Tuesday, May 05, 2015
SMOKING GUN: New Documents Tie Obama and Senate Democrats Directly to the IRS Scandal
The entire article is worth reading, but the short version is as follows: Root was targeted for audit in 2011, disputed the findings in Tax Court, and won in 2012. Only five days later, Root was again targeted for a separate audit, an unprecedented step.
Judicial Watch took Root's case and after the traditional, illegal withholding of evidence for over a year, finally secured documentation of the audit. Stunningly, a "random audit of small businessman" was marked "SENSITIVE CASE" with no other explanation.
Written in the margin of Root's case files were IRS documentation of the taxpayer's political views; the agent "wrote on my file that he spent many hours on the Internet researching the political views of Wayne Root."
The Courts Must Finally Stop the EPA's Reckless and Wanton Destruction of the Coal Industry
It’s been said that ‘timing is everything’ and time is just one of the issues at stake in the legal proceedings surrounding the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan, which would regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Specifically, the Court must decide if a proposed federal regulation, like the CPP, can be struck down before it is finalized.
In this case, that would be the right decision.
Last month, attorneys on behalf of Murray Energy Corporation and a bipartisan coalition of 15 states argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit seeking to have the Court dismiss EPA’s plan. One of the arguments made by EPA is that the Court must not dismiss the rule because it is still tentative, could change, and the EPA could still “even withdraw the proposed rule”.
When it comes to the Clean Power Plan, however, the EPA is clearly talking out of both sides of its mouth. As EPA attorneys seek to convince the courts the proposed rule could be influenced or even withdrawn based on the feedback received in the public comment period, EPA officials are blatantly singing another tune.
Just one week prior to the oral arguments before the Court of Appeals, EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy told an energy symposium, “[The Clean Power Plan] is going to happen. We have the legal – not just right and authority but responsibility – to do it.”
In March, McCarthy said, “EPA is going to regulate… If folks are thinking any of these pieces aren’t going to happen – and (the Clean Power Plan) isn’t going to be implemented, I think they need to look at the history of the Clean Air Act more carefully.”
These are hardly the words of an agency that is still making up its mind.
Fortunately, Judge Thomas Griffith seemed to pick up on this during oral arguments, asking the EPA if McCarthy’s remarks suggest that the agency’s comment period is a “sham.” While the EPA argued it wasn’t, the evidence certainly suggests otherwise.
Monday, May 04, 2015
Obama’s negotiating partners in Iran helping train children as young as eight to be terrorists
The Iranian-funded terror organization Hezbollah has begun recruiting children as young as eight to join the Mahdi Scouts, which prepares boys to become armed jihadists when they grow up. The scouts number some 50,000 members ranging in age from 8 to 18 and has branches in areas such as Beirut and south Lebanon, according to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Janubiya (Arabic link).
According to the Lebanese newspaper,
The Mahdi Scouts constitute a main element to the military body of Hezbollah, as the majority of the scouts’ members engage in jihadi work after the age of 16. At this age, the members get into their first military course called ‘combat literacy,’ in which teens recognize the principles knowledge of the weapon, and how to shoot at fixed targets.They then get intensive summer courses, and after two years, these youngsters graduate as experienced fighters in various types of weapons and are ready to get engaged in the bloodiest battles at the orders of the Secretary General of Hezbollah. All this is in preparation for the real battles when they reach adulthood.
Quoting “well-informed sources,” Shiite journalist Wissam Al Amin wrote last week:
GARLAND TERROR: The Drawing That Should Have Tied for the Win
No, "liberals" only support free speech when their pathetic little cocoons at Starbucks and Bed, Bath & Beyond aren't threatened.
Thank heavens for people like Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Geert Wilders, who still believe in legimate political discourse. Political, because the Religion o' Peace is a political system first and a religion second.
That's why there are so many misunderstanders of Islam like these two schmucks:
The drawing that won in #Garland pic.twitter.com/HXqVJlGdlc
— Hank Quinlan (@Quinlan_Hank) May 4, 2015Here's the real contest winner, brought to us by the eminently talented Bosch Fawstin.
RED ALERT FROM SEN. JEFF SESSIONS: Proposed Obama Trade Deal Opens Immigration Floodgates
Congress has the responsibility to ensure that any international trade agreement entered into by the United States must serve the national interest, not merely the interests of those crafting the proposal in secret. It must improve the quality of life, the earnings, and the per-capita wealth of everyday working Americans.
The sustained long-term loss of middle class jobs and incomes should compel all lawmakers to apply added scrutiny to a “fast-track” procedure wherein Congress would yield its legislative powers and allow the White House to implement one of largest global financial agreements in our history—comprising at least 12 nations and nearly 40 percent of the world’s GDP.
The request for fast-track also comes at a time when the Administration has established a recurring pattern of sidestepping the law, the Congress, and the Constitution in order to repeal sovereign protections for U.S. workers in deference to favored financial and political allies.
With that in mind, here are the top five concerns about the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) that must be fully understood and addressed before passage:
Sunday, May 03, 2015
CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT: The Mystery of Peters Mountain
A friend sent me an article from Zero Hedge that I find intriguing and it raises far more questions than answers.
I did not know that there was something called a PreparAthon held by FEMA on April 30th. Did you? Supposedly the nationwide drills are for – get this – the catastrophic consequences of global warming. Right. Sure it is. I suspect that propagandic line is for the rubes, when in fact what the feds fear the most is an EMP attack or a massive cyber attack. DHS was just all abuzz over this drill evidently.
But what caught my attention, was the movement and inclusion of activities around a real underground bunker north of Charlottesville, Virginia on Peters Mountain. This not-so-secret bunker may just be the hidey-hole for feds and our nation’s intelligence operations when the Schumer hits the fan. It is the perfect bunker to protect those elitists and power mongers that matter, while everyday America devolves into barbarity and the die-off begins.
OBAMA HAS SOWN THE SEEDS OF WAR: The Middle East Arms Race Explodes
We’ve heard that many Arab leaders are peeing in their caftans in response to Obama’s nuclear rapprochement with Iran. Now we’re beginning to see the results. As Obama’s deal with Iran gets closer, the panicky Gulf States are asking for assurances, weapons and security pacts from Obama before they take matters in their own hands. Can you spot the problems with anything Obama might promise them?
• It’s hard to take anything the man says seriously.
• Would you stake the life of your country on his word?
• Then there’s that pesky Congress. Even if they cave, it will take some time, and a nuclear deal will be signed by then.
• The whole unstable region will become, well, more unstable. Boys can’t wait to play with their new toys.
• Nothing beats having nuclear weapons in your back pocket, just for use during emergencies.
• Obama will (hopefully) be gone in a short time and no one knows who will follow his act.
• Only madmen would use nuclear weapons. Remind you of anyone?
• Obama has shown his weak hand and his strong intentions to appease Iran.
• Only last week he looked away while Iran commandeered a ship that he was duty-bound to protect.
• Everything in Obama’s mind is subordinate to making “the deal.” Ergo, anything he says is disingenuous and born of expediency.
PRO-TERROR LEFTISTS ASSERT THERE ARE NO POOLS IN GAZA: Five minutes on Google Maps proves them liars
Nearly seven years to the day after Haaretz's Gideon Levy falsely reported that West Bank Palestinians have just one single place where they can learn to swim..., this weekend he extends the fallacy to the Gaza Strip. "There are no swimming pools in the Gaza Strip," wrote the veteran journalist Friday... There are dozens of swimming pools in the West Bank and numerous pools in the Gaza Strip.
...As reported by Maan News Agency, the Olympic-sized al-Sadaka pool, the Gaza Strip's first Olympic-sized pool, opened in 2010... In addition, the al-Nour Resort, a Hamas-affiliated facility located near the former site of the Netzarim settlement, has two swimming pools, according to Al-Monitor...
...In a phone call with CAMERA's Israel office, Gideon Levy acknowledged the existence of pools in Gaza and insisted that in his piece he was referring to private pools.
In any event, Levy is a very poor propagandist. I spent all of seven minutes on Google Maps, in satellite view over the Gaza strip, and I identified what appear to be plenty of pools, including those that seem to be attached to private residences. To wit (you can click on each picture to see the actual satellite view):
Saturday, May 02, 2015
Obama cowers as Iran hijacks a U.S.-flagged ship
The U.S. should not allow Iran to seize any ships but President Obama’s Pentagon has found some lawyers who advised them they don't have to defend a seized ship sailing under the Marshall Islands flag, despite the fact that the Marshall Islands is a U.S. protectorate
What a message. If an ally’s ship is seized, the U.S. will look for a lawyer to say they don’t have to defend them.President Obama has allowed Iran to hijack a ship presumed to be sailing under our protection. In fact, Iran lied at first, saying it was a U.S. ship.
Instead of surrounding them and firing a shot off their bow, we have cowered.
We are now escorting our own ships out of fear. We are on the defensive and have shown ourselves to be incapable of standing up to Iran.
CNN reported that U.S. Navy warships will “accompany” every U.S.-flagged commercial vessel that passes through the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and Oman because of concerns that ships from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps navy could try to seize a U.S. cargo ship.
IRGC ships harassed a U.S.-flagged vessel, the Maersk Kensington, and then also seized another cargo ship, the Maersk Tigris, flagged in the Marshall Islands.
GREAT NEWS: Obama State Dept. Shipping Thousands of Potential ISIS Members to Idaho and South Carolina
Obama is sending hundreds of Muslims into the USA under the claim that they are refugees, a report finds.
Apparently Idaho and South Carolina are the areas the State Department has targeted for up to 2,000 Syrian refugees.
Idaho is set to become one of multiple receiving states for the relocation of Islamic and other refugees as part of the State Department’s U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP).Southern Idaho’s TImes-News reports that the College of Southern Idaho’s Refugee Center will be taking in up to 300 refugees from around the world starting in October. They anticipate most will be from Syria and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Syrian Civil War has resulted in the deaths of 220,000 people and driven some 9 million of the prewar population of 23 million from their homes. Of those, more than 3.8 million have fled to neighboring countries like Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey.
“U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard said during a recent visit to Lebanon that between 1,000 and 2,000 Syrian refugees will be brought to the U.S. by the end of September and several thousand more in 2016,” according to the Times-News.
How many members of ISIS that will slip through with this group remains to be seen.
Read more Warner Todd Huston at PubliusForum.com
Friday, May 01, 2015
YOU WILL BE MADE TO CARE: Ted Cruz and the Totalitarian LGBT Left Edition
Senator and Presidential contender Ted Cruz recently attended a dinner party hosted by Ian Reisner and Mati Weiderpass, two gay businessmen who own the Out Hotel on West 42nd Street. The pair's interest in Cruz related to global security issues: they discussed ISIS, Israel, and the rise of radical Islam worldwide. That would be the same radical Islam that hangs, beheads and throws gays off rooftops.
Many in the intolerant, totalitarian LGBT community reacted with outrage. Heaven forbid anyone in the gay community worry about national security, free enterprise, and any topic other than gay rights.
Social media exploded with death threats and organized boycotts. Reisner and Weiderpass were forced to beg for forgiveness; the former issued an apology on Facebook, stating “I am shaken to my bones by the emails, texts, postings and phone calls of the past few days. I made a terrible mistake."
In describing the dinner and the subsequent interview with Reisner and Weiderpass, New York Magazine's Carl Swanson used biased language and outright literary fraud to assail the one man (Cruz) prepared to defend the rights of all Americans, irrespective of race, creed, color, ethnicity or background. That is, the one person running for president who is a Constitutional conservative.
Here's the language Swanson used:
BOOM: New Lawsuit Attacks Hillary's Use of iPhones and iPads While Conducting Official Business at State
Revelations this week lead one to wonder not so much whether Hillary Clinton can win the Democratic nomination for president, but whether she can stay out of jail. Last week, we learned about apparent Clinton, Inc. tax fraud, bribery and money laundering to help Putin corner America’s uranium market, and abuse of office to reward funders of the Clinton Cash Machine – not to mention Judicial Watch’s bombshell of untoward Saudi influence and corruption in Hillary Clinton’s State Department. This week, we received more news about apparent money laundering out of India; lies by Clinton, Inc. about more Putin-connected contributions out of Canada; and more cover-up from another Hillary operation that focused on health care.
JW’s chief investigative reporter brought us up to date with more reporting about yet another Clinton front:
Then there is Teneo Holdings, a global consulting firm with deep Clinton connections. Teneo serves as a kind of private-enterprise satellite to Clinton Inc. Doug Band, Mr. Clinton’s right-hand man for many years, is a Teneo founder. Huma Abedin, Mrs. Clinton’s right-hand woman for many years, was a senior advisor to Teneo at the same time she held a top position as part of Mrs. Clinton’s inner circle at the State Department. Bill Clinton was both a paid adviser to Teneo and a client. Secretary of State Clinton’s former Economic Envoy to Northern Ireland, Declan Kelly, is a Teneo co-founder and CEO.
BALTIMORE: Who Is To Blame?
I’ve seen the liberal, lying media pondering how we could allow the riots, looting, burning and lawlessness to happen, as if it is our collective fault. Obama stands before his teleprompter and pontificates about the need for us to end the poverty that supposedly led to Purge Night in Charm City. That term cracks me up. The city has so much charm, its football team once snuck out of town overnight and headed to Indianapolis. It has so much charm its baseball team was forced to play a game with no fans in the stands.
I think most people can agree that Freddie Gray, a petty drug dealer, was killed in police custody for the crime of looking suspicious. The policemen who killed him deserve to go to jail for murder. As usual, the powers that be circled the wagons and intended to exonerate the hero first responders. The people of Baltimore had a right to be pissed. They had a right to protest. They didn’t have a right to burn businesses and cars. They didn’t have the right to riot, loot, and injure others.It is the police department created and controlled for decades by Democratic progressive politicians that has committed the atrocities against the people who have been electing these progressives year after year. Baltimore has a corrupt, reckless, out of control police department enabled by a crooked and incompetent Baltimore politicians. The rap sheet for Baltimore’s finest is long:
- Police commissioner Ed Norris was sent to prison on corruption charges (2004)
- Two detectives were sentenced to 454 years in prison for dealing drugs (2005)
- An officer was dismissed after being videotaped verbally abusing a 14-year-old and then failing to file a report on his use of force against the same teenager (2011)
- An officer was been fired for sexually abusing a minor (2014)
- The city paid a quarter-million-dollar settlement to a man police illegally arrested for the non-crime of recording them at work with his mobile phone.
The cries of racism and white oppression ring hollow. It’s a tired storyline. Facts are always inconvenient to race baiters with an agenda to extract more money from whites with a guilty conscience and the inability or unwillingness to speak the truth. Let’s examine some facts about good old Charm City, USA.
Thursday, April 30, 2015
HILLARITY: Top 10 Times Hillary Lied About the Clinton Foundation During Her Confirmation Hearings
#1: Clinton: "...the Office of Government Ethics and the career ethics officials at the State Department have looked at the rules and concluded there is not an inherent conflict of interest in any of my husband’s work at all. However, the foundation and the president-elect decided to go beyond what the law and the ethics rules call for to address even the appearance of conflict and that is why they signed a memorandum of understanding, which outlines the voluntary steps that the foundation is taking to address potential concerns that might come up down the road.” (Committee On Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Confirmation Hearing, 1/13/09)
#2: Clinton: “The memorandum of understanding is, as you know, public and the president-elect and the foundation and I have all worked to be very transparent. My team has stayed in close touch with the committee and we’ve addressed the committee’s questions on these issues in a broad range of written answers which are part of the so-called QFRs, the questions for the record.” (Committee On Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Confirmation Hearing, 1/13/09)
#3: Clinton: "...when it was all submitted to the Office of Government Ethics, they said there was no inherent conflict. My husband doesn’t take a salary. He has no financial interests in any of this. I don’t take a salary. I have no financial interests. So out of that abundance of caution and a desire to avoid even the appearance, the president-elect’s transition team began working with the foundation to try to craft an agreement that would avoid the appearance of a conflict but would also ensure that the foundation can continue its work.” (Committee On Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Confirmation Hearing, 1/13/09)
#4: Clinton: “So the work of the foundation, the confidence that it has created with donors who know that it has an extremely low percentage that goes to any overhead. It has a very transparent way that it uses the money...” (Committee On Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate, Hillary Clinton Confirmation Hearing, 1/13/09)
NEWSPEAK: The Secret Style Guide of Vintage Media
The ultimate handbook of Newspeak provides helpful guidelines to steer us through these troubling times:
Employing the concept of doublethink, the Party gives ironic names to its branches as a way to euphemize what they actually are:
The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education, and the fine arts. The Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war. The Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order. And the Ministry of Plenty, which was responsible for economic affairs. Their names, in Newspeak: Minitrue, Minipax, Miniluv, and Miniplenty. – George Orwell 1984
The 2015 version:
Minitrue:
Secrets of success in Minitrue Media:
1. Don’t check facts.
2. Load the deck.
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
CONFIRMED: Obama “Siding with Iran” in Yemen Conflict
The Obama administration is “siding with Iran” while operating “over the heads of the Saudis” in its deliberations over the future of Yemen, Tony Badran, a research fellow for the Foundation of Defense of Democracies, wrote Friday in an analysis published on the Lebanese website NOW News.
Badran noted that a number of administration officials, while publicly claiming to support the Saudis, have actually “tilted much more toward Iran.” Last week, for example, one administration official said that Saudi Arabia should stick to defending its border.
IRAN ANNOUNCES OBAMA WILL BE LIFTING NUKE SANCTIONS IN JULY: "Whether Sen. Cotton Likes It or Not"
Our president has emboldened the Iranians so much that they feel comfortable telling Americans sanctions will be lifted in July while at the same time informing U.S. Senator Tom Cotton he will basically have nothing to say about it.
President Obama is allowing Iran to become a superpower in the region. He has abandoned our allies and has embraced Iran for a terrible deal. While Mr. Obama won’t sit down or try to work with the Republican Congress, he will sit down with Iran and give them more power than he gives Congress.Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blasted Sen. Tom Cotton in a speech today. He said there will be a relief of sanctions in July, “whether Sen. Cotton likes it or not.
Zarif is the head of the negotiations and he obviously believes all sanctions will be lifted immediately in accordance with his agreement.
Anyone who thinks Mr. Obama isn’t trying to establish a one-party system, needs to look at how he treats Congress and consider his other policies such as open borders.
The congress is letting Americans down at every turn. Sen. Ron Johnson put in an amendment to the Corker bill which would require a final Iran deal to be submitted to the Senate as a treaty.
The Senate voted 57-39 to reject the measure. They have every intention of approving the Iran deal no matter how bad it is. It is obviously a treaty.
In case you didn’t see these tweets, we are literally in bed with the enemy.
THE CLINTONS: Suffering from the World's Worst Clinically Diagnosed Case of Financial Anorexia
Which explains the crushing, ever-expanding hydraulic of scandals in which the Clinton Crime Family finds itself engulfed. The latest revelation: they
Bloomberg (the news service, not the crackpot ex-mayor) - ...The reason this is a politically explosive revelation is because the Clinton Foundation promised to disclose its donors as a condition of Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state. Shortly after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the Clinton Foundation signed a “memorandum of understanding” with the Obama White House agreeing to reveal its contributors every year. The agreement stipulates that the “Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative” (as the charity was then known) is part of the Clinton Foundation and must follow “the same protocols.”
It hasn’t…
...The reason this is a politically explosive revelation is because the Clinton Foundation promised to disclose its donors as a condition of Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state. Shortly after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, the Clinton Foundation signed a “memorandum of understanding” with the Obama White House agreeing to reveal its contributors every year. The agreement stipulates that the “Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative” (as the charity was then known) is part of the Clinton Foundation and must follow “the same protocols.”
Oh, and that's not all: at least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that "donated" to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied the State Department while Hillary ran the joint.
Even the Clinton Scandal Manual (deflect, blame the accuser, ignore the charges, etc.) may not be enough this time.
Hat tip: BadBlue News
NICE JOB, GOV. KASICH: Ohio Obamacare expansion costs $3 billion in first 15 months
Americans’ tax burden is already $3 billion heavier because of Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare.
By putting more able-bodied, working-age childless adults on Medicaid than Kasich projected, Obamacare expansion is reducing incentives to work and threatening traditional Medicaid recipients’ access to care faster and at greater cost than anticipated.
After Kasich expanded Medicaid unilaterally, a state panel approved $2.56 billion in Obamacare spending for the expansion’s first 18 months. The money was meant to last until July, but it ran out in February.
Kasich’s Obamacare expansion cost $323 million in March — 84 percent greater than estimates revised just six months earlier.
Using monthly figures released by the Ohio Department of Medicaid, the Republican governor’s Obamacare expansion cost slightly more than $3 billion from January 2014 through March 2015.
Kasich’s Obamacare expansion is on track to cost more than $4 billion by the end of June.
With federal taxpayers on the hook for all benefit costs and Ohio facing a growing state share in 2017, Obamacare expansion may soon consume 10 percent of Ohio’s budget.
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
NO, NOT SUSPICIOUS: At least 180 Clinton Foundation donors also lobbied Hillary State Department for favors
Anyhoo:
The size and scope of the symbiotic relationship between the Clintons and their donors is striking. At least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that have given to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied the State Department when Hillary Clinton ran the place, according to a Vox analysis of foundation records and federal lobbying disclosures...This list of donors to the Clinton foundation who lobbied State matters because it gives a sense of just how common it was for influence-seekers to give to the Clinton Foundation, and exactly which ones did.
Bear in mind that this analysis only includes the disclosed donors. The recently-revealed Russia/uranium deal involved undisclosed donations (part of a pattern, it turns out), in violation of a transparency agreement Hillary signed upon joining the State Department. Team Clinton's excuse for failing to disclose the information has unraveled under cursory scrutiny. Clinton's defenders insist that nobody has offered concrete proof that this multi-million-dollar "slush fund" favor bank ever resulted in direct action by the State Department; at some point, though, enough smoke convinces people there's a fire. And the smoke is billowing:

















