More immigrants living in the U.S. illegally would be able to obtain a
California driver's license under a bill that is moving through the
state Legislature.
A measure from Democratic Assemblyman Luis Alejo, of Watsonville,
would allow people without a Social Security number to apply for a
license. They must show several alternative forms of identification,
including a birth certificate and proof of residency.
Unauthorized immigrants seeking a license also must pass a driving test like other applicants.
The legislation, which passed the state Assembly on Wednesday,
follows a law approved last year that allowed driver's licenses to be
issued to unauthorized immigrants who are eligible for work permits
under a revised federal policy.
Alejo said his bill, AB60, would increase safety on California roads.
A recent study by the state Department of Motor Vehicles showed that
unlicensed drivers are nearly three times as likely to cause a crash, he
said.
"This is a good public policy to allow immigrant families across
California to be able to take the exam, learn the rules of the road,
learn our safe traffic laws, pass the driving exam," Alejo said.
Roughly 2 million people in California would become eligible for a
driver's license or ID card under the legislation, according to a
committee analysis.
Republican lawmakers opposing the bill said loosening the
requirements on who can possess a driver's license would jeopardize
other uses for the IDs, such as showing a driver's license as ID to
board a plane.
"It is a federal document accepted by federal standards to be
identification for other means besides driving," said Assemblyman Curt
Hagman, R-Chino Hills. "It is your security document."
Before a law approved in 1993, immigration status was not a factor in
seeking a California license, said Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los
Angeles. He countered that a driver's license is not the only
identification accepted at airports, pulling out the U.S. passport card
he uses when flying to Sacramento.
"This is not about immigration policy," Perez said. "It is about what
it takes to prove that you are competent to drive under California's
laws that are applicable to our roads."
The Assembly approved AB60 on a vote of 53-20, sending it to the
Senate. If approved and signed by the governor, it would take effect
Jan. 1, 2015.
Four states - New Mexico, Utah, Washington and Illinois - allow those
who are in the U.S. illegally to apply for driver's licenses.
Conservative Blogger
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Many Americans May Lose Current Health Policies Under ObamaCare
Many Americans who buy their own health insurance could have their
policies cancelled because they aren't up to standards of Obama's health
care law.
http://www.foxnews.com/
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Wednesday, May 29, 2013
You know the honeymoon is over, when the comedians start.
The liberals are asking us to give Obama time.
We agree...and think 25 to life would be
Appropriate.
--Jay Leno
America needs Obama-care like Nancy
Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
--Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald's'
New Obama Value Meal?A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you
Has to pay for it.
--Conan O'Brien
Q: What does Barack Obama call
Lunch with a convicted felon?A: A fund raiser.
--Jay Leno
Q: What's the difference between
Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers,
And threats to society. The other is for housing
Prisoners.
--David Letterman
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were
On a boat in the middle of the ocean and it
Started to sink, who would be saved?A: America !
--Jimmy Fallon
Q: What's the difference between
Obama and his dog, Bo?A: Bo has papers.
--Jimmy Kimmel
Q: What was the most positive result
Of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper
Stickers off the road.
--David Letterman
We agree...and think 25 to life would be
Appropriate.
--Jay Leno
America needs Obama-care like Nancy
Pelosi needs a Halloween mask.
--Jay Leno
Q: Have you heard about McDonald's'
New Obama Value Meal?A: Order anything you like and the guy behind you
Has to pay for it.
--Conan O'Brien
Q: What does Barack Obama call
Lunch with a convicted felon?A: A fund raiser.
--Jay Leno
Q: What's the difference between
Obama's cabinet and a penitentiary?A: One is filled with tax evaders, blackmailers,
And threats to society. The other is for housing
Prisoners.
--David Letterman
Q: If Nancy Pelosi and Obama were
On a boat in the middle of the ocean and it
Started to sink, who would be saved?A: America !
--Jimmy Fallon
Q: What's the difference between
Obama and his dog, Bo?A: Bo has papers.
--Jimmy Kimmel
Q: What was the most positive result
Of the "Cash for Clunkers" program?A: It took 95% of the Obama bumper
Stickers off the road.
--David Letterman
Monday, May 27, 2013
Memorial Day: The story of a fallen American
Every year, tens of thousands of people
visit Pearl Harbor Hawaii. It is hard to visit there without
remembering the events of December 7th, 1941.
Pearl Harbor is home to the former Battleship USS Missouri, now open as a memorial. It is also home to the wreck of USS Arizona and the famous memorial that floats just above the sunken battleship that is a grave to over 1100 Americans.
Most people assume that there is only one sunken battleship in Pearl Harbor. They are wrong. There is a second and it is the grave of an American hero.
What is this second ship? Who is this hero and why is his story so uniquely American?
On the Northwest corner of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor is a memorial that is missed by most tourists. Just beyond the memorial is the rusting hulk of a ship.
That ship is the grave of Peter Tomich and 63 other American sailors.
Peter Tomich was born in 1893 in a city called Prolog. It was then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. It is today part of Bosnia Herzegovina. As a young man of twenty, he immigrated to the United States.
His motivations for immigrating or for that matter, details of his family and early life are lost to history. In 1917, Tomich enlisted in the United States Army and became an American Citizen.
In 1919, after World War I had ended and Tomich’s army enlistment was completed, he enlisted in the Navy. He would spend the rest of his life serving his new country as a sailor.
Tomich rose through the ranks until by 1941, he was a Chief Water Tender. In 1941, he was assigned to USS Utah.
USS Utah was a battleship, first commissioned in 1911. By 1930, the ship was old and obsolete. The United States had to get rid of a number of old battleships to comply with the London Naval Treaty. Instead of being scrapped, Utah was turned into an anti-aircraft training and target ship.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Tomich was performing his duties deep in the bowels of the massive ship, which was berthed on the Northwest corner of Ford Island.
Because of large wooden boards that covered much of the deck of USS Utah, which allowed American planes to practice bombing this ship without damaging it or its crew, the Japanese pilots thought Utah was an aircraft carrier.
USS Utah was torpedoed and badly damaged. The ship began to capsize and order was given to abandon ship.
Tomich did not obey that order.
Instead, he stayed at his post deep inside the ship, keeping vital machinery running as long as possible so his shipmates could escape.
At 8:12 AM, less than 15 minutes into the attack, USS Utah capsized and Peter Tomich gave his life for his adopted nation.
For this devotion to duty and his heroism, Peter Tomich was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Today Hawaii will be bathed in sunshine. The tropical breezes will blow, fluttering the flags that fly above the tombstones of the fallen Americans we remember today on this Memorial Day.
Peter Tomich has no tombstone. He rests where he fell on USS Utah.
Peter Tomich was a true American. He came here to become an American and when his nation asked, he made the ultimate sacrifice.
Today we give Peter Tomich and millions of others the thanks of a grateful nation.
Rest in peace, Peter Tomich: American.
Pearl Harbor is home to the former Battleship USS Missouri, now open as a memorial. It is also home to the wreck of USS Arizona and the famous memorial that floats just above the sunken battleship that is a grave to over 1100 Americans.
Most people assume that there is only one sunken battleship in Pearl Harbor. They are wrong. There is a second and it is the grave of an American hero.
What is this second ship? Who is this hero and why is his story so uniquely American?
On the Northwest corner of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor is a memorial that is missed by most tourists. Just beyond the memorial is the rusting hulk of a ship.
That ship is the grave of Peter Tomich and 63 other American sailors.
Peter Tomich was born in 1893 in a city called Prolog. It was then a part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. It is today part of Bosnia Herzegovina. As a young man of twenty, he immigrated to the United States.
His motivations for immigrating or for that matter, details of his family and early life are lost to history. In 1917, Tomich enlisted in the United States Army and became an American Citizen.
In 1919, after World War I had ended and Tomich’s army enlistment was completed, he enlisted in the Navy. He would spend the rest of his life serving his new country as a sailor.
Tomich rose through the ranks until by 1941, he was a Chief Water Tender. In 1941, he was assigned to USS Utah.
USS Utah was a battleship, first commissioned in 1911. By 1930, the ship was old and obsolete. The United States had to get rid of a number of old battleships to comply with the London Naval Treaty. Instead of being scrapped, Utah was turned into an anti-aircraft training and target ship.
On the morning of December 7th, 1941, Tomich was performing his duties deep in the bowels of the massive ship, which was berthed on the Northwest corner of Ford Island.
Because of large wooden boards that covered much of the deck of USS Utah, which allowed American planes to practice bombing this ship without damaging it or its crew, the Japanese pilots thought Utah was an aircraft carrier.
USS Utah was torpedoed and badly damaged. The ship began to capsize and order was given to abandon ship.
Tomich did not obey that order.
Instead, he stayed at his post deep inside the ship, keeping vital machinery running as long as possible so his shipmates could escape.
At 8:12 AM, less than 15 minutes into the attack, USS Utah capsized and Peter Tomich gave his life for his adopted nation.
For this devotion to duty and his heroism, Peter Tomich was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
Today Hawaii will be bathed in sunshine. The tropical breezes will blow, fluttering the flags that fly above the tombstones of the fallen Americans we remember today on this Memorial Day.
Peter Tomich has no tombstone. He rests where he fell on USS Utah.
Peter Tomich was a true American. He came here to become an American and when his nation asked, he made the ultimate sacrifice.
Today we give Peter Tomich and millions of others the thanks of a grateful nation.
Rest in peace, Peter Tomich: American.
From the Medal of Honor Citation for Peter Tomich
"For distinguished
conduct in the line of his profession, and extraordinary courage and
disregard of his own safety, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl
Harbor by the Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Although realizing
that the ship was capsizing, as a result of enemy bombing and
torpedoing, Tomich remained at his post in the engineering plant of the
U.S.S. Utah, until he saw that all boilers were secured and all fireroom
personnel had left their stations, and by so doing lost his own life."
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Free Money from the US Government, come and get it!!
How much money does the United States currently contribute to the
United Nations and its various agencies? Surprisingly, no one knows for
sure.
The State Department does report on its spending at the United Nations, but it is only one of several federal agencies that give money to the world body each year.
In its fiscal 2014 State and Foreign Operations budget proposal released in April, the Obama administration asked for $1.57 billion for contributions to international organizations, including $617.6 million for the U.N. operating budget — up from $568.8 million in fiscal 2012.
But other agencies giving to the U.N. include the Departments of Labor, Energy, Agriculture, Defense, and Health and Human Services, CNS News reported.
Fiscal 2007 legislation stipulated that the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) report all federal agencies' contributions, but the requirement expired in 2011.
Now Republican Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Mike Lee of Utah, and others, are submitting legislation that would reinstate the requirement.
"It's disturbing that no one, including our ambassador to the United Nations, knows exactly how much money we send the U.N. every year," Enzi said in a statement.
"With a national debt exceeding $17 trillion, we need to be able to account for every dime we spend, including what we send to the U.N."
The last OMB report to Congress on U.N. contributions was issued in June 2011 and covered fiscal 2010. It showed that State was just one of 17 government agencies giving money to U.N. organizations, funds, affiliates and other bodies, and the total expenditure that year was $7.69 billion — more than 10 times the amount requested for State in fiscal 2014.
In addition to the billions being contributed to various bodies within the U.N. system, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N.'s operating budget, more than twice as much as the No. 2 contributor, Japan (10.8 percent).
Other legislation likely to be introduced in Congress would change the way the United Nations is funded, allowing the United States to fund only those activities and agencies that are "efficient and in the national interest," according to CNS News.
As the Insider Report disclosed earlier, the United States did cut off funding for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after it voted in October 2011 to approve the Palestinian Authority's full membership in the agency. But that move was required by U.S. laws.
The State Department does report on its spending at the United Nations, but it is only one of several federal agencies that give money to the world body each year.
In its fiscal 2014 State and Foreign Operations budget proposal released in April, the Obama administration asked for $1.57 billion for contributions to international organizations, including $617.6 million for the U.N. operating budget — up from $568.8 million in fiscal 2012.
But other agencies giving to the U.N. include the Departments of Labor, Energy, Agriculture, Defense, and Health and Human Services, CNS News reported.
Fiscal 2007 legislation stipulated that the Office of Budget and Management (OMB) report all federal agencies' contributions, but the requirement expired in 2011.
Now Republican Sens. Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Mike Lee of Utah, and others, are submitting legislation that would reinstate the requirement.
"It's disturbing that no one, including our ambassador to the United Nations, knows exactly how much money we send the U.N. every year," Enzi said in a statement.
"With a national debt exceeding $17 trillion, we need to be able to account for every dime we spend, including what we send to the U.N."
The last OMB report to Congress on U.N. contributions was issued in June 2011 and covered fiscal 2010. It showed that State was just one of 17 government agencies giving money to U.N. organizations, funds, affiliates and other bodies, and the total expenditure that year was $7.69 billion — more than 10 times the amount requested for State in fiscal 2014.
In addition to the billions being contributed to various bodies within the U.N. system, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N.'s operating budget, more than twice as much as the No. 2 contributor, Japan (10.8 percent).
Other legislation likely to be introduced in Congress would change the way the United Nations is funded, allowing the United States to fund only those activities and agencies that are "efficient and in the national interest," according to CNS News.
As the Insider Report disclosed earlier, the United States did cut off funding for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) after it voted in October 2011 to approve the Palestinian Authority's full membership in the agency. But that move was required by U.S. laws.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
NOT JUST THE DEATH OF THE BOY SCOUTS -- BY DONNA GARNER -- 5.25.13
The Boy Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
The Boy Scout Law
A Scout is:
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful,
Friendly, Courteous, Kind,
Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty,
Brave, Clean, Reverent
The 61% of the 1,400 Boy Scouts of America National Council delegates who voted to allow openly gay boys to join the Boy Scouts have sent a clear message to America: “The Boy Scout Oath is meaningless, and we leaders who are supposed to exemplify courage have caved to political pressure.”
To contradict the Boy Scout Oath will result in many young boys being influenced not only to tolerate but to accept and participate in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) sexual activities. This will put their lives in danger.
As these LGBT boys turn 18, they will demand to become Boy Scout leaders; and there will be no foothold to which the BSA can cling on that slippery slope.
INADEQUATE EFFORT ON OUR PART
Perhaps we who truly care about the health and well-being of other people have not done a good job of communicating our message. We must not have made it clear that because we care, we want people to live a healthy and long life. This will not happen to those who practice the sexual activities involved with the LGBT lifestyle.
The medical data is “an equal opportunity provider.” Most of the medical data is not subject to the usual bias based upon race, ethnicity, or gender. Sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s, STI’s) do not really care who a person is nor to what organization, group, political party, race, ethnicity, or gender the person belongs.
Bottom line: For those people who insist on “playing with fire, they will get burned.” STD’s will strike with equal vengeance, most of them based upon the dangerous sexual activities of the people involved.
We who do care about the well-being of other people have allowed the LGBT community to portray and market themselves as being well-dressed, debonair, handsome, beautiful, "gay," and happy. What we should have done all along is to tell the truth about how truly dangerous and unhealthy LGBT sexual activities really are.
The problem we have faced in presenting the facts about the LGBT lifestyle is that it is so perverse; we cannot present those facts openly without exposing children and/or polite society to the awful realities. Our inability to present the facts has allowed the LGBT community to “sell” their bogus image. The marketing gimmick of the happy, same-sex couple is just that – a marketing gimmick; and unfortunately, the Boy Scouts have just succumbed to this LGBT marketing gimmick.
SO WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Why are sexually transmitted diseases (STD's, STI’s) rampant in the LGBT community...because they are urinating on each other, playing with feces, having vaginal/oral/anal sex with all sorts of sex objects, and participating in many other perverse sexual activities.
Because of the LGBT’s anal and oral sexual activities, they are not "gay" at all. Instead, they are constantly seeking sexual arousal, each time falling into more desperate practices. This leads them to even more perverse activities that end up damaging their anal sphincters and giving them such diseases as genital herpes, meningitis, throat/prostate/testicular/colon cancers, anal papilloma, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HPV, and many others. Then, too, the negative, long-term results of transgender reversal sex operations and hormonal treatments are only beginning to manifest themselves in the medical literature:
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
The Boy Scout Law
A Scout is:
Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful,
Friendly, Courteous, Kind,
Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty,
Brave, Clean, Reverent
The 61% of the 1,400 Boy Scouts of America National Council delegates who voted to allow openly gay boys to join the Boy Scouts have sent a clear message to America: “The Boy Scout Oath is meaningless, and we leaders who are supposed to exemplify courage have caved to political pressure.”
To contradict the Boy Scout Oath will result in many young boys being influenced not only to tolerate but to accept and participate in LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) sexual activities. This will put their lives in danger.
As these LGBT boys turn 18, they will demand to become Boy Scout leaders; and there will be no foothold to which the BSA can cling on that slippery slope.
INADEQUATE EFFORT ON OUR PART
Perhaps we who truly care about the health and well-being of other people have not done a good job of communicating our message. We must not have made it clear that because we care, we want people to live a healthy and long life. This will not happen to those who practice the sexual activities involved with the LGBT lifestyle.
The medical data is “an equal opportunity provider.” Most of the medical data is not subject to the usual bias based upon race, ethnicity, or gender. Sexually transmitted diseases (STD’s, STI’s) do not really care who a person is nor to what organization, group, political party, race, ethnicity, or gender the person belongs.
Bottom line: For those people who insist on “playing with fire, they will get burned.” STD’s will strike with equal vengeance, most of them based upon the dangerous sexual activities of the people involved.
We who do care about the well-being of other people have allowed the LGBT community to portray and market themselves as being well-dressed, debonair, handsome, beautiful, "gay," and happy. What we should have done all along is to tell the truth about how truly dangerous and unhealthy LGBT sexual activities really are.
The problem we have faced in presenting the facts about the LGBT lifestyle is that it is so perverse; we cannot present those facts openly without exposing children and/or polite society to the awful realities. Our inability to present the facts has allowed the LGBT community to “sell” their bogus image. The marketing gimmick of the happy, same-sex couple is just that – a marketing gimmick; and unfortunately, the Boy Scouts have just succumbed to this LGBT marketing gimmick.
SO WHAT IS THE TRUTH?
Why are sexually transmitted diseases (STD's, STI’s) rampant in the LGBT community...because they are urinating on each other, playing with feces, having vaginal/oral/anal sex with all sorts of sex objects, and participating in many other perverse sexual activities.
Because of the LGBT’s anal and oral sexual activities, they are not "gay" at all. Instead, they are constantly seeking sexual arousal, each time falling into more desperate practices. This leads them to even more perverse activities that end up damaging their anal sphincters and giving them such diseases as genital herpes, meningitis, throat/prostate/testicular/colon cancers, anal papilloma, syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, HPV, and many others. Then, too, the negative, long-term results of transgender reversal sex operations and hormonal treatments are only beginning to manifest themselves in the medical literature:
Friday, May 24, 2013
Want to read about the big IRS scandal? Don't go to msn.com cause there's nothing there about it!
What a shame that a big internet company like msn.com is so far on the left that they will not even report on their website the IRS scandal going on that concerns all Americans right or left. Here the government is trying to run over us and MSN is too Democratic to fairly report it. Check out fox news for the real news.
Roger Ailes' letter to Fox employees
The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government's efforts to criminalize the pursuit of investigative journalism and falsely characterize a Fox News reporter to a Federal judge as a "co-conspirator" in a crime. I know how concerned you are because so many of you have asked me: why should the government make me afraid to use a work phone or email account to gather news or even call a friend or family member? Well, they shouldn’t have done it. The administration’s attempt to intimidate Fox News and its employees will not succeed and their excuses will stand neither the test of law, the test of decency, nor the test of time. We will not allow a climate of press intimidation, unseen since the McCarthy era, to frighten any of us away from the truth.
I am proud of your tireless effort to report the news over the last 17 years. I stand with you, I support you and I thank you for your reporting with courageous optimism. Too many Americans fought and died to protect our unique American right of press freedom. We can’t and we won’t forget that. To be an American journalist is not only a great responsibility, but also a great honor. To be a Fox journalist is a high honor, not a high crime. Even this memo of support will cause some to demonize us and try to find irrelevant things to cause us to waver. We will not waver.
As Fox News employees, we sometimes are forced to stand alone, but even then when we know we are reporting what is true and what is right, we stand proud and fearless. Thank you for your hard work and all your efforts.
Sincerely,
Roger Ailes
When the people fear the government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
---- Thomas Jefferson
Our president takes an oath of
office to uphold and protect the Constitution. Instead, he stomps on it.
He perverts it. He insults it with his twisted view of the American
system of government. Barack Obama acts not like a president, but rather as a tyrannical dictator. If you want to fight this tyranny and restore freedom to this country, then stand with us NOW!
Because of his thirst for power
and control, he used the IRS as a weapon against conservative
organizations and individuals. Because of his thirst for power, Obama
brushed aside the First Amendment when his Department of (In)Justice
issued secret subpoenas to spy on members of the Associated Press for
over 2 months!
Dictator
wanna-be Obama also heightened his attack on FOX News, an organization
that he verbally attacked many times even going so far as to attempt to
remove them from the White House Press Corps. Obama's DOJ went after
Chief Washington Correspondent James Rosen for simply doing his job.
They labeled him as a possible criminal co-conspirator in violation of
the Espionage Act and monitored his phone, his parent's phones, phones
at FOX News, as well as his personal email.Those are the tactics of the Soviet Union and a clear attack on freedom of the press!
I ask you. Is this
the America that you want to live? An America where disagreeing with
the policies of a president makes you a target, makes you a criminal,
makes your government not just turn against you, but attack you? One
thing that everyone, regardless of political affiliation, needs to ask
themselves is this....If Barack Obama would intimidate with the
IRS and attack the press, accusing them of being traitors, with the DOJ,
what is he NOT capable of? And, if we don't stop him, then the same conservative attacking thugs at the IRS will be in charge of enforcing ObamaCare! We must continue this fight for freedom, but we cannot do it without your help!
These are scary times. We cannot allow Obama to continue to silence us with his Chicago, thuggish, dictatorship. That
is why we are filing a lawsuit against the IRS for their illegal
intimidation of conservatives, including TheTeaParty.net specifically. We frequently talk about accountability, and now is a perfect time to put those words into action!
Count on one thing. This fight will be long. It will be tiresome. It will be costly. But, it
will be worth it to win against a tyrant who desires to fundamentally
transform America into a land with serfs, not citizens; with slavery,
not freedom. Don't let that happen! Whatever you can afford, whether $5, $50, or $100, we need your help to win this battle. America is worth it.
Thank you for your support,
Jennifer Burke
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Thursday, May 23, 2013
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Lois Lerner, director of IRS division that targeted conservative groups, leaves House hearing after invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refusing to answer questions about agency scandal.
All Government Officials are starting to believe they're above the law. Maybe with all the Obama Crooks now in place, could be true!
IRS a weapon used by the Democrats against Conservatives
Lois Lerner, the director of the IRS
division that singled out conservative groups, is expected to invoke the
Fifth Amendment Wednesday when she appears before the House Oversight
and Government Reform Committee, Fox News has learned.
That means Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, probably won’t answer any questions on what she knew about IRS agents going after Tea Party-related groups. That also means she probably won’t say why she sat on the information for so long before it became public.
Lerner’s attorney William Taylor III asked committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in a letter if she could skip Wednesday’s hearing since she would be pleading the Fifth.
Taylor argued in the letter that forcing Lerner to appear “would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.”
Late Tuesday, the House oversight committee released a statement saying Lerner was still under subpoena and would be required to appear in the morning.
“Chairman Issa remains hopeful that she will ultimately decide to testify tomorrow about her knowledge of outrageous IRS targeting of Americans for the political beliefs,” committee spokesman Ali Ahmad said in a statement.
Other former or outgoing IRS officials have already testified, and will continue to give their testimony on Wednesday. But Lerner, who is the official who first acknowledged the IRS program, has faced significant scrutiny.
Since the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the IRS scandal and the House committee indicated it would question Lerner about why she provided incomplete information to the committee at least four times last year, Taylor wrote that his client would be invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The House committee is also scheduled to hear from Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin, among others, as the search for someone who will claim responsibility continues.
On Tuesday, outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, was back in the hot seat as he testified for the second time in two weeks on Capitol Hill.
Miller expressed regret for the agency’s decision to use a planted question to go public with the IRS’s practice of singling out conservative groups.
It was one in a series of missteps that have not only publicly marred the reputation of the IRS but also called into question what the White House knew about the scandal and when they knew it.
“We’re not looking for people to be evasive but we want people forthright and straightforward with us,” Rep. Joseph Crowley, a Democrat from New York, told Fox News.
While Crowley did not go so far as to say Lerner should be let go, he did say, “the bottom line is that you cannot lie to Congress, be evasive or mislead. You must answer the question and not mislead Congress.”
Separately, two Tea Party-related groups filed lawsuits against the IRS this week.
On Tuesday, Texas-based True the Vote claimed it was unfairly targeted by the IRS and demanded in court documents the government admit its mistake, grant the group tax-exempt status and pay for damages totaling more than $85,000.
On Monday, the NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed the first federal suit against the national tax agency. Like True the Vote, the northern California group says the IRS violated its constitutional rights when it held up its applications for tax-exempt status.
The NorCal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Cincinnati, seeks group status for “all conservative and libertarian groups targeted for additional scrutiny” between March 2010 and May 2013. It’s also seeking unspecified monetary damages for the alleged violation of its constitutional rights and the costs associated with trying to comply with IRS demands.
The lawsuit is being backed by Citizens for Self-Governance, a group launched by Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler.
Meckler claims that IRS agents also demanded massive amounts of disclosure of information not authorized by the Internal Revenue Code or any other federal law. The suit alleges that the tactic was used to delay or dissuade conservative groups from going through with their applications.
The IRS acknowledged that employees at its Cincinnati office had targeted conservative groups, creating massive amounts of paperwork or rejecting applications altogether.
That means Lerner, head of the exempt organizations division, probably won’t answer any questions on what she knew about IRS agents going after Tea Party-related groups. That also means she probably won’t say why she sat on the information for so long before it became public.
Lerner’s attorney William Taylor III asked committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., in a letter if she could skip Wednesday’s hearing since she would be pleading the Fifth.
Taylor argued in the letter that forcing Lerner to appear “would have no purpose other than to embarrass or burden her.”
Late Tuesday, the House oversight committee released a statement saying Lerner was still under subpoena and would be required to appear in the morning.
“Chairman Issa remains hopeful that she will ultimately decide to testify tomorrow about her knowledge of outrageous IRS targeting of Americans for the political beliefs,” committee spokesman Ali Ahmad said in a statement.
Other former or outgoing IRS officials have already testified, and will continue to give their testimony on Wednesday. But Lerner, who is the official who first acknowledged the IRS program, has faced significant scrutiny.
Since the Department of Justice has launched a criminal investigation into the IRS scandal and the House committee indicated it would question Lerner about why she provided incomplete information to the committee at least four times last year, Taylor wrote that his client would be invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The House committee is also scheduled to hear from Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Neal Wolin, among others, as the search for someone who will claim responsibility continues.
On Tuesday, outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, was back in the hot seat as he testified for the second time in two weeks on Capitol Hill.
Miller expressed regret for the agency’s decision to use a planted question to go public with the IRS’s practice of singling out conservative groups.
It was one in a series of missteps that have not only publicly marred the reputation of the IRS but also called into question what the White House knew about the scandal and when they knew it.
“We’re not looking for people to be evasive but we want people forthright and straightforward with us,” Rep. Joseph Crowley, a Democrat from New York, told Fox News.
While Crowley did not go so far as to say Lerner should be let go, he did say, “the bottom line is that you cannot lie to Congress, be evasive or mislead. You must answer the question and not mislead Congress.”
Separately, two Tea Party-related groups filed lawsuits against the IRS this week.
On Tuesday, Texas-based True the Vote claimed it was unfairly targeted by the IRS and demanded in court documents the government admit its mistake, grant the group tax-exempt status and pay for damages totaling more than $85,000.
On Monday, the NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed the first federal suit against the national tax agency. Like True the Vote, the northern California group says the IRS violated its constitutional rights when it held up its applications for tax-exempt status.
The NorCal lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Cincinnati, seeks group status for “all conservative and libertarian groups targeted for additional scrutiny” between March 2010 and May 2013. It’s also seeking unspecified monetary damages for the alleged violation of its constitutional rights and the costs associated with trying to comply with IRS demands.
The lawsuit is being backed by Citizens for Self-Governance, a group launched by Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler.
Meckler claims that IRS agents also demanded massive amounts of disclosure of information not authorized by the Internal Revenue Code or any other federal law. The suit alleges that the tactic was used to delay or dissuade conservative groups from going through with their applications.
The IRS acknowledged that employees at its Cincinnati office had targeted conservative groups, creating massive amounts of paperwork or rejecting applications altogether.
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Jumping The Shark
May 21, 2013 by Ben Crystal
PHOTOS.COM
Even those few men who have inhabited the highest office in the land have leaped over the proverbial predator. President Richard Nixon did so the day he claimed: “When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.” President Jimmy Carter jumped his shark the day he fought and lost the Battle of the Chattahoochee Bunny. President Bill Clinton met his in the form of a chubby intern in a blue dress. President George W. Bush stood in front of his and declared “Mission Accomplished.” And President Barack Hussein Obama sent his on a press tour this past weekend.
With multiple scandals dominating the headlines (each borne of either gross incompetence or the sort of insidious corruption that hasn’t been seen in the White House since President Warren Harding jumped his own shark near the Teapot Dome), Obama gambled like a sitcom character on water skis. While he sent a junior varsity mouthpiece named Dan Pfeiffer to make an absolute fool of himself on the Sunday talk show rounds, his Administration leaked the almost dumbfounding news: Disgraced U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice is not only not headed for a teaching position at one of those sad places where old liberals are put out to pasture, but she’s a sure bet to become the next National Security Adviser.
Pfeiffer’s performance puts the Obama Administration’s usual sideshow antics to shame. Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Pfeiffer said Obama’s whereabouts during the Benghazi, Libya, massacre were an “irrelevant fact.” In an appearance of ABC News’ “This Week,” Pfeiffer jumped over Jaws on the topic of the Internal Revenue Service attacks on Obama’s perceived enemies, claiming, “The law is irrelevant.” There were more stunts on CBS News’ “Face the Nation,” where Pfeiffer said the identity of those who altered Benghazi talking points was (of course) “largely irrelevant.” And then, the showstopper: Pfeiffer said, “And, frankly, I think that many of the Republicans… owe Ambassador Rice an apology for the things they said about her.” And he didn’t even don the leather for that one.
Even while their attempts to bury Benghazi under a mountain of mendacity fail like Congressman Hank Johnson taking an oceanography exam, Obama and his coterie of thugs continue to amaze. The woman who falsely blamed the deaths of four Americans on some crappy YouTube video is slated to take up the mantle of the senior adviser to the President on matters of people who kill Americans. Rice’s shocking disregard for basic honesty cost her the big office at the Department of State. So instead of shuffling her off to the wacky world of the speakers’ circuit, Obama has decided to put her in charge of telling him which amateur auteurs to imprison.
Obama and his accomplices have told tall tales about so many of their various assaults on life, liberty and even common sense that they’re struggling to keep their stories straight. From Newtown, Conn., to Benghazi, from an IRS outpost in Cincinnati to the White House itself, and from Obamacare (the implementation of which will be overseen by Sarah Hall Ingram, the same pencil-pusher responsible for turning the IRS into Obama’s personal political goon squad) to the transcripts of illegal wiretaps, the web of lies that will define Obama’s disastrous tenure has grown more tangled than Hillary Clinton’s Congressional testimony.
At this point, Obama and his henchmen have given up even a pretense of honesty. I suppose they think the low-information types upon whom their authority rests will give them the same get-out-of-disgrace-free card they’ve abused since 2009. Someone ought to remind them: Fonzie may have successfully jumped the shark, but he still got canceled.
–Ben Crystal
Monday, May 20, 2013
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Corrupt Politicians That Have Help Destroy America
- Hillary Clinton (Senator - NY)
- Howard Dean (Chairmen - DNC)
- John Kerry (Senator - MA)
- Edward Kennedy (Senator - MA)
- Harry Reid (Senator - NV)
- Nancy Pelosi (Congresswoman - CA)
- Charles Rangel (Congressman - NY)
- Dick Durbin (Senator - IL)
- Robert Byrd (Senator - WV)
- Barney Frank (Congressman - MA)
- Dennis Kucinich (Congressman - OH)
- Jim McDermott (Congressman - WA)
- Patrick Leahy (Senator - Vermont)
- Joe Biden (Senator - DE)
- Barbara Boxer (Senator - CA)
- Dianne Feinstein (Senator - CA)
- Patty Murray (Senator - WA)
- Cynthia McKinney (Congresswoman - GA)
- Marcy Kaptur (Congresswoman - OH)
- Charles Shumer (Senator - NY)
- Sheldon Silver (Assemblyman - NY)
- Mike Thompson (Congressman - CA)
- Barbara Mikulski (Senator - MD)
- Gavin Newsom (Mayor- San Francisco)
- Jason West (Mayor of New Paltz, NY)
Honorable Mention
Barrack Obama, Henry Waxman, John Conyers, Mary Landrieu, John Murtha, Maxine Waters, Christopher Dodd
Barrack Obama, Henry Waxman, John Conyers, Mary Landrieu, John Murtha, Maxine Waters, Christopher Dodd
http://www.the-manumitter.com/
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
TheTeaParty.net to IRS: "Apology not accepted"
In response to IRS officials today admitting
that its agents actively targeted Tea Party groups for increased
scrutiny during the 2012 election, the nation's largest Tea Party group
and a subject of IRS inquiries over the past year, issued the following
statement:
"What we've long suspected to be the case is
now confirmed to be true. The Obama administration has used the IRS as a
political weapon. The IRS may claim that it is 'sorry.' But given the
damage that has been done, their apology is not accepted," said Niger
Innis, Chief Strategist for TheTeaParty.net.
"What would Democrats have done if the Nixon
administration ordered the IRS to actively target the National
Organization of Women or the American Civil Liberties Union? Nixon had
his own enemies list and resigned. These activities are eerily similar,
and yet Obama remains in office even in light of Fast and Furious, the
Benghazi tragedy, and now the active targeting of his political
opposition. We demand a thorough independent investigation into who did
what, when, why, and how far up into the administration this scandal
goes. We would expect intimidation like this from third-world, tin-pot
dictators, not our own US government."
Friday, May 10, 2013
Clinton, Obama and what should have happened as Benghazi unfolded
Democratic politicos, the press, and the liberal punditocracy have
decried the “witch hunt” over Benghazi. But this “witch hunt”-- more
properly called the responsible exercise of checks and balances in our
government -- is rooted in what is the almost inexplicable and ongoing
efforts of the Obama administration to obfuscate what happened in Libya
on that terrible day of September 11, 2012.
Here’s what should have happened on September 11, 2012: Hillary Clinton should have put out a press release acknowledging the death of U.S. personnel in Libya. She should not have mentioned “inflammatory material posted on the internet”, because she had no reason to do so. But that mistake can be forgiven in light of ongoing demonstrations in Cairo, purportedly over an obscure video that defamed Muslims.
Here’s what should have happened on September 12, 2012: The President should have canceled his Vegas fundraiser and stayed in Washington to determine details about the attack in Libya. He should have put out a simple statement indicating a thorough investigation, and not have alluded to “efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others”, implicitly tying the video to the Benghazi attack.
Here’s what should have happened on September 13, 2012: Jay Carney
should not have lied – and by this time the administration knew full
well it was a lie – that a video was responsible for non-existent
demonstrations in Libya that resulted in the death of U.S. personnel.
What he should have said was that there was an ongoing investigation
and then shut up.
On September 14, 2012, Hillary Clinton should have made clear that Al Qaeda related groups were responsible for the attacks in Libya; instead she doubled down on the YouTube video. And White House spokesman Jay Carney lied again, telling reporters “we were not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.”
Really? On September 11? With cables begging for increased security? With Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri calling for revenge attacks for the killing of senior Al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi – “the Libyan”? Really?
And most of all, what shouldn’t have happened was Obama administration ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice hitting the Sunday shows to speak about “spontaneous” demonstrations in Benghazi. What, terrorists, where?
Much has been made of the forensic work being done by Rep. Darrell Issa, and he has been accused repeatedly of flogging a dead horse.
Yes, he has uncovered clear evidence that talking points were edited in order to diminish the appearance of an Al Qaeda terrorist attack.
Yes, he has uncovered whistle blowers within State who were ignored in the nominally “independent” review of what transpired in Benghazi. But this, apparently, is not enough.
Here’s the problem the press and Obama’s allies fail to grasp: There was no obvious reason to cover up what happened in Benghazi. And because there was no obvious reason, it appeared that the administration was aware of something it wished to hide from the American people in a thicket of lies, half-truths and deliberate omissions. We should expect that the Congress of the United States would wish to get to the bottom of such a cover up.
The simple facts of the Benghazi attack are clear, and the mistakes that were made in that first day are even forgivable because mistakes are made in the fog of battle. But when such mistakes are made, serious leaders admit them and move on.
What would have happened if the president of the United States had stepped into the Rose Garden on September 12 and said: “Yesterday, a number of statements were made with which I am not comfortable. We are uncertain about what happened yesterday in Benghazi. We are investigating aggressively, and we will share our findings when we have them.”
Why not? In part because of naked politicking and a desire to avoid undercutting the I-killed-Usama-Al-Qaeda-is-on its-heels meme of the election. In part, because, apparently, the Obama administration cannot admit fault.
What would have happened if Hillary Clinton had said, “I am deeply disturbed that requests for better security for Benghazi were not taken seriously, and I will get to the bottom of this and heads will roll”? What would have happened if requests for additional security hadn’t been dismissed? If those at the scene and with knowledge of the attack had been interviewed by investigators and not intimidated?
The answer, clearly, is that there would be little reason for an investigation. There would be little reason for hearings and lawyers. Because the administration would have been honest and up front from the get-go about mistakes that were made. But they didn’t and they weren’t and it should come as no surprise to anyone that those who choose to hide the facts, intimidate their critics and otherwise cover up a story are going to be investigated. Should we not expect that? And applaud it?
Here’s what should have happened on September 11, 2012: Hillary Clinton should have put out a press release acknowledging the death of U.S. personnel in Libya. She should not have mentioned “inflammatory material posted on the internet”, because she had no reason to do so. But that mistake can be forgiven in light of ongoing demonstrations in Cairo, purportedly over an obscure video that defamed Muslims.
Here’s what should have happened on September 12, 2012: The President should have canceled his Vegas fundraiser and stayed in Washington to determine details about the attack in Libya. He should have put out a simple statement indicating a thorough investigation, and not have alluded to “efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others”, implicitly tying the video to the Benghazi attack.
Here’s the problem the press and Obama’s allies fail to grasp: There was no obvious reason to cover up what happened in Benghazi.
On September 14, 2012, Hillary Clinton should have made clear that Al Qaeda related groups were responsible for the attacks in Libya; instead she doubled down on the YouTube video. And White House spokesman Jay Carney lied again, telling reporters “we were not aware of any actionable intelligence indicating that an attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi was planned or imminent.”
Really? On September 11? With cables begging for increased security? With Al Qaeda leader Ayman Zawahiri calling for revenge attacks for the killing of senior Al Qaeda leader Abu Yahya al Libi – “the Libyan”? Really?
And most of all, what shouldn’t have happened was Obama administration ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice hitting the Sunday shows to speak about “spontaneous” demonstrations in Benghazi. What, terrorists, where?
Much has been made of the forensic work being done by Rep. Darrell Issa, and he has been accused repeatedly of flogging a dead horse.
Yes, he has uncovered clear evidence that talking points were edited in order to diminish the appearance of an Al Qaeda terrorist attack.
Yes, he has uncovered whistle blowers within State who were ignored in the nominally “independent” review of what transpired in Benghazi. But this, apparently, is not enough.
Here’s the problem the press and Obama’s allies fail to grasp: There was no obvious reason to cover up what happened in Benghazi. And because there was no obvious reason, it appeared that the administration was aware of something it wished to hide from the American people in a thicket of lies, half-truths and deliberate omissions. We should expect that the Congress of the United States would wish to get to the bottom of such a cover up.
The simple facts of the Benghazi attack are clear, and the mistakes that were made in that first day are even forgivable because mistakes are made in the fog of battle. But when such mistakes are made, serious leaders admit them and move on.
What would have happened if the president of the United States had stepped into the Rose Garden on September 12 and said: “Yesterday, a number of statements were made with which I am not comfortable. We are uncertain about what happened yesterday in Benghazi. We are investigating aggressively, and we will share our findings when we have them.”
Why not? In part because of naked politicking and a desire to avoid undercutting the I-killed-Usama-Al-Qaeda-is-on its-heels meme of the election. In part, because, apparently, the Obama administration cannot admit fault.
What would have happened if Hillary Clinton had said, “I am deeply disturbed that requests for better security for Benghazi were not taken seriously, and I will get to the bottom of this and heads will roll”? What would have happened if requests for additional security hadn’t been dismissed? If those at the scene and with knowledge of the attack had been interviewed by investigators and not intimidated?
The answer, clearly, is that there would be little reason for an investigation. There would be little reason for hearings and lawyers. Because the administration would have been honest and up front from the get-go about mistakes that were made. But they didn’t and they weren’t and it should come as no surprise to anyone that those who choose to hide the facts, intimidate their critics and otherwise cover up a story are going to be investigated. Should we not expect that? And applaud it?
Saturday, May 4, 2013
It's Time To End The IRS
“If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're
going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents.”
- Leon Panetta
I’m not sure when Mr. Panetta said this, but given the expanded role of the IRS as Obamacare enforcer, I doubt he knew how prophetic his admonishment would become. The IRS is now exceeding the bounds of taxation - now becoming the federal police force for broad legislative enforcement.
Folks, the time has never been more critical to make the case for the FairTax® as a replacement for the income tax system in America.
The House Ways and Means Committee is undertaking what Chairman Camp refers to as “comprehensive tax reform.” The Washington Post reports Illinois Representative Peter Roskam, a member of the Ways and Means Committee said, “You start with a clean sheet of paper and say: What would a tax code look like if you were going to design it from the ground up?”
Rep. Roskam, there is a plan and it is ready to go – today.
It has $20 million of research, 80 economist and 63 co-sponsors in the U.S. House and 7 co-sponsors in the Senate – more than any other tax reform plan before you. It is called the FairTax and it is the only tax replacement plan that is fair, simple and will create desperately needed jobs and stimulate the economy. More importantly, it is the only tax reform plan that will eliminate the IRS.
Those of you sharing your emails, letters and phone calls to your elected Representatives hearten me. I do read your messages and I thank you, thank you, and thank you. Please don’t stop. You are having having an impact – you are making a difference! The FairTax will become reality when enough people like you choose to elect and hold their elected representatives accountable for passing legislation like the FairTax plan.
This is our challenge.
Constantly communicating your expectations as a constituent. Constantly holding your elected representatives accountable. And, when they do not represent you, finding and supporting individuals who will. It is that simple - democracy in action. You have a megaphone. You have power. You have a voice. Find and use it. Use it for the FairTax plan.
Here examples of how others are using their voice for the FairTax.
FAST President and Regional Director, John Collet participated in a meeting this week hosted by Kansas District 2 Representative and Ways and Means member Lynn Jenkins, who sought to solicit constituent concerns and ideas about current tax reform efforts before Congress.
John was given an opportunity to address attendees and centered his remarks on the positive impact the FairTax will have on jobs, reducing complexity and ensuring fairness for all. In discussing the issue of complexity, he suggested that any form of income tax with Congress is “like taking a confirmed alcoholic to a cocktail party. We tried that twice in 1913 and 1986, and since 1986, there have been over 15,000 changes.” Great job John!
FairTax Bar Association
I’m not sure when Mr. Panetta said this, but given the expanded role of the IRS as Obamacare enforcer, I doubt he knew how prophetic his admonishment would become. The IRS is now exceeding the bounds of taxation - now becoming the federal police force for broad legislative enforcement.
Folks, the time has never been more critical to make the case for the FairTax® as a replacement for the income tax system in America.
The House Ways and Means Committee is undertaking what Chairman Camp refers to as “comprehensive tax reform.” The Washington Post reports Illinois Representative Peter Roskam, a member of the Ways and Means Committee said, “You start with a clean sheet of paper and say: What would a tax code look like if you were going to design it from the ground up?”
Rep. Roskam, there is a plan and it is ready to go – today.
It has $20 million of research, 80 economist and 63 co-sponsors in the U.S. House and 7 co-sponsors in the Senate – more than any other tax reform plan before you. It is called the FairTax and it is the only tax replacement plan that is fair, simple and will create desperately needed jobs and stimulate the economy. More importantly, it is the only tax reform plan that will eliminate the IRS.
Those of you sharing your emails, letters and phone calls to your elected Representatives hearten me. I do read your messages and I thank you, thank you, and thank you. Please don’t stop. You are having having an impact – you are making a difference! The FairTax will become reality when enough people like you choose to elect and hold their elected representatives accountable for passing legislation like the FairTax plan.
This is our challenge.
Constantly communicating your expectations as a constituent. Constantly holding your elected representatives accountable. And, when they do not represent you, finding and supporting individuals who will. It is that simple - democracy in action. You have a megaphone. You have power. You have a voice. Find and use it. Use it for the FairTax plan.
Here examples of how others are using their voice for the FairTax.
FAST President and Regional Director, John Collet participated in a meeting this week hosted by Kansas District 2 Representative and Ways and Means member Lynn Jenkins, who sought to solicit constituent concerns and ideas about current tax reform efforts before Congress.
John was given an opportunity to address attendees and centered his remarks on the positive impact the FairTax will have on jobs, reducing complexity and ensuring fairness for all. In discussing the issue of complexity, he suggested that any form of income tax with Congress is “like taking a confirmed alcoholic to a cocktail party. We tried that twice in 1913 and 1986, and since 1986, there have been over 15,000 changes.” Great job John!
FairTax Bar Association
Thursday, May 2, 2013
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