Josh Earnest: I've Never Been So Proud That We're Giving Billions of Dollars and A-Bombs to People Kidnapping Our Sailors RL Jan 14 16

Iran

• US apologises for Iran naval incursion - Revolutionary Guards - BBC News
• Iran Sanctions Seen Lifted by Monday Once Nuclear Deal Verified
• Report: U.S. Apologizes After Iran Seizes Sailors, Now Free - Breitbart
• Josh Earnest: I've Never Been So Proud That We're Giving Billions of Dollars and A-Bombs to People Kidnapping Our Sailors

• Photos: U.S. Sailors on Their Knees Before Iran Surface
• State Dep't Won't Say if Iran Violated Geneva Convention
• Video shows US sailors surrender to Iranian troops in the Persian Gulf | Daily Mail Online
• Why an Ex-Navy Officer Is Surprised and ‘Disappointed’ That Sailors Apologized to Iran on Video

• Iran Hardliners Generated Crisis with ‘Willing Dupe’ Obama
• Iran’s Humiliation Of Barack Obama Is Now Complete
• White House Issues Nonsensical Statement About Kidnapped Sailors

Freedom of

• First Look At Obama’s Housing Totalitarianism – It’s Bad
• Mayor Vents Frustration With NRA By Nixing Police Security at Great American Outdoor Show - Breitbart
• U.S. attorney general to ‘institutionalize’ Obama gun laws

Executive

• Obama: Ukraine a Russian ‘Client State’
• White House Chief of Staff: ‘We’ll Do Audacious Executive Action Over the Course of the Rest of the Year’
• Report: IRS May Still Be Targeting Conservative Organizations for Audit
• Unreal: Obama Frees Gitmo Detainee Who Vowed to 'Kill As Many Americans As He Could' Upon Release Unreal: Obama Frees Gitmo Detainee Who Vowed to 'Kill As Many Americans As He Could' Upon Release

Defense

• Defense Secretary Outlines the U.S. Plan to Take Back Mosul, Raqqa From the Islamic State
• Attkisson: ‘Overwhelming Body of Evidence’ Benghazi Rescue Teams Turned Back
• Military Law Journal Publishes Argument for Arming More Soldiers on Military Installations
• U.S. General Faults Obama Admin Denial of Boots on Ground in Middle East

BtF: Thinks, Foreign, the Mess, Economic, 216, Clinton, SOTU, Congress, and the Others

Tashfeen Malik’s Jihadist Social-Media Posts Were Deliberately Ignored by the Feds RL Dec 16 15

Foreign

• Former CIA Director Warns Of Potential ‘Catastrophic’ Attack From Iran on U.S. Soil
• China Submarine | Missile Attack on USS Reagan

• ISIS Twitter Handles Traced To UK Government By Hackers | Zero Hedge
• Swedish govt in “panic” after ISIS letters give 3 days to convert to Islam or be decapitated

• India's Failing Gold Monetization Scheme: Seizure Imminent? | Zero Hedge
• Denmark To Confiscate Gold, Jewelry, & Valuables From Refugees

• UK troops to join EU border force to control the migrant crisis | Daily Mail Online
• European Nations Throw Up On EU Plan To Seize Border Sovereignty, Impose Standng Border Force
• Marine Le Pen Tops ANOTHER French Presidency Pol

Freedom of

• To Keep Your Second Amendment Rights, 'Show You're Not a Problem' - Hit & Run : Reason.com
• Counterterrorism operations targeting harmless groups to maintain political correctness? « Hot Air
• Social Media Colludes with Government to Censor Discussion on Immigration

Migration

• Obama Administration Sends Mixed Messages on Monitoring Social Media of Immigrants
• Andy McCarthy: The Government Has Been Systematically and Completely Forbidding Intelligence Agents to Look Into Islamic Sentiments Since Before 9/11, And It's Only Gotten Worse Under Obama
• Tashfeen Malik’s Jihadist Social-Media Posts Were Deliberately Ignored by the Feds by Andrew C. McCarthy 

• Obama Administration | 3 Million Immigrant Workers
• ICE Brags About Catching 0.0002% of Criminal Aliens | MRCTV
• If You Find Yourself in an Immigration Hole, Stop Digging

Gun

• No Charges Filed, But Legal Firearms Confiscated Anyway | The Daily Caller
• Why Congress Cut The CDC’s Gun Research Budget
• Obama's Vendetta With Gun Makers Gets Personal: Smith & Wesson Shares Plunge After Call For SEC Investigation

Executive

• Tashfeen Malik's Social Media Ignored By DHS
• White House Opens Door to CAIR Rep, Ignores Muslim Reformers
• FBI Chart and Documents Portray CAIR as Hamas-Related Organization
• In Apparent Reversal, Obama Admin Not Seeking ‘Regime Change’ in Syria
• You Could Go to Jail for Forgetting to Register Your Drone

 BtF: the Left, Think, Congress, Obama, the Mess, Defense, Media, Clinton, Climate, and the other

Obama's Theology of Original Sin, Fundamental Transformation and Utopia RL Dec 15 15

Islam

• Disorder in Sharia Courts - Cal Thomas
• ISIS 'issues fatwa ordering suffocation of babies with Down’s syndrome' 

• Daniel Greenfield: THE TERRORIST PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN ON BOSTON CAMPUSES - David Horowitz Freedom Center
• Muslim Black Woman Sworn In on the Quran, Sings Black National Anthem

Obama

• Obama's Theology of Original Sin, Fundamental Transformation and Utopia
• Obama Is Not Who We Are
• 1 Obama’s Awful Year
• GOP Rep Perry: You Wonder If Existential Threat to US Includes Politically Correct Obama Administration

Defense

• Marine Corps weighs lower standards for women after none pass Infantry Officer Course - Washington Times
• Charges against Bergdahl referred to trial by court-martial | Fox News
• The F-35: A Weapon That Costs More Than Australia - The Atlantic
• Revealed: U.S. Warships Dangerously Outgunned by Russia and China

• State Department Sued for Withholding Refugee Records
• Secret US Policy Blocks Agents From Looking at Social Media of Visa Applicants, Former Official Says - ABC News
• Take Out Your Red Pens by Jonah Goldberg

the Left

• 'Hands up, don't shoot' ranked one of biggest 'Pinocchios' of 2015 - POLITICO
• Pastor: ‘Government As Parent Has Destroyed the Black Family’, Made ‘Black Fatherhood Irrelevant’

• The Blaze's Dana Loesch Torches The 'Godless Left's' 'Coordinated Assault' On Constitutional Rights
• Time’s 2015 Person of the Year: Multiculturalism a ‘Grand Delusion’

• School Officials Make Boy Scout Cover Up His Star Wars T-Shirt - Hit & Run : Reason.com
• Jerry Brown Touts 'Coercive Power of the State' on Climate Change - Reason.com

Gun

• What You Need to Know About Obama’s Plan to Bypass Congress on Guns
• Leftist Governor Admits the True Goal Is to “Make Guns Worthless”
• Leftists Blame the South for New York Gun Violence

BtF: Migration, Thinks, the Mess, Freedom of, Congress, Foreign, 2016, and the Others

RL August 30 15

Clinton

• Source: FBI ‘A-team’ leading ‘serious’ Clinton server probe, focusing on defense info | Fox News
• The FBI Is Investigating Whether Hillary Clinton Violated the Espionage Act, According to Fox News - Hit & Run : Reason.com
• Emails show Bill Clinton asked State Dept. for OK on N. Korea, Congo invites | Fox News

• Clinton Campaign Says Her ‘Boxcars’ Comment on Immigration Question Was Not a Holocaust Reference
• Clinton Compares GOP to Nazis: Want to 'Round Up' Illegals, 'Put Them...in BOXCARS' | MRCTV
• MSNBC Panel Excoriates Hillary Over ‘Absolutely Disgusting’ Remarks: ‘If a Republican Did This, the World Would Come to a Halt’ | Video | TheBlaze.com
• Scarborough Roasts Clinton for ‘Disgusting’ Terrorist Group Comparisons: ‘Gutter Politics’ At Its Worst | Washington Free Beacon

• Clinton Camp Says One-Fifth of Delegates Secured for Nomination - Bloomberg Politics
• Hillary to Ed Henry: I’ll Answer Just One of Your Questions ‘Because I Think That’s What You Are Entitled To’

2016

• Marco Rubio Advocates Pacific Trade Deal As A Tool To Force China To Stop Economic Manipulation | Video | RealClearPolitics
• Rubio, Paul, Walker Gasping for Oxygen - Breitbart

• O’Malley blasts Democratic leaders for ‘rigged’ 2016 debate process - The Washington Post
• How Long Can Graham Stay in the Race?

• No, Donald Trump, Single-Payer Health Care Doesn't 'Work Incredibly Well' In Canada & Scotland - Forbes
• Donald Trump has no Respect for Property Rights - Young Voices Advocates 
• Spanish-Language Journalists Call Donald Trump ‘Hitler,’ ‘Monkey’

• Jeb Bush 2016: Top fundraisers leave campaign amid troubling signs
• Jeb Bush Top Fundraisers Leave Campaign Amid Questions About Its Strength: Report
• Jeb Bush Ground Campaign Collapses – Campaign Fundraisers Quit – Super-PACs Bush’s Only Hope….

Executive

• Bush-Appointed Federal Judge Blocks Obama Water Rule Citing ‘Risk of Irreparable Harm’
• Federal judge blocks Obama’s water rule | TheHill 
• Obama’s Environmental Policies Undermine National Security
• EPA Politburo Takes Control of Ditches in 37 States

• VA caught sending veterans' mail to the shredder | Washington Examiner
• Obama’s Politicized Intelligence
• Obama's cynical "Stray Voltage" tactic.

Defense

• How Much Should the US Spend on Defense?
• The Navy Hasn’t Been This Small Since the 1930s. Can We Afford a Larger Navy?
• No More Double Standards for Women in the Military
• Obama Trades Real Security for Spin to Secure His Legacy Matthew Continetti 

• Pentagon Not Targeting Islamic State Training Camps
• $335M US Funded Afghan Power Plant Ruined Due to Lack of Use
• The Aviationist » While its aircraft can be tracked online, the U.S. Air Force only worries about Tweets….

Gun

• Mental Health and the 2nd Amendment
• Donald Trump Discusses Mental Health, Gun Control and Current Events: “it’s not a gun problem, it’s a mental health problem”…
• Sheriff Clarke: The Constitution Does Not Prevent Horrific Acts Done By Human Beings

• Court: Second Amendment also covers those in US illegally
• American exceptionalism and the ‘exceptionally American’ problem of mass shootings - The Washington Post

Below the Fold: Think, The Left, Immigration, Foreign, Media, Economic, Freedom Of, The Mess, and The Other

RL August 12 15

Clinton Email

• Scott Pelley Reports On Clinton’s Email Server Containing “Top Secret” Material
• ‘Top Secret’ emails found as Clinton probe expands to key aides | McClatchy DC
• FBI Has Taken Possession of Thumb Drives Containing Hillary Clinton’s Emails, U.S. Official Says
• Hillary Clinton will turn over private email server to Justice Department - LA Times
• Hillary’s email server contained “top secret” documents | Power Line
• Hillary Clinton agrees to provide private e-mail server to FBI - The Washington Post
• Oh My: 'Top Secret' Emails Discovered on Hillary's Server, FBI Seizes as Probe Expands Oh My: 'Top Secret' Emails Discovered on Hillary's Server, FBI Seizes as Probe Expands
• Clinton to Turn Over Private Home Server to Justice Department, Campaign Says

Iran

• Schumer working phones on Iran
• IRANIAN GOVERNMENT NEWS SOURCE: Obama will side with us in case of attack by Israel
• Sec. Kerry: Dollar to "Cease to Be the Reserve Currency of the World" If Iran Deal Fails - Ben Swann's Truth In Media
• John Kerry: Reapplying Iran Sanctions Will Result in Collapse of US Dollar
• The Immolation of Chuck Schumer And The Inevitable Veto Watch
• While Still a Senator, Kerry Communicated Obama’s Capitulation Policy to the Iranian Regime Andrew C. McCarthy
• How Obama Misled Us about the Concessions He Was Making to Iran Andrew C. McCarthy 

2016 Vote

• Nearly 300 Cases: The Extent of Voter Fraud in America
• Of Stables and Manure: The influence of campaign contributions on political decisions
• The GOPe Tripwires Continue – Despite Campaign Trouble Rick Perry Must Be Kept In The Race…

Ferguson Effect

• Wow!Freddie Grey Alleged to Have Had A History of ‘Crash for Cash Schemes’
• Black teacher runs for school board to end ‘white privilege’ training - EAGnews.org
• Is the Black Lives Matter Movement Sabotaging Itself By Disrupting Bernie Sanders Rallies? | Marvin Meadors
• Here’s What Trump Says Would Occur if Black Lives Matter Activists Tried Taking Over His Event
• ‘That’s Just True’: Carly Fiorina Takes Major Shot at Democrats Over Issue of ‘Black Lives’
• ‘Black Lives Matter’ Leader Asked If Officer Is ‘Justified in Using Lethal Force’ If Suspect Shoots First – Here’s His Reply | TheBlaze.com
• St Louis Alderman saves young THUGS from Gunfire, but how they repay him proves Thugs will be Thugs! ⋆ Dc Gazette
• 18-Year-Old Shot by Police in Ferguson Was Out on Bond for Felony Charges — Here Are Five Images From His Reported Facebook Page | TheBlaze.com
• Surveillance Footage Captures Moment Suspect Pulled Gun From Waistband in Ferguson Shooting: Police | Video | TheBlaze.com

EPA

• EPA won't face fines for polluting rivers with orange muck - Washington Times
• EPA Causes Massive Hazardous Spill in West - Breitbart
• Lawmakers Keep Heat on EPA After Massive Wastewater Spill
• EPA Plans to Reverse Supreme Court Ruling with a Pseudo Cost-Benefit Analysis
• EPA Shrugs after Spilling Millions of Gallons of Toxic Water into a River in the Mountain States Jillian Kay Melchior

Military

• The Air Force's Rationale For Retiring The A-10 Warthog Is Bullshit
• Odierno: Army 'dangerously close' to being cut too deep
• Pentagon preparing for mass civil breakdown | Nafeez Ahmed |The Guardian
• White House blocks Pentagon report on treaty violation...

Think

• Obama Is A Lying Traitor
• Scandinavia Isn’t A Socialist Paradise
• Donald Trump’s Paradoxical Cult of Personality
• American Men Have No Reproductive Rights

 Below the Fold: Freedom Of, The Mess, Executive, The Left, Foreign, Immigration, Guns, Clinton, Economic, 2016, Media, and The Other

RL July 17 15

Think

• The United States is a Dying Country
• How Likely Is Hyperinflation In The U.S?
• 5 Unintended Consequences of Regulation and Government Meddling : The Freeman : Foundation for Economic Education
• The Government Screw-Up Fraction
• No, President Obama’s Not Channeling John F. Kennedy On Iran
• Marxifix Maximus: Pope Francis and the Surrender of the Church
• BofA Confused "Why People Would Wake Up One Morning And Decide To Panic"
• Greece’s populist powder keg

Shooting/Terror

• After Obama Delivers Chattanooga Remarks, Krauthammer Notices Pattern He Finds to Be Alarming | Video | TheBlaze.com
• CNN Analyst Unsure If Mass Shooter Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez's Name is Muslim
• A Lot of People Have Noticed the Small Sign on the Front of One of the Buildings Attacked in Tennessee and It’s Sparking a Huge Debate | TheBlaze.com

Foreign

• A Quarter Of UK Babies Born To Immigrant Mothers
• Merkel 'gambling away' Germany's reputation over Greece, says Habermas | Business | The Guardian
• Greece Is Just The Beginning: The 21st Century 'Enclosures' Have Begun
• China Confronts Islamist Terrorism
• China’s and Europe’s Crises, and Our Complacency Kevin D. Williamson 

Freedom of

• Uber hit with multimillion-dollar fine for refusing to reveal business data in US | Technology | The Guardian
• New Reddit CEO Vows to Silence Communities Deemed ‘Abusive’
• clamping down on free speech too,
• Conservatives Prepare to Defend Same-Sex Marriage Opponents from IRS
• Kentucky Lawmakers Move to Protect County Clerks, Clergy Opposed to Gay Marriage
• Useful Idiots Jump on Obama’s Attempt to Silence Major Garrett

Obamacare

• Probe: Bogus enrollees kept getting 'Obamacare'
• New Study Finds Some Bad News Related to Doctor Choices Under Obamacare Exchanges
• Rep. Jim Jordan: 6.6 Million Paying Obamacare Penalty Show Why Law is ‘So Bad’

The Mess

• Marco Rubio to detail three-pronged foreign policy doctrine - Washington Times
• Wisconsin Supreme Court – Democrats Waged Jackboot Campaign Using Govt Officials To Target Political Opposition…
• Wisconsin's Shame: 'John Doe' Investigations Halted by State Supreme Court | National Review Online
• Colorado Teacher Union-backed Activists Seek to Oust Conservative School Board Majority
• What's Wrong With the U.S. Peace Movement, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• In Troubling Sign, Ford Now Offers $10,000 Discounts On New F-150 Pickups
• How Democrats Pillaged Chicago Toward Bankruptcy
• Study: There are Now More Than 12.8 Million Gun Carry Permits in the US
• Carson: Planned Parenthood’s Defense ‘Spurious,’ ‘Nothing That Can’t Be Done Without Fetal Tissue’

BtF: Military, Congress, The Left, Executive, Iran, Immigration, and The Other

RL July 01 15

Media

• Newsday Editor: Carve Hate Speech Out Of First Amendment, Hold Websites Responsible If Users Post Hate Speech | Techdirt
• EIC Ben Smith: BuzzFeed Is Pro-Gay Marriage–Because There Is No Argument Against–but Neutral On Shariah
• Media Outlets Kept This SCOTUS Decision Quiet

Greece

• GREECE ‘DEFAULTS’ on Debt
• Give Greece What It Deserves: Communism - Forbes
• Where did the Greek bailout money go? | World news | The Guardian
• 7 questions about Greece’s huge crisis - The Washington Post
• Don't Blame Austerity: Five "Dastardly" Ways Italy Burned Through Taxpayer Money

Military

• VA to Iraq war veteran: We're not taking new patients
• It Is Time to Scrap the F-35 And Simply Begin Building Somewhat Updated F-15s Again
• US Troops Were Just Ordered To Publicly Do This In Honor Of Muslim-Celebrated Ramadan
• NORAD, US Northern Command to Participate with Mexican Air Force in Tactical Exercise

Freedom Of

• The Emergence Of Orwellian Newspeak And The Death Of Free Speech
• We Are Becoming a Country Without a First Amendment
• Court Rules to Remove 10 Commandments Statue at Oklahoma State Capitol

Education

• The Feds Will Collect Psycho-Social Data On Your Child
• School: Dress Modestly To Placate Muslims | The Daily Caller
• No End In Sight For Higher-Education Malinvestment
• Do Federal Grants and Loans Raise Tuition? | National Review Online
• School Vouchers May Head Again To Supreme Court

Police

• Cops livid over proposed ‘police reform’ measures | New York Post
• Mom Was ‘Scared’ When Three Cops Told Her to Exit Her Vehicle. Then She Realized They Were Only a Distraction.
• TSA Official Tweets Photo of Passenger’s Luggage Contents

BtF: Foreign, SCOTUS, Race, Russia, Economic, The Mess, Think and The Other

Random Links April 16 15

What the Unearthed 1995 Video Tells Us about Obama
Major Muslim Group Just Made A Bold Move To Gain More Power In The US
GOP Squandered Its Best Opportunity To Hold Hillary Accountable 
   Foreign
Inside the Ring: Pacom: Russia Returns to Cold War Posture
West Losing ‘Information War’ With Russia
Why Obama Hid Information On Illegal Shipments Of Missile Parts To Iran
Iran Growing as a Skilled Cyberthreat
Obama's partners in peace rebuilding Hamas war machine in Gaza
Obama Expected to Bind US to CO2 Reduction at Paris Meeting This Year
 Wasserman Schultz: Having More Female U.N. Peacekeepers 'Is Really Important'
Why is Google in Europe's crosshairs? It's not just trustbusting.
Meanwhile, In Greece — Live Feed | Zero Hedge
Why did China just release five feminist activists? (+video) - CSMonitor.com
Spot a Common Theme: Prostitution Scandals, Kickbacks And Money Laundering
   Military
Special Report Obama’s Liberationist Military
U.S. Cuts Nuclear Warhead Levels
Critics: Christians Fleeing 'Hostile' Military Ranks
  Immigration
ICE Director Tells Congressman: We Follow Obama Rules, Not The Law… 
Obama Admin. Implements Jobs Program for At-Risk Youth, in Central America 
Obama gives 541,000 Social Security numbers to illegals
The Times Goes Know-Nothing on Immigration [Updated] | Power Line
Another Reason To Get Serious About Our Unguarded Border 
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