how about an Obamacare coundup?

OBAMA’S HHS GAVE A SWEETHEART DEAL to a medical analytics firm owned by a company that had to settle a health data fraud case brought against it by the New York Attorney General for $400 million. Can you guess what the sole-source, five-year, open-ended “Blanket Purchase Agreement” is buying for the Obamacare program from the lucky firm? If you said health data –  including an undetermined amount from the database used in the New York fraud – you get the gold ribbon.

UNEXPECTEDLY! CBO projects 2 million fewer jobs under ObamaCare. Remember, if you predicted this back when the bill was under debate, media “fact checkers” would ask the White House if that was going to happen, then give you four Pinocchios when the White House said no. And then call you racist.

It sounds better in the original 1930's German: HILLARY’S REICHSFLUCHSTEUER EMERGES AS A NEW TAX STRAIGHT OUT OF GERMANY, Ira Stoll writes at the New York Sun:

THERE WERE U.S. MILITARY FORCES AVAILABLE TO RESPOND TO BENGHAZI TERRORIST ATTACKS: Judicial Watch obtained an email from then-Department of Defense Chief of Staff to Hillary Clinton’s top aides during the attack telling them American forces were “spinning up” and available at that very moment. Brooklyn, you have a problem.

A TROUBLED CAMPAIGN: Escalation: Hillary contradicts Benghazi families, denies blaming attacks on video at private meeting; Update: New email shows Pentagon offered to deploy rescue forces during attack?

FUNNY HOW THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Oops: Major Donor To Hillary Clinton Campaign Faces Criminal Profiteering Charges.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton intervened for firm after request to hedge-fund operator son-in-law. 

This was a late discovery that was watched a little later than warrented but wow - just wow.  I was expectig Indiana Jonesmeets Satna but go Goonies meets Walking Dead meets bad Santa.  and some other stuff.

 2010. Finnish.  Per IMDB: On Christmas Eve in Finland, Santa Claus is unearthed in an archaeological dig. Soon after, children start disappearing, leading a boy and his father to capture Santa and, with the help of fellow hunters, they look to sell him back to the corporation that sponsored the dig. And then there's Santa's elves, who are determined to free their leader...

Wow.

Did I mention wow?  Watch it if you get the opportunity.  And MAKE the opportunity cause this one aint showing up on late night cable anytime soon.  75/100 

STEVE GREEN INTRODUCES PRESIDENT SERGEANT SCHULTZ:

I’ve been calling him Professor Ditherton Wiggleroom ever since his dissolved his own Red Line in Syria. Maybe we should start calling him Sergeant Schultz instead.

“It isn’t Islam,” he says of Islamists. “This isn’t who we are,” he says of Americans who want to defend themselves and their families. “We will overcome,” he claims about a threat he can neither recognize or even acknowledge. “I know nothing!” shouted Sergeant Schultz on Hogan’s Heroes.

Schultz knew he was in denial, just trying to keep a low profile and waiting until the war was over and he could return home.

What is Obama waiting for?

BAGHDAD BARRY: On ISIS, Barack Obama Is Baghdad Bob:

and there WILL be a next time.

JONATHAN HAIDT ON CAMPUS CRAZINESS: “It’s Going To Get Much, Much Worse.”

MAYBE PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT RACES SHOULD ATTEND SEPARATE SCHOOLS, TO ENSURE SAFE SPACE AT ALL TIMES: U. Vermont Holds Retreat for Students Who ‘Self Identify’ as White. I mean, equal, but separate. Woodrow Wilson would approve!

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Smith College bars reporters from sit-in, unless they agree “to explicitly state they support[] the movement in their articles.”

Reason Magazine:  With all the furor on campus, we asked you to come up with one non-racist, non-sexist sentence from a college president that would send 99 percent of the students into full-fledged protest mode.

THE WINNER:

"Microaggression therapy sessions will be cancelled in observance of the Columbus Day holiday."

Some sanity:I Should Not Write this Op-Ed: Confessions of a Non-Leftist Professor

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Walter Olson: Some Highlights Of The Student Campus Demands.

NOT UNLESS REALITY HAS A PEN AND A PHONE: Now even Obama has to admit San Bernardino was terrorism.

IF IT WEREN’T FOR DOUBLE STANDARDS: Planned Parenthood was ‘right wing terror,’ but with Islam suddenly ‘motives don’t matter’.

JOHN HAYWARD: Lefty Hatred Unleashed By San Bernardino Jihad. “Liberals told themselves Pam Geller had it coming, too. They pumped out halfwit ‘think pieces’ about how the murder of someone who alienated an officially-designated Oppressed Victim Group like Muslims would be, perhaps, a bit unfortunate, but also understandable. It was a major bit of signaling in the Left’s tactical alliance with radical Islam, a way of letting them know American liberals were fully on board with their quest to restrict the free-speech rights of U.S. citizens.”

Plus: “The most incompetent President in American history, the man whose multi-trillion-dollar government can’t launch a website, demands absolute faith and the scourging of unbelievers. His demands grow more strident as they become more absurd. Innocent American citizens will be sacrificed to his true religion, the religion of the State — unless he and his Party are confronted and decisively defeated.”

ERICK ERICKSON: Well, Now We Know the President Has Turned a Blind Eye to Domestic Terrorism to Advance His Gun Control Agenda:

We now know from media reports that the President intends to call for gun control. He may even try by executive order.

This was the plan all along. Just like Europe.

Read the whole thing. And then check out Erickson’s reminder to the New York Times of the real definition of “gun control.”

Related: Roger Simon on How the ‘New York Times’ and Loretta Lynch Made Me Join the NRA.

 OBAMA: “Freedom is more powerful than fear.” Now let me take your guns away based on a secret list that only I control.

LEGISLATIVE PROPOSAL: The Fairness In Firearms Act.

OOPS: Marc Andreessen answers @POTUS on guns and the no-fly list in two perfect tweets.

[Ilya Somin] State Department indicates that the Iran deal is not legally binding

LIFE IN THE ERA OF HOPE AND CHANGE: Joint Chiefs chairman: ‘We have not contained’ ISIS.

Iraqis think the U.S. is in cahoots with the Islamic State, and it is hurting the war.

Remember when electing Obama was going to make everyone love and trust us?

STUART ROTHENBERG: Obama Is The Democrats’ Bush:

Both men promised they would bring Americans together but instead contributed to the increased polarization and anger in the country.

Obviously, there were many factors at work, and the opposition party in each case played a role in the growing divide. But it is also true that both men ran for the White House promising to overcome the bitterness that had enveloped the nation’s capital — and both failed, giving up almost completely on trying to change the tone during their second terms.

Both Obama and Bush may well be best remembered for their foreign policy blunders and exaggerated claims of success.

This comparison, though unfair to Bush, is close enough that it should be pretty painful to Dems.

[Eugene Volokh] Racial insults allegedly fly at library protest by Dartmouth NAACP chapter

DARTMOUTH’S PRESIDENT PHILIP HANLON isn’t upset about the disruptive, abusive protests in the Baker Library.

METAPHOR ALERT: Vanderbilt Hate Crime Turns Out To Be Blind Girl’s Dog’s Poop.

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Student who posted ‘I’m going to shoot every black person I can on campus’ … is black.

[Eugene Volokh] Smith College bars reporters from sit-in, unless they agree “to explicitly state they support[] the movement in their articles”

COLLEGE SANITY: Ashland student gov. endorses free speech, condemns excesses of Mizzou protests; The student government at Ashland University voted unanimously Tuesday to pass a resolution supporting free expression.