Obama's legacy takes shape: 2 officers shot in 'ambush' outside Ferguson PD. Rioters celebrate

Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday while demonstrators were gathered across the street

. . . "In amateur video accessed by the Associated Press, two shots ring out and a man is heard screaming out in pain.

"Someone at the scene, unseen and unidentified in the video, says: "Acknowledgement nine months ago would have kept that from happening."

"Marciay Pitchford, 20, was among the protesters. She told The Associated Press that the protest had been mostly peaceful until she heard the shots.

" 'I saw the officer go down and the other police officers drew their guns while other officers dragged the injured officer away," Pitchford said. "All of a sudden everybody started running or dropping to the ground.' ". . .

FERGUSON SUPPORTERS CELEBRATE SHOOTING OF POLICE OFFICERS

. . . "In video footage which captures the moments before and after the shooting, one protester is heard to say, “Acknowledgement nine months ago would have kept that from happening,” a reference to the death of Michael Brown.

"Further justification of the shooting emerged on Twitter, with some even expressing their satisfaction that the officers were targeted." 

The Reverend @Kelemchrist

#ChiefJackson steps down and two pigs get shot? Best day #Ferguson has had in years

Blistering! Why Greta Van Susteren, others are nailing Obama for ‘pathetic’ Ferguson shooting tweet/

"Yet another evergreen statement about Barack Obama. Since it is a day ending in “y,” President Incompetent pulled a pathetic move. As Twitchy reported, he offered up a pitiful tweet about the shooting of officers in Ferguson and rightly received some backlash. This tweet had summed it up and it bears repeating:"

The White House        ✔ @WhiteHouse

Violence against police is unacceptable. Our prayers are with the officers in MO. Path to justice is one all of us must travel together. –bo

Greta Van Susteren        ✔ @greta

Pres Obama tweeted, but no oral statement, about cop shooting-headed off to Calif for @jimmykimmel and fundraiser

In case you are looking for President Obama ….here is where he is…

Rapper Method Man On Ferguson Cops Being Shot: “You Reap What You Sow”…

Navy Caves to Pier Pressure

Tony Perkins  "If you think chaplains have some of the safest jobs in the military, think again. Men of the cloth are under some of the heaviest fire -- and it's coming from their own side! In the Navy, the message is clear: get on board with political correctness or lose your job. Like most Christians, Lt. Commander Wes Modder knew the military was changing. But he didn't know how much until the battle landed on his doorstep. For years, Modder had served some of the most elite fighting forces in the military: Navy SEALs.

"I say "had," because the 19-year veteran has been stripped of his duties for sharing the good news he was hired to share. In a stunning turn of events, the chaplain was sabotaged by one of his own men, who secretly gathered enough information on Modder's beliefs and private counseling sessions to file a formal complaint. Believe it or not, he was targeted by his own assistant -- who Modder didn't realize was gay. Looking back, the chaplain says the young officer asked a lot of questions about homosexuality, which Modder answered as most would expect: in accordance with the Bible's teachings." . . .

Hat tip to Joy Roeder; Garibaldi, OR

Alan Caruba: Obama's Legacy of Failure

Warning Signs

"Is it too soon to begin to sum up President Obama’s “legacy”? Possibly, but after six years we know enough to draw some conclusions.

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"It is clear that Obama has virtually no interest in foreign affairs, preferring to tell lies about Islamic terrorism and to ignore Russia’s seizure of Crimea and its support of insurgents in eastern Ukraine. Instead he has devoted most of his time, when not vacationing and playing golf, to his domestic agenda. It has proven to be a failure.

"The failure of ObamaCare, introduced with a series of lies, is the most dramatic feature of his legacy. " . . .

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"We can, however, as Obama’s term of office recedes with every passing day, know that his “transformation” of America into a socialist state will end in failure. When gone, whoever replaces him will have a huge job of reestablishing America as the leader of the free world."

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Black Mob Violence Spreads as the President Preaches Victimization in Selma

American Thinker   "The President celebrated black victimization at his recent speech in Selma, but around the rest of the country, black people were making the successful transition from victim to predator.

"Within a few days of the President’s Selma speech, black mob violence and black on white crime proceeded apace, much of it on video. None of it acknowledged as racial violence in local media.

. . . "Many of the examples of black mob violence in suburban D.C. malls are documented in that scintillating best seller, Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry: The hoax of black victimization and those who enable it."

Hillary Clinton’s deleted e-mails? Almost certainly.

Washington Post

. . . "But, we wondered, what are the odds any of those 31,000 deleted e-mails would be found if the server is turned over? So we called We Recover Data, a straightforwardly named outfit in New York City, and spoke to engineering supervisor Tom Hakim and director of digital forensics Scott Gibbs. We asked them to consider the setup, which appears to be a boxrunning Windows Server 2008 and using Microsoft Exchange as its e-mail system, neither of which is unusual, and both of which were probably in place at the outset.

"Gibbs felt confident that an examination would turn up something. "If I had to put a percentage of success on this, it would be anywhere from 90 to 95 percent successful typically," he said, referring to finding those e-mails. That is: "If no other steps were taken to go in and otherwise make the data inaccessible." . . .

The Federalism Fallacy in King v. Burwell

A new interpretation claims to protect the states, but would actually hurt them.

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Politico  "Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the latest challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The case centers on a provision of Obamacare that authorizes federal tax subsidies for individuals only if they purchase health insurance through an “Exchange established by the State.” If an individual purchases insurance through a federal-run exchange (in the event that the state opts out of setting up its own exchange), can she still qualify for Obamacare subsidies? The Obama administration says yes; the King plaintiffs say no.

"A great deal is at stake here. If the plaintiffs win, individuals in 34 states—the states that have opted not to operate a state insurance exchange—will still be subject to Obamacare’s individual mandate, but they won’t qualify for federal tax subsidies." . . . Read more...

Earlier this week, we ran a Q&A with Heritage experts Ed Haislmaier and Andrew Kloster about the King v. Burwell case, which was heard by the Supreme Court Wednesday:

FORMER DOJ FOI EXPERT OF 26 YEARS SAYS HILLARY IS TOTALLY IN THE WRONG

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS. Entire post quoted below:

News conference 'grossly misleading' 

Hillary Clinton's defenders say she's sufficiently explained why she set up a do-it-yourself home email system when she was secretary of state, insist there's nothing to see here, and it's time to move on. 

You know who disagrees? 

The senior-most freedom-of-information official in the executive branch of the United States government for over a quarter-century, whose job it was to help four administrations — including the Clinton White House — interpret the Freedom of Information Act, offer advice, and testify before Congress on their behalf. 

Daniel Metcalfe doesn't buy her explanation. In fact, he calls it laughable. 

"What she did was contrary to both the letter and the spirit of the law," says Metcalfe, the founding director of the Justice Department's Office of Information and Privacy, which advised the rest of the administration on how to comply with the law. Metcalfe ran the office from 1981 to 2007. 

"There is no doubt that the scheme she established was a blatant circumvention of the Freedom of Information Act, atop the Federal Records Act." 

Metcalfe says he doesn't have any partisan axe to grind. He's a registered Democrat, through steadfastly non-partisan. He says he was embarrassed to work for George W. Bush and his attorney general, and left government for American University, where he now teaches government information law and policy.

Clinton was required to sign document claiming she turned over emails in 2013