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Obama attempts to change the subject

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Scandals? What scandals? The White House wants to change the subject. After a week that saw the capital riveted by three high-level scandals, The Washington Post reported Sunday that President Obama plans to deliver a speech on counterterrorism this week at the National Defense University. Because counterterrorism has been all over the news lately, right? [...]

Twitter laughs: Safe names for non-profits to avoid IRS targeting

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There isn’t a comedian on earth funnier than fellow Americans when challenged to take a shot at an ongoing Obama administration scandal. And as Twitchy showed, in this case, it’s coming from the Twitter hashtag “SafeC4Names,” where people have come up with hilarious “safe names” for non-profit groups to use to avoid IRS targeting, harassment, [...]

Sen. Cruz fires up base with call to abolish IRS

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Texas Sen. Ted Cruz continues to generate enthusiasm among conservatives with his fearless and bold style of shaking up the status quo in Washington. He set Twitter abuzz last week with two tweets calling for the abolishment of the Internal Revenue Service amidst the news of its egregious misconduct in targeting conservative groups seeking tax-exempt [...]

IRS doubles down on stupidity with plan to do your taxes

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Former acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service Steven Miller was rolling along pretty good on Friday, bravely facing down his inquisitors from the House Ways and Means Committee. And then he had to go and admit it. Time and time again when asked Miller insisted there was nothing politically maniacal about IRS agents singling out [...]

NY Times: Americans too stupid for Obama-scandal coverage

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The media doesn’t have to cover the many scandals swirling around President Obama because people don’t care about them because the media doesn’t cover them. That’s The New York Times’ circular logic anyway. Saturday’s edition had a particularly good example, when graphics-editor-turned-columnist Charles Blow checked in with a piece, “Resonance Resistant,” that began this way: [...]

Flippant Obama: Not ‘distracted by chasing every fleeting issue’

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As Americans begin to wake up to the massive cover-up that took place in the aftermath of the attack in Benghazi and struggle to grasp the extreme abuse of power by the IRS, the president said in a speech Friday that he will not be “distracted by chasing every fleeting issue.” In the face of [...]

Glenn Beck goes off on NAACP: ‘They are a joke’

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When former NAACP chairman Julian Bond alleged that the IRS had targeted that organization during the George W. Bush administration, talk radio host Glenn Beck had had enough and went off on the current crop of NAACP leadership. “Dismiss them,” he urged his listeners. “They are a joke, and an affront to everything that Martin [...]

Bill Maher: ’12 home invasions in my neighborhood, I ain’t giving up my gun’

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That’s right, uber-liberal Bill Maher owns a gun. Actually, he admitted to his HBO Real Time panel Friday night that he has two guns, one he keeps upstairs and one down. Just moments before his confession, he slammed the Second Amendment, calling it “bulls–t” and said the left needs to go after it. Fellow liberal [...]

News anchor speaks out about IRS, gagged by station

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A St. Louis TV anchorman alleged on his Facebook page earlier this month that after conducting a fair, but hard-hitting interview with President Barack Obama, his troubles with the Internal Revenue Service exacerbated. From the moment he made that assertion, he’s also received flak from his employer. On the same day newsman Larry Conners, who [...]

Georgia town sued for mandatory gun ownership ordinance

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A gun regulation advocacy group filed a lawsuit in federal district court against a small Georgia town, its mayor and town council members because of its new ordinance requiring gun ownership by its residents. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, named after James Brady, who was permanently disabled during an attempt to assassinate then-President [...]