Clinton’s stumbles fray Democrat nerves

 

Financial Times   "Tactical blunders. A strained relationship with the media. An insurgent rival drawing enormous crowds.

"For Hillary Clinton, the past few weeks of her 2016 presidential campaign have brought back uncomfortable memories of her failed bid in 2008. 

"Three months in to what should be one of the best funded, best organised campaigns in history, Mrs Clinton has been unable to draw a line under a series of controversies, or to generate the kind of grassroots enthusiasm that will be crucial to maintaining momentum in the gruelling months ahead. 

"As she prepares to outline her economic vision for the country in a high-profile address on Monday in New York, Mrs Clinton’s team is betting that a rollout of popular, middle-class friendly policies such as paid sick leave and universal prekindergarten provision will help to reset the debate."

 

The goodie wagon is coming! Hillary will this election if it takes every dime this nation has. TD

 

 

Megyn Kelly Goes There: Why Is Obama Ignoring Murder of Katie Steinle?

Debra Heine "Washington Post media critic Erik Wemple accused Megyn Kelly of “crossing a line” on her Fox News show The Kelly File Thursday night because she had the audacity to ask a question a lot of Americans are wondering about.

"Why doesn’t the president give Katie Steinle, the woman killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, the same attention he gave to cases involving Freddie Gray, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin?

"Kate’s murder has since exploded into a national debate on illegal immigrants, sanctuary cities and crime. With the White House ducking the issue of its own acquiescence in these cities’ decision to flout the federal immigration laws which were duly enacted. When asked repeatedly this week to speak to this case, White House spokesman Josh Earnest declined to weigh in other than to refer folks to the Department of Homeland Security.

"A stark contrast to what we saw after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. A man we know was attacking a police officer at the time of his death. His funeral saw three Obama officials in attendance, his death drew comments from President Obama personally and his administration also sent in the DOJ and 40 FBI agents dispatched to Missouri after Michael Brown was killed. Where is the swarm of agents in San Francisco?

"Then there was Freddie Gray in Baltimore, a repeat drug offender who was killed in police custody. Here again his funeral was attended by three Obama administration officials and again the President spoke personally to Freddie Gray’s death. And again sent the DOJ in to investigate. When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida, the president spoke to his death which was later ruled to be in self-defense. But Katie Steinle, nothing. No comments, no swarm of FBI agents, no DOJ investigation, nothing. Why?"

Jimmy Carter Says Hillary Will Win Thanks to This ‘Stupid’ Reason

 

 Bridget Johnson  "Former President Jimmy Carter has tipped his hat toward Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) as the liberal standard-bearer seeking the Democratic nomination — but concedes that “stupid” campaign finance laws will hand victory to Hillary Clinton.

"Carter told PBS that “more inherently” Sanders and Elizabeth Warren speak better on the issue of income inequality.

“ 'The senator was in the forefront of saying equality and doing away with discrimination economically, constraining Wall Street, and doing away with the domination that the rich people now have over the political system,” Carter said of the Massachusetts Democrat.

“ 'And so since Elizabeth Warren decided not to run, I think Bernie Sanders has kind of inherited her mantle for promoting less distinction on an economic basis of American citizens.”

"But at the same time, Carter said, he knows “that the stupid decision by the Supreme Court on Citizens United to let money dominate America’s political system is giving, I would say, Hillary Clinton a big advantage that will be, I think, overwhelming toward the end of the campaign.”

"Sanders “speaks more for a liberal and the active wing of the Democratic Party,” the former president said.

 

“ 'I think he’s been a lot bolder in his promulgation of his own ideas than has Hillary Clinton,” he added. “But I think she is going to come along later and win.”

"Carter also commented on race relations, noting that after the Civil Rights Era “I think the United States kind of breathed a sigh of relief and said, well, we have resolved the race issue now, and there won’t be anymore, detectable, at least, elements of an American society where whites are in the supreme position, to the detriment of blacks.”

"“And I think the recent high public about the police and black confrontations and the tragedy in Charleston have reminded us that we still have a long way to go,” he said. “There’s still an innate racism in our country that needs to be addressed accurately.' ”

 Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and opinion columns have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico and more, and has myriad television and radio credits as a commentator. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

Israel’s peace fantasists in action

 

Caroline Glick


"The Saudis are in play, casting about for partners.

"In a clear vote of no-confidence in US President Barack Obama’s leadership, Saudi King Salman led several Arab leaders in blowing off Obama’s Camp David summit this week. The summit was meant to compensate the Sunni Arabs for Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran.

"Salman’s decision is further proof that US-Saudi relations have jumped the tracks. For 70 years the Saudis subcontracted their national security to the US military. Deals were closed with a wink and a nod. That’s all over now.

"Obama has destroyed Washington’s credibility. Salman views its gentleman’s agreements as worthless. All he wants now is military hardware. And for that, he can send a stand-in.
The Saudis never put all their eggs in America’s basket. For 70 years the Saudis played a double game, maintaining strategic alliances both with the liberal West and the most reactionary forces in the Islamic world. The Saudis pocketed petrodollars from America and Europe and transferred them to terrorists and jihadist preachers in mosques in the US, Europe and worldwide." . . .

Show love and tolerance or be destroyed!

Oregon Wedding Cakes Are Just the Excuse   "Theoretically, liberalism picks pluralism over public morality, nowhere more so than in the intimate realm of human sexuality.

" But the regulatory state has gotten so large, and so powerful, with such extensive reach into Americans’ livelihoods, that the Left cannot resist using it to impose its sexual moral views on the rest of us.

"Take Melissa and Aaron Klein, whose little Oregon bakery refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. It is not technically a crime to refuse to bake a gay wedding cake, so instead of being tried in a court of law, they were tried by the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries.

" Why can gay bakers refuse to bake a Celebrate NOM (the National Organization for Marriage) cake, but Aaron and Melissa Klein must bake a gay wedding cake or pay the penalty?"

Christian Man Asks Thirteen Gay Bakeries To Bake Him Pro-Traditional Marriage Cake, And Is Denied Service By All Of Them

Why Does It Take A Donald Trump To Rouse Republicans On Sanctuary Cities?

Why Does It Take A Donald Trump To Rouse Republicans On Sanctuary Cities? . . . "California Gov. Jerry Brown and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, both of whom helped enact laws to thwart deportations of illegal criminals, have stayed out of sight.

"Most of the attention, however, has focused on GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, who immediately brought up the disproportionate criminality among illegal immigrants and was attacked with the race card, the nativist card, a beauty queen he employs and corporate boycotters tut-tutting their political correctness." . . .


All the Areas Where Illegal Aliens Aren’t Deported, on One Map

"A map created by the Center for Immigration Studies shows over 200 states, counties, and cities in the United States known as “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. In these locales, law officers disobey Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer orders for criminal illegal aliens and hinder the flow of pertinent information about them to federal immigration agents. Depending on the definition of a sanctuary city, the number could exceed 300." . . . Read more
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All the Areas Where Illegal Aliens Aren’t Deported, on One Map

NRO

"A map created by the Center for Immigration Studies shows over 200 states, counties, and cities in the United States known as “sanctuaries” for illegal immigrants. In these locales, law officers disobey Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainer orders for criminal illegal aliens and hinder the flow of pertinent information about them to federal immigration agents. Depending on the definition of a sanctuary city, the number could exceed 300." . . . Read more

Silly State of the Union

 Links accumulated over this past few days giving a snapshot of what we are becoming as a nation and a culture.  The Tunnel Dweller

Lib Rag Salon Calls For Law To Make Flying The Confederate Flag A “Hate Crime”… 
The pushback begins   At left...

"Racialised" College Group Warns Whites: "Your Race is Taking Up Space and Silencing Others" . . . " According to the Racialised Student Collective, simply being white is oppressive to people, even if you do not speak or act in a racist manner. They judge you poorly based completely on the color of your skin and regardless of your actions."

Belle Of The Ball! Caitlyn Jenner Chooses Her Gown For Upcoming ESPY Awards
 . . . “ 'Caitlyn Jenner has decided to wear a dress designed by Patricia Field, who is not only amazingly talented, but also a huge supporter of the transgender community,” a source close to the Kardashian clan tells Radar." . . .

"Racist moonbat wipes b**t with U.S. flag, posts vile photo on Facebook"   "Personally, I don’t know which is worse — the picture, or the fact that it’s been liked by so many people.
But that’s not all.  Some of the comments she made on the photo shows what she thinks of white people" . . .

Dana Loesch asks why bakeries need to follow laws but sanctuary cities don’t
. . . "Loesch raised the question of why Aaron and Melissa Klein should be forced to bake a cake against their religious beliefs when a “sanctuary city” such as San Francisco can simply ignore federal law and let illegal immigrants with criminal records roam free." . . .

Comically Incorrect

Contracts and Consent Week at College Insurrection:   "It’s getting to the point where college students who date will need their own lawyers."

• Advocacy Group Makes Sexual Consent Contracts Available to College Students
• U. of Minnesota Takes Up ‘Affirmative Consent’ Rule
• Megyn Kelly Reports on College Sexual Consent Contracts

Hillary And Bernie To Attend La Raza Convention In Kansas City… 
 If you do not know the import of this, we'll be happy to provide you with insight. TD

Confederate Flag First, Fleur-De-Lis Next?  "Now that the Confederate flag has been used as an excuse to eviscerate the history of the South, others are looking to destroy more symbols that are part of the region’s history, including Louisiana’s fleur-de-lis" . . .Begin the purge of American History. 

TIME surprised gamers don’t like Kate Upton’s Game of War ads either. . . "Really? They were more irritated by Kate Upton’s cleavage than the fact that they couldn’t skip the ad?  Usually when people complain about the Game of War ads, Kate Upton’s cleavage is the only redeeming feature, and it’s the awful voice-over, total lack of gameplay footage, and sheer frequency of their appearance that irritates people." . . .  "Will you be my hero?"

Megyn Kelly: Why Is Obama Ignoring Murder Of Katie Steinle?

Real Clear Politics " FOX News' Megyn Kelly opened Thursday night's broadcast of her show with a monologue asking why President Obama and the White House won't give Katie Steinle, the woman killed by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco, the same attention it gave to cases involving Freddie Brown, Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin."

. . . "A stark contrast to what we saw after Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. A man we know was attacking a police officer at the time of his death. His funeral saw three Obama officials in attendance, his death drew comments from President Obama personally and his administration also sent in the DOJ and 40 FBI agents dispatched to Missouri after Michael Brown was killed. Where is the swarm of agents in San Francisco?

"Then there was Freddie Gray in Baltimore, a repeat drug offender who was killed in police custody. Here again his funeral was attended by three Obama administration officials and again the President spoke personally to Freddie Gray's death. And again sent the DOJ in to investigate. When Trayvon Martin was killed in Florida, the president spoke to his death which was later ruled to be in self-defense. But Katie Steinle, nothing. No comments, no swarm of FBI agents, no DOJ investigation, nothing. Why?"

Mark Levin: We Are Under ‘Martial Law’ Already

Independent Sentinel

 

"The United States under this administration is currently not engaged in the pursuit of liberty or equality of opportunity, rather, ours is a country pursuing social engineering and redistribution to equalize the end results of every single thing that takes place.

"Barack Obama and his team are social engineering the nation into a utopian vision that has little relation to what our Founding Fathers foresaw when they developed our Constitution.

"Barack Obama is diversifying so-called wealthy neighborhoods seemingly without any authority to do so. He’s directly addressing the suburbs which he sees as white and privileged.

"He believes there is one pot of resources and the suburbs are stealing them from the urban areas. He seeks to remedy that and equalize all resources.

"The standard the left is using to end discrimination is based on the end result not the intentions. They want equal outcomes in other words.

"The mainstream media has been largely silent on the issue. Obama can do anything he wants and few with a megaphone question any of his actions." . . .

Fight The Power: Bold White Man Launches Petition To Change “Cracker Barrel” To “Caucasian Barrel”

Downtrend

 

"Ryan Koch, a bold white man from Des Moines, Iowa, launched a petition this week to change the name of the “Cracker Barrel” restaurant to “Caucasian Barrel,” because as Koch astutely wrote, “white people should have something to be offended by too!”

“ 'I say all of us European Americans start protesting Cracker Barrel,” the resolute champion for equality wrote on his Change.org petition. “It uses an offensive slur and it is deeply offensive and mocks our long and proud heritage”:

The name is offensive, their logo stereotypes European Americans as people who sit on chairs and lean against what appears to be a bourbon barrel, claiming we are all a bunch of alcoholics. Sure, they’ll SAY it’s a “cracker” barrel but everyone knows crackers don’t come in barrels, they come in bags and boxes!

"Indeed, Mr. Koch. Indeed!

"Like Young Conservatives contributor Yehuda Remer wrote, this petition is “hilariously awesome” because it does a great job mocking the race baiters." . . .

Hillary supporters, do you know what "congenital" means?

A Couple of Reasons why Hillary is not Evita . . . "By coincidence, she also created a foundation that helped many people with loans and other assistance. By the way, Evita's Foundation was also the subject of corruption charges, such as people saying that donations to Evita's causes were meant to create access to the president.

"Evita and Hillary are very different in two significant ways:" . . . Read more

 

Hillary Clinton's Blizzard of Lies, The Sequel  . . . " New York Times columnist Bill Safire must be rolling in his grave. A 1996 essay of his, "Blizzard of Lies," began, "Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady — a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation — is a congenital liar." . . .

The Lars Larson Show

Jonah Goldberg*; NRO: Estrangement From the Truth Is a Problem for Hillary

. . . "But Bernstein is right about one thing: Hillary is a specialist at lying. And that’s a problem for her. Her husband was — and is — a prodigy at deceit, a renaissance man of lying. If football were a game of lies, he could play every position on offense and defense.

"Mrs. Clinton, alas, is more like a veteran coach — she’s adept at telling others how to lie on her behalf. But she’s not a natural liar herself, and it shows. At a time when the Democratic base craves authenticity (hence the mobs at Bernie Sanders rallies), Clinton seems utterly fabricated (hence her inability to get a capacity crowd at her announcement speech last month in New York City). Her best hope now would be to stop pandering to Sanders’s fans and instead explain where she and Sanders differ on policy. But that would require a level of political authenticity she’s forgotten how to fake convincingly."

* Goldberg is the opinion writer that Trump said can't buy a pair of pants. To wit:

 "[Trump is] repeating himself. I'm like Jeb on this. I'm done. The man's specialty [is] to suck oxygen, I'm going to be breathing fresh air... And I do want to make an appeal to the viewers out there to crowdsource, to buy Jonah a pair of pants. I think if you look under the table it's disgraceful the way he comes to the show."  Ann Althouse, quoting Charles Krauthammer