May 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT On Wednesday, House hearings on the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) political targeting of conservative groups uncovered a startling revelation about the interview process used to construct the Inspector General’s report: Obama donor-turned-IRS director of tax exempt organizations Holly Paz sat in on 36 of 41 interviews with IRS employees. “Why was Holly ...
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May 24, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from INFOWARS John Fund, writing for the National Review Online, says the IRS targeting of Tea Party and patriot groups was an effort to suppress voting. During the 2012 election, Democrats complained loudly about photo-ID laws and Republicans supposedly suppressing black and minority voters. Former president Bill Clinton went so far as to say “there has ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., scolded Tea Party Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, for acting like a “dictator” by demanding that Senate Democrats promise not to raise the debt limit during conference meetings with House Republicans. “We don’t have kings anymore,” Landrieu said in response to Lee on the Senate floor this afternoon. “We ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW Senator John Cornyn’s office has launched an online “hotline” for Texans who believe they were unfairly targeted by the IRS to share their stories. Cornyn has already highlighted three separate cases of constituents in a video — including True the Vote, which has filed suit against the IRS — and encourages ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday, the first lawsuit in the wake of revelations the agency singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, according to a report. The NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, according to Reuters, arguing its constitutional rights were violated ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GATEWAY PUNDIT TEA PARTY PATRIOTS RALLY OUTSIDE THE IRS– Tea Party members, Christians, pro-Constitution, Pro-Israel, and pro-Military groups gathered today outside IRS offices nationwide to protest the corruption, harassment and complete abuse of power by the Obama Administration against its political opponents. Events were held across the country. RT @cindylamar IRS protest in Evansville, IN twitter.com/CindyLaMar/sta…— Michelle ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GATEWAY PUNDIT ARMED DHS GUARDS GREETED TEA PARTY PROTESTERS TODAY AT THE ST. LOUIS IRS RALLY– No sign of the Light-Armored Tanks yet. But there were DHS vehicles parked outside the IRS office just in case the Tea Party protesters got violent. Alex Cohen holds a Gadsden flag at the IRS building. It was his first Tea ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Despite claims that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was under seige by a flood of new tax-exempt applications from nonprofit political groups in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, the number of 501(c)(4) applications to the IRS actually dropped around the time the IRS began targeting conservative groups ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from MEDIAITE Is it possible that the right-leaning Tea Party was being forced to reconcile onerous information requests from the Internal Revenue Service because former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush, thought the nascent conservative movement reflected poorly on the Republican Party? This is the theory that was posited ...
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May 19, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GATEWAY PUNDIT PROTEST THE CORRUPTION – PROTEST THE CRIMINAL OBAMA IRS Thanks to Barack Obama the Tea Party is once again outraged and motivated. The Tea Party Patriots on behalf of Tea Party, Patriot groups, 9/12, liberty activists, and the American people, we are calling for anyone and everyone to protest the IRS’ complete abuse ...
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May 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal will use a Saturday speech to Virginia Republicans to suggest the IRS officials who targeted conservative political organizations for scrutiny be sent to prison. “You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans, whether you disagree with them or not, and keep your own freedom,” Jindal, a Republican, will tell ...
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May 18, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather Excerpted from FOX19 - Continuing our exclusive coverage of the IRS scandal, FOX19 has obtained documents of a fifth Cincinnati IRS agent who reportedly came after a pro-life group in 2009. The group was asked about prayer meetings, and the content of signs held up outside Planned Parenthood. According to documents obtained by FOX19, the ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GATEWAY PUNDIT IT GETS WORSE! The Obama IRS demanded that several Tea Party groups provide back-end access to their websites. And, from reliable sources: This happened to several Tea Party groups! The source has this in writing. It states they wanted access to everything the members had access to, which would be chats, email, contact information, etc. ...
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May 17, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON The Internal Revenue Service denied the existence of any documents related to its policy of targeting Tea Party organizations in response to a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, even though such documents were later discovered by the IRS inspector general. The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a conservative nonprofit group, filed a ...
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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 CNS NEWS – Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) told the large group of reporters gathered for a press conference on Thursday that the Department of Justice seizure of phone records from the Associated Press is what happens when a “tyrannical despot” is running the government. “If the AP story has taught anything it should be to ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – Justin Binik-Thomas isn’t aware of other individuals targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for political reasons, but he considers the tax agency’s focus on one person’s politics an even bigger threat than targeting organizations for political reasons. “Provide details regarding your relationship with Justin Binik-Thomas,” said one of the 35 questions an ...
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May 16, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Tea Party groups who were illicitly targeted for heightened scrutiny by the Internal Revenue Service plan to sue the agency, even as its acting director resigns and the Justice Department considers criminal prosecutions. Members of a host of Tea Party groups gathered at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday to speak out against what ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from GATEWAY PUNDIT Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Friend of Newt Gingrich? Yes, the Obama IRS actually demanded a Tea Party group to provide details of a rally with Newt Gingrich. The group was that was seeking non-profit status. This question was asked of one to a Tea Party groups by the IRS: ...
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May 15, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
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 ABC NEWS Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations. In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an November 30, ...
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