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Saturday Cartoons

News and opinions for a Saturday

Tyranny

• VIDEO: Congressman Mike Kelly Gets Standing Ovation During Hearing After Awesome Rant About IRS
• Our Lawless President: Obama’s IRS Thuggery Certainly Was No Coincidence
• How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS
• Homeland Security guidelines advise deference to pro-Shariah Muslim supremacists
• Lanny Davis: Did WH counsel know IRS was targeting conservatives?
• Soros Gave $6.1 Million to Groups Linked to Pressure on IRS to Target Conservative Nonprofits
• Obama administration sources explain Benghazi: “It’s actually closer to us being idiots”
• [Video] Welcome to NJ, Pro Gun Citizen Forcefully Removed From Hearing in the Middle of His Testimony
• Of Course It Troubles Me. Are You Kidding Me?
• WaPo: Two Pinocchios for Holder over contempt citation claim
• Obama #IRS Scandal Amnesia 
• Kimberly Strassel: Obama Set the Tone, the IRS Executed It 

Abortion

• Eric Holder Unsure if Law Stopping After-Birth Abortions Has Been Enforced (auto-start video)
• Second 'house of horrors' abortion clinic where doctor 'twisted heads off fetus' necks with his bare hands' is investigated in Texas 

Media

• Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that these are scandals
• Woodward: Don’t dismiss Benghazi as a scandal 
• Piers Morgan: Say, I guess government can become tyrannical after all 

Foreign Policy

• Russia sending anti-ship cruise missiles to Assad

Looking Ahead

• Jahar, the Teen Idol Terrorist

Tea Party

• Tea party tax returns show activism on a budget
• Has the IRS been watching the Freedom Foundation?

Corruption

• IRS Commissioner: Yeah, we staged that Lerner apology
• Worse and worse: IRS claimed in 2011 that there were no documents related to scrutiny of tea-party groups
• Treasury Knew of I.R.S. Inquiry in 2012, Official Says 

Bill of Rights

• Colorado Lawsuit Against New Gun Control Laws
• Cuomo, State Police fumble SAFE Act gun grab 

Politics

• Gallup: Low-Information Americans Not Paying Attention to Obama Scandals
• Want to Keep Obama’s IRS Scandal in the News? Use Democrat Tactics Against Them

GOAL Post 2013-SPECIAL 1

Legislative Update from Olympia 

17 May 2013

SPECIAL SESSION CONVENES

NOMINAL 30-DAY SESSION 

GUNS OFF THE TABLE? 

DISTRACTED IN D.C.  (Benghazi, IRS, AP)

The special session of the legislature convened earlier this week.  Called by the governor specifically to pass a biennial budget, once they convene, the legislature can work any issues they choose.  All of the
bills filed in the regular session are still in the hopper, and may be called up for reconsideration.

The first week of the special session ended with no action taken on any firearms-related bills.Even Governor Inslee acknowledges that not much -- if anything -- will be done concerning guns during the special session.  The legislature remains split on the budget, with the Republican coalition controlled Senate insisting on no new taxes and the Democrat House pushing for a more-than-$1-BILLION tax increase (which some analysts believe will be even larger).

Most of the focus in Olympia right now is back room negotiating as legislators try to reach consensus on the budget.While it does not appear they will take up the gun issue this time around, we can never be sure.  The 24 Republican-2 Democrat ruling coalition in the Senate appears to be holding, but if it should break up, we could be in big trouble.  As I noted in a previous GOAL Post, we're just one major shooting incident away from all the gun bills they can pass.

Nor are we out of the woods in the other Washington -- D.C.Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid could bring S. 649 back for a vote any time he thinks he has the votes to pass the bill.  President Obama and VP Biden remain committed to passing as much of the Obama gun control agenda as they can push through the system.

Fortunately for gun owners (and probably all Americans), the administration is distracted at the moment with the crisis du jour.  The Benghazi hearings and release of e-mails concerning the Benghazi cover-up, the IRS admission that they were giving "extra scrutiny" to applications for tax exempt status from conservative groups, and the revelation of the seizure of telephone records of several Associated Press reporters has kept the White House spin machine in overdrive. The phrase of the day appears to be "I do not recall," followed closely by "I had no knowledge..."  When your hand is caught in the cookie jar, deny, deny, deny.  It didn't happen, we didn't do it, we won't do it again, and besides that was a long time ago.

For a change the mainstream media appears to be greeting the administrations denials with a healthy dose of skepticism, but I don't expect that to last.  They've given Obama & Company their blind support for more than four years now -0- it's hard to admit you were wrong.  Time will tell.

Hopefully the next few GOAL Posts will be as boring as this one!

BILL STATUS:

As noted above, all bills filed in the previous regular session are available and may be acted upon.  At this time there are no new gun bills.

GOAL POSITION ON BILLS

No active bills at this time

HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

None

LEGISLATIVE HOT LINE:You may reach your Representatives and Senator by calling the Legislative Hotline at 1-800-562-6000.Toll free!!!  The hearing impaired may obtain TDD access at 1-800-635-9993.  Also toll free!!!

1-800-562-6000   TDD 1-800-635-9993

OTHER DATA:Copies of pending legislation (bills), legislative schedules and other information are available on the legislature's web site at "www.leg.wa.gov <http://www.leg.wa.gov>".  Bills are available in Acrobat (.pdf) format.  You may download a free version of Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe's web site (http://www.adobe.com).  You may also obtain hard copy bills, initiatives, etc, in the mail from the Legislative Bill Room FREE OF CHARGE by calling 1-360-786-7573.  Copies of bills may also be ordered toll free by calling the Legislative Hotline at (800) 562-6000.You may also hear floor and committee hearing action live at http://www.tvw.org/(you need "RealAudio" to do this, available free at
the TVW web site).

By reading the House and Senate "bill reports" (hbr, sbr) for each bill, you can see how individual committee members voted.  By reading the "roll call" for each bill, you can see how the entire House or Senate voted on any bill.  The beauty of the web site is that ALL this information is available, on line, to any citizen.

GET THE WORD OUT:If you want to subscribe to the GOAL Post by e-mail, send a message to "jwaldron@halcyon.com".  Please pass GOAL Post on to anyone you believe may have an interest in protecting our rights.  Better yet, make a couple of copies of this message, post it on your gun club's bulletin board, and leave copies with your local gun shop(s).PERMISSION IS HEREBY GRANTED TO DUPLICATE OR REDISTRIBUTE GOAL POST PROVIDED IT IS REPRODUCED IN ITS ENTIRETY WITHOUT TEXTUAL MODIFICATION AND CREDIT IS GIVEN TO GOAL.  I can be reached at "jwaldron@halcyon.com" or by telephone at (425) 985-4867.  Unfortunately, I am unable to mail hard copy GOAL Post to individuals.  Limited numbers of hard copies MAY be available at the Second Amendment Foundation book table at WAC gun shows.

If you believe you have received this e-mail in error, please e-mail me at "jwaldron@halcyon.com" with the words "Unsubscribe GOAL Post" in the subject line.  I will remove your name immediately.Keep in mind GOAL Post is also published on several gun lists.  If you received GP via a list, you must contact that list's admin to unsubscribe.

Upcoming WAC gun show(s):

Monroe 8-9 June
Puyallup 22-23 June

"The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men."

Article 1, Section 24
Constitution of the State of Washington
Copyright 2013 Gun Owners Action League of WA

Friday Cartoon Special -- The Umbrella Edition

Fighting Back

From Magpul's Facebook page:

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

MAGPUL INDUSTRIES ANNOUNCES LAWSUIT TO INVALIDATE COLORADO GUN CONTROL MEASURES

Denver, Colorado – May 17th, 2013 - Magpul Industries, an Erie, Colorado, based manufacturer of firearms accessories, announced today that it has joined 53 Colorado County Sheriffs and other plaintiffs in filing a lawsuit this morning to invalidate gun control measures recently passed by the Colorado legislature and enacted by Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper.

The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court and establishes that Colorado House Bill 1224 (magazine restrictions) and House Bill 1229 (universal background checks) violate the constitutional rights of lawful gun owners located in Colorado.

Duane Liptak, Director of Product Management and Marketing for Magpul Industries, said that these gun control laws do nothing other than restrict the ability of law abiding citizens to defend themselves and Magpul is committed to invalidating these infringements:

“Colorado’s recently passed gun control laws are a direct assault on the constitutional rights of the responsible people who live in and visit this great state. These laws will do nothing to enhance public safety and only place unreasonable limitations on the ability of law abiding citizens to defend themselves. While Magpul is currently in the process of moving its operations out of Colorado, we will not turn our back on our native state. Extreme gun control interests have forced the passage of these unconstitutional laws in Colorado, and as a company, we are resolved to restore those rights to the people.”

Magpul’s outside legal counsel, Jon Anderson, of Holland & Hart LLP, said that the Colorado gun control bills are unconstitutional and so poorly drafted that the new laws would be enforced in an inconsistent manner:

“Colorado’s gun control laws are in direct conflict with the U.S. Constitution. In addition, these bills were so poorly drafted that no one agrees on the scope of the government regulation. If teams of lawyers cannot agree on what these bills prohibit, how can we expect citizens to abide by these laws and how can we rely on law enforcement to implement these laws in a consistent manner?”

Magpul will continue to support productive efforts to FREE COLORADO from government regulations that imperil the rights of law abiding firearm owners.

Friday Cartoons

News and opinions on a Friday, with more scandal

Tyranny

• Exclusive: Holder Says 'No' to Special Counsel to Investigate Benghazi
• Oops: IRS's rationale for scrutinizing tea partiers debunked by nonprofit application data
• IRS to pro-life group: Send letter pledging not to protest Planned Parenthood to get your tax exemption
• Holder on the way out?
• Words That Should Not Be Strung Together In America, "IRS Building Largest Government Database" 
• ABC: Yes, it's true, the acting IRS commissioner was preparing to leave in a few weeks anyway; Update: Second IRS official to step down; Update: Was promoted last week?
• Did the IRS give Mitt Romney's tax returns to Harry Reid?
• Official White House Account Now Trolling Opponents
• Sharia Law: Australian Woman Spends 8 Months In Prison For Being Gang Raped
• Senate immigration gang frustrates GOP efforts to bolster border enforcement

Big Government

• Pelosi: These Republicans are too consumed with “evasions” to worry about the real issue, which is … jobs
• Video: IRS scapegoats not exactly taking it lying down
• Eric “Fedo” Holder Is Smart And Wants Respect
• Boustany: "A culture of rot going on at the IRS"
• Great news: US has misplaced two former Witness Protection Program participants "known or suspected as terrorists"; Update: Failed to update no-fly lists?
• Uh oh: Second appeals court invalidates Obama's questionable "recess" appointments
• DHS confirms cheaper to deport every illegal alien than allowing them to stay
• Police State Boston excels at shooting unarmed suspects, innocent bystanders, each other 

Bill of Rights

• The Feds Mandate Abolition of Free Speech on Campus
• Richland florist sued by state for refusing gay wedding sues back
• Dems offer gun control bill inspired by latest James Bond movie 'Skyfall'
• Legal Insurrection and Judicial Watch file suit to obtain David Gregory gun law violation documents
• O’Malley signs gun ban. Maryland offically joins the slave states

Media

• CNN Now Aiming for Zero Ratings
• Barbara Boxer's claim that GOP budgets hampered Benghazi security
• WaPo: CIA asked AP not to expose Yemen terror plot bust until White House was ready to crow about it publicly 
• WH: Golly, if we had a shield law, we wouldn't have broken the other laws in AP records scandal, or something; Update: SPJ not buying it
• The IRS Was Dead Right To Scrutinize Tea Party
• When it rains, it pours: Ten press conference take aways

Politics

• Rubio: Obama "doesn't have clean hands" in IRS scandal

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Washington Voters – No Appetite for New Taxes, Spending

ObamaCareTax

• IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office

Unions

• Behind the IRS, the National Treasury Employees Union; and Behind the Union, Democratic Politics

Abortion

• Pro-Abortion Planned Parenthood’s New Ad Campaign: Your Baby Will Thank You

Terrorism

• Reports: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev note found in boat points to mystifying motive we may never truly understand

Switching to Wordpress....but not yet!

We'll be changing the site layout and service provider in the next few days, and leaving Blogspot. 

The domain name will be the short version: W2TPP.COM, and the layout will be different.  We're making the switch because Wordpress is lot more flexible than Blogspot.  The content will remain the same: news, and announcements concerning the Walla Walla Tea Party Patriots.

A final notice will be posted when we make the move.  Thank you for your patronage, support, and patience!

Thursday Cartoons

Thursday news -- another IRS lollapalooza

Tyranny -- brought to you by the Department of Justice and Internal Revenue Service

• President Cosmic Lightworker Expresses Disappointment in Mere Mortals at IRS
•  52 media groups protest DOJ's Associated Press action
• IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo
• Report: IRS targeted more conservative groups than thought
• Selective “incompetence” in IRS scandal
• Holder: “I’m not sure” how many times I’ve approved seizing reporter phone records
• IRS faces class action lawsuit over theft of 60 million medical records
• A brief history of slimy Dem snoops and dumpster divers
• Rubio: These are the kinds of scandals you see in the third world
• Boehner: IRS scandal question is "who's going to jail?"
• The IRS wants YOU - to share everything
• The IRS Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think, and It Extends Up to the Commissioner
• Throw Another Scandal On The Barbie...IRS Sued Over Improper Access To Tens of Millions Of Health Records
• IRS commissioner: Hey, turns out it was mainly just two "rogue" employees who targeted tea partiers
• Holder: I can't remember when I recused myself from the AP investigation, and I know I didn't do it in writing
• Open thread: Obama to address IRS scandal at 6 p.m. ET; Update: More than 75% of donations at Cincinnati IRS office went to Democrats
• Would You Believe The Administration Got Phone Records of The House Of Representatives?

Media

• ‘Media Matters’ posts talking points to defend DOJ spying on AP reporters
• Lisa Myers Calls The Press And The Left 'One' Of Obama's 'Most Important Constituencies'
• NYT, WaPo, USA Today editorial boards blast Obama over seizure of AP phone records 
• WaPo wonders: Could IRS scandal re-ignite the Tea Party?
• The New Republic: Hey, didn’t Tea Parties kinda bring this on themselves by trying really hard to follow the law?
• Chris Matthews: “White supremacy” is a pretty big part of all of this opposition to Obama

Politics

• In Praise of Paranoia
• D.C. turns on Obama
• Sen. Boxer’s latest take on Benghazi: “Mirror, mirror, who cut the funding for diplomatic security”?
• Attorney General Holder Looses Cool: DOJ Ruse Deletes Contents of 1,200 Emails Except "To and From" (Youtube)
• Holder to Hearing: Ask Somebody Else — Holder to Issa: You're 'Shameful'
• "Fired" Acting IRS Commissioner Was Set To Resign... in June 

United Nations

• Oh, lovely: Iran to preside over United Nations arms-control forum later this month

State Government

• Senator’s plan would make Washington a right-to-work state

Big Government, Corruption

• The top 20 Benghazi lies
• Great news: Government salt intake guidelines useless, may even be dangerous
• Did the White House selectively leak e-mail to distort Benghazi timeline story? Update: Axelrod: Release all the Libya e-mails
• Frank VanderSloot: 'I'm not the only' major Mitt Romney donor audited
• German Homeschooling Family's Request for Asylum Denied by the U.S. Government
• Document dump: White House releases 100 pages of Benghazi e-mails

It's The Economy

• BBC: US Shale Oil Supply Shock Shifts Global Power Balance
• Womp: Eurozone dragging into its sixth straight quarter of recession 

Socialism

• Argentina's Deadbeat Special: Buy a 4% Bond or Go to Jail

Bill of Rights

• Chicago gun laws bar museum from displaying Nazi weapon seized by WWII hero
• By the way, the feds also pushed super-broad speech codes for campuses this week 

Education

• An "informational text" from a Henderson County public school

2013 election filings underway

The current list is available at the County Auditor's Office. 

Wednesday Cartoons

News and Opinions for Wednesday

Tyranny

• The Obama Presidency, in One Tweet
• South Carolina Tea Party Mom Describes IRS ‘Harassment’
• After IRS, Benghazi, should I trust government? Column
• IRS-Gate: Executive Summary of the Inspector General's Report
• President Barack Obama's Complete List of Historic Firsts [Updated]
• The White House's New Game: The Benghazi Emails Were Doctored or Something 
• True the Vote Founder: DOJ Also Investigated Us After IRS Filing
• The Origin of Gun Control in America 
• Geller, Atlas Shrugs…Impeach. White House New Email Bombshell 

Abortion

• Morning Bell: Serving Justice to Gosnell
• Harry Reid: The Real Lesson of Gosnell Is That We Need Cleaner Abortion Offices

Media

• Four Pinocchios for Obama on Benghazi terror claim
• How the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year was faked with Photoshop
• Time: The Real IRS Scandal Is They Went About Targeting the Tea Party the Wrong Way
• Politico: Here’s Why Journalists Suck Today
• MSNBC's Hayes: GOP Pursuing 'Fake' 'Witch Hunt' on Benghazi and Over 'Big, Bad, Scary' IRS Scandal
• Watergate reporter blasts White House for attack on media 
• NPR: Scandals May Cost Obama His Dream of Bipartisanship 

Legislation

• H.Res. 36: Establishing a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Bill of Rights

• 4th Circuit Court: Open Carry NOT Probable Cause
• The Right of Self Defense (Event) 
• Disarming Realities: As Gun Sales Soar, Gun Crimes Plummet 
• Breaking: Holder recuses himself from DOJ investigation of AP phone records; Update: Already recused?

State Government, Legislation

• Committee OKs tougher DUI laws, but funding still unclear

Politics

• GOP defies Boehner on special Benghazi panel
• White House stuck on IRS scandal response
• Walker, Jindal: IRS case needs a special prosecutor

Big Government, EPA, Corruption

• Complexity + Hubris...
• Report: EPA followed double standard for conservative groups too?
• IRS Abandoned Tea Party Probes Due To 'Concerns' Over Media Attention
• Document of the day: The most transparent administration ever
• GOP probing Sebelius's fundraising push: "Clear appearance of a conflict of interest"
• What does the scandal cascade teach us about trust in government power?
• House Begins a "Follow the Money" Probe Into Sebelius' Attempt to Shakedown Health Care Providers for ObamaCare Funds
• Obama administration gives wind farms a pass on eagle deaths, prosecutes oil companies
• Revealed: Read the Letter the IRS Sent to One Local Tea Party and the Detailed Demands It Made
  

Civil Discourse

• Former NAACP chair: It's legit for the IRS to look at the tea party, "the Taliban wing of American politics"
• This Is What It's Come To

Tuesday Cartoons

Truth

Source.

Monday Cartoons

News and opinions for a Monday!

• Is Russia Kicking Dirt in John Kerry’s Face?
• CBS Anchor: 'We Are Getting Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again'
• Grassley: Baucus Retiring Because He’s ‘Fed Up’ With Obamacare
• ABC: Petraeus called final Benghazi talking points “useless” the day before Rice’s full Ginsburg
• Boom: Benghazi mom wishes Hillary Clinton a happy Mother’s Day; ‘She has her child; I don’t have mine’
• Liberal Rednecks: A Salute
• 25 Reasons To Dislike Liberals
• HHS: Nothing improper about Sebelius’s ObamaCare fundraising
• Gag order: Liberal activists, unable to win the argument against Rush Limbaugh, try to silence him instead
• Governors: Time to end the drilling moratorium
• Exposing the Republican “Liberty” Caucus, Part II: Fetuses are Just Like Dandruff
• The news media is even worse than you think
• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: May 13 - 17
• Why Obama released embarrassing IRS bombshell

MEETING REMINDER!

After the last well attended meeting( 80 strong),  YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS FOLLOW UP MEETING!!

With Shahram Hadian opening the "door" to getting our country back on track, Richard Burke,  of Western Liberty Network, is a timely follow up as he comes with a fresh passion to support our local group fill the currently open positions in Walla Walla County with conservative activists. 

Tuesday, May 14th

6:30 pm, Father's House

304 North 2nd Avenue, Walla Walla

Tell your friends and bring them!!

1,776 Feet

From "WTC Progress":

Check out the incredible GoPro footage shot by the Port Authority of NY & NJ of One World Trade Center’s final spire installation, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere at a symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

(This is a Facebook posting -- it should be open for public viewing)

Sunday Cartoons

Sunday news -- the IRS edition

Tyranny

• Breaking: Senior IRS officials knew of targeting conservative groups in 2011; Update: IRS chief counsel knew in 2011
• Wake up and smell the Chicago.
• AP Exclusive: IRS knew tea party targeted in 2011
• IRS Inquisition Update
• IRS's Tea Party Scrutiny Adds To Conservatives' Case Against Obama 

Bill of Rights

• The right to bear arms shall not be infringed 
• Why FIRE Is Hot under the Collar 
• New Government Report Undercuts Obama Anti-Gun Agenda 

Corruption

• Benghazi Talking Points: A Lie Hillary Agreed Upon
• DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline Spreadsheet - Updated With the Latest Testimony and Leaks 
• Military leaders allowed Muslim cleric to pray at Seal Team 6 funeral, but he cursed them instead 

Legislation

• Cruz Seeks to Permanently Block Illegal Immigrants from All Welfare
• "What to Watch" in Congress Next Week - with Charlie Mitchell
• The Bank on Student Loan Fairness Act: S. 897: A bill to prevent the doubling of the interest rate for Federal subsidized student loans for the 2013-2014 academic year by providing funds for such loans through the Federal Reserve System, to ensure that such loans are available at interest rates that are equivalent to the interest rates at which the Federal Government provides loans to banks through the discount window operated by the Federal Reserve System, and for other purposes.

Media

• OH, MAMA: Even MSNBC Reporting Anxiety and Panic in Democrat Ranks Over Benghazi Cover-up Revelations

It's The Economy

• The time has come for US interest rates to go higher

Education

• Common Core GED textbook: "9/11 hijackers were poor Afghanis"

Liberal Mindset

•  Greenpeace founder worried that envirowhackos getting kind of whacky

Tea Party Tele-townhall, May 13th

From the National Tea Party Patriots:

Very Important Tele-townhall with Heritage Foundation 

& ICE Union President on Monday!

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Patriots, on Monday, May 13th, Tea Party Patriots is holding a very important tele-townhall to discuss the fiscal and security ramifications of the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill.

Our guest speakers will be:

• Derrick Morgan, VP of Domestic and Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
• Chris Crane, President of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Union.

Date: Monday, May 13th
Time: 7:00 - 8:00pm Eastern Daylight Time

If we already have your phone number and contact information, all you need to do is wait for the phone call from the tele-townhall system, and it will patch you through directly to the event. Note: there are so many numbers to call that sometimes your phone will not ring until a few minutes after the townhall begins, so be patient and wait for the call to come through.

If we do not have your info, you will need to sign up for the tele-townhall with your current contact information.

Please consider sharing this opportunity with other tea party supporters you know. You can send them the sign up form if they have not yet signed up with Tea Party Patriots.

Thank you and we hope you are able to make the call as the misinformation disbursed by the Gang of 8 must be combated, and the knowledge and facts shared on this call will help us all to hold them accountable.

In Liberty,
Tea Party Patriots Support Team

Saturday Cartoons

Saturday news & opinions

Tyranny

• BUSTED: Bloomberg News Caught Spying On Bloomberg Terminal Customers
• Exclusive: Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference 
• Progracists
• IRS Apologizes For Targeting Tea Party Groups During The Election 
• Obama IRS admits witch hunt against Tea Party, patriot groups
• TheTeaParty.net to IRS: “Apology Not Accepted”
• Darrell Issa: My committee will "aggressively follow up" on the IRS's political thuggery
• Putting The Comprehensive In Immigration Reform: Universal biometric IDs for every American? What could go wrong?
• What is truth?
• Venezuela: Photo of the week

ObamaCareTax

• Holy Crap: HHS Secretary Sebilus Is Extorting Money From Health Care Industry To Promote ObamaCare
• Republicans Are Refusing To Appoint Members To Obamacare's Most Notorious Panel
• Obama to Invoke Moms in Pitch for Health Exchanges
• Why Obamacare is oversold

Budget Battle

• Morning Bell: Ready for Another Debt Limit Fight?

State Government

• Owen wants Dems to end Carrell’s vote-by-proxy privilege

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• White House scrambles to contain Benghazi-gate fallout
• JW Files Three New Lawsuits Against Obama Administration for Concealing Benghazi
• Carney on Benghazi edits: Need I remind you that a certain Mr. Mitt Romney tried to make political hay of the attack?

Media

• Video: MSNBC Turns on Obama, Admits Benghazi Cover-Up
• Good news: Journalism museum to honor two members of Hamas TV
• White House holds Benghazi briefing with reporters - off the record; Update: More whistleblowers coming? Update: "Deep background"

Politics

• POLITICAL BOMBSHELL: SENATOR INHOFE SUGGESTS IMPEACHMENT COULD BE COMING OVER BENGHAZI COVER-UP
• The coming GOP civil war over climate change

Bill of Rights

• "Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate"
• Bloomberg, Obama and liberal media muzzled about gun crime decline
• Big Brother: LA police sued over massive data collection gleaned from cameras

Big Government

• 10 crazy things the IRS asked Tea Party groups
• 
  Big Government Conservatives Strike Back
   

It's The Economy

• Woah: Greece’s youth unemployment rises above 60 percent

Terrorism

• FBI to Boston: You knew about Tsarnaev from JTTF files

Liberal Mindset

• Obama donors: Nixing the Keystone pipeline is comparable to Lincoln ending slavery, or something

Friday Cartoons

News and Opinions for Friday

Tyranny

• RED ALERT -- ACTION REQUIRED: #Benghazi Hearings and the Need for a Select Committee-Now [Hugh Hewitt]
• Transparency! Obama Administration Helps Hide Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s Financial Records
• Suit Against NLRB to Proceed
• He Had It On "Vibrate"
• House Armed Service chair denied access to Benghazi files
• Coburn: State omitted something very significant to Senate Intel Committee
• The 'How Dare You' Defense on Benghazi
• The crucifixion of Jason Richwine
• House Dem on Benghazi: What’s the big deal here?

Media

• The Paul Anka/Admiral Byng Solution
• Republican leader rips the media for ‘shoving us in the corner’
• Sharyl 'Benghazi Campaign' Attkisson Hadn't Reported About the Attack On the Air in Over 5 Months
• Benghazi – what’s new?
• Unsurprising Media Consensus: ‘Shut Up About Benghazi, You Stupid Republicans’
• Benghazi Hall of Shame
• Video: MSNBC hosts now asking Democrats for autographs on air
• ‘That really pi$$es me off!’: Dana Perino blasts Bob Beckel over Benghazi BS [video]; Update: Perino slams media’s double standard

Big Government

• Feds demand removal of 3-D printable gun plans from the Internet
• David Frum Is Going to Rock Your World on Immigration
• Is the FDA heading toward age limits on caffeine products?
• Nobody Has Any Idea What’s Going on in Our Health Care System
• The GOP is boycotting Obama’s pick for EPA chief, and Democrats are not happy about it

Corruption

• House Oversight Committee: #Benghazi Hearing Live-Blog
• Can we just get to the bottom of it??
• Secret Service agent: We're being railroaded over hooker scandal
• Defense IG: Obama administration "bureaucrats" trying to silence me about corruption in Afghanistan

Politics

• Exposing The Republican “Liberty” Caucus Part I: Pro-Abortion, Pro-Illegal, Anti-Liberty History
• Ted Cruz's Twitter Feed Demonstrates Why Harry Reid Says Mean Things About HimCruz on Obama's Texas visit: Hey, perhaps he'll learn to create some jobs from the folks who know how

Unions

• Union boss Trumka calls out Walmart for having the audacity to hire veterans

Abortion

• 'Stop Being a Baby': Infanticide and the infantilization of women

Bill of Rights

• Still Setting Records
• Hobby Lobby Case Shows Obamacare Is Threat to Liberty

Want A Free House?

(Copied from Facebook, and it has been making the rounds.  Old  or fresh, truth or parable, it makes an excellent point concerning "free" health care.)

I was in my neighborhood restaurant this morning and was seated behind a group of jubilant individuals celebrating the coming implementation of the health care bill. I could not finish my breakfast. This is what ensued: They were a diverse group of several races and both sexes. I heard a young man exclaim, "Isn't Obama like Jesus Christ? I mean, after all, he is healing the sick."

A young woman enthusiastically proclaimed, "Yeah, and he does it for free. I cannot believe anyone would think that a free market wouldn't work for health care."

Another said, "The stupid Republicans want us all to starve to death so they can inherit all of the power. Obama should be made a Saint for what he did for those of us less fortunate."

At this, I had more than enough. I arose from my seat, mustering all the restraint I could find, and approached their table. "Please excuse me; may I impose upon you for one moment?"

They smiled and welcomed me to the conversation. I stood at the end of their table, smiled as best I could and began an experiment.

"I would like to give one of you my house. It will cost you no money and I will pay all of the expenses and taxes for as long as you live there. Anyone interested?"

They looked at each other in astonishment. "Why would you do something like that?" asked a young man, "There isn't anything for free in this world." They began to laugh at me, as they did not realize this man had just made my point.

"I am serious, I will give you my house for free, no money whatsoever.  Anyone interested?"

In unison, a resounding "Yeah" fills the room.

Thursday Cartoons

Thursday News & Opinions

Tyranny

• Judge rips Obama’s right-wing Plan B stance
• Operation Smear Benghazi Whistleblowers
• U.S. Is Weighing Wide Overhaul of Wiretap Laws
• Remember Nakoula?
• Clinton's Republican Guard
• President Obama's cigarette tax up in smoke
• New White House amnesty campaign: “Unless you’re a Native American, you came from someplace else”

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• What difference does it make? Eric Nordstrom fights back tears during opening Benghazi statement: ‘It matters’
•  How Do You Say "Reset the Reset" in Russian?
• Hicks: Higher-ups at State told me not to talk to GOP congressman about Benghazi; Update: "Effectively demoted"
• The Tears of Benghazi   

Civil Discourse

• Ted Cruz on being a “schoolyard bully”: I do so appreciate Harry Reid’s candor

Abortion

• Gosnell resolution blocked
• Video [fixed]: Late-term abortionist says “It’s like putting meat in a crock pot”

Bill of Rights

• With Friends Like This ...
• Admiral DEFIES THE MILITARY BAN on Sharing His Christian Faith 
• Jeff Flake Stays with Us

 
Media

• Report: CBS grumpy that Sharyl Attkisson's Benghazi scoops are "wading dangerously close to advocacy"
• Washington Post Breaks Benghazi Scandal Wide Open
• New left-wing coalition begs Tribune Company: Don't sell the LA Times to the Koch brothers

ObamaCareTax

• Sebelius asks pediatricians to start helping sign people up for Obamacare
• Your Fault! 

Politics

• May Is Make-or-Break Month for Congress, Obama
• White House: This Benghazi hearing is just another of Republicans' "attempts to politicize" the issue

Terrorism

• Domestic Terrorists Teaching At Colleges?

Big Government

• NYC also hating on innovation, opportunity with interminable food-truck regulations

The media messaging about the NRA ... ...

... ... being evil seems to be off kilter somehow ... ...

Wednesday Cartoons

Wednesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• OPEN LETTER TO GENOCIDAL EDITOR DAVE PERRY: "Get down on your knees and thank whatever god you worship that there is an NRA"
• Justice Department to monitor special election in South Carolina
• BREAKING: European Commission to criminalize nearly all seeds and plants not registered with government
• WaPo fact checker: Who rewrote the Benghazi talking points?
• Obama tells OSU grads to reject the Founding Fathers' voices
• Byron York: Senate skips details in rush to pass immigration bill
• Good news from Sheila Jackson Lee: The Constitution implies a right to health care and education
• Heritage: Amnestied Illegals Will Get $9.4T in Benefits; Increase Debt $6.3T'
• Rand Paul: I hate to say it, but the immigration bill is a little bit like ObamaCare right now 

Taxes

• Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill (But Watch Sen. Ted Cruz’s Passionate Argument Against It)

Looking Ahead

• Rise of the Republican Governors

Corruption, Foreign Policy

• She KNEW It Was A DAMNED LIE
• Hillary Clinton — culpable for Benghazi from beginning to end
• Obama: We have a moral obligation to end the slaughter and ensure a stable Syria

Liberal Mindset, Education

• Second Grader Suspended for Pointing Pencil Like a Gun

ObamaCareTax

• New Worries for Democrats on Health Law

Bill of Rights

• Obama administration retreating from contraception mandate? 

 
Media

• Does He Listen to Himself? Matthews Compares NRA to Nazis, Decries Use of Nazi Comparisons
• Exclusive: Politico Misreports Tea Party Support for Immigration Bill 

Politics

• H.R. 1826: No Monuments to Me Act of 2013
• Gun control ads have Democrats worrying
• Jeff Flake hints: I'll support expanded background checks in return for changes on Internet sales
• “Very junior senator” Ted Cruz really getting under skin of very senior Sen. Harry Reid

Local Government, It's The Economy, Big Government

• Clark County hangs out ‘Open for Business’ sign to employers

Second Amendment

• Gun Fiction vs. Gun Facts: What Gun Control Supporters Don't Know 
• Media's Anti-Gun Narrative Destroyed By Justice Dept. Report
• Reports show gun homicides down since 1990s
• Biden asks clergy to make moral argument on guns

Big Government

• It's come to this: Solar installer now suing the government for more money 

It's The Economy

• Internet Sales Tax Bill Stalling in House
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• The Worst Unemployment Crisis In Modern History Is Unfolding Right Now
• Why Friday's Jobs Report Was Ominous

May Meeting Agenda (updated)

Good day!  My apologies for the delay in getting this out.  The May meeting will be held at 6:30 PM on May 14th, in the Father's House, 304 North 2nd Avenue, in Walla Walla.  This is a change from our past location.

The meeting agenda is: 

• Local elected officials and filing dates
• July 4th in the Park
• Special Legislative Session called by Governor Inslee
• Committee of Safety

There are 68 positions open for election in 2013 in Walla Walla County.  If we are to re-take our country, we can start at the grass roots, and that means conservatives running for office.  UPDATE:  The County Auditor runs the elections, and a list of open positions is available here.  If that link doesn't work, go to the Auditor's home page, and click on "Positions Open For Election" on the right side, under "Announcements".

Of special concern:  If you are not able to attend, please be sure to contact your representatives the State Legislature about the current "special session" in Olympia. 

Governor Inslee has the legislature headed for a "special session" at taxpayers' expense, because the House majority and the Governor want to raise taxes by $1 billion dollars and the Senate does not want to raise any taxes.  New taxes are not needed because Washington is expected to collect around $2 billion dollars in natural revenue growth this biennium.

This a major dispute over how much the state should be spending.  Most of the issues extraneous to the operating budget are issues that have already been rejected by the Senate this session, and by the House, in a number of examples.  But Governor Inslee seems committed to seeing several divisive social issues reconsidered when lawmakers reconvene.

Any time spent back in Olympia should be short and focused exclusively on the passage of an operating budget.  It's important that we keep an eye on Governor Inslee and the State Legislature.  More importantly, we need to let them know we are watching them.

Brutal. True.

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From "Day By Day".

Related:  She KNEW It Was A DAMNED LIE

That'll work, for sure!

Tuesday Cartoons

Tuesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Snell: Waking the dragon — How Feinstein fiddled while America burned
• National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers to Gang of Eight: How About Comprehensive Immigration Enforcement First, Geniuses?
• Defective Kokesh agitates for slaughter of Second Amendment supporters in D.C.
• Dem Rep. Admits to TheBlaze She Wants National Gun Registry: 'It Helps Us Find Them For You'
• Another Bloomberg gun control accomplishment: Mail carriers refuse service to parts of Brooklyn  
• President who appoints lobbyists, donors doesn’t want youth to get demoralized by government that rewards lobbyists, donors

Budget Battle

• Cop out
• Report: California governments could be $1.1 trillion in debt

It's The Economy

• America's Savings Crisis: Your Spending Habits May Be to Blame
• 'Real' Jobless Rate Still Above 10% In Most States
• German euro founder calls for 'catastrophic' currency to be broken up
• If it Falls, Tax It

Terrorism

• Bill Ayers Defends Weather Underground Bombings, “Can’t Compare Them To Boston Bombing”

Foreign Policy

• Video: White House "highly skeptical" of UN's finding that Syrian rebels, not Assad, used chemical weapons 
• Then-Acting Ambassador to Libya: "My Jaw Hit the Floor" When I Saw the Government Blaming the Attack on a YouTube Video 
• Diplomat to testify that Benghazi “was a terrorist attack from the beginning”
• Whistleblower: Hillary cut State’s counter-terrorism bureau out of Benghazi loop
• That Crazy Benghazi Conspiracy Theory? It Just Got Less Crazy
• Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told "you can't go" to Benghazi during attacks
• Here we go: Backlash against Benghazi whistleblowers is underway
• They Had a Team Ready to Go in Tripoli and a C-130* on the Ramp 
• Fifty Shades Of Red

Second Amendment

• The Firearms Statistics That Gun Control Advocates Don’t Want to See
• NRA Annual Meeting Stats

Abortion

• Kirsten Powers: Let's Stop Pretending on Late-Term Abortion
• Gosnell attorney: Fox tried to influence the jury

ObamaCareTax

• Obamacare is on the horizon, but will enough people sign up?

Politics

• Majority leader is ‘bullied’ by freshman senator, turns to public for help
• Reid to Cruz: “My friend from Texas is like a schoolyard bully”

From the Heritage Foundation

The Gang of Eight Immigration Bill, Explained in One Infographic

Monday Cartoons

Monday news and opinions

Tyranny, Looking Ahead

• I am Number 421,721
• Jeanine Pirro NRA Speech 2013: Accused of Denigrating All Muslims “How About Not Blaming All Gun Owners”
• Freedom Or Socialism? The Choice Is Still Ours
• PC Kills: Pentagon Brass Crush Career Of Decorated Army Officer Who Taught About Radical Islam
• Author to immigration reform opponents: “A lot of people live in land that was taken from Mexico”
• You Disagree With @Instapundit At Your Peril, But I’m Going With Nicolaitanism Over Oikophobia
• Well, yes, he would say that, wouldn't he 

Media

• Colorado newspaper editor calls for NRA members to be summarily shipped to prison camps

Abortion

• More Evil than Nazi Germany

Corruption

• Par For The Course (highly suggestive imagery)
• Karzai Says He Was Assured C.I.A. Would Continue Delivering Bags of Cash 

Foreign Policy, Corruption

• Chaffetz: State Department officials fear ‘retaliation' on Benghazi, more will talk
• Paper Tiger POTUS: Obama’s ‘red line’ on Syria totally just a gaffe, guys! (Profanity alert)
• Dem Congressman: Benghazi Talking Points Were ‘Scrubbed’
• The Highly Ironic Syrian End-Game?
• NYT: Obama may have ad-libbed us into a war
• Dems Now Slam Rice's Benghazi Account, Amid New Damaging Details

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Job-killing tax increases are not needed
• Judge Tosses a Rule That Keeps Retailers Out of the Restaurant Biz – and Returns Spotlight to Legislature’s Most Spirited Battle.
• In Our View: Keep an Eye on the Governor
• In overtime, budget should be only goal

Bill of Rights

• The NRA Meeting Protest
• Hooray for the Second Amendment!
• Muzzling free speech about taxes

 
Civil Discourse

• S.C. Dem chair doubles down on Nikki Haley comments
• Erica Lafferty: Gun Control’s Cindy Sheehan