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

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

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

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!

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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!!

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

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

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

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
• 
  
• The Worst Unemployment Crisis In Modern History Is Unfolding Right Now
• Why Friday's Jobs Report Was Ominous

Saturday news & Opinions

Tyranny

• Obama: The fall
• Lucky Thing Obama’s Making Sure
• Barry “Fast and Furious” Obama redlines on the hypocrisy meter

Taxes

• Obama budget caps tax-deferred retirement contributions to ... half of what he'll get

It's The Economy

• April jobs report: 165K jobs created, 7.5% unemployment rate; Update: Reuters: “Consistent with a slowdown”
• IRS Takes A Bite Out Of Bitcoin
• Economics, Translated to Plain English

Foreign Policy

• CNN: Al-Qaeda operatives part of Benghazi attack
• Timeline: Emails Reveal State Department Flack Has Fingers All Over Talking Points Deception, Stating That Her "Superiors" Were Unhappy With Implication They'd Ignored Warnings

Media

• The Left Hates Howard Kurtz, Which Doesn’t Mean We Should Love Him, But …
• PepsiCo Pulls Incredibly Racist Mountain Dew Commercial
• Piers Morgan Admits He Wants UK-Style Gun Ban in the States
• Media drops the ball on Ayotte coverage
• National media exaggerate anti-Ayotte gun control protests
• MSNBC panelist on Ayotte, etc: Is it even more surprising when a woman votes against background checks?
• Video: CNN panel names Romney a religious fanatic for promoting ... children

Terrorism

• Friend of Bill Ayers Added to FBI’s Most Wanted List

Big Government, Education

• Oregon's Medicaid Expansion Trial - Lessons Learned
• Hope & Hairy Shemale Alert: Obama Spends $350k to Study Trannies in IndiaA Parent's Prayer for The Children (Not Valid in Illinois)
• Video: “Change you can believe in?”
• Not to worry: DoD still buying $59/gallon "green" jet fuel, despite sequester

Bill of Rights

• ERIC HOLDER TO KANSAS: We Will Ignore the Bill of Rights and State Laws to Enforce Federal Gun Grabs

Politics

• He Makes Me Puke
• Is Obama's legacy a health care law that hurts his party for years to come?
• Politico: OFA flops on first campaign

Abortion

• Ramirez, Crowder on Gosnell

Looking Ahead

• Revolutionary Math II
• The NRA won. Now comes the hard part

Friday news and opinions

Tyranny

• Sessions: 'Tide Is Beginning to Turn' Against Immigration Bill
• Principal: ‘I was naïve about Common Core’

ObamaCareTax

• Landmark study shatters liberal health care claims
• Reid: We're gonna need a lot more ObamaCare money to stop the train wreck

Big Government

• Justice Department appeals morning-after pill ruling
• Attempt to improve U.S. food-aid efficiency going about as well as you’d expect
• Denmark Repeals Fat, Beer & Soda Taxes

Foreign Policy

• 15 Years or 8 Months...
• Human trafficking at Saudi diplomatic compound in Virginia?
• U.S. officials: We, er, aren't sure where all of Syria's chemical weapons are
• Report: State Department's Benghazi review panel now under investigation

Liberal Mindset

• Videos: May Day in Seattle goes about as well as you’d expect
• Stunner: Mostly Peaceful May Day March Turns Violent in Seattle, Eight Cops Injured

State Government, Taxes, Budget Battle

• Unnecessary special session starts May 13
• [Washington State] Concealed carry reciprocity with Fla. stopped by AG’s office?   (Phone calls recommended)
• Search of KCHA official’s browser shows work isn’t a priority

It's The Economy

• Weekly jobless claims fall to lowest level in 5 years 
• No policy changes expected as Fed ends two-day meeting

Terrorism

• Left-wing domestic terrorist becomes first woman on FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist list

Abortion

• Arizona Abortionist: Why No, If a Baby Were Born Alive, We Would Not Provide Care for It

Media

• Howard Kurtz Screws Up Yet Again, But This Time He's Fired, Because He Offended the Left's Gay Lobby

Politics

• Two new polls: Disapproval of Obama's handling of gun policy over 50 percent

Budget Battle

• Boehner Successfully Reduces House Spending

Thursday news & Opinions

Tyranny

• Newspaper guild: The LA Times must not be sold to the Koch brothers and their "harsh right-wing positions"; Update: LA Dems threaten Times investors over Koch sale 
• Is Obama's second term sunk? 'Maybe I should just pack up and go home.'
• The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended 

Liberal Mindset

• Just When You Think Democrats Couldn’t Possibly Get Any Crazier …

Foreign Policy

• Pentagon Paying China — Yes, China — To Carry Data
• Issa: The next Benghazi hearing is going to "expose new facts" the Obama admin has "tried to suppress"

 
It's The Economy

• Interior doubles estimates of oil in Dakotas, Montana
• Poll: Nearly half of US college grads are underemployed

Politics

• Botched ObamaCare rollout tops Democratic fears for 2014 election
• Daughter of Newtown Victim Confronts GOP Senator for Voting Against Gun Control Bill at Tense Town Hall Meeting, Storms Out After Response
• Obama’s Misfire on Gun Control
• Today’s dumb immigration kabuki: Dems to demand that gay illegals be allowed to sponsor partners abroad
• Any Political Capital That Obama Had Is Now Gone

Media

• Nicholas Jackson, Ghastly Little Fascist
• Breaking: American Press to Find New and Inventive Ways to Ignore Major National Security Story
• Clark County Lincoln Day Dinner Speakers Smeared by SW Washington Press-Watch the videos and you be the judge

Big Government

• Oh, good: Interior still acquiring new land and creating monuments, nevermind sequestration warnings
• CityScan has a solution for cash-strapped cities
• Red Tape Rising: Regulation in Obama’s First Term

State Government, First Amendment

• Gay swipe ignites local fury
• Hewitt counsels staffer for gay remark

Education

• Houston schools cancel NRA safety program after discovering NRA connection?
• Indoctrination NATION 

Terrorism

• The FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist List

Tuesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Good at campaigning, bad at governing
• Whatever's in the Water Out There
• Immigration Bill Has More Fake "Fence" Crap In It
• Americans fear government more than terror
• THREATS AGAINST BENGHAZI WHISTLEBLOWERS ALLEGED
• President calls Jason Collins, praises his courage; Slain heroes overlooked

Politics

• Democrats Plan to Run Pro-Gun Candidates in 2014 Battleground States
• Is It Helpful, In Politics, To Be Mean-Spirited? 
• Ted Cruz: My GOP Senate colleagues yelled at me for wanting to filibuster gun control 

Terrorism

• ‘Losers’ turn to Islamist carnage

State Government, Bill of Rights, Taxes, Budget Battle

• State senator proposes religious belief exemption to civil rights law
• As House Democrats Pass a $900 Million Tax Increase, Governor Throws a Monkey Wrench
• Per-student pre-K spending lowest in decade
• Washington Legislature adjourns without budget

Local Government

• Is the Walla Walla School District going in the right direction with its public meetings aimed at building a consensus on the direction for modernizing Wa-Hi?

Second Amendment

• A new front for gun background checks: the ballot
• Executive Orders, Round Two
• Why They Lost on Gun Control

Education, Liberal Mindset

• 'A History of Psychiatric Problems'
• Erasing History 

ObamaCareTax

• The Deceptive Appeal Of "3D Chess" And "Improving" ObamaCare
• HHS stages multimillion-dollar PR campaign to promote ObamaCare
• Another Obamacare deadline missed

American Exceptionalism

• Video: World Trade Center to become tallest building in Western hemisphere today ... or tomorrow

Abortion

• Undercover Video By Live Action Puts Into Question Just How Rare Gosnell-Type "Abortions" Really Are
• Gosnell’s defense attorney: This is an “elitist, racist prosecution”
• CNN legal analyst: Gosnell media blackout a ‘business decision’ and not evidence of bias

It's The Economy

• Why the Jobs Outlook Just Got a Whole Lot Worse

Big Government

• Of course: D.C. on cutting edge of citizen-gouging traffic camera technology

Foreign Policy

• Obama’s Syrian Dilemma

Looking Ahead

• Republican Liberty Caucus State Chapter Defeats Pro-LIFE Resolution, Cites Need to Keep Pro-Abortion Members: Counterpoint, The RLCWA State Convention - What Remains To Be Seen

Opinions and news for Sunday

Tyranny

• the Trea. Party
• Obama, Clinton Campaign Officials Convicted of Election Fraud 
• About that one-year window to apply for provisional legal status… 

American Exceptionalism

• All That For A Flag?

Terrorism

• US imam calls on Muslims in US to wage jihad
• Exclusive: Government doc shows how closely Boston Marathon bombers followed al Qaeda plans
• FBI: Tsarnaev bombs showed “additional training or expertise”

Liberal Mindset

• Gun-Haters Eat Crow after Blaming NRA for Marathon Bombing

Taxes

• Governors Group: Marketplace Fairness Act not a violation of tax pledge

Education, Liberal Mindset

• Teachers should give lessons in pornography and tell pupils 'it's not all bad',  experts say
• University Logo as Rorschach Inkblot
• Middle School Girls Forced into Lesbian Role playing; Boys Taught How to Identify a Slut

Abortion

• Obama: ‘Thank you, Planned Parenthood, and God bless you’
• Palin Hammers 'Radically Pro-Abortion' Obama for Planned Parenthood Speech

Big Government

• Continuing the National Discussion

Media

• Perry blasts California newspaper for cartoon depicting Texas plant explosion
• Still No Confirmation of ‘Sleeper Cell’ Connection in Boston Marathon Bombing
• Tom Brokaw on skipping White House Correspondents Dinner: Event has become cheap and undignified ever since Lindsay Lohan stole all our attention last year

Budget Battle

• FAA furlough reprieve: 'No fair!'

Politics

• Republicans In Congress to Push AMMO ACT to Limit DHS Purchases
• Copyright-challenged Moonbat Unveils Anti-Bill of Rights Poster, Ace Promptly Pimp-Slaps It Into Oblivion
• How much should we take politicians at their word?
• Rubio hit hard after inviting comments on immigration bill

State Government, Bill of Rights

• GOP wants freedom of conscience protection for businesses

Corruption

• Naturally: California awards billion-dollar high speed rail contract to firm partly owned by Dianne Feinstein’s husband

Second Amendment

• Gallup Poll Shows Only 4% of Americans Think Gun Control is an Important Problem

Saturday News

Tyranny

• Why are the senators so eager to give citizenship away the same senators so eager to ignore its protections?
• Gang of Eight loopholes put many illegal immigrants on fast track to citizenship
• Obama, Heroically Alone For His Moment of Silence for the Victims of Boston.
• Holder Calls Amnesty a 'Civil Right'
• Pint-sized, Would-be Despot Bloomberg Urinates on the Constitution   
• Obama still holding out on those subpoenaed Fast & Furious documents

It's The Economy

• Q1 GDP: 2.5% annualized growth; Update: “Disappointing,” says CBS
• Record Number of US Households on Food Stamps
• The Euro Is Ripping Europe Apart

Terrorism

• WaPo: Joint Terrorism Task Force warned about Tsarnaev’s return from Russia

Big Government

• Alarming! DOD Launches Urban Assault Training In Chicago Suburb, Frightened Residents Describe “A War Zone”
• Examiner Editorial: How the FBI was blinded by political correctness 
• Bad news: The Federal Helium Program is not a parody
• Rep. Hank Johnson’s ‘world without balloons’ speech meant to ‘deflate GOP message machine’
• Another Anti-Voucher Democrat, With Kids in the Best Private School
• In bid to play down claims of stockpiling, DHS improbably claims agents are shooting 3x-4x more than our Army at war

Foreign Policy

• White House: Clinton’s 'Signature' on Benghazi Docs Doesn't Mean She Knew of Them
• Syrian War Rape: Obama Supports The Real War on Women 

Media

• NYT: Breitbart was right about Pigford
• New York Times rejects Bloomberg group's demand to correct pro-gun op-ed

ObamaCareTax

• Dems on Capitol Hill retreat from ObamaCare exemption; Update: Dems getting nervous about Obamacare?

Education, Liberal Mindset

• German 5-Year-Olds Now Learning How to Achieve Orgasm: 'The vagina and penis feel nice and tingly and warm'

Politics

• A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio
• Obama: Planned Parenthood isn't going anywhere, America
• Gun-Grabbers Go After GOP
• ACLU, LGBT Groups Raise "Grave Concerns" About Job Bill Religious Exemption

Budget Battle

• Breaking: House passes bill to end FAA furloughs

News and Opinions for a Friday!

Tyranny

• BREAKING: Reid Introduces Ammunition Background Check Bill
• In a Showdown with Sen. Sessions, ‘Big Sis’ Napolitano Claims that the Obama Administration can Pick and Choose what Laws to Enforce 
• Eric Holder: ‘Banning homeschooling does not violate rights’
• Obama's Terrorist Pal Comes Clean About Their Friendship
• NY State Middle School Forces Girls to Ask Each Other for a Kiss as Part of Anti-Gay-Bullying "Workshop" 
• ACLU: CISPA Is Dead (For Now)

State Government, Budget Battle, Education

• Education Budgets Compared

Big Government, Corruption, EPA

• Obamacare for thee but not for me [UPDATED]
• Up in the air: Taxpayers are subsidizing empty commercial flights
• They Damn Well Better Have To Abide By It
• Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption
• Raping Arizona......
• Raping Arizona… Part 2
• Did the Boston PD lie about the “hour-long firefight” with Boston terror suspect?
  Lolz at workers. 65% of coal powered plants may close thanks to EPA

Terrorism

• FRC shooter: I targeted them because SPLC list said they were ‘anti-gay’
• Contractor Writes the Real Story About “Secret Warriors” in Afghanistan and Iraq

Foreign Policy

• Canadian minister: Obama rejecting Keystone would be a “serious reversal in our long-standing energy relationship”
• MUST READ: Why Jerusalem is “Holy” for the Muslims

Politics, Liberal Mindset

• Memo: The Aaron Sorkin Model of Political Discourse Doesn't Actually Work
• Powerful New Weapon Unveiled in Fight Against Evil NRA

 Abortion

• Silencing the Lambs

ObamaCareTax

• Good News: House Leadership Fails To "Improve" ObamaCare; Bad News: House Leadership Was Trying To "Improve" ObamaCare
• Re: Good News/Bad News
•  Exclusive--McConnell: Entire Country Should Be Exempt from ObamaCare

Civil Discourse

• War on Women: Kirsten Powers slams Media Matters commenters for calling women ‘whores,’ ‘banshees’

Taxes

• Obama says new taxes aren’t negotiable

Second Amendment

• Joe Biden Readies Gun Control Advocates For Round Two
• Schumer, McCain agree: Gun control’s coming back before the end of the year

A Small City Has A Big Government

Having a Party? Better Call City Hall 
"The Last Page", By Ken Graham
Waitsburg Times: registration required

Are you planning a little get-together with friends sometime this spring? If you live in Dayton, you may need to get permission from the city first.

City Council member Dain Nysoe is spearheading an effort to require city residents who are planning an event to submit a “Special Events Permit Application” first.

The draft application that was reviewed by members of the council’s public safety committee on Thursday (I got my grubby hands on a copy too) is 12 pages long, single spaced. It’s a lightly edited version of one used by the city of Ephrata, Wash.

(Near the top of Page 1 it actually says, “Don’t let the size of this packet intimidate you!” That made me feel better.) The thing is that nowhere in all its verbiage does the document specify what types of events will need a permit. So I guess we must assume that they all do – including your little back-yard barbeque.

Here are some of the things you’ll need to do before you throw your briquettes on the grill:

First of all, you’ll need to submit something called a fact sheet/timeline. A site map must also be submitted, showing locations of proposed parking, fences, stages, toilets and trash containers. And you’ll need to provide samples of advertising for the event. So you’d better cc the city on those invitation emails.

And call your agent, because you’re going to need liability insurance. $1 million per occurrence and $2 million aggregate, to be precise. And don’t forget your health department permit. You’ll also need a temporary use permit, with application submitted to the city planning director at least 30 days prior to the event.

And the kicker is that you’re going to have to pay the city for their trouble on account of your little function. You may have to pay a “park and/or open space rental fee and damage deposit.” And here’s my favorite: you’ll have to pay for the cost of city staff “to ensure that park rules and the permit agreement are enforced.” So there.

 Fair Use prevents posting more  of the column,  but here's the conclusion:

Perhaps, to help minimize risk, a certain amount of documentation to the city for large events is in order.

But instead of borrowing a heavy-handed 12-page document used by a city three times Dayton’s size, and then not putting much more thought into it (like not bothering to define what constitutes an “event”), why not start with a blank slate? Determine what the problem is, and then take least amount of action needed to solve it.

 Sounds reasonable.  

Either Abide By It or Repeal It! (UPDATED)

Lawmakers, aides may get Obamacare exemption

Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, sources in both parties said.

…Yet if Capitol Hill leaders move forward with the plan, they risk being dubbed hypocrites by their political rivals and the American public. By removing themselves from a key Obamacare component, lawmakers and aides would be held to a different standard than the people who put them in office.

If this happens, aAll the members of Congress needs to be tarred and feathered for being as hypocrites for even considering this ..... after being run out of office.

If they are to be exempted because ObamaCare is a problem, THEN SHUT THE STUPID PROGRAM DOWN, so that all Americans aren't equally oppressed. Life can be that simple.

Write your Congressional delegation.

(Updated to reflect the true state of affairs)

Update II:

Thursday opinions and news

Tyranny

• Perez Abomination Grows
• Sen. Harry Reid explains difference between violent anarchists and Tea Party
• Mark Pryor May Soon Have A Bloomberg Problem
• So did Obama just 'Specter' Max Baucus?

Agenda 21

• Forecast: No End in Sight to AGW Excuses

Terrorism

• Krauthammer: "The Lengths To Which Obama Will Go To Avoid Telling Us About The Enemy Is Becoming Comical"
• Kerry: Bombing suspect got radicalized in ChechnyaTo a terrorist, a cop is just a gun store
• Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties
• Bomb suspect influenced by mysterious radical

Big Government, Corruption, Politics

• Did Rubio Lie to Mark Levin?
• Bad Karma: Obama admin kept funding Fisker while knowing it was failing
• Federal judge: Obama/DHS can’t let DREAM-eligible illegals stay if the law says they should be deported
• Federal Judge Rules That Napolitano Does Not Have Self-Proclaimed "Discretion" To Refuse to Deport 
• Feds spend at least $890,000 on fees for empty accounts
• Immigration reform could be bonanza for Democrats
• Boston strong! Company-sized police unit fired 40+ rounds at UNARMED terrorism suspect 

It's The Economy

• Durable Goods Report Delivers More Bad News for Economy

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 22 - 26

Second Amendment

• Anarchy: NY State Troopers Distance Themselves From Cuomo, Hesitant to Enforce Draconian Gun Laws
• Financial Gun Control? GE Capital Quietly Cuts Off Lending to Gun Shops
• Gun prohibitionists to launch grisly anti-NRA effort
• Harry Reid Proposes New Background Check Bill
• Fox News poll: Why yes, most Americans would like a gun when there's a manhunt going on outside
• WaPo-Pew poll: So much for that tide of anger over gun-control failure

Foreign Policy

• House GOP faults Clinton, State Dept for Benghazi security (auto-start video)
• Issa: Clinton "was just wrong" in her testimony on Benghazi

United Nations

• UN Freak and 9/11 Truther Links Boston Bombings to Obama's Israel Trip

State Government, Legislation

• Inslee still considers DUI, gun control, abortion bills in play

American Exceptionalism

• I Watch People Like This
• Adam Carolla Mocks 'Coexist' Bumper Stickers, Says Terrorists 'Hate Our Culture'

Looking Ahead

• It’s time to file for a cultural divorce

Media

• Media and Left (But I Repeat Myself) Wonder: Was Dzhohkar Tsarnaev The World's First Victim of Viral Concussion-Induced Dementia?