op ed review 5/17
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
The targeting of conservatives by
the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last
week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News….
the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010.
Anti-conservative effort was directed from Washington, D.C.,
and was not a rogue operation as the administration has claimed.
Conservative Hispanic Groups Targeted In IRS Scandal
IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a
list of high school and college students it trained
IRS asked pro-life group about “the content of their prayers”
The IRS came after Billy Graham, too, his son charged
Tuesday in a letter to President Barack Obama.
IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs
Obamacare Office
Oh, and she got more than $100,000 in
bonuses between 2009 and 2012 for doing a good job.
A liberal group admits the IRS gave the progressive group
nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status
was pending.
California
congressman David Nunes says the Justice Department wiretapped telephones in
the House of Representative's Cloak Room.
Attorney General Holder denies knowing anything about it 57
times.
Noonan: “This is no
ordinary scandal”
“Pundits have compared the current scandal to Watergate, but
this one, frankly, is worse.”
The White House released 94 pages of emails which directly
contradict claims by White House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton that the revisions of the famous Benghazi talking points
were driven by the intelligence community and show heavy input from top Obama
administration officials, particularly those at the State Department.
In Benghazi, Obama ‘traded
lives for votes’
The campaign that
never ends: Obama to Attend 3
Democratic Fundraisers in one week.
President Obama forced a violation of Marine Corps
regulations, so he wouldn’t get wet.
“They´re Marines, Mr. President, not Butlers...”
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in
Immigration Reform
The House voted to repeal ObamaCare on Thursday for the
third time since Republicans took over the chamber in 2011.
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama
Administration’s decision to deny asylum to a German homeschooling family. The
Romeike family fled their German homeland in 2008 seeking political asylum in
the United States
– where they hoped to home school their children. Instead, the Obama
administration wants the evangelical Christian family deported.
Homeland Security Funded Exercise Portrayed Homeschoolers as
Terrorists.
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.
Philadelphia abortionist Kermit Gosnell was
convicted on three counts of first-degree murder.
Socialism: More than 8,000 French households' tax bills
topped 100 percent of their income last year.
And Venezuela
has run out of toilet paper
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Michael Graham
5/17
Has President Nixon
been replaced by Sergeant Schultz? The “Smartest President Ever” has
disappeared. The Barack Brain Trust long-touted by liberals is gone — replaced
by hacks whose rallying cry is straight from Stalag 13—“I know nothing.
Nothing!”
The top law
enforcement agency in the land spied on the top news-gathering organization,
secretly seizing phone records from their home and cell phones. They did so
without the legally required notice to the Associated Press. And what did
Attorney General Eric Holder say when asked why his Department of Justice would
do such a thing? “I do not know why that was or was not done,” the attorney
general told the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday. “I simply don’t have a
factual basis to answer that question.” Notice his answer isn’t just “I don’t
know why we didn’t notify the AP as required by law.” It’s “I don’t know
whether we did or not.”
This isn’t Attorney
Stephen J. Shmuck of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe. This is the attorney general of
the United States,
whose agency has just been caught conducting a potentially illegal surveillance
dragnet against 100 reporters and editors. And he knows nothing about it?
Folks, your attorney general knows nothing about everything:
At one point, when
asked who authorized the AP spying, he actually said “I can’t say as a matter
of fact I would probably 95 percent, 99 percent certain the deputy attorney
general acting in my stead was the one who authorizes the subpoena.” A staffer
finally brought him a note confirming it was the deputy AG.
Holder told Congress
the White House found out about the Obama administration’s surveillance when
they “read it in the paper.” He said he wasn’t involved because “I recused
myself.” When asked when he recused himself: “I am not sure.”
And thus the Obama
defense is laid bare: “We’re not corrupt — we’re just really, really stupid!”
How did U.N.
Ambassador Susan Rice end up with carefully whitewashed talking points
regarding Benghazi?
Who knows? Except that the email trail “directly contradict claims by White
House press secretary Jay Carney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that
the revisions of those talking points were driven by the intelligence community
and show heavy input from top Obama administration officials,” Stephen Hayes
reports in The Weekly Standard.
Hillary Clinton
testified that she was a hands-on part of the State Department’s response to
the Benghazi
attacks. So who stripped the talking points of their facts? She has no idea. And
why was Rice — who had nothing to do with Benghazi
— picked to hit the Sunday TV show circuit and spread the bogus “it was a
videotape!” story in the first place? Your guess is as good as Obama’s.
What we do know is
that the final talking-points product — that Carney assures us came directly
from the CIA and no one else! — was so devoid of facts that then-CIA director
David Petraus said, “Frankly, I’d just as soon not use this.” So why did
the White House use it? Nobody knows!
After a week of
shoulder-shrugging “whatevers” regarding the IRS scandal, Obama now tells us
he’s mad as heck and not going to take it anymore when it comes to targeting
people based on politics. He claims he found out about his administration’s IRS
abuses by reading it in the papers, too (Note to self: Make sure White
House newspaper subscriptions stay paid in full!) But this story has been
around for at least two years. Congress held hearings featuring members of the
Obama administration. According to media reports, people inside the White House
were aware of the practice at least a year ago.
Forget “we’re
smarter than you.” The new White House motto is: “Dumb — It’s the New Hotness!”
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/05/graham_obama_s_crew_plays_dumb_and_dumber
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
"[L]ook at Obama in this statement in Denver: 'I am constrained ... by the system
that our Founders put in place.' That is an unwitting statement of truth. He is
constrained. What does constrained mean? It means things I can't do. Why is he
even thinking about things he can't do? There are things he wants to do. There
are all kinds of executive orders and waiving of the presidential wand to make
it happen he would love to do. But the Constitution's in his way, and he wishes
it weren't. Be wary, folks, of any politician who talks about the Constitution
and uses [phrases] like 'I am constrained.'"
-Rush Limbaugh
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GLOBALONEY
It happens about once a month here,
on the barren foothills of one of America´s green-energy boomtowns: A soaring
golden eagle slams into a wind farm´s spinning turbine and falls, mangled and
lifeless, to the ground. Killing these iconic birds is not just an
irreplaceable loss for a vulnerable species. It´s also a 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. But wind farms get a pass.
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LEFTIST WATCH
You know the worm has turned when
even MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow hold their noses at the stench
from Barack Obama’s scandals — when so many stories from the so-called liberal
press now describe the erstwhile Messiah as “aloof,” “arrogant” and “holier
than thou.”
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ISLAM
The Islamic Society of Boston, the mosque attended by Boston
Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev, posted an article on
its website in September 2004 that advocated for the beating of women as a last
resort to force them to behave. “40 Recommendations for the Muslim Home.”
Robert Spencer: How
Mothers from Hell Raise Their Boys to Do Evil.
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is all too typical of a Muslim world where children
drink in conspiracy theories with mama's milk.
The note in the
boat. The Joker said his brother Speedbump was a “martyr in paradise,” and that
the victims in Boston were “collateral damage”
for Muslim civilian casualties in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
He praised Allah and said, “When you attack one Muslim, you attack all
Muslims.” The big question is, Why the monthlong blackout on the note in the
boat? Why didn’t the feds release it immediately? And the answer is obvious. It
didn’t fit the Politically Correct narrative, that the reasons for this
shocking atrocity remained a mystery, a riddle, an enigma, wink wink nudge
nudge.
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SECOND AMENDMENT
Second Amendment rights advocates are fuming today over
words from three Democratic state senators caught on tape. The three female senators are heard
discussing the just-closed hearing. “We needed a bill that was going to
confiscate, confiscate, confiscate.”
http://www.politickernj.com/back_room/confiscate-confiscate-confiscate#ixzz2TB9O35S1
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ARTICLES
Malkin: It´s always
the "low-level" peon´s fault, isn´t it? When Democrats get caught
red-handed abusing government powers and bullying their political enemies small
and large, nobody at the top knows nuttin´. The buck stops ... in the janitors
closet or something. Here´s what I know: While they pretend to champion privacy
rights, top left-wing operatives have routinely ransacked and plundered through
the private documents and personal records of conservative groups, business
owners and public figures. Through it all, those on the right standing against
government tyranny have refused to stand down. During the Clinton years, senior IRS official
Benghazi
Reveals the Heart of Progressivism
As a metaphor for big government, it is hard to top the
Justice Department’s seizing of journalists’ phone records from The Associated
Press. Unless, of course, you think the best example is the Internal Revenue
Service turning the screws on groups it viewed as conservative and, therefore,
unworthy of fair treatment. Or maybe the winner is the sneaky spreading of
ObamaCare’s tentacles, with insurance companies now predicting the law will
drive up the cost of individual premiums by as much as 400 percent. There are
no losers in this race to the bottom — except the American people. It is
tempting
No contemporary American politician has benefited more from
the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted from obscurity to
the presidency on the power of narrative – invoking his biography and personal
values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation. So presumably
no one understands more vividly than Obama and his close aides just how toxic
and potentially paralyzing his situation has become this spring, as four
distinct ethical and policy controversies have simultaneously converged.
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
20 Reasons To Dislike The Democrat Party
Kleenex warning: One-eyed
dog's heart-warming hug with woman who saved his life by rescuing him from
'high-kill' pound
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2325267/Paws-thought-One-eyed-dogs-heart-warming-hug-woman-saved-life-rescuing-high-kill-pound.html#ixzz2TSiDRRtD
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WISE WORDS
"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a
certain degree."
-James Madison
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LATE NITE
Leno: This week will
mark the 37th time House Republicans have tried to repeal Obamacare. If
Republicans really wanted to do away with Obamacare they should just endorse it
as a conservative non-profit and let the IRS take it down……..President Obama
announced the appointment of a new acting commissioner of the IRS — the other
guy was fired. See, they're called "acting commissioner" because you
have to act like the scandal doesn't involve the White House…….A lot of critics
are now comparing President Obama to President Nixon. The good news for Obama?
At least he's no longer being compared to President Carter
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