Clinton Cash is a new book saying Hillary used her post as Secretary of State to greatly increase her family's fortune via donations to the Clinton Foundation and high speaking fees for Bill. That's not fair. She was only trying to close the income inequality gap between the Clintons and David Rockefeller. Comedian Argus Hamilton
Jonathan Chait: The Disastrous Clinton Post-Presidency"The qualities of an effective presidency do not seem to transfer
onto a post-presidency. Jimmy Carter was an ineffective president who
became an exemplary post-president. Bill Clinton appears to be the
reverse. All sorts of unproven worst-case-scenario questions float
around the web of connections between Bill’s private work, Hillary
Clinton’s public role as secretary of State, the Clintons’ quasi-public
charity, and Hillary’s noncompliant email system. But the best-case
scenario is bad enough: The Clintons have been disorganized and greedy." . . . And I expect Obama to become another Al Sharpton/ Farrakhan.
Thomas Lifson "The New York Times published a story just before the morning television news shows went on air today at 6 AM EDT that appears to contain bombshell information about the nexus of many millions of dollars of donations to the Clinton Foundation and U.S. State Department approval and assistance for transactions that bolstered Russian control of a substantial share of the world uranium supply, including mines in the United States. "Through a complex series of transactions requiring U.S. government approval or assistance over a period of eight years, a Russian atomic energy agency named Rosatom ended up controlling a large share of world uranium production, essential to the generation of electricity, including one fifth of U.S. power capacity." . . .Full article
"The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.
"But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.
At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.
. . . " Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton." . . . Not just THIS:
Council on Foreign Relations. . . " World diplomats will work to ensure that the treaty’s basic bargain is still sound: as long as the five original nuclear powers work to eliminate their nuclear arsenals, the rest of the world’s states promise not to develop their own. This year, the nonproliferation regime faces a major test: Fed up with the slowest nuclear arms reductions since the end of the Cold War, a coalition of states are moving to draft a global ban on nuclear weapons. In response, the United States will attempt to assure the world that it is making progress toward a world free of nuclear weapons. In fact, the Obama administration’s record on disarmament has been strong, but it will have to work harder to revitalize the fragile NPT." . . .Adam Mount, Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow
"In April 1999, we were all stunned by the news that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold had attacked and killed students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado and, more recently, in December 2012, that Adam Lanza, after killing his mother at home, then massacred twenty-six staff and students at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. These events evoke dread of potential events, a quest to understand why they occurred, and ways to avoid further comparable killings. "Peter Langman has authored “School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators.” It offers very little comfort, but only because this psychologist, widely recognized for his expertise, is refreshingly honest. “ 'Many people seek to reduce school shootings to a bite-sized explanatory chunk, but the phenomenon defies easy analysis,” says Langman. “There is no one cause of school shootings, there is no one intervention that will prevent school shootings, and there is no one profile of a school shooter.' ” . . .
"In an increasingly dangerous world, it is critically important that the United States Marines remain the roughest, toughest asskickers on Earth. Unfortunately, what's even more important - at least in the eyes of the Obama administration - is to make sure that women can qualify for Marine infantry officer positions. "Currently, there's nothing stopping women from getting those positions except for one niggling detail: they can't do the job. Specifically, out of a group of 29 female Marines who recently went through the Marine Infantry Officer Course, a grand total of none, nada, zip, zilch, zero passed. In fact only four of the women even made it through the first day's combat endurance test - which is pretty discouraging when one considers that some wars take even more than a day to fight. "But as the old saying goes, "When the going gets tough, make it less tough for the girls." Or at least that's the old saying which seems to be guiding Army General Martin Dempsey, the nation's top military officer, who has said that if women can't meet the physical requirements for combat, it's up to the military commanders to either prove those requirements are really and truly necessary or lower the standards. "Put another way, those damn sexist Marines will have to prove that their long-established standards of physical excellence and endurance are actually more than simple misogyny. After all, who's to say that it's better to be able to carry a wounded comrade to safety rather than just having a good cry? "The administration's goal is to eventually have a military which is completely "gender neutral," much like the new bathroom in the White House. Failing that, they'll apparently settle for a military which is gender neutered."
Mark J. Perry at AEI "In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled “Earth Day, Then and Now”
to provide some historical perspective on the 30th anniversary of Earth
Day. In that article, Bailey noted that around the time of the first
Earth Day, and in the years following, there was a “torrent of
apocalyptic predictions” and many of those predictions were featured in
his Reason article. Well, it’s now the 45th anniversary of Earth Day,
and a good time to ask the question again that Bailey asked 15 years
ago: How accurate were the predictions made around the time of the first
Earth Day in 1970? The answer: “The prophets of doom were not simply
wrong, but spectacularly wrong,” according to Bailey. Here are
18 examples of the spectacularly wrong predictions made around 1970 when
the “green holy day” (aka Earth Day) started:" . . . This was number eighteen:
18. Kenneth Watt warned about a pending Ice Age in a speech. “The world
has been chilling sharply for about twenty years,” he declared. “If
present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for
the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the
year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice
age.”
. . .Full article here. MP: Let’s keep those spectacularly wrong predictions
from the first Earth Day 1970 in mind when we’re bombarded tomorrow
with media hype, and claims like this from the official Earth Day website:
Scientists
warn us that climate change could accelerate beyond our control,
threatening our survival and everything we love. We call on you to keep
global temperature rise under the unacceptably dangerous level of 2
degrees C, by phasing out carbon pollution to zero. To achieve this, you
must urgently forge realistic global, national and local agreements, to
rapidly shift our societies and economies to 100% clean energy by 2050.
Do this fairly, with support to the most vulnerable among us. Our world
is worth saving and now is our moment to act. But to change everything,
we need everyone. Join us.
Hillary's long list of accomplishments consists of: (1) being cheated on
as first lady; (2) being handed a Senate seat from a heavily Democratic
state, where she accomplished nothing legislatively (other than her
vote for the Iraq War, which I think was terrific!); and (3) being
appointed secretary of state, whereupon she participated in one foreign
policy disaster after another.
Ann Coulter"I gather from the increasing hysteria of the feminists that Democrats are beginning to rebel at having a loser of a presidential candidate being foist upon them, in the person of Hillary Clinton. "The same way the national tea party leaders are a thorn in the side of the Republican Party, constantly challenging incumbent Republicans with untested candidates who then go on to lose to Democrats (in Delaware, Indiana and Nevada, and nearly in Kentucky, Kansas and Mississippi), the feminists are a thorn in the side of the Democrats, saddling them with utter mediocrities like Hillary. "Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Sen. Patty Murray are, objectively, two of the least appealing human beings ever elected to any office. (That sentence still works even without the words "elected to any office.") But God help the Democrats if they tried to replace Schultz as chair of the Democratic National Committee or Murray as secretary of the Senate Democratic Caucus. "Slate magazine is even demanding that Murray be made Senate minority leader as a sop to the feminists. (I think they have a good point!) "Now, to satiate the feminists, the Democrats seem to be stuck with Hillary as their presidential nominee. "No one really likes Hillary. Ask Bill. Like Toni Morrison novels, most people just pretend to like Hillary just so liberals will leave them alone." . . .Full article
Hillary Clinton arrived in New Hampshire to campaign Monday after
spending a previous week in Iowa listening to what the people have to
say. It was a strategy that's best for everybody. Hillary listens to the
people because if the people want to listen to Hillary it costs two
hundred thousand dollars. Comedian Argus Hamilton
Stop the Clown Show, Mr. Trump . . . " Don’t go out there and promise to take all the oil away from Iraq unless
you plan to deliver. We still want to hear about how China is screwing
us, and Putin is laughing at us, but we don’t need it couched in the
context of you running for president and kicking a bunch of ass.
Promises, promises."
"In today’s WSJ, Bret Stephens headlines his weekly column, “Israel Alone”.
Recent conversations with senior Israeli officials are shot through with a sense of incredulity. They can’t understand what’s become of U.S. foreign policy. They don’t know how to square Barack Obama’s promises with his policies. They fail to grasp how a president who pledged to work toward the abolition of nuclear weapons is pushing an accord with Tehran that guarantees their proliferation. They are astonished by the nonchalance with which the administration acquiesces in Iran’s regional power plays, or in al Qaeda’s gains in Yemen, or in the Assad regime’s continued use of chemical weapons, or in the battlefield successes of ISIS, or in Russia’s decision to sell advanced missiles to Tehran. They wonder why the president has so much solicitude for Ali Khamenei’s political needs, and so little for Benjamin Netanyahu’s. In a word, the Israelis haven’t yet figured out that what America is isn’t what America was. They need to start thinking about what comes next. Read more...
RedState "Yesterday, I posted on how history is being tortured in the service of promoting homosexual marriage as a completely normal thing that was honored through the ages but lately forbidden by uptight, sexually repressed white guys. It isn’t sufficient that marriage, and institution formed by Christ, be made to support distinctly un-Christian acts, now our Savior, himself, is being outed as a transexual."
"Yesterday, I posted on how history is being tortured in the service of promoting homosexual marriage as a completely normal thing that was honored through the ages but lately forbidden by uptight, sexually repressed white guys. It isn’t sufficient that marriage, and institution formed by Christ, be made to support distinctly un-Christian acts, now our Savior, himself, is being outed as a transexual. "The political left has always been quick to enlist Christ in their causes even when they are, themselves, devout atheists. For instance,
peta billboard
"Really? A devout Jew? What food did Jesus, who is God, prescribe for the Passover (hint: not kale and quinoa)? What is the only food in the Bible that we know Christ ate (Luke 24:35-48)– it ain’t tofu? . . . "I say it should be no surprise as the Episcopal Church in America has
completely disavowed Christianity as revealed by God and as practiced
for two millenia. This total rupture from the body of Christ culminated
in the ordination of Gene Robinson, a homosexual living — openly and
notoriously, as lawyers say — in a state of mortal sin, as a bishop.
Now, it seems like the Episcopal denomination, having killed off the
vestigial traces of Christianity, is now hellbent on trolling the rest
of us." . . .
A tree dedicated to the memory of Michael Brown has been destroyed by vandals just hours after being planted. The sapling was planted in January-Wabash Park in Ferguson, Missouri on Saturday as a dedication to the teenager, who was gunned down in the street by a police officer last August[ed.- ‘gunned down’ = shot after attacking police officer]. It was called ‘a symbol of peace, comfort and hope for all who gather around its branches’ at a small ceremony led by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, which donated the tree. But by Sunday morning, the branches had been stripped, leaving behind just a shard of the trunk.
