Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS operation that targeted Tea Party groups is being thrown under the bus by Obama. As both John McCormack of The Weekly Standard and Bryan Preston of the PJ Tatler noticed, in the wake of her taking of the Fifth Amendment before the Issa Committee today, two Obama media operatives, both veterans of Journolist who were called into the White House yesterday for consultations, both called for her firing. The two are the Washington Post's Ezra Klein...
Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS operation that targeted Tea Party groups is being thrown under the bus by Obama. As both John McCormack of The Weekly Standard and Bryan Preston of the PJ Tatler noticed, in the wake of her taking of the Fifth Amendment before the Issa Committee today, two Obama media operatives, both veterans of Journolist who were called into the White House yesterday for consultations, both called for her firing. The two are the Washington Post's Ezra Klein...
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Erick Erickson over at Redstate joins the voices calling on conservatives to keep our eyes on the bigger target, which is Big Government itself - not Obama, not even the Democrats. Use Obama's overreach to focus on our own crucial Tea Party message of limited, constitutional government. He has this wonderful quote from George Washington that should be better known and widely repeated: "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is...
This story has the possibility of becoming very bizarre. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI was questioning a man with ties to the Boston bombers when he suddenly attacked them. One of the agents drew his weapon and killed him. The FBI said it was interviewing the man with other law-enforcement personnel "when a violent confrontation was initiated by the individual." An FBI agent, "acting on the imminent threat posed by the individual, responded with deadly force," the FBI said. The...
Sheesh! It took me 5 minutes of scanning about a half dozen articles before finally - finally - finding a media account of the riots by "immigrants" that have shocked Sweden in the last 48 hours that mentions where the rioters are from. I can say without a trace of irony, "Thank God for the BBC": Police in the deprived, largely immigrant suburb of Husby shot a man dead last week after he reportedly threatened to kill them with a machete. The founder...
CBS reporter Sharyl Attkisson - one of the few reporters outside of Fox News who broke stories on Fast and Furious and Benghazi - said that a person or persons unknown had "compromised' both her home and office computers. "I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under some investigation on my end for some months but I'm not prepared to make an allegation against a specific entity today as I've been patient and methodical about this matter," Attkisson told...
Make no mistake: by criminalizing James Rosen of Fox News for asking government employees to give him information, the Obama administration is suppressing the ability of the press to do its job. It is so egregious that even the New York Times, normally sycophants for Obama, is alarmed. The editorial board today writes: With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible "co-conspirator" in a criminal investigation of a news leak, the Obama administration has moved beyond protecting government secrets...
Turns out that the gang who knew nothing, knew everything - and even helped with the PR campaign that rolled out the IRS targeting program to the public. The Hill: Press secretary Jay Carney told reporters that Mark Childress, deputy chief of staff, spoke twice with Treasury Department officials about the IRS's public relations strategy. "This was just part of trying to find out when and under what circumstances this information would be released, made public and what those findings would be,"...
After the Senate Finance Committee hearings on Tuesday May 21, what is the storyline on the IRS targeting Tea Party applications for tax exempt status? Let's list some key events in table form (there is more complete timeline in the May 19 American Thinker: 1. Nov 2008 Obama elected president 2. Feb 2009 Rick Santelli says in a rant on CNBC we need a Tea Party (referring to the original Tea Party in 1773) to mobilize the interests of the public that is...
President Obama "selective appreciation" of the First Amendment is on full display again. Check out your neighborhood music store because the dark side of "hope and change" has just been released. It's hard to believe that there is anybody out there still caught up in the "hope and change" farce. Yes, it was always a farce and the last two weeks confirm it. We learned that James Rosen of FOX News was the DOJ's latest target: "The Fox News Channel is outraged over new revelations...
Casting Obama as "the bystander president" is gaining traction. The President is seen as aloof, disinterested and disengaged - more interested in hosting galas and hobnobbing with his media admirers and making center-stage speaking appearances than dirtying his hands with the business of governing. The dirtying his hands part is right but the governing style is the hands-off style of a godfather - hardly a bystander. The godfather sets the tone and doesn't want to know the dirty details - just get the...
My friend and colleague Diana West introduced her magnificent, if dark opus "American Betrayal," during an interview with Sun TV's Michael Coren which provides an excellent synopsis of the book's major themes. A lengthier discussion of "American Betrayal" is also available via C-SPAN Book TV's "After Words," recorded 5/16/13. Diana's interview with Michael Coren is embedded below:...
The new State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, has a history of serving as Barack Obama's mouthpiece. People will yearn for the days of Victoria Nuland -- who actually had a long bipartisan and impressive career. She has been replaced by a hack. Obama's second term even more than his first term has been marked by political hacks being rewarded with plum government jobs. This is true over at the State Department, as well, where Jen Psaki has been given the high profile position...
Sure of himself, holier than thou, without a dent in his smooth fabrications, Jon Stewart has come out of his firm gait to gallop onto the other side of the debate, to run with the Obama doubters. It didn't bother him that Obama drove us more than sixteen trillion dollars into debt, that he didn't stop massive unemployment, that he was the match that burned in cities throughout the Middle East, and that he was responsible for standing down when we should have...
We can now officially call the Obama administration besieged. One of President Obama's underlings is set to plead her Fifth Amendment Right against self-incrimination in the burgeoning IRS scandal. The Los Angeles Times broke the story: Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won't answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening - or why she didn't disclose it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III. Lerner was scheduled to appear...
Join us for another slanderous episode of the RINIO Hour of Power with your host Rick Moran and special co-host Jeff Kropf. The IRS scandal continues to blow up in Washington, but the president's approval numbers haven't been affected. Will the president continue to ride out the storm despite continuing revelations of wrong doing? We'll discuss that and other questions regarding the scandals with PJ Media's Bryan Preston. The show streams live from 8:00 - 9:00 PM Eastern time. A podcast will be...
1975 : Tornado Outbreaks Blamed On Global Cooling | Real Science Notice what's missing in the above article? No politician is using the death of over 300 people to try and score cheap political points of the floor of the Senate as the feckless Senator from Rhode Island, Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse did yesterday with the 91 who died in Oklahoma. The Daily Caller » Democratic Senator uses Okla. tornado for anti-GOP rant over global warming » Print Whether it's booing attendees at...
For a "failed scandal," Fast and Furious sure brought out the heavy hitters at the Department of Justice to deal with a whistleblower. The department's inspector general has released a report accusing one US attorney, Dennis Burke, of leaking a document that smeared John Dodson, a key witness in the Fast and Furious scandal, and accusing other officials in the department of coming up with a strategy to discredit him. Breitbart: The DOJ IG said it found "Burke's conduct in disclosing the Dodson...
You may not have heard of Raymond Maxwell, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs. For reasons that are still unknown, he was fired along with 3 other diplomats in the aftermath of the Benghazi attack. Maxwell has never been given an explantion and says he had absolutely nothing to do with security decisions that resulted in the death of Ambassador Stevens. The other three department officials let go were involved in diplomatic security. Maxwell has broken his silence and...
What's a liberal to do during a disaster when President George Bush (R) (either one) isn't president but liberal GOD, President Barack Hussein Obama (D), is? No problem--just blame conservative failures for setting up the present situation and then joke about it--even the tragedy that is now unfolding in Oklahoma. Oklahoma is in the center of an area known as Tornado Alley. As NPR explains Oklahoma sits at the heart of "Tornado Alley," which stretches from the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians. Although on average Texas has more...
We are finding out new and interesting revelations about how our government operates every day, it seems. From an ever expanding IRS scandal to the Department of Justice's fishing expedition at AP to the President of the United States telling us that he found out about all of this in the newspapers just like the rest of us, it seems that everywhere we look there is evidence of the Administration using the apparatus of government as a tool of political repression and widespread...
Attorney General Eric Holder should appoint an outside Special Counsel of sterling reputation to investigate the various scandals that have emerged in the past fortnight. A regulation (28 CFR 600.1) provides that the Attorney General shall appoint an outside Special Counsel when the Attorney General determines that: criminal investigation of a person or matter is warranted; the Attorney General's Department of Justice should not conduct the investigation due to extraordinary circumstances such as the investigation would create a conflict of interest; and it would be in the public interest...
From before his successful 2008 election as President to today,in many venues President Barack Obama is referred to as " the only adult in the room." If one uses a search engine to find out the frequency of this phrase one gets over a half a million hits from Bing and 132,000,000 from Google. Aside from the nasty un-adulting of everyone else in whatever room it is, there is another more important question. What is an adult? The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition tells...
When it comes to political labels to describe public figures, the New York Times has a vocabulary all its own -- pejorative adjectives for conservatives; soft, deferential adjectives for liberals. It's all part and parcel of a left-wing bias in what purport to be the paper's "news" articles. To wit, the latest example: In its May 20 edition, the Times runs an article by Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about the ups and downs of Yair Lapid, a charismatic newcomer to Israeli politics,...
The State Department issued a report denouncing what it called "a spike in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia." It said that "Muslims also faced new restrictions in 2012 in countries ranging from Belgium, which banned face-covering religious attire in classrooms, to India[,] where schools in Mangalore restricted headscarves." The State Department report confuses religious persecution, which is to be condemned, with politicization of religions, which is a matter of debate and includes strategies of which the U.S. government should not be a...
Get on and stay on the offensive. When your position is indefensible, don't defend it. Rather than defend, go on offense. Try to change the subject. Deride anyone who questions your position. Accuse the questioners of being racist/bigoted/homophobic/insensitive/offensive. Make up things if you have to. The MSM will eat up what you have to say and will widely print/broadcast it. The MSM will then bury any retractions/corrections they offer in response to your ravings. That is the first set of rules practiced by...
The intended consequences of the education reform movement have finally shaken out due to the debate over Common Core. We're left with nationalized standards via either the Common Core or hardcore progressivism. We get two "choices" in leadership: the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) crowd, headed by Obama/Duncan/Rhee/Gates/RINOs or the Dewey-driven traditionally progressive public schools crowd headed by Bill Ayers and Diane Ravitch, education professor at New York University. But wait. Didn't Mary Grabar of Accuracy in Media point out Bill Ayers' connection...
On a morning talk show, Obama's point man for legal affairs, Dan Pfeiffer cracked the door a little wider to allow a peek into the Progressive Left mind set. Regarding the IRS malfeasance, Pfeiffer said.... "I can't speak to the law here. The law is irrelevant," Pfeiffer said. "The activity was outrageous and inexcusable, and it was stopped. It needs to be -- it needs to be fixed so we ensure it never happens again."" The law is irrelevant? That one statement explains...
Nature unbound is an awesome, terrible, frightening thing to behold. And for the people of Oklahoma City, and especially for those who live in the suburb of Moore, they will never forget May 20, 2013 and the monster tornado that took at least 91 of their friends and neighbors - including 20 elementary school children. Chicago Tribune: At least 91 people, including 20 children, were feared killed when a 2 mile wide tornado tore through an Oklahoma City suburb, trapping victims beneath the...
Brian McFadden, the cartoonist who does "The Strip" in the Sunday New York Times, usually does political cartoons with a very lefty and rather demented point of view (typical of the loony left). That fact that he did this hilarious cartoon, "Obama's Leak Freakout," suggest that Obama's syncopates in the press have completely and absolutely turned on him. ...
These are the people who will be approving the paperwork of illegals seeking amnesty and their union chief is none to thrilled with the idea. Washington Times: The Senate's immigration bill will raise national security risks and the Obama administration will do little more than "rubber-stamp" illegal immigrants into the program, endangering Americans, says the labor union representing the 12,000 employees who will have to approve the applications. Kenneth Palinkas, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Council 119, which represents officers...
