NY Post: White House Advisor Valerie Jarrett Leaked Hillary’s Email Scandal

By William Teach March 15, 2015 – 8:32 am

The NY Post’s Edward Klein files this exclusive, which, based on the history of Obama and his team, especially when it comes to vindictiveness, seems entirely probable and possible

Obama adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal

It’s the vast left-wing conspiracy.

Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private e-mail address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me.

But she did so through people outside the ­administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House.

Of course, this would also mean that the White House was well aware of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server in violation of federal government and State Department rules. What did they know and when did they know it? Regardless, it is entirely plausible that Team Obama, and, in particular, Valerie Jarrett, would do this to Hillary Clinton.

In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at Foggy Bottom, including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation.

Six separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been ­going on at the State Department. I’m told that the e-mail scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president — and that there’s more to come.

This begs the question “why?”

The sabotage is part of an ­ongoing feud between the two Democrat powerhouses.

Last fall, during the run-up to the 2014 midterm elections, Jarrett was heard to complain bitterly that the Clintons were turning congressmen, senators, governors and grass-root party members against Obama by portraying him as an unpopular president who was an albatross around the neck of the party.

Jarrett was said to be livid that most Democrats running for election refused to be seen campaigning with the president. She blamed the Clintons for marginalizing the president and for trying to wrestle control of the Democratic Party away from Obama.

During a meeting in the White House between Hillary, both Barack and Michelle Obama, and Jarrett, Barack told Hillary that he was going to stay neutral in the Democrat primaries. Obama thinks Clinton is not far enough to the left, and will undermine the (horrible) policies put into place during Obama’s (disgraceful) years in office.

To add to what Klein has written (he’s spent a lot of time researching the feud between the Clinton’s and Obama’s, and just came out with a book), I would have to wonder if this goes as far back as the 2008 primaries. There was no love lost between the two camps, and things were done and said that were less than civil. You know, what would be called “politics”. Those of us on the right discuss the Clinton’s “politics of personal destruction”. Obama, though, takes things so utterly personal that he makes the Clinton’s look like high school football to Obama’s NFL. Obama is vindictive, and the people he surrounds himself with, especially Jarrett, are just as vindictive.

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Climahypocrites Reid And Whitehouse Say GOP In Denial Over Hotcoldwetdry

By William Teach March 14, 2015 – 5:55 pm

If I tell you that eating meat is bad, and you shouldn’t eat meat, and that government should pass laws forcing people to pay lots and lots more to buy meat, with the intention of forcing people to stop eating meat, yet I freely ate meat all the time, would I be a hypocrite and full of mule fritters? Here are Senators Reid and Whitehouse writing in the

(USA Today) Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., recently condemned President Obama’s proposed standards to limit carbon pollution from big power plants — pollution that is now totally unregulated. Conspicuously missing from the majority leader’s argument was one simple, yet extraordinarily important phrase: “climate change.” Republicans in Congress have no plan to address climate change and cannot even bear to utter the words. Even worse, the majority leader wants to impose on states his irresponsible plan for congressional inaction.

It wasn’t always so. Numerous moderate Republicans advocated for addressing carbon pollution in the not so distant past. But once the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision allowed the fossil fuel industry to cinch its death grip on the Republican Party, any hope for bipartisan cooperation came to an abrupt end. The Republican Party in Congress has become the political arm of the fossil fuel industry.

Sigh. Citizens United whining. Fossil fuels whining. From two senators who have benefited tremendously from Citizens United, the fossil fuel industry, and take lots of fossil fueled travel.

This is followed by more whining about stuff that is entirely expected (I bet you read the excerpt in Harry Reid’s voice), ending with

As the evidence becomes clearer and clearer, and the American people move farther away from the deniers, the Republican Party must have its own day of reckoning, when it will finally again be able to address — or even mention — climate change. That day can’t come too soon.

Funny, because Harry had full control of the Senate to go with Nancy Pelosi’s control of the House to go with Obama’s control of the White House for two full years, and failed to pass any sort of legislation.

But, this is not about science, it’s about politics. Period. Just like the entire Cult of Climastrology.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 14, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is horribly rising sea, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is White House Dossier, with a post on Michelle O celebrating an Iranian holiday.

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Surprise: $15 Minimum Wage Killing Jobs

By William Teach March 14, 2015 – 9:56 am

I’m shocked that absolutely no one saw this coming

(Shiftwa.org) Seattle’s $15 minimum wage law goes into effect on April 1, 2015. As that date approaches, restaurants across the city are making the financial decision to close shop. The Washington Policy Center writes that “closings have occurred across the city, from Grub in the upscale Queen Anne Hill neighborhood, to Little Uncle in gritty Pioneer Square, to the Boat Street Cafe on Western Avenue near the waterfront.”

Who would have thought that artificially increasing base operating costs would have negative consequences?

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Al Gore Takes Fossil Fueled Flight To Tell Warmists To Organize On The Internet

By William Teach March 14, 2015 – 8:04 am

Twenty five plus years of spreading awareness and pushing Big Central Government policies and all they have are more pushes for spreading awareness and Big Central Government policies. And climahypocrisy. We can’t forget about that

Want to fight climate change? Organize over the Internet, says Al Gore

AUSTIN, Texas — Al Gore thinks the Internet could help save the planet. Literally.

The former United States vice president exhorted people to tap into the power of the Internet to organize their efforts for a healthy environment and call out politicians who deny climate change.

“Push back. Use social media, use the Internet,” Gore said Friday. “Political will is a renewable resource.”

Gore made his comments during a presentation on the first day of South by Southwest Interactive, the tech-centric portion of the festival that brings together the technorati, filmmakers and musicians. Gore has deep ties to the technology industry, as a director on Apple’s board and senior partner at the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers.

He couldn’t have given this speech via the Internet, rather than taking a fossil fueled flight (and, being Gore, you just know he took a private jet) to Austin, Texas? We know he couldn’t tell the rest of the Cult Of Climastrology (CoC) to practice what they preach, because he himself is a massive climahypocrite. Not that they’d listen on that point anyhow.

Arguably the most recognizable face of the environmental movement, Gore compared the fight over climate change to recent political wins for Net neutrality, the concept of ensuring that all Internet traffic gets fair and equal treatment. The Federal Communications Commission last month voted in favor of stricter regulations that would ensure an open Internet. The lead up to that vote involved an active Internet campaign, with Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech giants voicing support, joined by people sharing their views on social media.

In other words, Gore inadvertently exposed that the whole “climate change” movement is essentially a far left political push for far left political measures, based on hyperbole that is divorced from the reality. Net neutrality is more about creating massive Central Government control of the Internet and the people who use it, which will also stifle innovation. Climate change is about enacting Big Government control of people, private entities, and the economy.

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The Entire White Fraternity System Is Totally Racist Or Something

By William Teach March 14, 2015 – 7:29 am

Over the past few years we’ve been treated to the notion that college campuses are hotbeds of sexual assault, inappropriate sexual advances, misogyny, and an overall “rape culture”, which is interesting considering that colleges are hotbeds of Liberal thought, ranging the gamut from your basic Democrat voter to far, far, far left Progressives, socialists, Marxists, and communists. They are run by Leftists, teachers tend to be Leftists, and the students are taught Leftism. Fraternities have been under assault since the lying Rolling Stone(r) article about a gang rape at UVA. Now we have the big reveal over SAE members singing a racist song at Oklahoma U (and, frankly, there seems to be more of a racist attitude at the fraternity, not just a few members), so, of course, all fraternities must be racist/bigoted/homophobic. Well, certain ones

The University of Oklahoma Video, and the Problem Fraternities Can’t Fix Themselves

WHAT should we do about fraternities?

That’s a question not only for the University of Oklahoma, where two fraternity members were recently expelled after they appeared in a video singing a violently racist song.

Some critics argue that American college campuses should ban them altogether: Don’t wait for the next hazing death or vile speech caught on cellphone camera.

Others contend that campuses need to encourage multicultural Greek life, and should give incentives for students to cross the Greek color line, setting up brochure-worthy party houses that capture “post-racial” America. That idea is perhaps nice in theory. But it doesn’t work.

I study race and the Greek-letter system on North American campuses. I have interviewed hundreds of members of historically white fraternities and sororities, at big state universities and smaller liberal arts colleges, on the East Coast and in the South. My research indicates that nonwhite students who successfully pledge those groups — roughly 3 to 4 percent of fraternity or sorority members — live a harsh existence of loneliness and isolation.

So, these White fraternities are put in the big box of racism/sexism/homophobe/bigotry throughout the entire story. Multiculturalism and diversity are shown to be thrown overboard in most “historically white fraternities”, and they are like totally part of the inequality debate, you guys! Because hanging with folks you feel comfortable is like totally wrong, because voluntary association is just super wrong. If you’re white.

But, what is missing? In the comments we find

I do not understand how there can be such a harsh and quick reaction to hateful singing, on a private bus. And zero reaction to the vile, homophobic, misogynistic, drug praising, thug worshiping lyrics of (some) hip-hop and rap which can be heard on a daily basis from many fraternities?

Can someone please explain why one is ignored and the other instantly punished?

That’s a good point. Sororities (white ones) are slightly mentioned in the article and are labeled as being slightly better. Yet, historically Black fraternities and sororities are given a pass.

In reality, most chapters of fraternities and sororities, Black, White, whatever, tend to be full of good people who are looking to be a part of something, and tend to do good charity work. Some are simply more like drinking clubs, in all honesty. The members and chapters tend to be pretty involved with campus life. Life itself is full of situations and organizations that match like with like. And, that can include skin color. There’s nothing nefarious about it. A few bad apples do not ruin the entire pie (unless you’re baking). But, let’s face it, if you are white, male organization, you will be under assault. Everyone else’s exclusionary groups will be allowed. Not yours.

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NY Post: Politicians Fan The Flames Of Cop Hatred

By William Teach March 13, 2015 – 4:18 pm

Let’s be clear: not every law enforcement officer deserves respect. Like in all facets of life, there are bad apples. That said…

(NY Post) Government-fueled cop hatred has claimed more victims. Two St. Louis-area police officers were shot Wednesday night during a protest outside the Ferguson, Mo., police department, one in the face, the other in the shoulder.

Both are expected to survive, unlike the two New York City police officers assassinated in December.

Such violence is the sadly predictable outcome of the lies about the police that government officials and the media have stoked for the last year.

US Attorney General Eric Holder has done all he can to keep tensions at a boiling point in Ferguson.

Quite a few politicians have fanned the flames, as Heather Mac Donald points out. She also notes the unseriousness of the allegations, along with the overreach, towards the Ferguson PD, which can be blamed more on incompetence, poor training, and the city wanting to raise money than raaaacism.

Officers put their lives on the line every day to protect law-abiding members of poor communities. Increasingly, those officers are at risk not just from thugs but from the rhetoric emanating from the highest reaches of government.

Sadly, these same officers are also dealing with heavy amounts of crime within those same communities.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 13, 2015 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful bicycle that should have been a mandatory replacement for fossil fueled vehicles, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is First Street Journal, with a post Democrats not having the same interests as the working class.

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Hotcoldwetdry Should Totally Be Renamed “Climate Disruption” Or Something

By William Teach March 13, 2015 – 10:21 am

Because this is what is done with science. Change the names. Remember all those times that the Theory of Gravity was changed to make it more palatable for the masses?

Forget Global Warming And Climate Change, Call It ‘Climate Disruption’

People have been learned to cope with change by thinking it’s not all bad, but climate change is all bad, according to a climate scientist at Argonne National Laboratory who says it’s time to replace the term climate change, itself a replacement for global warming, with a new term: climate disruption.

“Positive mental attitude is a really wonderful way to deal with change,” research meteorologist Doug Sisterson told about 200 people at the University of Chicago’s International House Tuesday night. “We’ve learned that we want to be optimists and have a positive mental attitude, and the way we deal with that is by thinking ‘Not all change is bad.’ Well, talking about climate change, it’s not good. So maybe it’s wrong to portray climate change with a positive mental attitude.

“Maybe we should start talking about climate disruption, because the things I’m talking about would seem to be highly disruptive. And so maybe the better way to characterize what’s happening with these extreme weather events is to think of it as climate disruption. Maybe it more accurately represents the journey we are about to be embarking upon.”

Sisterson is not the first to propose adopting the term climate disruption. John Holdren, the senior advisor to President Obama on science and technology issues, proposed the term global climate disruption in 2007, in 2010 and again last year.

Changing the name is all about continuing to keep the scareathon and Blamestorming going strong. Most people aren’t scared anymore, as they aren’t seeing Doomworthy weather or any of the other doomy prognostication occurring. Well, other than very cold and snowy winters.

“We’ve been talking about global warming, but as you can see on a global scale increased greenhouse gases lead to a warmer planet on average, but it really doesn’t tell the whole picture. Because it’s complicated. In fact, temperature itself is probably not the biggest thing that we’re going to have to worry about about global warming,” he said.

So, doom. Scare people.

“We expect to see changes in precipitation patterns and sea-level rise that will have much greater impact to humans and our animal friends and biodiversity than the temperature alone. As a matter of fact, we’re pretty sure that we’re going to see increased weather extremes. Perhaps you’re noticing some of them as well.”

In other words, snow and cold is being blamed on greenhouse gases. Cult.

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Next Shutdown Threat: Highway Funding

By William Teach March 13, 2015 – 7:09 am

This is what happens when the Central Government hasn’t actually had a real budget during the entirety of Obama’s time in officer

(The Hill) Transportation funding is running on empty, forcing Congress to scramble to meet its next major deadline before the tank runs dry on May 31.

Both parties say they want to avoid a repeat of last month’s tense standoff over funding for the Department of Homeland Security. But the likelihood of an impasse increases with each day that passes without an infrastructure reauthorization bill, and transportation advocates warn that more brinkmanship would be disastrous.

What’s the problem? How to pay for it (cough * pass an actual budget * cough)

While all sides back passage of a long-term transportation funding measure this year, there is little consensus about how to pay for the new round of infrastructure spending.

Obviously, some are super thrilled by raising the gas tax

The Equipment Manufacturers and other transportation groups have come out in favor of an increase in the 18.4 cents-per-gallon federal gas tax, but many in Congress oppose asking drivers to pay more at the pump to help pay for road projects.

The gas tax has been the traditional source for federal transportation funding since its inception in the 1930’s — predating the Interstate State Highway System by about 20 years. But it has struggled to keep pace with construction costs, as cars become more fuel-efficient.

So, Government mandates that vehicle become more fuel efficient, push for more hybrids and electric vehicles, and then are shocked when the revenue from the gas tax decreases exponentially. But, hey, why not use gimmicks?

The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) issued a proposal Thursday to nearly double the gas tax. If lawmakers find that politically untenable Pete Ruane, the group’s president, offered a potential deal sweetener.

“If our national leaders think they need to use budget gimmicks or ‘one-offs’ again to pass the surface transportation investment program the states need and the business community has been pleading for, then use those devices to provide a $90 tax rebate to middle and lower income tax filers to offset the cost to them of a 15 cent per gallon increase in the federal gas tax,” he said.

Sure thing. That makes sense. Not.

Also noted in the article is the reality that many Republican led states are looking to increase the state gas tax, and many of them have already. Here in North Carolina that is being debated. It’s not like NC already has one of the highest gas taxes in the country already. So, any federal raise would be a double whammy, since many Democrat led states have raised their gas tax. Many are pushing a per-mile usage fee.

“Rather than raise the federal gas tax, a better policy would be to repeal the federal tax and let states pay for their own road projects,” the Heritage Action group said in a blog post on its website. “Devolving transportation projects back to the states will ensure that gas tax money is used for the highest value-added projects.

States know better as to which roads are in need of repair, and would spend that money much better than the federal government. How much money was wasted for infrastructure projects via The Stimulus? Roads that needed no repair were repaired. How much stupidity and pork are inserted into every federal infrastructure funding bill over the years, a problem for both Republicans and Democrats?

The federal program made sense back in the middle part of the 20th century, when the country was building big roads that allowed citizens to move around the country, like I-95 and I-40. Today, when those roads are already built, it makes more sense to allow the States to maintain them, with some federal oversight over the Interstates.

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