Jonathan Turley: The Rise Of The Uber-Presidency
Transcript. (h/t Maz2)
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Starving Humanity”
Confessions of a subsistence freelance writer;
The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer has always fascinated me. The ability to plant, cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the emergence of self-awareness, control of fire, the wheel, and the development of mathematics and written language as one of humanity’s transformational events. We became something different once we began to farm.
I have found something like that taking place in me. For a variety of reasons – partly financial, partly intellectual – I have approached my land with tools that, for the most part, would have been available in 1014: scythes, sickles and mattocks recognisable from paintings and tapestries of 11th-century farms. How long would I last if thrust back by time machine or a collapse of the sort popular in apocalypse porn?
He eventually drove his poor wife crazy.
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Fly The Democrat Skies: According to the National Border Patrol Council, illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners with only their Notice to Appear forms and no verifiable identification.
Related.
Forward!
Health and Human Services officials will allow reporters to visit a military facility housing some of the immigrant children who have arrived at the southern border in recent weeks, but only if the media promises not to record anything, not to ask any questions during the tour, and not to talk to any of the staff members or children.
They’re much too busy being registered as Democrats to talk to the press.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
We've now lost Iraq and experts believe that, under Obama's policies, by year's end we'll also lose Afghanistan and Texas.
— WH Press Secretary (@weknowwhatsbest) July 7, 2014
Don’t attribute to stupidty that which can be adequately explained by malice:
America’s porous southern border and the recent surge in illegal immigration is more than just a “humanitarian crisis,” claims the top U.S. general in charge of Central and South America, it’s a threat to the United States’ very existence.
Marine Corps Gen. John Kelly is commander of the U.S. Southern Command, or SOUTHCOM, charged with responsibility for the Caribbean Sea and all lands south of Mexico.
Particularly in regards to the drug trade, murder rates and terrorist activity brewing in Central America, Kelly says, the waves of Latin Americans sweeping through Mexico and illegally into Texas presents a threat to the U.S. every bit as serious as Iran or North Korea.
Not the northern border, though. There America stands firm to repel lamb-based dog food and contraband oranges.
More here.
How’s That Hopey Changey Thing Working Out For Ya?
The Quinnipiac poll showing that Obama is now considered the worst president since World War II offers him no silver lining. There were 12 choices and the voting wasn’t close — he got the highest “worst” vote, 33 percent, with George W. Bush the next worst, at 28 percent.
Jimmy Carter, routinely mocked as a disaster, drew only 8 percent. Even Richard Nixon did better, seen as the bottom of the barrel by only 13 percent of those surveyed. And we know how Nixon’s tenure ended.
Too bad America didn’t come to its senses sooner. Indeed, the Q poll shows a huge amount of buyers’ remorse, with 45 percent saying Mitt Romney would have been a better president, while only 38 percent think Obama was the right choice in 2012. Mulligan, anyone?
And half of those work in media.
h/t EBD, north of 60
Now Is The Time At SDA When We Juxtapose!
Barack Obama “On The Issues”, 2007 – Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency will strictly regulate manure spills from large CAFOs, with fines for those that violate tough standards.
Environmental Protection Agency, 2014 – EPA Employees Told to Stop Pooping in the Hallway
h/t Melinda
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Looks like she missed one.
Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative individuals includes a sitting United States Senator. According to emails reviewed by the Committee under its Section 6103 authority, which allows the Committee to review confidential taxpayer information, Lois Lerner sought to have Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) referred for IRS examination.
“We have seen a lot of unbelievable things in this investigation, but the fact that Lois Lerner attempted to initiate an apparently baseless IRS examination against a sitting Republican United States Senator is shocking,” said Camp.
Supreme Court Limits EPA On Greenhouse Gases
How quaint. They’re issuing “rulings”.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
“The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) cancelled its longtime relationship with an email-storage contractor just weeks after ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s computer crashed and shortly before other IRS officials’ computers allegedly crashed.” Basically, the Daily Caller – doing the legwork that our legacy media apparently cannot – determined that Sonasoft offered email backup services from 2005 to 2011 (Sonasoft certainly claimed that). A couple of weeks after Congress started requesting Lois Lerner’s email records from the IRS, Lerner’s computer crash – and, shortly after that, the IRS let their contract with Sonasoft lapse.
Related – “The IRS tea-party audit story isn’t Watergate; it’s worse than Watergate. The Watergate break-in was the professionals of the party in power going after the party professionals of the party out of power. The IRS scandal is the party in power going after the most average Americans imaginable.
Want To See Something Really Scary?
No, that’s just mildly entertaining. This is really scary.
“When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Ryan to IRS Commissioner: ‘I don’t believe you’ (Video)
“You are the Internal Revenue Service,” he said. “You can reach into the lives of hard-working taxpayers and with a phone call, an e-mail or a letter you can turn their lives upside down. You ask taxpayers to hand onto seven years of their personal tax information in case they are ever audited and you can’t keep six months worth of employee e-mails? And now that we are seeing this investigation, you don’t have the e-mails, hard drives crashed. You learned about this months ago. You just told us, and we had to ask you on Monday.”
This is not being forthcoming, he said.
“This is being misleading again,” Ryan said. “This is a pattern of abuse, a pattern of behavior that is not giving us any confidence that this agency is being impartial. I don’t believe you. This is incredible.”
Koskinen retorted he’d had a “long career” and never been told no one believed him.
“I don’t believe you,” Ryan said again.
Watch live: IRS Targeting Investigation on C-Span. And then tell me that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen isn’t a space alien.
Forward!
I say replace it with a hammer and sickle: U.S. Patent Office Cancels Washington Redskins Trademarks
In that vein…
Update: “I want you to imagine the federal government eliminating your private property rights due to the interpretation of political correctness by five people, or a very tiny minority of people,”
6 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
According to the conventional wisdom, the economy is set to bounce back from its winter-induced slump. It won’t be the first time that the pundits got it wrong.
If this is a bounce back, I would hate to see what a decline looks like. For here we are, almost finished with the second quarter, and the economy doesn’t look much different than it did in the first.
The real world is telling us a different story than the pundits think they see in their crystal balls. Rather than picking up, the economy is still plodding along, not necessarily declining — but not shifting into high gear either.
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Entrepreneurship in American manufacturing = ↑
http://t.co/UEsfJp9LbU #MadeInAmerica pic.twitter.com/92Gx3kYeB4
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 17, 2014
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Fundamental transformation, in action.
Victor Davis Hanson: Almost everything we are told about illegal immigration is both a lie and amoral.
Nobel Peace Prize Update
Per a military source: "It is more than a little unnerving to see ISIS executing Iraqis with US weapons"
— SalenaZito (@SalenaZitoTrib) June 16, 2014
Jordan. They must be wondering when it is going to be their turn and who will help them. It really does look like they are next.
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Someone in the Obama administration has let it be known that the US Embassy in Baghdad will henceforth be reinforced by less than 100 Marines. (h/t OMMAG)
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Operation Empty Chair
Via Gateway Pundit;
Ayad Jamal Al-Din: I was very surprised by the American statement, which pledged to support Iraq in keeping with the strategic agreement. On the same day, the U.S. declared that it would weaken… The war in Syria and the war in Iraq are one and the same – both in Syria and in Iraq, it is a war against ISIS. The U.S. strives to weaken the Syrian regime, and this benefits ISIS, but in Baghdad, it supports the regime against ISIS. This is suspicious and perplexing, to tell you the truth.
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ISIS is composed of the same terrorists who are fighting in Libya, in Somalia, in Syria, in Afghanistan, in Nigeria, and elsewhere. The names of the organizations may vary, but their terrorism is one and the same.