May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
H/T GATEWAY PUNDIT Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA) went on the Hugh Hewitt Show tonight and dropped this bombshell. The Holder-Obama Justice Department tapped the House of Representatives Cloak Room. Via the Hugh Hewitt website, via The Green Room: HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of ...
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FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather Excerpted from FOX19 - FOX19 has exclusively learned that as many as four people may be the first Cincinnati Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees to face disciplinary action, and possibly even criminal charges, for allegedly targeting Tea Party and Liberty groups applying for non-profit status.On Wednesday, the IRS announced that it has pin-pointed two ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from YAHOO NEWS In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group. He submitted the paperwork to the IRS in July 2011 for a research site called Media Trackers, which calls itself a ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last election. “In one case, the IRS withheld ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Senate Democrats blocked a resolution condemning the targeting of tea party groups by the Internal Revenue Service Wednesday, according to Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul. The resolution Paul introduced Tuesday condemns the targeting of tea party and other affected groups. The resolution further calls for investigations and criminal charges against those who ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – While the White House claims its stimulus package “supported as many as 3.5 million jobs,” none were yielded from a $152,000 project to ready lesbians for “adoptive parenthood.” The $833 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus, awarded the tustees of Clark University, in Worcester, Mass., $152,000 ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FP Insiders with ties to the Obama administration tell The Cable that U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has become the heir apparent to National Security Advisor Tom Donilon -- a post at the epicenter of foreign-policy decision making and arguably more influential than secretary of state, a job for which ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking political casualty thus far in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks. In a hastily called press conference in the East Room of the White House, Obama told reporters that he had asked ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD The Obama administration’s editing of the Benghazi talking points not only obscured what really happened in Libya on September 11, 2012, it also confused the events of earlier that day in Cairo, Egypt. The editing process specifically removed any hint that “jihadists” were encouraged to “break into” the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011. That figure was included in data provided by the ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TOWNHALL Remember what we were told when this explosive story first broke less than a week ago? The IRS official in charge of tax exemptions for organizations said the improper methods employed within her division were executed by "low level workers" in Cincinnati who weren't motivated by "political bias," and impacted roughly 75 ...
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Grilled On AP Phone Records Seizure, Holder Claims He Is ‘Not Familiar’ With The Details Of The Case
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE Noted professor and sociologist Dr. Anne Hendershott claims IRS may have targeted her with a 2010 audit IRS demanded to know which groups paid her and “what their politics were” Hendershott believes her articles critical of President Barack Obama’s policies and George Soros’ funding of liberal Catholic groups may have spawned the IRS audit Audit ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from HEALTHCARE IT NEWS The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and stole the health records of some 10 million Americans, including medical records of all California state judges. According to a report by Courthousenews.com, an unnamed HIPAA-covered entity in California is suing the IRS, alleging ...
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Excerpted from CNS NEWS - Rep. Sander Levin (D.-Mich.), the ranking member of the House Ways and Means Committee, has joined Rep. Dave Camp (R.-Mich.), the committee chairman, in demanding that the Internal Revenue Service answer by next Tuesday thirteen questions posed by the committee relating to IRS discrimination against conservative and pro-Israel groups and, ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
WAFB - He was in the "wrong neighborhood" is just one reason a man gave as to why he was punched in the face. His wife and daughter were also hit. Police arrested one man and ticketed two others. They are all accused of punching the family. At the corner of Plank Road and Scenic Highway ...
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Excerpted from POLITICO The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The Internal Revenue Service improperly requested additional information from nonprofit groups about who their donors were, what the groups’ positions were on specific issues and whether or not their officers had run or were planning to run for public office, according to a report released Tuesday by the Treasury Inspector ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years. According to the organization’s filings, ...
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May 14, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – President Barack Obama issued a statement heralding World Press Freedom Day in May 2012, at the same time his Department of Justice was secretly obtaining phone records from Associated Press reporters and editors. “On this World Press Freedom Day, the United States honors the role of a free press in creating sustainable ...
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