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Schumer, Franken urged IRS to target tea party in 2012

May 19, 2013

Long before the Internal Revenue Service revealed it had improperly targeted conservative 501(c)(4) groups, a group of Democratic senators led by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the IRS to do just that.
The IRS’s admission last Friday that it had singled out tea party and other groups for extra audits and delays has raised concerns that President Barack Obama’s [...]

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The Next IRS Scandal: Targeted Audits

May 19, 2013

Mr. VanderSloot has since been learning what it means to be on a presidential enemies list. Just 12 days after the attack, the Idahoan found an investigator digging to unearth his divorce records. This bloodhound—a recent employee of Senate Democrats—worked for a for-hire opposition research firm.
Now Mr. VanderSloot has been targeted by the federal government. [...]

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Does the IRS Scandal Herald Obamacare Death Panels Targeting Seniors?

May 18, 2013

Seems the Obama Administration knew about the targeting of groups opposed to President Obama.  (Click Here)
Seems that Seniors (those 65 years and older) were the only group to vote for McCain in 2008.  And seniors are generally more conservative than younger voters.
Will the Obamacare Death Panels target seniors?

Figure in ex-Donovan aide trial talks about cash

May 17, 2013

A key witness in the federal trial against a campaign aide to former Connecticut House Speaker Chris Donovan (D) discussed his role Wednesday in a scheme to illegally funnel nearly $28,000 in contributions to the one-time Democratic congressional candidate.
Soucy also testified he left $5,000 in cash in House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr.’s (R) legislative [...]

DOJ Has Portable Cell-Towers For Snooping

May 16, 2013

Back in 2011, the WSJ broke a huge story about the frequent use by government officials of a technique for mobile device surveillance generically called “stingray” devices (technically, there are a few products used for this, only some of which are actually called Stingrays, but the name is now used to refer to all of [...]

DOJ’s History Of Ignoring The Rules

May 16, 2013

There was, of course, plenty of talk about the DOJ getting two months of phone records concerning calls involving some reporters.  The DOJ response to a leak to the press is, unfortunately, par for the course for the Obama administration, which has been ridiculously aggressive (to an unprecedented level) in going after anyone who leaks [...]

Cabinet Level Backsheesh?

May 15, 2013

The New York Times reports that Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of health and human services, has solicited donations from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (as much as $10 million) and H&R Block (about $500,000).  An insurance executive said that some insurers had been asked for $1 million donations, and that “bigger companies have been asked [...]

IRS Appologizes for Getting Political … And Will Still Oversee Obamacare

May 14, 2013

According to a timline obtained by CBS News, the IRS began singling out tea party groups in the spring of 2010. Though the agency insisted Friday no high-level employees were aware of the targeting, a draft which surfaced over the weekend of an inspector general’s report due to be released this week revealed that Lois [...]

EPA: Your Political Bias is Showing

May 14, 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14, 2013 – It’s not just the IRS that treats groups on the right differently from the rest. According to documents obtained by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Environmental Protection Agency is in on it too.
Public records produced by EPA in response to a lawsuit filed by CEI under the Freedom of [...]

Obama Attacks 4th Amendment

May 14, 2013

The Associated Press is reporting that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months’ worth of its phone records in what it calls a “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into its newsgathering process.
The government would not say why it sought the records.
Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, said, “On the face of [...]

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