Nation
Shut It Down--An Open Letter To Speaker Boehner: AceTea-party group targeted by Democrats hit IRS, FBI, OSHA, and ATF: NRO
DOJ IG: Justice Leaked Documents to Smear Whistleblower: Breitbart
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?: Lord
It Can Happen Here: Hanson
Exclusive: Hillary's Benghazi 'Scapegoat' Speaks Out: Daily Beast
For Barack Obama, speech isn't free when it criticizes him: Exam
Tyranny is no longer ‘lurking’: RWN
McCaskill: Fire Everyone Involved in Obama’s IRS Scandal: RWN
Economy
White House demands colleges adopt unconstitutional speech codes: CEIDo Our Republicans Have a Pass on this One?: RS
Tax-exempt Obama Foundation doesn’t exist at listed addresses: DC
Scandal Central
The cracks in Obama's story on the IRS scandal are adding up: LottHillary's Benghazi 'Scapegoat' Speaks Out: Beast
Illegal Alien Rapes Baltimore Girl 1 Year after City Becomes Sanctuary: JW
Obama: I Fantasize About Dropping the Act and Just Telling Everyone My Truth: Ace
AP President: Government successfully intimidating people from talking to us: Scoop
Brit Hume: CHILLING that Obama admin treats ordinary news gathering of reporters as possible crime: Scoop
Obama IRS Scandal Will Go Down in Infamy: JW
Bombshell: Not just Rosen; A livid Megyn Kelly reports more at Fox News targeted by DOJ: Twitchy
Anti-Fraud Group 'True the Vote' Harassed NOT JUST by IRS, but FBI, OSHA... then ATF!: Reaganite
Climate & Energy
Dem Senator Uses Moore, OK Tragedy to Berate Republicans on Global Warming: GWPHeartbreaking: 24 children dead, some drowned underneath collapsed elementary school building after tornado: Scoop
Oklahoma Tornado Kills at Least 91, Twenty of them Children: Riehl
Media
AP Chief: "Sources no longer want to talk. They fear they will be monitored by the Government.": WZInternal Memo Proves That CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson Did Not Get Benghazi Emails Story Wrong: Mediate
The White House is taking a hard line on scandal talk. Can they make it stick?: WaPo
WaPo Fact Checker Blasts Obama's IRS' Stooge, Lois Lerner, For Lying, Gives Her Four Pinocchios: WZ
15 People Who Wrote Out Big Checks To Mitt Romney And Within 90 Days Got IRS Audited: RightPundit
Chuck Todd: This is “Absolutely Chilling”: Dossier
Reporter Deemed “Co-Conspirator” in Leak Case: FAS
The Tipping Point? Liberals Reporters Outraged Over Obama’s Targeting of Fox Reporter James Rosen: JWF
KMOV’s Larry Connors Told to Shut Up: Tatler
MSNBC ratings hit 7-Year low with Obama scandals: FAM
Why Do Bloggers Speak Out?: Blaze
An incredible discussion by Fox's "Political Insiders" about the Impact of the Scandals: Lott
World
Muslims fly Nazi flag next to mosque near Jerusalem: JihadWatchTurkish Prime Minister Erdogan Praised at White House as He Puts Knife In U.S.’s Back: BRubin
Israel fires back at Syria after gunshots at its troops: Reuters
Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue.com/Tech)
LG to demo 5-inch unbreakable and flexible plastic OLED panel at SID: EngadgetInside AT&T’s 83GB/hour mobile cell tower: 9to5mac
High School Student Creates Storage Device that Can Charge in 20 Seconds: DailyTech
Cornucopia
Weekend Roundup: Zoolander Meets Joey Wonka: MOTUSMedia To Add Laugh Track Audio to All Future Jay Carney Press Conferences: iOTW
Mount Everest Crowded, Littered with Corpses: OTB
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QOTD: "Fraud flows from the top down, not the mid-level up. Mid-level officials in the White House and the State Department do not call the shots — they carry out orders. They also were not running for reelection in 2012 or positioning themselves for a campaign in 2016. The people doing that were, respectively, President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton.
Obama and Clinton had been the architects of American foreign policy. As Election Day 2012 loomed, each of them had a powerful motive to promote the impressions (a) that al-Qaeda had been decimated; (b) that the administration’s deft handling of the Arab Spring — by empowering Islamists — had been a boon for democracy, regional stability, and American national security; and (c) that our real security problem was “Islamophobia” and the “violent extremism” it allegedly causes — which was why Obama and Clinton had worked for years with Islamists, both overseas and at home, to promote international resolutions that would make it illegal to incite hostility to Islam, the First Amendment be damned.
All of that being the case, I am puzzled why so little attention has been paid to the Obama-Clinton phone call at 10 p.m. on the night of September 11." --Andrew McCarthy
Anyone asking why the administration leaked stories about the IRS and monitoring reporters now? Might I suggest it is not going to stop. Further, might I suggest nothing will be done about it. For certain, these operations were meant to make people believe they will not stop. And really, would anyone believe the administration or the DOJ if they suddenly remembered who ordered these actions, apologized, and promised not to do it again?
ReplyDeleteThe purpose of the administration disclosing the IRS activities and these media attacks is to frighten off citizens, the media, media sources, and anyone who has information the administration does not want disclosed. The administration has plans for the next 3 years. Big plans. They are not just sitting around doing the people's business. They are plotting and scheming. They do not want any disclosure of what they are planning and do not want any pesky questions about their objectives. They sure as Hell don't any Senate election interfering and hope they can take back the House. They will impose their vision by any means necessary, without debate, without worrying about legalities, and without concern about any opposition.
The press now understands their compliant obedience is of critical import to the administration's goals. They will "report" only that news leaked to them by official administration sources. They will not question how the official administration story was created or shaped. They will not look beyond the story given them. They will accept their role in the "fundamental transformation."
And that's that.
The citizens are scared. Listen to the citizen stories. Heck, listen to the reporters' stories. What happened has put fear in their voices. They know someone is looking over their shoulder, watching, monitoring, and if they cross a line, make a donation, speak out or report, they may be investigated by the DOJ or audited by the IRS, and exhaust their life savings defending themselves against whatever charges can be imagined.
The press is controlled, the people intimidated. The last thing they need is to disarm the public and that is happening in select states whose governors and democratic state controlled legislatures are complying with orders from the party in Washington.
We now live under tyranny and are close to living in a police state.