What’s interesting in the news today?
First up, another lawsuit against the IRS. And another lie exposed. Stopped a long time ago? No.
Meanwhile similar groups from the left like OfA continue to do the same unhindered. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that Obama is helping them fundraise. There doesn’t seem to be any problem with them using their tax exempt status for political purposes.
Obama Sends Fundraising Email On Behalf Of “Non-Partisan” OFA…
Non-partisan, just like the President. 🙄
This is a new piece to the story… Did this tweet disappear to help hide the fact that the White House leaked Koch Brothers tax info in violation of federal law?
Hmmmmm…..
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Next up, Eric Holder’s really bad day.
More here.
Two Republican lawmakers asked U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday to clarify testimony he gave Congress this month about his role in the targeting of journalists in a leak probe.House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia and colleague James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin sent a letter to Holder saying recent media reports “appear to be at odds with your sworn testimony.” From Reuters
And he’s not the only one. The same can be said of the IRS director.
So Holder called an off the record meeting with the press. Thankfully, some declined.
Even the NY Times refused.
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This one…. This is how Sharia Law came to be in Europe. We don’t need police and feds, we’ll let our Imams police us instead.
From TheDailyCaller
“Politically influential Muslim activists are pushing to reduce the FBI’s role in countering Islamic terrorism and are seeking greater federal reliance on hard-line orthodox Imams.”
“The CVE program has been slammed by critics for giving too large an intermediary role to small Islamic political groups such as MPAC, which portray themselves as representatives of American Muslims. The groups try to foster the growth of distinct Islamic communities.”
“Elibiary’s new call for reduced policing of Islamic communities, such as Boston’s immigrant Muslims, was echoed by other speakers at the panel, which was hosted by the progressive New American Foundation in Washington D.C.“
“Imams and counselors need to be given some leeway” by police, said Suhaib Webb, Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.”
And yes, that’s the Imam of the center affiliated with the mosque Tamerlan Tsarnaev attended, one of the Boston bombers. Seems to me they already had a shot to do what they’re asking. And they failed miserably.
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Meanwhile, while the feds bow to PC pressure and ignore where the radicals really come from, resources are instead wasted on political intimidation of perceived enemies. Gee, there seems to be a pattern of this with the Obama admin.
From LifeSiteNews
“The FBI office charged with investigating terrorism has said it intends to question the national director of a chain of crisis pregnancy centers. The development is the latest in what pro-life activists have charged is a pattern of intimidation on the part of the Obama administration against pro-life activists.Agents of the Joint Domestic Terrorism Task Force told Chris Slattery, national director of Expectant Mother Care (EMC) FrontLine Pregnancy Centers, only that they wanted to meet him “for a mutually beneficial relationship.”
“The rate of federal questions, and allegations of surveillance, of pro-life activists have led many leaders to conclude the Obama administration is gathering intelligence on the pro-life movement.”
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Another alternative to ObamaCare?
“But the decision to do away with insurance allows Ciampi to practice medicine the way he sees fit, he said. Insurance companies no longer dictate how much he charges. He can offer discounts to patients struggling with their medical bills. He can make house calls.“I’m freed up to do what I think is right for the patients,” Ciampi said. “If I’m providing them a service that they value, they can pay me, and we cut the insurance out as the middleman and cut out a lot of the expense.”” From BangorDailyNews
He even posts his prices. This is similar to what some are doing in Oklahoma.
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Wandering Views 
Ricky – to reply to your last posts from yesterday. I agree that democracy is not always the best form of government. After all, I am the citizen of a country whose head of state is a hereditary monarchy, although our lawmakers are elected democratically. I also agree that trying to artificially impose our own brand of government on another state is doomed to failure.
However, the popular uprisings in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia and others owe less to the interference of the US in Iraq, and rather more to the fact that those dictatorships were failing the people. It wasn’t the elections in Afghanistan in 2004 or in Iraq in 2005, but the self-immolation of a Tunisian vegetable vendor on Dec. 17 2010 that triggered the mass protests. That the protestors demanded democracy is rather a sign that Western education, with its Ancient Greek political philosophy of free expression and Judeo-Christian ethics on the equality of man, has made its mark on those countries despite Islam.
On Russia’s domestic policy against homosexuality and obscenity, it looks good – on the surface. However, I am reminded of another country that laudably squelched such perversions and encouraged family building, whose nationalistic efforts were applauded far and wide by conservative groups. It turned out that such activities were merely a cover for the destruction of inferior races. Russia associates with countries like Iran, who are virulently anti-Semitic. There is a rising tide of Slavic supremacy movements in Eastern Europe and Russia – the organizations are powerful enough to pull off crimes like these: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/7582117/Russian-judge-gunned-down-in-neo-Nazi-revenge-killing.html . Hitler and his SA used similar tactics in getting to power – and they had the applause of many. ‘Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.’
I have read you are going to visit Poland. Let me encourage to look beyond the surface, no matter how good its appearance. There are a lot of undercurrents in Eastern Europe that it is hard for we in prosperous west to understand. The state church has severely compromised itself by years of co-operation with the Soviet governments. Most people do not believe the religious doctrines anyway. There is widespread corruption – the Russian Mafia has its tentacles into all levels of government and trade. There is desperate poverty, made worse by a shattered family structure – I once saw a documentary, filmed using hidden cameras, on the human trafficking in Eastern Europe; it showed how young women from places like Poland and Belorussia, one desperate to get a job to pay for her young brother’s medical bills, another a young wife who innocently signed up for a job, were taken to other countries and there drugged, imprisoned and forced to work as prostitutes. In the people’s pain, they are turning on the strangers in their midst. The Roma (gypsies) are always the first to feel it, then immigrant workers who seem to be taking the bread out of their mouths, but there have even been attacks on average tourists from the West. Be careful.
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Judge Andrew Napolitano in TheWashington Times:
“Under Mr. Obama’s watch, the majority has, by active vote or refusal to interfere, killed hundred of innocents – including four Americans – by drone; permitted federal agents to write their own search warrants, bombed Libya into tribal lawlessness without a declaration of war so that a mob there killed our ambassador with impunity; attempted to force the Roman Catholic Church to purchase insurance polices that cover artificial birth control, euthanasia and abortion; ordered your doctor to ask you whether you own guns; used the Internal Revenue Service to intimidate outspoken conservatives, seized the telephone records of newspaper reporters without lawful authority and in violation of court rules, and obtained a search warrant against one of my Fox News Channel colleagues by misrepresenting his true status to a federal judge.”
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Sorry if this is a re-post. Quoting the article’s sub-head: “It’s an absolute travesty that the tax collection agency was ever the arbiter of political speech.” I would add simply that the IRS is an absolute travesty…and this administration is, too.
http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/244760/the-root-of-all-irs-evil
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Roscuro, It is probably bedtime in Africa, but I just got off work in Fort Worth.
I understand that there was a separate triggering event in Tunisia, but it is doubtful that the Arab Spring would have occurred if the US had not: a. Imposed a democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan; and b. constantly pushed autocratic nations toward democracy. All of those places have had bad governments since the beginning of time. I wonder how many of the people in Iraq, Egypt or Libya would happily take their old dictator back.
The thing I like best about Russia’s homosexual policy is that it is focused on prevention. Russia is trying to prevent its youth from being lured into homosexuality. The West amazingly has accepted the recently created lie that people “are born that way”. At some point (perhaps when 25% of the population turns homosexual), the West will wake up to the lie. I have thought about the Nazi comparison. The most recent example of an explosion of homosexuality before our current situation was in prewar Berlin. The backlash was horrific. This could occur again in the West. I like what Russia, Belarus and Georgia are doing to protect their young from being led into that lifestyle.
I have no illusions about Poland, Russia or the rest of Eastern Europe. All are similar in many ways (violence, drunkenness and poverty) to Mexico, which I also love. However, regardless of what is happening in DC, it is hard for a Texan to leave his home.
I hope you are feeling better and don’t run into any snakes. You are an inspiration to us all.
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