You can’t make these things up

ABC broke this story.

“The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation.

Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012 (the current scandal). 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.

Her successor, Joseph Grant, is taking the fall for misdeeds at the scandal-plagued unit between 2010 and 2012. During at least part of that time, Grant served as deputy commissioner of the tax-exempt unit.”

Michele Bachmann asks

Who ordered the political witch hunt by the IRS against Tea Party groups, Pro-Israel, Conservative, and Christian organizations? Who ordered no military response in Benghazi? Who ordered journalist phone lines to be tapped? Who ordered the EPA to provide more waivers to green-leaning groups over conservative ones?

Comparing Nixon and Obama

No need to clone humans

There have been no medical break through using stem cells from human embryos, only from using adult stem cells. And those are considerable and expanding every day. So why are they cloning human embryos? Because they can and we've lost our moral compass.

Scientists at the Oregon Health and Science University accomplished in humans what has been done over the past 15 years in sheep, mice, cattle and several other species. The achievement is likely to, at least temporarily, reawaken worries about “reproductive cloning” — the production of one-parent duplicate humans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/oregon-scientists-get-stem-cells-from-cloned-human-embryos/2013/05/15/dc011cbc-bdac-11e2-9b09-1638acc3942e_story.html?wpisrc=nl_headlines

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/260584.php

Lloyd Marcus challenges Julian Bond

Julian Bond says it was unfair for IRS to target civil rights groups, but OK for IRS to harass tea party and patriot groups because they are "admittedly racist." Can he cite a source? Are the blacks who are members of the Tea Party groups then racists also? Lloyd Marcus, a black Tea Party member, challenges Bond for details.

http://www.lloydmarcus.com/?p=3516

“As a black tea party activist who has participated in over 400 tea party rallies, I am confident that your claim is bogus. Therefore Mr Bond, you sir are a despicable liar, severely compromising your image as a statesman. You and your ilk purposely inspire hate in low-info black voters against tea party patriots who simply said no to Obama’s socialist agenda and trashing of the Constitution. Shame on you Mr Bond.”

In 2005 when the IRS under Bush was investigating political activity of the NAACP and its tax status,  Julian Bond said “I thought the right to condemn a president of the United States came to every American, whether he or she heads a tax-exempt organization or not” now says “I don’t think there’s a double standard at all” when asked if he can understand what Tea Party leaders are going through.

Wisconsin schools save millions

Wisconsin schools are saving millions on health insurance after their governor stood up to the unions. Act 10 took health insurance off the collective bargaining table and allowed school boards to select insurance companies. Formerly they had to deal with an insurance company owned by the union.

http://eagnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/First-Years-of-Freedom-report.pdf

http://walker.wi.gov/Documents/Act_10_Success_Recap.pdf

http://watchdog.org/78127/wis-act-10-leads-to-lower-school-premiums-new-report-finds/

What exactly is a 501c4?

The Planned Parenthood Action Fund is a 501c4--and it plans to crash a GOP event this weekend in Virginia to fight its gubernatorial nominee Ken Cuccinelli II.  It is a branch of Planned Parenthood Federation of America which kills babies and is a 501c3--it's called a charity. Both are affilicated with the Democratic party, and neither are hasseled by the IRS.

“Just as 501(c)(3) organizations are often referred to as “charities,” those exempt under 501(c)(4) are called “social welfare organizations,” sometimes described as a step down from charity, or “charity-lite.” What’s the difference? Unlike charities, (c)(4)’s cannot offer their donors charitable contributions deductions on their income taxes, a serious disadvantage in fundraising; the trade-off is that (c)(4)’s can engage in unlimited lobbying in furtherance of social welfare (charities can do some), and in some candidate electoral activity (how much is debated; charities cannot do any). In addition to being more empowered politically, (c)(4)’s are permitted to confer somewhat more benefit on their members, their neighborhood or some other group that cannot qualify as a charitable class.” (Rosemary Fei)

Five viewpoints

How nasty was the IRS to conservative groups?

IRS asked pro-life group to pledge not to protest Planned Parenthood in exchange for tax exemption.

Planned Barrenhood, of course, is a big Obama supporter, and it gets a lot of federal money. He's the only president to appear at their gala, and 35% of abortions are for black women (57% in New York City). PP puts its clinics in minority neighborhoods.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/16/claim-the-irs-targeted-pro-life-groups-too/#ixzz2TTMNl2NT

Two weeks ago in Columbus, Ohio, our President assured the new graduates. . .

The IRS is in charge of enforcing Obamacare

“This March the IRS Inspector General reiterated that ObamaCare's 47 major changes to the revenue code "represent the largest set of tax law changes the IRS has had to implement in more than 20 years." Thus the IRS is playing Thelma to the Health and Human Service Department's Louise. The tax agency has requested funding for 1,954 full-time equivalent employees for its Affordable Care Act office in 2014.

Instead of going after tax cheats, these bureaucrats will write and enforce tax regulations for parts of the economy in which they have no core competence. For example, do ski instructors or public school teachers count as seasonal workers? How long is a "full time" work week? Is it 40 hours, or 30?”

Read more here.

Who goes to jail?

So the acting head of the IRS (for the last 6 months, with one month to go) has been fired, even though the snooping and blocking of conservative patriot groups had been going on for several years? Nice cover.

But let’s say, just for laughs, that some low level IRS employees at the Cincinnati office thought up these 30 page forms and 2 year delays on their own.  That on their own they requested screen shots of Facebook pages, and details about the families of board members, where they worked and who they were friends with.  Did no one go to his superior and say, “In the training I received to become a loyal government civil servant, I was taught this was illegal.  What should I do?”

What did you do when asked by your employer to do something illegal or you saw crazy behavior on the job?  I’m pretty sure destroying state property is illegal and going berserk on the job is dangerous for the other employees, so when my boss began acting erratically back in 1978, I called her boss.  She never did see that she had the problem (she threw a telephone through a window, breaking the glass, then pulled it back in and threw it through a second window) only that the people around her were acting stupidly.

http://www.ibtimes.com/former-cincinnati-irs-employee-says-supervisors-likely-knew-about-targeting-conservative-groups#

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-denounces-reported-irs-targeting-of-conservative-groups/2013/05/13/a0185644-bbdf-11e2-97d4-a479289a31f9_story.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/16/irs-scandal-is-no-low-level-job/

http://www.nwfdailynews.com/local/a-timeline-of-the-irs-s-scrutiny-of-the-right-1.143466

Where to start?

"Jay Carney, whose unenviable job is not to explain but to explain away what his employers say, calls the IRS' behavior 'inappropriate.' No, using the salad fork for the entree is inappropriate. Using the IRS for political purposes is a criminal offense. ... Liberals, whose unvarying agenda is enlargement of government, suggest, with no sense of cognitive dissonance, that this IRS scandal is nothing more sinister than typical government incompetence. Five days before the IRS story broke, Obama ... warned Ohio State graduates about 'creeping cynicism' and 'voices' that 'warn that tyranny is ... around the corner.' Well." --columnist George Will

"Can we not at least agree that the Obama administration has established a culture conducive to the type of stereotypical thinking that could lead to this? Didn't the Department of Homeland Security under this administration list right-wing groups as extremists and potential terrorists? Hasn't President Obama himself referred to tea partyers as 'tea baggers'? Haven't other Democrats deliberately depicted tea party groups as violent extremists who are a hair trigger away from armed revolution? Liberals have been trying to vilify conservative talk radio for years now, suggesting that its strong political opinions lead to violence. That is preposterous, but if we were to apply the same type of standard to Obama, we could say that he has personally fomented a climate of hate against conservative groups, such that the IRS targeting was completely foreseeable. Surely, it's fair to hold the president to his own standard." --columnist David Limbaugh

"With lies, as with potato chips, it is hard to stop with just one. ... The problem with telling a lie, or even a succession of lies, is that a very small dose of the truth can sometimes make the whole thing collapse like a house of cards. The State Department's own foreign service officer Gregory Hicks was in Libya during the [Benghazi] attack, so he knew the truth. When threats were not enough to silence him, it was then necessary to try to discredit him. After years of getting glowing job evaluations, and awards of honors from the State Department for his work in various parts of the world, Mr. Hicks suddenly began to get bad job evaluations and was demoted to a desk job in Washington after he spoke with a Congressman about what he knew. The truth is dangerous to liars." --economist Thomas Sowell

"We may be disgusted and horrified by Kermit Gosnell, but we should not be shocked by his crimes. Thanks to the misguided social entrepreneurship of the Supreme Court, abortion is protected as a constitutional absolute, and late-term abortions, grisly as they are, enjoy substantial protection as well. What that looks like in practice is Gosnell's slaughterhouse. We should not pretend that this evil does not extend past the Philadelphia city limits. If you would have an unlimited abortion franchise, then you will have all that goes with it, including the pitiless knife of Kermit Gosnell." --National Review

From Patriot Post,  May 15, (probably investigated by the IRS since “patriot” is in its name)

Liberal bias in the local library

    

Very appropriate. An information donkey. I don't know about school librarians, but public librarians are 223:1 liberal to conservative (based on a 2004 survey by party). In case you don't think that affects what is purchased for your local library, I have a story to tell you about the IRS. Library purchases can make or break a publisher. So that in turn affects which authors get contracts to publish.

God bless you, Planned Barrenhood

There are four scandals haunting the White House right now--Benghazi, IRS, Department of Justice, and EPA (charging conservatives fees that "greens" don't pay). But a 5th one should take precedence--the Kermit Gosnell trial and verdict. All this other news has swept it under the rug.

Although this is Pennsylvania's responsibility, when Barack Obama was an Illinois state senator, he voted against legislation that would have protected children born alive after botched abortions on a number of occasions. He hasn't even commented on this butcher--and when speaking at Planned Barrenhood, said, "God bless you!"

From the Kitchen Cabinet—News and Opinion by women for women

“Tea Party groups, led in many US communities by WOMEN who scraped grocery money together to file as non-profit organizations, had their paperwork SHELVED while liberal political groups were rapidly approved by IRS Cincinnati and Washington offices.

Do you really believe IRS agents and lifetime bureaucrats would think to do this on their own? Put their jobs on the line to harass tea party folks? In 2011? Not even an election year? This was not the brainchild of the IRS or even IRS senior officials. This was the ground strategy of the Barack Obama 2012 Re-election campaign.

And now, in an age when the front page is dominated by debates over Gay Rights and the Obama administration's liberal mandate to DELIVER them on his watch, suddenly America is talking about a new kind of CIVIL RIGHTS violation: of THE MIDDLE CLASS.”

https://www.facebook.com/changewashington

Gosnell in whiteface—George Tiller

“ObamaCare is being constructed by Kathleen Sebelius, former governor of Kansas and friend and collaborator with the late George Tiller, who was assassinated by a distraught anti-abortion activist in a case well-covered and widely publicized across the country. Tiller, another specialist in late-term abortion, was no different in essence from Gosnell. It is claimed that he destroyed the lives of his victims while their heads were still in the vaginal canal, making the process legal (according to Justice Ruth Ginsburg, among others). His premises were cleaner, and he had superior methods of disposing of the remains, not finding it necessary to mince them and flush them down the toilet. But he was a Gosnell in whiteface all the same.”
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/05/if_obama_had_an_uncle.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebook#ixzz2TM65S8jb

But hard to swallow

I don’t really believe he’ll be impeached—FDR, JFK, LBJ all used the IRS to go after their enemies, but only the Republican Nixon resigned. He actually cared about the reputation of the office.

What goes around. . .

The media  ignored the Tea Party complaints that the IRS was targeting them--3 years.  The media wouldn't dig into the Benghazi story.  Now that DoJ is targeting journalists, whoa Nellie!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/acting-irs-commissioner-repeatedly-failed-to-tell-congress-that-tea-party-groups-were-targeted/2013/05/13/4009e25c-bc2c-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

EPA and FOIA

Another scandal for Obama administration? The EPA waives fees for leftist environmental groups under Freedom of Information Act, but not for conservative groups who sometimes have to go to court to get information. IRS, DoJ, WH, State, now EPA. Who's next? http://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/washingtonbureau/2013/05/14/conservative-group-accuses-epa-of.html

Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) found that the EPA waived fees on 75 out of 82 FOIA requests made by environmental groups such as the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace. But it denied fee waivers on 14 of CEI’s 15 FOIA requests. Other conservative groups also were often denied fee waivers, according to CEI.

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