Author: Kip Hooker

Mike Rogers: NSA ‘lockbox’ stopped dozens of plots: Apparently one of those foiled plots involved a certain GOP congressman from Michigan and his frequent visits to deadhookerorliveboyinmybed dotcom.

White House says weapons en route to Syrian rebels: This reminds us of something that was pointed out by an IHTM commenter yesterday. Mostly that Obama has just gone from eating dogs to wagging them.

Obama to Aid Syrian Terrorists: Perhaps he’s just looking to pick up some pointers.

N.J. Bill Seeks Crackdown On Distracted Driving By Forcing Drivers To Hand Over Phones: Legal Experts See Possible Showdown Pitting Safety Vs. Fourth Amendment: So removing a cell phone from a citizen after the event has occurred can make that event -that has already occurred- safer? Time travel, there’s an app for that!

Krugman: Government Tilting Towards “Authoritarian Surveillance” State: After years of advocating a state powerful enough to control every economic aspect of our lives Krugman seems suddenly concerned when such a state might be looking to spy on every aspect of our digital lives. We’ve no doubt that Krugman will soon put forward a solution to this momentous issue that includes another trillion dollars in federal spending and a whole new spate of regulatory agencies intended to regulate all the regulatory agencies that we already have. This man, whom can predict nothing with accuracy, is nothing if not predictable himself.

Crowd stunned after valedictorian rips up speech, recites Lord’s prayer: Outstanding.

Pope Francis says wasting food is like stealing from the poor: Pope guy we love you. But the only real way to help the materially poor of this world is by increasing the amount of wealth in it. And that sort of thing just doesn’t get done by guys that have taken a sincere vow of poverty.

General Motors Co. is sponsoring a two-month cross-country tour on the importance of free enterprise in the U.S. economy: General Motors had their opportunity to demonstrate the importance of free enterprise. But decided to receive billions of stolen dollars from the tax payers instead.

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Mother Jones: How Obama’s FBI Nominee James Comey Triggered the Plamegate Investigation. The real scandal was that Pat Fitzgerald went after an innocent man even though he knew the real leaker was Richard Armitage -or possibly even Plame herself. But apparently Mother Jones would rather rehash this offal than get into scandals that really matter. Like Presidents letting Americans die for political expediency, granting guns to narco terrorists, paying off cronies with billions and billions of tax-payer dollars or using the IRS to oppress citizens and sway election.

Econ Moron Ron Fournier: Middle Class Falls, Wall Street Rises … and Washington Dithers. Fresh out of ideas and excuses econ moron Ron Fournier puts class war-fare back on the menu. As usual he’s blathering about the usual Wall Street verses Main Street nonsense. What this fellow doesn’t know, or won’t admit, is that Wall Street (to a certain, but rather significant extent) is Main Street. Wall Street is where most of our retirements live. They win, we win -sometimes. They lose . . . well good luck trying to live off the social security that won’t exist by the time that we need it. But that doesn’t serve this fellows narrative so he ignores it. Just like he ignores the fact that the real threat to the middle class has come from a over reaching government that prints money out of nowhere to buy votes, pay off cronies (many of them the very Wall Street types Fournier takes such a dim view of) and destroy our savings/earnings with the resultant inflation that they insist does not exist but plagues each and every trip we make to the grocery store.

Starbucks toilet coffee prompts anger in Hong Kong: However did they tell the difference?

College kids sign card thanking IRS for targeting conservatives: As obvious liberal arts majors it seems probable that none of these guys are going to be that helpful when it comes to getting the trains to run on time. All the same even if they were being loaded onto some of those trains we doubt they would (even then) realize just how a threat to freedom anywhere is a threat to freedom everywhere.

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After sex scandal, ex-CIA chief Petraeus takes Wall Street job: Potential whistle-blower gets cushy new job. Ron Brown should have been so lucky.

WTF! Did Dick Durbin just say he wasn’t sure we’re entitled to Constitutional protections? Let us clarify it for you Dick. We are entitled to Constitutional protection. An arrangement largely designed to safeguard our liberties from totalist bastards like you.

http://youtu.be/YTGuU16oKPc

Obama: Part of Free Speech is Listening: No President Caligula. It is your job to listen to us. Not the other way around. On second thought this heckler had better watch it. Obama has shown no hesitance in using the IRS to persecute those that question him, and if that doesn’t work he might send in the drones.

U.S. Admits for First Time Drones Killed 4 Americans: If only President Death From Above had been as interested in saving four Americans in Benghazi as he was in killing these. Not to worry though. We’re sure the media sycophants will remind us that the Obama administration suspension of due process and targeted killing of Americans citizens (douche-bags though they may have been) is nowhere near “Nixonian”.

Rand Paul RIPS Colleagues For ‘Berating’ Apple Over Taxes: Building a political career out of buying votes can get expensive. So expensive in fact that the kleptocrats at the top are always looking for new revenue streams. This time around they’re targeting Apple, and by extension the consumers that are going to be saddled with all the proxy taxes they no doubt are angling for. But at least one guy in Washington is willing to stand up to them.

http://youtu.be/pqI39GMbLLk

Sen. Ted Cruz: ‘I don’t trust Republicans’: Ted Cruz is absolutely right. There is no reason to trust these guys that promise one thing but always end up delivering another.

Max Baucus to expand IRS probe! Remember folks this is the guy that in 2010 urged the IRS to go after conservative and Tea Party groups.

Gary Younge: The Republican wolves are out for Obama but they are yet to draw blood. If it is blood Mr. Younge wants then he need look no further than Benghazi on September 11, 2012. And if that is not enough to satisfy this man’s peculiar lust then he can certainly get his fill from the hundreds killed from the staggeringly stupid Obama/Holder plan to give guns to Mexican drug lords.

Obama Uses Commencement Address to Recall Jim Crow: Jim Crow was a system born out of the notion that if enough people agree to it then the rights and properties of certain individuals can be subverted and confiscated. Obama would do well to recall this the next time he wants to use government to achieve the same thing.

Entire Audience at NJ Gun Hearing Disobeys Senators Orders, Recites Pledge: It is good to see these people using the pledge in a moment of civil disobedience. It is all to often forgotten that it is the job of the representatives to represent the people and to do that first they must listen, and not try to silence, them. So hats off guys, and take that Francis Bellamy!

Venezuelan Strongman Nocolas Maduro admits to knowing “the IDs and all” of the 900.000 Chavistas who did not vote for him: Well if the whole dictator thing doesn’t work up for this fellow he could always run the Obama IRS.

Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it’s ‘not open to debate’: Another Obama brown shirt that supposes we are his servants instead of the other way around. Sadly this sort of thing isn’t even shocking anymore.

Woodward: ‘I Would Not Dismiss Benghazi,’ Similar to Watergate: While we appreciate the direction Woodward is leaning in we must ask that he re-examine the premise. Watergate is similar to Benghazi in the way that a cup of water is similar to a flood. And the last time we checked Watergate didn’t have a body count.