Obama Ebola Bumper Stickers Appear Around Los Angeles

I haven't seen one of these yet, but you gotta love it.

At Truth Revolt.

Dallas Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan Has Died --- For Real This Time!

Or, for real at least, if we can trust ABC News:

JUST IN: Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan has died
— ABC News (@ABC) October 8, 2014

PREVIOUSLY: "Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!"

MORE: All the big media outlets are reporting:

#BREAKING: Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan dies: hospital spokesperson

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 8, 2014

Thomas Eric Duncan, the Texas Ebola patient, died this morning http://t.co/9Wb7rHCNgR

— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 8, 2014

BREAKING: Texas Health reports death of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan: http://t.co/DhDJOW5Sdm

— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) October 8, 2014

Thoughts with the family of Thomas Eric Duncan. May he rest in peace.

— Kate Snow (@tvkatesnow) October 8, 2014

'Never let it be said that the president doesn't adapt to a changing situation on the ground...'

From Doug Ross, "Photographic Proof That President Obama is Finally Taking the Ebola Threat Seriously."

Obama is taking Ebola seriously: pic.twitter.com/wXsvU8GONS

— CounterMoonbat (@CounterMoonbat) October 2, 2014

Officials at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Won't Discuss Thomas Eric Duncan's Treatment

Well, it doesn't sound like it's going toO well for Mr. Duncan.

He's not getting experimental treatment, which seemed to do wonders for the Americans who were rushed back to the U.S. a few weeks back. So far officials are saying that the drugs "either are not available or could worsen his condition in the short term."

Yeah. Right.

At Dallas Morning News, "Ebola containment ‘going well’ in Dallas despite new monitoring glitch."

PREVIOUSLY: "Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!"

Report: Thomas Duncan Has Died; First U.S. Ebola Patient, Lied About Exposure to Disease - UPDATED!!

UPDATE OCTOBER 8: All the big media outlets are now reporting that Duncan has died. See: "Dallas Ebola Patient Thomas Duncan Has Died --- For Real This Time!"

*****

This is being reported at Arutz Sheva, "First US Ebola Patient Dies":

Thomas A. Duncan, who became ill with Ebola after arriving from West Africa in Dallas two weeks ago, succumbed to the virus today (Sunday), reports Reuters. Duncan was fighting for his life at a Dallas hospital on today after his condition worsened to critical, according to the director of the US Centers for Disease Control.

The Dallas hospital that admitted him did not recognize the deadly disease at first and sent him home, only for him to return two days later by ambulance.

Reuters has not posted the latest news to its website. Here's what's up there now, "Ebola patient in Dallas 'fighting for his life' says CDC head."

The Obama-enabling press is going to delay full reporting on this story, to protect the Democrat Party from the massive backlash against its craven political capitulation to the epidemic.

Duncan lied to get into the country.

Ebola Patient in Dallas Lied on Screening Form, Liberian Airport Official Says http://t.co/UWK6acuDXn
— The New York Times (@nytimes) October 2, 2014

Expect updates.

UPDATE:

Heh, everybody's in a tizzy over this post. So, to be clear: There is no confirmation of Duncan's death beyond the Arutz Sheva report. Caleb Howe tweeted that so far the report of Duncan's death is a rumor:

I keep seeing people on Twitter saying Ebola patient Thomas Duncan is dead. According to his family and the hospital, that is a false rumor.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) October 5, 2014

@AmPowerBlog No. CNN talked to uncle though. Also Reuters doesn't seem to have any story saying he is dead.
— Caleb Howe (@CalebHowe) October 5, 2014

More later.

From the thread at Godlike Productions. Ain't it the truth:

"They don't want to let us know he's dead. Everyone is going to panic." http://t.co/3jbQCFVOGC #Ebola #ThomasEricDuncan #ThomasDuncan #DEMS
— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) October 6, 2014

#Obama Regime Knew About Secret #VeteransAdministration Wait Lists for Years

Of course they knew. It's all lies with this White House, and they simply do not care.

At the Daily Caller, "Obama Administration Knew About VA's Secret Wait Lists for Years."

The Obama Paradox

A dishy piece from Carrie Budoff Brown and Jennifer Epstein, at Politico.

And at Twitchy, "Politico report: Coordination between White House and Congress ‘has never been better’."

And that goes for the relaxation, too:

Obama golfed in FL during Ukraine crisis. Told friends: “I needed this. I needed the golf. I needed to laugh." http://t.co/OGc95oHRzo

— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 2, 2014

Surprise: Obama Administration to Invoke Federal Supremacy Over Utah's Homosexual Marriage Rulings

From Ed Whelan, at National Review, "AG Holder’s Lawless Action on Marriage in Utah":

Jaded as I am by the lawlessness of the Obama administration, I confess that I didn’t expect this:

Attorney General Eric Holder today declared that the federal government will recognize the supposed marriages of same-sex couples that occurred in Utah before the Supreme Court overturned federal district judge Robert J. Shelby’s wildly irresponsible failure to stay his judgment against Utah’s marriage laws. Holder’s statement mischaracterizes the Supreme Court’s order as an “administrative step.”

Worse, Holder wrongly invokes the Court’s anti-DOMA decision in Windsor v. United States to justify his action. But Windsor requires that the federal government treat as marriages those same-sex relationships that a state recognizes as marriages. It doesn’t call for the federal government to treat as marriages those same-sex relationships that the state in which the marriage supposedly took place does not recognize as marriages.

More at the link. Plus, "Utah AG’s Wildly Incompetent Advice."

This administration's the biggest clown show. Worst job market in history and this is the freakin' top priority. Perverts.

U.S. Debt Levels Surge After GOP Caves to Democrat Budget Deal

At the Wall Street Journal, "U.S. Debt Jumps to $17.076 Trillion":

Well, that didn’t take long. Congress’s deal to suspend the government’s borrowing limit on Wednesday night led to a sharp spike in total U.S. debt on Thursday. This is largely because the Treasury Department had been using emergency steps to prevent the debt from increasing since mid-May. Total government debt had hovered at close to $16.7 trillion for around five months.

Actually, right now we don't even have a debt ceiling. Things can just keep spiraling out of control.

More at iOWNTHEWORLD, "U.S. debt jumps a record $328 billion — tops $17 trillion for first time."

Obama's Imperial Presidency

Imperial yes, but it's also the incompetent asshole presidency.

But see the Foundry, "Morning Bell: The Imperial President Will Act on His Own":

In a recent email to supporters, President Obama lamented the frustrating inadequacy of his office. “There’s only so much I can do on my own” without Congress, he confessed.

As a matter of constitutional interpretation, he’s right. But in practice, the President has shown a distinct contempt for the legal limits on his power.

Obama’s imperial presidency has manifested itself in many ways. Often he willfully neglects his constitutional duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” As we’ve seen with education, immigration, and health care, suspending the law amounts to rewriting the law.

Other times, the President is more direct. The legislative power may be vested in Congress, but that didn’t stop him from rewriting welfare legislation on his own, hollowing out the successful federal work requirements.

Unfortunately, it appears that this is only the beginning of Obama’s imperialism.

Continue reading.

The #ImperialPresident indeed: pic.twitter.com/ZiV1xXtvfO

— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) August 13, 2013

The Militarization of American Policing

From Radley Balko, at WSJ, "Rise of the Warrior Cop":

On Jan. 4 of last year, a local narcotics strike force conducted a raid on the Ogden, Utah, home of Matthew David Stewart at 8:40 p.m. The 12 officers were acting on a tip from Mr. Stewart's former girlfriend, who said that he was growing marijuana in his basement. Mr. Stewart awoke, naked, to the sound of a battering ram taking down his door. Thinking that he was being invaded by criminals, as he later claimed, he grabbed his 9-millimeter Beretta pistol.

The police say that they knocked and identified themselves, though Mr. Stewart and his neighbors said they heard no such announcement. Mr. Stewart fired 31 rounds, the police more than 250. Six of the officers were wounded, and Officer Jared Francom was killed. Mr. Stewart himself was shot twice before he was arrested. He was charged with several crimes, including the murder of Officer Francom.

The police found 16 small marijuana plants in Mr. Stewart's basement. There was no evidence that Mr. Stewart, a U.S. military veteran with no prior criminal record, was selling marijuana. Mr. Stewart's father said that his son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have smoked the marijuana to self-medicate.

Early this year, the Ogden city council heard complaints from dozens of citizens about the way drug warrants are served in the city. As for Mr. Stewart, his trial was scheduled for next April, and prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. But after losing a hearing last May on the legality of the search warrant, Mr. Stewart hanged himself in his jail cell.

The police tactics at issue in the Stewart case are no anomaly. Since the 1960s, in response to a range of perceived threats, law-enforcement agencies across the U.S., at every level of government, have been blurring the line between police officer and soldier. Driven by martial rhetoric and the availability of military-style equipment—from bayonets and M-16 rifles to armored personnel carriers—American police forces have often adopted a mind-set previously reserved for the battlefield. The war on drugs and, more recently, post-9/11 antiterrorism efforts have created a new figure on the U.S. scene: the warrior cop—armed to the teeth, ready to deal harshly with targeted wrongdoers, and a growing threat to familiar American liberties.

I pretty much hate cops, but to be sympathetic here you have to think having 16 plants growing downstairs is just routine. I don't. But RTWT. I think any decent person's going to be more of a civil libertarian these days, what with the criminal Obama gang still in power. Sheesh.

State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki Slammed as 'Unfettered Liar'

Well, by definition you have to be a pathological liar to be even considered for this administration.

At Twitchy, "Fail-boat story gives Drudge editor ‘unfettered’ insight into State Dept. spokeswoman’s ambitions."

Proof that the media's favorite teen Jen Psaki is priming to take over Carney's podium: She's working on her lying! http://t.co/ELUZZMkI56

— Joseph Curl (@josephcurl) July 6, 2013

Here she is last November, in the company of lying liars and anti-Semites. Classy.

unspoken factor in re-election dominance of redheads on team Obama pic.twitter.com/EynoNfFp

— Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) November 7, 2012

Yeah, this sums it up:

@jrpsaki You all make us so sick , cheat lie and do anythng you could to win. Win you did but America loses big . Socialist President Obama

— Flagramah (@flagramah) November 7, 2012

'Obama has chosen to bypass the representative branch of government, and declare anyone who disagrees with him to be evil and stupid...'

From Steve Goddard, at Real Climate, "The New Dictator."

More here, "Obama Escalates His Rhetoric Against Americans."

And at the Hill, "Obama mocks skeptics of climate change as ‘flat-Earth society’" (via Memeorandum). And the New York Times, "Obama Outlines Ambitious Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases" (via Memeorandum).

President Dronekiller can go right around Congress. See National Journal, "What’s in Obama’s Climate Plan?"

Bubble of Unreality: Leslie Marshall Claims #IRS Conspiracies on Sean Hannity's

An utterly jaw-dropping exchange. Dana Loesch just destroy's the idiot Leslie Marshall

Lurking Tyranny

From A.F. Branco:

Obama insists there is no 'there there...'

At the Looking Spoon, "The Only Part of the Obama Administration Where There Really Is 'No There There'."

'Obama Channels Clinton’s Worst Day in Office...'

'...Raises Doubts About Relevancy,' from Ron Fournier, at National Journal, on Monday:

A president is in trouble when he’s forced to defend his relevancy, as Bill Clinton did 18 years ago, or to quote Mark Twain, as Barack Obama did Tuesday. “Rumors of my demise,” he said at a news conference, “may be a little exaggerated at this point.”

Not wrong--just “exaggerated.” Not forever--just “at this point.”

Parsing aside, Obama channeled Clinton’s April 18, 1995, news conference by projecting a sense of helplessness--or even haplessness--against forces seemingly out of a president’s control.

For Clinton, it was ascendant House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the GOP's takeover of Congress five months prior, a vote of no-confidence for the first-term Democratic president. “The president is relevant here,” Clinton insisted in the East Room.

For Obama, his nemesis is a far-less charismatic and influential House Speaker John Boehner, as well as the intense weight of structural problems that favor Washington gridlock. These include the Senate filibuster, hyper-partisan House districts, polarized media outlets, and a fast-changing electorate that is sorting itself in political tribes.

“So my question to you,” ABC reporter Jonathan Karl asked Obama, “is do you still have the juice to get the rest of your agenda through Congress?”

Ouch. “Well, if you put it that way, Jonathan,” Obama quipped, “maybe I should just pack up and go home. Golly.” Then he quoted the humorist Twain, who famously denied his death.

More at that top link.

The Jonathan Karl query is here.

At the clip at top, Dear Leader heads back to the podium to take a question on Jason Collins, the "heroic" NBA star who came out this week. Twitchy just rips President Barebacker on that: "President calls Jason Collins, praises his courage; Slain heroes overlooked," and "Greatest orator ever? Obama says gay NBA player Jason Collins ‘can bang with Shaq’ [video]."

Obama Mismanagement May Have Allowed Bombings

At IBD, "Bureaucratic Mismanagement May Have Allowed Bombings":

Lawrence Wright, author in 2006 of the Pulitzer Prize-winning history of al-Qaida, "The Looming Tower," wrote in an open letter 6-1/2 years ago to his fellow Pulitzer-winning journalist, Steve Coll: "The reorganization of our intelligence agencies — through the creation of the Department of Homeland Security and the new office of Director of National Intelligence — has done nothing to improve the bureaucratic tangles, the institutional incomprehension, and the limited skill set of our operatives; indeed, in many respects, it has only added a new overlay of confusion."

As Wright pointed out, "Communication broke down at a crucial time — exactly during the period that al-Qaida was making its plans for 9/11."

As Chambliss noted, "Information sharing between agencies is critical. And we created the Department of Homeland Security to supervise that. We created the National Counter Terrorism Center to be the collection point for all of this information." He vowed to find out whether somebody "dropped the ball."

Whoever that somebody who dropped the ball is, you can bet the establishment media won't identify him as the guy who shoots hoops at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

As a candidate, President Obama relished ridiculing what he called the Bush administration's "color-coded politics of fear" and its "rigid 20th century ideology" unsuited to fighting "21st century's stateless terrorism."

But five years into his tenure as president, Obama doesn't seem to be a very good manager of the government bureaucracies charged with protecting Americans from terror.

Investigators Find Circuit Board Believed Used as Detonator in Boston Marthon Bombing

At the Boston Globe, "Investigation of Boston Marathon bombings continues: Circuit board found near site of blasts."

Investigators combing through the scene of the deadly Boston Marathon terrorist attack have recovered a circuit board that they believe was used to detonate the bombs, according to an official briefed on the investigation.

Investigators have also recovered components of the bombs, enabling them to determine that they consisted of two 6-liter pressure cookers packed with nails, ball bearings, and other metal. The makeshift bombs were placed in black duffel bags, the official said.

The one that exploded first was placed on the ground on Boylston Street, across from the finish-line viewing stands where dignitaries, including Governor Deval Patrick, had been sitting earlier. The second bag was placed on the ground about 75 to 100 yards down the street, outside the Forum restaurant at 755 Boylston, according to the official.

The bombs, detonated about 12 seconds apart, killed three people and injured 176 others, including 17 who are still in critical condition. The attacks created a scene of bloody carnage near the finish line of a race that is a colorful rite of spring and draws runners from around the world, who are cheered to the finish line by happy crowds.

More at that top link, and at the Globe.

And see the Wall Street Journal, "Boston Bomb Clues Surface: Officials Believe Lethal Devices Built From Pressure Cookers; Scene Is Scrutinized."

Just the Beginning

From Sen. Rand Paul, "My filibuster was just the beginning":

By the end of the night, I was tired and my voice was cracking. I ended by saying, “The cause here is one that I think is important enough to have gone through this procedure.” I talked about the idea of compromise, but said that “you don’t get half of the Fifth Amendment.” I argued that we need more extended debates. And finally, at 12:40 a.m., I yielded the floor.

On Thursday, the Senate confirmed John Brennanas director of the CIA. But this debate isn’t over.

The Senate has the power to restrain the executive branch — and my filibuster was the beginning of the fight to restore a healthy balance of powers. The president still needs to definitively say that the United States will not kill American noncombatants. The Constitution’s Fifth Amendment applies to all Americans; there are no exceptions.

The outpouring of support for my filibuster has been overwhelming and heartening. My office has fielded thousands of calls. Millions have followed this debate on TV, Twitter and Facebook. On Thursday, the White House produced another letter explaining its position on drone strikes. But the administration took too long, and parsed too many words and phrases, to instill confidence in its willingness or ability to protect our liberty.

I hope my efforts help spur a national debate about the limits of executive power and the scope of every American’s natural right to be free. “Due process” is not just a phrase that can be ignored at the whim of the president; it is a right that belongs to every citizen in this great nation.

I believe the support I received this past week shows that Americans are looking for someone to really stand up and fight for them. And I’m prepared to do just that.

RTWT.

IMAGE CREDIT: Becca Lower, "Hey Girl… It’s Rand Paul!"