May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Washington Secrets: Tea Party and conservative constitutional groups may be the new targets of the Internal Revenue Service, but former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld reveals in his new book out this week that outspoken businesses critical of the federal government are also singled out by the IRS and Securities and Exchange Commission. In "Rumsfeld's ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW Let me begin with your IRS question of the day — presented to a Tennessee conservative group: List each past or present board member, officer, key employee and members of their families who: a) Has served on the board of another organization. ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE Alicia Gali of Australia was excited about her new job in the “desert paradise” of Dubai. American-owned Starwood Hotels, one of the world’s largest hotel groups, even offered to pay for her plane ticket and accommodations as part of the contract that she become a manager. The United Arab Emirates had been ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from LIFE SITE NEWS – If Kermit Gosnell seeks to appeal today's guilty verdict, he will not be able to do so by claiming his jurors were politically biased. According to a local media account, nine of the 12 jurors who convicted Gosnell of first-degree murder and a host of other crimes support legal abortion. “[T]o give ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ProPublica The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year. The IRS did not respond to requests Monday following up about that release, and whether it had determined how the applications ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from RAW STORY Mexican police have arrested two waiters who allegedly beat the grandson of late US civil rights activist Malcolm X to death in a bar after he disputed a $1,200 tab, prosecutors said Monday. Mexico City’s top prosecutor, Rodolfo Fernando Rios Garza, said authorities were looking for two more suspects in the death of ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
...Even Though They Had Been Doing It For 2 Years Already Excerpted from Mediaite: As we learned last week, the Internal Revenue Service reportedly targeted conservative “tea party” organizations during the 2012 election cycle by applying increased scrutiny to them when applying for tax-exempt status. BuzzFeed has unearthed a clip showing the IRS’ own former head ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: A little over a year ago, I reported that, ”It is likely that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential donor information showing a contribution from Mitt Romney’s political action committee to the National Organization for Marriage, says the group.” Now — on the heels of news the IRS’s ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from LIFE NEWS The jury in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell returned a verdict and found him guilty on three of the four first-degree murder charges he faced. Gosnell was found guilty of killing Baby A, Baby C and Baby D and found not guilty of killing Baby E. He was also convicted ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from ABC 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. As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON The Pentagon held internal talks on declassifying sensitive missile defense technology that it plans to share with Russia as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to assuage Moscow’s opposition to European defenses. Republicans in both the House and Senate plan to block any technology declassification for missile defense technology in the current defense ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER A little over a year ago, I reported that, ”It is likely that someone at the Internal Revenue Service illegally leaked confidential donor information showing a contribution from Mitt Romney’s political action committee to the National Organization for Marriage, says the group.” Now — on the heels of news the IRS’s apology ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from AP A Philadelphia jury has been asked to try to keep working to try to break a deadlock on two counts in the murder trial of a longtime abortion provider. Dr. Kermit Gosnell is accused of killing a patient and four babies allegedly born alive and then killed with scissors. He also faces racketeering ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from TPM White House press secretary Jay Carney said in a statement Monday that President Barack Obama is "concerned" that a "small number of Internal Revenue Service employees may have" inappropriately singled out conservative groups for further review during the 2012 election and that he expects "appropriate steps" will be taken should an independent review ...
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May 13, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from Israel National News: Another day, another story of a brutal attack by Arabs against Jews. And as usual, most news outlets will not cover this news. A large-bodied Arab man attacked an elderly Jew in Jerusalem's Old City last Saturday. The victim's daughter, Tali Hoffman, told Arutz Sheva that her father was making his ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Dinah Tellya
Excerpted from Fox News: Like a recurring nightmare, the return of O.J. Simpson to a Las Vegas courtroom come Monday will remind Americans of a tragedy that became a national obsession and in the process changed the country's attitude toward the justice system, the media and celebrity. His 1995 trial is the stuff of legends, ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WWLTV NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans police say at least 18 people either attending or taking part in a Mother's Day second-line parade in the 7th Ward were wounded in a shooting. Original reports had the number at a dozen people injured, but that has since been upped to 18. The youngest victim in the ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO In a wide-ranging interview aired Sunday, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates defended the administration's handling of the Benghazi attacks in Libya and addressed U.S. involvement in Syria, Iraq and North Korea. Gates told host Bob Schieffer on CBS's "Face the Nation" there was no time to reach the Americans under attack in Benghazi ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Briefing Room: The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is not being sincere in its apology for targeting Tea Party Groups, according to House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) Issa accused the IRS of leaking a watchdog report examining the agency's decision to identify conservative tax-exempt groups for additional scrutiny, before its official release, in ...
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May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Excerpted from Fox News: he House Ways and Means Committee this weekend released a timeline of interactions with the IRS and a list of 10 questions it will ask agency officials in an upcoming hearing -- following the agency acknowledging Friday that it targeted conservative political groups during the 2012 ...
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TIME’s Joe Klein: Obama Now On ‘Same Page’ Of Presidential Corruption History Books As Richard Nixon
May 12, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from Joe Klein's piece in TIME Magazine: The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately. That’s obvious. As in most presidencies, there have been an awful lot of political hacks populating the mid-reaches of this Administration. In the Obama instance, these have shown an anachronistic, ...
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May 11, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
(CNN) -- The Chicago Crime Commission named a new Public Enemy No. 1 on Thursday, a designation originally crafted for Al Capone. The new holder of this dubious distinction, however, is not American nor believed to be in the United States. He is Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the infamous Mexican drug lord who is Chicago's ...
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