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America’s #IRS: the true agent of voter suppression?

Posted by: Phineas on May 23, 2013 at 3:21 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Democrats and their Leftist allies in the racial grievance industry have long claimed that efforts to require identification in order to vote, a measure meant to protect the integrity of elections, were really meant to suppress minority voters, even equating them with Jim Crow laws. We all know this is noxious nonsense, of course, but what [...]

 

#WarOnJournalism: Who’s been snooping in Sharyl Attkisson’s computers?

Posted by: Phineas on May 21, 2013 at 12:01 pm » 2 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Hmmm… Maybe FOX’s James Rosen and the AP aren’t the only targets of the White House’s ire? Here’s a radio interview CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson did with WPHT’s Chris Stigall in which she mentions unknown parties have accessed her home and work computers since February, 2011: You’ll recall that both my blog-buddy ST and I [...]

 

“Bare-bones” employer health insurance plans coming thanks to #ObamaCare

Posted by: ST on May 20, 2013 at 7:46 pm » 7 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports on what National Review Online’s Veronique de Rugy calls one more in the law of ”unintended consequences” to the implementation of our President’s “signature law” – ObamaCare (via Memeorandum -bolded emphasis added by me): Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the federal health law by offering [...]

 

#IRS scandal: Obama met with Treasury union chief the day before the targeting began

Posted by: Phineas on May 20, 2013 at 1:01 pm » 5 Comments

**Posted by Phineas It could be a coincidence: a meeting between a very union-friendly president and the head of the union that includes IRS employees, a union described as very “anti-Tea Party,” and then the very next day the IRS begins targeting Tea Party and other conservative groups, stalling their applications for non-profit status. According to the [...]

 

Shock: IRS’ own data shows there was no 2010 “surge” in tax-exempt apps

Posted by: ST on May 17, 2013 at 5:51 pm » 7 Comments

The lies just keep stacking up: A number of people have sought to explain the IRS targeting of Tea Party, patriot, and 9/12 group applications — as well as those from other conservative groups — for “specialist team” treatment (mainly delays and excessive and inappropriate questions) in 2010 by pointing to the Citizens United decision that year [...]

 

#IRS scandal: Democrats make clear where they stand on the 1st Amendment

Posted by: Phineas on May 16, 2013 at 2:35 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced a resolution condemning the Internal Revenue Service for trampling the Constitutional rights of Americans. (For example) It didn’t get very far: Today, Senate Democrats placed a hold on Sen. Rand Paul’s recent resolution that condemns the targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and calls for [...]

 

Perhaps the most important piece you’ll ever read on President Obama

Posted by: ST on May 15, 2013 at 10:17 am » 3 Comments

The various scandals we see the Obama administration currently immersed in were entirely predictable, as were the socialistic policies he’s advocated since his very first day in office, as was the continued state of economic stagnation our country still faces as a result of those very policies.  What’s may not be widely known – or [...]

 

Rev. Franklin Graham: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association also targeted by the IRS

Posted by: ST on May 14, 2013 at 6:30 pm » 7 Comments

Were the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse organizations targeted by President Obama’s IRS like Tea Party groups and conservative Jews were?  Rev. Franklin Graham says “yes”, according to Politico: The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama. Franklin Graham, the president of the Billy Graham [...]

 

#IRS scandal: Officials in Washington, California targeted Tea Party groups

Posted by: Phineas on May 13, 2013 at 9:30 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Hey, remember when IRS official Lois Lerner said that only a wayward local office in Cincinnati was improperly investigating conservative groups? Yeah, well… about that: Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond [...]

 

#Scandalpalooza: #Benghazi cover up, IRS targeting, HHS shake downs, AP records …

Posted by: ST on May 13, 2013 at 6:46 pm » 5 Comments

The White House is running out of excuses and places to hide from probing conservative journalists and even some mainstream media reporters after a wave of embarrassing but predictable scandals have broken wide open in the last week.  Here they are (so far): 1) Benghazi: Accusations of a cover-up have been being made since the [...]