Where Are My Keys?

This explains so much about our friends on the Left..

It's science, so it must be true:

The figures revealed that men with higher upper-body strength were less likely to support left-wing policies on the redistribution of wealth.

Men with less upper body strength are more likely to support the welfare state - like Labour leader Ed Miliband

But men with low upper-body strength were more likely to put their own self-interest aside and support a welfare state.

The researchers found no link between upper-body strength and redistribution opinions among women. 

Professor Michael Petersen said: ‘In all three countries, physically strong males consistently pursued the self-interested position on redistribution.

‘However physically weak males were more reluctant to assert their self-interest – just as if disputes over national policies were a matter of direct physical confrontation between individuals.

 

The hits just keep coming..

No link (yet), but reports coming in via Twitter suggest that there is no written record of when Eric Holder recused himself.  Holder says he isn't sure what day it was, but was at the beginning of the probe.  Spencer Bachus asks" Do you not do that...in writing?"

Holder responds "I guess it might be helpful" to have written that down.  As per norm, the White House had no knowledge.  "My guess is the White House would have found out about this by reading the newspapers..watching television.." says Holder, in regards to AP snooping.

Why does Eric Holder still have a job?

And what the fuck does Obama do every day?!

He is either incredibly incompetent and uninterested in running this Administration, or it's full of liars.

Or both.

Behold: the most transparent Administration ever!

Here is what the ACLU got back, after filing an FOIA on the Feds warrantless snooping on citizens text messages:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If it looks like a lot of blank pages, it is because that is exactly what the ACLU got back.  15 pages worth.

You know how crafty the Republicans in DC are?

They were able to take a partisan, conservative "mole", get him to register as a Democrat in Virginia,  get him to vote for Hillary! in the 2008 primary, then vote for Obama in 2008 and 2012, were able to get him stationed as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Libya, and saw to it that Chris Stevens got murdered, so Hicks could come and testify against the inept Obama Administration response to an obvious terror attack.

A Democrat who put Country before Party.  Too bad there aren't a few more of those in the MSM and on The Hill.

Nope, nothing to see here..

As I have said before (repeatedly), it's not the crime, but the cover-up.  Today we learn that there were 12 revisions to the Benghazi talking points before they were released.  Here's Carney saying that the changes to the talking points were "stylistic and non-substantive:

 

"Stylistic and non-substantive".

The evolution of the talking points, showing significant edits and revisions, specifically to remove references to al Qaeda.  As you scroll down through the 12 revisions, note the "strike-outs", and how much the document changes from the original assessment.

All one has to do is a little exercise here.  Read the original CIA talking points, then read the "official" talking points after all the edits by the White House and/or State Department.  Which one is closer to the truth?

Kudos to Sharyl Attkisson, Jake Tapper, and now Jon Karl, seemingly the only MSM reporters actually interested in learning what happened, and the Administration response to it.  Stephen Hayes also gets a large chunk of credit for uncovering proof that there were multiple revisions made to those talking points.

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 What will the rest of the MSM do with this new information?

Had the White House and State come out after the attacks, revealed what they were, and then gone after those that did it, they could have effectively managed this situation.  Instead, they ignored requests for help from Stevens, refused to acknowledge an attack on 9/11 was terrorism related, did nothing to try and help those fighting for their lives, and tried to change the narrative.

The truth always wins out.

There will still be folks on the Left that will blindly follow the lead of the White House, and not turn a curious eye to the latest revelations, and ask their own questions of why the Administration acted in the way it did, and then lied about those actions later.  They will choose to ignore that a week or so after the attack, President Obama was on Letterman, saying that "there was this video" that started the event in Benghazi, knowing full well the video had nothing to do with it.

Wake up.  You were lied to.

Yet another reason my daughter will never set foot inside a public school..

 

Ahh, the tolerant Left.

Not really a surprise, is it?

Top 10 States friendly to business have Republican Governors:

Of the 1o worst, 7 are run by Democrats, including California, which comes in dead last.

So much for the gun "crisis"..

Not that it will matter to folks like Piers Morgan.  It's not like the Left ever lets the facts get in the way of their ideology.

Click the link for more graphs and data.

There are more guns that ever before "out there", and yet the rates continue to drop no matter how you look at the data or subsets.  Who would have thunk it?

This should effectively end the political aspirations of Hillary! Clinton..

“This has been a difficult week for the State Department and for our country. We’ve seen the heavy assault on our post in Benghazi that took the lives of those brave men. We’ve seen rage and violence directed at American embassies over an awful internet video that we had nothing do to with. It’s hard for the American people to make sense of that, because it is senseless, and it is totally unacceptable. The people of Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Tunisia, did not trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of a mob. Reasonable people and responsible leaders in these countries in these countries need to do everything they can to restore security and hold accountable those behind these violent acts. And we will, under the president’s leadership, keep taking steps to protect our personnel around the world.”

The Secretary of State was still pushing the "it was because of a video" meme at the funeral of Ambassador Stevens, when it has been revealed that she knew it was a terrorist attack.  Will be interesting to see which Democrat nominee brings it up during the debates in 2015.

(Clinton quote is at the 16:25-17:45 mark)

 

Her future also depends on if/how these 5 questions are answered.

The Democrats, predictably, are launching preemptive strikeson the Whistleblowers and the hearing itself before they testify.

What's truly sad here, is that the Left is more concerned with protecting their own, than finding out the truth about the death of four Americans that may have been prevented.

 

Finally, a tough question..

A great question posed to the State Department, asking about the credibility of the whistleblowers:

“Before we get to the specifics of what they’re expected to testify, I wonder if you could provide us with your assessment of the caliber of these two individuals," Rosen asked Ventrell. "Are they credible? They’ve been working at fairly senior posts here and abroad for years and years. I wonder first what thoughts the Department has about the caliber of these two individuals."

Pretty simple and straightforward, right?  These guys have been a part of your Department for years.  Are they good at what they do?

State, of course, can't answer:

 “I mean, it’s a little bit hard for us to--given that we don’t have a lot of information about how the hearing was scheduled and the various sort of formation of the majority’s decision to have this hearing, it’s a little bit hard to comment on the witnesses. Let me do – let me say one thing here, though, at the very top. We have always encouraged any State Department employee who wants to share their personal story, whether it be to the ARB or the Congress to tell the truth, period, full stop, end of story. That’s long been our position. We’ve made that clear from the start. In terms of these particular individuals, the committee didn’t come to us asking witnesses. We found out through the media and through the announcement the same way you all did. In terms of these potential transcripts out there, we haven’t seen the transcripts"

The transcripts have nothing to do with the question, which was pretty simple.  SO the reporter asks it again:

“Let me just go back to the question I started with, okay?" said Rosen. "And as I tried to put it to you, without respect to the specific charges that we expect these two individuals to be testifying to, can you just say: Are Greg Hicks and Mark Thompson credible people? Are they not longstanding career State Department employees? Are they credible?”

And State continues to dance, and dodge the very simple question.

I'm not surprised that State reacted in this way.  If you say they are credible, with distinguished careers, then you give the information they are set to reveal this week added  weight.  If you say they aren't, and have had pedestrian careers, it begs a follow up question, asking why they were there in the first place.

This is why it is easier to just tell the truth, than to lie.