America produced 89% of the domestic energy consumed this year (through May), which is the highest level of energy self-sufficiency since 1984

Monday afternoon links - AEI | Carpe Diem Blog » AEIdeas:
"1. Chart of the Day I (above).
As a result of revolutionary drilling technologies that have dramatically increased domestic production of shale oil and shale gas, America produced 89% of the domestic energy consumed this year (through May), which is the highest level of energy self-sufficiency since 1984, more than 30 years ago."

Obama Is Just One Vote Away From Victory on Iran Deal | TheBlaze.com

Obama Is Just One Vote Away From Victory on Iran Deal | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama is one vote away from ensuring Congress cannot override his veto of a resolution to kill the Iran nuclear deal, with two Democratic senators announcing Tuesday that they are officially on board.

Sens. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania and Chris Coons of Delaware became the 32nd and 33rd senators to announce their support. "


Americans turning on America

IRS Could Not Verify 40% Of $15 Billion Of Affordable Care Act Tax Credits Due To Lack Of Data From Health Insurance Exchanges

TaxProf Blog:
"The Affordable Care Act created the refundable Premium Tax Credit (PTC) to assist eligible taxpayers with paying their health insurance premiums.
...According to the IRS, almost $11 billion in APTCs was paid to insurers in Fiscal Year 2014.
...For example, the IRS did not receive Exchange Periodic Data for approximately 1.7 million (40 percent) of the approximately 4.2 million Federal Exchange enrollment records and did not receive the Exchange Periodic Data from six of the 15 State Exchanges.
Because of incomplete and unreported data from the Exchanges, the IRS is unable to ensure that taxpayers claiming the PTC purchased insurance through an Exchange and properly reconciled APTCs received.
However, the IRS has developed processes to identify erroneous PTC claims.
Our review of these processes identified that 79 of the 80 reject code conditions and 16 of the 20 PTC error codes were working as intended.
Computer programming errors resulted in the reject and PTC error codes not always identifying tax returns with the particular error condition.
The IRS plans to make programming corrections."

US government suing company!----- Muslima Stewardess Refuses to Serve Alcohol, Hamas-CAIR Claims Airline Violated Her Constitutional Rights

Muslima Stewardess Refuses to Serve Alcohol, Hamas-CAIR Claims Airline Violated Her Constitutional Rights | Pamela Geller:
"Another Muslim workplace lawsuit from CAIR in order to impose Islam on the workplace.
This is what they do.
A Muslim flight attendant has filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), claiming she was suspended from her job for not serving alcohol.
Why would a devout Muslim want to be a flight attendant when half your job is serving alcohol?
This is just like the devout Muslim who sued soft porn retailer Abercrombie and Fitch because she wanted to wear the hijab.
The EEOC is suing Star Transport for rightfully terminating two Muslims who refused to do their job.
If these Muslim truck drivers don’t want to deliver alcohol, then they shouldn’t have taken a job in which part of their duties would be to deliver alcohol.
It’s that simple.
But no, Islamic supremacists chip, chip, chip away at the establishment clause, and in doing so, impose Islam on the secular marketplace.
Muslim lawsuits against Hertz, Wal-Mart, Target, Disney and a host of other American businesses for special rights, special accommodation have been largely successful creating a special rights for a special class of people — which is an accordance with Islam (in which Muslims are superior to the kuffar).
But it goes against every American tenet of individual rights and separation of mosque and state. Someone ought to remind the EEOC that their name is Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Equal as in no special rights for any particular class.
Every accommodation gives way to more demands.
Everywhere American mores conflict with sharia, it is our mores that must give way.

Bloated U.S. voter rolls could lead to lawsuits

Bloated U.S. voter rolls could lead to lawsuits - Washington Times:
Berrien County TEA Party added 2 new photos.

SHARON TYLER FAILS TO FIX VOTER ROLL ISSUE AFTER 32 MONTHS IN OFFICE. COUNTY FACES LIKELY LAWSUIT!

Berrien County Clerk Sharon Tyler and 23 other Michigan Clerks have received notice from the Public Interest Legal Foundation that they have more registered voters than voting age population.
In an article in West Michigan Politics Tyler stated: "this issue has been a priority since she took office in January 2013."

"This was an issue I ran for office on 2012 to resolve," Tyler said. "This is an issue my office has been working on and even hired additional staff."

Great... so the real question is why has it not been dealt with in the 32 months she has been Clerk, especially if this was the issue she made a priority, ran on and hired additional staff to resolve?

And at additional cost to Berrien County's hardworking taxpayers!!

Taking a look at just the City of Benton Harbor, according to the 2013 Census figures there are only 6,739 citizens over the age of 18. 
Yet according to the voter rolls in the 2014 November General Election there were 9,900 Registered Voters! 

Assuming every single person the age of 18 or older registered to vote, that still leaves Berrien County with 3,161 phantom voters in just the City of Benton Harbor!!

From WashTimes:
"America’s voter rolls are so bloated that dozens of counties have more people registered than there are adults living there, according to two new studies released Thursday that the authors said could lead to lawsuits forcing states to clean things up.
True the Vote, a Texas group that works for clean elections, counted 136 counties with voter registration rates of more than 100 percent of their adult population.
Meanwhile the Public Interest Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm based in Alexandria, used a slightly different methodology and counted 141 counties.
“At the end of the day you can point to the Justice Department for allowing this to go on,” Mr. Churchwell said, blaming the Obama administration for not pursuing easy cases that could have pressured jurisdictions to keep their voter rolls clean.
The National Voter Registration Act, better known as “Motor Voter” because it allows registering at motor vehicle bureaus, also requires states keep their voter rolls clean, in order to try to prevent fraudulent votes from being cast."

Ted Cruz Powerfully Calls Out RINOs Mitch McConnell and John Boehner: It’s Scathing | The PolitiStick

Ted Cruz Powerfully Calls Out RINOs Mitch McConnell and John Boehner: It’s Scathing | The PolitiStick:

"Presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a constitutional conservative, blew the lid again off the corrupt GOP establishment and their conniving, scheming and treasonous behind the scenes activities which fly in the face of their public appearances.

Ted Cruz appeared on the Mark Levin show on Friday, telling the leading conservative talk show, constitutional scholar and best-selling author that RINO GOP leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell were again preparing to “roll over” to Obama, but this time it’s not on Obamacare, or funding Obama’s illegal amnesty, or raising the debt ceiling, or funding Planned Butcherhood."

​Guess what word (hint:It's the name of a US president. And it ain't "Bush") is NEVER mentioned in this article-----The surging ranks of America's ultrapoor

​The surging ranks of America's ultrapoor - CBS News:
"By one dismal measure, America is joining the likes of Third World countries.
The number of U.S. residents who are struggling to survive on just $2 a day has more than doubled since 1996, placing 1.5 million households and 3 million children in this desperate economic situation.
That's according to "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," a book from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt that will be released on Sept. 1.
The measure of poverty isn't arbitrary -- it's the threshold the World Bank uses to measure global poverty in the developed world. 
While it may be the norm to see families in developing countries such as Bangladesh and Ethiopia struggle to survive on such meager income, the growing ranks of America's ultrapoor may be shocking, given that the U.S. is considered one of the most developed capitalist countries in the world.
"Most of us would say we would have trouble understanding how families in the county as rich as ours could live on so little," said author Kathryn Edin, who spoke on a conference call to discuss the book, which she wrote with Luke Shaefer.
Edin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.
"These families, contrary to what many would expect, are workers, and their slide into poverty is a failure of the labor market and our safety net, as well as their own personal circumstances..."

History for September 2

History for September 2 - On-This-Day.com:
Allen Drury 1918, Christa McAuliffe 1948, Mark Harmon 1951 


Jimmy Connors 1952, Keanu Reeves 1964, Salma Hayek 1966 


31 B.C. - The Roman leader Octavian defeated the alliance of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. Octavian, as Augustus Caesar, became the first Roman emperor. 


1666 - The Great Fire of London broke out. The fire burned for three days destroying 10,000 buildings including St. Paul's Cathedral. Only 6 people were killed. 


1775 - Hannah, the first American war vessel was commissioned by General George Washington. 


1789 - The U.S. Treasury Department was established. 


1864 - During the U.S. Civil War Union forces led by Gen. William T. Sherman occupied Atlanta following the retreat of the Confederates. 


1901 - Theodore Roosevelt, then Vice President, said "Speak softly and carry a big stick" in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair. 


1963 - "The CBS Evening News" was lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes. 


1969 - NBC-TV canceled "Star Trek." The show had debuted on September 8, 1966. 


1973 - Billy Martin was fired as manager of the Detroit Tigers. Martin was relieved of his duties three days after ordering his pitchers to throw spitballs against Cleveland Indians batters. 

Fox News Host Asks 1 Question About #BlackLivesMatter…Immediately Causes a National Firestorm

Fox News Host Asks 1 Question About #BlackLivesMatter…Immediately Causes a National Firestorm:

"Any criticism, direct or implied, of such hooliganism sends the pro-#BlackLivesMatter movement into convulsions with howls of ‘racism,’ which is essentially the pot calling the kettle black.

During an interview on “Fox and Friends”, co-host Elizabeth Hasselbeck asked her guest, Kevin Jackson, a simple, seemingly innocuous question:

“Kevin, why has the “Black Lives Matter” movement not been classified yet as a hate group?”

Jackson was undaunted by the question. He responded:"

Black Marine Speaks Directly to Black Lives Matter Movement in Excoriating Video Message: ‘The God’s Honest Truth’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Black Marine Speaks Directly to Black Lives Matter Movement in Excoriating Video Message: ‘The God’s Honest Truth’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"Whaley noted that many in the black community have “slandered” him for his views on the issue, calling him an “Uncle Tom” and “house n***er.” He responded to them directly in the video.

“I had drill instructors in boot camp that had better insults than y’all,” he added. “The reason I don’t have a lot of black supporters — I’m going to tell you the God’s honest truth. The reason why I don’t have a lot of black supporters is because "

If The Fed’s Forecasts Are Always Wrong—–How Can Its Policies Possibly Be Right?

If The Fed’s Forecasts Are Always Wrong—–How Can Its Policies Possibly Be Right? | David Stockman's Contra Corner:
One of the most curiously persistent surrealisms of Washington, DC is the reflexive deference given the Federal Reserve System. The Washington elite tends to accord more infallibility to the Fed than do Catholics the Pope.

Now comes one of the world’s top monetary reporters, Ylan Q. Mui, to make a delicate observation at the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, in Why nobody believes the Federal Reserve’s forecasts. Mui:

“The market recognizes that the Fed has repeatedly erred on the optimistic side,” said Eric Lascelles, chief economist at RBC Global Asset Management. “Fool me 50 times, but not 51 times.”

Even the government’s official budget forecasters are dubious of the Fed’s own forecast.

This is a theme that Mui has touched on before. In 2013, she wrote Is the Fed’s crystal ball rose-colored?:

The big question is whether Fed officials can get it right after years in which they have regularly predicted a stronger economy than the one that materialized. In January 2011, Fed officials predicted that GDP would grow around 3.7 percent that year. It clocked in at 2 percent. In January 2012, they anticipated growth of about 2.5 percent. We ended up with 1.6 percent.

To give Ms. Mui’s competition its due, Dr. Richard Rahn at the Washington Times last April crisply noted:

The Federal Reserve had forecast the U.S. economy to grow about 4 percent near the beginning of each year for the last five years. But during each year, the Fed was forced to reduce its forecast until it got to the actual number of approximately 2 percent. (Other government agencies have been making equally bad forecasts.) These mammoth errors clearly show that the forecast models the official agencies use are mis-specified and contain incorrect assumptions.

What’s going on here?

A good bet would be that there’s a problem with the Fed’s reliance on an arcane art.  This art is designated “Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium” modeling..."

Caitlyn Jenner Halloween Costumes Are Upsetting Liberals

Judge’s Ruling Is a Big Step in Proving Whether White House Officials Were Involved in the IRS Targeting Scandal | TheBlaze.com

Judge’s Ruling Is a Big Step in Proving Whether White House Officials Were Involved in the IRS Targeting Scandal | TheBlaze.com:

"The Obama administration tried to argue that it doesn’t have to follow through with such requests and invoked the same law the judge cited to say that it is required to hand over the information.

“The Court is unwilling to stretch the statute so far, and it cannot conclude that section 6103 may be used to shield the very misconduct it was enacted to prohibit,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote.

Cause of Action, the legal watchdog group that sued the IRS in 2013, hailed Friday’s decision as a “victory for transparency advocates,” the Free Beacon reported."

Nobel Laureate in Literature: “Europe will soon go under – The Muslims are flooding, occupying and destroying Europe”

Nobel Laureate in Literature: “Europe will soon go under – The Muslims are flooding, occupying and destroying Europe” | Pamela Geller:

"Nobel Laureate in Literature: “Europe will soon go under – The Muslims are flooding, occupying and destroying Europe”
And yet tens of thousands of Muslims continue to flood the borders of European countries.
Europe learned nothing from the Holocaust. They traded six million Jewish lives for 20 million Muslims...

Following Hitler, Europeans no longer dare to discuss the disadvantages of alien races and religions, warns the Hungarian-Jewish professional Holocaust and Nobel laureate Imre Kertész in his new book, The Last Escape(?).
Den Hungarian-Jewish writer and professional Holocaust Imre Kertész, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2002, now directs sharp criticism of the Western establishment’s decision to allow Europe to change population through mass immigration from the third world countries.
It’s in the book, the last to escape Kertész chooses to strongly condemn what those in power do with Europe right now.
..“Europe will soon go under because of its former liberalism that has proved childish and suicidal. Europe has produced Hitler, and after Hitler the continent stands there with no arguments: the doors are wide open for Islam, they no longer dare talk about race and religion while Islam only knows the language of hatred against alien races and religions,” writes Kertész in his book, according to a summary of the blogger Thomas Nydahl.
The 85-year-old Nobel laureate continues:
“I should say a few words about politics too …
Then I would talk about how Muslims are flooding, occupying, in clear verbs, destroying Europe, and how Europe relates to this, the suicidal liberalism and the stupid democracy …
It always ends the same way: civilization reaches a certain stage of maturation where it is not only able to defend itself, but where it is in a seemingly incomprehensible worship of their own enemy.”"

Trump Supporters Anonymous

Trump Supporters Anonymous – IFL 08 08.30.15 | IntellectualFroglegs.com:

"Under normal conditions, my best ideological match for president…hands down is Ted Cruz—but these are not normal times.
And the more I watch events unfold, the more I am convinced that Donald Trump is the only candidate with the clout, the resources and the media savvy to stand up against the MASSIVE DC Political machine..and their accomplices in the media.
With all due respect to the heroic Ted Cruz—he just hit the DC GOP with his best shot— calling out the liars on the Senate floor—and they didn’t even flinch. The media ignored him—and the DC GOP ignored him.
"Anyone that has both the left AND right running scared, in my book is doing something right."
As Trump is not shy to point out—he is a very smart guy, a financial genius with unparalleled media skills.
He is the first person I’ve seen in years—espousing a conservative platform that is successfully taking it to the media—rather than the other way around..."

These monsters live off our tax dollars and live babies-----Planned Parenthood Baby Parts Vendor ABR Pays Off Clinics, Intact Fetuse...

That Jihadist Tot Is Back Inflicting New Sadism on His Teddy Bear in New Shock Photos | TheBlaze.com

That Jihadist Tot Is Back Inflicting New Sadism on His Teddy Bear in New Shock Photos | TheBlaze.com:

 "The Islamic State group regularly uses children for propaganda purposes to try to demonstrate how it indoctrinates the young. The recruits seen in training videos and as executioners are called “cubs of the caliphate.”


There are two kinds of diseases taking place.
The first, is ISIS.
The second, is the determination of the current administration to allow them to continue their rein of terror.

The United States must not allow such terror to come to our shores. You would think our own government would want to do everything possible to keep our home safe...but we elected someone who has no love for our country and pacifies our enemy, which only encourages them to do more harm.

WAKE UP AMERICA!!

Let us not forget-----*GRAPHIC” New VIDEO: Islamic State BURNS 4 CAPTIVES ALIVE #ISIS

*GRAPHIC” New VIDEO: Islamic State BURNS 4 CAPTIVES ALIVE #ISIS | Pamela Geller:
"The left’s “enlightened” progressive response to such unspeakable savagery is to insist this has nothing to do with Islam and shrug.
Instead they attack those who oppose jihad terror as the real problem.
The idea that this savagery goes on daily while the whole world does nothing speaks to the  left’s decades-long destruction of Americanism and power.
The spread of Islam by the sword would not have been possible without our impotence."

Another government FAIL!!!-----Solyndra autopsy: Did Inspector General go too easy on Department of Energy?

Solyndra autopsy: Did Inspector General go too easy on Department of Energy? - Watchdog.org:
An Inspector General of the Department of Energy report that picked over the bones of the Solyndra green energy fiasco placed most of the blame on Solyndra executives for losing more than $500 million in taxpayer money.

But a close reading shows DOE made plenty of mistakes as well.

...While the 13-page report also criticizes DOE officials for not sufficiently vetting Solyndra and mentions political pressure placed on unnamed DOE employees to get the loan pushed through as part of the Obama administration’s stimulus program, it does not go into many specifics — especially about the political aspect of the case.

...That conclusion riles William Yeatman, senior fellow specializing in environmental policy and energy markets at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a policy group that advocates for limited government, who called the IG report “a conspicuous whitewash” that tries to absolve DOE. “It’s an outrage,” Yeatman told Watchdog.org, adding he has admired Friedman’s work in the past.

...But the agency’s loan officers “who received this spreadsheet each told us they did not examine it closely,” the report said. “While Solyndra did nothing to highlight or emphasize the new information, the Department missed an opportunity, prior to loan closing, to evaluate the fact that Solyndra’s contract customers were not buying product at the contracted terms.”

“They simply didn’t pay attention to this,” Yeatman said in a telephone interview. “That information was quantitative, hard data that, if (DOE) had paid attention to, made clear that this was a bad deal …What a piss-poor job the government does when it plays banker.”

In addition, a week before the loan closing, an employee noticed the price of rooftop solar systems was projected to be much lower than Solyndra’s estimates and sent three emails to top DOE loan officials alerting them to the issue. “Yet, no action was taken,” the report said. “Instead, it was apparently disregarded....”