May 22, 2013

The House Oversight Committee starts their IRS clusterfruck hearing at 8:30 AM. You can watch it live below:

Will Lerner show and invoke The Fifth?

Update: Appears to be some technical difficulties and if the livestream stops you can watch it here

Update: She showed and yes she will use The U.S. Constitution of which conservatives were denied use of.

Update: Lerner is giving her opening statement. "I have not done anything wrong" "I have been advised by my counsel" "I will not answer or testify today"

Uh oh, it appears Lerner waived her right to invoke The Fifth per Rep Issa and Rep Gowdy as she gave an opening statement "with an "assertion". Rep Gowdy: "Ms. Lerner cannot tell her side of the story and then not stick around for “cross-examination.” The audience applauded after Rep Gowdy's statement:

Cummings disagrees, "this is not a federal court of law". Pfffft

Rep Issa after discussing said problem: "The witness and council are dismissed" Lerner was last seen running down the hallway with quite a few cameramen following her.

Update: Rep Cummings is trying like hell to blame Booooosh.

Update: No wonder Shulman is so evasive, even though he donated to the DNC in 2004, GW still appointed him

Michelle Obama was chummy with the Inspector General while in law school?

Update per Issa: "E-mails between @GOPoversight and IG show IG delayed reporting findings of #IRS investigation to Congress http://t.co/xMffZUSsRC"

Related:
IRS Official's Lawyer: Lois Lerner Will Plead The Fifth Before The House Oversight Committee Hearing
Reality Check Cincinnati: As The IRS Scandal Turns To Names
Cincinnati: IRS Employee Mocks TEA Party Protesters With Mock Star Trek Poster

May 21, 2013

Hmmmm

She didn't target TEA Party groups, nor did anyone tell her too... honest!

[ZIP]WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.

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 reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd.

Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday

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[LA Times]Taylor, a criminal defense attorney from the Washington firm of Zuckerman Spaeder, said that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation, and that the House committee has asked Lerner to explain why she provided “false or misleading information” to the committee four times last year.

Since Lerner won’t answer questions, Taylor asked that she be excused from appearing, saying that would “have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.” There was no immediate word whether the committee will grant her request.

Watch the dems try to turn this into a 'war on women' thingy like they did with Susan Rice's Benghazi clusterfruck on the Sunday talk shows.

As far as the DOJ conducting an investigation, yeah just like how well they did with the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case and Fast and Furious gun running.

The corrupt investigating the corrupt.

If this happens, hello, special prosecutor, are you out there?

I can wish

Related:
Nine lies of Lois Lerner

Oh my:

I dunno if the DHS is always there.

Related:
Rein in the IRS Rallies, Tuesday May 21 at Noon

Previously, TEA Party Patriots held a presser on Capitol Hill after the IRS targetiing clusterfruck hit the news.

Update: You can view more images of the protests from around the country here

You can watch here

Ace notes so far

The Democrats only want to discuss whether the 501(c)4 rules should be tightened, that is, they don't want to talk about politically targeting at all. They are coming very, very close to flat-out justifying Obama's IRS' actions.

The below is a new video from him regarding them:

Oregon's Dem Sen Wyden: "If political groups don't want hassles from government, they shouldn't go to government asking for tax-exempt status"

Jerk

Update II: 12:22 PM - Hearing in recess for 20 minutes.

Update III: It's all about Citizen's United!!! This hearing is going nowhere.

Update IV: Sen Hatch (R-Utah) to the rescue after the garbage about Citizens United. Hatch pointed out that libs always want disclosure of donors, except for the unions 501(c5)'s and that Democrats will always exempt them.

May 20, 2013

James Rosen deserved it, per liberal assmaggots, just like they have said about the IRS targeting conservative groups.

Via FNC:

The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday -- in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists.

This follows the charge that the department secretly obtained two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists as part of a separate leak probe. The department in this case, though, went a step further, as an FBI agent reportedly claimed there's evidence the journalist in question -- Fox News' James Rosen -- broke the law "at the very least, either as an aider, abettor and/or co-conspirator."

That detail would potentially send the case into unprecedented territory. No reporter has been prosecuted for seeking information. Such cases often target the suspected leaker, but not the journalist who published sensitive or classified information.

Michael Clemente, Fox News' executive vice president of news, defended Rosen in a statement issued Monday afternoon.

"We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter,"

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Eric nation of cowards Holder yawns at the New Black Panther's voter intimidation scandal. Yawns again at Fast and Furious gun running scandal. Yawns yet again at AP scandal. Expect him to yawn yet again at this.

Related and a must read: The Most Chilling Details From The Kafkaesque Search Warrant That Went After A Fox News Reporter

May 19, 2013

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The Bronco Obama administration has sent out yet another underling to spin, spin, spin the Benghazi, IRS, and AP clusterfrucks. He is hitting all Sunday talk shows today. I wonder how many times his talking points have been edited:

Chris Wallace: "Was he (Obama) in the situation room?

Pfeiffer: "I don't remember what room the president was in, that's a irrelevant fact"

"What difference at this point does it make"?~Hillary Rodham Clinton

"The future doesn't belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"~Barack Ohama

"Benghazi happened a long time ago"~Jay Carney

Spin, spin, spin.

Update: Apparently the keyword today for the Bronco Bama administration is irrelevant:

@ThisWeekABC: . @pfeiffer44: Legality of #IRS Targeting of Conservative Groups ‘Irrelevant’

The "law is irrelevant" except when it comes to ObamaCare, right Mr Spinner?

Exhibit A:

Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely...

Update II: "Baghdad Dan spews Irrelevant", again:

Update III: Apologize for what?????

Related: Caroline Glick's must read: Obama and the 'Official Truth'

Also note how ABC changed their headline from this http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/dan-pfeiffer-legality-of-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups-irrelevant/ to: "Dan Pfeiffer: IRS Behavior 'Inexcusable' Whether Or Not Illegal.

May 14, 2013

So the group sent a copy of The Constitution.

Word.

MSNBC tried really hard to save their savior by having this assmaggot on.

The FAIL is strong in them.

Update: Gee, I find it a bit strange dingy Harry brought up NAACP today in commenting about the IRS targeting conservatives.

Oh wait, I don't.[Caution: HuffPo link]

"This is not the first time we've seen this," Reid told reporters on Tuesday. "It wasn't long ago that the IRS inappropriately targeted the NAACP, Greenpeace and a California church that was progressive, called the All-Saints Church in Pasadena. It was interesting at that time, we didn't hear a single Republican grandstand the issue then. Where was their outrage when groups on the other side of the political spectrum were under attack?"

May 11, 2013

Title stolen from @Iowahawkblog because he hit the nail on the head.

The IRS 'apologized' Friday for targeting groups seeking tax exempt status with the name 'TEA party, conservative and patriots" in 2012. They lied, the head of IRS knew those groups were targeted in 2011, specifically groups who were involved in educating on the Constitution and Bill of Rights”

Flashback 2011:

Pelosi on Occupy Wall Street:

Now, other groups have been targeted, mainly pro-Israel Jewish groups.

Flashback to the Democratic National Convention when the Dems booed God and Israel:

Nothing to see here, move along..

FORWARD!!!

Related: Did J Street Sic IRS on Pro-Israel Rival?

May 04, 2013

Rep Issa: GOP Oversight May 8th Benghazi hearing will be streamed live at http://Oversight.House.Gov at 11:30

May The Force Be With Them

Their identities have been a well-guarded secret, known only to their high-powered lawyers and a handful of House lawmakers and staff. But now Fox News has learned the names of the self-described Benghazi “whistleblowers” who are set to testify before a widely anticipated congressional hearing on Wednesday.

Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will be three career State Department officials: Gregory N. Hicks, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Libya at the time of the Benghazi terrorist attacks; Mark I. Thompson, a former Marine and now the deputy coordinator for Operations in the agency’s Counterterrorism Bureau; and Eric Nordstrom, a diplomatic security officer who was the regional security officer in Libya, the top security officer in the country in the months leading up to the attacks[...]

DiGenova told Fox News on Thursday, by way of describing his and Toensing’s respective clients: “There were people who were material witnesses, who wanted to talk to [the ARB], and they were not allowed to talk to them.

“The people that we are representing are career civil servants...people who have served the country overseas…in dangerous positions all over the world, have risked their lives and only want to tell the truth.”

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Most likely leftist and Bronco Bama's MFM are working hard to destroy the credibility of these patriots before the hearing even starts.

"What difference does it make"?~Hillary Rodham Clinton

"The future doesn't belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam"~Barack Ohama

"Benghazi happened a long time ago"~Jay Carney

Related

People Died! Obama Lied!
Benghazi Terror Attack: I Didn't Know The Mohammed Film Maker Was In Yemen?
State Department Benghazi Review Panel Under Investigation
Obama To Ed Henry: I Am Unaware Of Anyone Blocked From Testifying On #Benghazi
UPDATE: Rep Issa Responds
Obama Administration Officials Threatened Whistle-Blowers On #Benghazi, Lawyer Says

May 02, 2013

Sharyl Atkisson hasn't let up, at all, in trying to get answers from the Bronco Bama Administration about Benghazi.

Via BigJ:

Related:
Carney: Benghazi Happened A Long Time Ago
Obama To Ed Henry: I Am Unaware Of Anyone Blocked From Testifying On #Benghazi UPDATE: Rep Issa Responds

April 30, 2013

Damn Faux news, they just won't leave this alone! Halp BamaMedia!!

UPDATE: Rep Issa responds to Bronco Bamas comment:[rest of original post below this]

WASHINGTON- House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) made the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s assertion that he’s “not familiar” with Benghazi whistleblowers being blocked from telling their stories:

“A lawyer for Benghazi whistleblowers has publicly stated that the State Department is blocking her client’s ability to talk freely with counsel. Over the past two weeks, I have sent four letters requesting that this Administration make information available about how lawyers – who already have security clearances and are representing Benghazi whistleblowers – can be cleared to fully hear their clients’ stories. I have yet to receive any response from the Obama Administration.

“Even if the President really doesn’t know anything about someone wanting to come forward, his position should be that whistleblowers deserve protection and that anyone who has different information about Benghazi is free to come forward to Congress. The President’s unwillingness to commit himself to protecting whistleblowers only aids those in his Administration who are intimidating them.”

Issa’s four letters requesting that the Administration make information available for lawyers representing Benghazi whistleblowers:

4/16/13 letter to Department of State

4/16/13 letter to Central Intelligence Agency

4/16/13 letter to Department of Defense

4/26/13 letterr to State Department

Click here to read l read about a counsel for a State Department whistleblower being blocked from helping her counsel.

Bronco Bama really had a bad time at presser[h/t David]: 'Maybe I Should Just Pack Up and Go Home. Golly.'

Related:

4/30/13 - The first two questions of the press conference marking President Obama's first 100 days of his second term Tuesday concerned the administration's "red line" on Syria and the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings. But somehow, both questions also hinged on Benghazi. After responding to Fox News' Ed Henry's inquiry about victims of the Benghazi attack who say they are being blocked from testifying about what they went through, the president answered CNN's Jessica Yellin on claims from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that "Benghazi and Boston are both examples of the U.S. going backwards on national security."

Yellin was referring to comments Sen. Graham made recently to CNN in which he affixed blame on the Obama administration for failing to prevent the attacks in Boston. During the press conference today, Yellin asked, "Is he right and did our intelligence miss something?"[More]

PC kills

April 29, 2013

Color me NOT surprised:

At least four career officials at the State Department and the Central Intelligence Agency have retained lawyers or are in the process of doing so, as they prepare to provide sensitive information about the Benghazi attacks to Congress, Fox News has learned.

Victoria Toensing, a former Justice Department official and Republican counsel to the Senate Intelligence Committee, is now representing one of the State Department employees. She told Fox News her client and some of the others, who consider themselves whistle-blowers, have been threatened by unnamed Obama administration officials.

I'm not talking generally, I'm talking specifically about Benghazi – that people have been threatened,” Toensing said in an interview Monday. “And not just the State Department. People have been threatened at the CIA.”[...]

However, Toensing disclosed that her client has pertinent information on all three time periods investigators consider relevant to the attacks: the months that led up to the attack, when pleas by the ambassador and his staff for enhanced security in Benghazi were mostly rejected by senior officers at the State Department; the eight-hour time frame in which the attacks unfolded, and the eight-day period that followed the attacks, when Obama administration officials incorrectly described them as the result of a spontaneous protest over a video.[Video maker still in jail..ed]

“It's frightening, and they're doing some very despicable threats to people,” she said. “Not ‘we're going to kill you,’ or not ‘we're going to prosecute you tomorrow,’ but they're taking career people and making them well aware that their careers will be over [if they cooperate with congressional investigators].”

[Read The Rest]

Related:
The Benghazi Open Wound

February 27, 2013

Oh my, after Woodward basically called Bronco Bama a liar and saying that Bama is showing a kind of madness regarding the sequester fiasco.

Now this?

Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.[More..]

It's the Chicago way as one doesn't question The One.

As Ace tweeted:

Now we've got a WH telling reporters they'll "regret" printing the truth and the Juiceboxers say "I see this every day from the O network."

Update: Soros to the rescue: Media Matters' Boehlert Mocks Bob Woodward's Age.

For the record, Woodward is only 69.

What's especially interesting about Boehlert's attack on the poor, sad, funny Woodward who doesn't understand sequester, is that just 10 days ago Media Matters was applauding Woodward's reporting on, yes, sequester.[More...]

Their love for Obama hurts:

And they are circling the wagons with the help of Plouffe: WH Senior Adviser Plouffe: Woodward Washed Up

Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" at play here.

Related: Lapdog Media Wag Tails In Overdrive To Defend Team Lightbringer Against Woodward

January 28, 2013

From Bronco Bama's cousin aka Dr Wolf: Guess-who-said-it game:

Here's how one prominent politician recently described his plans for energy production:

There are going to be screw-ups. There are going to be bankruptcies. There'll be indictments and there'll be deaths. But we're going to keep going - and nothing's going to stop me."

So guess guess who said it. Was it...:

(A) An evil Republican whose hellbent lust for profits compels him to lay the Keystone oil pipeline even if it destroys the environment.

or

(B) A peace-loving Democrat whose benevolent quest for wholesomeness inspires him to force taxpayers to fund solar power plants so we can save Mother Earth and sing kumbaya.

December 03, 2012

The Daily Beast.

Top administration lawyers may hint at the end of the war on terror, but al Qaeda’s third generation is as deadly as ever. Bruce Riedel breaks down the group’s new power bases.

The fastest-growing new al Qaeda is in Syria. Using the cover name Jabhat al Nusra, al Qaeda has become perhaps the most lethal element of the opposition to Bashar al Assad’s brutal dictatorship

...Its leader uses the nom de guerre of Abu Mohammad al Golani, a reference to the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights and a signal that the top leader is a Syrian, not a foreign fighter.

...In North Africa, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, originally an Algerian franchise of the al Qaeda global terror organization, has successfully aligned itself with a local extremist group in Mali named Ansar al Dine, or Defenders of the Faith; together, they have effectively taken control of the northern two thirds of Mali. Now AQIM controls the fabled city of Timbuktu.

...Another third-generation al Qaeda jihadist stronghold is in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula,...

..In Yemen, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula exploited the fall of Ali Abdallah Saleh’s dictatorship to take over remote parts of the south and east of the country.

This if, anything, is al-Qaeda 5.0, the fruition of those weak lone wolf and loosely connected fellow travelers mature into real world powers.

September 09, 2012

Image via NYC blogger - Urban Infidel:

Update: How very liberal of them:

Doesn't #Paul #Ryan remind you of every frat guy you regret sleeping with? twitter.com/ManhattanMini/…

— ManhattanMiniStorage (@ManhattanMini) September 6, 2012

May 31, 2012

Previously, Live Action released an undercover video of Planned Parenthood in Austin, Texas showing support for gendercide. Earlier today the House defeated a bill, introduced because of their video, to ban gender based abortions.

Via BigG:

Carry on comrades.

FORWARD!

Previous:
Want to see the REAL War on Women?
Live Action Video: Planned Parenthood encouraging gender-selective abortion, Medicaid fraud
Update: Congress Votes on Sex-Selection Abortion Ban Tomorrow

May 29, 2012

Did I move to China and no one told me I did?

Want to see a real war on women? Not one defined by the opposition to the imposition of a Hubby State and subsidies, but one in which women of the future are systematically eliminated? Live Action went undercover last month at a number of abortion clinics across the nation [More...]

Margaret Sanger, eugenicists, and founder of Planned Parenthood.

Obama hearts Planned Parenthood, his HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius hearts Margaret Sanger.

Texas tried to cut funding to Planned Parent and lost: Court rules State of Texas must fund abortion business

Nuff said.

Carry on Comrades - FORWARD

There are no red states or blue states, just the United States. twitter.com/BarackObama/st…

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 1, 2012

Update: Via Life News: Congress Votes on Sex-Selection Abortion Ban Tomorrow

No Comparison! ==> twitter.com/adamsbaldwin/s…

— Adam Baldwin (@adamsbaldwin) May 1, 2012

May 22, 2012

Note, the teacher Tanya Dixon-Neely, was suspended yesterday...with pay

Kyle Olson is founder and CEO of Education Action Group. He has this message to students:

EAGNews to Students: Keep Recording Your Classrooms

MUSKEGON, Mich. – The recent case of a North Carolina student who taped his teacher ranting in defense of President Obama exposed how much can be learned from hidden cameras in the classroom.

And these days, most high school and college students carry cell phones of some variety, with video and audio capabilities.

Americans now have a window into public school classrooms, and teachers have a reason to watch the way they act toward students.[More..]

Update: Video of student who recorded the outburst, and his mother, on Fox and Friends this morning:

Via BreitbartTV:

The student involved in that incident, Hunter Rogers, and his mother, Gina Rogers, spoke out about this matter on today’s Fox and Friends.

May 17, 2012

Like many teachers unions around the country, the Wisconsin Education Association Council, or WEAC, would lead us to believe they speak for teachers. They would like us to think they have all the answers and know what is best for students and the teaching profession. They'd like us to believe their members stand united behind WEAC's agenda.

Well, it turns out they're not.

WEAC's moves to stifle reform and recall elected leaders that stand up to the union have provoked teachers and school board members to speak out against the union.

Here, EAGnews.org has given teachers and education leaders an opportunity to sound off on union tactics, their profession and what's best for the children of Wisconsin.

May 12, 2012

Weekly Standard via ZIP:

Last month, Mr VanderSloot was awarded Idaho Hometown Hero Medal

[S]ponsored by the National Ethic Coalition of Organizations, the Ellis Island Medal of Honor award is presented each May to “remarkable Americans who exemplify outstanding qualities in both their personal and professional lives, while continuing to preserve the richness of their particular heritage.”[...]

[I]n 2011, two brothers from Pakistan who immigrated to the United States—with little money, but with big dreams—became the first Idahoans to receive the prestigious honor. Wanting to pass on the tradition of recognizing those who give of themselves in service to others, Naeem and Fahim Rahim created the Idaho Hometown Hero Medal to honor deserving individuals, those whom Fahim calls, “Idaho’s finest.”

UPDATE: These Obamabot assmaggots are even targeting his kids:

h/t Jim Hoft

UPDATE II: Hmm, I wonder if this was started by Pridedepot.com: PDF of complaint from lawyers of Metaleuca to Pride depot

Jody May Chang now blogs at may-chang.com. It's full of stories about Romney and VanderSloot.

Ah: Vandersloot is Romney's "sugar daddy": "Just in case you missed it, those reporters Rich is talking about (yours truly included meaning May-Chang) are featured in Glenn Greenwald’s Feb.17 Salon.com piece"[read it all]

May 11, 2012

Trained? I thought race baiting is in their genes

House Democrats received training this week on how to raise the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner[...]

In her distributed remarks, Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion criticized "conservative messages [that are] racially 'coded' and had images of people of color that we commonly see used" and proposed tactics for countering the Republicans' (presumably) racially-coded rhetoric.

[Continue reading]

UPDATE: All of this reminds me of something at Obama's 2008 official campaign website. This was the background image until prying eyes spotted it:[click to enlarge] Click here for archive of it. Right click "see background image".

We are well on our way Forward in Obama/Soros world. Destroying all we hold dear about America.

Evidence!!:

I just read the complaint filed by the Holder Justice Department against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. (See also PJ Tatler on the radical lawyers who wrote the complaint.) The complaint includes a collection of sufficiently insensitive anecdotes by MCSO employees. One of the acts giving rise to the federal lawsuit is this outrage:[...]

To the DOJ lawyers who brought the case, this photo is evidence of “anti-Latino bias.” Put aside the fact the dog is not wearing “swimming gear” as the DOJ lawyers write (it is SCUBA gear, not swimming gear). For sure, the photo jabs at the comparative weakness of the Mexican navy in view of the prowess and skill of the American Navy Seals. The breed of dog certainly conjures images of Mexico, perhaps because the dog is named after the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Whether this photo has any relevance in proving an “anti-Latino bias,” I will leave to the eye of the beholder. One thing is for sure, it sure doesn’t carry much weight.

May 01, 2012

http://eagnews.org

EAGnews.org has produced an exclusive video report disclosing who and what were behind the massive demonstrations, the occupation of the Capitol in Madison, and extreme tactics employed to stop Walker's reforms from being enacted.

Titled "Anarchy 101: How Wisconsin's Left Embraces Chaos," the report takes us through the protests, legal challenges and subsequent recall efforts of 2011 and 2012. It features Brett Healy and Brian Fraley of the MacIver Institute, Collin Roth of Media Trackers, an unidentified citizen journalist on the ground for many of the protests, and State Sen. Alberta Darling, a target of death threats, intimidation tactics, and a failed recall attempt last year.

It also features two teachers, including Kenosha's Kristi Lacroix, and a school board member who would not be silenced by the radicals' intimidation tactics and spoke to EAGnews about the benefits of Scott Walker's reforms

You had a shot of Ben Manski chatting with another redhead. That was John Nichols writer for the Nation and a socialist provocateur. He carried a bullhorn during the Siege the Capitol.

April 27, 2012

Unreal, oh wait.

From WSJ via ZIP:

Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.

Several days later, President Barack Obama, the most powerful man on the planet, singles you out by name. His campaign brands you a Romney donor, shames you for “betting against America,” and accuses you of having a “less-than-reputable” record. The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money.

Are you worried?

Richard Nixon’s “enemies list” appalled the country for the simple reason that presidents hold a unique trust. Unlike senators or congressmen, presidents alone represent all Americans. Their powers—to jail, to fine, to bankrupt—are also so vast as to require restraint. Any president who targets a private citizen for his politics is de facto engaged in government intimidation and threats. This is why presidents since Nixon have carefully avoided the practice.

Save Mr. Obama, who acknowledges no rules.[More...]

April 26, 2012

[Update: Video of Carney questioned at the press conference today. The media was certainly trying to help their bud Obama out. The video is below the fold]

If you didn't read my post last night, the background on this is here

Also read Energy in Debth's background on EPA's Al Armendariz. Note, the article has since been updated to include Armendariz apology:

EID has followed closely the actions of EPA’s Region 6 office in Dallas, and specifically its decision to issue an endangerment order against Range Resources back in 2010 despite clear scientific evidence in contradiction of its charges (embarrassingly for the agency, EPA had to withdraw that order earlier this year). This includes pointing out how the Administrator for that office, Al Armendariz, gleefully emailed activists in the area (prior to the official announcement) that EPA was “about to make a lot of news” and that it was “time to Tivo channel 8.”

That news, of course, was that EPA “determined” Range Resources had contaminated drinking water in Parker County, Texas. Local anti-shale activist Sharon Wilson cheerfully responded, “Hats off to the new Sheriff and his deputies!”[...]

One of Armendariz’s original claims to fame — or infamy, perhaps — was his paper in 2009, which found that “the oil and gas sector likely has greater emissions than motor vehicles” in the five counties comprising the Dallas-Fort Worth region (“emissions,” in this case, referred to nitrogen oxides [NOx] and volatile organic compounds [VOCs]). That paper, written while Armendariz was a professor at Southern Methodist University, was widely celebrated by activists, who — possibly as a “thank you” to the professor — actively pushed for Armendariz to be appointed Administrator of EPA’s Region VI office. Upon assuming office, groups like the Sierra Club celebrated, calling it “great news” because the industry was “having an ‘oh sh–’ moment” about the appointment Other shale opponents, including area resident Sharon Wilson, appeared happily in pictures with Armendariz.

To this day, opposition groups still cite the talking point that oil and gas production generates more emissions than all the cars and trucks in the DFW region, a claim that ultimately gets traced back to Armendariz’s paper.

Via Energy in Dept link:

This is anti-shale activist's phony video (Sharon Wilson) about Range Resources:

Click this link to see a picture of Armendariz & Wilson looking very happy about what they thought they achieved.

Obama's decision over Keystone Pipeline is in play here.

Update:

Selectively edited, etc. Disgusting kiss arse of the One.

April 25, 2012

Update: Forbes has a excellent read for background on this: EPA Official Not Only Touted 'Crucifying' Oil Companies, He Tried It Also read Energy in Debt's article showing Armendariz link to environmentalists

EPA's website, Area 6, fear mongering order against Range Resources. No proof, just one citizen complaining. Oh, Al Armendariz apologized last night for his comment. Too late beotch.

Lengthy, but well worth the watch:

In a speech on the Senate floor, Senator James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, announces that he has launched an investigation into the Obama-EPA's apparent "crucify them" strategy targeted at American energy producers. This investigation will look into EPA's actions towards domestic energy production specifically in light of the agency's recent efforts relating to hydraulic fracturing.

Inhofe's announcement today follows several questionable statements from top EPA officials, including comments released in a little-watched video from 2010, which reveals EPA Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz admitting that EPA's "general philosophy" is to "crucify" and "make examples" of oil and gas companies.

The video he discussed:

Strong arming, it's the Obama way.

Restart Congress co-founder, Chuck Woolery, discusses the deceptive nature of Proposition 28. The prop looks to amend term limits in California. Vote no on proposition 28 June 5th, 2012.

The goal of Restart Congress is to put Americans first by eliminating career politics and the abuse of power that runs rampant through our government.

We will do this by aggressively pursuing a constitutional amendment that sets term limits on our Congressional leaders, ending corruption and tyranny in our government and returning America to prosperity.

Sneaky, very sneaky.

I especially like his video "Chuck Woolery on the Mexican Fence"

April 24, 2012

From the same group who has the awesome video "If I Wanted America to Fail:

Last evening, on twitter, the group was asking for help because Twitter had suspended them. A twitter hashtag storm, #Censorship, directed at twitter ("why were they suspended") erupted. A few hours later, Twitter "reinstated them". Their reason? Auto spam filter. Sure, and I was born yesterday.

“If I wanted America to fail” video goes viral, but Twitter suspends group’s account; Update: Account restored

For some reason still unknown, Twitter suspended the group’s account. They’ve tried to get answers about the cause of the suspension. But no replies. Adam Bitely at NetRightDaily notes:

for some strange reason, Twitter silenced the official account for the new Americans for Limited Government project Free Market America. The account, @FreeMarket_US, went live a few days before Earth Day and was slowly picking up steam.

On Earth Day, the official website for Free Market America was launched and [its] Facebook and Twitter components started to come to life as well. The first video put out by Free Market America, “If I wanted America to fail”, got over 120,000 hits in less than 36 hours!

But you would never know that if you tried to follow the Twitter page–it was suspended by Twitter midway through the day on Earth Day!

April 22, 2012

Awesome video:

h/t BreitbartTV

September 27, 2011

Assad is a butcher.

Zainab Alhusni was a simple seamstress in Syria, well-loved by all her neighbors and friends. Now, in a tragic turn of events, she has become a symbol of the cruelty gripping that conflict-wracked nation.

Her older brother, Mohammed, became a well-known activist in the family's hometown of Homs in western Syria, often leading the demonstrations against embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and treating the wounded.

On September 10, the family says, Mohammed was wounded in a demonstration. He came back to his loved ones a corpse. The family believes he was tortured to death.
In a statement posted to YouTube, another brother, Yousif Alhusni, describes multiple gunshot wounds to Mohammed's chest and a single shot through his mouth.

"His arms were broken and there were cigarette burns to his face," he adds.
The family went to collect Mohammed's body from a hospital when doctors told them another unclaimed body with the label "Zainab Alhusni" had been kept in the morgue's freezer for some time.

When the family received the body, her head and arms had been chopped off. Chunks of her flesh were charred, appearing in places to have been melted or burned down to the bone.

September 08, 2011

Ironically, ILWU were violently protesting a competing union and not a non-union site.

EOTW

(AP) Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after 500 or more Longshoremen broke down gates about 4:30 a.m. and smashed windows in the guard shack, he said.

No one was hurt, and nobody has been arrested. Most of the protesters returned to their union hall after cutting brake lines and spilling grain from car at the EGT terminal, Duscha said.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union believes it has the right to work at the facility, but the company has hired a contractor that's staffing a workforce of other union laborers.[Continue reading]

Related:
Jimmy Hoffa Jr: “Obama, This Is Your Army, Let’s Take These Sons Of Bitches Out”…

September 05, 2011

Hoffa speaking before Obama came on stage:

June 08, 2011

UPDATE: (original post below fold). Story was scrubbed as well as video, here is the new article & video:

......U.S. Department of Education spokesman Justin Hamilton confirmed for News10 Wednesday morning federal agents with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), not local S.W.A.T., served the search warrant. Hamilton would not say specifically why the raid took place except that it was part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

Hamilton said the search was not related to student loans in default as reported in the local media.

Begin original post...............

News10

..............Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but the City of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright's search warrant.

The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in the S.W.A.T for his wife's defaulted student loans.[emphasis mine..ed]

"They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."

According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General, the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a spokesperson did confirm that the department did issue the search warrant at Wright's home.

The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations.

h/t @Geraldanthro

UPDATE: Doug Powers updated DoED logo:

h/t JWF

June 03, 2011

Obama White House Tells Jewish Chorus to Take Down Their Pro-Obama Video , which they did..

Will Jews who voted for The One finally get a clue?

Tell me, what is the Jewish saying for get a clue Jew?

This is the group:

Why take down the video and notify a website which had hosted it on their website to remove the video, which they did?

I would have said screw you, this is a free country.

What, is Obama afraid his anti-Semitic leftist friends may see it?

Censorship. thy name is The One.

UPDATE: Video is here and on The Maccabeats Facebook page they state it was a rumor:

So there's a really interesting rumor circulating online about how the White House demanded we remove a video of us privately singing for the President. Never happened. We only posted the video privately in the
first place, out of respect for our host. especially after we were treated so well by the entire...staff. We think the White House has more interesting things to do than hunt down Maccabeats videos

June 02, 2011

The One and Van Jones pre under bus picture:

Hard core communist evolved to "revolutionary eco-capitalist" -- whatever the hell that means & 9/11 conspiracy nut lectures us on patriotism?

Pleeeeze

Van Jones, I care not to salute your deep patriotism flag:

May 16, 2011

Investigative Project:

A second man has been charged in connection with threats made last year against the producers of the Comedy Central program "South Park."

Jesse Curtis Morton, (aka Younus Abdullah Mohammad) is charged with communicating threats. Morton helped run a website, RevolutionMuslim, with Zachary Chesser. Chesser is serving a 25-year prison term after pleading guilty to a similar charge and to trying to provide material support to the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab.

After a "South Park" episode in April 2010 mocked the violent reaction of radical Islamists by portraying the Prophet Mohammad covered by a bear suit, Chesser posted a statement warning producers Matt Stone and Trey Parker that they "will probably wind up like Theo van Gogh for airing this show."

Van Gogh was a Dutch filmmaker who was killed on an Amsterdam street after producing a short film protesting the treatment of women in Islam.

According to an affidavit from FBI Special Agent Paula Menges, Chesser then collaborated with Morton on a "clarification statement" triggered by media inquiries.

"The Clarification Statement contained pages of justification under Islamic law for the death of those who insult Islam or defame its prophet, and for Muslims to bring about such deaths," Menges wrote. "In it, Morton and Chesser asserted in pertinent part that 'we will never tolerate the mocking or insulting of any one of the prophets,' and explained that the Islamic ruling on this situation was that 'the punishment is death.'"

Though the statement indicated they were not inciting violence, it included a quote from Osama bin Laden that threatened those responsible for Danish cartoons depicting Mohammad with "the freedom of our actions" as payback for their free speech.

That, Menges wrote, crosses the line between protected speech and conveying a threat because it warned Stone and Parker they "would be on the receiving end of actions analogous to those of bin Laden if they refused to change their ways."

The clarification statement included a picture of Van Gogh's body after a stranger killed him "for making a film that was perceived to have insulted Islam." Even if they were not making a direct threat, their statement posted on radical Islamist websites could inspire others to act. "[B]y issuing that statement, they certainly knew that violence was likely to be incited by it anyway."

Hooray!

Hat Tip: Fred.

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New York Islamists: Congratulations to Sheikh Osama bin Laden on His Martyrdom!
Did Jesse Morton Younes Abdullah Muhammad rat out his Revolution Muslim friends to the Feds?
American Based Jihad Magazine Analyzed.
Younus Abdullah Muhammad and Joey Start New Job.
Revolution Muslim's Younus Abdullah Mohammed: Jihad Janes Arrest Unjust.
Sammy and Joey Release Jihad Recollections #2.
Where's Younis (Jesse Morton) Abdullah Mohamed?
The Cyber Jihad in English.
NY Muslims: I Love Osama bin Laden & I'm Friends with Terrorists
From From Blogger to Terrorist: Documenting Zach Chesser's Online Jihad Activities

Update: We're not sure of the status of Younis, if he's been booked on this particular charge yet or not.

March 11, 2011

Apparently the Wisconsin Professional Police Association has checked out who supported Gov Walker and now are going after them to publicly support the unions or else

...[To: Mr. Tom Ellis, President Marshall & Ilsley Corporation]In the event that you cannot support this effort to save collective bargaining, please be advised that the undersigned will publicly and formally boycott the goods and services provided by your company. However, if you join us, we will do everything in our power to publicly celebrate your partnership in the fight to preserve the right of public employees to be heard at the bargaining table.

Wisconsin’s public employee unions serve to protect and promote equality and fairness in the workplace. We hope you will stand with us and publicly share that ideal.

In the event you would like to discuss this matter further, please contact the
Director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association, Jim Palmer, at 608.273.3840.