Surprise: Obama Admnistration Slow Walking Investigation Into Iran Holding U.S. Sailors Hostage RL Feb 17 16

Antonin Scalia

• Scalia to lie in repose at Supreme Court on Friday
• Antonin Scalia, Writer
• Scalia death phone inquest unusual but not unprecedented
• Antonin Scalia and Natural Law

Thinks

• Pat Caddell: ‘The Fuse Has Been Lit’ For A Political Transformation
• America Is A 70s Disaster Film Starring Donald Trump
• The United States at the Point of No Return

• Libertarians for Bernie: A Dangerous Delusion
• Clinton and Sanders and Progressivism
• How Liberal Philosophy Politicizes the Supreme Court

• Congress Turns Up Heat On Taxpayer-Funded Union Business
• Russia's Trap: Luring Sunnis Into War
• Why The Fed Thinks 'You' Are Crazy
• How Assisted Suicide Becomes A License To Kill
• Our Once and Future Caudillos

Defense

• White House Misses Required Deadline To Present ISIS Plan
• Analysts Separately Complain Superiors Are Modifying ISIS Reports To Make Obama Look Good
• Top intel official confirms ISIS made, used chemical weapons | Fox News

•  Report: As Many as Two Dozen Veterans Seeking Suicide Help on ‘Crisis Hotline’ Were Sent to Voicemail
• Judicial Board To VA: Firing Scandal-Ridden Exec Is Too Harsh A Punishment

• U.S. Special Forces Face ‘Training Challenges’ As They Scramble to Integrate Women
• Ash Carter: Russia Is a ‘Competitor’ In Way It Hasn’t Been Since End of the Soviet Union
• Ash Carter: Iran Is ‘Causing More Problems’ In Middle East, It’s ‘Large,’ ‘Long-Term’ Threat US Must Deter

Executive

• EPA claims it has the power to garnish wages without court approval | Fox News
• Energy Dept Spends $7 Million On North Alaska Solar Power, Except It’s Dark 24/7

• Surprise: Obama Admnistration Slow Walking Investigation Into Iran Holding U.S. Sailors Hostage
• Barack Obama’s 9 Biggest Failures, According to National Polling
• Obama Admin Vows To Sign UN Global Warming Deal Without Senate Approval

• USDA rules would increase food stamp access to healthy foods
• USDA: Retailers That Accept SNAP Must Expand 'Healthy Food' Choices; 168 Items Per Store

Media

• BBC Launches Sexy Smear Campaign Against Pope John Paul II
• Lena Dunham Cast as Reagan Speechwriter Peggy Noonan
• Conservative Media Outlet Complains Its Reporters Are Excluded From Government Press Events — Get a Load of the Government’s Response
• Bloomberg’s Everytown Launches Patronizing Effort To Attract Young Women, Stigmatize Gun-Owning Men

 BtF: the left, the mess, freedom of, econ., SCOTUS, Foreign, Clinton, 2016, Climate, and the others

the left

• #10 – “I Have a Right!” | Foundation for Economic Education
• Grayson: Elizabeth Warren Should Replace Scalia
• Southern Poverty Law Center – Manufacturing Hate for Fun and Profit
• Dangerous Movement to Bring #BlackLivesMatter Into the Mainstream

the Mess

• The Parmesan Cheese You Sprinkle on Your Penne Could Be Wood - Bloomberg Business
• Hot AIRR: Fake Privatization For Air Traffic Controllers
• Carrier Denies That It Received or Will Claim $5.1 Million from Stimulus
• Pew: Millennials Have the Least Confidence in Future of U.S.
• John Boehner Admits to Having No Political Instincts Whatsoever
• This Government Agency Offends the Constitution and Needs to Be Eliminated
• Terrorism News You Probably Missed
• Federal monitor says changing NYPD culture a challenge
• Czechs present lost music composed by Mozart and Salieri
• Not liking McDonald's

Freedom of

• EXCLUSIVE: Twitter Shadowbanning ‘Real and Happening Every Day’ Says Inside Source
• Man Arrested in Scotland for Facebook Posts About Refugees
• ‘Delete Your Account’: See How Twitter Responded When Jeb Bush Tweeted a Photo of His Handgun

Economic

• Beating the VAT Horse Until It’s Dead | International Liberty
• Why Negative Interest Rates Will Fail | Mises Daily
• Larry Summers Launches The War On Paper Money: "It's Time To Kill The $100 Bill"

supreme court

• SCOTUS Analyst: Loretta Lynch 'Most Likely Candidate' to Replace Scalia
• Slate: Antonin Scalia’s D.C. v. Heller Is The New Roe v. Wade
• Judge Napolitano Explains What Measures John Roberts Can Take To Prevent a Court Deadlock Following Scalia’s Death
• Kamala Harris to Replace Scalia on Supreme Court?
• Harry Reid to GOP: Blocking Scalia Replacement Means ‘Surrendering’ to Cruz and Trump
• Senate Staffer: ‘McConnell Will Back Down’ Over SCOTUS Nomination
• Guest Post: Abolish The Supreme Court
• Did Justice Scalia Already Give Us the Solution to the Problem of Filling His Seat?
• Heller Is Reason Enough for the Republican Senate to Take Its Time Replacing Scalia
• The Myth of the Consensus Supreme Court Nominee
• Fight to Replace Scalia Proves Supreme Court Has Become Too Powerful
• Next President, Not Obama, Should Pick Scalia’s Successor
• Levin: ‘You Can Kiss What’s Left of the Constitution Goodbye’ If Obama Replaces Scalia

Foreign

• The Government is banning discriminatory boycotts against Israel because it's on the side of the victims | Voices | The Independent
• No Balkan fence on my watch, Merkel tells eastern Europe - The Local
• ‘Daesh Hunter’: Mystery Sniper Terrorizes Islamic State Leaders in Libya
• Three Americans Kidnapped in Baghdad Have Been Released
• Anti-Cartel Militia Leader Asks Pope for Help with Mexico’s Out of Control Violence
• Confirmed: Islamic State Used Chemical Weapons in Iraq
• Russia And Saudi Arabia Agree To Oil Freeze, Iran Says Not So Fast
• Merkel: ‘Focus All My Strength’ On Keeping EU Borders Open
• Polish Magazine Cover Sums Up What They Think Of Refugees | The Daily Caller
• Iran to Spend $8 Billion on Russian Weapons and Warplanes
• Iraqi PM chastises Kurdish authorities over withholding pay
• China forbids Great Famine author from taking Harvard prize

Clinton

• Mark Cuban: Hillary is ‘Technologically Illiterate’ 
• Hillary Clinton And Cheryl Mills Did Not Sign Mandatory Agreement to Return Classified Materials - Breitbart
• Clinton email chain discussed Afghan national's CIA ties, official says | Fox News
• Hillary Emails: Clinton Negotiated With Israel…To Release Detained ‘Gefilte Fish’
• Hillary Clinton’s History: How Huma Abedin Went from Intern to Top Adviser
• Republicans Aren’t Fighting Hillary, They’re Fighting the Hillary-Loving Media
• Hillary Calls Republicans Racist For Opposing Obama In Harlem Speech
• Black Lives Matter To Hillary: Stop ‘Pimping Black Votes’
• Records Shows State Department Demanded Hillary’s Emails A Lot Earlier Than She’s Claimed

2016

• In Nevada, a tightening race threatens Clinton’s post-New Hampshire ‘firewall’ - The Washington Post
• Hannity Warns Vulnerable Republicans on Caving to Obama: SCOTUS Nomination ‘More Important Than Your Careers’
• Black Voter to Rubio: Many Minorities Don't Think Republicans Care About Them
• Mark Levin: Trump a ‘Radical Kook,’ ‘Close’ to Being 9/11 Truther
• Nikki Haley Isn’t Sure Who She Will Endorse — but She Made it Clear it Won’t Be This Candidate
• Obama: ‘I Continue to Believe That Mr. Trump Will Not Be President’
• Horowitz: Why Do Trump and Rubio Still Favor Cheap Foreign Labor?
• Why Trump May Force Republicans to Block Scalia Replacement
• Thomas Sowell Endorses Sen. Ted Cruz

Climate

• ‘Profound Lifestyle Changes:’ Leaked Gov’t Docs Show What’s Really Behind The Global Warming Agenda
• ‘Propaganda’: Top MIT Climate Scientist Trashes ‘97% Consensus’ Claim
• Black Lives Matter at Cornell: Climate Change Is Racist

the Others

• Larwyn's Linx: Mark Levin Goes Nuclear Over Trump Debate Comments
• Ace of Spades HQ Wednesday News Dump 2/17/16 [Misanthropic Humanitarian] 
• Ace of Spades HQ Evening Open Thread Headlines  
• Ace of Spades HQ Overnight Open Thread (2-16-2016) - Tombstone Hand And a Graveyard Mind Edition
• Tuesday morning links
• 10 Things to Know for Tuesday