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Islamizing the Public Schools Joseph Klein The Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is pressuring public schools in this country to make special accommodations for Muslim students and to deny comparable accommodations for students of other faiths.  Obama's Snooping Explicitly Excludes Mosques, Missed Boston Bombers Investor's Business Daily The White House assures that tracking our every phone call and keystroke is to stop terrorists, and yet it won't snoop in mosques, where the terrorists are. Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover sting operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee. |
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Week ending 16 June 2013 |
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| House Comm. Looks Into IRS Seizure of 60 Million Medical Records "(T)he Committee on Energy and Commerce is investigating allegations that the IRS, in the course of executing a search warrant at a California health care provider's corporate headquarters in March 2011, improperly seized the personal medical records of millions of American citizens in possible violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution," members of the committee wrote in a letter Tuesday to Acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel. |
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| Obamacare: Is a $2,000 deductible 'affordable?' States are starting to roll out details about the exchanges, providing a look at just how affordable coverage under the Affordable Care Act will be. Some potential participants may be surprised at the figures: $2,000 deductibles, $45 primary care visit co-pays, and $250 emergency room tabs. That's on top of the $321 average monthly premium. |
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| GOP Long-term Budget Projected Deficit – $106 Trillion – Surprised Even Many Seasoned Budget Negotiators The CBO pegs its cost estimates of bills to ten years. Not only has that led to a sort of CBO-score arms race on Capitol Hill, where legislation – Obamacare being the best example – is designed to exploit the ten-year window to produce a lower cost estimate. It also obscures the scope of the long-term entitlement crisis and the savings of reforms that would compound in the second and third decade. |
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| IRS Supervisor in DC Scrutinized Tea Party Groups' Cases In all, Agents Singled Out 298 Applications for Additional Scrutiny Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status, told congressional investigators she reviewed 20 to 30 applications. Her assertion contradicts initial claims by the agency that a small group of agents working in an office in Cincinnati were solely responsible for mishandling the applications. |
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| There's more, much more, to the Lois Lerner story George F. Will Lerner, it is prudent to assume, is one among thousands like her who infest the regulatory state. She is not just a bureaucratic bully and a slithering partisan; she also is a national security problem, because she is contributing to a comprehensive distrust of government. |
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| Obama is Just Being Obama Victor Davis Hanson Once Barack Obama was elected to the Illinois legislature, his career as a statesman was mostly an afterthought – either voting "present" on controversial legislation or simply showing up to sign off on a straight left-wing agenda. Even his supporters can cite no lasting legislative achievement. |
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| Hillary Clintonīs Legacy of Scandal Jeffrey T. Brown [N]otwithstanding the scandal-grenades going off all around us, Mrs. Clinton diligently plans her run for the presidency, even while several of those scandals are obviously and entirely her responsibility, exposing the State Department during her tenure as an utter sewer of corruption, cronyism, and fatal incompetence. |
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| Obama, campaigning again, blames D.C. mess on pols campaigning too much Andrew Malcolm "I [Obama] want you to know I've run my last campaign." Really? So, all these fundraising trips on Air Force One are for last year's election? Or, in reality, the next elections in 2014? According to the president, he awakens every day and asks himself: "How do I make America a magnet for good jobs?" He's been in office now for 1,604 wake-up calls. Where's the beef? |
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| Sen. Sessions: The immigration plan now being considered fails to live up to every major promise Far from improving the immigration system, their 1,000-page proposal would exacerbate many of its flaws. It would dangerously undermine future enforcement while imposing substantial burdens on taxpayers and taking jobs and pay from U.S. workers. |
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| Who's Who in Syria's Battlefield; 7 of 9 Main Fighting Groups are Islamists As the civil war in Syria has dragged on, the rebels have become more Islamist and extreme. For Western governments pondering whether to arm them, Jabhat al-Nusra (Victory Front) is the biggest worry. Its global jihadist ideology justifies violence to bring about a nation where all Muslims unite. |
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| Congressman Accuses FBI of Aiding Muslim Brotherhood: ‘They Want Sharia Law, Not Our Constitution’ “We need to address the political correctness that is blinding our agencies and blinding our military of its ability to see who the enemy is, because it’s getting people killed,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said. He also accused the Obama administration of changing policy so that the FBI, State Department, and others had to “partner with” CAIR and ISNA, rather than treat mosques as terrorist recruitment centers. |
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| Importing Jihad: Obama Considers Resettling Thousands of Syrian Refugees in America Atlas Shrugs A resettlement plan aims to help both the hard-hit Syrian families and the Middle Eastern countries that are straining to support 1.6 million refugees. A resettlement plan under discussion in Washington and other capitals is aimed at relieving pressure on Middle Eastern countries straining to support 1.6 million refugees, as well as assisting hard-hit Syrian families. |
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| Psst: There are four separate scandals going on at EPA right now Mary Katharine Ham Oh, that we were not flooded with scandals already, this might actually rate some coverage. But alas, as it is, even a news junkie like myself didn't know there were four separate EPA scandals going on until Gabriel Malor laid it out for me. | |
| Ten Thousand Commandments 2013 Clyde Wayne Crews The scope of federal government spending and deficits is sobering. Federal environmental, safety and health, and economic regulations cost hundreds of billions – perhaps trillions – of dollars every year over and above the costs of the official federal outlays that dominate the policy debate. |
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| Culture of Corruption on Display with Accusations of Insider Trading of Medicare Provider Stocks The surge of trading in Humana's and other private health insurers' stock before the April 1 announcement already has prompted the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate whether Wall Street investors had advance access to inside information about the then-confidential Medicare funding plan. |
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| Student Loan Fraud Up 82% Under Obama Daniel Greenfield There are a lot of things that seem to be rising sharply under Obama. And they usually involve words like "Fraud" and "Waste" and rarely words like "Economic Improvement" and "Job Growth." I wonder if these two things aren't perhaps connected. |
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| Obama Marks Father’s Day: “It’s Not Easy” Being a Gay Dad President Barack Obama says there’s no substitute for the love and support that fathers provide. In his weekly Internet and radio address, Obama is wishing Americans a happy Father’s Day. He laments that his own father wasn’t around and says he’s still working to be a better father. |
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| 3rd Graders Used to Introduce Obama at WH LGBT Reception Introducing Obama at the event were Zea and Luna, the third-grade daughters of a lesbian couple: "We asked thee president for his support of gay marriage, the children said to a rousing cheer from the homosexuals in the audience. "Because we have two moms who are just as good as other parents, and they love us a lot." | |
| U.S. Soldier Who Read Conservative Books Now Faces Charges Todd Starnes Master Sgt. Nathan Sommers is accused of giving a superior officer the wrong date for a doctor's appointment. He's also accused of failing to carry out an order. In order to comply with that order, Sommers would have had to disclose private information about his autistic son's medical records. |
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| Atheists Up In Arms Over Bible Near Florida Mayor's Desk Atheists are outraged that a Bible sits right next to the mayor's desk, inside a Pinellas Park City Council chamber, and they're demanding its removal. City officials, however, say that's a no-go. The Bible's been there for more than 30 years, and laws don't prohibit its presence. | |
| Suspension Over Gun-shaped Toaster Pastry is Now Permanent Mark on Kid's Record School officials have denied an appeal to have the suspension expunged from the boy's permanent record, reports The Baltimore Sun. Robin Ficker, the attorney representing Welch and his family, said he will now take the matter to the Anne Arundel County school board. |
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| Barack Obama 101: A
lesson in Understanding The President Bob Taylor Barack Obama was born into an Islamic society... Life in the Muslim world is a perpetual juggling act. The only rules that count are the ones you are using at the moment. They can change within a week, a day or even an hour. All that matters is what is most advantageous to any individual at a given moment. |
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| White House Counsel
Robert Bauer: Architect of IRS Abuse? J. Christian Adams When the FBI finally fires up its criminal investigation of the IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, there is one person the special agent in charge better be sure to interview – former White House Counsel Robert Bauer. |
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| Edward Snowden: The Whistleblower Behind the NSA Surveillance Revelations The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The Guardian, after several days of interviews, is revealing his identity at his request. From the moment he decided to disclose numerous top-secret documents to the public, he was determined not to opt for the protection of anonymity. |
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| Officials Now Say NSA Mistakenly
Intercepted Emails, Phone Calls of Innocent Americans The National Security Agency has at times mistakenly intercepted the private email messages and phone calls of Americans who had no link to terrorism... At least some of the phone calls and emails were pulled from among the hundreds of millions stored by telecommunications companies as part of an NSA surveillance program. |
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| Democrat Senator Disputes Obama’s
Claim That Congress was Briefed Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Friday disputed a claim President Obama made at a press conference only moments earlier, when the president said that every member of Congress had been briefed on the National Security Agency’s (NSA) domestic phone surveillance program. |
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| IRS Official Who Headed Division
Targeting Conservatives Recorded 165 White House Visits Sarah Hall Ingram, the IRS official currently in charge of overseeing the agency's implementation of Obamacare, has logged 165 recorded visits to the White House since 2011, according to an analysis of White House visitor records compiled by the Franklin Center for Government and Public Integrity. |
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| IRS Targeting of Tea Party Is No
Mere Political Scandal Washington Examiner Editorial “This was a willful act of intimidation to discourage a point of view. What the government did to our little group in Wetumka, Ala., was un-American. It isn't a matter of firing or arresting individuals. The individuals who sought to intimidate us were acting as they thought they should in a government culture that has little respect for its citizens.” –Becky Gerritson |
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| It's Not Just the IRS – EPA Accused of Singling Out Conservative Groups "I don't think it is fair at all. It is not fair to the American taxpayer – the American taxpayer should expect and demand that the EPA treats everyone equally in regard to these requests," said Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Tim Murphy, a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. "This cannot be tolerated." |
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| Newly Released Documents Show EPA Director's Extensive Use of Fraudulant Email Account Richard Windsor never existed at the EPA, but the agency awarded the fictional staffer's email account certificates proving he had mastered all of the agency's technology training. Windsor.Richard"at"epa.gov was the controversial email alias used by former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, who resigned earlier this year amid questions about whether her agency was complying with open-records laws. |
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| The U.S. Government Illegally Asked
the AP for $1 Million for Secret Email Addresses The Labor Department initially asked the AP to pay just over $1.03 million when the AP asked for email addresses of political appointees there. Asking for that kind of money based on a FOIA request is, of course, against the law, something the Labor Department admitted in later emails with the AP. |
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| Wife of IRS Commissioner Douglas
Shulman was Part of OFA, Occupy DC and Protested Against IRS Targets Shulman, who Democrats have been fond of saying was a Bush appointee, was, however, a DNC donor. Perhaps even more instructive is the activity of Shulman's wife, Susan L. Anderson. We previously reported that she was working for a liberal organization, Public Campaign, a group that was supposedly about campaign finance reform. Now we've learned more... |
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| IRS Calculates Obamacare Penalties
Based on a Health Plan Costing $20,000 The IRS's assumption that the cheapest plan for a family will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan. The examples point to families of four and families of five, both of which the IRS expects in its assumptions to pay a minimum of $20,000 per year for a bronze plan. |
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| 2/3rds
Say They Will Not Insure Under Obamacare There's no assurance folks will be buying insurance under Obamacare, and that could spell trouble for the Affordable Care Act. Nearly two-thirds of Americans who currently lack health insurance don't know yet if they will purchase that coverage by the Jan. 1 deadline set by the ACA, a new survey revealed Monday. |
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| States’ Hospital Data for Sale Puts
Privacy in Jeopardy Hospitals in the U.S. pledge to keep a patient's health background confidential. Yet states from Washington to New York are putting privacy at risk by selling records that can be used to link a person's identity to medical conditions using public information. |
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| Obamacare Demands Insurers Cover
Planned Parenthood Clinics While insurers currently cover doctors and health facilities in their networks, Obamacare demands that they also cover at least 20 percent of "essential community providers" in their coverage area, including Planned Parenthood, AIDS clinics, pain management centers and even alternative medicine providers. "We've never covered these sorts of things," a Wisconsin insurance provider said. |
PP gets a return on the $$$ spent to elect Obama |
| UCLA Economic Report: "It's not a
recovery. It's not even normal growth. It's bad." The country's tepid growth in its gross domestic product isn't creating enough good jobs to build a strong middle class, according to a UCLA report released Wednesday. "Growth in GDP has been positive, but not exceptional," UCLA economists wrote in their quarterly Anderson Forecast. |
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| Media Didn’t Worry About Dems
Overplaying ‘GOP War on Women’ or ‘GOP Culture of Corruption’ Noel Sheppard You canīt swing a dead cat these days without hitting some liberal media member cautioning the Republicans to not "overplay their hand" concerning the various scandals now plaguing the White House. |
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| Amid Scandals, Joe Biden Doubles
Down On Gun Control Biden was the architect of the administration's gun control plan that included a ban on assault weapons. By the time it made it to the Senate floor, it had been watered down to just an expanded background check program and even that lost, leaving the White House with nothing. |
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| Mainstream Media Fail to Break Even
One of Four Obama Scandals John Nolte Fact: Over the past few weeks, four major scandals have broken over the Obama administration, and it is a very sad (and frightening) truth that our pathetic, American, lapdog mainstream media is not responsible for breaking even a single one. |
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| The Zero-tolerance War on
Kindergarteners William A. Jacobson A 5-year-old girl chats up classmates while waiting for the bus after school. The topic: Playing with a Hello Kitty "bubble gun" that, with the flick of a finger, blows bubbles everywhere. "I'll shoot you, you shoot me, and we'll all play together," the kindergartner says. The next day, that remark landed the young central Pennsylvanian child in the principal's office. |
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| Woodsy On The Rampage: The Ecology of Radical Environmentalism Frederick Meekins In this era of hyper-terrorism where every Tom, Dick, and Abdul with a grudge against society because of a rotten childhood blows up a bus or shoots up a post office, many are not too concerned about the activities of other outcasts striving to save the spotted owl or kangaroo rat with methods outside accepted political procedure since the most violent terrorists create the more pressing security concerns. |
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 When Freedom Came Ashore — D–Day 1944: Stunning shots of troops storming Omaha Beach and how they were almost lost forever Theyīre iconic images which capture the brutal reality of the D-Day landings 69 years ago today – but they were nearly lost forever. War photographer Robert Capa took these remarkable close-up photos – named The Magnificent Eleven – which show Allied troops in the second wave landing on Omaha beach in Normandy on June 6, 1944. |
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| With the IRS it's now
your money And your life Tony Perkins President Obama's communications czar, Dan Pfeiffer, usually chooses his words carefully. So it's no accident when he says, "The law is irrelevant" even as he concedes that the IRS targeting scandal is "inexcusable." |
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| Bystanders In Their Own
Fate Mark Steyn In Woolwich, a large crowd of Londoners apparently volunteered to "shelter in place," instinctively. Consider how that will play when these guys' jihadist snuff video is being hawked around the bazaars of the Muslim world. Behold the infidels, content to be bystanders in their own fate. |
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| Bombshell: IRS Employee Claims
Washington, DC Called for Groups to be Targeted for Unfair Scrutiny Rep. Darrel lssa, chairman of powerful House Committee of Oversight and Government Reform, made that startling announcement on CNN Sunday morning. “As late as last week,” he said, “the [Obama] administration was still trying to say the [IRS targeting scandal] was from a few rogue agents in Cincinnati, when in fact the indication is that they were directly being ordered from Washington.” |
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| Documents Show IRS Higher-ups Requested Info On Conservative Groups Jay Sekulow, an attorney representing 27 conservative political advocacy organizations that applied to the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status, provided some of the letters to NBC News. He said the groups’ contacts with the IRS prove that the practices went beyond a few “front line” employees in the Cincinnati office, as the IRS has maintained. |
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| More Revelations Show IRS May Have Targeted Conservatives More Broadly Than Thought While the developing scandal over the targeting of conservatives by the tax agency has largely focused to date on its scrutiny of groups with words such as "tea party" or "patriot" in their names, these [latest] examples suggest the government was looking at a broader array of conservative groups and perhaps individuals. |
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| Obama Signs Fundraising Email for
‘Non-Partisan’ Organizing for Action Jeryl Bier Today, President Obama personally became re-involved in his former campaign organization's new incarnation Organizing for Action. On the same day he is scheduled to appear at two DCCC fundraisers in Chicago, the president of the United States sent the following email to OFA's mailing list, signed "Barack": |
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| The Bullying Pulpit Thomas Sowell We have truly entered the world of Alice in Wonderland when the CEO of a company that pays $16 million a day in taxes is hauled up before a Congressional subcommittee to be denounced on nationwide television for not paying more. |
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| More Intimidation? FBI Terrorism
Task Force Wants to Question National Crisis Pregnancy Center Director The FBI office charged with investigating terrorism has said it intends to question the national director of a chain of crisis pregnancy centers. The development is the latest in what pro-life activists have charged is a pattern of intimidation on the part of the Obama administration against pro-life activists. |
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| List Revealed: Hundreds of words to
avoid using online if you donīt want the government spying on you The Department of Homeland Security has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor social networking sites and online media for signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S. The intriguing the list includes obvious choices such as 'attack', 'Al Qaeda', 'terrorism' and 'dirty bomb' alongside dozens of seemingly innocent words like 'pork', 'cloud', 'team' and 'Mexico'. |
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| Tony Blair: ‘there is a problem
within Islam’ The former Prime Minister addresses the shocking killing of Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich by going further than he – or any front-rank British politician – has gone before over the issue of Muslim radicalism. |
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| House Democrat: Russia Believes Boston Bombing Could Have Been Stopped Russian intelligence officials believe that if U.S. authorities had acted on warnings about Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bombings could have been prevented, U.S. Rep. William Keating said Saturday after returning from a congressional delegation trip to Russia. |
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| Woolwich Attack: 'Lone wolves' Who
Run with the Pack Andrew Gilligan No British soldier has ever been killed like this – not even in battle, let alone in the London suburbs during the Wednesday lunch hour. But the reactions to the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby followed a much more familiar pattern. Journalists and analysts rushed to explain the attack as the work of "lone wolves", "self-radicalized" online. |
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| Police Nab Muslim Over French
Soldier's Stabbing Police investigating the stabbing of a French soldier in Paris on Wednesday arrested a suspect sources described as a Muslim... Sources close to the investigation said the 22-year-old man has been a follower of "radical views for the last three or four years." |
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| Vile Vandal Who Daubed “Islam” on UK Bomber Command War Memorial Caught On Film The man, of African appearance, is captured moving in and out of the shadows to spray the Monument to the 55,573 Bomber Command veterans lost in the Second World War, which was opened by the Queen last June, had the word "Islam" sprayed on it in red paint. |
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| U.S. Attorney Suggests Anti-Muslim
Speech Can Be Punished A U.S. attorney in Tennessee is reportedly vowing to use federal civil rights statutes to clamp down on offensive and inflammatory speech about Islam. Bill Killian, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, was quoted by the Tullahoma News this week suggesting that some inflammatory material on Islam might run afoul of federal civil rights laws. |
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| NJ Doctor with Occupy Wall Street
Ties Indicted on Explosives Related Charge A NJ doctor has been indicted on charges in relation to the storage of bomb-making materials and illegal weapons in his home. Sixty-year-old Roberto Rivera of Ridgewood also faces weapons charges in the indictment recently handed up by a Bergen County grand jury. He remains jailed on $1 million bail. |
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| Fire Eric Holder Jonathan Turley Holder's refusal to accept responsibility for the AP investigation was something of a change for the political insider. His value to President Obama has been his absolute loyalty. Holder is what we call a "sin eater" inside the Beltway – high-ranking associates who shield presidents from responsibility for their actions. |
Reliable liberal throws Holder under the bus |
| Obamacare Will Include 9 Diagnostic
Codes for Injuries Sustained from a Macaw Senator Rand Paul noted 122,000 new medical diagnostic codes doctors will have to use in order to inform the government about injuries sustained by Americans. Those codes, said Sen. Paul, a medical doctor himself, include line-items for 'injuries sustained from a turtle,' 'walking into a lamppost' and 'injuries sustained from burning water skis.' |
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| Obamacare California Rate Shock: Individual Insurance Premiums To Increase As Much As 146% One of the most serious flaws with Obamacare is that its blizzard of regulations and mandates drives up the cost of insurance for people who buy it on their own. This problem will be especially acute when the law's main provisions kick in on January 1, 2014, leading many to worry about health insurance "rate shock." |
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| Stupid P. J. OīRourke "You're stupid," is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama. But on Friday morning I picked up the Wall Street Journal and learned that the president had given a speech about the war on terror saying, "This war, like all wars, must end." |
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| Staples Disqualifies Gun Stores, Lumps Firearms Together with Illegal Drugs “We're sorry, but your small business entry into the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest has been rejected for the following reason(s): Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.” |
This may improve sales at Office Depot |
| Teacher Punished for Telling
Students About Constitutional Rights Todd Starnes An Illinois high school teacher was punished by a local school district after he warned students about the Constitutional rights before answering a school-mandated survey about emotional and at-risk behavior. John Dryden, a social studies teacher at Batavia High School, was issued a formal reprimand and docked a day's pay. |
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| Authorities Grill 5-yr-old More
Than 2 Hours for Bringing Orange Tipped Cap Pistol to School A kindergartner who brought a cowboy-style cap gun onto his Calvert County school bus was suspended for 10 days after showing a friend the orange-tipped toy, which he had tucked inside his backpack on his way to school, according to his family and a lawyer. The child was questioned for more than two hours before his mother was called. |
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| “A gun didn't kill my husband, a man killed my husband” –widow of famed sniper Chris Kyle The widow of legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle is still a passionate supporter of the Second Amendment – despite her husband's murder in a tragic shooting in February. Tara Kyle, 38, who recently spoke at a Houston NRA convention, owns a Smith & Wesson pistol, but says that 'A gun didn't kill my husband, a man killed my husband.' |
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| Mike Bloomberg's $12 Million
Anti-Gun Campaign Worn as 'Badge of Honor' by Opponents The people Bloomberg is attacking have begun wearing his condemnation as a badge of honor. On Friday, Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas – one of the Democrats the New York City mayor has been targeting with his gun control ads – launched an ad in which he brags about Bloomberg's condemnation. |
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| 85% of Brits Want Handgun Ban
Repealed For anti-gunners on both sides of the Atlantic, it is a devastating rejection of the gun ban philosophy. A recent study published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy concluded that there is a negative correlation between gun ownership and violent crime in countries internationally, that is, “where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest.” |
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| Obama's Student Loan Rate Proposal Saves Average Borrower 25Ē Per Day Reprising the "Don't Double My Rate" theme used during the 2012 presidential campaign, the White House is pushing a plan by President Obama this week to prevent interest rates on some student loans from doubling effective July 1. However, the savings for most borrowers is rather less significant than might appear at first glance. |
Like most things 'Obama' – it sure sounds good. |
| ‘Liberal Activist’ Admits to
Bugging Mitch McConnell's Office Writing for Salon, Curtis Morrison, a self-titled "liberal activist," admits to bugging Mitch McConnell's office. He claims to have been inspired by Julian Assange and claims, "If given another chance to record him, I’d do it again." |
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| UK Climate Change Czar Recants, Admits Global Warming Not Caused by Humans Asked on Tuesday night whether it was better to take action to mitigate the effects of climate change than to prevent it in the first place, Tim Yeo said: "The first thing to say is it does not represent any threat to the survival of the planet. None at all. The planet has survived much bigger changes than any climate change that is happening now. |
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| U.S. Should Heed Failure of Cap and
Trade in Europe Washington Examiner Liberals often brand conservatives as "anti-science" in global warming discussions, but the EU experience demonstrates that it is the Left that resists facts and logic about the limits of renewables. Remember, the EU's failed cap-and-trade system is the same basic idea that liberals shoved through Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House in 2009... |
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| Hunch About Bloomberg Brought
Rivals Together Through its lucrative terminal business, Bloomberg provides firms with intricate financial information. And while the company is not alone in providing data to the big banks Bloomberg terminals have become so ubiquitous on Wall Street that they are essentially a prerequisite for traders. They come at a steep price: each machine can cost an average of more than $20,000 a year. |
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| How Hope and Change Gave
Way To Spying on the Press Kirsten Powers First they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out – because they were not Fox News. Then they came for government whistleblowers, and they did not speak out – because they were not government whistleblowers. Then they came for the maker of a You Tube video, and – okay, we know how this story ends. But how did we get here? |
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| How The White House's
War On Media Backfired Edward Morrissey [The James Rosen probe] news dropped like a bombshell on the media, even among those normally inclined to support President Obama and his administration. Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson ripped into the Justice probe of Rosen, writing that it was part of "a pattern that threatens to redefine investigative reporting as criminal behavior." |
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| Memorial Day Inspiration The 30 Greatest War Movies of All Time The terror and the triumph of combat make for great drama, which is why it's no coincidence that life on the battlefield has inspired an arsenal of incredible movies. [TYSK would most assuredly have included the Battle of Britain instead of the comedy M*A*S*H ]  |
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| Lawmakers Zero in on IRS Meetings
at White House Top IRS officials, whose agency was under investigation for targeting conservative groups, visited the Obama White House more than 100 times over two years while the probe was going on, far more often than in previous administrations and frequently enough that Republicans suspect White House officials knew about the targeting. |
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| IRS May Still Be Targeting
Conservatives Though the White House has insisted the IRS stopped formally targeting Tea Party and conservative organizations in May of 2012, two attorneys representing conservative organizations have claimed the IRS's targeting may still be ongoing. |
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| IRS's Lerner Had History of
Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lois Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths – including the revelation that she apparently lied about planting a question at an American Bar Association conference where she first publicly acknowledged IRS misconduct. |
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| Even for Liberals, Obama Has
Crossed a Line Janet Daley Scarcely anything could be more antithetical to the principles on which America was founded than this [IRS] abuse of federal government power to suppress dissident opinion. With apparently unconscious irony, Ms Lerner has now invoked her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to testify about these matters before a congressional committee. |
Excellent summary of Barack's bad week |
| Tax-exempt Obama Foundation Doesn't
Exist at Listed Addresses; Sailed Through Process of Being Granted Tax-Exempt Status  The
"charity" run by President Barack Obama's half-brother that was
fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS
store, according to its website. The organization's IRS filings list
another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the
foundation does not appear ever to have been based.So, where do the contributions go? |
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| Citizens, Not Customers Matthew Continetti A happy consequence of the IRS mess would be if conservatives took the opportunity, in between the high dudgeon and special investigations, to explain to the public the true purposes of government. A government whose primary object is to secure the natural rights of its citizenry would not be so invested in regulating political speech and association. |
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| Scandals Revive Tea Party, Threaten
Obamacare Kimberly Atkins The trio of scandals that are rocking Washington smack of the exact kind of government overreach and abuse of power that fueled the movement in the beginning. Suddenly, Tea Party darling and likely presidential hopeful Rand Paul is selling out speaking events from Iowa to New Hampshire, and Palin's tweets are making headlines again. |
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| Obamacare will go down
in history as the most detested bill ever. –WZ By 22-Point Margin, Voters Favor Obamacare’s Repeal Around the time of Lincoln’s birthday, registered voters told Fox News that, by a margin of 6 percentage points, it would “be better to go back to the health care system that was in place in 2009” than it would be “to leave the new health care law in place.” Three months later nostalgia for the good ol’ days of 2009 now beats Obamacare by a whopping 22 points.  Three Labor Unions, Including Teamsters, Want ObamaCare Repealed; When Will Media Report? As the media, by and large, ignores the train wreck that is on the horizon with ObamaCare, yet another union has jumped ship on the president's health care overhaul. Back in April, you may recall, the United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers, and Allied Workers officially said thanks but no thanks to the president's plan. Another Enormous Obamacare 'Oops'; Obamacare's Architects Misunderstand the Concept of Insurance Michael Barone Would you like to have a "skinny" health insurance policy? Probably not. But if you're employed by a large company, you may get one, thanks to Obamacare. That's the conclusion of Wall Street Journal reporters Christopher Weaver and Anna Wilde Mathews, who report that insurance brokers are pitching and selling "low-benefit" policies across the country. |
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| Some Republicans See New Scandal in
Sebelius Fundraising David Morgan They are questioning her soliciting of funds on behalf of a non-profit group, called Enroll America, from two private entities, a practice which if not unprecedented is at the very least unusual. Federal law bars officials from soliciting any organization or individual with whom they do business or regulate. |
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| It Can Happen
Here Victor Davis Hanson Does anyone care that five departments of government are either breaking the law or lying or both (State [Benghazi], Defense [the harassment issues], Justice [monitoring of phone lines], Treasury [corruption at the IRS], Health and Human Services [shaking down companies to pay for PR for Obamacare])? |
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| Tyranny is no Longer 'Lurking' Cal Thomas Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" warning "that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." It's no longer lurking. It's here. |
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| CBS News President and WH Official
Tied to Benghazi Scandal Are Brothers Guy Benson "CBS News executives" are wringing their hands that Sharyl Attkisson maybe "wading dangerously close" to advocacy on Benghazi. It's now entirely reasonable to ask if the top executive at the network may be "wading dangerously close" to a massive conflict of interest. Is David Rhodes trying to protect his brother – who's just been revealed to be knee-deep in the Benghazi cover-up. |
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| Roger Ailes' Open Letter to Fox
Employees Dear colleagues – The recent news about the FBI's seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. ... |
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| Intimidation: Now the Gibson Guitar
Raids Make Sense Investor's Business Daily On Aug. 24, 2011, federal agents executed four search warrants on Gibson Guitar Corp. facilities in Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Grossly underreported at the time was the fact that Gibson's chief executive, Henry Juszkiewicz, contributed to Republican politicians. |
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| Obama Attempts Re-nomination of
Controversial Lawyer for NLRB Attorney Lafe Solomon is perhaps best known for signing off on an unfair labor practice complaint the agency filed against Boeing Co. in a union dispute, setting off months of backlash from Republicans and business groups who said the agency exceeded its authority and was trying to bolster labor unions, according to The Wall Street Journal. |
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| Youths
Riot in Sweden's 'Little Mogadishu', Burn Down School The trouble began on Monday after a group of youths in a suburb with a mainly immigrant population were refused entry to a school dance. Police say up to 100 youths went on the rampage, throwing stones and setting several cars alight. Two people were detained but later released. |
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| Stockholm Riots Leave Sweden's
Dreams of Perfect Society Up In Smoke "In the old days, the neighborhood was more Swedish and life felt like a dream, but now there are just too many foreigners, and a new generation that has grown up here with just their own culture," he said, gesturing towards the hooded youths milling around in Husby's pedestrianised shopping precinct. |
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| Islam vs. Islamism Daniel Pipes Islamism accurately indicates an Islamic-flavored version of radical utopianism, an -ism like other -isms, comparable to fascism and communism. Aping those two movements, for example, Islamism relies heavily on conspiracy theories to interpret the world, on the state to advance its ambitions, and on brutal means to attain its goals. |
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| New Photos and Texts from Trayvon
Martin's Cell Phone Paint Troubling Picture of Slain Teen Explosive new pictures from Trayvon Martin's cell phone show the slain Florida teenager blowing smoke rings, a photo of a gun and what appears to be a marijuana plant. The data released on Thursday by George Zimmerman's attorneys also include worrying text messages with a friend about fighting, smoking pot and being forced to move out of his mother's house because of trouble at school. |
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| Texas Drops Anti-American 'CSCOPE'
Curriculum The state's regional Education Service Centers no will longer issue lesson plans – and will forbid their use after Aug. 31 – for a popular online curriculum system that became a lightning rod for conservatives who criticized it as anti-American, legislators announced Monday. |
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| DOJ Instructs All Managers To Be
Vocal Advocates of Gay Pride For DOJ Pride, there is no longer a place even for private, unexpressed disapproval of homosexuality in the workplace. Regardless of personal beliefs, every manager ought to be a vocal advocate for the LGBT cause. If you are not an outspoken supporter, you must be an enemy. That is justice at the DOJ these days. |
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| UK Terror Suspect Revealed as
Muslim Convert Known to MI5 School friends said Michael Adebolaj changed his name to Mujaheed and was fixated with warped extreme Islamic ideals after being radicalised. Last night Muslim sources identified Adebolajo – who is claimed to be from a devout Christian family but converted to Islam in 2003 – as the man in The Sun's video taken minutes after the soldier was hacked to death. |
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Week ending 19 May 2013 |
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| The IRS Scandal Started
at the Top Kimberley A. Strassel Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was. All he needed to do was exactly what he did do, in full view, for three years: Publicly suggest that conservative political groups were engaged in nefarious deeds; publicly call out by name political opponents whom he'd like to see harassed; and publicly have his party pressure the IRS to take action. |
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| In IRS Scandal, Echoes
of Watergate George F. Will "He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner." —Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against Richard M. Nixon, adopted by the House Judiciary Committee, July 29, 1974 |
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| The Complete Benghazi Timeline
Spreadsheet [Updated] The complete Benghazi timeline, now augmented with information from eyewitness testimony before Congress, various leaks from the warring Obama/Clinton camps, Stephen Hayes, Sharyl Attkisson, and the House Oversight Committee. |
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| Déjā vu: Commissioner in Charge of
IRS Tea Party Probes Also Targeted Anti-Clinton Group in 1990s Steven T. Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who managed the division that has admitted targeting anti-Obama Tea Party groups, was one of several agents who investigated anti-Clinton organizations including Judicial Watch during that Democrat's administration, according to court documents and interviews. |
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| IRS Letters Harassing Conservative
Groups Came from Washington, DC headquarters and from California Offices “The IRS's assertion that this scheme was launched by a couple of rogue employees in the Cincinnati office is absurd,” Jay Sekulow said. His organization represents 27 tea party organizations, all of which were targeted, he said, with partisan attacks. “To suggest that a couple of low-level employees decided to launch this unprecedented conduct of intimidation does not square with the facts,” the attorney added. |
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| IRS Wanted Incredibly Intrusive
Info from Conservative Groups “They were asking for a U-Haul truck's worth of information” A Politico review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything – in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere. |
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| IRS Sued for Seizing 60 million
medical records from 10 million Americans The name of the [insurance] provider is not yet known, UPI said. But Courthouse News Service said the suit claims the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for financial data on one employee – and that led to the seizure of information on 10 million, including state judges. |
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| IRS Exec in Charge During Tea Party
Targeting Now Runs IRS Obamacare Enforcement Branch Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS' Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today. |
Ingram received bonuses totaling $103,390 |
| Benghazi, IRS and AP Scandals
Reveal Obama's Culture of Corruption If your opponents are evil, anything goes. Peter Morici News that the IRS targeted conservative groups for intense scrutiny is just one in a series of revelations pointing to a culture of expediency and intolerance in the Obama White House that corrupts this administration. |
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| IRS Denied Tax-exempt Status to
Pro-lifers On Behalf of Planned Parenthood “In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent 'Ms. Richards' told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board's signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood,” the Thomas More Society announced today. |
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| Texas: Second ‘house of horrors’
Abortion Clinic Doctor “twisted heads off fetus’ necks with his bare hands” Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live fetuses during third-trimester abortions and killing them by either snipping their spinal cord, stabbing a surgical instrument into their heads or 'twisting their heads off their necks with his own bare hands'. Other times the fetus was so big he would have to pull it out of the womb in pieces. |
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| White House's Benghazi Email Dump
Shows Critical Two-day Gap, Reveals CIA Objection The Benghazi-related emails released by the White House late May 15 exclude the critical emails between administration officials that were sent during the crucial first two days after the deadly jihadi attack that killed four Americans last September. |
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| EPA Waives Fee Requests for
Friendly Groups, Denies Conservative Groups Michal Conger Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Conservative Enterprise Institute. |
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| Obama Gives Wind Farms a Pass on
Eagle Deaths, Prosecutes Oil Companies More than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles, according to an estimate published in March in the peer-reviewed Wildlife Society Bulletin. Each death is federal crime, a charge that the Obama administration has used to prosecute oil companies when birds drown in their waste pits, and power companies when birds are electrocuted by their power lines. |
Over 1/2 Million dead each year! |
| Lamar Alexander: Sebelius
Fundraising ‘arguably an even bigger issue’ than Iran-Contra Sarah Kliff Lamar Alexander: "One issue is if Kathleen Sebelius is raising money from the people she regulates. But I'm more concerned about her using private funding and private organizations to do what Congress has refused to do. I and other members of congress are going to ask GAO to look into the extent she's coordinating with Enroll America or other organizations." |
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| Insurers Predict 100%–400%
Obamacare Rate Explosion New regulations, policies, taxes, fees and mandates are the reason for the unexpected "rate shock," according to the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which released a report Monday based on internal documents provided by the insurance companies. The 17 companies include Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Kaiser Foundation. |
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| Cancer Patients, Others May Face
Soaring Costs Under Obamacare To try to keep premiums low, some states are allowing insurers to charge patients a hefty share of the cost for expensive medications used to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis and other life-altering chronic diseases. Such "specialty drugs" can cost thousands of dollars a month... For one widely used cancer drug, Gleevec, the patient could pay more than $2,000 for a month's supply. |
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| IRS Scandal Raises Specter of Politically Motivated IPAB Healthcare Denials Jen Kuznicki Knowing what we are truly facing in a fiscal sense has dominated our lives, but the real fear that this IRS scandal raises is whether the "confidential taxpayer information" that IRS and HHS will be sharing will include political information. If the IRS can flag your information and slow things down on something like tax exempt status, can they do it when determining our use of health care? |
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| Senators Caught on Tape:
"Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate" Second Amendment rights advocates are fuming today over words from three Democratic state senators caught on tape after Thursday's hearing on the upper chamber's gun control package. The three female senators, who sound from the recording to be Sen. Loretta Weinberg, Sen. Sandy Cunningham and Sen. Linda Greenstein, are heard discussing the just-closed hearing. |
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| Georgia Orders Bibles Returned to
State-Owned Park Officials told atheist Ed Buckner they would remove the Bibles from all state park resorts while the state attorney general looked into the matter. Not long afterward, however, the AG issued a ruling saying the state was on firm legal ground because it hadn't paid for the books. On Wednesday, Gov. Nathan Deal ordered the Bibles returned. |
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Week ending 12 May 2013 |
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| Benghazi Coverup
Uncovered Clarice Feldman BBC has apologized for its coverage of the Benghazi murders; ABC has unraveled the mendacious tale of the talking points ī genesis and the Congressional hearings this week have dramatically established the administrationīs elaborate lies about how our ambassador and his brave defenders were murdered and its failure to protect them. |
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| ‘How empty and dead’
Were They To Let Chris Stevens Die for ‘Obama-Clinton Fiction?’ Jeff Poor On Hugh Hewitt's Thursday night program, National Review columnist Mark Steyn explained why the Obama administration's response to last September's terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi was so appalling. "They let him die, and then told lies over his coffin," he told fill-in host Guy Benson. |
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| IRS Targeted Groups That Criticized
the Government, IG Report Says On Jan. 15, 2012 the agency decided to target “political action type organizations involved in limiting/expanding Government, educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, social economic reform movement.,” according to the appendix in the IG report, which was requested by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and has yet to be released. |
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| Words That Replace Thought Thomas Sowell If there is ever a contest for words that substitute for thought, "diversity" should be recognized as the undisputed world champion. You don't need a speck of evidence, or a single step of logic, when you rhapsodize about the supposed benefits of diversity. |
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| Does Obama Care More About Benghazi
Families, or Himself? J. Christian Adams Because the administration was a slave to their own narrative, rather than aggressively fighting al-Qaeda, rather than recognizing the $50 billion investment in Mubarak's stability, and rather than realizing that the upheaval they sponsored in the Middle East empowered Muslim Brotherhood radicals, they lied repeatedly about Benghazi. They lied to win re-election, the most vile sort of lie. |
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| Top Obama Official’s Brother is
President of CBS News, May Drop Reporter Over Benghazi Coverage Patrick Howley The brother of a top Obama administration official is also the president of CBS News, and the network may be days away from dropping one of its top investigative reporters for covering the administration’s scandals too aggressively. CBS News executives have reportedly expressed frustration with their own reporter, Sharyl Attkisson... |
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| In Grievous Error of Omission ABC
News Failed to Report That Whistleblower is a Democrat that voted for
Obama... Twice If you were a journalist reporting on Benghazi whistleblower Gregory Hicks, wouldnīt you find it interesting that he was a Democrat who voted for Barack Obama twice? Someone at NBC News didnīt according to Hicksīs attorney Victoria Toensing who disclosed the spike job to NewsMax host Steve Malzberg on WMAL radio Saturday. |
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BENGHAZI: It's Not Just Fox News Anymore — Vindicated: Charges of a Benghazi Cover-Up No Longer ‘Fox-Induced Hysteria’ Noah Rothman The emergence of a number of whistleblowers who have come forward to refute the claims made by some members of President Barack Obama's administration relating to the September 11, 2012, attack on an American consulate in Benghazi does not directly implicate the White House in a cover-up. Spinning Benghazi The New Yorker, Alex Koppelman The ongoing debate about the attack on the United States facility in Benghazi where four Americans were killed, and the Obama Administration’s response to it, is no exception. For a long time, it seemed like the idea of a coverup was just a Republican obsession. But now there is something to it. Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces Told "you can't go" to Benghazi During Attacks The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command Africa. The account from Gregory Hicks is in stark contrast to assertions from the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton – Culpable For Benghazi from Beginning to End Paul Mirengoff When it first became clear that the CIA's Benghazi talking points had been altered, many of us viewed the White House as the prime suspect. It turns out, however, that the State Department was the prime culprit. Why did State want the talking points changed? Because it had ignored warnings about rising terrorist activity in Libya and had reduced security rather than beefing it up, as our embassy requested. Source: Only President Could Have Made 'Stand Down' Call On Benghazi A source with intimate information about the events that happened on the ground in Benghazi the night the U.S. Consulate and the CIA annex was attacked by terrorists told Breitbart News that, ultimately, only the President of the United States, or someone acting on his authority, could have prevented Special Forces either on the ground or nearby from helping those Americans who were under deadly assault. CIA Director Petraeus was Surprised When He Read The Rewritten Talking Points There was good reason for surprise. Within 24 hours of the attack, the U.S. government had intercepted communications between two al Qaeda-linked terrorists discussing the attacks in Benghazi. One of the jihadists, a member of Ansar al Sharia, reported to the other that he had participated in the assault on the U.S. diplomatic post. Solid evidence. And there was more. Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack. Talking Points Timeline [PDF] |
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| Radio Talker and Attorney Mark Levin May Have Prompted IRS Revelations Conservative radio talker Mark Levin appears to have touched off the investigation into Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative political groups back in March 2012. In a letter last year on behalf of the Landmark Legal Foundation, an organization he heads, Levin requested an investigation into what he called “misconduct.” |
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| Obama’s
IRS Washington Free Beacon Editorial “President [Michael] Crowe and the Board of Regents will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS,” —President Obama jokes during his commencement speech at Arizona State University in 2009. Under President Obama the Internal Revenue Service has repeatedly been accused of using its enforcement powers to punish the White House’s political opponents. |
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| Obamacare: Taxpayers Must Report
Personal Health ID Info to IRS When Obamacare’s individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer’s personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate. |
You should have seen this coming |
| According to Obama: $1 Trillion in Obamacare Spending is Historic ‘tax cut’ Philip Klein Far from being a historic tax cut, Obamacare actually qualifies – according to the Congressional Budget Office – as one of the largest tax increases in history. It contains roughly $1 trillion in taxes – on insurance plans, medical devices and investment income. And many of the taxes will end up falling on the middle class. |
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| Another Liberal Democrat: Obamacare Will Cause Insurance Premiums To "Shoot Up" John Hawkins Isn't it funny that when Republicans were pointing out issue after issue with Obamacare, Democrats were insisting that the bill was perfect. However, now that Obamacare is about to go into effect, suddenly Democrats are seeing all sorts of problems that they never noticed before. |
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| Obamacare Fall Out: Roofers Union
Wants Repeal [R]egrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act's provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it. |
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| 9,646 Reasons to Dislike the
Internet Sales Tax Rob Bluey and Kelsey Harris This is a classic case of where the interests of big business and big government intersect. But not all businesses are signing on to this new scheme. Etsy, an e-commerce hub where individuals can sell handmade items such as arts and crafts, warned yesterday that the legislation would "unnecessarily burden small businesses. |
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| Media's Anti-Gun Narrative
Destroyed by Justice Dept. Report John Nolte According to the report from the department's Bureau of Statistics, every argument the media and the left are currently making to push for new restrictions on our Second Amendment civil rights, are made up of anti-science nonsense. This report not only proves the media wrong, it proves the NRA right. |
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| Biometric Database of All Adult
Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID. |
Many fear first step to a national ID |
| Indoctrination
via Academia: Another USC Professor Caught Slamming Bush, Berating Conservatives, Attacking Christians A second professor, Richard Dekmejian, at the University of Southern California has been caught on video using his political science class as a platform for bashing conservatives. In the video, he claims former President George W. Bush suffered from mental instability and stupidity during his time in office. |
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| Open Mike Reveals NJ Gun-Banners’
Intentions Joseph Smith Following a New Jersey Senate gun-control hearing, the mike was left open, and three anti-gun state Senators waded in feet first. A recording of the post-game chat has been picked up by the Newark Star-Ledger, a reliably liberal paper: As a committee hearing on new gun-control legislation began winding down Thursday, three state senators started chatting amongst themselves. |
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| The Survey Says: Islam is a Global
Menace Andrew E. Harrod In an exclusive for the German conservative newspaper Die Welt on April 26, 2013, the German Bertelsmann Stiftung released international survey results concerning popular perceptions of Islam. The polling of 14,000 people in 13 countries during November and December 2012 indicates broad-based concerns about the compatibility of Islamic beliefs and behaviors with free societies. |
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| Brotherhood
Takeover Continues as Morsi Appoints Nine Islamists Journalist: [Morsi] "wants to change the country" (Sound Familiar?) Justice, culture, economy and religion are key areas now under the direct or indirect control of the Muslim Brotherhood. Yesterday, President Mohamed Morsi presented the members of his new cabinet, giving nine ministries to figures affiliated with the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP). |
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| Why Kermit Gosnell Failed to Make
Big News S. E. Cupp Much has already been written and said about the lack of media attention the Kermit Gosnell abortion case has received. Folks like Democratic strategist Kirsten Powers and Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf have come out to lambaste the liberal media for an unwillingness to make the story front-page news until it was essentially shamed into doing so. |
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| Late-Term Abortion Doc Caught
Comparing Unborn Baby to "Meat in a Crock Pot" The pro-life group Live Action has released a fourth video in a series of undercover videos catching late-term abortion practitioners and abortion clinics misleading women and showing indifference to the destruction of human life. The videos show embattled abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell is not an anomaly. |
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| Planned Parenthood of Delaware
abortionist ogled, slapped, played peek-a-boo with patients... Jill Stanek ... And that's not the worst of it. I didn't have room in my title for the hymn abortionist Timothy Liveright sang to one patient during her abortion, "Jesus, Ohhhhh Jesus, take the sinners down the river, Ohhhh Jesus." Seems to me that was meant as some sort of double entendre for the abortion he was committing. Gross on so many levels. |
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| Memo Reveals Obama Wanted to Gut
Welfare Work Requirements Since 2009 "From the first year the Obama Administration took power, it was trying to find any legal and policy justification to permit the weakening of welfare reforms that demand work in exchange for government benefits," said Sen. Orrin Hatch in a press release on Tuesday. "They used states' desire for flexibility as a stalking horse to justify this massive executive branch power grab." |
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| Obama Refuses to Condemn Democrat
who vowed to send Nikki Haley ‘back to wherever the hell she came from’ South Carolina Democratic Party chairman Dick Harpootlian, who said Friday that he intends to help send Indian-American Republican Gov. Nikki Haley "back to wherever the hell she came from," was a major campaign bundler who raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for President Barack Obama, records reveal. |
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