Tag Archive: Washington Post

The “Rogues” Are In DC , Not Cincinnati

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May 20, 2013

Anonymous Cincinnati IRS Official: “Everything Comes From The Top.”

” A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents.

The Post story anonymously quoted a staffer in Cincinnati as saying they only operate on directives from headquarters:

As could be expected, the folks in the determinations unit on Main Street have had trouble concentrating this week. Number crunchers, whose work is nonpolitical, don’t necessarily enjoy the spotlight, especially when the media and the public assume they’re engaged in partisan villainy.”

IRS In Cincinnati: “Everything Comes From The Top, There Has To Be A Directive” (patdollard.com)
Cincinnati IRS Official Confirms “Everything Comes From the Top” (thegatewaypundit.com)
Anonymous Cincinnati IRS official: “Everything comes from the top.” (rubinoworld.com)

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Tags: IRS, Washington Post, Tea Party, Blame, Under the Bus, Cincinnati, Tax exemption, Steven Miller, Rogue Agents, Orders From DC

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White House/CBS Cabal vs Sharyl Attkinson

Filed under: Arrogance, Benghazi, Conspiracy, Corruption, Cronyism, Media Bias, Politics — 2 Comments

May 10, 2013

WHO IS GIVING WHITE HOUSE ORDERS TO CBS NEWS ON BENGHAZI?

” With reports suggesting that CBS News brass is unhappy with reporter Sheryl Attkisson for her focus on the White House’s actions surrounding the Benghazi attacks of September 11, 2012, new questions are being raised about the relationship between CBS News and the Obama administration. According to the Washington Post:

[Attkisson] says she has received “a tremendous amount of pushback” from the White House as a result of her reporting on Benghazi and Fast and Furious. Among other things, she says, White House officials have called and written her bosses at CBS to complain about her work. She says she doesn’t find that unusual or even disturbing.”

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Tags: Ben Rhodes, Benghazi, CBS News, CBS News brass, David Rhodes, Fast & Furious, Obama administration, Sharyl Attkisson, Washington Post, White House

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Unwed Births At 36% Nationwide

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May 1, 2013

Unmarried Motherhood (and Fatherhood) Stats – WTF! Edition

“ The Washington Post had this today:

Overall, 36 percent of all births in the United States were to unmarried mothers in 2011, the year that the census analyzed from answers provided in the American Community Survey…

The census also found that Asian mothers were the least likely to be unmarried, with just 11 percent of new Asian mothers being single. White single mothers also were below the national average, at 29 percent. Among Hispanics, 43 percent of all new mothers were unmarried, as were 68 percent of all African American women who had recently given birth.

The Census Bureau attributed the long-term increase in single mothers in large part to changing norms for sexual behavior and a decrease in marriage rates.

You know that old thing where fathers used to help raise the children they made? So retro! (Unless you’re Asian.)”

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Tags: American Community Survey, Crime, Fatherless Children, Juvenile Delinquency, Marriage, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Single Motherhood, Single parent, United States Census Bureau, Unwed Motherhood, Washington Post

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ABC News/Wash Post Ignore Findings Of Their Own Gun Ownership Poll

Filed under: Armed Citizenry, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Crime, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Law, Media Bias, Nanny State, Politics, Regulation, Self-Defense, Self-Reliance, Shame, Statism — 1 Comment

April 22, 2013

It’s Not Just ABC And WashPost Who’ll Skip Finding That Majority Of Women Feel Guns Make Home Safer

“ On April 18, a new Washington Post/ABC News poll that showed 51% of Americans feel that guns in the home make it safer, compared to 29% who think otherwise. More telling is that fact that 51% of white middle class women agree with the sentiment about firearms making homes safer. Additionally, a Nexis search detailed that ABC News has yet to report this poll, and, with the exception of the Fix blog, the Post avoided the “guns make a home safer” findings.

So, will there a correction to Jill Filipovic, Amanda Marcotte, and Co. for trying to smear the NRA as the “domestic abuse lobby? The article by New York Times’ Michael Luo that set off this meretricious commentary on guns looks like to have been a smear too far. After all, it wasn’t “intense pressure” the gun lobby that killed Obama’s anti-gun agenda. It was white middle-class women, who liked their Second Amendment rights to be left untouched by big government.

Concerning the feminist left, last month Jill Filipovic, a liberal feminist, wrote for Al-Jazeera that:

The latest group to have their gun ownership rights championed by the NRA? Domestic abusers.

Forty percent of women who are murdered in the US are killed by intimate partners. Guns are the cause of more than two-thirds of those domestic violence homicides, killing more victims than all other weapons combined. When an abuser has access to firearms, his victim is eight times more likely to be killed by him. The simple presence of a gun in the home makes any woman 2.7 times more likely to be murdered. And an abuse victim having access to a gun does not make her any less to be killed by her partner.”

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Tags: 29% Feel Less Safe, 51% Feel Safer With Gun In Home, ABC News, Al Jazeera, Amanda Marcotte, Domestic violence, Jill Filipovic, Michael Luo, New York Times, NRA, Poll, Washington Post

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Three Pinocchios From The Post Re: Obama’s 40% No Background Check Gun Sales Lies

Filed under: Arrogance, Conspiracy, Corruption, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Hope and Change, Lies, Politics, Regulation, Shame — 3 Comments

April 3, 2013

Obama’s Continued Use Of The Claim That 40 Percent Of Gun Sales Lack Background Checks

“Why wouldn’t we want to close the loophole that allows as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases to take place without a background check?”

— President Obama, remarks on gun safety, March 28, 2013

“FACT: Nearly 40% of all gun sales don’t require a background check under current law. #DemandAction”

— tweet from @BarackObama, March 28

” We were away last week and have been catching up on the recent rhetoric. A number of readers asked us about this comment last week by President Obama, and his Twitter account (managed by his campaign spin-off Organizing for Action), given that we had looked closely at this statistic back in January, in two columns, and found it wanting. It ultimately earned a rating of Two Pinocchios. PolitiFact in January also concluded there were serious problems with this particular statistic, giving it a rating of “half true.”

Normally we would expect some adjustment of the language in response to a fact-checker consensus. Alas, it appears to be time for a refresher course — and a new rating.”

He’s misusing two decade old data and the Post calls him on it .

” In the meantime, we have documented that (a) the survey numbers are about two decades old, so they include purchases that predate any background checks; (b) the survey sample is rather small; and (c) the results are significantly different when adjusted for “purchases” or “sales” — the phrasing used by the president.

Two months ago, we were willing to cut the White House some slack, given the paucity of recent data. But the president’s failure to acknowledge the significant questions about these old data, or his slippery phrasing, leaves us little choice but to downgrade this claim to Three Pinocchios.”

“40% of Gun Sales Made by Private Sellers” is An Outright Lie (thetruthaboutguns.com)
Obama’s continued use of the claim that 40 percent of gun sales lack background checks (nraila.org)
Obama Falsely Claims 40% Of Gun Sales Done Without Background Check (patdollard.com)
Hutchinson, NRA’s school safety point man, supports expanding background checks (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
Video: President Pinocchio repeats Left’s favorite bogus gun control stat (twitchy.com)
Did David Gregory cite ’40 percent of guns are purchased without a background check’ myth? (twitchy.com)
Obama Hectors, Lies on Gun Control Statistics (Again) (pjmedia.com)

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Tags: 40% Of Gun Sales, Background check, Fact checker, Gun Control, Lies, No Background Checks, Obama, Three Pinocchios, Twitter, Washington Post

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Something Smells Like Low “Tides”

Filed under: Arrogance, Corruption, Hacktivism, History, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Media Bias, Media Double Standards, Nanny State, Politics, Scams, Shame, Statism — 1 Comment

March 11, 2013

Why Do The Koch Brothers Get All The Sunshine?

” Here’s a couple of data points that bear serious thought this week by transparency advocates celebrating Sunshine Week and by everybody else who cares about protecting and preserving a free and independent press:

1,130 - Number of results for search term “Koch Brothers” on The New York Times web site.

64 - Number of results for search term “The Tides Foundation” on The New York Times web site.

It’s equally certain that few reading this post know anything at all about the San Francisco-based Tides Foundation, even though its roots go deep into the radical student movement of the 1960s and it has helped fund or startup virtually every significant liberal, progressive and radical cause in the years since.

Similar results appear from the same searches on The Washington Post web site, which turns up 277 links to the Koch Brothers and 11 for Tides. And on the New Yorker web site, Koch Brothers generated 35 links and none for Tides.

The contrast was even more dramatic on the Common Cause site, where the Koch Brothers were linked 4,560 times versus one for Tides.

Similar results appear from the same searches on The Washington Post web site, which turns up 277 links to the Koch Brothers and 11 for Tides. And on the New Yorker web site, Koch Brothers generated 35 links and none for Tides.

The contrast was even more dramatic on the Common Cause site, where the Koch Brothers were linked 4,560 times versus one for Tides.

Three Koch foundations made a total of 181 grants worth$25,405,525 in 2010 (most recent available records). The one Tides Foundation made a total of 2,627 grants worth $143,529,590 in 2010.”

George Soros-backed CPI offers a glimpse inside the left-wing news racket (watchdog.org)
Tides uses tax dollars to turn America to the Left (watchdog.org)
Liberal group grants over 5x as much as Koch Brothers but goes largely unnoticed by the media (humanevents.com)
Stockman deletes tweet joking Koch brothers instigated Chavez’s cancer (chron.com)

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Tags: Citizens United, Common Cause, Grants, Koch Brothers, Lobbyists, New York Times, New Yorker, Non-Profits, San Francisco, Site Searches, Sunshine Week, Tides, Tides Foundation, Undue Influence, Washington Post, ``

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Wash Post Yells ” Squirrel “

Filed under: Arrogance, Corruption, Fraud, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Media Bias, Politics — 1 Comment

March 5, 2013

Washington Post Report Confuses One Prostitute With Another In Bid To Debunk Menendez Allegations

” The Washington Post mistook one prostitute for another Monday in a report that initially seemed to debunk a November 2012 Daily Caller exposé of New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez.

While the Post said it had an affidavit from a woman in the Dominican Republic admitting she fabricated claims Menendez paid her for sex, that woman was not one of the two prostitutes TheDC interviewed for a Nov. 1 report.

The Post identified the woman as 23-year-old Nexis de los Santos Santana.

Post reporter Carol D. Leonnig did not respond to requests for comment Monday night, and did not provide TheDC with a copy of the affidavit.”

Menendez sex scandal was a lie according to the escort (examiner.com)
Prostitute Says Allegations Against Menendez Made Up, Says Washington Post. Just One Little Problem . . . (patterico.com)
The Daily Caller Vs. Washington Post: Was Menendez Prostitute Bribed Or Did WaPo Identify Wrong Woman? (mediaite.com)
Daily Caller Debunks WAPO Story That Menendez Hooker Recanted: ‘They Got The Wrong Hooker’ (patdollard.com)
ABC: Menendez prostitution story not worth reporting until debunked; Daily Caller: Debunked? Try again (twitchy.com)
Dominican escort admits she was paid to make claim against Sen. Bob Menendez (babalublog.com)

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Tags: Bob Menendez, Corruption, Daily Caller, Democratic Party (United States), Dominican Republic, Influence Peddling, LexisNexis, Mistaken Identity, New Jersey, Port security, Prostitution, Shady Dealings, Solomon Melgen, Squirrel, Washington Post

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” You’ll Regret What You’re Doing ” – Telling The Truth Is A Punishable Offense

Filed under: Arrogance, Corruption, Courage, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Media Bias, Politics, Shame, Statism — 2 Comments

February 28, 2013

BOB WOODWARD: A ‘Very Senior’ White House Person Warned Me I’d ‘Regret’ What I’m Doing

” Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a “very senior person” at the White House warned him in an email that he would “regret doing this,” the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester.

CNN host Wolf Blitzer said that the network invited a White House official to debate Woodward on-air, but the White House declined.

“It makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, ‘You’re going to regret doing something that you believe in,’” Woodward said.”

White House Tells Bob Woodward: “You Will Regret Doing This” – The Video (breitbart.com)
White House Yells at Woodward for Half Hour: ‘You’re Going to Regret Doing This’… (redflagnews.com)
‘A Very Senior Person’ at White House to Woodward: ‘You Will Regret Doing This’ (nationalreview.com)
Bob Woodward on threat from White House staff: “…it makes me very uncomfortable to have the White House telling reporters, you’re going to regret doing something that you believe in” (cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com)
White House Threatens the man who brought down Richard Nixon (grumpyelder.com)
#StandWithWoodward (legalinsurrection.com)
BOB WOODWARD: A ‘Very Senior’ White House Person Warned Me I’d ‘Regret’ What I’m Doing (businessinsider.com)
White House Threatens Bob Woodward (atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com)
Bob Woodward threatened by White House over sequester reporting (americanthinker.com)

Tags: Barack Obama, Bob Woodward, CNN, Sequestration, Silencing Opponents, Stifle Dissent, Threats, Toe The Line, Truth, Washington Post, White House, Wolf Blitzer

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Another Gun Company Takes A Stand For Liberty

Filed under: Armed Citizenry, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Economy, Founding Fathers, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Individualism, Law, Liberty, Natural Rights, Politics, Self-Defense, Self-Reliance — 1 Comment

February 24, 2013

BERETTAS DON’T BLUFF’: MAJOR GUN COMPANY THREATENS TO LEAVE MARYLAND OVER NEW GUN CONTROL PROPOSALS

” Beretta USA is threatening to leave Maryland over new gun control proposals, the Washington Post reports, and they would take hundreds of jobs along with them.

“Why expand in a place where the people who built the gun couldn’t buy it?” Jeffrey Reh, general counsel for Beretta, asked.

The Washington Post explains:

Beretta, the nearly 500-year-old family-owned company that made one of James Bond’s firearms, has already invested more than $1 million in the [civilian version of a machine gun designed for special operations forces] and has planned to expand its plant further in Prince George’s County to ramp up production. “

Beretta: “There always seems to be a problem with Maryland.” (thepatriotperspective.wordpress.com)
Gun-grabbers grabbing Beretta jobs: ‘Why expand in place where people who built the gun couldn’t buy it?’ (twitchy.com)
Beretta to Leave Maryland if Gun Control Laws Pass (patdollard.com)
Huge Turnout Wednesday In Maryland For Gun Rights (onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com)
Beretta’a “Trident” logo explained (thetravellinggourmet.wordpress.com)
Beretta 93R: Another cool handgun you can’t own (VIDEO) (guns.com)

Tags: Beretta, Gun Control, Hypocrisy, James Bond, Maryland, New Gun Laws, Prince George's County Maryland, Relocation, Second Amendment, Washington Post

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Obama’s War On The Warriors

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February 19, 2013

Obama’s War on American Generals

Photo : Frontpage Magazine

” During the Bush administration there were only two American commanders of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. Under Obama there have so far been five. There has been a new ISAF commander nearly every single year that Obama has been in office. The only exception is 2012 when Obama was too busy trying to win an election to bother further sabotaging a losing war.

The parade of musical chair generals began when Obama demanded the resignation of General McKiernan. The Washington Post called the firing of a wartime commander a “rare decision.” It was the first time since the days of General Douglas MacArthur that a four-star commanding general had been purged during a war.

The decision may have been rare, but it was not unexpected. General McKiernan was fired for the same offense that General McArthur had been targeted during the Korean War: He had demanded competency from an incompetent Democrat.”

Democrat Congressman Seeking End To Presidential Term Limits As Obama Social Engineers Military Into Extinction While Trying To Take American’s Guns Away! ~ And Nancy Pelosi Says We’re The Nazis’?? (dcclothesline.wordpress.com)
ISAF Change of Command, “Where’s Hamid?” Edition (republicofsnarkistan.net)
Obama Loses Fourth Afghanistan Commander (pjmedia.com)
John Allen resigns from military ahead of Nato nomination (telegraph.co.uk)
Gen. Allen to retire, won’t lead European command (mysanantonio.com)
Watch Out, Obama: Second Terms Have Been Tainted By Scandal (businessinsider.com)
Top US general John Allen to retire (bbc.co.uk)

Tags: Barack Obama, Washington Post, Afghanistan, Patraeus, Allen, International Security Assistance Force, Douglas MacArthur, David D. McKiernan, General McKiernan, McChrystal, Ham, Mattis

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The Washington Post Confirms Rationing Under Obamacare

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February 16, 2013

Reblogged from The Rio Norte Line:

Here are some dictionary definitions for the writers at the Washington Post as they seem lack understanding of some basic terms:

in·sur·ance noun: 1. The equitable transfer of the risk of a loss, from one entity to another in exchange for payment. It is a form of risk management primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent, uncertain loss.

The Hoax On You , WaPost … Whither Your Army Of Fact-Checkers ?

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February 13, 2013

WASHINGTON POST FALLS FOR HOAX PALIN STORY, PALIN HITS BACK ON TWITTER

” This has been a good week for those of us at war with the media. Late last week, many of the same elite media members who attempt to falsely link conservatives to every imaginable tragedy (most notably, Sarah Palin), found their own names approvingly mentioned in a suspected mass-murderer’s manifesto. And then, just this morning,Washington Post contributor Suzi Parker (that’s her photo below — isn’t she precious? — is Rachel Maddow missing a pair of “smart girl” glasses?) made a very public spectacle of herself.

In a blog post snarkily titled “Sarah Palin’s plan to reach ‘millions of devoutly religious people’ through al-Jazeera,” Parker used the Web pages of the once-legendaryWashington Post to spread the incredible news that Palin had joined Al-Jazeera. This news was then used by Parker as the basis for a piece of left-wing smuggery that ripped Palin for being so desperate to stay relevant. “

Sarah Palin strikes back at Washington Post (politico.com)
WaPo wrong on Palin’s new job (politico.com)
Suzi Parker, Ace Reporter (breitbart.com)
Parody Website Fools The Washington Post Into Thinking Sarah Palin Heading To Al Jazeera (mediaite.com)
Washington Post Punked, Says Palin to Join Al Jazeera (newser.com)
Sarah Palin joining Al-Jazeera? Obnoxious ‘real journalist’ at WaPo falls for obvious satire (twitchy.com)
Aw, snap! Sarah Palin zings ‘real journalist’ Suzi Parker and WaPo (twitchy.com)
The Washington Post Corrects A Story That Reported Sarah Palin Was Joining Al Jazeera (businessinsider.com)
Washington Post reporter fooled by satirical story on Sarah Palin (redalertpolitics.com)

Tags: Al Jazeera, Elite media, Fact Checkers, Hoax, Hypocrisy, Idiocy, Sarah Palin, Social Media, Suzi Parker, Twitter, Washington Post

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Feel Free To Go Home , You Won’t Be Missed

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January 14, 2013

Jackie Chan Back In Action, Branding US More Corrupt Than China

” He went on to say America is “the most corrupt [country] in the world” – not China. “Where does this great breakdown [of corruption] come from? It started exactly from the [rest of the] world, the United States … If our own countrymen don’t support our country, who will?” he said.

The interview to promote his new movie CZ12 was aired in December and translated into English by website Ministry of Tofu, but only alighted on by the US newspaper this week. “

Jackie Chan says America is the ‘world’s most corrupt country’ (thenewstribe.com)
‘Fuck you, Jackie Chan’: America responds to ingrate communist actor’s bashing (twitchy.com)
Re: Jackie Chan Thinks America is The Most Corrupt Nation in the World (forum.prisonplanet.com)
Jackie Chan Anti-Americanism Comments Spark Outrage in US (americanlivewire.com)
The anti-Americanism of Jackie Chan (washingtonpost.com)
Jackie Chan Says America Is ‘The Most Corrupt Country In The World’ (mediaite.com)

Tags: Anti-Americanism, Arrogance, China, Communist Party of China, CZ12, Hong Kong, Ingratitude, Jackie Chan, Max Fisher, Ministry Of Tofu, Movies, Washington Post

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Rangel , Embarrassed ? Obama Is A “Miracle” Worker

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January 10, 2013

NBC: Say, This 2nd-Term Transition Has Really Been An “Unforced Error,” Huh? Update: Rangel Calls It “Embarrassing As Hell”

” With that in mind, should we be surprised that his second-term Cabinet rollout has produced embarrassment and backtracking? Let’s not forget that his first Cabinet rollout produced the same kind of disorganization when it became clear that no one was vetting potential nominees, or at least not vetting them successfully.

After all, when Ruth Marcus at the Washington Post is skewering a Democratic President for a lack of diversity, you know something has run off the rails:

The face of power that President Obama has chosen to present to the country and the world with his second-term Cabinet picks is striking — except for the African American president at the top of the pyramid — for its retro look, white and male. It’s “Mad Men” Goes to Washington, except Peggy’s leaving.

On the foreign policy team, white guy for secretary of state, white guy for defense secretary, white guy for CIA. For Treasury secretary, white guy. Obama’s replacement as chief of staff — as yet unnamed, but the rumor mill names no one but . . . white guys.

To be clear: I’ve got nothing against white guys. Some of my best husbands are white guys. White guys get to be secretary of state, too, and John Kerry will be the first in 16 years. But to look at the most important jobs in the government, in 2013, and see such lack of diversity is just so drearily disappointing. …

The White House will point to women in other Cabinet positions — although one, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, has just announced her resignation — and to women in sub-Cabinet roles. Okay, but State, Defense and Treasury, along with Justice, are the Big Boy jobs. It matters if some of those boys are girls. It sends a disturbing signal when they’re not.

Obama Cabinet shuffle taking shape (sfgate.com)
Hilda Solis resigns as labor secretary; some others in Cabinet to stay on – Washington Post (washingtonpost.com)
One Less Woman In Obama’s Cabinet: Hilda Solis Quits (theatlanticwire.com)
Hilda Solis leaves Labor Department (politico.com)

Tags: Barack Obama, Cabinet Nominees, Cabinet Posts, Charles Rangel, Chuck Todd, Embarrassment, Hilda Solis, John Kerry, Lack of Diversity, Ruth Marcus, Transition, United States Secretary of Labor, Unprepared, Washington Post, White House, White Males

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Meet The Real ” Extremists “

Filed under: Armed Citizenry, Civil Discord, Civil Liberties, Corruption, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Individual Responsibility, Law, Police State, Politics, Regulation, Shame — 1 Comment

January 7, 2013

Democrat Says Obama’s Gun Control Proposals Are Extreme

” On ABC’s This Week yesterday, Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp described President Obama’s gun control proposals as “extreme.“

“I think you need to put everything on the table, but what I hear from the administration — and if the Washington Post is to be believed — that’s way — way in extreme of what I think is necessary or even should be talked about. And it’s not going to pass,” said Heitkamp.

Heitkamp’s comments come after a Washington Post report about continuing plans from the White House to go far beyond the Clinton-era assault weapons ban with new gun control legislation, regulation and possible executive orders.”

Democratic Senator: WH Gun-Control Plans ‘Way in Extreme’ (cnsnews.com)
Heitkamp: Reported WH Gun-Control Plan ‘Way in the Extreme’ (freebeacon.com)
Heitkamp scoffs at W.H. gun-control plan (politico.com)
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp cautions against ‘extreme’ gun control measures (washingtonpost.com)
The White House Is Planning A Major Push On Guns, And One Democratic Senator Is Already Calling It ‘Extreme’ (businessinsider.com)
Dem Senator Says Reported Obama Gun Control Measures ‘Way Extreme’ (patdollard.com)
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp: Reported Obama Gun Proposals ‘Way in Extreme’ (abcnews.go.com)
Heitkamp: Reported Obama gun-control proposals ‘extreme’ (thehill.com)

Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party (United States), Dissension, Emotions Not Reason, Executive Order, Extremist Proposals, Gun Control, Heidi Heitkamp, Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste, Party Line, Sandy Hook, Washington Post

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Doubling Down On Failure

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Gun Control, Gun Rights, Guns, Hope and Change, Individual Responsibility, Police State, Politics, Self-Defense, Shooting, Weaponry — 1 Comment

January 7, 2013

White House Considers Broader U.S. Gun Control

” (Reuters) – The White House is weighing a far broader approach to curbing U.S. gun violence than just reinstating a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.

A working group led by Vice President Joseph Biden is seriously considering measures that would require universal background checks for gun buyers and track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, the newspaper said.

The measures would also strengthen mental health checks and stiffen penalties for carrying guns near schools or giving them to minors, the Post said. The approach is backed by law enforcement leaders, it said.

President Barack Obama assigned Biden the job of designing the strategy after the massacre at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school last month that killed 20 children and six adults.

To sell such changes, the White House is developing strategies to work around the National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful gun lobby.

They include rallying support from Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other gun retailers for measures that would benefit their businesses, the Post said. “

Obama to weigh gun limits (charlotteobserver.com)
White House considers broader U.S. gun control: report (dailystar.com.lb)
White House squares up for fight with NRA over sweeping gun reforms (guardian.co.uk)
White House looking for sharply increased gun control laws (capitolhillblue.com)
White House considers broader US gun control – report – TVNZ (tvnz.co.nz)

Tags: Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Disarming The Public, Emotionalism, Federal Assault Weapons Ban, Gun Control, Guns, Joe Biden, National Rifle Association, Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste, Reuters, self-defense, Statism, Walmart, Washington Post, White House

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Craven , Cowardly Can-Kickers

Filed under: Corruption, Debt, Economy, Hope and Change, Politics, Spending, Taxation — Leave a comment

January 3, 2013

GOP Abandons Good Policy in Fiscal Cliff Deal

” You know, Republicans, if you spent half as much time marketing good policy as you do bending over backwards to please your ideological opponents, we might actually have a deal worth talking about.

In addition to the basics, there are some other interesting facts to note about this deal.

ABC News reports:

But it also includes these:

$430 million for Hollywood through “special expensing rules” to encourage TV and film production in the United States. Producers can expense up to $15 million of costs for their projects.

$331 million for railroads by allowing short-line and regional operators to claim a tax credit up to 50 percent of the cost to maintain tracks that they own or lease.

$222 million for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands through returned excise taxes collected by the federal government on rum produced in the islands and imported to the mainland.

$70 million for NASCAR by extending a “7-year cost recovery period for certain motorsports racing track facilities.”

$59 million for algae growers through tax credits to encourage production of “cellulosic biofuel” at up to $1.01 per gallon.

$4 million for electric motorcycle makers by expanding an existing green-energy tax credit for buyers of plug-in vehicles to include electric motorbikes.

*Note the price tags above reflect estimated forgone tax revenue if current credits – which have been due to expire – are extended for one year as included in the Senate bill, per Joint Committee on Taxation.

Jim Pethokoukis writes:

What will Americans pay in taxes this year vs. last year in light of the fiscal cliff deal? Well, let’s run the numbers (with some help from JPMorgan):

– Payroll tax hike: $125 billion

– Income tax hike and the phaseout of exemptions: $35-50 billion

– Investment tax hike: $5 billion

– PPACA healthcare taxes: $38 billion

So that works out to roughly $220 billion, or 1.2% of GDP. It’s a deal that, as The Washington Post puts it, ”takes money out of the hands of many Americans, sucking it out of the economy and slowing economic activity.”

Obama made it clear last night that he has no interest in negotiating when it comes to the debt ceiling. He has also made it clear that this is the start of his tax-hike demands, not the end. “

Illustration By Steve Sack

‘Cliff’ Deal Also Helps Hollywood, Railroads, Rum Producers (abcnews.go.com)
Welcome to 2013 and your $200 billion tax hike – and more uncertainty (aei-ideas.org)
‘Cliff’ deal also helps Hollywood, railroads, rum producers (whas11.com)
Fiscal cliff deal could cost Florida billions (bizjournals.com)
Congressional Budget Office Shows Senate Bill Is $600 Billion Tax Hike (heritage.org)
White House declares a victory (politico.com)
Why the Obama tax hikes have only just begun (aei-ideas.org)

Tags: ABC News, AMAC, Caves, fiscal cliff, GOP, Gross domestic product, Jedediah Bila, JPMorgan Chase, No Spending Cuts, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Rino's, Tax Hikes, Washington Post

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Obama Signed Secret Cyber Directive In October

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Liberties, Hope and Change, Law, Law Enforcement Thuggery, Military, Police State, Politics, Regulation, Science & Technology, Statism — Leave a comment

November 15, 2012

On The Offensive … But against Whom ?

” The military now has more room to aggressively maneuver in cyberspace, thanks to a secret directive signed by President Barack Obama in October.

The Washington Post recently revealed that Obama signed the directive — called Presidential Directive 20 — to give “a broad and strict set of standards to guide the operations of federal agencies in confronting threats in cyberspace[.]”

The directive states that, before turning to military cyber units, the government will first turn to law enforcement or “traditional network defense techniques before asking military cyberwarfare units for help or pursuing other alternatives,” senior government officials who saw the classified document told the Washington Post.

“For the first time, the directive explicitly makes a distinction between network defense and cyber operations to guide officials charged with making often rapid decisions when confronted with threats,” reported The Washington Post Wednesday.”

President Obama Signs Cyber Operations Directive (news.softpedia.com)
Obama secretly signs the most aggressive cybersecurity directive ever (rt.com)
Obama Issues Presidential Directive on US Cyber Operations – Bloomberg (bloomberg.com)
Obama Secretly Signs The Most Aggressive Cybersecurity Directive Ever (libertycrier.com)

Tags: Cyber Warfare, Law Enforcement, Military, Obama, Pro-Active, Re-Active, Snooping, Washington Post, White House

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Accept Immorality … So Say Our Betters

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November 14, 2012

Defining Deviance Down*

Doris Kearns-Goodwin: Excusing Affairs Only Way to Get ‘Best People in Public Life,’ Like FDR and Clinton

” Kearns-Goodwin lamented how public officials today are held to moral standards: “I wish we could go back to the time when the private lives of our public figures were relevant only if they directly affected their public responsibilities….This man was a great general, a great leader, and for his career to come to an end because of a private matter that affects his family and him and evidently doesn’t have national security concerns.”

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward completely dismantled her argument: “Unfortunately, for the CIA Director, he has special status and he’s got to be clean. He can’t be blackmailed or threatened or even deal with the anxiety, ‘My God, are they gonna find out about her?’ And he did the right thing.” “

* While we acknowledge our own past transgressions and pass no judgments on General Patraeus we find the notion that we should accept immoral behavior in our leaders as ridiculous on it’s face . If the pompous windbags in Washington are going to presume to tell us how we can and cannot live our lives , mind you a notion we don’t accept to begin with , then they had better be willing and able to set a higher standard .

Robertson absolves Petraeus: Broadwell was ‘throwing herself at him… he’s a man’ (rawstory.com)
American Immorality Is At A Peak (conservativeread.com)
Murdoch: Patraeus Resignation Very Suspicious (economicpolicyjournal.com)
Petraeus’s Downfall Proves Your Email Is Not As Private As You Think (GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Petraeus affair rattles US intelligence elite (abc.net.au)
The Petraeus Affair and the Risk of Blackmail: Another Nail In America’s Coffin (forbes.com)

Tags: Accept Immorality, Benghazi, Bob Woodward, CIA, CIA Director, Clinton, Doris Kearns-Goodwin, FBI, FDR, Washington Post

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Facebook … Obama Apologist !

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November 1, 2012

We reported on this yesterday but are happy to report that it is gaining the attention of the big boys in the media … To wit …

” Facebook took the graphic down twice on the ground that it violated their terms of service, but it is now back up on the SOS site. The Washington Post’s Erik Wemple casts a gimlet eye on Facebook’s actions as well as on its failure to give an honest account of its actions. Wemple also purports to to subject the graphic to a fact check — although he does a good impersonation of the fact-checking breed, did he really have to? — and here he is way over his head. But he brooks none of Facebook’s bs and recognizes there’s a story here.”

Erik Wemple: Newspapers bury Democrats’ meltdown (nextlevelofnews.com)
Libya questioner: Obama gave better answer in private (washingtonpost.com)

Tags: Chicks On The Right, Erik Wemple, Facebook, Facebook Censorship, Navy SEALs, Powerline, SOS: Special Operations Speaks, Washington Post

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ABC/Washington Post Poll Wants You To Believe …

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October 25, 2012

… This Is What A One Point Lead Looks Like

” The poll finds Romney with a 49% to 48% lead in a survey of 1,382 likely voters. But doesn’t something look wrong?

If both Obama and Romney are attracting the same split of their parties voters, what’s the deal with Romney’s 9% lead among Independents? Wouldn’t that account for more that an 1% lead?

It would if the results weren’t skewed toward Independents, and away from Republicans.

So this poll is assuming Democrats hold a +5 advantage over Republicans. The problem is that while the 34% number for Democrats sounds about right, the number for Republican’s is laughable. Look at Rasmussen’s most recent party affiliation survey:

September 2012
Republican 36.8%
Democrat 34.2%
Other 29.0%

To get to their 49% Romney, 48% Obama total they have Independents 6% higher (assuming they lumped Other into that total) than Rasmussen and Republicans over 7% lower.”

Cartoon By Michael Ramirez

Wapo/abc Poll: Romney Takes the Lead (businessinsider.com)
YOUNG: Skewed polls not telling the full Romney story (washingtontimes.com)
Susquehanna Poll puts Romney ahead in Pennsylvania (rightwingliberal.wordpress.com)
Post-ABC tracking poll: Obama 49 percent, Romney 48 percent (washingtonpost.com)
Here Comes Today’s Rasmussen Poll… (businessinsider.com)
Romney Takes Lead on Economy (abcnews.go.com)

Tags: Bias, Democratic Party, Election, Independents, Oversampling, Party Registrations, Polls, Rasmussen, Washington Post

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Andrew Breitbart documentary follows late right-wing rabblerouser’s war with the media

Filed under: New Media — 1 Comment

October 10, 2012

Rabblerousing Is Good

” “I think it’s an important story about the effect that one person can have in a very short period of time to change the way an entire culture looks at something like the media,” said Larry Solov, president of Breitbart News Network and Andrew’s lifelong best friend. “And, frankly, the media was more interesting, in most ways, to Andrew than politics.”

Breitbart insisted that liberals controlled the establishment media outlets, so he declared war using the Internet as his battleground. The film includes his promotion of James O’Keefe’s anti-ACORN sting, hisShirley Sherrod smear and his one acknowledged journalistic scoop: Publishing Rep. Anthony Weiner’s lewd pictures, which resulted in the congressman’s resignation. Only one area was off- limit to the filmmakers: Breitbart’s wife and kids.

The documentary was originally scheduled to open Friday in a limited national release, but producers delayed it one week while appealing the Motion Picture Association of America’s “R” rating for the many f-bombs on screen. (A MPAA rep told us the appeal is subject to the release date and rules of the ratings system.) “

Tags: Andrew Breitbart, Being Bretbart, Reliable Source, Review, Washington Post

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“10 surprises at the conventions”

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September 7, 2012

Jennifer Rubin at Right Turn

” 2. The press, even liberal commentators, admitted that Obama had bombed. Sure, there
were bitter-enders who claimed all was fine, but the cable TV talking heads and the vast majority of columnists were brutally honest. MSNBC personalities were downright glum. “

Tags: Bill Clinton, Charlotte, Convention, Democrats, DNC, Eastwood, Elizabeth Warren, Israel, Jennifer Rubin, Obama, Review, Right Turn, Unemployment, Washington Post

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For Obama and Country

Filed under: Arrogance, Civil Discord, Corruption, Election, Election Fraud, Healthcare, Hope and Change, Hypocrisy, Idiocy, Media Double Standards, Nanny State, New Media, Politics, Shame — Leave a comment

September 6, 2012

“Horror show: Wednesday night at the DNC”

“Wednesday was a wonderful political day for Republicans. Let’s recap. The day started off with the flap over platform language. That in
turn led to the spectacle of Democratic delegates booing the vote to put back Jerusalem and God back into the platform. It was even in the eyes of the most Obama-
sympathetic media a horrid disruption, signaling both incompetence and hostility to things that many if not most Americans hold dear. The news got worse as Politico reported that the
president had signed off on the platform sans God and Jerusalem. The Romney camp could hardly believe the avalanche of atrocious
press . (Democratic National Committee chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s
insistence that there had been no controversy brought CNN’s Anderson Cooper to declare
she was operating in an “alternate universe.”)

It was a remarkable, actual newsmaking episode, something we rarely get at conventions. Moreover, it was the worst blunder
in a scripted TV event in recent memory. “

Tags: Abortion, Anti-semitism, Charlotte, Delegates Boo, DNC, Elizabeth Warren, Fauxcahontas, Free Birth Control, God and Israel, Inclusion, Jennifer Rubin, Platform, Right Turn, Sandra Fluke, Washington Post

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