May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER The “charity” run by President Barack Obama’s half-brother that was fast-tracked for IRS tax-exempt status is based at a Virginia UPS store, according to its website. The organization’s IRS filings list another Virginia address that is actually a drug rehab center where the foundation does not appear ever to have been ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER The Senate Finance Committee sent a 41-part request to the Internal Revenue Service aimed at helping the panel “explore” the agency’s targeting of conservative organizations who sought tax-exempt status. The letter is addressed to acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, who was removed from office last week after a report by an inspector ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NBC NEWS The Justice Department’s secret subpoena for AP phone records included the seizure of records for five reporters' cellphones and three home phones as well as two fax lines, a lawyer for the news organization tells NBC News. David Schulz, the chief lawyer for the AP, said the subpoenas also covered the records for ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum to be inappropriate for a ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
Excerpted from The Washington Post: In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury inspector general’s report and congressional testimony Friday that calls into question key statements made by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS’s director of the ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from INFOWARS Daniele Perazzi was arrested on Saturday after a cab driver turned him into police as a terrorist. The Perazzi Shotguns executive was taken into custody by Adams County Deputies outside of the Denver Merchandise Mart where the annual Colorado Gun Collectors Show was held over the weekend. The show is a noted venue ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER Magpul Industries has joined a lawsuit filed in federal court Friday against the state of Colorado, hoping to overturn strict new gun control laws that have caused the magazine manufacturer to begin the process of moving out of state. But regardless of the ultimate outcome of the suit, the company is still ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
MATAMOROS, Mexico — Just across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas, stands a dormitory-style shelter filled with people recently deported from the U.S. and other migrants waiting to cross the border. The long rows of bunk beds offer immigrants a place to rest on their long journey. But the shelter is no safe haven in a ...
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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 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Excerpted from Christian News: Fort Worth, Texas – A Texas pastor and a member his church have been found guilty of crossing a police barricade during a homosexual pride festival last year. As previously reported, Pastor Joey Faust says that he and other members of his church, Kingdom Baptist Church in Venus, Texas, were physically blocked ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE It appears that the Texas has managed to remove the controversial curriculum management program called CSCOPE from the state’s educational system. Texas State Senator Dan Patrick announced the move on Monday morning via a press release and press conference. “I’m very pleased to announce this morning that the era of CSCOPE lesson plans ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS – New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg used a commencement speech to push his gun-control agenda, telling graduates of Kenyon College in Ohio that gun control is “something you really should think about.” Bloomberg, who co-chairs Mayors Against Illegal Guns, spent at least $14 million in support of legislation that would have required ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL JOURNAL Swamped in controversies, President Obama and his slow-footed team are essentially telling the American public, “We’re not crooked. We’re just incompetent.” The IRS targeting conservatives, the Justice Department snooping at The Associated Press, the State Department injecting politics into Benghazi, the military covering up sexual assaults, and the Department of Veterans Affairs leaving ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT News reports from the time indicate the now-chief counsel of the IRS, William Wilkins, helped a church connected to President Barack Obama’s friend Rev. Jeremiah Wright get out of an IRS probe in 2008 while working as a private attorney. “Lawyers from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr have won the dismissal of ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from National Review: Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, says President Barack Obama may face impeachment over his administration’s response to the Benghazi attack. “They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that’s unacceptable,” Chaffetz tells me. “It’s part of a pattern of deception.” Behind the scenes, he says, House Republicans are frustrated by the ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from ABC News: Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June 2012 — months before last year’s the Presidential election. Republicans who requested the investigation were also told about it at approximately the same time. In a ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE BLAZE Last week, TheBlaze reported that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an invited the father of one of the radical Islamist activists killed on the 2010 Gaza flotilla to join the official entourage on his visit to the U.S. last week. And while sources familiar with lat week’s visit told TheBlaze that the ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: The president of the union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudications officers and staff has added his name to a letter of law enforcement officials detailing their concerns about the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. In a statement to be released Monday, obtained by The Daily Caller, ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The American Spectator: “For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal? Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
Breitbart TV: After two Second Amendment activist were removed from a hearing on upcoming gun legislation in New Jersey, several angry audience members spontaneously rose and recited the pledge of allegiance.
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
CANDY CROWLEY, HOST: Moving on to the IRS problem at this moment, which is really sort of in its infancy. There will be lots more hearings coming up this week and probably after that. Everyone we've heard from so far at the IRS, and this includes interviews with folks at the Cincinnati building where this ...
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May 20, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
This is all being done not to catch a leaker, but to scare people out of talking to the press, and to scare the press out of being critical of the government, even in their personal communications. Excerpted from The Washington Post: When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea ...
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