denninger

And yet again UofC shows why you should shred any resume you get from any of their grads.

The University of Chicago announced Sunday that all classes and other activities planned for Monday on its Hyde Park campus will be canceled after FBI counterterrorism officials informed the university of a gun violence threat to the campus.

University President Robert Zimmer sent an email to students and staff warning them of a threat posted online by an unknown individual, which specifically mentioned "the campus quad" at 10 a.m. Monday.

President Zimmer is a coward.

Powerful NY Democrat Gets Gold Watch Plus 130 Years in Prison, But Mostly 130 Years in Prison

By Rusty Weiss

Following a month-long criminal trial, and 10 months after his arrest on multiple corruption charges, former Assembly Speaker and one of the famed ‘three men in a room’ controlling New York politics, Sheldon Silver, has been found guilty on all seven counts involving corruption schemes that netted him $4 million in legal fees.

Prior to his arrest, Silver was widely considered the most powerful Democrat in the State Legislature.

Via the Times Union:

Larwyn's Linx: Islam, Jihad, and our Ignorance

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Islam, Jihad, and our Ignorance: Politically Short
Obama’s Fundamental Transformation of America: The Syrian Scheme: Brenda Walker
Office of Refugee Resettlement threatens governors, says they can’t stop Syrians: RRW

Syrian Refugee Question: What We Should be Asking: Andrew C. McCarthy
Obama Has Done More Damage To Border Security Than Any Recent POTUS: LidBlog
Crazy People are Dangerous: R.S. MCain

GOP donors wrestle with possibility of Trump nomination: Jonathan Swan
Cruz, Rubio line up to steal away Bush supporters: Eli Stokols
Failed Candidate Jeb Bush: Trump not a 'serious candidate': Louis Nelson

Charges in Homicide: Second City Cop
Karl Rove Helping Ben Carson Has Everything to do With Ted Cruz: Erick on the Radio
Cruz Campaign Capitalizes on Carson’s Inexperience: VARight

Economy

Life Rules: Stuart Schneiderman
Puerto Rico Girds for Default: AmInt
How High Corporate Taxes Lost America The World’s Next Biggest Drug Company: Guy Bentley

Scandal Central

Gibson Guitar “Government Series”: Walter Olson
Jihad expert banished from college campus over safety concerns: Robert Spencer
NSA stopped from indiscriminately collecting millions of phone records, but it’s not enough: Ben Woods

Climate & Energy

Climate and Human Civilization over the last 18,000 years: Andy May
IPCC ≠ SCIENCE ↔ IPCC = GOVERNMENT: Wim Rost
Ex-NYC mayor with multiple mansions, jets: ‘Crazies’ like Ted Cruz don’t accept climate change reality: Doug Powers

Media

Shooter was unaffiliated politically; heavy pot smoker who sought B&D, S&M online: John Lott
Graphic promotes the Islamic State’s prolific media machine: Thomas Joscelyn
“You Gotta See This Guy” – Trump’s Lie Exposed: Leon H. Wolf

Obama "Enough is Enough" - Background Checks for Citizens, Not Syrian Refugees: Reid Henrichs
7 Photos From ISIS We Still Owe Them Royalty Payments For: Clickhole
A Ted Cruz moment for me: William A. Jacobson

Confused Hillary Forgets Who Is In The WH: WZ
ESPN says there is too much patriotism in sports: RS
Hoekstra: Obama Thought the ‘Power of His Personality’ Would Change Jihadists’ Behavior: Nicholas Ballasy

World

IRAN: Qods Force’s Qassem Soleimani was allegedly severely injured in Syria.: MFS-TON
Any volunteers for peace talks with ISIS?: Iain Martin
Ted Cruz's Favorite Rabbi: Betsy Woodruff

Tet, Take Two – Islam’s 2016 European Offensive : Matt Bracken
Sweden: 'No Apartments, No Jobs, No Shopping Without a Gun': Ingrid Carlqvist
Economist Concludes Refugees Will Ultimately Cost Germany €900 Billion: Mish

U.S. Refugees and Terrorism – Minneapolis Edition: Treehouse
A Twinge That Could Stop a Catastrophe: Counter Jihad Report
Source: ISIS cut off ears of 70 of its elements in Nineveh: Abdelhak Mamoun

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Will the answer to public cloud be Google?: Robert Stroud
Wal-Mart’s Online Shopping Experience Was Miserable On Thanksgiving: Peter Mondrose
Amazon reveals new delivery drone design with range of 15 miles: Taylor Soper

Cornucopia

Post-Thanksgiving Jedi Moves: MOTUS
Ducka Ducka Ducka: Sondrakistan
Kobe Bryant to retire after this season: ESPN

Image: Obama Thought the ‘Power of His Personality’ Would Change Jihadists’ Behavior
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QOTD: "[Former Rep. Pete] Hoekstra argued that the U.S. has lost Libya and northern Africa, which has fueled the crisis in Syria and Iraq... “We’ve dug a hole deeper rather than making progress,” he said.

Hoekstra criticized President Obama for believing the “power of his personality” would bring peace to the Middle East.

“This president, as he did in Egypt, as he’s done in Iran, as he’s done in Syria, has decided that in America’s best interest he believes he can manage, work with, but most importantly he believed that because of the power of his personality the radical jihadist movement would fundamentally change their view of America and change their behavior,” he said [citing] a quote from Obama in November 2007 during his first run for president.

“I truly believe that the day I’m inaugurated, not only the country looks at itself differently, but the world looks at America differently,” Obama said at the time. “If I’m reaching out to the Muslim world they understand that I’ve lived in a Muslim country and I may be a Christian, but I also understand their point of view.”" --Nicholas Ballasy

Sunday, November 29, 2015

INTERESTING: A Carly Fiorina Story from the Harvard Business Review

Happened to be perusing an article in HBR on how companies engage employees (you can probably guess the punchline: there is no single formula for success) and I spotted this interesting tale regarding GOP establishment favorite Carly Fiorina:

It takes years to build a strong purpose- and values-driven high commitment, high performance culture. It cannot be done with a simple training program. Every policy and practice has to be evaluated in the context of espoused purpose and values. Culture is, however, very fragile. A few decisions and behaviors by top management or leaders of key businesses or operating units can undermine decades of culture building.

Consider what happened to HP...

Waco Biker Injustice

By Candy Chand

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." --Martin Luther King

It's been almost six months, and the Waco indictments are just rolling in. So much for swift justice. Or the freedom to assemble.

But do American's really care about the 1st and 6th Amendments, when those fought-and-died-for rights pertain to bikers?

On May 17, 2015, numerous motorcycle groups met in Waco, Texas for a Confederation of Club's joint meeting. Scheduled at a Twin Peaks restaurant, they set out to discuss laws, mutual rules, and common ground. It would be hard to anticipate that lunch with fellow bikers (which included a mix of 1 percenter outlaw, U.S. Veteran and Christian groups) would turn into bloody mayhem.

Only the Free Market, not Forced Wealth Redistribution, Eradicates Poverty and Builds Wealth

By Richard Larsen

America was was intended to be a “shining city on a hill” of freedom, individual liberty, and unlimited opportunity. She was never intended to be a socialist state. Socialistic egalitarianism is strikingly antithetical to the American paradigm.

Founded in individual liberty, America has always been the one nation under heaven where equality of opportunity has taken precedence over equality of outcome. The whole concept of the “American Dream” is based on the individual freedom to become, to achieve, to build, sell, and succeed. This requires individual freedom (which is diminished proportionate to expanded governmental power), and a free market economy (not centralized planning, or government control over the means of production). Consequently, socialism in any of its iterations (communism, national socialism, fascism, and democratic-socialism) is philosophically, morally, and pragmatically, contrary to the principles upon which the republic was founded. Consequently, it is deductively anti-American.

THOUGHTFUL: Saudi King Gives Obama Replica of Mecca Clock Tower Built by the Bin Laden Group

By Daniel Greenfield

What do you get the politician who has everything?

The Saudis have some thoughts on what to get that hard-to-shop for world leader.

How about a "48-inch gold-plated brass replica of the Makkah Clock Tower on marble base”. With falling oil prices, the Saudis were too cheap to make it solid gold. 

Larwyn's Linx: Obama Has Just Begun

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Obama Has Just Begun: Victor Davis Hanson
It's Time to Call Out Black Racism: Daniel Greenfield
Number of migrants illegally crossing Rio Grande sharply rises: Julia Preston

The Mosque on the Hill: The Z Man
Colorado Planned Parenthood Shooter NOT Republican, Identifies as Woman: GWP
Is it racist to oppose rapid entry of 25,000 migrants from Syria?: Howard Rotberg

The Solution We Do Not Want: The Iron Legion
Hillary’s Insane Claim Regarding Muslims: MB
Amnesty/Abortion Backer Hits Trump for Not Being Conservative: Daniel Greenfield

Must. Keep. Splitter. Viable. Karl Rove Gives Assist To Fading Ben Carson: Treehouse
Kleck: Magazine Size Limits Have No Effect On Mass Shootings: Bob Owens
5 Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime: Jerome Hudson

GOPe Plays Shell Game With ObamaCare: “Let's Prop Up Rubio Edition”: Treehouse
Why Ted Cruz Is the Right Guy at the Right Time: Sonya Sasser
Iowa Pastors Grill Marco Rubio over Gay Marriage Duplicity: Michelle Fields

Economy

The Department of Agriculture Is a Welfare Scam: Dan Mitchell
Why Silicon Valley is heading right: Abby W. Schachter
An endorsement for #BlackLivesMatter to shut down all commerce in all cities: Jazz Shaw

Scandal Central

How did the FBI manage to “lose” Sharyl Attkisson’s file?: Jazz Shaw
Failing Upward at the VA: WeaponsMan
Another Negligent Fed, Another Murder Victim: WeaponsMan

Climate & Energy

Big Climate Agenda in Paris: What to Expect: Elephant
CIA: We Should Not Bomb Certain ISIS Targets Because it May Harm Environment: Justin Holcomb
We Don't Need No Stinking Giant Mirrors: SDA

Media

Why I Support Donald Trump’s Campaign – And It’s Probably Not What You Think: Treehouse (7/15)
Good for New York Post on this headline: Gretawire
We should definitely challenge Ted Cruz’s citizenship if he is elected president: Jazz Shaw

“That’s Not Who We Are”—Sez Who?: John Derbyshire
Another Palestinian Attack, Another NY Times Whitewash: CAMERA
Radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary put back in jail for breaching his bail: The Journal.ie

World

Calais First Hand: Gun Free Zone
France’s ambassador to US: Paris jihad terrorists first hit “Jews,” then “ordinary citizens”: Robert Spencer
Swedish village descends into open warfare as citizens fight back against Muslim invaders: Creeping

Guess how many Syrian refugees Persian Gulf Muslim states have accepted: Unyielding
Mr. President: If I am killed by Muslim terrorists in Israel, will you know my name?: Shmais
China Begins Military Colonization Of Africa With First Ever Overseas Army Base At Key Oil Chokepoint: ZH

Unwelcoming? Because No One Wants More of This?!: Baron Bodissey
World Health Organisation: HIV In Europe At All Time High... Migrant 'High Risk': Breitbart
There are 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria. Here’s what we know about them: Charles Lister

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

The Bitcoin Universe Explained: Jeff Desjardins
New startup aims to transfer people's consciousness into artificial bodies so they can live forever: Rob Thubron
Reverse-Engineering a Nerf Blaster: Every Day No Days Off

Cornucopia

Businessman Buys 400 American Soldiers Meals During Airport Layover: DailyWire
Special Event Toilet: iOTWreport
#Black Holes Matter: First Principle: MOTUS

Image: "I have seen Ted Cruz stand up to both President Obama and Marco Rubio"
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QOTD: "When asked a few years ago to pick which department in Washington most deserved to be eliminated, I chose the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

And HUD unquestionably is a cesspool of waste, so it certainly should be shuttered.

But the more I read about the bizarre handouts and subsidies showered on big agribusiness producers by the Department of Agriculture, the more I think there’s a very compelling argument that it should be at top of my list.

Indeed, these giveaways are so disgusting and corrupt that not only should the department be abolished, but the headquarters should be razed and then the ground should be covered by a foot of salt to make sure nothing ever springs back to life." --Dan Mitchell

Saturday, November 28, 2015

OH, MY: Former Ambassador says Obama brought "radical Muslim values into the White House"

UPDATE: Everyone involved is now denying Oren's statements. Unexpectedly.

The article, brought to our attention by the indefatigable Dan from New York, has already been "deleted", but I grabbed a copy before it disappeared permanently into the bit-bucket. My guess is that someone in the halls of power asked that it be, eh, squelched.

Former Israeli Ambassador to the US MK Michael Oren (Kulanu), a member of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, released a particularly strong accusation against US President Barack Obama on Saturday.

BLOCKED: Facebook Censors Pages Critical of Bernie Sanders

By Renee Nal

Author and speaker Trevor Loudon revealed Sanders’ radical ties in a short film he released Wednesday in anticipation of his upcoming political documentary The Enemies Within which seeks to expose the anti-American radicals in the federal government.

After several prominent Facebook pages posted the article, the link was blocked at numerous pages (See here and here for just two examples) and Facebook “likes” on the actual article became “stuck” at 572.

It is pure speculation at this point as to why Facebook blocked the article. At the time of this writing, Facebook has not replied to requests for clarification.

Return of the .22 Ammo Drought?

By Dean Weingarten

About two months ago, for two weeks in early October, the local WalMart near to my daughter’s place in North Dallas had .22 Federal Champion ammunition available for less than five cents per round. It was in 50-round boxes, at $2.47 per box, with a limit of three boxes per customer. I checked again, on November 24th . . .

The shelves were once again empty of inexpensive .22 rimfire. There were a few boxes of CCI .22 LR shotshells at $7.87 per box. That is about 39.2 cents per round. You can easily find it for that price on the Internet. Some places are carrying it as low as 28.5 cents per round, in the 20 round box. The price for CCI .22 LR shotshells is the same in that WalMart as it was in early October.

Larwyn's Linx: Leadership 101: How To Speak Like A President

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Leadership 101: How To Speak Like A President: Taxicab Depressions
Obama Seems Upset That Someone Dared Jump His Fence Illegally: Cove
Who Knew There Were So Many Racists?: PC Graveyard

Colorado Shooter Finally Convinces Leftists that Beliefs Matter: Leon H. Wolf
Planned Parenthood Fundraising Over Shooting Began While Shooting Ongoing: WZ
Colorado Springs police says no connection to Planned Parenthood: FAM

Is Ted Cruz The New Richard Nixon?: Matt K. Lewis
Tea party activists convinced Trump eyeing Cruz for ticket: S.A. Miller
Who the ‘Syrian Refugees’ Are — Not All of Them Are Syrian: Alex Vanness

Trump vs. the "Establishment": Treehouse
Who can topple Trump in Iowa?: Michael Gerson
Trump's Saturday Poll: Daily Pundit

Chicago Gun Control Sees 2703 Shootings and 440 Dead: Steven H. Ahle
S.C. Woman Outdraws, Outshoots, And Kills CraigsList Robber: Bob Owens
The Myth of “4 Million Conservative Voters Stayed Home in 2012″: Dan McLaughlin

Economy

Art Laffer: Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Have Best Tax Plans: LI
Fourth Turning: Social and Cultural Distress Dividing the Nation: Jim Quinn
EB-5 Gets Another Black Eye – Maybe Two of Them: David North, CIS

Climate & Energy

Ted Cruz Is Exactly Right on Climate Change: James Delingpole
Why Scientists Disagree about Global Warming: Heartland
Poll: Support for Climate Agreement Down: AmInt

Media

New Jersey – Navy Vet Log Sept. 11th 2001: “People Here Dancing on Rooftops”: Treehouse
Washington Post: “Want to stop Islamic terrorism? Be nicer to Muslims.”: Robert Spencer
“Face the Truth” Day Exposes Chicago Abortionist Mandy Gittler: John Jansen

The Controversy over Syrian Refugees Misses the Question We Should Be Asking: Andrew C. McCarthy
Rathergate: Hollywood Trying to Rewrite History Again: SDA
Liberal CBS Reporter Claims Right Wing Extremism More Dangerous Than Radical Islam: Jim Hoft

World

Islamist Organizations in America: Clarion
Iranian Officials: IAEA Must Close Nuclear File or Iran Will Stop Implementing Deal: The Tower
IAEA Chief: Questions About Iran’s Past Nuclear Work Remain Unresolved: The Tower

Putin: Obama Leaked Flight Details To Turkey After Russia Released Video Of S-400 SAM Deployment In Syria: ZH
Unreal: Erdogan Warns Russia Against Downing Turkish Jets in Syrian Airspace: Rudy Panko
Turkey arrests editors over reports Ankara supplied weapons to Syrian fighters: Telegraph

Merkel Threatens Europe—And The West: Friedrich Zauner
EU hoping €3bn will see Turkey halt migrants: EU Observer
How the U.S. campaign in Iraq has escalated with a new weapon: rocket artillery: Wesley Morgan

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

How to Frame a Problem Using a Challenge Map: Daniel Nolan
Chaotic Moon Explores Biometric Tattoos For Medicine And The Military: Sarah Buhr
Is Elon Musk’s vacuum tube a viable alternative to High Speed 2?: Zac Tate

Cornucopia

Thanksgiving Dinner Interruptus: MOTUS
Dragnet Lecture to Obama: C&S
Liberal Insult Generator: American Irony

Leadership is a Choice: Jessica Soroky

Image: Team Rubio Confirms Ted Cruz Has Major Momentum
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QOTD: "I sometimes sit in utter astonishment, just thunderstruck that I am living through the administration of the worst President in American history. James Buchanan will be ranked above Obama in 20 years, if the nation survives him.

Obama doesn’t side with law enforcement, he sides with criminals like Travon Martin and Mike Brown and #BlackLivesMatter. Obama doesn’t side with Israel, he sides with Iran. Obama doesn’t support our veterans, he allows the VA to neglect them, and is perfectly OK with giant bonuses being paid to the administrators and bureaucrats overseeing that neglect. His IRS attacks conservatives, his Justice Department engages in illegal gunrunning, his EPA causes catastrophic environmental disasters, and no one ever gets fired, or even demoted. Obama attacks and disparages Christians and conservatives and law-abiding gun owners as a matter of course.

Obama spews nonsense about global warming being the greatest threat we face, and then moves to allow thousands of unvetted Muslim refugees into our country, when ISIS has stated publicly that their strategy to get terrorists into Western nations is to blend in with refugees. He views his fellow citizens as his enemies, moreso than savages shooting up cafe’s in Paris and chopping off peoples’ heads." --Taxicab Depressions

Friday, November 27, 2015

COURAGE IN A BOTTLE: The Jihadist's Drug

By Michaela Witton

Dubbed the “jihadist’s drug,” Captagon is rapidly flooding the Middle East and is said to be fueling the bloody conflict in Syria. French media recently reported that the Paris attackers may have taken the drug.

Last weekend, Turkish anti-narcotics police seized 11 million Captagon pills in a haul that weighed almost two tonnes. It was set to ship to Gulf countries. Widely banned since the mid-eighties, the pills provide a cheap and long-lasting high and are highly addictive. They also have the potential to cause psychosis and brain damage.

The production of the drug, which keeps fighters awake over long periods of time, is said to be providing income for all factions involved in the Syrian war.

LIKE THE PILGRIMS, IF THE PILGRIMS HAD SUICIDE BELTS: Obama Threatens States Refusing to Take ISIS-Supporting Syrians

By Daniel Greenfield

Obama recently decided to effectively suspend enforcement of immigration law and unilaterally legalize huge numbers of illegal aliens. But one of his minions is sending around letters threatening states who refuse to accept his army of Syrian migrants, at least 13% of which poll as supporting ISIS. That means out of his first 10,000 Syrians, over a thousand would be ISIS supporters.

READING THE ELECTORAL TEA LEAVES: We Win, They Lose

By Richard Larsen

It’s hard to think of any other way to characterize the off-year elections results across the nation, than that the rejection of liberalism and progressivism continues unabated. Races across the country, and even some key social-issue elections, don’t portend well for those on the left of the political spectrum.

Larwyn's Linx: Prepare to Be Blindsided in 2016

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Nation

Prepare to Be Blindsided in 2016: Matthew Continetti
FBI elite teams tracking almost 50 high-risk ISIS suspects: Catherine Herridge
List of Refugee Jihadis Secretly Arrested in U.S. [CAUTION: GRAPHIC]: Pamela Geller

Ohio: 5 Muslim Foreign Nationals Arrested with Identify Theft Equipment: Creeping
Muslim Harvard librarian arrested on child sex charges: Eric Levenson
Media That Claimed Bush Chilled Speech Strangely Quiet Now: Mollie Hemingway

Hillary Clinton, Underdog: Scott Rasmussen
Insiders: Trump’s grip on Iowa is tenuous: Steven Shepard
Too late for Carson to catch up on homework: Jonah Goldberg

The Rise of Cruz in Iowa Explained: VaRight
Rubio Calls For U.S. To Defend Turkey Against Russia: Hunter Wallace
Plan A for GOP donors: Wait for Trump to fall. (There is no Plan B.): WaPo

Economy

“Temporary” Taxes Forever: Ben Boychuk
Woodrow Wilson and the Campus Taliban: Daniel J. Flynn
Google deems Bernie Sanders’ economic plan a ‘phishing scam’: Stephen Dinan

Scandal Central

WHITE HOUSE: Iran Deal Is Not ‘Legally Binding’ and Iran Didn’t Sign It.: Joel Gehrke
Obama administration released illegal immigrant children to criminals’ homes: Times
One More Destructive Thing Obama Is Determined To Do Before He Leaves Office: BCN

Climate & Energy

Similarities to Jim Jones and the Cult of Climate Change: Arkady Bukh, Esq.
Obama’s EPA Spending MILLIONS Overseas: Ethan Barton
Appeals court: EPA head doesn't have to give deposition in coal company lawsuit: Fox

Media

Wait! A CNN Reporter Coordinated Benghazi Coverage With Hillary Clinton? No!: RS
Fit to print? NY Times smears GOP 'bigotry,' 'insanity': Pete Kasperowicz
Wikipedia founder advocates for updating policies following 'The Hunting Ground' controversy: Asche Schow

Amanda Blackburn Wasn’t the Only One They Murdered: MB
Economist/YouGov Poll: Trump Has 22-point Lead, Carson Slips to 4th: NewsMax
The Survivors Must Decide: Christian Mercenary

Chicago cover-up comes to an end: Exam
DC Police Chief: Civilians Should Shoot Mass Shooters "Before Police Can Get There": John Lott
Charles Koch: My body is full of harpoons: Yahoo! Finance

World

Belgium is a failed state: Daniel Hannan
IAEA: No Ironclad assurance all of Iran regime’s nuclear program is peaceful.: MFS-TON
Paris massacre cops arrest German arms dealer, as 800 'ISIS weapons' seized: Express

Massive PR push underway to change American minds on Syrian Muslim resettlement to US: Ann Corcoran
Underground ISIS bomb-making lair found littered with US-made guns and drugs: Express
The Derangement of the British Left: James Kirchick

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Raspberry Pi Rolls Out $5 Computer: Amir Mizroch
End of daily injections for diabetes as scientists restore insulin production: Telegraph
Caught On Tape: China Builds A Bridge In Just 43 Hours: ZH

Cornucopia

Have a happy, politics-free Thanksgiving: Michelle Malkin
Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation: Publius
An Appeal To American Journalists: Aging Rebel

Image: Uhm, Teen Beats 91-Year Old White Man To Death, Sets Body On Fire
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QOTD: "Chanting “Long live the Intifada,” University of Texas at Austin activists recently stormed a class to protest and disrupt a talk by a guest lecturer.

Waving Palestinian flags and shouting anti-Israel epithets, twelve members of the Palestine Solidarity Committee (PSC) entered the public event, sponsored by Institute for Israeli Studies Professor Ami Pedahzur and hosting Stanford University military historian Dr. Gil-Li Vardi...

...Since that episode, which took place on Friday, November 13, mere hours before Paris was brutally attacked by ISIS terrorists, Pedahzur, professor of government and founding director of the Institute for Israel Studies, has become the focus of a PSC intimidation campaign." --Ruthie Blum

Thursday, November 26, 2015

Giving Thanks for the Republican Establishment

Today I give thanks for my family, my friends, my colleagues and our great country, especially those who serve in our military, intelligence, law enforcement and first responder communities to protect us. I give thanks that I was fortunate enough to be born in this wonderful nation, the most magnificent society on the face of the Earth.

Today I also give thanks to the Republican Party, its leaders, and its media. I give thanks to the party's agenda -- in the wake of the Mississippi Senate primary and numerous derogatory remarks -- as it made clear it sought to wage war against us. It is a fact that the Republican establishment seeks to expel conservatives from the party.

Did you drop your Republican registration to express your disgust? Awesome -- you did exactly what the establishment wanted, so you couldn't vote for an insurgent candidate like Donald Trump in your state primary.

Larwyn's Linx: At least 15 refugees to US have been charged with terrorism this year

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At least 15 refugees to US have been charged with terrorism this year: Poor Richard
Hillary: Don't Make the Tolerant Muslims Angry, Or There'll Be Terror: Daniel Greenfield
Importing Terrorism and Other American Values: Ann Coulter

US Admits 680K Immigrants from Muslim Countries in Last 5 Years : Daniel Horowitz
Coming soon: More Muslim immigrants than population of D.C. : Paul Bedard
Leaked Document: Virginia GOPe to Implement Republican Voting Oath: Treehouse

Antonin Scalia, Bogeyman of the Liberal Imagination: Christopher J. Scalia
As exchanges falter, team Obamacare fights for an insurer bailout: Timothy P. Carney
Ohio Sheriff Sends Mexico 900k Bill for “Taking Care of Your Criminals": PC Graveyard

Top 10 Reasons to Vote for Ted Cruz: Spengler
D.C. mayor's reason for gun-control: 'I don't like guns': Paul Bedard
Panicky Chris Christie "doesn't recall" entering politics to enact assault weapon ban: Ace

Economy

America's Indoctrination Mills: Stuart Schneiderman
Report: Speaker Ryan Expanding Taxpayer Bailout For ObamaCare Insurers: Treehouse
$30K in Student Loan Debt Could Mean $325K Less In Retirement: ThinkAdvisor

Scandal Central

Chicago: Media Fans the Flames: Second City Cop
President Cop-Basher Strangely Mute on Laquan McDonald Case: JWF
Former CIA Director: We Didn't Hit ISIS Oil Wells to Avoid Environmental Damage: Mark Tapson

Climate & Energy

Obama’s war on coal is projected to cost us 125,800 jobs and $650 billion: Matt Vespa
No Change at the Climate Court: Mark Steyn
NOAA: Record 121 Months Since Last Major Hurricane Hit U.S.: CNS

Media

Facebook Censored Me for Publicizing Islamist Atrocities: Tarek Fatah, The Toronto Sun
Poll: Wide Divide Over Allowing Muslim Refugees Into the U.S.: Warren Rojas
'I Grew Up In The Hood Lady' Conservative Torches Liberal On Chicago Shooting: Hannity

CNN and Mike Allen Caught Red-Handed Doing Media Favors for Hillary: Ace
Chuck Todd deceptively edits Ben Carson to mispresent his comments as ‘Islamophobic’ : Scoop
Progessive Extremist Marc Lamont Hill: Islam In Line with American Values: Paul Bois

World

Air Force commander: Russian S-400 missiles 'complicate' Syria airstrikes: Jeffrey Schogol
Islamic State claims suicide attack on presidential guards in Tunisian capital: Caleb Weiss
16 Of The Worst Ways To Respond To ISIS’ Paris Attack: Mollie Hemingway

British Truck Drivers Run Gauntlet Of Violent Refugees Near Calais and Tunnel Crossing: Breitbart London
Pepper spray almost sold out: demand for pepper sprays in Germany is increasing rapidly: Vlad Tepes
The Swiss Impose $9,800 Fines On Burqas: Katie McGuire

China Again Tests Nuclear Hypersonic Missile: Bill Gertz
Considering Religion When it Comes to Refugees is a MUST: Katie McGuire
Obama Didn’t Bomb ISIS Oil Because of the Environmental Impact: Katie McGuire

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Entanglement: Gravity's long-distance connection: Andrew Grant
Kid's toys are recording and transmitting every conversation: MassPrivateI
Scientists finally discover what's inside chicken nuggets: Health Nut News

Cornucopia

What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather: Gordon J. Davis
Five passive aggressive ways to handle liberal loved ones at Thanksgiving: American Irony
1995 Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was a Muslim sympathizer: Fellowship

Image: British Truck Drivers Run Gauntlet Of Violent Refugees Near Calais and Tunnel Crossing
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QOTD: "The most powerful tool we have to fight ISIL is to say that we're not afraid. To not elevate them and to somehow buy into their fantasy that they're doing something important." --President Mom Jeans the day before the State Department issued a world-wide travel advisory for Americans due to ISIL terrorism (via Ace)

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

DOCUMENT LEAK: Virginia GOP Establishment’s "Loyalty Oath" Scheme to Suppress Insurgents Trump and Cruz

The Last Refuge blog (also known as The Conservative Treehouse) has done yeoman's work exposing the GOP establishment's plot to jam Jeb Bush down the collective throats of the electorate.

Despite Bush's single-digit poll numbers, the GOPe remains fixated on a Bush candidacy (and, by extension, a Hillary presidency, since Bush has zero chance of winning a general election).

Most recently, Virginia's old guard has proffered a laughably obvious ploy to deter independent, Tea Party, Reagan Democrat, and Constitutional Conservatives who have abandoned the Republican establishment from voting in the GOP primary.

LOSING THE PRIMARY TO WIN THE GENERAL? Why ¡Jeb’s failed campaign hasn’t called it quits

By Jen Kuznicki

It was a puzzling statement for sure when Jeb Bush said early on in his run for president that Republicans need to stop trying to win the argument, and that he would rather lose the primary in order to win the general.

Many, including me, asked just how it is possible to lose the primary but go on to win in the general, a race determined by who wins the Republican primary.

But now that Jeb has thoroughly botched the debates, and fallen far short of getting enough momentum before Iowa to be considered in contention for winning the primary, shouldn’t we ask whether he is simply following through with his stated goal?

MITCH McRUBIO: Florida Senator Won’t Use Congressional Power of the Purse to Stop the ISIS Invasion

By Julia Hahn

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) tells Sean Hannity that he’d “hate to use” Congress’ power of the purse to block Obama’s refugee resettlement program. He’d prefer to opt for Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)’s plan, which would allow the President to resettle 85,000 or more refugees this year from countries including Somalia, the Congo and Syria.

Hannity pressed Rubio on how Republicans could stop the importation of Syrian refugees into the United States.

"The country has reached its Lexington and Concord moment"

By Lawrence Sellin

It is now clear that the US Government, for the most part is unable and, in some cases, refuses to protect Americans from external and internal threats to our security, whether that be through unregulated immigration, an impotent ISIS policy or the disarming of law-abiding citizens.

Under the Obama Administration's leadership, elements of the radical left such as Black Lives Matter have joined forces with the Islamist-supporting groups the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and funded by Michael Bloomberg's Everytown for Gun Safety,  George Soros' Center for American Progress and the Joyce Foundation, a group that funds gun control efforts.

While the Islamist groups want to render us defenseless against jihad in America, the political left wants to make us vulnerable to government tyranny.

Larwyn's Linx: Team Rubio’s Pathetic National Security Attack on Cruz

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Nation

Team Rubio’s Pathetic National Security Attack on Cruz: Daniel Horowitz
Quinnipiac Poll: Cruz, Trump in Virtual Tie In Iowa: NewsMax
Trump posts video of Clinton laughing over Benghazi flames: Jesse Byrnes

Everything's Fine Until the Bombs Go Off: Sultan Knish
Hillary: 'Muslims Have Nothing Whatsoever To Do With Terrorism': IBD
The Refugee Vetting Process Will Fail: Dan Bongino

Self-Defenseless: John Stossel
Ted Cruz Surges in Iowa as Ben Carson Slips — New Poll: Heather Haddon
Busted: Anti-Trump Consultant Liz Mair Paid $15K A Month By Dictator: GotNews

The Death of Free Speech: Ben Shapiro
Michigan Democrats seek to repeal ‘stand your ground’ laws: Chris Eger
Popular Arizona State Senator Switches Parties: PC Graveyard

Economy

National debt spikes $578 billion in three weeks: Pete Kasperowicz
My Theory of Everything: Part I: Z Man
Did Marco Rubio Kill Obamacare?: Kemberlee Kaye

Scandal Central

The Secret Sex Abuse Victims of Bill Clinton: Breitbart
Hillary and the mystery of the vanishing woman who decided which of her emails were to be erased: DailyMail
Obama Threatens Military/Intel Agencies If They Don’t Tell Him What He Wants to Hear: Sara Noble

Sources: Obama Won’t Read Intel Reports on Muslim Terrorists (video): Creeping
Former DIA Head: Investigation of Manipulated Intel Should Start at White House: Shoshana Weissmann
Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ and the real life Laquan McDonald video: John Kass

Climate & Energy

We're in the very best of hands: Obama says climate conference a powerful rebuke to ISIS: Sooper
President Obama Opens Up A Serious Can Of Whoop Ass On ISIS!: Patterico
Alterations To Climate Data: Real Climate Science

Media

Bob The Answer Man On ‘Cultural Appropriation’: Camp of the Saints
WashingtonPost.com: Johnny On The Spot With ID On White Suspects: Eugene Gant
Mark Levin Donates This Priceless Item to Conservative University: CR

Leftists Try To Silence Trump, Warn of Violence: Ben Shapiro
Rubio backer is behind new anti-Ted Cruz ad: Shane Goldmacher
Insane “Zero Tolerance” Weapon Policy Hounds College Student To Death: Bob Owens

World

Syrians are a Nation of Terrorist Supporters: Daniel Greenfield
Islamic State Plans Suicide Aircraft Strikes in Iraq: Bill Gertz
Filmmaker: I Saw ISIS Recruiters Amongst The Refugee Population: Hannity

Belgian Justice Minister: Terror No Longer Limited to “Synagogues and the Jewish Museums”: The Tower
Gaza's luxury restaurants. Just like Buchenwald.: Elder of Ziyon
Austrian Girl Who Joined ISIS Beaten to Death Trying to Flee Syria: JWF

Data and terror: An Excerpt: American Digest
What will russia do to turkey for shooting down its fighter? .... why, nothing ....: Winter Soldier
Wikileaks, Snowden, and the Belarus Connection: The XX Committee (2013)

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

When Guns are Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Cryotherapy: WeaponsMan
Banks rehearse ‘Quantum Dawn’ cyber attacks: Priya Anand
How To Use Price to Compete In The Collaborative Economy: Jeremiah Owyang

Cornucopia

Islamic protesters burn LGBT flag calling it 'offensive': Cube
Ignore Obama’s Recipe for Thanksgiving: MOTUS
Let’s See If We Can Make a Gun Mad: Brandon Morse

Image: Spike Lee’s ‘Chi-Raq’ and the real life Laquan McDonald video
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QOTD: ""Let's be clear," [Hillary] Clinton lectured. "Muslims have nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism."

If by "nothing," she means everything, she is correct.

Within hours of her delusional statement, another Muslim terror group, Boko Haram, killed 27 at the Radisson hotel in Mali's capital city, while forcing guests to recite verses from the Quran.

Yet this was not Islam, either, we are told. We heard the same politically correct claptrap after Muslims bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa in 1998 and after 19 more Muslims attacked Washington and New York on Sept. 11, 2001, slaughtering almost 3,000. And again after Muslims attacked Madrid, Bali and London. And when Muslim snipers shot up Washington. And when a Muslim massacred soldiers at Fort Hood. And when Muslims slaughtered more than 60, including two dozen children and three pregnant women, at a shopping mall in Kenya. And again after Muslims bombed the Boston marathon. And this year, after a Muslim gunned down five soldiers in Chattanooga.

Though the latest denials are demonstrably false, at least apologists have dropped the risible "Religion of Peace" mantra." --Investors Business Daily

Tuesday, November 24, 2015

MUGSHOTS: The 15 Dumbest Crooks

For sheer entertainment value alone, nothing beats perusing the Darwin Award applicants who have violated U.S. criminal code and -- more importantly -- any semblance of common sense.


FAILURE FUNNIES: Or "How to Burn $200 Million on a Complete Zero of a Candidate"

Once again, our summer intern @BiffSpackle nails it, the subtext of which remains the timeless question about the ill-fated campaign of Jeb Bush: "What, Jon Huntsman wasn't available?"


Which explains why losers like ¡Yeb! and ¡RubINO! are attacking outsiders like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.

Hat tip: BadBlue Real-Time News.
 

CRUZ BLITZES EPA EMISSIONS PLAN: "Our founders would have recognized [this] as tyranny"

By Jon Cassidy

Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton denounced a new federal emissions regulation as illegal, expensive and pointless Thursday during an energy conference organized by the Texas Public Policy Foundation.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulation, known as the Clean Power Plan, was finalized last month and immediately challenged in court by 26 states and an array of companies and associations in the energy industry.

“The regulation is neither clean nor does it have anything to do with power, other than the Obama Administration’s power to harm our energy production,” Cruz, a Republican, said in a taped message.

CHART: Only 4 Left in the GOP Presidential Primary

A new Iowa poll shows Donald Trump and Ted Cruz locked in a virtual tie:

Support for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has surged among Iowa Republicans, a new poll shows, suggesting his effort to sew up support among influential evangelical Christians in the first-in-the-nation caucus state has borne fruit.

A new Quinnipiac University poll of likely Republican caucus goers showed Mr. Cruz with 23%, behind only New York real estate developer Donald Trump, with 25%. That is more than double Mr. Cruz’s showing of 10% in the university’s October poll. Mr. Trump gained five points from October.