2015: the fruits of a Democrat-controlled government

 

Coal Mine Closings in Kentucky Kill Hundreds of Jobs   "Happy New Year from Obama and the EPA!"
"The Obama administration has made no effort to hide its disdain for the coal industry, so this report from John Ruberry of Marathon Pundit shouldn’t surprise anyone: " ...

The next Obamacare controversy is right around the corner.  "Obamacare enrollees who received subsidies to help pay for coverage will soon have to reconcile how much they actually earned in 2014 with how much they estimated when they applied many, many months ago."

"This will likely lead to some very unhappy Americans. Those who underestimated their income either will receive smaller tax refunds or will owe the IRS money."



California opens driver's license applications to illegal immigrants ..." Law enforcement officials say the program will improve road safety because licensed drivers must be tested and insured. A DMV study of 23 years of crash data found that unlicensed drivers were more likely to cause a fatal collision than licensed drivers." ...

Snow-bound Californians now paying “Global Warming” gas tax hike

…Starting January 1st, though, those declining gas prices aren’t expected to go any lower. The beginning of 2015 also brings with it what some are calling California’s new hidden gas tax, which could range from 15 cents per gallon to up to 75 cents. Some in the Central Valley aren’t happy about the extra cost at the pump. JoAnne Childers of Fresno said, “I don’t like it. It’s just something else to gouge us for.”

 ... In California, we don’t really need nature to wreak havoc — our state is the quintessential example of a “man-made economic disaster.' ”.  Thanks to liberals and their hand-puppet Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Nylons for nothing in Cuba

 

Charles Krauthammer "There’s an old Cold War joke — pre-pantyhose — that to defeat communism we should empty our B-52 bombers of nuclear weapons and instead drop nylons over the Soviet Union. Flood the Russians with the soft consumer culture of capitalism, seduce them with Western contact and commerce, love-bomb them into freedom.

"We did win the Cold War, but differently. We contained, constrained, squeezed and eventually exhausted the Soviets into giving up. The dissidents inside subsequently told us how much they were sustained by our support for them and our implacable pressure on their oppressors.
...
"Obama brought back nothing on democratization, a staggering betrayal of Cuba’s human rights crusaders. No free speech. No free assembly. No independent political parties. No hint of free elections. Not even the kind of 1975 Helsinki Final Act that we got from the Soviets as part of detente, granting structure and review to human rights promises. These provided us with significant leverage in supporting the dissident movements in Eastern Europe that eventually brought down communist rule. "

Why Obamacare won't let you keep your insurance plan

Thomas Lifson "The three-minute video embedded below does a great job explaining why Obamacare keeps forcing people out of their existing health insurance plans – and will continue to do so.  Robert Graboyes is a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, and he synthesized a lot of technical details into a highly understandable presentation..." Read more:

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The left dislikes conservatives and tries to make it mutual

American leftism has always been about magnifying trivial complaints to serve as excuses for revolutionary action.

The Left's Base Motive: Vengeance   "American leftism has gotten an awful lot of mileage by monopolizing the moral high ground. It is the sole force in American that favors the poor. The sole enemy of racism. The sole comforter of rape victims.  The sole protector of defenseless Muslims. The sole guardian of the environment, and so on ad nauseum.

"It all falls apart eventually -- with friends like the left, nobody needs enemies. But often overlooked is that fact that it’s bogus from the start. Any prolonged glance at the left reveals it to be an ideology of power, its major tool violence, its goal revenge."

..."Leftism has always been about revenge. The works of Marx are filled with fantasies of retribution and judgment. Their tone reeks of resentment and paranoia, with blame cast for even the most trivial. "The bourgeoisie,” Marx once declared in a letter to Engels, “will remember my carbuncles until their dying day.” That’s leftism in a nutshell."    Read more:

 A final lesson from this sad chapter: Trashing the United States does not satiate foreign despots, but only increases their appetite for their own versions of unwavering and predictable political correctness.   Victor Davis Hanson

No longer the American President, huh?

Forbes.com

"Russia's Vladimir Putin was voted Most Interesting Man in Russia a month after Forbes named him the Most Powerful Man in the World. He cultivates a macho image. Last night Vladimir Putin struck and killed a deer and he said he feels awful about it, but when he's jogging he's in his own world."
Argus Hamilton

Nate Beeler Copyright 2012 Cagle Cartoons

American general: Dems are aiding and abetting the enemy

The Blaze  "Retired Army Major Gen. Paul E. Vallely didn’t mince words when describing the so-called torture report issued by partisan Senate Democrats: He said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and the Democrats who supported her efforts are aiding and abetting America’s enemies.

"It’s clear that the controversial report revived a nearly decade-old debate in an effort at political payback for the CIA and those in the Bush administration who executed the enhanced interrogation program.

"Critics of the Democrats’ report worry of reprisal against Americans abroad as a result of its biased conclusions. Indeed, nobody responsible for implementing the EIT program was interviewed for the report. Those same critics charge that Democrats had a preconceived conclusion and then built a case by cherry-picking information to justify that conclusion.

"As for me, this report confirms that Democrats prefer not to focus on those who attacked and continue to attack us.  Instead, Democrats choose to attack those who protect us."

Transcript click here.

"Cue to 22:20 to hear the major general’s take.

How Obama spent New Year's

A.F. Branco his chief executive checking on his progress

Weasel of the Week!

independentsentinel.com

"Once again, It’s time to present this week’s statuette of shame, The Golden Weasel!!

"Every Tuesday, the Council nominates some of the slimiest, most despicable characters in public life for some deed of evil, cowardice or corruption they’ve performed. Then we vote to single out one particular Weasel for special mention, to whom we award the statuette of shame, our special, 100% plastic Golden Weasel. This week’s nominees were all despicable, but the votes are in and we have our winner…the envelope please…

 

‘Peaceful Protester’ Lefty Media Darling And Serial Arsonist Joshua Williams!!

"VA Right: I am going to nominate Joshua Williams who had become the poster boy for advocating peaceful protests in Ferguson, Mo and was caught torching a Berkeley convenience store last week. So much for peaceful protests.

"On Oct. 13, he was photographed walking arm-in-arm with author and activist Cornell West toward the St. Louis University campus where protesters staged a sit-in.

"Ah well…we all know by now that most of these protests are really just an excuse to act out. And nothing says social justice like looting, attacking people or setting someone else’s property on fire and destroying their livelihood, right? I mean, you care’s how much sweat and hard earned money someone put into that small business or the paychecks the people who worked there won’t be getting?

"Joshua Williams is down for the struggle, y’all. And definitely worthy of the Golden Weasel.

"Well, there it is."

Joshua Williams was the liberal-media darling of the Ferguson protests; now he’s an alleged arsonist. 

Protester Who Advocates Peace Charged With Setting Fire At Berkeley

David Duke Threatens to Expose Other Politicians

Scalise

First some background:  House GOP Leader Spoke to White Supremacists
"Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), the No. 3 Republican in the House, addressed a group of white supremacists and neo-Nazis in 2002, the New York Times reports." ...

Political Wire By Taegan Goddard
"David Duke told Fusion that it was unfair Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) was “singled out” for speaking to Duke’white supremacist organization in May 2002, the New Orleans Times Picayune reports.
Duke said that “politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, have attended everything from conferences he’s organized to his children’s birthday parties. To say nothing of Republicans, Duke estimates that he has met with Democratic lawmakers a good 50 times. He threatened to release a list with names of Republicans and Democrats who’ve been tied to him in one way or another.”
Said Duke: “If Scalise is going to be crucified — if Republicans want to throw Steve Scalise to the woods, then a lot of them better be looking over their shoulders.' ”

Jewish Americans for Sarah

There is no love in a beheading; is Islam capable of a Reformation?

 

American Thinker "I do not understand what liberals mean when they say that not all Muslims are killers.  I understand that not all killers are Muslims. 

"But whether all Muslims are or are not  killers is irrelevant.  Studies vary, but one Pew report says that thirty-one percent of Muslims in America have murder or suicide bombing in their hearts.

"Consider that there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world.  That means that if you reproduce the Pew results globally, approximately 480 million Muslims are potential killers.  That’s more than the total American population.
Consider that there are only 22 million Jews in the world.  And Jews don’t have the impulsion of the Koran leading them to murder for adultery, honor, or apostasy.  Thus, of the 22 million Jews, probably an infinitesimal number have killing in their hearts.

"If every Jew transformed into a murderer the Jews would have only about 20 percent of the potential Muslim killers.  So when a liberal says that the Muslims are not that bad and that we shouldn’t profile them, turn your head to the liberal’s profile and say, “You facilitate evil. ”

"It’s time the good Muslims cleaned house.  It’s time they swept the jihadists and terrorists into the well.

"It’s time the liberals stopped speaking up for them.  It’s time the misogynistic, self-punishing feminists quit supporting Muslim barbarity.

"It’s time we stopped applauding the revolt against traditional values and recognized that our supposedly outdated forefathers were actually right.

"It’s time Muslims reformed their religion.  Call it the Muslim Reformation.  The mosque has become corrupt like the Catholic Church before the Reformation.  

"A religion that promulgates violence has forfeited its right to be a religion.  There is no love in a beheading.  There is no spiritual beauty in an amputation."

Bare Naked Islam

Chipotle restaurant and police conflict

 

GOP; The Daily Dose    "Chipotle restaurants across the country were recently in the news for the horrific messages they printed on their take-out bags, but with this most recent stunt, they’ve gone entirely too far.

"When employees at a Chipotle restaurant in Brooklyn did this to two NYPD police officers, they not only disrespected the officers, but also our country.

"When the two police officers walked into the restaurant hoping to enjoy their lunch, they found the employees doing something unbelievably disrespectful." ....More at the link.

How one employee’s ‘hands up don’t shoot’ gesture locked Chipotle in a spiral of Internet outrage
..."The company also apologized: 

“[W]e work hard to be sure that all of our customers feel welcome in our restaurants and apologize if the actions of any of our employees suggested otherwise. When this happened roughly two weeks ago, we investigated and have taken appropriate measures to be sure this doesn’t happen again.

USA Today:... " While the post is no longer public, several patrons have expressed their outrage in the "reviews" section of Facebook, which received an influx of one-star reviews after the incident became public:" ...

Apparently the story has gotten worse in the retelling.

New Year; 1944-45

Incredible footage from Battle of the Bulge

  31 Dec 1944;

• Cruiser Köln was damaged by Allied aerial attacks. [Main Article | CPC]
• The British Home Guard was officially disbanded. [CPC]
• One B-17 Flying Fortress bomber of USAAF 8th Air Force attacked Helgoland, Germany. [Main Article | CPC]
• German troops launched Operation Sylvester/Operation Nordwind, attacking south near Strasbourg, France. [TH]
• Otto Skorzeny arrived at Wolfsschanze in East Prussia, Germany. He received care for his wounded left eye from Hitler's personal doctor Stumpfecker. Later in the day, he reported to Hitler regarding his commando mission during the Ardennes Offensive. As he departed, Wilhelm Keitel invited him to remain to join the rest of the German leaders for the New Year's celebration, but Skorzeny declined, opting to re-join his men in Cologne, Germany instead. [Main Article | CPC]

Belgium

US troops re-captured Rochefort, Belgium, while the US Third Army began an offensive from Bastogne. [Main Article | TH]

Hungary

The Hungarian Provisional Government switched sides and declared war on Germany. [Main Article | CPC]

United Kingdom
German V-2 rocket hit near the intersection of Stroud Green Road and Stapledon Hall Road in Crouch Hill, London, England, United Kingdom at 2340 hours, killing 15 and seriously injuring 34. 15 homes were destroyed by this attack. This rocket was the 382nd, and the last, rocket to hit England in 1944. [CPC]

Children of Envoys Greet U.S. (1944)