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WSJ: Obama told Boehner if no agreement is reached he'll use inaugural/SOTU speeches to blame Republicans

Michelle Malkin

by Doug Powers

December 23, 2012

This pretty much amounts to an empty threat, because no matter what happens, Obama will blame Republicans anyway.

Mr. Obama repeatedly lost patience with the speaker as negotiations faltered. In an Oval Office meeting last week, he told Mr. Boehner that if the sides didn’t reach agreement, he would use his inaugural address and his State of the Union speech to tell the country the Republicans were at fault. At one point, according to notes taken by a participant, Mr. Boehner told the president, “I put $800 billion [in tax revenue] on the table. What do I get for that?” “You get nothing,” the president said. “I get that for free.”

WSJ: Unions contribute four times what FEC disclosures show

Hot Air

by Ed Morrissey

July 10, 2012

Lost in all the screeching over the Citizens United ruling two years ago was the fact that unions have largely been exempt from campaign-finance restrictions on speech.

Unions spent a fortune in 2010, far more than the corporations will in this election, no matter what the hysterics think. In fact, according to FEC reports from that election, unions accounted for three of the top five outside groups in spending for the midterms - specifically, public-sector unions AFSCME, SEIU, and the NEA. Today, the Wall Street Journal reports that even those numbers are deceiving as to the real spending by unions, with or without Citizens United.

Wyoming Sheriffs Told Federal BATF & IRS Agents To Abide By The Constitution Or Face Immediate Arrest

politicalvelcraft.org

by Volubrjotr

September 22, 2011

Here's one the mainstream media isn't going to tell you: County sheriffs in Wyoming are demanding that federal agents actually abide by the Constitution, or face arrest. Even better, a U.S. Federal District Court agreed.

The court decision was the result of a suit against both the BATF and the IRS by Mattis and other members of the Wyoming Sheriff's Association. The suit in the Wyoming federal court district sought restoration of the protections enshrined in the United States Constitution and the Wyoming Constitution...

Wyoming State Government Preppers

personalliberty.com

by Sam Rolley

February 28, 2012

State legislators in Wyoming, like American preppers, have decided to prepare for economic and political collapse of the United States because of the Nation's soaring national debt and Americans' growing dissatisfaction with the Federal government.

A House bill recently passed in the State (HB 85) calls for the creation of a State-run continuity task force to study and prepare Wyoming for potential catastrophes including disruptions in food and energy supplies and a complete breakdown of the Federal government. The task force will consider the feasibility of the State issuing its own currency, creating a standing army, implementing a State military draft and acquiring strike aircraft and an aircraft carrier.

xkcd: First Post

xkcd.com

February 20, 2012

The problem with posting comments in the order they're submitted.

xkcd: Sustainable

xkcd.com

January 23, 2012

Frequency of use of the word "sustainable" in US English text, as a percentage of all words, by year.

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'

theguardian.com

by Glenn Greenwald

August 1, 2013

XKeyscore gives 'widest-reaching' collection of online data, NSA analysts require no prior authorization for searches, Sweeps up emails, social media activity and browsing history

A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The NSA boasts in training materials that the program, called XKeyscore, is its "widest-reaching" system for developing intelligence from the internet. The latest revelations will add to the intense public and congressional debate around the extent of NSA surveillance programs. They come as senior intelligence officials testify to the Senate judiciary committee on Wednesday, releasing classified documents in response to the Guardian's earlier stories on bulk collection of phone records and Fisa surveillance court oversight.

Yahoo bureau chief: The GOP is happy to have a party while black people drown

Hot Air

by Allahpundit

August 29, 2012

It's interesting that ABC, which was initially blamed for Chalian's remark, was so quick to identify him as the culprit. They could have gone the NBC route and refused to say, insisting only that it was "someone who doesn't work for our news department."

Maybe they got enough grief for Brian Ross's insta-scapegoating of tea partiers after the Aurora shooting that they decided they weren't going to take any new heat from the right on this, even if that meant naming Chalian as the offender. Anyway, an important lesson here for the media: The next time you're riffing with your colleagues about how much Republicans hate minorities, check the mics in the room first. Or take Patrick Brennan's advice and jump to a network where the last tattered pretense of objectivity was discarded long ago...

Yahoo Reporter Chris Wilson Flubs Real Story Of #FreeChrisLoesch

breitbart.com

by Dana Loesch

April 30, 2012

Yahoo reporter Chris Wilson wrote about the progressive suppression of speech occurring at Twitter.

We confirmed with Twitter while dealing with Chris Loesch's individual suspended account that it was indeed due to users abusing the spam/block feature to suspend users with whom they disagree. Wilson, on the other hand, suggests otherwise in his "expertise" on our situation gleaned from who knows where.

Yahoo Was Reportedly Forced to Join PRISM By a Secret Court

spreadlibertynews.com

by Drew Guarini

June 17, 2013

Yahoo fought PRISM, and PRISM won.

Court records obtained by The New York Times show that Yahoo had fought back against the National Security Agency's broad requests for user data in 2008. The company, which provides email service to hundreds of millions of people, argued that the order violated Yahoo account holders' constitutional right against unreasonable searches and seizures. The secret court didn't buy Yahoo's argument, and compelled the company to give the NSA digitally stored email and photos at its beck and call. Since the bombshell revelation of NSA's so-called PRISM program last week, the public has learned more about how the nine participating Internet companies let the government collect broad swaths of personal information from Internet users for national security purposes. The secret 2008 decision seemed to put a dark cloud over Silicon Valley: cooperate with the government to fight terrorism abroad, or you'll find yourself in court.

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