Posts Tagged ‘IRS’
Friday, May 9th, 2014
Ted Cruz has thoughtfully compiled a fourth list of Obama Administration abuses of power. If you’ve been following the ObamaCare, IRS and Benghazi scandals, there might not be anything you haven’t already heard, but it’s nice to have them all in one place. There’s also mention of more obscure Obama Administration abuses of power, such as violation of the Magnitsky Act, or paying $205,075 to relocate a $16 shrub. Moreover, every item in the list is sourced, most to MSM outfits that liberals can’t dismiss summarily dismiss.
Read the whole thing, then send a copy to any undecided voters you know.
Tags:Benghazi, IRS, Magnitsky Act, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, Ted Cruz, waste
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014
The United States House of Representatives votes 231-187 to hold former IRS Lois Lerner in contempt over the IRS scandal. Six Democrats joined House Republicans in voting for the contempt charge. The House also voted to request that Eric Holder appoint a special prosecutor, with an additional twenty more Democrats voting in favor of that as well.
This vote follows on the heels of emails that revealed Lerner coordinating with Obama’s Department of Justice to harass conservative groups.
If Nixon’s IRS did what Obama’s IRS did to suppress the speech of his political opponents, is there any doubt those charges would receive their own line items in his articles of impeachment?
Tags:Crime, Democrats, IRS, Lois Lerner, Obama Scandals
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Monday, October 14th, 2013
Enough gun news popped up this weekend to justify a roundup:
California Governor Jerry Brown vetoes an assault weapons ban. “We’re through the looking glass here, people!”
But before you celebrate this unexpected outbreak of common sense on Brown’s part, consider that he signed a bunch of other gun control bills, including a lead ammo ban.
Gun Owners 1, Groupon 0.
Police officers three times more likely to commit murder than concealed carry holders? (Hat tip (last two): Ace of Spades.)
Gun control has becomes so toxic that Colorado’s Democratic governor John Hickenlooper is asking gun control groups to stay out of the latest recall election against Democratic state Sen. Evie Hudak.
ATF tried to tries to block Fast and Furious whistle-blower’s book. (Hat tip: Shall Not Be Questioned.
Did an ATF agent get the IRS to target a Texas pastor? (Hat tip: Sipsey Street.)
As a member of the Ft. Worth City Council, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis tried to imposed background checks on gun shows, presumably in violation of state preemption law first passed in 1987, and even after Houston got it’s ass handed to them in court for trying something similar. (Hat tip: Cahnman’s Musings.)
Meanwhile, various gun grabber petitions slouch toward the ballot in Washington State. (Hat tip: Shall Not Be Questioned.)
Tags:BATFE, California, Colorado, Colorado Recall, Elections, Evie Hudak, Fast and Furious, gun control, Guns, IRS, Jerry Brown, John Hickenlooper, Washington, Wendy Davis
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Friday, October 11th, 2013
A LinkSwarm heavy on shutdown-related news:
For epitomizing what Democrats have done to Detroit, Kwame Kirkpatrick gets 28 years.
Hey Venezuela, how’s that Socialism working out for you? Inflation hits 49.4%. (Hat tip: Prairie Pundit.)
Victor Davis Hanson thinks Republicans are winning.
ObamaCare, or food?
Steyn on the shutdown. “The conventional wisdom of the U.S. media is that Republicans are being grossly irresponsible not just to wave through another couple trillion or so on Washington’s overdraft facility.”
Catholic priests prohibited from giving Mass.
The revolving door between the Democratic Party and the IRS.
How the GOP establishment tried to seize control of Freedomworks.
The Magic of Obama: White House gift shop goes bankrupt.
Department of Fish & Wildlife lift ban minutes before North Dakota files lawsuit.
Le Pen poised to win European Parliament elections? That’s Marine Le Pen, or Le Pen: The Next Generation.
Five years after the meltdown, families still hoarding cash.
Kent Hance to retire as Texas Tech Chancellor. Hance’s political career is in many ways emblematic of the evolution of Texas politics, starting out as a conservative Democrat, elected to the state Senate in 1974, defeating George W. Bush for a U.S. congressional seat in 1978, played key roll in backing the Kemp-Roth tax cuts in 1981, narrowly losing the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate to Lloyd Doggett (who would then get stomped by Phil Gramm in the general election) in 1984, followed Gramm by switching to the Republican Party in 1985, losing the GOP Gubernatorial nomination to an un-retired Bill Clements in 1986, getting appointed to the Railroad Commission in 1987, winning re-election to it in 1988, and losing to Clayton Williams in the 1990 Republican Gubernatorial primary. He had a long, long career as a bridesmaid…
Raising the debt limit means bankrupting your children.
“This 20 year old has discovered Sex Is Awesome!!! and just wants us all to know that. Yeah Sugar-Tits we sort of know. We’ve been enjoying it for years, but without quite as much Noob Squeeing about it.”
Tags:Bill Clements, Catholics, Crime, Democrats, France, George W. Bush, IRS, Kent Hance, Kwame Kilpatrick, Lloyd Doggett, Marine Le Pen, Mark Steyn, North Dakota, Obama, ObamaCare, Phil Gramm, Republicans, shutdown, socialism, Venuzuala, Victor Davis Hanson, War on Catholics
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Friday, August 16th, 2013
A Friday LinkSwarm on Friday. Will wonders never cease?
Ted Cruz hails from the Republican wing of the Republican Party.
Speaking of Cruz: “Cruz acquired his citizenship, at birth, through his mother. He is a natural born US citizen and eligible to be President of the United States. Let us never have to speak of this again.”
Victor Davis Hanson does an Obama scandalrama roundup.
A few Democrats appear to be defying the idea that Hillary is unbeatable, just like she was in 2008.
163 Ohio poll workers dismissed for that voting fraud that doesn’t exist.
Teen complains that Facebook just isn’t like it was when they were 7.
Why is Dennis Franz shooting Martin Luther King?
Muslim Brotherhood calls on followers to tourch Coptic churches.
The Jewish community isn’t wild about Alice Walker’s new book. Uh, guys? Given that Walker believes in David Icke’s shapeshifting lizard people, I’d say rational political discourse isn’t in her wheelhouse.
Jesse Jackson Jr. sentenced.
Generation parasite.
NPR Ombudsmen rips them a new one, but NPR itself stands by the lies: “At NPR, commitment to leftist ideology trumps any fealty to the facts.”
Dead Goblin Report, Texas Edition: “A couple of Texas criminals had the tables turned on them when a Texas man — taken as a hostage along with his wife and forced to rob a bank — decided he’d had enough and pulled a gun out of his glove box and shot them, killing one.”
Terry McAuliffe: Parasitic tick on the body politic.
Ashton Kutcher actually making sense. “Opportunity looks an awful lot like hard work.” Also: No job is beneath you.
Dear dumbass: Don’t put out a call on Twitter for people to sell you drugs.
Washington Post headline writers evidently have no idea what the word “surreal” means.
Speaking of the Post, evidently their biggest problem is that they still have one token conservative on staff.
Tags:2016 Election, Ashton Kutcher, Benghazi, Crime, David Icke, Democrats, Egypt, Facebook, George Zimmerman Trial, Guns, IRS, LinkSwarm, Media Watch, Muslim Brotherhood, NSA, Obama Scandals, Terry McAuliffe, Twitter
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Friday, July 19th, 2013
Detroit went bankrupt. One stranger was acquitted for shooting another stranger. Which do you think the media spent more time covering?
“Progressive politicians, wonks, and activists can only blame big corporations and other liberal bogeymen for so long. The truth is that corrupt machine politics in a one-party system devoted to the blue social model wrecked an entire city and thousands of lives beyond repair. The sooner blues come to terms with this reality, the greater chance other cities will have of avoiding Detroit’s fate.”
The IRS scandal now leads to the chief counsel, one of only two Obama appointees at the agency.
“The Democratic Party is a machine for inciting grievances in order to consolidate its power.”
The Wall Street Journal makes the case for dismantling ObamaCare piece by piece.
Republican Insiders are very, very upset that Jim DeMint is exposing them for the RINOs they are.
My precious snowflake is extremely gifted. He’s also 29 and unemployed because so many jobs are unworthy of his Promethean talents. Matt Walsh: SMACKDOWN.
“The Democratic Party is a machine for inciting grievances in order to consolidate its power.”
Charles Barkley on the Zimmerman trial: “Just looking at the evidence I agreed with the verdict.”
A few facts about Marissa Alexander that may not be apparent from a two panel picture comparison with George Zimmerman.
“Reason for termination: Disabled veteran.”
“Negative perceptions of young black men are rooted in hard data on who commits crimes.”
Near empty New York hospital losing $3 million a week. Naturally, unions are demanding it stay open. (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Charles Murray on American exceptionalism.
Marco Rubio was riding high. Then he became a shill for amnesty, and now his life is all sad trombones. I haven’t seen a serious national political aspirant fall so far since Gary Hart went boating.
Today’s serial Democratic Party groper who felt-up at least six women and who the state party forced their members to cover up for comes to you from California.
Tags:Blue State, California, Detroit, Gary Hart, George Zimmerman Trial, Heritage Foundation, IRS, Jim DeMint, LinkSwarm, Marco Rubio, Obama Scandals, ObamaCare, vets, Welfare State
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Friday, June 28th, 2013
It’s supposed to hit a 106° in Austin today. Sadly, not all of these links will help you keep your cool…
12 different IRS offices targeted conservatives.
Over 1,100 patients were starved to death at NHS hospitals in the UK. Funny, I don’t remember that being mentioned in the Olympic tribute to how awesome NHS is…
Marco Rubio aide: We need illegal alien amnesty because American workers suck.
Blue collar Americans having trouble finding jobs. I’m sure that has nothing to do with our ruling political elite’s decision to allow unlimited illegal immigration of unskilled workers…
Every Republican voting for amnesty better get ready for a primary challenge.
Obama camapign workers convicted of voter fraud in Indiana. This was for the 2008 Democratic primary, so it will likely be many years before see starting seeing convictions for the Obama campaign’s various 2012 voting fraud efforts…
Noam Chomsky attending the opening of Hezbollah’s “Death to Israel” theme park.
People told me that if I voted for Romney, the U.S. military would start blocking access to liberal news sources. And they were right!
The Atlantic says that Obama “succeeded” in Libya but is failing in Syria. If Benghazi was success, I’d hate to see what failure looks like.
And speaking of Benghazi, Libya just let one of the suspected attackers walk. Thank God we have Obama’s smart, sophisticated diplomacy in the Middle East…
Beer now unaffordable in Greece. And you thought they had riots before…
Second Colorado Democrat faces a recall election over gun control.
Magpul to give away 1,500 30-round magazines just two days before Colorado outlaws them.
By the way, there’s a Facebook page to show support for bringing Magpul to Texas. But most of the rumors I hear have them moving to Wyoming.
The Amarillo Globe-News has a message for gun manufacturers thinking of relocating to Texas: Come on down!
Texas executes its 500th murderer. Don’t mess with Texas. Or we will end you.
Speaking of ending you: Don’t try to commit armed robbery in a concealed carry state.
Nurse Bloomberg continues to underwrite anti-gun ads, shoot himself in the foot. (Hat tip: Alphecca.
In order to prove vegans aren’t a creepy cult, website seeks to out and harass lapsed vegans.
The Onion channels Jay Carney: “Well, Time To Go Out In Front Of A Bunch Of People And Lie To Them.”
The mystery of Lori Ruff, AKA Becky Sue Turner. No one know who she actually is…
Tags:amnesty, Benghazi, Border Controls, Colorado, Crime, Democrats, Euro, Foreign Policy, Greece, Guns, Hezbollah, Illegal Aliens, Indiana, IRS, Jihad, Lebanon, Libya, Magpul, Marco Rubio, Michael Bloomberg, NHS, Noam Chomsky, Obama Scandals, Republicans, Socialized Medicine, Syria, Texas, vegans, Voter Fraud
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Thursday, June 27th, 2013
If you have liberal friends on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve probably seen links to this Salon piece claiming that the whole IRS scandal is a “fiction” because the IRS targeted liberal groups just as much.
There’s only one tiny, eensy weensy problem with this theory: It isn’t true.
Obama’s Treasury Department itself now admits liberal groups weren’t targeted like conservatives were.
A total of 6 “progressive” groups received any level of scrutiny at all. Number of Tea party groups? 292. “Our audit found that 100 percent of the tax-exempt applications with Tea Party, Patriots, or 9/12 in their names were processed as potential political cases during the timeframe of our audit.”
(Hat tip: Ace of Spades.)
Tags:IRS, Obama Scandals, Tea Party
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Friday, June 21st, 2013
And now the traditional Friday LinkSwarm on Friday!
“Detroit is expecting its creditors to take less than 10 cents on the dollar for having been foolish enough to lend money to the collection of misfits, miscreants, and criminals who govern that poor city….The problem is that the same political leadership that brought Detroit to this sorry pass remains in power…Detroit cannot be trusted with its own money, it cannot be trusted with its creditors’ money, and it certainly cannot be trusted with federal taxpayers’ money.”
“The federal government has been spying and lying. The only comfort is that, apparently, it’s been largely incompetent at both.”
Daily Kos founder joins the chorus of liberal concern trolls saying Republicans had darn well better embrace amnesty or be doomed. It’s like Microsoft telling Goggle what it’s investment strategy should be.
And no, Republicans are not doomed if they don’t vote for amnesty.
In the amnesty proposal, it takes three DUIs before they consider kicking an illegal alien out of the country.
Spengler: Egypt and Syria have already failed.
Father shoots thug attacking daughter. But the father is the one liberals want to disarm.
Gender studies professor and FBI most wanted sex offender Walter Lee Williams captured in Mexico. Not to be confused with awesome economics professor Walter E. WIlliams of George Mason University.
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), America’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, takes its final voyage.
Out on my ass? I guarantee it! (Also, I think The Men’s Warehouse’s problems are less “unable to connect with Gen Y” and more “nobody wants to wear a suit unless they have to and fewer and fewer men have to.” Go casual or go extinct.)
Tags:amnesty, Border Controls, Detroit, DUI, Egypt, Illegal Aliens, IRS, Jihad, Kurt Schlichter, NSA, Syria, USS Enterprise
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Tuesday, June 18th, 2013
Too much going on, so here’s a LinkSwarm to start your day:
Why the IRS scandal is worse than the others.
Snowden: Obama made all NSA abuses worse. Well, making things worse is Obama’s magic touch…
The NSA confirms it can listen to domestic phone calls without a court order. Or so Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) said a few days ago, but now he’s trying to walk his statement back.
Even Al Gore is shocked at the NSA’s sweeping domestic surveillance. Hey Al: That’s just what happens when you have no controlling legal authority.
Don’t tell the liberals, but conservatives actually won the Arizona voting rights case.
Erdogan cracks down in Turkey. (Hat tip: Claire Berlinski’s Twitter feed.)
Q: What do Democrats call illegal aliens who have beaten women and children? A: Evidently future Democratic voters, since they refuse to amend the Gang of 8 illegal alien amnesty bill to exclude them.
A rundown on Texas gun laws signed into law from the most recent session. (Previously.)
Democratic Rep. John Larson (D–Con) whines that it’s so very, very unfair that ObamaCare applies to congress. Hold on, Rep. Larson. When I can get some time on a scanning-tunneling microscope, I’ll see if I can find an appropriately sized violin.
Maureen Dowd slams Obama some more: “When the man who polled where to take his summer vacation and whether to tell the truth about his affair with Monica Lewinsky tells you you’re a captive of polls, you’d better listen up.” Bonus: Description of the NSA program as “No Call Left Behind.”
A new crime control initiative in Houston: arm the law-abiding. More on the Armed Citizen Project here.
Second Amendment activists gather twice the necessary number for signatures to force a recall election for Colorado Senate President John Morse.
Animal Rights activists get Obama Administration to end testing on chimps. So much for liberals being part of the “science-based community.”
SooperMexican makes brutal fun of the SNAP Challenge. (If you’ve never heard of the SNAP challenge, it’s another variant on the “Any time conservatives cut a dime of government funding, 10 million children starve!” argument.)
Scientists invent a robotic cat. Evidently it has the “massive indifference to your presence” and “not coming when you call it” parts of a cat’s personality down pat…
Tags:Al Gore, amnesty, Border Controls, Eric Snowden, Guns, Houston, Illegal Aliens, IRS, Jerrold Nadler, Jihad, Maureen Dowd, NSA, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, robots, SooperMexican, Supreme Court, Turkey
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