Hot Air is breaking bad news for Hillary (and Matt Drudge is lining in red, but not in the headline):
Whoa: Hillary e-mail instructs aide to transmit classified data without markings
If this holds up (and the Usual Suspects are surely working to be sure it doesn't), this is a bombshell.
Has the State Department released a smoking gun in the Hillary Clinton e-mail scandal? In a thread from June 2011, Hillary exchanges e-mails with Jake Sullivan, then her deputy chief of staff and now her campaign foreign-policy adviser, in which she impatiently waits for a set of talking points. When Sullivan tells her that the source is having trouble with the secure fax, Hillary then orders Sullivan to have the data stripped of its markings and sent through a non-secure channel.
That should be game, set, and match, yes?
Let's see - even though the email is from "H", aka "HRod17", that isn't Hillary? Or wasn't, since sometimes fall guys loyal aides sent emails from her account?
Or does the legacy media imagine they can muster a nine month segue to other topics? Bill Clinton's one-man War on Women, maybe? Or maybe not, despite an opportunity for deplorably sophomoric "undercover" and "going commando" quips.
Over at Town Hall Guy Benson explains that the "not marked classified" defense was always disingenuous anyway. As if the SecState couldn't be expected to guess that some material was obviously meant to be classified, marked or not. Still, finding out that even that defense was a lie should be a big deal. Yuuge, actually.
In any other investigation the Feds would conduct a roll-up, offering the underlings reduced charges or immunity in exchange for testimony against higher-ups. Can AG Loretta Lynch keep the FBI corralled on this? Stay tuned!
GOOD QUESTION: Who is more troubled by this revelation, Hillary or Uncle Joe? Feel the Bern!
UPDATE: The NY Times has the right lead but a snooze-button headline:
New Hillary Clinton Emails Released by State Department
WASHINGTON — On a Friday morning in June 2011, as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton waited for a set of talking points to be faxed to her, a top aide told her the delay was due to problems sending faxes that would be secure from probing eyes.
“If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure,” Mrs. Clinton responded in an email released early Friday by the State Department, one of about 3,000 newly released pages of Mrs. Clinton’s emails from her time as secretary of state. Of those, 66 documents contained classified information.
Off to a good start, but then it is back to sleep:
The note she sent to a top aide, Jacob J. Sullivan, instructing him how to send sensitive information in a “nonsecure” way is heavily redacted, so it is unknown what the talking points were about.
But that and other messages provide a window into Mrs. Clinton’s approach to handling email and other communication — at times cavalier, at times calculated to ensure that they would not fall into the wrong hands. She even expressed some umbrage at an officer who, like herself, had used a personal email address for official business.
At times "cavalier"? This just in - the allegation is that her conduct was illegal. Or is the FBI investigating "cavalier" conduct these days?
Commence the Mad Dash For The Memory Hole
...and the double digit posts today!
(i like new posts, and anyone complaining about them is nutz)
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 08, 2016 at 11:10 AM
Beasts posted in a prior thread:
I'm not buying any lottery tickets because I know for a fact that God doesn't want me to have $650M - he knows what I'd do with it. ;)
If you take the cash option, and after taxes, the prize would be more like $250 million. God might be OK with letting you have that much, even if He wouldn't trust you with the full $650 million, right?
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 11:16 AM
Wonder what Comey thinks? Forget Bernie, he will only tell us he's had enough about the emails.
Spent the morning with Frederick chasing down our new Beagle puppie (who is actually 4 yeas old but still a puppy to us) who got loose. She never went further than 300 yards but was so elusive it took us 1 hour of tracking, cajoling, chasing, whistling and finally Frederick got her. Missed the first hour of school I couldn't have done it without him.
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 11:18 AM
Freaky story of the week;
Mountain lion killed that had teeth growing out of the top of its head.
Take a look at the pic; it's like The Thing only it's a cougar not a husky.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 08, 2016 at 11:56 AM
given the inner circle had access, vetted & selected emails to not be deleted, ... how can Hilligula's entire inner circle avoid indictment here?
Posted by: henry | January 08, 2016 at 11:59 AM
$250M is also out of the question, James D. I'll find out the maximum that I'm allowed to have. I suspect it's in the low eight-figures. ;)
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 08, 2016 at 12:00 PM
Mountain lion killed that had teeth growing out of the top of its head.
That's a result of climate change, straight up.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 08, 2016 at 12:05 PM
You're right, TM, except any other case would have been rolled-up years ago. Smoking gun or not, she'll never be indicted. Not gonna happen.
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 08, 2016 at 12:05 PM
Henry, it is beyond me too.
RICO makes sense to me for all of em.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 12:14 PM
Jackpot is now > $800M.
If I win that much, I will just buy Clarice her own jet so she doesn't have to share mine. I'm sure she will return the favor should she win instead of me. We will fly our twin Gulf Streams to to take MM to dinner for our first outing.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 12:18 PM
As I just posted at Insty, any Classification Authority also has the authority to declassify something they previously classified. If the paper in question had been classified by the State Department, then she had legal authority to declassify it before sending it via unsecure means. We need to know more about the paper in question. All we know for sure at this point is that she's a liar, and we already knew that.
Posted by: Rex | January 08, 2016 at 12:20 PM
OL,
For a cool $70 mil (which still leaves you $180 mil) you can own this Skyacht.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3390146/Is-luxurious-private-jet-world-56million-Skyacht-One-five-opulent-rooms-cocktail-bar-walk-shower-no-wonder-s-billed-superyacht-fly.html
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 12:22 PM
Dunno, Jack.
I don't like the blue carpet and those orange towels in the bath kill the deal for me.
Maybe Donald will go for it.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 12:26 PM
Classification authority or not, you can't de-classify a document for expediency. Period.
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 08, 2016 at 12:28 PM
JiB, maybe one of our illustrious climate warriors can snag that to use as a commuting vehicle.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 12:29 PM
[pant, pant, pant, getting my aerobic exercise trying to keep up with the threads....]
Janet, from a few threads back:
All my "unhealthy habits" are one by one being revised to healthy.
Not sure if you're a drinker, but this seems to be going the wrong way:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/drinking-more-than-one-glass-of-wine-or-pint-of-beer-a-day-increases-cancer-risk-a6801806.html
Glad I don't live in the UK, where this applies. Of course the Lancet fiasco, not to mention the NHS, makes their "health authorities" even more suspect than those in the US government.
Posted by: jimmyk | January 08, 2016 at 12:29 PM
Beasts,
When you are this stupid, you can.
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_Jan7thWeb/08634-JAN7-FC/DOC_0C05792033/C05792033.pdf
Hillary using her own personal email server is questioning the use of private email by one of her State Dept. employees.
You know, it will be someone like her who will end up winning the Lottery.
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 12:30 PM
News from the Pool Hall: I was accused of racism last night!!!
Just kidding. Two of the guys on my Thursday team are black. I was warming up with one of them before matches started. When another guy arrived, I suggested the two of them warm up together and I would warm up by myself. I much prefer to warm up by myself - I like to do drills and practice specific shots instead of just playing random games.
So my buddy looks at me and says, "Oh, I see. It's a black thing, isn't it?" And I responded unhesitatingly, "You bet your black ass it is."
We laughed.
I don't know. Struck me that even though Obama has done so much damage to race relations on the macro level, at least for me personally, I can escape that with my friends. Of course, we couldn't have pulled off the same exchange on a college campus.
I have no idea the politics of my buddy. For all I know he's an Obama supporter. I do know he prefers vodka over beer. That's because he beat me and I had to buy him the drink of his choice. Maybe that's the real reason I didn't want to warm up with him any more.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 08, 2016 at 12:32 PM
Beasts, and I do not believe it can be done on the fly so casually since how would anyone else at State even know that through that action, that document was now unclassified. The place would be chaos.
Oh. Wait.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 12:32 PM
Simply removing the markings is not declassifying something. The original markings remain and the declassification markings are added.
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 08, 2016 at 12:35 PM
What is delicious about that exchange is how it puts Hilary directly in charge of instructing that person to break the law.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 12:37 PM
-- If the paper in question had been classified by the State Department, then she had legal authority to declassify it before sending it via unsecure means.--
Surely there are some limits besides expediency as well.
Does Ash Carter have legal authority to declassify the location, depth and course of our nuclear submarines?
I'm sure the Sea Hag's document wasn't nearly that sensitive but I would hope there needs to be some justification when declassifying beyond "Hurry it up. I've got a date with Huma".
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 08, 2016 at 12:39 PM
Keep it coming:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261387/hillary-health-horrors-matthew-vadum
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 01:05 PM
Came across this little video - I think the Browns fans here will agree with it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYBmzPUI-Qs
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 01:05 PM
Or this one:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2016/01/08/boom-in-newlyreleased-email-hillary-orders-aide-to-strip-classified-marking-n2101680
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 01:06 PM
Tapperkeepers won't but themselves, you know.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | January 08, 2016 at 01:08 PM
I have this image of John Kerry sitting in a dark room wearing his magic hat, just KNOWING the Dems want him more than Biden.
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 01:08 PM
I don't expect any JustUs indictments within 24 business hours or even before the turn of the century. I'm content to watch the pot bubble right through the election.
How would commenters here rate the Fascist candidates since 1988? Was BOzo a better candidate than Rapist? Magic Hat better or worse than Algor? Helmet weaker than Red Witch?
The vaunted MFM thumb on the scales could not tip them in favor of Helmet, Algor or Magic Hat. Is Red Witch likable enough to join the Rapist and BOzo group or does she properly belong with Helmet, Algor and Magic Hat?
Posted by: Rick Ballard | January 08, 2016 at 01:09 PM
Helmet was the most blanc mange he had a hankering for arugula as well.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | January 08, 2016 at 01:11 PM
From OL's 1:05:
A "long lineup for the bathroom."
Backstage.
A "long lineup" for a backstage bathroom.
Sure...
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 01:14 PM
Breaking news here in Taipei is via CNN International about some Islamic guy shouting Alahu Akabar while shooting at some Philly Police Officer, after pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State. The weapon in the shooting by the perp was a stolen Police Department handgun. The first Philly Administration spokesperson on CNN says it has nothing to do with the religion of Islam, followed by a local cop saying the perp said he did this because of his allegiance to the Islamic State.
Posted by: daddy | January 08, 2016 at 01:15 PM
Aloha Snackbar in the City of Brotherly Love.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 01:16 PM
Perp in Phillie is Moooozlim, and used a stolen gun that he got an EBAY GUNSHOW or sumping.
Posted by: GUS | January 08, 2016 at 01:18 PM
My guess is sooner or later someone will hope this one goes down the memory hole.
"What’s especially remarkable about what happened in that Baltimore courtroom is that both the judge and the prosecutor demonstrated that they clearly knew what they were doing was unconstitutional and unethical but proceeded anyway."
Does any one in the current government ever do the right thing anymore--simply because it is the right thing to do?
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/baltimore_judge_guts_the_5th_amendment.html#ixzz3wg6a1AWh
Posted by: pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter | January 08, 2016 at 01:19 PM
The weapon in the shooting by the perp was a stolen Police Department handgun.
I guess, according to the logic of the President and the anti-gun crowd, this demonstrates that police cannot be trusted to carry or own guns and should be disarmed immediately. Right?
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 01:21 PM
With less and less frequency, pagar
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | January 08, 2016 at 01:21 PM
Don't know if you guys are watching this Philly press conference - but the mayor came on first and said: "I want to say one thing. This incident has nothing to do with Islam or any religion". (paraphrase)
Then he turns it over to the chief of police: 1st question: Did the shooter say anything?
"He said Allah Akbar and I'm doing this for the state of Islam"
You just can't make this stuff up.
Now back to read 3 threads.
Posted by: Jane | January 08, 2016 at 01:22 PM
Meanwhile, El Chapo got himself caught.
Posted by: henry | January 08, 2016 at 01:26 PM
How would commenters here rate the Fascist candidates since 1988?
One lamppost per.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | January 08, 2016 at 01:27 PM
And they are doing this on behalf of a predator, who ravaged the community like a wolf.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | January 08, 2016 at 01:27 PM
So the perp wasn't running around in a Muzzie getup, he was just getting ready for a snooze in a nice & comfy Ebeneezer night shirt.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 01:28 PM
henry | January 08, 2016 at 01:26 PM
OK, now Obama knows where to send the weapons.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 01:33 PM
.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 01:34 PM
Looks like Friday go to mosque best clothes.
Posted by: henry | January 08, 2016 at 01:35 PM
So my buddy looks at me and says, "Oh, I see. It's a black thing, isn't it?" And I responded unhesitatingly, "You bet your black ass it is."
I've probably told this story before - but the left has really screwed minorities because you don't know if they will turn on you and accuse you of some bullshit. So why would you want to hire them?
When Amy first came to work for me in 2002, we were just getting to know each other, and as always we were dieting.
So one Monday Amy came into work and said she ate like a pig over the weekend. So I said: "So you are a tubbo lesbo".
Her reply: "You are a tubbo hetero".
I knew from that day on I could trust her.
Posted by: Jane | January 08, 2016 at 01:35 PM
I think el chapo, is already the odd man out, hence he was captured so quickly.
Posted by: buccaneer morgan | January 08, 2016 at 01:35 PM
Covering the important topics, a Neilsen survey of fermented swill preference per NFL market.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-no-1-beer-for-fans-of-each-nfl-team-2016-01-08
Oddly, the Carolina fans don't favor panther piss; they left that up to the Houston fans. I guess I'm a Steelers fan this week.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 01:41 PM
OL--the maintenance on those jets is high--we should start researching jet rentals to cover them when we aren't using outs.
Jimmyk, if that were true almost everyone in the UK would be dying of cancer--I have never seen so much imbibing of alcohol as there is there.
Posted by: clarice | January 08, 2016 at 01:46 PM
I have never seen so much imbibing of alcohol as there is there.
Visit Australia.
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 01:48 PM
Dave, "Bud Lite" for Packers... try again. That is a poorly faked study.
Posted by: henry | January 08, 2016 at 01:56 PM
Henry, they "analyzed...online conversations". I would think examination of stadium trash would be more accurate.
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 02:02 PM
Or they could check sales register rolls. duh!
perhaps survey bar tenders?
Posted by: henry | January 08, 2016 at 02:04 PM
Simply removing the markings is not declassifying something. The original markings remain and the declassification markings are added.
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 08, 2016 at 12:35 PM
Correction: When you are The Great and Mighty
Hill-LIAR-y, if *you* instruct one of the underlings to remove the markings, you have created a new, non-classified document.
See, it's just that easy-peasy.
Posted by: Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom) | January 08, 2016 at 02:05 PM
I just caught a clip of the Philly PD Commisionner and he wasn't pulling any strings about the Islam angle. When the clip ended, they cut back to Wolfie who read a memo from the NYPD about increased targeting of police, et al., by ISIS. Interesting.
Posted by: Beasts of England | January 08, 2016 at 02:10 PM
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/surprise-planned-parenthood-to-endorse-clinton/article/2579874
At this point, I can't even summon up any snark.
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 02:13 PM
So, while everyone fixated on Hillary telling Jake to strip the reports of the markings - smoking gun?!?!?? - I noticed something else:
Ohhhhh. So where everyone else stopped, I read on, and.........
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 08, 2016 at 02:16 PM
Posted by: Dave (in MA) | January 08, 2016 at 02:18 PM
Peyton Manning's* favorite brew
http://www.kcbrewreview.com/2011/09/hgh-home-grown-hops.html
Posted by: Rocco | January 08, 2016 at 02:21 PM
As I just posted at Insty, any Classification Authority also has the authority to declassify something they previously classified.
True, but what they don't have the authority to do is declassify something that refers to other classified information (e.g., satellite recon data, such as that earlier cited as being on Hillary's email system). I strongly suspect this isn't State internal information they're classifying, and in any event, as BoE notes above, the process isn't simply to strip off the markings.
Posted by: Cecil Turner | January 08, 2016 at 02:28 PM
re that Philly PD press conference:
After the mayor assured everyone that "This had nothing to do with Islam" they tossed it to the new commissioner for a question.
As the commissioner was telling everyone that the perp did it *for ISIS*, the mayor looked as if steam was about to come out of his ears, or his head was about to explode.
Must have been thinking "Oh, man, am I gonna be in big trouble now with the WH, the DNC, and CAIR."
Posted by: Michael (fpa Patriot4Freedom) | January 08, 2016 at 02:32 PM
I often skip this weekly post at Powerline but for some reason I clicked:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/01/thoughts-from-the-ammo-line-96.php
Nothing we all don't know but it's worth reading to never forget what the elites in this country think of us:
I have to include this because...well, true (duh!):
Heh.™
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 02:32 PM
Nice job on your 2:16 Mr. Dobbs
Posted by: gentlejim | January 08, 2016 at 02:37 PM
lyle @ 2:32
I'm still angry about that. And I suspest a lot of voters are, too. Which is probably yet another reason why the attacks on Trump by all the respectable pundits are going unheeded.
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 02:38 PM
I am too, James. Here's a little tonic instead. Do click for the pic but it's worth reading all the way to the end.
http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/bill-clinton-suffers-minor-injuries-chasing-msnbc-intern-t17402.html
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 02:43 PM
Thanks gentlejim....I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work.
Posted by: Jeff Dobbs | January 08, 2016 at 02:59 PM
Dave (in MA) @ 1:34 - re: Juanita Broadrick at 73 yrs. "What difference, at this point, does it matter?"
lyle - Sarah Palin was destroyed before our very eye by the envious--and terrified-- incompetents of our country.
Contrast: Democrats' vapid vulvarians, too numerous to list individually.
Posted by: Frau Duden | January 08, 2016 at 03:01 PM
Totally OT, but if you want a free copy of one of my books, shipped straight from Amazon, click here:
https://giveaway.amazon.com/p/801e2f323c682424
It's a free giveaway, all you have to do is "like" me on Amazon to enter.
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 03:02 PM
To clarify - it's a random drawing - everybody doesn't get a free paperback book!
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 03:02 PM
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/horrifying_details_emerge_of_cologne_attacks.html
Oh, c'mon, it's just some "youths" being "youths."
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 03:08 PM
Dave,
I agree with henry.
Cincinnati = bud lite? In a town known for its special beers Golden 14K Hudepohl, Burger, Weidemann and Schoenling Little Kings?
That must a been a paid study from INBev.
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 03:25 PM
The vast, left-wing conspiracy
Posted by: FTL | January 08, 2016 at 03:32 PM
Did anyone watch Precious last night? If so, do you agree with this?:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/429464/obama-gun-town-hall-pleasant-surprise-gun-owners
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 03:33 PM
http://youtu.be/btAbU1sPqIM
Snap!
Posted by: Threadkiller | January 08, 2016 at 03:39 PM
I did not watch last night. But I have some big problems with the article. Specifically:
It was to CNN’s credit that they invited as participants Chris Kyle’s widow, Taya, and a survivor of rape, Kimberly Weeks, both of whom are staunchly opposed to further restrictions. It was to Obama’s credit that he treated them so graciously.
It's not to CNN's "credit" that they invited people from both sides of a debate to, you know, a debate. It's the minimum that ought to be expected.
And it certainly is not to Zero's credit that he treated two citizens who had suffered terrible personal losses graciously. That is the barest minimum of behavior to be expected from any adult member of society.
We generally don't praise adults for defecating in the bathroom rather than dropping their pants and taking a dump in the middle of the living room. Obama doesn't deserve praise for being polite to the widow of a war hero and to a rape victim.
Posted by: James D | January 08, 2016 at 03:41 PM
Guess where the quote is from.
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 03:48 PM
TK,
Pretty close to reality. There is some gal who won $118 million and has coughed up $21 million in bail bonds for her gangsta boyfriend. It will go to someone who will blow it all in a year or two.
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 03:48 PM
$21 million?
That doesn't sound plausible.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 08, 2016 at 03:58 PM
Grafting onto lyle's People's Cube link here are three more hilarious ones;
Republicans mentally rape Democrat voters with non consensual information.
Top 15 things that didn't happen in 2015
Top 16 things that won't happen in 2016.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 08, 2016 at 04:01 PM
OL and I won't blow the money--we're buying fancing private jets and renting them out when we aren't using them for very big $$$$
Posted by: clarice | January 08, 2016 at 04:01 PM
My thoughts exactly, Ig. John Corzine's bond wasn't even that high and he managed to piss away a coupla billion in OPM. Oh, wait...
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 04:02 PM
This was the Lottery winner pays bail story from yesterday:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3387104/She-just-wants-stand-man-Alleged-drug-dealer-boyfriend-188million-lottery-winner-defends-posting-21-MILLION-bail-sports-diamond-Rolex-bought-too.html
Posted by: Old Lurker | January 08, 2016 at 04:06 PM
This story has gotten almost no play;
Planned Parenthood to shut down Christian Pharmacy; won’t sell abortion drugs.
A 2007 WA law says, according to the pharmacy's attorney;
“it’s perfectly legal for a pharmacy to say we’re not going to stock the week after pill because we think its unprofitable or we want to specialize in geriatric drugs and don’t want to stock that drug or even if you run out, that’s fine too, but if you don’t have the drug because your religion forbids you, that is illegal,” Luke Goodrich, Deputy General Counsel of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 08, 2016 at 04:06 PM
My fave from "Top 15 things that didn't happen in 2015":
The pic is hilarious.
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 04:09 PM
This makes more sense;
'So many people are going on that she has paid $21m to get me out of jail, but that ain't true. It is just 10 per cent.'
If he skips bail she's out $2.1 million not $21M. The bail bondsman is out the other $19 mill.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | January 08, 2016 at 04:10 PM
Taranto was also pleasantly surprised that last night's townhall turned out not to be pure propaganda:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/town-hall-surprise-1452279788?tesla=y
But our petulant prez still got pissy:
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 04:19 PM
Even Dame Peggy is perplexed at the inability of the GOPe to understand the appeal of Trump.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | January 08, 2016 at 04:25 PM
FTL's 3:32 link - "Parents outraged after Maine high school recruits students to work on Hillary Clinton's campaign as a way to get extra credits"
You can't convince me that that isn't on purpose.
Back in 2012 Obama came to speak at our High School. It was during school hours & he was campaigning.
It was so disgraceful & unfair.
This was another interesting bit about the campaign visit to our high school -
"And the rest of the White House need not worry about finding students to interview for their press reports from today's event: The pooler, Rick Dunham of Hearst Newspapers, offers up his own relatives to his colleagues.
"Personal note," Dunham writes in his report, "Among Washington-Lee's senior class are my 18-year-old nephew, Jordan Ricker, and my 17-year-old niece, Delia Ricker. Jordan and Delia are among the college-bound students trying to figure out how to pay for higher education and how large a student loan load to take on. Feel free to email me if you want to contact info for Jordan or Delia."
Indeed, Dunham even implies that another colleague's relative might be game for a reporter keen on getting color for his story. "Another note-worthy senior: Raleigh Mills, daughter of NY Times WH photographer Doug Mills," writes Dunham."
http://www.weeklystandard.com/reporter-covering-obama-offers-relatives-to-press-for-interviews/article/643157
Posted by: Janet | January 08, 2016 at 04:25 PM
And it was probably wise for the NRA to beg off on CNN’s invitation. Obama does much better when he has a foil.
Yes, a non responding foil. They probably didn't want to embarrass Sir Simpleton in a high exposure setting because of what that petulent retard would do in response.
Posted by: Captain Hate on the iPad | January 08, 2016 at 04:30 PM
Could have stopped at your first five words, Capt.
Posted by: lyle | January 08, 2016 at 04:30 PM
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-01-08/new-poll-shows-donald-trump-is-a-real-threat-to-hillary-clinton
Posted by: clarice | January 08, 2016 at 04:46 PM
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/disclosure-another-41-foreign-born-individuals-snagged-on-terror-charges/
Posted by: clarice | January 08, 2016 at 04:46 PM
what a difference a year makes,
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/07/kuwaiti_gitmo_detain.php
he was a levick client, most recently handed off to trippi's outfit
Posted by: narciso | January 08, 2016 at 04:50 PM
who I was speaking about,
http://www.trust.org/item/20160108140515-b9um4/?source=hpMostPopularTheWire
Posted by: narciso | January 08, 2016 at 04:53 PM
Thanks for that excerpt from Powerline, lyle.
So true.
Posted by: Janet | January 08, 2016 at 05:10 PM
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-polls/010816-788867-obama-fails-to-convince-public-on-gun-control-poll-finds.htm?ref=HPLNews
In the words of Thomas Lipscomb,:He couldn't sell pussy on a troop train."
Posted by: clarice | January 08, 2016 at 05:14 PM
yes I found cooke's remarks nonplussed, the real story was the callousness of the comments toward those two women in my book,
Posted by: narciso | January 08, 2016 at 05:22 PM
Memory hole of Vietnam.
http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/07/reports-c-130-in-support-of-trapped-operators-restricted-due-to-fears-of-collateral-damage/
Can't allow Americans to win!
Posted by: pagar a bacon, ham and sausage supporter | January 08, 2016 at 05:24 PM
clarice,
But he thinks he can and that is the point of it all. Its like watching Forrest Gump imitating Chauncey Garnder playing Navin R. Johnson.
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 05:27 PM
some sanity presents itself.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/freddie-gray-case-appellate-court-puts-hold-on-officers-compelled-testimony/
Posted by: narciso | January 08, 2016 at 05:30 PM
pagar,
Its not that we win its more like not let the other guy lose.
I have a lot of experience with "the War Fighter" which is what we call the Herc gunship. It was part of my Msc. Eng at AFIT. That bird and the Thunderbolt A-10 do more to protect ground forces than any other air asset no matter what Cecil will tell you.
Posted by: Jack is Back (but On Alert)! | January 08, 2016 at 05:35 PM