The IRS needs to fix its labeling machine

“We’re the San Fernando Valley Patriots, not Occupy Oakland.”

Karen Kenny of San Fernando Valley Patriots at today’s Ways and Means Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. on IRS profiling of  conservative groups.

Among the questions her group was asked, Kenny said, was her "personal favorite ... which in relation to protests asked for a listing of our 'committed violations of local ordinances, breaches of public order or arrests' then requested details on how we 'conduct or promote' illegal activities. I think the IRS needs to fix its labeling machine: We're the San Fernando Valley Patriots, not Occupy Oakland."

Kenny said her organization applied for tax-exempt status in October 2010. But she "stopped the costly and exhausting IRS process in July 2012. We survive on my credit card and donations in our cake tin. Like patriots before us, conservation groups.

Their lies caught on tape

Liars lying. IRS, Benghazi, Obamacare

Shovel ready jobs, lobbyists in the White House, deficit cutting, no tax increases for anyone under $250,000

Lies about his personal life

President Gee of OSU has foot in mouth disease

Gee has his foot in his mouth so he won't be speaking at DeSales High school graduation. He has been reprimanded and told he will be fired if it happens again.

* On why Notre Dame wasn’t invited to join the Big Ten: “The fathers are holy on Sunday and they’re holy hell on the rest of the week… You just can’t trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or a Friday, and so, literally, I can say that.” (Gee is a Mormon.)

* On what the Big Ten looked for in expansion partners: “… institutions of like-minded academic integrity. So you won’t see us adding Louisville.” (He then said the Big Ten wouldn’t be adding the University of Kentucky, either.)

* When asked how Big Ten fans should respond when SEC fans say people in a 14-team league called the Big Ten can’t count: “You tell the SEC when they learn to read and write, then they can figure out what we’re doing.”

*He also called the Arkansas coach Bret Bielema a "thug."

Tsk. Tsk.

Update:  June 4, Columbus Dispatch: Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee said this afternoon that he plans to retire on July 1, following the latest in a series of verbal gaffes that he said were meant as harmless jokes but ended up embarrassing the university.

Our Bill of Rights, cafeteria style

When did blacks start voting for Democrats almost exclusively?

Although there are black Republicans, Libertarians and black Tea Party members, until the mid 1930s with the 1936 re-election of Franklin Roosevelt, black Americans had always voted for Republicans--the party that freed them after the Civil War, the party that allowed them representatives in the House and Senate.  Democrats were the party of the KKK, Jim Crow and lynching. Democrats took their guns.   FDR did nothing for blacks to stop those terrible injustices, but he did provide them the same aid during the Great Depression that whites got.  Like public works programs at Howard University. That was huge!  By then many blacks had fled to the northern cities to find work. 

Although FDR did nothing to stop the crimes going on in his party, it was enough to win over blacks increasingly to Democrats in the north.  In the south blacks still couldn't register as a Democrat  which is why Martin Luther King, Jr. and Condi Rice’s father were Republicans.  The civil rights bills of the last century were proposed by Republicans, with little support from Democrats. Republicans even tried to pass an anti-lynching laws.   Between 1882-1968 nearly 200 anti-lynching bills were introduced in Congress, and three passed the House.  Seven presidents between 1890 and 1952 petitioned Congress to pass a federal law. Democrats defeated them. The 1964 Civil Rights Act would not have passed without support from Republicans.

Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the  Reconstruction proposals and actions of the  radical Republican Congress."

But has the Democratic party really changed?  Today, abortion is supported by Democratic Party Platform.  Abortion ends about 40% of black pregnancies (57% in New York City).  Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, of which Obama is a huge supporter, favored eugenics and eliminating black babies.  Blacks don’t seem to know their history with the Democrats.

Yes, deaths by war and criminal gun violence are bad—but governments are worse offenders

George Weigel writes that the 19th century ended in August 1914 with the start of WWI and ended in August 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. That was the bloodiest 8 decades in the history of the world, he says.

Yes, there were a lot of wars in the 20th century, but most of the millions who suffered the massacres, tortures and deaths died from governments killing their own people--Soviets starving the Ukrainians, Turks killing the Armenian Christians, Communist Maoists wiping out millions of Chinese, Nazis killing German Jews, the genocide by Pol Pot in Cambodia, Saddam Hussein killing the Kurds and fellow Muslims, genocidal mass slaughter of the Tutsis by the Hutu lead government in Rwanda  and so forth. Their common thread for ruling was statism, sometimes with some ethnic or religious hatred used on the side to make their case.

It comes in many names and versions, but the state owns the people and knows best. In the United States, “we the people” are supposed to control the government.  We have documents that insure this.  So the next time a 9-12 group or a Tea Party gathering demands a smaller government, at least give it some thought.

High profile Democrats jump the fence

Although I do wonder if they would have ever caught on if it hadn’t been for the AP and James Rosen scandals.

“Bob Woodward of the Washington Post brought up the New York Times story during a press roundtable discussion on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” and said both Holder and Obama need to explain this and other unfolding scandals to the American people.

“It’s all very troubling, and you lump all these things, IRS and Benghazi together, and what you’ve got is a feeling that no one’s coming clean, we aren’t getting straight talk,” Woodward said.

“This goes to President Obama, he’s got to find a way to unravel this. We live in an age of distrust, I think it’s more severe now, and he has to find some way to clean this up and say this is what happened,” Woodward said.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Holder-Obama-New-York-Times-resign/2013/06/02/id/507546

1939 color film of New York City

I’m not a film buff, but this looks awfully good to me.  Also, I’m blown away by the clothes—people took pride in their appearance, even the poor.  And this was still the Great Depression.

When cornered, blame Bush

Tonight on Fox News a Democratic apologist deflected the current scandals by referring to what the FBI did during the Bush years. So I looked it up. Yes, there were 5 "inappropriate" investigations of anti-war groups in 5 years and some went on for years, and nothing was found. Hardly sounds similar to several hundred groups being profiled, targeted, audited and terrorized by this administration.

And now children can buy them over the counter with no supervision

Barbara Seaman published The Doctor’s Case Against the Pill in 1969, which exposed side effects of oral contraceptives including the risk of blood clots, heart attack, stroke, depression, weight gain and loss of libido. But it wasn’t until almost 20 years later the dosage was reduced and by 2000 the EEOC was requiring coverage in health insurance.  Still, there are studies that claim oral contraceptives are carcinogens, and fifty years [2010] after the FDA approval there were 1,100 lawsuits pending against Bayer Healthcare Corporation regarding blood clots, heart attacks and strokes allegedly caused by the popular pills Yaz, Yazmin and the generic Ocella.

Rich women help kill babies of the poor

In Kuala Lumpur this week for Women Deliver, a global conference on women’s health, a billionaire (Melinda Gates) and a princess (Mary of Denmark) graced the stage to tell nurses and clean water advocates that any effort to help poor women is secondary to giving them contraception and abortion.
Note, the advocates of killing black and brown babies are white Americans and Europeans. Why teach midwives how to save the lives of the mothers, when you can offer them abortions?

 http://c-fam.org/en/issues/global-health/2079-2077-women-deliver-conference-rich-women-vs-poor

A Women Deliver participant noted $8 billion a year goes to family planning and advocates are demanding more. Yet “they don’t want to share it” with other causes. “And they don’t want to give any other group a platform that will distract from expanding abortion.”

Head Start isn’t

The United States has spent over $1 trillion on Head Start ($8 billion per year federal preschool program) since its inception almost 50 years ago in an effort to rescue young children from the effects of poverty, poor parenting, and ill health. For people who try so hard to eliminate babies before they are born, liberals sure do work hard at failed programs to help them succeed. Head Start does provide quality day care for mothers who want to work, and it does provide many jobs, some for the parents of the children. Unfortunately, the studies all along the way, including the most recent by HHS, show most benefits dissipate by first grade.

The way to prepare a child for a better chance at a good life is married parents with good jobs--Obama has set a good example on marriage, and a very poor one on jobs for low income people. No politician will ever dismantle this boondoggle--in fact, they snuck more funding for Head Start ($100 million) into Sandy relief. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/opre/head_start_executive_summary.pdf

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/01/14/head-start-sad-and-costly-secret-what-washington-doesnt-want-to-know/

Pillow talk

The wife of Doug Shulman, commissioner of the IRS during these major scandals when he visited the White House 157 times, is Susan L. Anderson. She is the "senior program advisor for the Washington-based nonprofit organization Public Campaign, which claims that it “is laying the foundation for reform by working with a broad range of organizations, including local community groups, around the country that are fighting for change and national organizations whose members are not fairly represented under the current campaign finance system.” "

Even though "fighting for change" and "reform" are in the description, her group probably hasn't had their board and staff audited, threatened by OSHA or investigated by ATF. Wonder why.

Apparently, Shulman didn’t like being questioned by Congress about his politics and contributions.  Appointed by Bush, his money and ethics leans heavily Democratic.

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/31/former-irs-commissioner-shulmans-wife-works-for-liberal-group-fighting-open-campaign-spending/

http://www.americanclarion.com/20633/2013/05/23/irs-commissioner-upset-by-political-questions/

Criminal behavior in the IRS profiling

Now we know why there were reports of the enthusiasm for the Tea Party groups was waning--the people who might have attended or contributed were being profiled for audits by the IRS, and other agencies like ATF, OSHA and EPA. That's not only bigotry, it's terrorism of the bureaucratic kind. After all, they have the power to destroy your business and reputation. Lefties are also targeting this journalist, Scottie Hughes.  She’s very pretty, very conservative, and very outspoken.  That makes her a target for the Democrats’ War on Women.

http://townhall.com/columnists/scottiehughes/2013/05/30/the-tea-partys-message-is-bigger-than-even-its-most-courageous-messengers-n1608791

As the backlash against the IRS’s lawless assault on the Tea Party shows, that which does not kill the Tea Party makes it stronger. Americans everywhere are Lerning (pun intended) that the I.R.S.’s respect for the law isn’t merely Nixonian – it’s Dillingeresque. They are seeing what the founders warned about – that power corrupts. And they’re rightly concluding that a law like Obamacare – which gives vastly more power to the already out-of-control I.R.S. – is a threat to American freedom.

Mr. Clean

The IRS scandal and Obamacare

“A year ago, the IRS finalized a regulatory ruling to the effect that it will issue tax credits through Obamacare’s federal insurance exchanges. . . [for which] it has been granted no legal authority, by the Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or any other act of Congress, to issue such credits. In fact, the ruling flouts the explicit language of Obamacare.”http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/28/an-irs-scandal-inseparable-fro

Huge loss for conservatives—Bachmann will not run

                

One of the reasons the lefties like to hate on Palin and Bachmann is because they are attractive and have sex appeal as well as being very smart.  Also they are mothers several times over. Bachmann was even a foster mother to other women's children. Palin chose not to abort her disabled child--driving the ugly left who think allowing a disabled child to live is irresponsible over the cliff .  The left is all about blurring lines and making men and women not only equal, but equally unattractive sexually.  The leftist women who know how to dress are the transsexuals.  If you want to know what brains and beauty looks like compare the Fox women to MSNBC.  I'm linking to Daily Kos and its unflattering, negative story on Bachmann.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/05/29/1212326/-Michele-Bachmann-will-not-run-in-2014-but-insists-my-future-is-full-it-is-limitless#

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pedro dressed for the dance.

Catholic writer bullied and silenced by IRS

It wasn't just Tea Party or Patriot groups. Catholic writer and professor Anne Hendershott wanted the public to know that Obamacare funds abortions and the IRS audited her. She was bullied by IRS agent Michael Iannotti about her Obamacare views. Usually she writes for free, and doesn't make much more than $5,000 a year for her articles. She wasn't allowed to bring her CPA to the "interview." She was intimidated into writing less on the topic--the whole point of targeting Obama’s critics. So if you heard that the Tea Party was losing its influence or critics were softening on Obamacare, now you know why—the Chicago way had wiped them from the stories you should have been reading.

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/picture-emerges-that-irs-targeted-obamas-political-opponents-and-critics/

Good-byes just don’t get any easier

Today my husband and son are enjoying the Memorial tournament, so I made an appearance at the farewell luncheon for Pastor David Drumel and wife to give him a painting from my husband. They are moving back to the Nashville area after 6 years in Columbus ministering to our seniors at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church.

There is only one little difference between these two crooks

Nixon accepted the responsibility and did the honorable thing.  Obama knows nothing of honor, patriotism, honesty, hard work, or history.