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Thứ Tư, 5 tháng 6, 2013

Larwyn's Linx: House Democrats Lied to the Public: the IRS Targeted Only Conservative Groups

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QOTD: "Fox News Alert: The Five loves Christie's "brilliance" in announcing a special election - Christie knows a Democrat, likely Booker, will get elected. He could have appointed a Republican to finish Lautenberg's term. But that would not have gone down well with the liberals and Democrats Christie is pandering to. Furthermore, Christie keeps Booker off the ballot in November by setting the election in October in order not to draw attention and votes from his own election. And the cost, which Christie says he doesn't care about, is $25 million. Christie insists this has nothing to do with politics. In fact, the people of New Jersey deserve it. And you should see and hear all the RINOs applauding this nonsense." --Mark Levin

Thứ Ba, 4 tháng 6, 2013

Odd Man. Out.

Dan from New York

In today's headlines:

• France: No doubt sarin nerve gas used in Syria

• UN believes chemical weapons used in Syria

• Syrian attack victims test positive for nerve agent sarin, say UK and France

• White House says not ready to say Syria used chemical weapons

FINALLY: Democrats Endorse Profiling

No, not to stop more terror attacks like the Boston Marathon bombings, silly. Not that. No, to stop you -- and other freedom-loving Americans!

Dana Loesch explains:

Just over a year ago Democrats railed against Arizona constituents for passing what Dems viewed to be an immigration law based on profiling. Democrats railed against the airport security profiling. Yet now, they whole-heartedly support it, just so long as it’s the IRS doing it as a punitive measure against their opponents. McDermott blames tea party groups’s treatment on their suggestive clothing, so to speak:

BOLO, or, Be On the Look Out was the method the IRS used to profile groups. Progressives likely didn’t use the terms “tea party” or “patriot” in their filings, so obviously, the persecution didn’t include them.

Democrats are officially on record as supporting federally-funded and backed profiling. The entire time they asked “where is the tea party?” they used the IRS to keep a boot on the neck of the movement.

Remember this the next time they speak out against profiling.

These Democrats are the lowest of the low. I'd call them pond scum, but that would unfairly tarnish the reputation of hardworking algae. Consider: despite their very best efforts, Democrats were unable to produce a single liberal targeted by the IRS for today's Congressional hearing.

Finding an intellectually honest Democrat is akin to discovering an unopened tub of Haagen Dasz at Michael Moore's estate.

Hat tip: BadBlue News Service.

BREAKING: Prancercise gets its first major celebrity endorsement!

From the exquisitely sublime The Looking Spoon:

If you haven't heard of [Prancercise] yet, see the video here. I'm sure calling it "revolution" was the hook...

Not that there's anything wrong with Prancercise, mind you. And with all due respect.

I've found I need to use "with all due respect" as an addendum to each post, otherwise Biff Spackle gets audited.

MR. CLOWARD, MEET MS. PIVEN: Social Security's Unfunded Obligation Rises by $1 Trillion

If you're hoping to expedite the collapse of the progressive welfare state, this should qualify as good news.

Contrary to claims by cheerful news sources, Social Security’s deficit outlook is not “unchanged” or “no worse.” Social Security’s unfunded obligation rose by $1 trillion according to the latest trustees’ report.

U.S. taxpayers now owe $12.3 trillion to pay scheduled benefits—in addition to what Social Security can hope to collect from payroll taxes—over the 75-year horizon. That’s $98,517 for every household in America today.
But who can blame news sources for merely citing Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, who summarized the report in this bright light: The projections in this year’s report for Social Security are essentially unchanged from last year.

The reported unfunded obligation for the combined Social Security old age, survivors, and disability insurance (OASDI) program rose from $8.6 trillion in 2011 to $9.6 trillion in 2012. The $1 trillion increase represents a 12 percent deterioration in OASDI’s funding outlook.

“Essentially unchanged,” huh?

[The figures exclude] $2.7 trillion in IOUs owed to the Social Security trust fund, and adding it in brings the total unfunded obligation to $12.3 trillion. The entire debt held by the public is $11.9 trillion—a $1 trillion in increase in the debt limit would be no big deal then either, would it?

Social Security is in its third year of running cash-flow deficits, and the 2012 gap between revenue raised from payroll taxes and benefits paid was $55 billion. But this is merely the beginning as Social Security cash flow deficits are projected to double in less than 10 years, and continue growing from there.

Shhh... no one tell Doug Mataconis and the other leftists at Outside the Beltway! Everything's just poifect and the president is doin' a bang-up job fixin' all the economomomic problems! Hey, what time are the Kardashians on?

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Unhinged leftists Matt Bernius, Doug Mataconis and their confused crew of commenters are searching for real Obama scandals

I'm not sure exactly when the Outside the Beltway blog went off the deep end but it wasn't all that long ago that it possessed a modicum of balance and commenters actually interested in debate. Those days are long since over, as evidenced by the site's steadily declining Alexa traffic and its confused crew of Statist commenters.

Exhibit 8 jabillion: the ludicrous Matt Bernius' latest homage to unhinged moonbattery entitled "So Far, Issa’s IRS Transcripts Contain A Whole Lot Of Nothing", which pooh-poohs the IRS whistleblowers' revelations that the president's paid spokesman outright lied to the American public.

While much media attention has been paid Issa’s now infamous accusation that White House spokesman Jay Carney is a “paid liar,” little time has been spent looking to see if there is any substance behind his sensationalism. Unfortunately for Issa, if these excerpts represent the best evidence his committee has of systemic wrong doing, he — and the House Oversight Committee — have very little new information about the situation.

And, as we've come to expect from the Hallelujah chorus of Statist kooks at OTB, the commenters -- including Doug Mataconis -- gleefully cheer the willful blindness to wrongdoing by the Obama administration.

• "...if this is the best they’ve got, it’s really not much at all."

• "...this could apply just as easily to a host of other pseudo-scandals the GOP has been busy auto-erotically asphyxiating themselves over for the last couple years..." (Eight up-votes! No down-votes!)

• "Issa is trying to feed a narrative that Obama is a dictator with his tentacles everywhere while also feeding a contradictory narrative that he’s detached and incompetent..."

No, the blinkered nuts at OTB can't find any evidence of fascism or scandalous behavior on the part of the Obama administration, despite -- and this is all off the top of my head, mind you -- recent revelations that:

• Much of the Executive Branch is operating false or cut-out email accounts to avoid public accountability laws and FOIA requests;

• The same mental midgets that hyperventilated about The Pet Goat can't really be bothered to ask what President Obama was doing for eight hours as his ambassador and three diplomatic security personnel were slaughtered during a running gun-battle;

• The fact that the president and his secretary of state knowingly lied to the American people about the nature of that attack in Benghazi for days or weeks on end;

• The willful targeting of opposition political groups -- and the media -- by instrumentalities of government including not only the IRS, but the EPA, HHS, the DOJ, and the Department of Labor;

• Clear, unvarnished perjury by the Attorney General in multiple matters before Congress -- and, if not to Congress, then to the judge from which Holder finally secured an unprecedented search of James Rosen's records after a judge-shopping spree;

• Violation of the Separation of Powers doctrine by the president in unilaterally declaring the Senate in recess in order to bypass the Senate's advise and consent role in appointing his left-wing labor and CPFB cronies; said violations confirmed by not one, but two, federal district courts;

I could go on, but I'll spare you. Just refer to the timeless classic entitled "President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts" for a more comprehensive view of the unprecedented assault on the Constitution by this administration.

But OTB and its readers can't find any scandalous behavior by the Obama White House. Which means, like the rest of the progressive left destroying this country, they have no more respect for the Constitution than they do a used Kleenex. They can't see a federal government that expands, in good times and bad, intruding into every aspect of our livelihoods, from automobiles to shower-heads, from backyard ponds to toilets. And now, in a spasmodic fit of self-preservation as the welfare state implodes, the massive authoritarian, centralized government and its apparatchiks like those at OTB act not in the best interest of the people, no, but instead politically attack those seeking to constrain the cancerous growth.

Which is why I needed to employ carbon-dating to ascertain the last time Outside the Beltway actually contained valuable posts or thoughtful commentary. Consider Bernius, Mataconis and their ilk useful only as comic relief.

Hat tip: BadBlue News.

Larwyn's Linx: It Doesn’t Matter That The IRS Scandal Originated In DC

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Nation

It Doesn’t Matter That The IRS Scandal Originated In DC: HayRide
The IRS Story Keeps Getting Worse: Jonathan S. Tobin
IRS Inspector General Compares Scandal to... Nixon's Abuses: Ace

Mark Krikorian Interview: Rubio/McCain/Obama Amnesty Bill: John Hawkins
Obama/Holder Justice Department Threatens First Amendment: Cliff Kincaid
Holder’s Seat Burning Hot Following Press Revolt, Perjury Accusations: JW

Operation Over Reach Around: Erick Erickson
Whoa! Congressman Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla.) tells the truth: Adrienne
Low-Info Voters Keep Obama Ratings Afloat: IBD

Economy

Evidence the heart of the economy is failing: Pethokoukis
Catfish Inspectors, $500K Hotel Bill, U.S. Drone Centers: Geraghty
IRS spent $50 million on conferences: GOPUSA

Rocket Science for Liberals: Food Stamps Stimulate Nothing: Foundry
Hospital refuses new patients until deadbeat Illinois pays up: Marathon
Why Ted Cruz is right and John McCain is wrong: Chris Chocola

Scandal Central

Where was Obama the night four Americans were killed in Benghazi?: GJWHG
Forgotten Scandal: Gibson Guitars Still Being Persecuted for Doing No Wrong: Foundry
FBI Purged Training Materials Deemed ‘Offensive’ to Muslims by the Professionally Offended: Bryan Preston

Climate & Energy

Stricter EPA Ozone Rules Could Put ‘Entire Country’ Out of Business, Industry Group Warns: Nicholas Ballasy
How the EPA skirts transparency: Politico
Bloomdoggle – ‘Green’ Energy Company Paid Illegals $2.66 an Hour in... Pesos: RWN

Media

NBC's Gregory Invites Schumer to Issue 'Warning' to GOP: Move On From Obama Scandals: NB
Choom Boom! Geraghty destroys Plouffe’s nasty Issa-smearing tweet with one photo: Twitchy
Barack Obama's Record-Setting Presidency: IJ Review

It's #MeltdownMonday in North Carolina!: Lady Liberty
Conor Friedersdorf rages on Middle America: Kuznicki
Let's All Sue the IRS: RWN

Long Past Time for MSNBC to Fire Al Sharpton!: Ron Radosh
Chevy Volt Owner Tells Scary Story of Unintended Acceleration...: Carscoops
GOP Grills New IRS Commish On Lerner’s Paid Leave: ‘Is That Your Definition Of Accountability?: Mediaite

World

American taxpayers are subsidizing Obama’s brother to party with the genocidal butcher of Darfur: Scoop
Chicago: Misunderstanderer of Islam gets 23 years in Wrigley Field bomb plot: Creeping
Belgian students vote secretly for boycott of Israel: Times of Israel

Is This a Religion?: Gates of Vienna
Police State Europe: Guns Magazine
Judge Gives Fort Hood Jihadi Who Slaughtered 13 American soldiers in Texas Office & Legal Staff: Atlas

Sci-Tech

This crafty 4-month-old startup helps you never lose your keys (or kid) again: VentureBeat
Vine for Android Hands-On: Mashable
Society unprepared for 3D printing boom: IT News Au

Cornucopia

You Win or You Die: John Hayward
Game of Thrones Fan Reaction Compilation: Ace
Bubba To BO: “WTF? Did you read your contract?”: MOTUS

Image: The Disgrace That is MSNBC's Al Sharpton
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QOTD: "The FBI is rewriting history in order to help al Qaeda. This shows that the law enforcement agency is in need of serious top-to-bottom reform. As we recently learned from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, the country is less safe when we allow radical Muslim organizations to tell the FBI how to train its agents and do its job. The FBI’s purge of so called ‘offensive’ material is political correctness run amok, and it puts the nation at risk. The Obama administration needs to stop putting the tender sensibilities of radical Islamists above the safety of the American people." --Tom Fitton, Judicial Watch