The State of the Union TAkes!
Okay, not really. I couldn’t bear to listen, for fear of becoming sick. Instead, I offer a month’s worth of real news links which should make us all sick. Hopefully, you won’t become physically sick, being informed is much, much better. We all deserve better.
Here is the round-up:
Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?
(The Night of Broken Glass) Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?
It might be helpful to note that the author of this letter to the editor is a liberal, and a supporter of Al Gore and voted for Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown.
EPA Decree Shrinks Size of Wyoming by a Million Acres
Since when does the EPA have the jurisdiction to re-interpret treaties?
From our Imperial POTUS using the levers of government to punish his opponents department:
One of the Few Conservative Groups in Hollywood Has Been Under Investigation by the IRS
Conservative author and pundit Dinesh D’Souza charged in campaign finance case
I’m pretty sure that Dinesh is on an enemies list somewhere
Tearing away Obama’s veil of secrecy surrounding the IRS scandal
the truth is becoming known about President Obama’s blatant use of the Internal Revenue Service to suppress the First Amendment political free speech rights of Tea Party, conservative and evangelical non-profits during the 2010, 2012 — and now — the 2014 campaigns.
Kimberley Strassel: IRS Targeting and 2014
It’s IRS targeting all over again, only this time by administration design and with the raw political goal…of putting “tea party groups out of business.”
Obama was outraged when he read about this in the newspaper, (right!) now he claims it’s a phony scandal.
Media Matters Facts <> Media Matters’ targets revealed: business, wealth, Christianity
Media Matters is a 501(c)3 non-profit, and contributions are deductible. Compare that to the IRS targets for 501(c)4 applicants, whose contributions are not tax-deductible
No Place For Conservatives in New York says Andrew Cuomo
I can’t believe that this guy fancies himself a viable presidential candidate. It must be hereditary, his daddy Mario wanted to be President too. When I first heard this, I thought he must be “differently-abled”.
Benghazi and Syria Update:
Obama called for war based on bogus intel
Syria update: A report from the MIT confirms earlier reports that the Syrian government could not have launched the sarin poison-gas-laden rocket last August. Confirming my earlier suspicions that this was a false-flag attack.
Senate Benghazi Report Damns President Obama And Hillary Clinton
The surprising thing here is that Senator Feinstein was committee Chair
Top Secret Benghazi Docs Prove that After Stevens et al Died, Obama and Clinton Lied
Hillary’s biggest “regret”? She doesn’t regret a thing, Obama got re-elected, didn’t he?
An Excerpt From Robert Gates’ ‘Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War’
The Quiet Fury of Robert Gates
EPA still silent on the legality of coal plant ban
Of course they are silent, it isn’t legal.
▶ Climate Chains: Scam Artists & Big, Big Money (Intellectual Froglegs)
Marxist socialism has never worked
The Number Of Working Age Americans Without A Job Has Risen By Almost 10 Million Under Obama
92 million missing from the labor force, and still rising
Amnesty Ends the American Dream
Amnesty not only rewards illegals for breaking our laws, it will also hurt the unskilled, minorities, and the young in the job market.
Levin: Boehner, Cantor, Ryan Expanding Welfare State by Pushing Amnesty
Isn’t the welfare state large enough already?
More TAkes! on the Obamacare train-wreck:
Surprise! Walmart health plan is cheaper, offers more coverage than Obamacare
ObamaCare Dumped $1.2 Billion Into Failing State Exchanges
calling Obamacare a train wreck is an insult to train wrecks
Bailing Out Health Insurers and Helping Obamacare
The great insurance bail-out stop-loss provision is written into Obamacare
Obamacare: Tom Coburn loses cancer doctor
This is Senator Tom Coburn (R, OK), who is resigning to fight prostate cancer
Capitol Hill Staffers are Still Concerned About Obamacare’s Impact on Them
and they wrote this monstrosity
‘Secret dealing’? Emails show cozy relationship between EPA, environmental groups
Smith & Wesson to End Most CA Sales Due to Microstamping Regulation
gun-grabbers have discovered an end-around play
Huxley’s “Brave New World Revisited” – 2014 Redux
okay, stop with the happy pills and playing video games now, and read this!
Global Warming Lies Unraveling
over the past 100 years, real temps have fallen 1°C
Obama’s use of executive power faces reckoning at Supreme Court
our lawless POTUS
Supreme Court Justices skeptical of Obama’s end run around Congress
Our lawless POTUS, Act Two. We’ll hear about more up-coming lawlessness in the SOTU tonight.
Other Stuff:
New Scandal, Same Old Christie | National Review Online
It didn’t take long for Christie’s Democratic friends to pull out the knives over a bunch of road cones.
Stick a fork in him. He’s done.
The GOP’s Losing Strategy
the GOP has done nothing but antagonize conservatives, libertarians and Tea Party adherents. Establishment Republicans have spit in the faces of rank-and-file conservatives, since we elected them in the House in 2010.
White House nightmare: Eligibility case still alive
Isn’t it time for some justice?
Democrats’ ‘fairness’ Catch-22
Australian Judge Finds Muslim “Cultural Differences” Valid Excuse for Rape
really? It doesn’t surprise me.
The Complete List of Barack Obama’s Scandals, Misdeeds, Crimes and Blunders
for the nerdiest amongst us who like to collect such things
Flu Folly :
“We are treating a number of the people who had the flu vaccine but they still got the flu,” the doctor said. “In fact, most of the patients we’re seeing were vaccinated.”
Ex-scoutmaster pleads guilty to 36 felony sex crimes – Roanoke Times
I seem to remember the BS of A stamping their blessings on gay Scoutmasters last year.
The Great Italian Auto Bailout — Courtesy of U.S. Taxpayers
Cars update: Obama gave Fiat it’s initial Chrysler shares during the bailout/bankruptcy. Sweet!
Essays of note:
“I, Pencil: My Family Tree as told to Leonard E. Read”
from 1958, an Austrian Economics story
Samuel Huntington_Clash of Civilizations (pdf)
Samuel Huntington’s “controversial” article originally published in Foreign Affairs in 1993
What Is Classical Liberalism?
I am a classic liberal. I’d bet that most of you are too.