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Chủ Nhật, 2 tháng 6, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: Former Prosecutor Pirro Draws Up a Six-Count Indictment of Eric Holder

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QOTD: "Recently, law professor Jonathan Turley took to the pages of The Washington Post to warn about the growth of the administrative state. “The growing dominance of the federal government over the states has obscured more fundamental changes within the federal government itself,” Turley wrote. “Our carefully constructed system of checks and balances is being negated by the rise of a fourth branch, an administrative state of sprawling departments and agencies that govern with increasing autonomy and decreasing transparency...”

...As Heritage’s Joe Postell puts it, there are four major constitutional problems today:

• The administrative state combines the powers of government in the hands of the same officials in violation of the separation of powers principle.
• It is based on unconstitutional delegations of legislative power from Congress to bureaucrats and administrators.
• It violates the principle of republican government, which requires that power—especially legislative power—be derived from the consent of the governed, expressed directly or indirectly through elections.
• The administrative process it follows to adjudicate disputes is fundamentally opposed to the protections offered by the rule of law in the traditional judicial process." --Rich Tucker

Thứ Bảy, 1 tháng 6, 2013

THANK GOODNESS: Obama EEOC Now Enforcing Islamic Sharia Law!

The massive fourth branch of government -- the administrative state -- is officially out of control. Please consider the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, under the direction of the Obama administration, which is now doing the work the Taliban won't do.

The EEOC is suing Star Transport for rightfully terminating two Muslims who refused to do their job. If these Muslim truck drivers don't want to deliver alcohol, then they shouldn't have taken a job in which part of their duties would be to deliver alcohol. It's that simple.

PEORIA, Ill. - Star Transport, Inc., a trucking company based in Morton, Ill., violated federal law by failing to accommodate two employees because of their religion, Islam, and discharging them, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today.

The lawsuit alleged that Star Transport refused to provide two employees with an accommodation of their religious beliefs when it terminated their employment because they refused to deliver alcohol.

The drivers refused to deliver legal products in America? So where, pray tell, does this end? I suspect the EEOC hasn't quite figured out where they'll draw the line on their enforcement of Sharia law:

• ~~Alcohol~~ (line already crossed)
• Ham sandwiches?
• Bibles?
• Televisions?
• Single women on buses?
• Magazines that depict "un-Islamic" images?
• Slot machines and other devices related to gambling?

Perhaps you could contact the Office of the Inspector General of the EEOC and ask them where exactly this line will be drawn.

E-mail Address: inspector.general@eeoc.gov

OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL
P.O BOX 77067
WASHINGTON D.C. 20013-7067

OIG Main Number: 202-663-4327
OIG Fax Number: 202-663-7204
OIG Hotline Number: 800-849-4230

As attorney Mark Levin has frequently observed, we now live in a post-Constitutional Republic.

Related: IT'S COME TO THIS: Holder Justice Department Says It Will Help Enforce Islamic Sharia Law

The Crimes of the Koch Brothers

I was over at BadBlue scanning the headlines when I noticed this ad:

Don't tell anyone, but I clicked on the link. I wondered who exactly would target these private citizens I've heard of -- described in hysterical tones by Leftist bloggers -- but otherwise have no familiarity with. A click-through brought me to a site operated by the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee.

The billionaire Koch brothers and their secret donor allies are on a mission – to recruit, train and fund ultra-conservative Tea Party Republicans at the local, state and national level. It’s a blatant attempt to drown out the voices of ordinary Americans by using unlimited, secret contributions to pursue their special-interest agenda.

Enough is enough. Add your name using the form below to demand that these Koch-backed special interest front groups publicly disclose their donors!

Apparently, it is now a crime to "recruit, train and fund" men and women who believe in a different political philosophy than Democrats. In this case, those who support the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. You know, the same documents that politicians take an oath to uphold?

As an aside, this site appears to be operated by some company called Salsa Labs (and you boys should be ashamed of yourselves).

Bruce at Gay Patriot wonders, as did I, who originated the anti-Koch Brothers hysteria? A little research revealed the following timeline behind the fomenting of KBDS ("Koch Brothers Derangement Syndrome"):

11-Feb-2009: CBS News' Scott Pelley interviews Bill Koch on 60 Minutes ("Rich In Cash, Poor In Family Love"), who airs his grievances against the family. Bill had sold his shares in Koch Industries in 1983 and was presumably bitter that he had lost out on the vast gains his brothers had rung up since he'd sold.

20-Feb-2009: The union website Mid-Atlantic Labor pinpoints a major opponent to the ill-fated Obama Stimulus program, Americans For Prosperity:

The compromise version of the $787 billion economic stimulus plan passed the House and Senate Friday and is expected to be signed by President Obama tomorrow in Denver. Despite Democratic leaders’ efforts to reach out for Republican support by dropping various controversial provisions and beefing up tax cuts, the measure passed with no Republican votes in the House and only three Republican votes in the Senate.

Public opposition to the plan was led by a group called Americans for Prosperity, which delivered 400,000 signatures on a petition to the Senate opposing the measure... [and who is AFP?]... the group was founded in 2003 with money from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, which is run by the billionaires behind Kansas-based Koch Industries — the national’s largest privately held oil and gas company...

27-Feb-2009: Mark Ames and Yasha Levine at PlayBoy.com claim the nascent Tea Party movement is the brainchild of the Koch Brothers, not a grass-roots movement.

Last week, CNBC correspondent Rick Santelli rocketed from being a little-known second-string correspondent to a populist hero of the disenfranchised, a 21st-century Samuel Adams, the leader and symbol of the downtrodden American masses suffering under the onslaught of 21st century socialism and big government. Santelli’s “rant” last-week calling for a “Chicago Tea Party” to protest President Obama’s plans to help distressed American homeowners rapidly spread across the blogosphere and shot right up into White House spokesman Robert Gibbs’ craw, whose smackdown during a press conference was later characterized by Santelli as “a threat” from the White House. A nationwide “tea party” grassroots Internet protest movement has sprung up seemingly spontaneously, all inspired by Santelli, with rallies planned today in cities from coast to coast to protest against Obama’s economic policies...

...What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign. In PR terms, his February 19th call for a “Chicago Tea Party” was the launch event of a carefully organized and sophisticated PR campaign, one in which Santelli served as a frontman, using the CNBC airwaves for publicity, for the some of the craziest and sleaziest rightwing oligarch clans this country has ever produced. Namely, the Koch family, the multibilllionaire [sic] owners of the largest private corporation in America, and funders of scores of rightwing thinktanks and advocacy groups, from the Cato Institute and Reason Magazine to FreedomWorks...

For years now, the Koch Brothers have been targeted by the left because they are politically active for conservative causes. In 2010, Americans For Prosperity -- a group with 2 million members -- was attacked directly by President Obama:

Right now all around this country there are groups with harmless-sounding names like Americans for Prosperity, who are running millions of dollars of ads against Democratic candidates all across the country. And they don't have to say who exactly the Americans for Prosperity are. You don't know if it's a foreign-controlled corporation. You don't know if it's a big oil company, or a big bank.

Obama's attack on AFP was, in so many words, an assault on the free speech rights of two guys named Koch -- and all of us. Read the ad at the top again: "Demand That Koch-Based Front Groups Disclose Their Donors!"

The left wants your name. They want millions of names. They want to politically target -- through the IRS, Obamacare, the EPA, and every other lever of a massive, centralized authoritarian government -- you. You have no free speech rights under this administration. No freedom to assemble. No freedom of religion.

In short, within 16 f***ing days in 2009, a politically active family was targeted by every instrumentality the Democrat Party could bring to bear: antique media in the form of CBS, labor unions, new media and the President of the United States himself. That the Leftist tools and sycophants have since endlessly pantomimed their hatred for free speech is troubling, but not unexpected.

After all, we know what the hard left Democrat Party's end game is. But don't bother clicking here if you can't handle the truth.

"That, dear friend, is about the end of any nation.”

Attributed to Adrian Rogers:

Coincidentally, 72,600,000 Americans, a record number, received Medicaid in 2012. That is more than the population of France and the United Kingdom.

This isn't going to end well for any of us. I only take comfort in the fact that the drones are going down with the ship along with the rest of us.

HMMMMMMMMM... CLAIM: James Rosen Targeted by Eric Holder For Three Reasons: Obama Critic, Fox News and Jewish

Only a handful of top Justice Department officials likely know the real reasons James Rosen of Fox News was targeted by Eric Holder, and at least one may* ( and I repeat, may) have been brave enough to leak it. An email, received from an anonymous, purported insider, states the following (some details redacated upon request):

Brass at RFK [Attorney General's office at Main Justice] set on making an example of Fox aggressive reports going after POTUS. Rosen targeted as "aggressive Jew" behind Fox critics of POTUS. DPRK [North Korea] report was not much to pin Rosen but enough. Fact he was Fox and Jewish put him in Holder (Obama?) crosshairs. Look up rreporting Rosen did. re: Petrobs [Petrobas - link] loan and no-bid Checchi [Checchi and Company Consulting, an Obama campaign contributor - link] deal for reasons.

I added the descriptions and links inside the brackets, but left the typos.

* Full caveat and disclosure: I can't verify the authenticity of this email. It was sent through an anonymous remailer and additional details were removed at the request of the sender.

That said, if the IRS targeting Jewish groups (as well as a litany of conservative and Tea Party organizations) is any indication, the report is believable on its face.

Related: Obama DOJ to federal judge: Let’s keep this James Rosen warrant between us, OK?.

IRONY-METER SHATTERS: Press Banned From Revealing Details of Eric Holder's Press Briefing on His Abuse of Press Freedom

You can't make this s*** up.

Sean Higgins thinks this Washington Post "report" on Eric Holder's widely-boycotted confab with journalists is "beyond parody." Yeah, pretty much:

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. pledged Thursday to take concrete steps to address concerns that the Justice Department has overreached in its leak investigations and said officials would seek procedural and possibly legislative changes to protect journalists’ First Amendment rights. Holder’s commitment came at a private meeting with news executives after criticism that the Justice Department had infringed on the news media in several high-profile leak investigations. Participants said he told them officials would revise guidelines for issuing subpoenas to obtain reporters’ phone records. The 90-minute meeting was attended by a small group of journalists after several news organizations objected to the Justice Department’s insistence that it be held off the record. The participants, however, reached an agreement with the Justice Department under which they could describe what occurred during the meeting in general terms...

Eric Holder pledged to take "concrete steps" to address the actions of Eric Holder -- up to and (possibly) including backing legislative action that would curtail Eric Holder's ability to abuse Eric Holder's power...

Direct quotes would be priceless here, but those weren't allowed, of course...

Holder and aides “completely endorsed the president’s statement that reporters should not be at legal risk for doing their job,” said Martin Baron, The Washington Post’s executive editor, who was among the participants. “They acknowledged the need for changes in their own guidelines and the need to have a more rigorous internal review.”

Reassuringly, Eric Holder has "completely endorsed" a principle that Eric Holder has already explicitly violated. How many times has Eric Holder done so? Eric Holder can't quite say. Click through to witness the pitiful spectacle of journalists quoting each other and vaguely discussing a meeting they've been barred from describing in any detail.

And if a member of the press actually reveals some of the secret details of Holder's press briefing -- in which the A.G. promised he wouldn't target the press -- will that person now be targeted by Holder?

The hypocrisy of this administration -- and the stupidity of the five-years-late-to-the-party vintage media -- are breathtaking.

Hat tips: BadBlue News and Daryl Cagle, PoliticalCartoons.com.

Larwyn's Linx: Holder Affidavit Indicated Possible Prosecution of Rosen

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Nation

Holder Affidavit Indicated Possible Prosecution of Rosen: Keith Koffler
Ted Cruz Demands Eric Holder's Resignation: John Hawkins
IRS Ignores Senate Deadline to Answer Questions About Scandal: Joel Pollak

Amnesty Insanity: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Better Result: Foundry
Conservatives no longer suffering government intimidation in isolation: LI
Black Louisiana Democrat assails party, joins GOP: Guy Benson

Mark Levin: I dropped my jaw when I saw this story today: Scoop
Obamacare as Democrats' private piggy bank to fund political causes?: John Lott
IRS collects docs from 88 employees in investigation: Dana Bash

Incrementalism, Class Warfare and the End Game of Federal Student Loans: AllAm
IRS targeting of conservatives may go beyond tax-exempt applications: Ed Morrissey
Islamists, Leftists Bully College Republicans Out Of Their Own Event: Strimedia

Economy

Congressional Budget Office Should Forecast Long-Term Cost of Amnesty: Foundry
Shocked Face: Paul Krugman Was Wrong Again: Stephen Kruiser
IRS Wastes Millions on Unneeded, Unused Mobile Devices, Audit Finds: Michael Tennant

Trustees Report Shows Entitlement Reform Urgently Needed: Sean Hackbarth
The IRS Is Coming for Your Health Insurance Records: Foundry
AP's Meme on Job Growth Ignores April Dive in Total Hours Worked: Tom Blumer

Scandal Central

The Top Twenty Obama Administration Scandals: Dossier
DHS Loses Hundreds of Dangerous Foreigners with Expired Visas: JW
Q&A on Scandals and Eric Holder: Foundry

Former Obama Aides Cashing In: WZ
Not News: Obama Authors Emails Sent by (Formerly?) ‘Non-Partisan’ Organizing For Action: BizzyBlog
Former Obama advisers cashing in on White House résumés: Jake Tapper

Climate & Energy

FAIL: Environmentalists Promised Massive Outpouring of Opposition to Keystone Pipeline: Tatler
Europe Facing "A Year Without A Summer," As It Last Did in 1816: Ace
Democrat Congressman: Keystone Pipeline Bad Because… Wait For It... Rocks Sink: Bryan Preston

Could it be that CO2 has NOTHING whatsoever to do with the earth’s temperature?: Bookworm
Hillary SuperPAC Led by Radical Enviro-Kook and Sweatshop Owning Giffords Lawyer: Daniel Greenfield
Unbelievable Storm Chaser Video Takes You as Close to a Tornado as You’ll Ever Want to Be: Blaze

Media

Meet the Islamists Who’ve Infiltrated the Media: Creeping
On or Off the Record, Obama Administration is in Damage Control Mode: Roger Aronoff
#FreeKate Update: Could Someone Please Report this “Libelous Post?”: Hideout

Rep. Danny Davis’ Socialist, Communist Ties: Some of What You’ll Find in “The Enemies Within”: Loudon
Fast & Furiously stupid: JPA
RECALL: Sheriff Joe WON, Loser leftists ZERO: Scoop

Why is the Benghazi military story still classified?: Byron York
Busted: Brit Hume spells out case against Eric Holder in one tweet: Twitchy
What does Paul Krugman think he gains from his rudeness?: Timothy P. Carney

World

University introduces "blasphemy law" for fear of Muslim violence: Commentator
Don't Cry For Me, America: Comparing Argentina And The United States: Forbes
Egypt: Coptic Christian child murdered and dumped in sewer: JihadWatch

Obama’s Defense Policy Speech Was Untrue, Incoherent, Foolish, and Dangerous: Col. Tom Snodgrass (Ret.)
Another American Freed from Unjust Imprisonment in Mexico: Tatler
Pentagon Confirms Purchase of Russian Helicopters for Afghan Military: Loudon

Sci-Tech

As TV Falls Apart, Tumblr And Twitter Aim To Pick Up The Pieces: Crunch
Google must obey FBI's warrantless requests for user data for now, judge rules: Verge
Oculus VR Co-Founder Andrew Scott Reisse Killed At 33, The Victim Of A Hit-And-Run: TechCrunch

Cornucopia

How Barack Obama and Rock Hudson Are Alike: HillBuzz
Perspective: Ace
Tornadoes Suck Mom and Baby Out of Car, Strangers Huddle In Freezers: ABC

Image: ABC Oklahoma City
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QOTD: '“As of this day, I join Frederick Douglass as a Republican” the 68-year-old [Louisiana State Senator Elbert] Guillory said as he wrapped up a speech blistering the Democratic Party. The move is a return to Republican Party registration for Guillory. “Today the party of disappointment has moved away from the majority of Louisiana. They have moved away from traditional values of most Americans,” Guillory said in prepared remarks. “They have left us behind on crucial issues like abortion, vouchers, 2nd Amendment rights, union control of public jobs, school prayer, family issues.” Guillory said the biggest disappointment for him has been the party’s role in the breakdown of families. “Their support of dependency over self-reliance, of everything but traditional marriage, of abortion on demand, their policies have encouraged the high teen birth rates, high school drop out rates, high incarceration rates and very high unemployment rates,” said Guillory. “Our self-initiative and self-reliance are sacrificed in exchange for votes for the party of disappointment. The list of disappointments is long,” said Guillory, noting “the lies and cover-up at Benghazi, the IRS harassing the tea party and wiretapping and spying on reporters.” He decried federal Democratic initiatives to stop drilling after the BP disaster as well as efforts to “confiscate all guns.”' --Guy Benson, "Black Louisiana Democrat assails party, joins GOP"