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Criminality Appears To Lie at the Heart of the IRS Scandal
If the scandal isn't Chicago style kneecapping,
why have top officials had to lie?
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The IRS scandal and Obama’s culture of intimidation
From the WaPo: "For years, administration officials have
used the power of the federal government to isolate their opponents."
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Barack Obama is rapidly losing his halo
Not really his fault. He is what he is. Americans
just see too many movies.
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Lois Lerner´s Brief And Awful Day On Capitol Hill
A name soon to be relegated to a cheap edition of Trivial Pursuit.
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The Mystery Night
Senseless: If Obama's whereabouts are so irrelevant why
don't they just say where it was?
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Why was the Department of Homeland Security monitoring
Tea Party IRS demonstrations?

"When will average Americans realize that we
aren't in Kansas anymore."
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Must Reads for Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Yesterday's Must-Reads for those who missed.
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Ldotter Note: Don't Forget to Visit TheConnection
The Place Where Eagles Gather.
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Must Read Archive [Last 60 Days]




"You can't see me."
(Nearly uniform response from IRS targeting hearings witnesses.)



Latest Articles

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Huffington Post: Time
for Eric Holder to go
Washington Examiner, by Charlie Spiering    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 8:28:53 PM     Post Reply
“We have a message for Attorney General Holder over at http://huffingtonpost.com,” read a message from the Huffington Post political Twitter account earlier this evening. The website´s home page is one big splash calling for Eric Holder’s exit from the Obama administration, suggesting that the news reported earlier by NBC News was the final straw for liberals who are critical of Obama’s attorney general. NBC News’ Michael Isikoff reported that Holder signed off on the search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator”authorizing seizure of his private emails. The Huffington Post

Holder OK´d search warrant for
Fox News reporter´s private
emails, official says
NBC News, by Michael Isikoff & Pete Williams    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 8:24:58 PM     Post Reply
Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday. The disclosure of the attorney general’s role came as President Barack Obama, in a major speech on his counterterrorism policy, said Holder had agreed to review Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve journalists. "I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," Obama said.

The London Terror Attack Was
More Than ´Unforgivable´
Wall Street Journal, by Douglas Murray    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/23/2013 8:19:52 PM     Post Reply
How many ignored warnings does it take? That is one question that should hang over Britain after the horror of the daytime murder of a British soldier on the streets of south London. On Wednesday afternoon, Drummer Lee Rigby was killed in Woolwich by two men wielding large knives and shouting "Allahu akbar"—God is great. Islamists have been saying for years they would do this. They have planned to do it. And now they have done it. The attack itself is not surprising. What is surprising is that British society remains so utterly unwilling not just to deal

  


  

Ex-Judge Charged With
Stealing Cocaine From Cases
KDKA-TV [Pittsburgh, PA], by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee- 5/23/2013 8:12:37 PM     Post Reply
* Associated Press contributed to this report - PITTSBURGH (KDKA/AP) – The Pennsylvania State Police have charged a western Pennsylvania judge with stealing cocaine from evidence in cases he presided over before he abruptly resigned last year. According to police, the charges against former Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky will be prosecuted in Washington County by Senior Deputy Attorney General Michael Ahwesh.(snip) In May of 2011, Poznosky allegedly began to request that police bring the confiscated drugs into the courtroom. At that time, the drugs would be entered as evidence and then retained by either Poznosky or his staff.

Obama orders review of guidelines
for probing journalists
Reuters, by Jeff Mason    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 5/23/2013 8:11:50 PM     Post Reply
Washington - President Barack Obama said on Thursday he directed Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct a review of Department of Justice guidelines for investigations that involve journalists and report back by early July. Obama has come under criticism for his administration´s pursuit of journalists who have reported leaked material.(Snip)"I´m troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," Obama said on Thursday during a foreign policy speech about his administration´s counterterrorism objectives.

Conservatives Became Targets in 2008
Wall Street Journal, by Kimberley A. Strassel    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/23/2013 8:11:24 PM     Post Reply
The White House insists President Obama is "outraged" by the "inappropriate" targeting and harassment of conservative groups. If true, it´s a remarkable turnaround for a man who helped pioneer those tactics. On Aug. 21, 2008, the conservative American Issues Project ran an ad highlighting ties between candidate Obama and Bill Ayers, formerly of the Weather Underground. The Obama campaign and supporters were furious, and they pressured TV stations to pull the ad—a common-enough tactic in such ad spats. What came next was not common. Bob Bauer, general counsel for the campaign (and later general counsel for the White House),

Obama on the verge of becoming
one of America’s most successful
presidents ever
Power Line, by Paul Mirengoff    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 8:09:09 PM     Post Reply
With so many scandals in the picture or looming, it’s easy to miss the fact that President Obama may soon become one of the most successful presidents in American history. I’m defining success as fulfilling Obama’s mission of substantially transforming America. The Obama administration scandals matter because, to one degree or another, they involve scandalous conduct. But step back for moment. In 20 years, very few people will remember any of them. By contrast, in 20 years — assuming that Obamacare sticks and Schumer-Rubio style immigration

  


  

Liberty Place sues group
over anti-white, gay rants
Philadelphia Inquirer, by Frank Kummer & Emily Babay    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 8:06:10 PM     Post Reply
A religious group spewing what the owners of One Liberty Place call hate speech against women, whites and gays can no longer demonstrate immediately outside the building´s entrance at 16th and Chestnut Streets, a judge ruled today. The owners of One Liberty Place in Center City Philadelphia filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge. The group is frequently seen perched on Center City street corners shouting at passersby through bullhorns. Liberty Place Retail Associates, which owns the building, has asked the state court to bar the group from gathering in front of the entrance

2013 Atlantic hurricane season
forecast to be ´above normal,´
´possibly extremely active´
NBC News, by Elizabeth Chuck    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 5/23/2013 8:03:49 PM     Post Reply
Batten down the hatches. Forecasters said Wednesday that the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is likely to be "above normal and possibly extremely active," predicting three to six major hurricanes this season.(Snip)"NOAA predicts an above normal and possibly an extremely active hurricane season with a range of 13 to 20 named storms," seven to 11 of which are forecast to turn into hurricanes and three to six of which are forecast to turn into major hurricanes,

Rep. Jo Bonner to resign from
House for university job
CBS News, by Stephanie Haven    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 5/23/2013 7:58:58 PM     Post Reply
Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Ala., will resign from Congress on Aug. 15 to work at the University of Alabama System as their vice chancellor of government relations and economic development. "While I had every intention of completing this term, sometimes opportunities come along that are so rare - and so special - that it forces you to alter even your best-made plans," Bonner said at a Mobile, Ala., press conference on Thursday. "After considerable thought and heartfelt prayer, I decided to accept this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go to work for The University of Alabama System."(Snip)Gov. Robert Bentley, R-Ala., will set a schedule

Gen. John Allen appointed U.S.
security envoy in peace process
Haaretz [Israel], by Barak Ravid    Original Article
Posted By: earlybird- 5/23/2013 7:54:17 PM     Post Reply
Gen. John Allen has been appointed special U.S. envoy on security issues in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. He will not mediate between the parties; his work will almost exclusively involve contacts with Israel. Allen will deal with the U.S. position on Israeli security needs and the security arrangements that would accompany the establishment of a future Palestinian state. Senior U.S. and Israeli officials note that while U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made the appointment it was coordinated with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who is leading the effort to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

  



Doctors save Ohio boy by
´printing´ an airway tube
Associated Press, by Marilynn Marchione    Original Article
Posted By: ScarletPimpernel- 5/23/2013 7:41:17 PM     Post Reply
Doctors at the University of Michigan have saved a baby’s life using the marvels of modern technology to “print” the child a new airway using a goundbreaking 3-D printer to restore his breathing. [Snip] Every day, their baby stopped breathing, his collapsed bronchus blocking the crucial flow of air to his lungs. April and Bryan Gionfriddo watched helplessly, just praying that somehow the dire predictions weren’t true.

Obama: No ´Large Scale´
Terrorist Attacks on U.S.
Since I Became President
Cybercast News Service, by Michael W. Chapman    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 7:40:58 PM     Post Reply
President Barack Obama said today that there have been no "large scale" terrorist attacks on the United States since he became president. The statement comes less than six weeks after the terrorist attack on the Boston Marathon, which killed 5 people, injured 280 people (including 16 police officers), and forced the city to shut down while police conducted a door-to-door search for the terrorists. “So after I took office, we stepped up the war against al Qaeda but we also sought to change its course,” said Obama at Ft. McNair’s National Defense University in Washington, D.C.

Now The Gibson Guitar
Raids Make Sense
Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/23/2013 7:21:37 PM     Post Reply
IRS Scandal: The inexplicable raid nearly two years ago on a guitar maker for using allegedly illegal wood that its competitors also used was another targeting by this administration of its political enemies. 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. One of the top makers of acoustic and electric guitars, including the iconic Les Paul introduced in 1952, Gibson was accused of using wood illegally obtained in

Stop Importing Terrorists
To The United States
Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/23/2013 7:18:57 PM     Post Reply
Homeland Insecurity: A number of recent terrorist cases call into question Washington´s push to give amnesty to all illegal immigrants, including those from hostile Muslim countries. The latest case involves a possibly illegal Chechen immigrant who reportedly stabbed an FBI agent in Orlando. Ibragim Todashev was close to confessing to a triple homicide in Boston when he suddenly lunged at the agent during an interview. The Muslim man was then shot dead. Todashev, who´d traveled recently to the al-Qaida hotspot of Chechnya, was pals with Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Todashev reportedly implicated Tsarnaev in a grisly mass murder in

  


  

Forecasters warn: Up to
6 major storms this season
CBS News and Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/23/2013 7:04:17 PM     Post Reply
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Federal forecasters are predicting yet another busy hurricane season. Thursday´s outlook calls for 13 to 20 named storms, seven to 11 that strengthen into hurricanes and three to six that become major hurricanes. The prediction by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is more than what is considered an average Atlantic season. Last year was the third-busiest on record with 19 named storms. Ten became hurricanes and two were major storms, with winds over 111 mph. That included Sandy, which caused $50 billion in damage even though it lost

Islamists hit Niger army
base, uranium mine
Agence France-Presse, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/23/2013 7:01:04 PM     Post Reply
Islamist militants have staged twin suicide car bombings on an army base and a French-run uranium mine in Niger, killing at least 20 people in retaliation for the country´s military involvement in neighbouring Mali. Niger´s Defence Minister Mahamadou Karidjo said the last Islamist was neutralised at the army base and denied early reports that a suicide attacker had held young army recruits hostage. The attacks come just four months after al-Qa´ida linked militants seized a desert gas plant in neighbouring Algeria in a siege that left 38 hostages dead, also in retaliation against the intervention in Mali.

Yemen welcomes US decision
on Guantanamo prisoner transfers
Agence France-Presse, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 5/23/2013 6:57:44 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON — Yemen welcomed President Barack Obama´s decision Thursday to lift a moratorium on transferring prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the Gulf country. Obama announced the decision in a major speech outlining a new bid to close the "war on terror" prison, saying history will "cast a harsh judgment" on the offshore detention program and those who failed to end it. He said he would lift a moratorium in place on transfers of Yemeni detainees to their homeland, name a new envoy to handle the transfers, and ordered the Pentagon to designate a site in the United States

Boy Scouts Vote to End Ban on
Gay Scouts; Gay Adults Still
Barred From Leadership Roles
ABC News, by Susan Donaldson James    Original Article
Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/23/2013 6:38:28 PM     Post Reply
The Boy Scouts of America today voted to lift its longtime ban on admitting gay Scouts but will continue to exclude openly gay adults from leadership roles. The vote by its 1,400 national membership came as no surprise to gay rights advocates, who hailed it as a first step to ending discriminatory practices in the 103-year-old organization. The ruling by secret ballot at a national convention in Dallas means that mothers like Jennifer Tyrrell, who is a lesbian, will still be excluded from the Boy Scouts.

Students from NJ schools
battered by Superstorm
Sandy to help Michelle
Obama harvest garden
Associated Press, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 6:11:15 PM     Post Reply
WASHINGTON — Schoolchildren from New Jersey shore communities battered by Superstorm Sandy will join Michelle Obama for a garden harvest next week. The White House says the first lady will also be joined Tuesday by students who helped plant the crops last month. The New Jersey students are from Union Beach Memorial School in Union Beach and Long Beach Island Grade School in Ship Bottom. Both schools were damaged in last October’s storm. Both also teach their students about healthy eating, which is one of the first lady’s causes. The students who helped plant lettuce, broccoli and various other crops

  



Obama to visit N.J.
to survey Hurricane Sandy
damage with Christie
Star Ledger [Newark,NJ], by Jenna Portnoy & Matt Friedman    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 6:07:25 PM     Post Reply
TRENTON — President Barack Obama will return to New Jersey on Tuesday to survey Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts with Gov. Chris Christie, according to a statement obtained by The Star-Ledger. The visit will mark Obama´s second trip to the shore since the storm hit about six months ago. “As residents and businesses prepare for a busy summer season, President Obama will visit the Jersey Shore with Governor Christie on Tuesday to view the ongoing recovery efforts after Hurricane Sandy devastated areas of the coastline last fall," the White House statement says.

Ever the Prophet, Never the King
The American Magazine, by Josh Good    Original Article
Posted By: eagleblurst- 5/23/2013 5:52:14 PM     Post Reply
Rather than focusing primarily on questions about the Right and Left, Jim Wallis’s new book, On God’s Side: What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good, asks readers to “go deeper” and to recall the ancient religious commitment to the common good. In the immortal words of President Lincoln, we should ask “not whether God is on our side,” but instead “seek to be on God’s side.” Wallis asks his readers to consider what each side of the political aisle “gets right.” For conservatives, it is the idea of personal responsibility, which he has witnessed in

MI5 admit they KNEW about fanatics
who ´slaughtered soldier´: Police raid
house in Lincolnshire village as
friends say British-born suspect
became ´obsessed with radical Islam
as schoolboy´
Daily Mail (U.K.), by Richard Hartley-parkinson & Andy Dol    Original Article
Posted By: Desert Fox- 5/23/2013 5:44:55 PM     Post Reply
Two men who allegedly slaughtered a soldier in a Woolwich street were known to security services, it emerged today. David Cameron revealed that authorities were looking into what was already known about Drummer Lee Rigby´s alleged killers, but it is not thought they were considered to be an immediate threat. One of the men, believed to be Michael Adebolajo, is believed to have been arrested after he went to Somalia to join banned Islamist group al Ahabaab. Eyewitness Jamie France, 29, said that his mother had seen Adebolajo preaching as recently as last week. He said:

Politico Reporter: Gitmo a
´Tar Baby´ For Obama
Breitbart Big Journalism, by John Nolte    Original Article
Posted By: JoniTx- 5/23/2013 5:43:39 PM     Post Reply
Thursday morning on Chris Jansing´s MSNBC show, Politico Senior Reporter Lois Romano referred to Guantanamo Bay as a "really bad political tar baby" for President Obama: JANSING: Lois, let me start with Guantanamo Bay. Everybody knows [Obama] made this campaign pledge the first time he ran. Again to the question ´why now?´ -- was he pushed by the hundred prisoners who are on hunger strikes? ROMANO: I think it just came to another boiling point right now. [Obama] ran on this in 2008, and if you recall, when he came into office, there was a lot of turmoil

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