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IRS lawyer: Lois Lerner's Blackberry deliberately destroyed after start of congressional probe

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Lois Lerner’s Blackberry was intentionally destroyed after Congress had begun its probe into IRS targeting of conservative groups, a senior IRS lawyer acknowledged in a sworn declaration. ... FoxNews.com

Syria conflict: Islamic State 'committed war crimes'

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Islamic State (IS) militants have committed "mass atrocities" in Syria and have recruited children as fighters, the United Nations says. ... BBC.co.uk

Pentagon: Egypt, UAE Attacking Islamists in Libya Differs From US Bombing ISIS in Iraq

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The United States does not support Egyptian and Emirati airstrikes against Islamist militias in Libya because the U.S. believes the crisis in Libya must be resolved politically and without outside interference, a Department of Defense spokesman said Tuesday. ... CNSNews.com

‘Over There’: Iraq

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The beheading of James Foley sends a clear message about what is at stake. ... NationalReview.com

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Conservative Thought

Obama Spurns the 'Optics' Police

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
In some prominent corners of the liberal media, the grousing has begun about President Obama's habit of hitting the golf course during crises without any concern for looking cavalier. Everyone knows he joyfully hit the links at Martha's Vineyard five minutes after a nationally televised address expressing his disgust at the horrific execution of American journalist James Foley by ISIS extremists in Syria. He played nine rounds during this most recent vacation in a year filled with vacations. ... CNSNews.com

Asian-Bashing Dems and Doormat Minorities Who Enable Them

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Harry Reid is a bigoted Beltway corruptocrat with an interminable case of diarrhea of the mouth. The feeble-minded coot stuck his foot in that mess of a mouth again last week at the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce. But as mortifying as the Senate Majority Leader is, there's an even worse spectacle: Asian-American liberals who keep giving top Democrats and their partisan operatives blanket passes. ... CNSNews.com

Call the Islamic State What It Is: Evil

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Sanitizing language about terrorists only works when people aren’t paying attention. ... NationalReview.com

If 'Evil' Doesn't Apply to Islamic State, What Does?

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
I never liked it when George W. Bush used the term "evildoers" to describe al-Qaeda and other terrorists. A lot of other people objected as well, but for different reasons. I didn't like the term because it always sounded to me like he was saying "evil Dewar's," as in the blended Scotch. (This always made some of Bush's statements chuckle-worthy -- "We will not rest until we find the evil Dewar's!") I prefer single malts, but "evil" always seemed unduly harsh. ... TownHall.com

Asian-Bashing Dems and Doormat Minorities Who Enable Them

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Harry Reid is a bigoted Beltway corruptocrat with an interminable case of diarrhea of the mouth. The feeble-minded coot stuck his foot in that mess of a mouth again last week at the Las Vegas Asian Chamber of Commerce. But as mortifying as the Senate Majority Leader is, there's an even worse spectacle: Asian-American liberals who keep giving top Democrats and their partisan operatives blanket passes. ... TownHall.com

Would it Kill You to Hire More Black Cops? (Yes)

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
As the story of Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson's shooting of Michael Brown begins to look less clear-cut than we were led to believe by Brown's friend, Dorian Johnson, the "voices of oppression" on MSNBC now say the real issue is that there aren't enough blacks on the Ferguson police force. ... TownHall.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Both Afghan presidential candidates, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, have stopped participating in the U.N.-supervised audit of June's disputed runoff election, further complicating Afghanistan's fragile political transition. ... VOANews.com

Iraq

US considering new Iraq relief mission for group under siege by ISIS, official says

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Obama administration is considering a humanitarian mission to help a group of religious minorities under siege by Islamic State militants in northern Iraq, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Fox News, in what would be the second such relief operation since U.S. military flights began earlier this month. ... FoxNews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Israel and Hamas are both claiming victory in the 50-day Gaza war as a new cease-fire took hold Wednesday. ... VOANews.com

Israel

The Gaza War, By the Numbers

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Fifty days. If the current ceasefire holds, that is how long intense, cross-border rocket fire into Israel by Gaza terrorists was met with retaliatory attacks on Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Air Force. Here is a look at some of the numbers from the 2014 Gaza war. ... Breitbart.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
As the 28 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are preparing for their summit meeting in Wales next week, its role in Afghanistan looms large on the agenda. ... VOANews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
BRUSSELS -- The head of NATO said new bases in Eastern Europe will be built to counter potential conflict with Russia. ... Military.com

Russia

Russian hackers suspected in US bank attack

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
FBI investigating data theft at JP Morgan "far beyond the capability of ordinary criminal hackers". ... AlJazeera.com

Breakthrough hopes dented as Ukraine accuses Russia of new incursion

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Ukraine accused Russia of launching a new military incursion across its eastern border on Wednesday, as hopes quickly faded that Tuesday's talks between their two presidents might mark a turning point in a five-month-old crisis. ... Reuters.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Pro-Russian rebel forces entered a key town in southeast Ukraine Wednesday after three days of heavy shelling, a local mayor reported. ... FoxNews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Ukrainian security forces Wednesday reported increased Russian-supported military activity in eastern Ukraine as the leaders of the two countries met to discuss a possible peace plan. Russia says economic concerns remain a sticking point during negotiations with Ukraine. ... VOANews.com

U.N.

UN: 'Countless Actors' Fighting in Syrian War

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The United Nations says the war in Syria has become a conflict with "countless actors and front lines" with both government forces and various anti-government fighters committing crimes against humanity. ... VOANews.com

UN: ISIS Massacred 700 Turkmen--Including Women, Children, Elderly

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham (ISIS) slaughtered about 700 Turkmen civilians last month, including "children, women, and old people," United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Iraq chief Marzio Babille told Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata (ANSA). ... CNSNews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Unwilling or unable to work out a deal with either party in the Senate to address his legacy project of an international treaty on global warming, President Obama today will unveil a mock version of the pact that would bring new restrictions on U.S. emissions but be enforced globally through peer pressure. NYT: “…Obama’s climate negotiators are devising what they call a ‘politically binding’ deal that would ‘name and shame’ countries into cutting their emissions. … [The plan is] a proposal to blend legally binding conditions from an existing 1992 treaty with new voluntary pledges. The mix would create a deal that would update the treaty, and thus, negotiators say, not require a new vote of ratification.” Shorter version: The reimagining of an old treaty would allow the administration to further clamp down on U.S. industry but would rely on the promises of other nations for compliance. Because Russia and China are totes anxious about “naming and shaming.” Totes. ... FoxNews.com

Environment

Potentially dangerous debris left behind after failed hypersonic flight in Alaska

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
A military safety team will clean up unexploded rocket fuel and other potentially dangerous debris at the Kodiak Launch Complex following an explosion Monday of a rocket carrying an experimental Army hypersonic strike weapon. ... FoxNews.com

Bye Bye Birdie

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Does the government give green-energy firms a free pass on bird deaths? ... NationalReview.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, part of the Department of Transportation, published last week an "advanced notice of proposed rulemaking" on "vehicle-to-vehicle communications." ... CNSNews.com

EPA

Blueprint for water ‘control’? Pol says EPA made secret maps for new regulatory push

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
A top House Republican is charging that the Environmental Protection Agency secretly drafted highly detailed maps of U.S. waterways to set the stage for a controversial plan to expand regulatory power over streams and wetlands, a claim the EPA strongly denies. ... FoxNews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Early-state GOP voters are particularly wary about expanding Medicaid. ... NationalReview.com

USDA

USDA Says Childhood Obesity a "National Security Issue"

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
With the new school year upon us, the federal government is once again turning its attention to school lunches, claiming it is a matter of national security. ... TheNewAmerican.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The death of a firing-range instructor at the hands of a 9-year-old girl bracing an Uzi submachine gun has set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle an Uzi. ... CBSNews.com

Ebola Virus

WHO shuts Sierra Leone lab after worker infected with Ebola

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
FREETOWN – The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday it had shut a laboratory in Sierra Leone after a health worker there was infected with Ebola, a move that may hamper efforts to boost the global response to the worst-ever outbreak of the disease. ... FoxNews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Undocumented? Unauthorized? Illegal? After 350 years, we're still debating what to call America’s visa-less immigrants. ... www.ForeignPolicy.com

President Obama

Obama reportedly plotting end-run around Congress on global climate change deal

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
President Obama reportedly plans to do an end-run around Congress to forge an international climate change deal, effectively bypassing the Constitution's requirement to get the Senate's approval for a treaty. ... FoxNews.com

Sen. Kaine: Obama Needs Authorization: 'That's What the Framers of the Constitution Intended'

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, is among the growing number of lawmakers in both parties who say President Obama must get congressional authorization for U.S. military action in Syria and Iraq. ... CNSNews.com

Obama Crafting Legal Rationale for Sweeping Legalization Action

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The White House is crafting a blame-it-on-Congress legal justification to back up President Barack Obama's impending executive actions on immigration. ... NewsMax.com

Obama Plotting to Bypass Congress on UN Climate Regime

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Obama administration, conspiring with the United Nations and various foreign governments, is plotting to foist a draconian “global-warming” regime on the American people — without ratification by a two-thirds majority of the U.S. Senate, as required by the Constitution for all treaties. The radical strategy primarily involves semantics and legal quackery: Instead of calling the controversial scheme a “treaty,” the White House is pursuing what it calls an international “accord.” If Congress does not step in to stop it, the global plot would ration emissions of carbon dioxide and energy while redistributing potentially trillions of dollars from Western taxpayers to Third World regimes. Globalists and alarmists hope to conclude the UN deal at a “climate” summit in Paris next year. ... TheNewAmerican.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
For all the talk about Hillary Clinton hugging it out and Hillary Clinton’s dead-broke comment and Hillary Clinton bringing Bill back to the White House, I’ve long felt that there is a sleeper issue in play for 2016: ... FoxNews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Hypothetically, according to a new USA Today/Suffolk poll, if Romney defies the odds and runs again for president in 2016, the Hawkeye State may be his for the taking. After all, more than a third of respondents said they’d ditch the candidates they’re currently backing, and choose him instead: ... TownHall.com

Rush Limbaugh

The Obama Agenda Never Goes on Vacation

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
RUSH: There's a little headline on Drudge. It's actually a link to a New York Times story, and here it is. "Obama working to forge sweeping international climate change agreement, but without constitutional requirement for Senate ratification of traditional treaty. Developing." ... RushLimbaugh.com

Can Anybody Find the GOP Campaign?

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
RUSH: There was a story -- I intended to already be into my media Stack here 'cause it's great, but something just struck me. I didn't go into detail on it yesterday. I intended to, I just didn't get to it. There's another thing I didn't get to yesterday. There's a bunch of polling data out, and I saved it for today, that American people and African-Americans think race relations are worse today than since Obama was elected, and even an Obama pollster is admitting this, and I've got the sound bites. ... RushLimbaugh.com

Explaining the Expectations Gap

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
RUSH: I got a bunch of e-mails during the top-of-the-hour break about the point that I made that I haven't seen any Republican Party messaging. "This is what we stand for. This is who we are. This is how things are gonna change if you vote for us. This is what we're gonna stop. This is what we're gonna do. We believe in lower taxes. We believe in securing the border." Whatever it is, I don't see any of that, and I got a bunch of e-mails from people, "Hey, Rush, that's right, but I don't see any from the Democrats, either." ... RushLimbaugh.com

Don Lemon Defends Sexy Ferguson Audio

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
RUSH: So yesterday we were sitting here, and I was watching CNN in the morning and they were breathless all over again. They couldn't contain themselves. They were so excited because you know what happened? They discovered a new audiotape, yes, surrounding the gentle giant shooting in St. Louis. And you know what it was? Some guy was having a sex video chat with some babe, sitting at his computer, and they had the tape, they got the tape, and they had audiologists on all day long. ... RushLimbaugh.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
A mother's plea to the terrorists holding her son hostage: No individual should be punished for events he cannot control. ... CNN.com

The Terror War

Details Emerging About American Jihadist Killed in Syria

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Details are emerging about Douglas McAuthor McCain, who last weekend became the first known American to be killed while fighting alongside Islamic militants in Syria. ... VOANews.com

Islamic State Recruits Women to Support Its Fight

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
A few months after the militant group Islamic State, or IS, took over the Syrian city of Raqaa and set up checkpoints, it encountered a problem: the militants' enemies were escaping the city disguised as women. ... VOANews.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
“The federal government is spending nearly $1 million to create an online database that will track ‘misinformation’ and hate speech on Twitter. The National Science Foundation is financing the creation of a web service that will monitor “suspicious memes” and what it considers ‘false and misleading ideas,’ with a major focus on political activity online. The ‘Truthy’ database, created by researchers at Indiana University, is designed to “detect political smears, astroturfing, misinformation, and other social pollution.” The university has received $919,917 so far for the project. … ‘Truthy,’ which gets its name from Stephen Colbert, will catalog how information is spread on Twitter, including political campaigns.” ... CNSNews.com

Education

Louisiana Gov. Jindal to reportedly sue federal government over Common Core

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal reportedly will file a lawsuit against the Obama administration in federal court Wednesday, claiming that the Department of Education has illegally manipulated grant money and regulations to force states to adopt the controversial Common Core standards. ... FoxNews.com

Louisiana Governor Jindal Sues Education Dept. Over Common Core

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal filed suit in federal court on August 27 arguing that President Obama’s Department of Education has violated the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and federal law by coercing states to adopt Common Core education standards. ... TheNewAmerican.com

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
How long can a shrinking number of taxpayers support a growing number of beneficiaries? ... NationalReview.com

Other Headlines

Teen impaled by golf club in freak frat party accident

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
At a cookout Aug.19 during rush at an Arkansas State University frat house, a college kid hit a football, thrown by a friend, with a golf club. ... FoxNews.com

US Journalist Kidnapped in Syria Returns Home

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
An American writer released this week from two years in the captivity of insurgents in Syria is doing well and is excited to be free, his mother said on Tuesday. ... VOANews.com

USDA: Yucky School Lunches Can Produce 'Civic-Minded, Community-Conscious Adults'

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Who imagined that the Obama administration's effort to make school lunches more nutritious (but less delicious) would encourage children to become little community organizers? ... CNSNews.com

Quotes of the day

Tuesday, August 26, 2014
[F]for all the vivid rhetoric in recent days, the Obama administration has yet to articulate a clear course of action to dismantle the radical group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and is struggling to lay out a precise vision to respond to the new threats in chaotic areas of Iraq and Syria where ISIL has thrived in recent months. ... HotAir.com

U.K. May Make Psychological Abuse, Humiliation Jailable Offenses

Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Polygamy may still be illegal in most of the West, but, increasingly, marriages today often include more than just two members: husband, wife — and Big Brother. The latest example is a proposal in the United Kingdom that would make actions such as “bullying” and withholding money in intimate relationships jailable offenses. Writes the Telegraph’s David Barrett: ... TheNewAmerican.com

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