**Written by Doug Powers This headline and accompanying photo are things of beauty: If the landing craft hadn't sunk that would have been a more impressive “assault drill” photo. Click the pic for the larger version. I think a guy up towards the front has on water wings, but nevertheless the photo does confirm the West's worst fears that NK has figured out how to enrich swim caps. Lil' Kim liked what he saw: **Written by Doug PowersTwitter @ThePowersThatBe     

**Written by Doug Powers While a plan is being devised to pin global warming on Hobby Lobby, for now we'll just have to settle for a whiffle-brained diatribe in The New Yorker about the potential downsides of the recent Supreme Court ruling: If the Pakistani Taliban, aided by clever lawyers, organized a closely held American corporation, and professed to run it on religious principles, might its employees be deprived of insurance coverage to inoculate their children against polio? And would the ...

**Written by Doug Powers Progressive Crisis Management 101: Simply change or eliminate an undesirable-but-accurate description what's going, and problem solved! Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel have been directed to no longer refer to illegal immigrant children crossing the border alone as “UACs” (unaccompanied alien children). Instead these individuals are to be referred to as “unaccompanied children” in official correspondence, according to an internal ICE email obtained by ...

**Written by Doug Powers Great moments in presidential legacy building: Abraham Lincoln: “Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Franklin D. Roosevelt: “No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.” John F. Kennedy: “Ask not what your country can do for you; Ask what you can do for your country.” Ronald Reagan: “Freedom prospers when ...

Exclusive: Inside the VA's spin-and-stonewall machine by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 The Public and Intergovernmental Affairs Office of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is very concerned. No, the communications specialists in the agency are not concerned with veterans in need. They're not concerned with citizens and public officials requesting public information. They're not concerned with journalists seeking the truth. What these entrenched government employees care ...

**Written by Doug Powers When seeking experts on an inability to assert dominance, turn to low-rated MSNBC — in this case one of their hosts, Chris Hayes: While praising the huge American crowds across the country that came out to support the U.S., Hayes condemned what he called “anti-soccer trolls” whose aversion, he said, is “weirdly tied to American exceptionalism.” He then made this statement. “Part of embracing a truly worldwide competition is accepting the fact the U.S. cannot simply asse...

**Written by Doug Powers In 1993, Sens. Harry Reid and Patty Murray both voted to pass the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which was also sponsored by Chuck Schumer. The bill went on to be signed into law by then President Clinton. Yesterday's SCOTUS decision in favor of Hobby Lobby was based on the RFRA, and Harry Reid thought it was a horrible thing: “Today's decision jeopardizes women's access to essential health care. Employers have no business intruding in the private health care decisio...

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Two highly anticipated rulings will come down in about 15 minutes on the Hobby Lobby/Obamacare mandate case and the union home health care provider coercion scheme in Harris v. Quinn. Background reading from our previous reporting/coverage on both issues:Good news: Supreme Court agrees to hear Harris v. Quinn (families battling SEIU over thuggish home invasion scheme)Workers' revolt against Big Labor home invasion scheme continuesSEIU Watch: The continued revolt against Big Labor's home invasion...

Obstructionism is patriotic by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 Three cheers for right-wing obstructionism. Can we have more, please, and louder? This week's unanimous Supreme Court ruling on President Obama's illegal recess appointments is a double smackdown. First, it's a rebuke against arrogant White House power-grabbers who thought they could act with absolute impunity and interminable immunity. Second, the ruling is a reproach of all the establishment pushovers on Capitol Hi...

**Written by Doug PowersThis story failed the “smell test” quite a while ago, and now it just outright reeks. From the Daily Caller via Instapundit: The IRS signed a contract with Sonasoft, an email-archiving company based in San Jose, California, each year from 2005 to 2010. The company, which partners with Microsoft and counts The New York Times among its clients, claims in its company slogans that it provides “Email Archiving Done Right” and “Point-Click Recovery.” Sonasoft in 2009 tweeted, “...

**Written by Doug Powers The U.S. government is opening more detention centers to house people who are flooding across the border illegally. Yesterday, Jay Carney's replacement, Josh Earnest, who has some big lies to fill, scapegoated the border crisis: White House officials blamed human traffickers for causing the crisis. “So much of what we are seeing on the southern border is the result of a deliberate misinformation campaign that is propagated by criminal syndicates in central America,” said...

**Written by Doug Powers And now, a message from the congressional Democrats: IRS Commissioner John Koskinen appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday, and the “optic of the year” had to be committee Democrats apologizing to Koskinen and defending the agency. Here's just one: Democrats on the committee were much more accommodating to Koskinen. “I want to apologize to you for the way you're being treated this morning,” said Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. “I thought this was a hearing a...

Support Claudia Tenney for Congress NY-22: Laughable lies of liberal Republicans by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 How do you spell “sidesplitting chutzpah“? In New York's 22nd congressional district, it's spelled: R-I-C-H-A-R-D H-A-N-N-A. He's the liberal GOP incumbent trying to cling to public office by smearing the Marine mom, small-business owner, lawyer and conservative state assemblywoman poised to take his seat next week. Claudia Tenney is as rock-solid of a Republican as...

**Written by Doug Powers Jay Carney's final briefing as White House press secretary was yesterday, and among his last official lies was to offer the results of a White House scan of their computers for any Lois Lerner emails. Surprisingly, their intensive search turned up nothing: Spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Wednesday that in response to a request from the House Ways and Means Committee, “We did in fact do a search for all communications between Lois Lerner and any person within the E...

**Written by Doug Powers Nancy Pelosi is again selling lies like Girl Scout cookies except way more expensive. Pelosi joined many Dems in passing along this graphic which purports to show what the U.S. soccer team would look like minus “immigrants”: Immigrants help drive America's success, even in the World Cup! Look at what #USMNT would be without them. #TimeIsNow pic.twitter.com/D550KRnc7W — Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) June 17, 2014 Nice try, except it's completely untrue. Even if it were tru...

**Written by Doug Powers Nearly four years ago, Michelle wrote about the oncoming “stealth Obama ocean grab.” These days, in an effort to replace “bad” headlines with “good” headlines, the grab is not so stealth: President Barack Obama announced new executive orders Tuesday to make huge swaths of the Pacific Ocean off limits to fishing, energy exploration and other economic activities. The move would create the world's largest marine sanctuary, and is part of a broader push to tackle global warm...

A fed-up veteran blasts VA's “lie, delay, deny” abyss by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 “They don't care.” As Obama administration officials pivot like haywire jewelry-box ballerinas to divert attention away from the nationwide Veterans Affairs disgrace, a reader who has been fighting the system urged me to urge Capitol Hill and the American public to stay focused. This former Special Forces soldier and medic served his country for 25 years. He worked in the health care field ma...

**Written by Doug Powers Two prominent figures are in Washington, DC attempting to save the oceans. One of them is best known for playing a lead role in a convincing re-creation of the Titanic sinking, and the other is Leonardo DiCaprio. Secretary of State John Kerry and actor Leonardo DiCaprio are taking part in the State Department's “Our Oceans” event. Here's video of star-struck Kerry's reaction when DiCaprio entered the room: This morning Kerry took questions on Twitter about climate change...

**Written by Doug Powers The IRS says the agency has lost a couple years worth of select Lois Lerner emails, and Jay Carney's incoming replacement, Josh Earnest, is apparently a computer forensics expert. Earnest said Monday that the IRS' clams is a a “fact”: A top White House official blamed a computer crash for the disappearance of emails from embattled former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, echoing the explanation the agency gave Congress last week for the two years' worth of m...