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How’s that bring in the refugees thing working?
Via Chron:
A man identified as an Iraqi refugee has been arrested in Houston as part of a federal investigation into connections with the Islamic State terrorist organization, officials confirmed Thursday.
In a statement late Thursday, the U.S. Department of Justice said Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, 24, a Palestinian born in Iraq, has been charged with attempting to “provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.”
The indictment, unsealed Thursday, also alleges that Al Hardan, an Iraqi refugee who lives in Houston and was granted permanent resident status in 2011, unlawfully attempted to become a U.S. citizen and lied to authorities about his connections to a “terrorist organization.”

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Sacramento resident was arrested today on a federal charge of making a false statement involving international terrorism. Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab, 23, is charged in a criminal complaint that was unsealed today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California following his arrest.
“Aws Mohammed Younis Al-Jayab allegedly traveled overseas to fight alongside terrorist organizations and lied to U.S. authorities about his activities,” said Assistant Attorney General Carlin. “The National Security Division’s highest priority is protecting the nation from terrorism, and we will continue to hold accountable those who seek to join or aid the cause of terrorism, whether at home or abroad.”

We’ll cover it, if we can stand the manufactured tears, the staged audience and the ridiculous posturing of Obama. We will sticky it on the top, new posts will continue below this post. My critique is in [ ].
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Rape Victim asked did he answer your question?
KC: No.
President now is leaving the Townhall.
Hugh Hewitt: it’s not a conspiracy to be deeply concerned about his actions, and to mock, belittle American people is not right.
Jay Carney: bla bla bla
S.E. Cupp: he mocked people and a lot of what he proposed tonight are already illegal and he can’t explain how this will actually stop crime.
Van Jones: I couldn’t be prouder of him.
Obama talking to young teen: I didn’t grow up having to worry about guns, I had more forgiving environment. But it’s not just inner city kids who are at risk. About 2/3rds of number are suicides. So that’s why we’re investing in mental health.
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Child asks Ted Cruz if he would deport her.

She’s got the prison orange all ready…
Via Daily Caller:
A former U.S. Attorney predicts a Watergate-style showdown in the Department of Justice if Attorney General Loretta Lynch overrules a potential FBI recommendation to indict Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
“The [FBI] has so much information about criminal conduct by her and her staff that there is no way that they walk away from this,” Joseph diGenova, formerly the District of Columbia’s U.S. Attorney, told Laura Ingraham in a Tuesday radio interview. “They are going to make a recommendation that people be charged and then Loretta Lynch is going to have the decision of a lifetime.
“I believe that the evidence that the FBI is compiling will be so compelling that, unless [Lynch] agrees to the charges, there will be a massive revolt inside the FBI, which she will not be able to survive as an attorney general. It will be like Watergate. It will be unbelievable.”
When she gets indicted, I will sing this.

Can you pick out which one is Bergdahl?
Via NY Post:
One of Bowe Bergdahl’s most prized possessions during his five-year captivity with the Taliban — was a dress.
“When they moved me around, they’d put a girl’s dress over me and then a burka over me and then because anything I touched because I’m an infidel – everything I touch is dirty,” Bergdahl explained on the fourth episode of the popular podcast “Serial” Thursday.
“So thankfully they left the dress and the burka in the room so I was able to use that as warmth.”
The episode, called “The Captors,” dove into the background of the Hakkani terror group based in Pakistan that held Bergdahl, who is accused of deserting his army post back in 2009.
Hillary lied to the families about the Benghazi attack being about a video. Then she lied about what she said to them, claiming she never told them it was about a video. All the families who have commented publicly (that’s 4 different family members from three of the four families) have had their members say she said it was due to the video, including Charles Woods, the father of Ty Woods.
What reason would the families have to lie? Why then do they all remember she said the same thing and have said the same thing consistently since that time? Charles Woods, who is a judge, even took contemporaneous notes of what Hillary told him. Hillary’s story, meanwhile has changed more than the weather.
It is Charles Woods who is now challenging Hillary to take a lie detector test with him. I’m guessing Charles, whose story has been consistent from the beginning, will pass with flying colors.
Chances Hillary when will accept the challenge? Between now and the 12th of never…
HT: Right Scoop

Sounds like Hillary…
Via Free Beacon:
Bernie Sanders and his wife have on numerous occasions steered money from organizations under their control to friends and family members, public records show.
The payments benefitted the wife of the Democratic presidential candidate, his stepdaughter, and the son of a former colleague in city government whom Sanders has described as a close friend.
Sanders, a self-described socialist, is now running for the presidency on an anti-corruption platform, decrying public officials’ attempts to use their positions for personal financial gain.
Following 16 years as a member of the House, Sanders was elected to the Senate in 2006. His political campaigns were an early vehicle for payments to his family members.
According to Jane O’Meara Sanders, the senator’s wife, Sanders’ House campaigns paid her more than $90,000 for consulting and ad placement services from 2002 to 2004. She pocketed about $30,000 of that money.
Her daughter Carina Driscoll, Sanders’ stepdaughter, also drew a salary from the campaign. She was paid more than $65,000 between 2000 and 2004, according to her mother.
After working for the campaign, the senator’s wife would come under scrutiny for expenditures at Burlington College, where she was hired as president in 2004. While she led the school,it paid six-figure sums to her daughter and the son of a family friend.

Is there a level of society below implosion? Because they just may be heading there…
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro is doubling down on his existing economic policies with the appointment of a young leftist hardliner to head the country’s cratering economy, setting the stage for confrontation between the ruling socialist party and the newly powerful opposition.
Luis Salas, the new 39-year-old vice president for the economy, has scant administrative experience, but champions the same theories of price and currency controls that have defined Venezuela’s leftist economic policy for 17 years.
Like Maduro, Salas says the country is suffering from the world’s worst recession and triple-digit inflation because business interests are colluding with the U.S. to sabotage the economy.
He even goes further than Maduro in arguing that many of the country’s problems are the result of being too capitalist.

It’s what they do, Hillary does it too. No honest conversation here.
Via The Blaze:
A town hall event with President Barack Obama set to take place at George Mason University on Thursday is closed to students and the general public, according to an email sent to students by a university administrator.
“CNN is hosting a Town Hall with President Barack Obama on Thursday, Jan. 7, in the Johnson Center. This is an invitation-only event. No tickets are available,” wrote Renell Wynn, vice president of communications and marketing.
Wrong…
Via WaPo:
Let’s say right off the bat that this was a dumb idea. Newsweek senior writer Alex Nazaryan on Wednesday tweeted that “Ted Cruz has a strong ground game in Iowa” and attached a Nazi-era photo of people carrying swastika-emblazoned flags.
The tweet was over-the-line offensive, and the apology — directed toward Cruz supporters but not the Republican presidential candidate himself — wasn’t much better.
Politician who is at single digit ratings in polls attacks politician in two digits leading in multiple states.
Via NBC:
The three Democratic presidential candidates made their case here Wednesday night in an early state that may prove critical in securing the nomination. Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley delivered speeches at the “Battle Born Battleground” caucus dinner, hosted by the Nevada Democratic Party and Sen. Harry Reid.
In some of the strongest statements of the night, O’Malley, who spoke second, dedicated a significant portion of his speech to knocking Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. “I’d like to say that Donald Trump is the most outrageous and unqualified person ever to run for president. But really, that’s not fair to Ted Cruz,” said the former governor of Maryland, who is currently struggling with single digits in polls.
Shrug?
Via The Atlantic:
Brand new year, brand new resurgence of one of the more frustrating and futile political firedrills out there: Ted Cruz birtherism.
The ringleader is—shockingly!—Donald Trump, who reopened the old controversy about whether Cruz is eligible to be president, given that he was born in Canada, in an interview with The Washington Post
I just received this strange voicemail on my mobile phone ringting from number 1-800-318-2596.
It’s an advertisement from Healthcare.gov promoting the Federal Health Insurance Marketplace.
This is baffling to me because Healthcare.gov does not have my mobile number so I am at a loss as to how this happened.

Via Politico:
Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.) introduced a resolution Thursday to censure Barack Obama for his executive order on guns.
It’s the most direct action that a congressional Republican has taken against Obama after he rolled out a series of executive actions this week in an effort to close loopholes related to gun purchases and background checks.
Though Republicans are blasting Obama’s directive as a case of blatant executive overreach, Palazzo’s move is unlikely to gain much traction, given the rarity of censuring a president. A number of lawmakers introduced censures against Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and President Andrew Jackson was formally censured in 1834 by the Senate.
Though Republicans are blasting Obama’s directive as a case of blatant executive overreach, Palazzo’s move is unlikely to gain much traction, given the rarity of censuring a president. A number of lawmakers introduced censures against Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and President Andrew Jackson was formally censured in 1834 by the Senate.

Illegal to surveil the people who might do something wrong.
Via ABC:
The New York Police Department will strengthen safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in investigations of terror threats and install a civilian representative on an advisory committee that reviews the probes under the terms of a settlement of two high-profile civil rights lawsuits, lawyers said Thursday.
The announcement of a deal following months of negotiations formally ended litigation over accusations that the nation’s largest police department cast a shadow over Muslim communities with a covert campaign of religious profiling and illegal spying.