May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – An abortion fundraising group held its annual “Bowl-a-Thon” in April, raising more than $500,000 to “help women and girls pay for abortions they couldn’t otherwise afford.” The fourth annual “National Abortion Access Bowl-a-Thon” broke fundraising records with a total of $552,498 raised. “THANK YOU for making the Fourth Annual National Abortion Access ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER WASHINGTON – Last week, Lois Lerner, head of the tax exempt division of the Internal Revenue Service dropped a bombshell: The IRS had been applying extra scrutiny to conservative groups claiming tax exempt status. The revelation came seemingly out of the blue, in response to a question during a panel at an ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The outgoing leader of the Internal Revenue Service testified Friday that he could not specifically finger the person responsible for the agency’s targeting of tea party groups. “I don’t have names for you,” Steve Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS who resigned this week because of the scandal, said during ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WAPO When the Barack H. Obama Foundation sought tax-exempt status to raise money for good works in Kenya, the Internal Revenue Service provided quick help. The IRS approved charitable status for the foundation, which was run by President Obama’s brother and named after his father, in about a month’s time. The IRS also agreed to ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD NBC's Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election: The IRS commissioner "has known for at least a year that this was going on," said Myers, "and that this had happened. And did he ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER The Department of Homeland Security, which under Secretary Janet Napolitano has shown a keen interest in monitoring and warning about outspoken conservatives, takes a very different approach in monitoring political Islamists, according to a 2011 memo on protecting the free speech rights of pro-Shariah Muslim supremacists. In a checklist obtained by The ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Long before the Internal Revenue Service revealed it had improperly targeted conservative 501(c)(4) groups, a group of Democratic senators led by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the IRS to do just that. The IRS’s admission last Friday that it had singled out tea party and other groups for extra audits and ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON The Internal Revenue Service targeted the Leadership Institute, a conservative nonprofit organization, the group said Thursday. The Leadership Institute, which works to train conservative organizers, said on its website that it produced more than 23,400 pages of documents in 2012 in response to a yearlong “harassing” IRS audit. The IRS admitted last week that ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Conflicting information is emerging over the process the Justice Department used to approve the subpoenas for Associated Press telephone records in connection with a national security leak investigation. As I noted in a story Wednesday, Justice's Director of Public Affairs is supposed to be consulted on all subpoenas to the media or for ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GRETAWIRE – U.S. Senators John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Ranking Member and Chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, today released the following new information about the February 2013 release of ICE detainees with criminal records: In February 2013, in a misguided effort to comply with anticipated budget cuts due ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from RIGHT WISCONSIN Why was the IRS interested in efforts to ensure the recall of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker was legitimate? As the Obama Administration seeks to pivot to a new explanation for their activist Internal Revenue Service (IRS), we find out they took particular interest in the Verify the Recall effort which took place in ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Barack Obama stood silent today when Turkey’s Islamist prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to boost the jihadi government in Gaza with a visit to blockaded enclave. “Most probably I would be visiting Gaza in June,” he said according to the translation service provided by the White House. He said he would ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT Breitbart News has obtained an exclusive video of Attorney General Eric Holder flatly rejecting the idea of appointing a special counsel to investigate Benghazi. Filmed on May 15 and provided to Breitbart News by Special Operations Speaks, the video shows Holder emerge from his car and walk towards the Rayburn House ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's inspector general says the department failed to provide the names of some terrorists in the witness protection program to the government's Terrorist Screening Center. The center maintains the watch list that's used to keep dangerous people off airline flights. The inspector general's office says some in the witness protection program ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER WASHINGTON — During the 2012 presidential campaign, Harry Reid claimed to have intimate knowledge of what was secretly inside Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s tax returns. As President Obama’s campaign slammed Romney nearly every day for not releasing more tax returns, the Senate majority leader repeatedly made the unsubstantiated claim that, at ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE HILL The Environmental Protection Agency’s inspector general will review claims the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refuses to waive public records fees for conservative groups while granting the waivers for environmental organizations. Acting Administrator Robert Perciasepe asked the agency’s inspector general to review claims after GOP lawmaker accusations of a double standard. The charges came up ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from Illume Magazine: [H]aving spent most of my legal career working with tax exempt entities, the IRS scrutiny on the Tea Party isn’t news to me. In my days at large law firms, I handled a portfolio of nonprofit Tea Party organizations and saw firsthand how the IRS treated them when it came to granting ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from JUDICIAL WATCH Surprise, surprise the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has rejected the media’s requests for the immigration records of the Boston Marathon bombers, likely because they contain information that could further embarrass the government. After all, the feds ignored critical warnings from Russia about the older Chechen terrorist (Tamerlan Tsarnaev) and the FBI even ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BRANDON DARBY The IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups went even further than has been revealed. A conservative Hispanic outreach group that educates Spanish-speaking and English-speaking Hispanic communities on the US Constitution was also targeted after applying for 501(c3) status, according to the group’s founder and president, Adryana Boyne. Boyne's organization, named Voces Action, also ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from LIFE SITE NEWS (LiveActionNews.org) - The other day, I was in the middle of doing research online when I stumbled across a Planned Parenthood ad. Planned Parenthood, over the years, has run some pretty shocking ad campaigns. Without a doubt, this one is the worst I’ve ever seen: This ad proves that insanity can ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from CNS News: As IRS efforts targeting politically-conservative groups gained momentum, George Soros-funded liberal groups repeatedly called on the IRS to investigate conservative nonprofit organizations. While the first reported instances of extra IRS scrutiny for conservative groups began in Cincinnati in March of 2010, the attacks began to pick up steam on a national level ...
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