The Nuland Call; Russia’s interception and leaking of U.S. diplomats’ conversation is telling.

NRO ... "And what’s also pretty evident is Russia’s strategic motivation for this release: to exploit fissures in the U.S.-EU relationship. As German chancellor Angela Merkel’s angry reaction to the Nuland call illustrates, the relationship remains strained in the wake of the Snowden revelations. The Russians hope that by widening the gap between the U.S. and its European allies, they can consolidate their own position in Ukraine. They fear a Western policy consensus in support of the opposition.

"That takes care of Russia’s capability and motivation." ...

Photographic Proof That Sochi Is A Godforsaken Hellscape Right Now

Buzzfeed  I wish the Russians well and would like them to be proud of their Olympic accommodations. But how well can you do when your nation's business and labor has been steeped in extreme socialism for seven decades? For seventy-odd years, their work force were all government employees.

Sochi Problems@SochiProblems Follow

We torture your bowels with complex toilets. #SochiProblems #Sochi2014

 

 

Live wires in showers.

Men at Work ; Revisiting the alienation of labor

NRO By Kevin D. Williamson

 

"From a historical point of view, there are effectively no poor people in the United States or Western Europe. Those who go without shoes or sleep on the streets do so almost exclusively for psychiatric rather than economic reasons. (Our wealth makes their neglect more of a scandal, not less of one.) At the national level, mass unemployment constitutes a heavy brake on the economy. The Congressional Budget Office recently estimated that the Affordable Care Act would result in fewer Americans working — on a scale equivalent to the loss of 2.5 million full-time positions. The White House greeted this as a liberation: No longer would Americans be “trapped in a job” by the mere need to provide for themselves and their families."

 

NAACP: Bring Photo ID To Protest Photo ID Laws

NAACP guidelines for marchers

 

Truth Revolt   "The NAACP planned a peaceful march to protest the requirement of voter ID laws on Saturday at the "Moral March on Raleigh." Organizers said 20,000 to 30,000 Americans showed up to the protest. Rev. William Barber, president of the state NAACP, stated, "We return to Raleigh with a renewed strength and a renewed sense of urgency. This Moral March inaugurates a fresh year of grassroots empowerment, voter education, litigation and nonviolent direct action."

 

Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/02/08/3601888/annual-march-rally-builds...

"In a flyer sent out entitled “Important Do’s and Don’ts for Marchers,” some very responsible marching elements were listed for people's safety.

 

"The most ironic recommendation on the list comes half way down, where march coordinators tell recipients: 

 

A conservative's protest against the hypocrisy of this policy was buried deep inside this sycophantic article:  Multitude at "Moral March" protest NC GOP policies

 

Via The Liberal Media - Killing America

What's the point of regulating lemonade stands?

Shutting down lemonade stands costs kids important entrepreneurial experience

 

The Week 

 

... "And while city zoning laws are useful for keeping heavy industry away from homes, selling lemonade or girl scout cookies is really a residential activity. Many of the world's most famous businesses — Amazon, Apple, Disney, Google, Hewlett Packard — were started in garages. An entrepreneurial culture requires the freedom to start a business at home. If we stop businesses and businesspeople from developing, we lose the benefits that come down the road, like job creation and innovation (not that little Suzie's lemonade stand will likely grow to rival Tropicana, but you get the point...).

 

"The sooner cities and counties realize this, and stop wasting resources going after the entrepreneurs of tomorrow, the better."   Via American Conservatives

 

Permit requirements shut down another kid’s lemonade stand — but it’s not what you think   "Lemonade Day is a big deal in Indianapolis. It’s a day dedicated to helping children learn simple business skills with their own small business ventures. But for 10-year-old Morgen Morris, Lemonade Day became a lesson in government regulation and unforeseen circumstances."

The Inexplicable War on Lemonade Stands  "I’m beginning to think that there’s a nation-wide government conspiracy against either lemonade or children, because these lemonade stand shutdowns seem to be getting more and more common. If you set up a stand for your kids, just be prepared for a visit from the cops."

Government for the people? What has happened here?

The TEA Party frightens liberals because...

Thanks to Lisa Moore at Conservative Bloggers on Facebook

The Mary Poppins Presidency

 

Rep. Lee

- draft them, of course - and ask the president to stand with us on full employment."American Thinker   "Hudson quotes Sheila Jackson Lee of the Democratic Full Employment Caucus who maintains that all it takes is to "write up these executive orders

"This troubling word-magic mentality is becoming increasingly evident to a number of political analysts.  George Will comments that the "word-magic" mentality of the President and his minions is becoming downright scary. It is becoming more and more evident that the President thinks "that saying things is tantamount to accomplishing things, and that good intentions are good deeds,"

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The Hillary Papers; Archive of 'closest friend' paints portrait of ruthless First Lady

Alana Goodman

 

 

“What voters find slick in Bill Clinton, they find ruthless in Hillary.”

 

"The full memo is one of many previously unpublished documents contained in the archive of one of Hillary Clinton’s best friends and advisers, documents that portray the former first lady, secretary of State, and potential 2016 presidential candidate as a strong, ambitious, and ruthless Democratic operative.

 

"The papers of Diane Blair, a political science professor Hillary Clinton described as her “closest friend” before Blair’s death in 2000, record years of candid conversations with the Clintons on issues ranging from single-payer health care to Monica Lewinsky.

 

"The archive includes correspondence, diaries, interviews, strategy memos, and contemporaneous accounts of conversations with the Clintons ranging from the mid-1970s to the turn of the millennium."

....

“ 'It was a lapse, but she says to his credit he tried to break it off, tried to pull away, tried to manage someone who was clearly a ‘narcissistic loony toon’; but it was beyond control,” wrote Blair."

....

"Sen. Rand Paul’s remark about Bill Clinton’s “predatory behavior” on a recent Sunday talk show generated a days-long media firestorm and reignited the decades-old Lewinsky controversy.

"While Hillary Clinton has gone from the White House to the Senate to the State Department, experts say she will likely be forced to readdress some of the controversies that defined her husband’s presidency if she decides on a 2016 bid."