Update
72 degrees today, but colder the rest of the week. I was
exhausted after rehab Monday morning, so a nap delayed y working on the blog.
~Bob
General News and Comment
Avoiding Congressional Oversight James Carville Inadvertently Admits Hillary Clinton Used
Private Email to Avoid Accountability and Oversight. By Katie Pavlich
Excerpt: Long-time trusted Clinton confidant James Carville
inadvertently admitted over the weekend on ABC's This Week that Hillary Clinton
probably used a private email address and server in order to avoid
Congressional oversight or scrutiny. "I suspect she didn’t want Louie
Gohmert rifling through her emails," Carville said. (Funny, just what we
suspected. ~Bob)
From the Left: An Open Letter to
hdr22@clintonemail.com. By Maureen Dowd
Excerpt: It has come to our attention while observing your
machinations during your attempted restoration that you may not fully
understand our constitutional system. Thus, we are writing to bring to your
attention two features of our democracy: The importance of preserving
historical records and the ill-advised gluttony of an American feminist icon
wallowing in regressive Middle Eastern states’ payola. You should seriously
consider these characteristics of our nation as the
Campaign-That-Must-Not-Be-Named progresses.
Boehner to Launch New
Investigation of Clinton
Excerpt: Rep. John Boehner, the top Republican in the House
of Representatives, plans to announce a new investigation this week into
Hillary Clinton's use of email when she led the State Department, ABC News
reported Sunday. ABC's "This Week" said that top Republicans briefed
the program about Boehner's plan to investigate Clinton 's use of her personal email address
when she was secretary of state from 2009 to 2013
Excerpt: Perhaps this was the actual reason, but it’s worth
noting that secretaries of state are always accompanied by staff who carry
purses, briefcases and so forth. It would have been up to the staff to keep
track of the devices, not Clinton .
Clinton has not
disclosed who at the State Department approved the use of a personal e-mail
account, with its own server, instead of a government account. One would expect
there is a paper trail that would explain how and why approval was granted. ...
The State Department on March 13 acknowledged this was not the case. ...
“I fully complied with every rule that I was governed by.” This appears
increasingly debatable.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415437/clintons-cover-team-john-fund
Excerpt: Cheryl Mills, among others, has been greasing the
wheels of the Clintons ’
secrecy machine for decades. Hillary Clinton explains her use of a private
e-mail account and a secret server to conduct State Department business as a
matter of “convenience.” But congressional investigators are almost as
interested in the fact that two of her closest advisers, personal aide Huma
Abedin and chief of staff Cheryl Mills, also had e-mail addresses on the secret
server. Were they also interested in “convenience” or intent on shielding their
work from public-record requests? For many years, the two women have served as Hillary’s
inner-palace guard.
Excerpt: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker–both potential 2016 contenders–descended into New Hampshire over the weekend, with both
candidates trying to establish themselves in a critical early voting state
before the 2016 season kicks into high gear.
New study confirms
economy was destroyed by Democrat policies
Excerpt: A new study from the widely respected National Bureau of
Economic Research released this week has confirmed beyond question that the
left's race-baiting attacks on the housing market (the Community Reinvestment Act--enacted under Carter, made
shockingly more aggressive under Clinton) is directly responsible for imploding
the housing market and destroying the economy. The study painstakingly sorted
through failed home loans that caused the housing market collapse and
identified an overwhelming connection between them and CRA mortgages.
Timeline shows Bush,
McCain warning Dems of financial and housing crisis; meltdown
Democratic Sen. Tammy
Baldwin Slashes Pay, Fires Staff Over Deadly VA Screw-Ups
Excerpt: Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin says her office blew
it: Staff repeatedly ignored allegations of over-prescription policies at the
VA Medical Center in Tomah, and since then, Baldwin
has promised to clean up her act by disciplining her staff. The report she
commissioned to investigate her own office found that all levels of her staff
made major mistakes, from senior management to constituent services, AP
reports.
Rule by Executive Order: Venezuelan president Nicolás
Maduro given power to rule by decree
Excerpt: The Venezuelan parliament on Sunday approved a law
giving the president, Nicolás Maduro, the power to legislate by decree for nine
months in the face of what he described as threats by the US government.
The so-called “anti-imperialist” law will be in effect from the time it is
published in Venezuela ’s
Official Gazette until 31 December.
Worth Reading
Excerpt: Last evening CBS News correspondent David
Martin, on 60 Minutes, introduced America to the U. S. Marine Corps
rugged Infantry Officer Course and the ongoing debate about women in combat in
a segment titled 'A Few Good Women.'
The War in Vietnam
Excerpt: Gary Kulik, who served as a medic in Vietnam and
holds a PhD in history from Brown, is the author of “War
Stories”: False Atrocity Tales, Swift Boaters, and Winter Soldiers. He
can be reached at gkulik@comcast.net. “When evidence of [NVA massacres at Hue ] was unearthed, as they say, the business went a
little underreported in Europe and the United States . It roughly coincided
with the American massacre of villagers at My Lai .
Since most newspapers are into telling readers what they are used to hearing
and think they already know, any suggestion of congruity in the cruelty of
desperation would have been the occasion of moral confusion.” -- Robert Stone,
“Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties, 209-210.”
Reclaiming Legislative Power. By Bruce Walker
Excerpt: The power to make laws rests wholly in Congress –
at least that is what the Constitution says. Yet who makes the “laws” in our
federal system today? Vast amounts of legislative power have been “delegated”
to independent federal regulatory agencies like the Federal Communications
Commission or to the president or his cabinet secretaries. The sheer volume of
these rules is mind-numbing. Consider that in 2014, the year that just ended,
75,000 pages of new regulations were adopted by the Executive Branch, either by
the Obama administration directly or through independent regulatory agencies. This
is in addition to the myriad executive orders the president gives to his
various departments regarding how to administrate federal laws.
Race Card News
Excerpt: What DOJ found made me ill. Wilson knew about the theft of the cigarillos
from the convenience store and had a description of the suspects. Brown fought
with the officer and tried to take his gun. And the popular hands-up storyline,
which isn’t corroborated by ballistic and DNA evidence and multiple witness
statements, was perpetuated by Witness 101. In fact, just about everything said
to the media by Witness 101, whom we all know as Dorian Johnson, the friend
with Brown that day, was not supported by the evidence and other witness
statements. (For the Left, lies are not only acceptable, but a positive good,
as long as they support the "Greater Truth" of the progressive
Narrative. ~Bob)
The First-Class, Five-Star Rev. By Jillian Kay Melchior
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415442/first-class-five-star-rev-jillian-kay-melchior
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415442/first-class-five-star-rev-jillian-kay-melchior
Excerpt: When he speaks at public
colleges and universities, Al Sharpton flies first-class, stays in upscale
hotels, travels to events in a chauffeured vehicle, and often brings a
bodyguard or aide with him. He makes these demands on taxpayer-funded
institutions, despite owing as much as $4.5 million in unpaid taxes and
penalties.
Good Question (see comment): Police arrest Missouri man, 20, in shooting of two officers in Ferguson
Excerpt: A 20-year-old Missouri
man has been arrested in the shooting of two St. Louis County
Obamacare/Government Healthcare News
Obamacare's
'Gobbledygook' Defense Sets A Bad Precedent. By Sally Pipes
Excerpt: Justice Antonin Scalia provided the most
memorable bon mot from last week’s oral arguments in King v.
Burwell — the latest and most important Supreme Court challenge to
Obamacare since 2012. “How can the federal government establish a state
exchange?” he
asked Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. “That’s gobbledygook.”
Scalia’s question strikes at the heart of the case. In order to rescue the
Affordable Care Act, Verrilli needs the Supreme Court to disregard the plain
text of the law — not to mention the Constitution itself. That’s not an
argument the Supreme Court should buy.
Undocumented Democrat News
"You're Greener than Gore" News
Cashing In: Ex-energy official's $1.7 million gig
draws fire
Excerpt: For five years, Dan Poneman was the Energy
Department’s No. 2 administrator during a time when the agency steered hundreds
of millions of dollars to a struggling nuclear company that has won the backing
of both the Obama administration and top Republicans and Democrats in Congress.
This month, he’s set to become the company’s president and CEO — a post that
will bring him as much as $1.7
million a year.
You should follow and support NCPA.org: Solar and
Wind Power vs. Fossil Fuels
Excerpt: The Department of Energy's (DOE) estimates forecast
that solar and wind will remain relatively insignificant sources of energy far
into the future, despite what environmentalists argue. Here is what Mark Perry,
American Enterprise Institute scholar and professor of economics at the University of Michigan
Religion of Peace News
Worth Reading : Obama’s
failed Iran Thiessen , Washington
Excerpt: So let’s get this straight: Iranian-backed rebels
have overthrown the pro-American government in Yemen that was helping us fight
al-Qaeda’s most dangerous branch. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has deployed
its terrorist Quds Force into Iraq ,
and its infamous commander, Gen.
Qasem Soleimani, is on the ground leading the offensive against the Islamic
State. Iran
is on the verge of getting the world to lift economic sanctions in exchange for
a nuclear agreement so bad that it has actually united Arabs and Israelis in
opposition. And Washington
is concerned with . . . protocol.
Excerpt: The Afghan National Army (ANA) 215th Corps claimed
that its forces killed 10 insurgents in Afghanistan ’s
southern Helmand province during an operation
on Sunday. Among the dead was an Islamic State commander named Hafiz Wahidi,
the alleged replacement for Mullah Abdul Rauf Khadim, the jihadist group’s
former deputy governor for ‘Khorasan province.’ Khadim was killed on Feb. 9 in
a US
airstrike.
Excerpt: Hollywood icon and
film legend Jon Voight is making some waves today with a video he just
released, asking Israeli voters to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and the Likud Party in the upcoming elections.
Netanyahu says no
Palestinian state if he wins
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/on-final-day-of-campaign-netanyahu-says-no-palestinian-state-if-he-wins/2015/03/16/4f4468e8-cbdc-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html?wpisrc=nl_evening&wpmm=1
Excerpt: On the final
day of his reelection campaign, Benjamin Netanyahu said that as long as he
serves as prime minister of Israel ,
there will not be an independent Palestinian nation.
Buy American Oil: How
to Starve the Jihad War of Money. By James Lewis
Excerpt: Jihad war is paid for by OPEC oil regimes,
including the Saudis and Iran ,
and by mandatory "charitable" contributions from fundamentalist
Muslims. In the case of the soi-disant Palestinians, jihad is paid
for by our own tax dollars, through the kindly United Nations. We are financing
the jihad against us. Gulf oil has been the biggest source of jihad blood money
for forty years. Our dollars go to the Gulf, to prop up war preachers in Iran and Arabia ,
with billions coming back to sabotage and corrupt our politicians and media,
driving massive Muslim immigration, and of course giving the world a steady
flow of throat cutting barbarians. (Obama would rather fund jihadist murder
than annoy the environmentalists in his base by opening ANWAR to drilling.
~Bob)
Watch: This is what
Saddam Hussein’s tomb looks like after the Islamic State’s occupation of
Tikrit. By Adam Taylor
Excerpt: Much has changed in Iraq since then. According to new
footage from the Associated Press, Hussein's tomb has been destroyed as a
result of the ongoing fighting in the country. Video from the news agency
shows the roof of the tomb collapsed and much of the site reduced to rubble.
The Return of Iraqi
Shi'i Militias to Syria
Excerpt: It has long been known that the Assad regime,
facing a shortage of manpower in its regular army, has had to rely on irregular
paramilitaries in its bid to reverse rebel advances. This became particularly
apparent in 2013, when Hezbollah openly declared its participation in the
capture of Qusayr, a town in Homs Province on the border with Lebanon . Since
then, the presence inside Syria of Iraqi Shi'i militias, most of them proxies
of Iran ,
has been extensively documented.
Excerpt: Last week, the Sunni town of Tikrit
(Saddam Hussein’s hometown) fell to
largely Shiite forces from Iraq ,
backed by Iran .
An offensive to retake Mosul ,
Iraq
Excerpt: Sweden ’s
latest attempt to flex its muscles as a humanitarian and feminist superpower
ended in a diplomatic disaster last week. On March 9, the country’s Social
Democratic Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström, was to address the foreign
ministers of the Arab League assembled in Cairo .
... Wallström never got a chance to speak. According to her own
explanation, she
was blocked from addressing the meeting after protests by Saudi Arabia .
Interesting: Vatican
Calls for Use of Force Against ISIS
Excerpt: The main Vatican UN diplomat, Italian
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, has called for armed resistance to ISIS
in a document presented to the UN Human Rights Council. ("...And the
Pope has cast his arms abroad for agony and loss, And called the kings of
Christendom for swords about the Cross,..." Lepanto By G. K. Chesterton
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177439
~Bob)
Excerpt: President Obama failed to explain in the
above-mentioned interview the free reign the Ayatollahs would have in the
development of ICBM’s, and possibly carrying nuclear payloads. He also did not
explain why Iran would have
the right to enrich and spin thousands of centrifuges, and continue to
construct the Arak
plutonium reactor. All the while, Iran is stonewalling the IAEA on
the existence of additional secret facilities that are developing nuclear
weapons. The president did mention in the interview his concern over unleashing
a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world. Yet, given the
nature of what we know about the deal with Iran , it very well means an end to
non-proliferation. After all, if a rogue nation like Iran (another rouge
nation, North Korea already did just that) can defy the world by continuing to
enrich uranium, and gets a ‘green light’ from the P5+1 to keep thousands of
centrifuges, eventually, the unrestricted ability to enrich uranium will lead
to a bomb. Other regional powers including Turkey ,
Saudi Arabia and Egypt will then
seek protection by going nuclear as well.
‘It’s a Simple Fact of Our Constitution’: Freshman Senator Schools Veteran CBS Journalist on Nuclear Negotiations. By Jon Street
Excerpt: “It’s a simple fact of our constitution that if
Congress doesn’t approve that deal that it may not last and the deal that’s on
the table right now is a very bad deal,” Cotton replied.
“Since you brought up North Korea, I would point out that in
1994 the United States entered into something called Agreed Framework to stop
North Korea from getting a bomb they almost immediately started cheating on it
and a mere 12 years later they detonated their first nuclear weapon,” Cotton
pointed out. “Now the world has to live with the consequences of a nuclear North Korea . I
don’t want the world to live with the consequences of a nuclear Iran ,” Cotton
added.
Worth Reading : Why Pelosi’s Syria
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415443/why-pelosis-syria-visit-remains-indefensible-tom-rogan
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/415443/why-pelosis-syria-visit-remains-indefensible-tom-rogan
Excerpt: When Nancy Pelosi embraced Bashar al-Assad in April
2007, she wasn’t simply challenging the commander-in-chief during a war; she
was propagandizing for a dictator who was killing Americans. This is not
conservative hyperbole. It is fact. After all, it is an undeniable truth that
Assad was sheltering a range of terrorist groups that were attacking U.S.
forces in Iraq — including then-lieutenant Tom Cotton, the senator whom
Democrats now accuse of “treason” for spearheading a letter to Iran warning
that a future president or Congress could cancel any nuclear deal it makes with
the Obama administration.
John Kerry: U.S.
Excerpt: The United
States will have to negotiate with Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad to remove him from power and bring the Syrian civil
war to a close, Secretary of State John Kerry said in an interview that aired
Sunday. Kerry said the U.S.
is working hard to ratchet up pressure on the Syrian regime to bring Assad to
the table to negotiate a political transition and stem what Kerry called
"one of the worst tragedies any of us have seen on the face of the
planet." (Assad saw what happened in Libya when Gaddafi "had to
go." good luck with this. Besides, Nancy Pelosi is a fan of Assad's--see
above. ~Bob)
Spot the loony: John Kerry fears
GOP senators are a threat to Iran’s respectful ‘anti-nuke fatwa.’
By Doug Powers
Excerpt: "President Obama means it when he says, again
and again, that Iran
will not be permitted to get a nuclear weapon. As you all know, Iran says it
doesn’t want a nuclear weapon, and that is a very welcome statement that the
Supreme Leader has, in fact, incorporated into a fatwa. And we have great
respect – great respect – for the religious importance of a fatwa. And
what we are effectively trying to do is translate that into legal language,
into everyday language within the framework of a negotiated agreement that
everybody can understand, which requires everybody to have certain obligations
and ultimately be able to guarantee that Iran ’s program, its nuclear
program, will be peaceful now and peaceful forever." (Hanoi John knows a thing
or two about treason. But maybe nothing about the Islamic concept of
Al-Taqiyah, which makes it more than acceptable to lie in any case where it
advances the Muslim cause--say in getting the A-bomb. ~Bob)
Deadly blasts hit
Excerpt: Two bomb blasts have killed at least 14 people near
two churches in a Christian neighbourhood of the Pakistani city of Lahore , local officials
say.
More than 70 people were hurt in the explosions, which
targeted worshippers attending Sunday mass at the churches in the Youhanabad
area.
Excerpt: A doctor? But…but…poverty causes terrorism! He just
needed some economic opportunities and all would have been well! ... Dr Mirza
Tariq Ali, 39, who worked in hospitals in London
and Cambridge , was involved in extremist groups
in the UK
when he was charged with violent disorder.
*****
Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam Veteran who served five
terms in the Massachusetts State Senate. He is the author of The Coming Collapse of the American Republic.
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Collapse-American-Republic-prevent/dp/1461122538/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1304815980&sr=1-5
For a free PDF of Collapse, e-mail him at tartanmarine(at)gmail.com. Hall’s
eleven books are listed here:
http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-book-published.html.
His blog of political news and conservative comment is www.tartanmarine.blogspot.com.
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