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shortbusadventures: Jesse McCartney - Crash and Burn

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:26:42 -0400

shortbusadventures:

Jesse McCartney - Crash and Burn

IRS ASKED GROUP ABOUT 'CONTENT OF THEIR PRAYERS'

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:24 -0400

IRS ASKED GROUP ABOUT 'CONTENT OF THEIR PRAYERS'

taprackngo: Mike Kelly ripped outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:24:00 -0400

taprackngo:

Mike Kelly ripped outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller

Rep. Mike Kelly rips IRS Chief a new one

Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:47:37 -0400

Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says:

The Treasury Department’s inspector general, J. Russell George, testified on Friday that he had informed senior officials of an investigation into the revenue agency’s treatment of applications for tax exemptions.

IRS HID PROBE UNTIL AFTER ELECTION

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:19:32 -0400

IRS HID PROBE UNTIL AFTER ELECTION:

NBC’s Lisa Myers reported this morning that the IRS deliberately chose not to reveal that it had wrongly targeted conservative groups until after the 2012 presidential election:

randomhumbug: About sums it all up.

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:18:27 -0400

randomhumbug:

About sums it all up.

Agency used 'planted' question to reveal scandal

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:18:17 -0400

Agency used 'planted' question to reveal scandal:

Last week, Lois Lerner, head of the tax exempt division of the Internal Revenue Service dropped a bombshell: The IRS had been applying extra scrutiny to conservative groups claiming tax exempt status.
The revelation came seemingly out of the blue, in response to a question during a panel at an American Bar Association conference, leaving the audience baffled, according to reports.

As it turns out, it was not a spontaneous revelation. The question, said outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday, was planted, as part of a prepared strategy for the IRS to release this information to the public.

IRS henchwoman got $103,390 in bonuses

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:18:06 -0400

IRS henchwoman got $103,390 in bonuses

IN CHARGE DURING 'TEA PARTY' TARGETING, NOW RUNS IRS OBAMACARE OFFICE

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:03:59 -0400

IN CHARGE DURING 'TEA PARTY' TARGETING, NOW RUNS IRS OBAMACARE OFFICE:

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office, the IRS confirmed to ABC News today.

IRS Faces Lawsuit After Stealing 60 Million Medical Records

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:03:01 -0400

IRS Faces Lawsuit After Stealing 60 Million Medical Records:

infowarsdotcom:

Jim Hoft
thegatewaypundit.com
May 16, 2013

The IRS is facing a lawsuit after stealing 60 million medical records from 10 million patients.
Healthcare IT News reported:

The Internal Revenue Service is now facing a class action lawsuit over allegations that it improperly accessed and…

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Thu, 16 May 2013 04:31:57 -0400

jaydivinagracia: Beastie Boys - Square Wave in Unison Here’s a...

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:21:11 -0400

jaydivinagracia:

Beastie Boys - Square Wave in Unison

Here’s a brilliant track with loads of distortion and unusual time signature from their obscure 1995 hardcore EP Aglio e Olio. Yauch drew the album art. Ex-Suicidal Tendencies drummer, AWOL played drums on this EP and toured with Adam, Adam, and Mike in the mid 90s as Quasar, playing hardcore punk at small venues around the US, Japan and Australia.

Play it loud.

IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years | WashingtonExaminer.com

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:10:41 -0400

IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years | WashingtonExaminer.com:

Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the federal employee at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, was given $42,531 in bonuses between 2009 and 2011. That figure was included in data provided by the IRS in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Examiner. Lerner is director of the IRS exempt organizations division, which processes and approves or denies applications from groups seeking tax-exempt status. Lerner received $17,220 for 2010, $14,691 for 2011 and $10,620 for 2012, the most recent year for which the IRS said data was available. Her annual salary in 2009 and 2010 was $172,200, and $177,000 in 2011 and 2012. With the bonuses, Lerner was paid a total of $740,931 for the four-year period.

Russia's CIA spy bust 'linked to Boston Bombing'

Thu, 16 May 2013 04:10:20 -0400

Russia's CIA spy bust 'linked to Boston Bombing':

The arrest of a US diplomat accused of being a CIA spy was linked to the Boston bombing, sources revealed today.

Russian security officials reported on Tuesday that they had briefly detained Ryan Fogle in Moscow for allegedly trying to recruit a Russian intelligence officer.

Today sources revealed the man Mr Fogle was trying to ‘recruit’ was an FSB agent who specialized in Islamic extremism in Russia and may even have traveled to the region where the bombing suspects came from.

sugashane: According to Jay Carney, Obama doesn’t have a single clue what’s going on within his own...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:46:59 -0400

sugashane:

According to Jay Carney, Obama doesn’t have a single clue what’s going on within his own administration…

A blogger known as “Sam” takes a stroll on the grounds of The...

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:45:51 -0400

A blogger known as “Sam” takes a stroll on the grounds of The Grove, the site of Bilderberg 2013 in June, and gets harassed and followed by police on the ground and in a helicopter.

LA Times Hack Lauds IRS Targeting of Tea Party Groups

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:42:13 -0400

Writer whitewashes feds’ punishment of government critics as routine act of regulation

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
May 15, 2013

The scandal involving the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups over their political leanings has been slammed as “intolerable and inexcusable” by Barack Obama himself, but the witch hunt has at least one vehement supporter – the LA Times’ Michael Hiltzik.

In an article entitled The real IRS scandal, Hiltzik sardonically downplays how “everyone is screaming about the “scandal” of the Internal Revenue Service scrutinizing conservative nonprofits before granting them tax-exempt status.”

For Hiltzik, the fact that “political organizations are being allowed to masquerade as charities” is the real scandal. “It’s about time the IRS subjected all of these outfits to scrutiny,” he urges.

He goes on to whitewash the IRS’s deliberate targeting of groups based on their political backgrounds, dismissing the entire issue as a routine act of regulation on the part of the federal agency.

“Once again, now that the agency has tried to regulate, the regulated parties have blown its efforts up into a “scandal,” he writes, scoffing at claims that the IRS’s actions were “chilling” or “un-American.”

Let’s remind ourselves of exactly what criteria the IRS followed in targeting political groups and individuals for audits and withholding of tax exempt status.

The Inspector General’s report lists the following terms as criteria for extra scrutiny;

– Whether “Tea Party,” “Patriots” or “9/12 Project” was referenced in the case file.
– Whether the issues outlined in the application included government spending, government debt or taxes.
– Whether there was advocating or lobbying to “make America a better place to live.”
– Whether a statement in the case file criticized how the country is being run.
– Whether it advocated education about the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

According to Hiltzik, the fact that the IRS is punishing people with financial audits if they criticize the government or speak about the Constitution is not “chilling” at all, and neither is the fact that while liberal groups had their tax exempt applications approved swiftly, Tea Party groups had to wait 27 months, with many of them giving up altogether.

Neither does Hiltzik have a problem with the fact that individuals such as sociologist Dr. Anne Hendershott or local news anchor Larry Conners were hit with audits after they were critical of Obama.

“Memo to Hiltzik: the IRS itself has apologized and said that their targeting of conservatives was inappropriate. How much of a hack do you have to be to defend them after they admitted what they did was wrong?” writes the Patterico blog.

This again underscores how liberals will scream bloody murder about government malfeasance only when a Republican is in the White House. Imagine if leftist political organizations had been hit with audits and delayed applications as a form of ideological punishment under the Bush administration – would Hiltzik have characterized that as a regulatory necessity?

Both Republicans and Democrats will continue to ignore and even run defense for the corruption of the political class so long as their puppet is behind the teleprompter, which is one of the primary reasons why Americans of every political persuasion continue to see their rights eroded no matter which brand of front man occupies the White House.

What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:39:11 -0400

What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi:

Ron Paul’s Texas Straight Talk column: What No One Wants to Hear About Benghazi

FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Fired From Watergate Investigation For ‘Lying, Unethical Behavior’ « Pat Dollard

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:34:23 -0400

FLASHBACK: Hillary Clinton Fired From Watergate Investigation For ‘Lying, Unethical Behavior’ « Pat Dollard:

Excerpted from EO-History: The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.

Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair. When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.

Why?

“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”

IRS Scandal Reaches to White House

Thu, 16 May 2013 03:21:00 -0400

IRS Scandal Reaches to White House:

Cleta Mitchell, one of Washington’s most respected elections attorneys, told Newsmax she has tangible proof that high-ranking IRS officials in Washington were fully aware of the agency’s campaign to target conservative groups for heightened scrutiny, despite their denials.