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

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

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

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

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

From "Gun Owners of America"

Obama Administration Trying to

Grab Guns Through Executive Order

Tell HHS their new regs are crazy

“Gun Owners of America [has] spent the months since Newtown doing tremendous damage, insisting that expanded background checks will lead to a gun registry.” - New York Times, April 4, 2013

It’s quite a complement when the New York Times thinks that you are doing “tremendous damage.”  But you can be sure that the other side is not going to go away quietly.

And sure enough, the Obama Administration is trying to unilaterally undo our recent victory in the Senate - and to undo the “damage” that all of us inflicted together.

But first, a little history.

Remember when Senators Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and Chuck Schumer formed an unholy alliance during the recent gun battle on Capitol Hill?  Remember how their amendment would have encouraged your psychiatrist to turn you in to the FBI's gun ban list?

And you remember how we stopped that provision, because over 40 senators found it to be odious and a violation of the Second Amendment?

Well, guess what?  Barack Obama has just concluded that "he don't need no stinkin’ Senate."

Sunday news & opinions

• Top South Carolina Democrat Wants To Send Nikki Haley “Wherever The Hell She Came From”
• The printable gun has arrived
• The POPVOX Top 20: April 25 - May 2
• Obama Administration’s Benghazi Lies Exposed as State Department Cover-Up
• DAMNING: The Complete Benghazi Timeline in Spreadsheet Format
• Benghazi Impeachment Suddenly Not So Far-Fetched
• Kansas Governor to AG Holder: We Will Continue to Defend 2nd Amendment
• Civility: Haters hope for violence, death at NRA convention
• Media Matters runs cover before Fox News’ Kermit Gosnell special airs
• How the Oregon Study Should Change Our Thinking
• Five Things Obamacare Won’t Do
• An armed march on Washington? Let’s not. Update: Kokesh an anti-war smear merchant?
• Gang of Eight's Stuttering Cluster of an Immigration Bill Deconstructed With a Single Infographic
• MSNBC Forced to Apologize After Egregiously Taking Quotes Out of Context for Gun Control Segment

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

Follow Your Conscience

The headline from the Walla Walla Union Bulletin on April 30^th, 2013:

“Gay swipe ignites local fury”

 And the headline on May 1^st, 2013: 

“Hewitt counsels staffer for gay remark”

This incident started because of a bill Senator Hewitt co-sponsored, SB 5927, “Concerning the right to engage in commerce free from discrimination.”  SB 5927 was introduced as a result of a lawsuit filed against a Richland florist, Barronelle Stutzman, because she declined to work a same-sex marriage due to her religious objections.  She faces the Washington State Attorney General, who accuses her of violating anti-discrimination laws.

When the same-sex law was passed last year, supporters of the bill argued that the bill provided sufficient protections for private business owner wishing to exercise their right of conscience.  That turns out to not be the case, especially since the same supporters are now incensed that SB 5297 has introduced.  SB 5297 is intended to protect the “right of an individual or entity to deny services” if providing those services is contrary to their “sincerely held religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs or matters of conscience.”  This is a basic right under the First Amendment, and should be protected. 

The unfortunate response from Senator Hewitt’s staffer has been dealt with in a quick and professional matter.  The response from others has been equally swift.  The Union-Bulletin reported that “there were organizations ‘all over the place’ calling for a boycott of Walla Walla wines and cancellation of visits to Walla Walla.”

One man was quoted as saying:  “Who knows if there will be any real impact at the end of the day, but Walla Walla will be framed in a negative fashion.  I think it shows a disconnect to who (Hewitt’s) constituents really are.”  

Senator Hewitt had this to say in the latest WWUB article:

“These people have rights of their own,” Hewitt said. “We did not think this lady was supposed to be able to get sued.”

His own stand on gay marriage is “ambivalent,” Hewitt said. “When I am in a legislative situation, I could care less one way or the other. But I can tell you, the comments I am getting are thank you’s for supporting the silent minority. A lot of these people won’t speak up and say anything.”

This is not about discriminating against same-sex marriage.  This is about preserving the rights of Americans to follow their religious beliefs without fear of prosecution and retaliation, and the rights of business owners to limit their participation in something they do not believe in.  Senator Hewitt is supporting the religious liberties and rights of Washington State residents. 

If you are a member of the “silent majority”, please follow your conscience, and support him by sending words of encouragement.  You can contact him through his Legislature web site.

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

Wednesday News

Tyranny

• W.Va. Teen Arrested After 'Almost Inciting Riot' Wearing NRA Shirt to School
• The controversial moment SWAT teams ordered innocent neighbors out of their houses at GUNPOINT during door-to-door searches for the Boston bomber
• House to House Searching, Not Just Boston Anymore
• Bloomberg wants to reintepret the Constitution 

Media

• Media Chorus to Silence Ted Cruz Growing Louder
• Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives

United Nations

• If Supposedly One Gomer Speaks for All Americans When Looking For an Excuse to Hate Us

Education

• Seven Not-So-Fun Facts About the Costs of Public Education

Corruption, Foreign Policy

• Sharyl Attkisson tweets House report; Reveals Hillary Clinton lied under oath about Benghazi; Update: WH altered talking points
• Dissecting the Gang of 8′s enforcement sham
• House GOP releases report on Benghazi investigation, faulting Clinton
• Let’s see now…
• Congressional Panel Releases Report on Beghazi: Hillary Not Truthful In Claiming That She Was Unaware of Requests for Improved Security; White House Blamed Video In Order to Deflect Attention Away From State's Refusal to Provide Security

Terrorism

• Terrorist blames Bush

Bill of Rights

• Searches and Seizures: Reasonable or Unreasonable?
• The Boston Civil Rights Massacre

Abortion

• Kermit Gosnell Judge Drops Three Abortion-Infanticide Charges

Taxes

• Promise expired: Obama budget tax hikes hit “nearly every income level”
• Carney: Online sales tax will ‘level the playing field’

Agenda 21

• Whatcom County destroys the environment in order to save it

Monday News

• We Use This Word Too Much These Days And Toss It About To Describe Mundane Acts
• Quote of the Day
• Boston bombers: FBI hunting 12-strong terrorist “sleeper cell” linked to brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
• Related: The Blair-Glass ‘Sleeper Cell’ — British Tabloid Fabricates a Phony Scoop
• The ‘Co-exist’ Bombers.
• The real lesson of the Gosnell trial
• MSNBC host explains our fixation with the bombers’ roots
• Blue states to sue EPA for not crushing coal industry fast enough
• Reminds Me of “Dog Day Afternoon” ~ Robbing a Bank With a Guy Who, Given Their Choice of International Refuges, Thinks “Wyoming”
• No Warrant, No Entry
• The Media Didn’t Learn a Thing after Boston   
• FBI, Boston PD raided Watertown homes without warrants in terrorist hunt
• ‘Take good care of the children’
• And now, a public service announcement on immigration from Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
• House committee wants administration's intelligence on Tamerlan Tsarnaev
• Feinstein 'regrets' talk of declaring Boston bombing suspect a military combatant
• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 22 - 26

Sunday news!

•  Obama Losing Control of Middle East Policy
• Old And Busted: It's Not Amnesty Because illegals Will Have To Pay Back Taxes. New Hotness: Shut Up.
• John King Not Benched for Calling Suspect "Dark-Skinned," CNN Says
• Islamist Ultimatum to Syrian Christians: Convert, Leave, or Die.
• Obama Bans Islam, Jihad From National Security Strategy Document
• Biden: GOP Trying To Get Guns In More Hands
• Constitution of the United States
• Dana Milbank breaks out the rustiest epithet in the whole arsenal of liberal insults
• Video – Tim Scott. “There is no corner on Earth, no hiding place”
• Tale of two terrorists
•  Gosnell worker testifies to seeing baby make swimming motion in toilet
• Boston lockdown: The new normal?
• Terror Attacks Force US Officials To Balance Safety, Privacy Concerns
• After Four Days of Speculatively Blaming the Right and Anticipating What Political Solutions We Might Need To Address Their Growing Menace, Left Declares That the Time for Speculation and Political Wargaming Has Passed
• Getting to the bottom of this Miranda question for the bomber

First Amendment under attack by Washington State Attorney General

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson has sued a small business owner who declined to provide flowers for a same-sex wedding ceremony.  Background information may be found at these links:

•  Arlene's Flowers in Richland sued by gay couple
• Arlene's Flower Shop Florist, Refuses Washington Gay Wedding Job Because Of Religion
• WA Florist Sued for Beliefs About Marriage

If you want to help, here are some ways to do so:

• Ask Mr. Ferguson to respect religious freedom and conscience rights and drop his lawsuit against Arlene's Flowers.  Call Attorney General Ferguson at 360-753-6200, then tell a friend and ask them to do the same.
• Make a donation to Arlene's Flowers Legal Defense Fund. Contributions are not tax deductible.
• Buy flowers from Arlene's, at 1177 Lee Blvd, Richland, WA 99352, phone (800) 692-0706

Hall of Shame

Details from ZDNet: CISPA passes U.S. House: Death of the Fourth Amendment?  Key quotes:

A great deal of controversy has stirred around this Bill. Having amendments passed in a veil of secrecy did not help matters, either.

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The key provision of CISPA is that it allows government entities to acquire your data without a warrant, should a private company holding your data hand it over.

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As it stands, CISPA is dangerously vague, and should not allow for any expansion of government powers through a series of poorly worded definitions. If the drafters intend to give new powers to the government's already extensive capacity to examine your private information, they should propose clear and specific language so we can have a real debate.

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"The core problem is that CISPA allows too much sensitive information to be shared with too many people in the first place, including the National Security Agency," the privacy group said. In a statement today, it went further, calling the Bill "extreme."

Members of the Washington Delegation whom voted for CISPA (H.R. 624, Internet regulation and loss of freedom):

• Rick Larsen WA-2
• Doc Hastings WA-4
• Cathy McMorris-Rodgers WA-5
• Derek Kilmer WA-6
• Dave Reichert WA-8
• Adam Smith WA-9
• Denny Heck WA-10

CISPA can still be killed in the Senate.  Contact your US Senators, and urge them to stop HR 624.  For
Washington State:

• Senator Cantwell
• Senator Murray