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

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

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

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”

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

News and Opinions for Wednesday!

Tyranny

• New Jersey Bypasses Medical Privacy To Assist Feds In Gun Control Registry 
• SHOCKER: Book: Obama surrounds self with ‘idolizers,’ plots legacy with scholars.
• No Tragedy Unfit for Exploitation 
• Cuba’s message to dissidents: You had your trip, now we’re coming after you
• Argentina: Courts now under Cristina’s authority
• Team Rubio’s ‘no welfare for illegal immigrants’ claim takes another hit
• DeMint: Gang of Eight Immigration Plan Unfair, Costs Too Much

Taxes

• The Newest Tax: Flu Vaccines

Politics

• Dems push gun control agenda in DC, but not in battleground states
• President's relationship with GOP congressional leaders at new low
• Bam! Conservatives bust Gov. Christie for rewriting history on Sandy relief 

Second Amendment

• The Billionaire Who Made Gun Control His Pet Issue   
• Gun Owners Continue Owning Guns & Won’t Help Gun Control Groups or Assist in Promoting Partisan Agenda
• Obama’s Gun Policies Unpopular with Millennials
• Because homeowners only need seven rounds to defend the lives of their families. Right, New York?

Media

• Thanks, Obama!  Related --> Chuck Todd: Obama 'Hates' 'Internet Media and Social Media'

Liberal Mindset

• Awesome: Redskins QB RGIII blasts ‘tyranny of political correctness’

Abortion

• Planned Parenthood CEO Lied About Not Knowing of Gosnell Horrors

ObamaCareTax

• Daniel Kessler: The Coming ObamaCare Shock
• 42 Percent of Americans Don't Think Obamacare Is Law 

Foreign Policy

• Obama on Syria: When I said chemical weapons were a "game-changer," I meant we'd rethink our options or something
• Here we go: Obama preparing to send “lethal arms” to Syrian rebels, say senior admin officials

Patriotism

• Ted Cruz Offers Fellow GOP Senators Some Advice: You Could Try To Not Be Such "Squishes"
• 'MERICA, 'MERICA, God shed his grace on thee (55 Photos)

It's The Economy

• The Amazing Texas Energy Turnaround
• Spain Is Beyond Doomed: The 2 Scariest Unemployment Charts Ever

Legislation

• The POPVOX Blog: The Week Ahead: April 29 - May 3

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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

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

Tuesday news and opinions!

Tyranny

• Why Does Evil Make Liberals Stupid?
• More Bullet Hoses 
• Slow Down Immigration Reform: An Open Letter to Sen. Harry Reid from Sen. Rand Paul
• Bloomberg Says Interpretation of Constitution Will ‘Have to Change’ After Boston Bombing
• Timothy P. Carney: Civil society, not Big Brother, is the American way 

It's The Economy, Taxes

• The War against the Young 
• Argentina: Creditors say "no"
• Poverty in America: Millions of families too broke for bank accounts
• Walmart, Amazon Back Stealth Internet Sales Tax Bill
• Surprise: Americans not keen on paying higher gas taxes

Big Government, EPA

• Abracadabra!
• Danes Rethink a Welfare State Ample to a Fault
• Rubio Spokesman: Your Immigration Compromise Offer Reminds Me Of Something. What's It Called? Oh Right...SLAVERY.
• Fisker spent $600K for every car it sold, skids toward bankruptcy
• Obviously: State’s Keystone pipeline review is “insufficient,” says the EPA

ObamaCareTax

• Putting Lipstick on the Obamacare Pig 

Terrorism

• Homeland Security – One Would Have Thought………
• Marathon Bombing: Issues to Watch 
• FBI Confirms Boston Bomber Suspect's Radical Islamism
• Officials: Tsarnaevs Appear To Have Been Motivated By Religion and/or Early 60s Futurist Architecture

Liberal Mindset

• New York's 'Stop and Frisk' Policy a Lifesaver
• Boston Bombing Suspects Did Not Have Valid Handgun Licenses

Media

• Gun Store Running AR-15 Giveaways on Facebook Sees Page Shut Down - And Facebook Hasn't Contacted Him to Say Why
• Hunt for the elusive Tea Party murderer continues

Looking Ahead

• We Can't Go Back to Sleep
• How Chuck Schumer ran rings around Marco Rubio

Corruption

• Farrakhan son is part-time Harvey cop but hasn’t worked a shift in 4 years

Abortion

• Devastating: Philly-area columnist asks a key, yet horrifying, Gosnell question
• Planned Parenthood Kept Silent About Gosnell Butchery

Second Amendment

• USA Today poll shows gun-control support slipping still further

Friday news!

Tyranny

• On The Second Amendment and Presidential Anger
• Can trees grow without Central Planning?
• Planning to Stifle Human Ingenuity
• The House Just Passed The CISPA Cybersecurity Bill — Here's Why The Internet Is Up In Arms
• Pelosi, Biden issue threats after Reid pulls faltering gun ban bill from Senate

Second Amendment

• Gabby Giffords Jumps the Shark With Pathetic Gun-Grabbing Op-Ed in the New York Times
• Senator to propose bill regulating black powder in wake of Boston Massacre

Legislation

• S. 744: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes;  The Border Security, Economic Opportunity & Immigration Modernization Act

Politics

• Organizing For America’s Post-Vote Call to Action    
• Could Obama’s gun-control push cost Democrats the Senate?

Big Government

• No, really: Maryland has a tax on rain now
• Homeland Security’s Ammunition Purchases Should Not Worry You

Abortion

• Testimony: Gosnell reused disposable instruments, falsified records: Update: Nurse saw more than 10 babies breathing

Foreign Policy

• Issa to CIA: Get your lawyers ready on Benghazi
• John Kerry: “We have a lot more important things to move on to” than Benghazi

It's The Economy

• China’s Local Debt “Out of Control”
• IMF Piles On: Pensions Are in Danger
• Sobering Presentation Reveals The Two Economies In America

Corruption

• Memphis prosecutors charge former, current IRS workers with theft of government benefits
• Gun-control official on Senate failure: “Bribery isn’t what it once was”

Media

• CNN Claims Pressure Cooker Bombs Somehow ‘Signature’ of Extreme Right Terrorists
• NYT: Can you believe Fox was talking about this fertilizer explosion instead of guns today?
  

Education, Unions

• College fires professor who forced students to sign pledge to vote for Obama
•  A closer look at how the BGSD conducts its business

State Government, Legislation

• Gun bill stalls in Washington state Senate

ObamaCareTax

• Pompeo to Baucus: If ObamaCare is a “train wreck,” you’ve got nobody to blame but yourself

News and Opinions for Thursday!

Tyranny

• Immigration bill drops overnight; Update: Sessions: “This bill is legalization first”
• Argentina, Where Dollars Are the New Drugs
• Obama: I can't comment on Gosnell, but obviously lawbreakers should be prosecuted

Corruption

• Report: Obama Slashed Budget for Domestic Bombing Prevention by 45%, Spent More on Hawaii Vacations
• FBI Investigated Dingy Harry and Indicted Pal in 2008

Bill of Rights

• Judith Grossman: A Mother, a Feminist, Aghast
• Video: NRA has fun with Bloomberg group's dumb, irresponsible gun-control ad
• Toomey-Manchin Lets Doctors Block Your Gun Rights
• Video: Obama not handling gun-control failure in Senate very well
• Out: Sad Keanu. In: Pissed Obama; President Stompy Foot throws tantrum [pics, video]
• Obama Throws Tantrum over Gun Control Defeat
• He GOT His Vote (Which He NOW Claims “Distorted Senate Rules”), LOST It Handily Despite the Emotional Blackmail

It's The Economy

• Five Myths about Free Enterprise

Politics

• The Party of Surrender

Unions

• The UAW, Having Stripped Detroit Bare, Looks To The South

Media

• Citing anonymous Obama Admin official, CNN asserts pressure cooker bombs come from "extreme right-wing individuals"
• Idjit reporter shocked by ‘Amazing Grace’-playing bagpiper; Twitter schools
• The Mass Murder That The Media Is Choosing To Ignore
• MUST SEE! Race-Baiting Al Sharpton shows you exactly how it’s done going after CNN John King! PERFECT!

Socialism, Communism

• France drowning in rules and regulations, critics say

ObamaCareTax

• Boom: First union officially calls for the repeal of ObamaCare
• Nation's biggest movie theater chain cuts workweek, blaming ObamaCare
• Uh oh: Obamacare author warns implementation could be a "train wreck"

Big Government

• If/when Obama approves the Keystone pipeline, the green lobby is going to go berserk
• Postmaster general: The USPS is currently losing $25 million, every day
• Irony: Gov’t foreclosure settlement checks bounce

American Exceptionalism

• Moving: Man plays ‘Amazing Grace’ on bagpipes outside evacuated Boston courthouse [pics, video] 

Terrorism

• Mississippi man arrested in connection with ricin letter incidents
• Meet Our Modern Educators

Wednesday news & opinions

Tyranny

• Don’t You Feel Better?
• The Sum of all Fears
• Reid: We're making good progress on that anti-gun legislation
• Obama Refuses to Send Any Official Representative to Thatcher Funeral; Boehner Will Send Unofficial, Private-Citizen Delegates
• I Went to Bed a Christian and Woke Up a ... Terrorist?

American Exceptionalism

• One Word on the Boston Massacre

Second Amendment

• Reid coming up short on gun control billManchin-Toomey Amendment orchestrates gun registration, read it yourself
• Accidental honesty: Harry Reid touts progress on 'anti-gun legislation'
• Gun Bill May Be DOA As Spaghetti-Spined Republicans Start Taking Heat from Constituents.  BIDEN: TWO VOTES SHORT
• Anti-Gunners Lose More Money.
• GOP plans replacement proposal as Toomey/Manchin background checks bill nears failure

Media

• Powers: Yes, there is a Gosnell cover-up in the media
• The 10 Absolute Worst Media Reactions To The Boston Marathon Bombings
• Breaking media silence: Column
• Jay Mohr Calls for Gun Ban in Wake of Boston Bombing
• CBS News continues to hope Boston bomb suspect can be tied to the Tea Party
• The man on the roof

Abortion

• Eric Holder’s wife co-owns abortion clinic building run by indicted abortionist

State Government, Legislation, Taxes

• Dems will use 9th Order to resurrect Dream Act, abortion bill
• Washingtonians tell Olympia to restore 2/3s rule for tax hikes
• House snubs GOP amendments, OKs transportation budget

Budget Battle

• WaPo/ABC poll shows Obama under water on budget proposal 
• Role reversal: GOP blasts Obama plan to sell TVA

Corruption

• Desperate Dem Terry McAuliffe sues Watchdog.org over green tech/cash-for-visas exposé

ObamaCareTax

• Doctors Go Shopping: Price Comparisons Lead MDs to Lower Testing Costs

Taxes

• Most People Are Supposed To Pay This Tax. Almost Nobody Actually Pays It.

It's The Economy

• Yikes: IMF lowers global economic growth forecasts

Terrorism

• Shock the system? Electrical grid, comms attacked near San Jose

Local Government

• Tea partiers hold tax day rally in Walla Walla (read the comments)
• Sheriff waylays deputy who plans to run against him

News and opinions for Tuesday

Tyranny

• "Wise Men" Propose Theft to Bail Out Banks   
• NO WONDER HE'S ACTING SO DESPERATE

Abortion

• GOP lawmakers call for media spotlight on abortion doctor’s trial
• Jay Carney: President Obama Takes No Position on Gosnell or His Crimes 

Bill of Rights

• WHY THE OBAMA-BACKED SCHUMER-TOOMEY-MANCHIN GUN REGISTRY BILL SHOULD BE FILIBUSTERED AND DEFEATED
• Gun-rights leader: ‘We snookered the other side’ on Toomey-Manchin
• "Gun Rights" Group: Boy, We Really "Snookered" the Gun Controllers in Toomey-Manchin.  Volokh: No, They've Snookered You
• Lewis attorney says gun confiscation no “error”
• Cuomo Dismisses Gun Owners as “Extreme Fringe Conservatives”
• “A Bad Time for Press Freedoms”
• Bloomberg: If You Sell a Gun to Your Son, 'There's Something Wrong in Your Family'
• At least four Republican senators likely to vote yes on background-checks bill
• Manchin-Toomey Amendment Getting Close to 60?
• Obama's United Nations Backdoor to Gun Control   

Big Government

• Risky Business

Politics

• House Puts a Hold on NLRB
• Democratic Super PAC already attacking Republican “Gang of Eight” members for being too hard on illegals
• Sources: Menendez holding up vote on resolution honoring Margaret Thatcher

It's The Economy

• NY Fed Manufacturing Growth Slows Sharply in April

Corruption, Taxes

• Video: Scarborough blasts Obama for his 18.4% tax rate
• A friendly reminder from Howard Dean on tax day
• Great news: Congress unanimously repeals transparency requirement on stock transactions for … Congress; Update: Obama signs bill
• TurboTax, Lobbying and Failure

Media

• CBS News: Even Gosnell's former attorney wondered where the media was
• WashPost Admits a Gosnell Blackout, But Claims There's No 'Evidence' of Liberal Bias

State Government, Taxes

• Tax Day Reminder: Restore the Two-Thirds

News and opinions for Tax Day!

Tyranny

• 46 U.S. Senators voted to forfeit the Constitution to foreign powers on March 23. The mainstream media covered it up.
• Democrats Embrace Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Hate) 
• Priorities 
• Now He's After Your 401(k) 
• The Gang of Eight's Secret Amnesty Deal: Enforcement Will Not Come First [Sessions]

Communism

• Chilling images from inside the mass indoctrination ceremonies where communist 'cult' leaders brainwash North Korea's children

Abortion

• The Price of Utopia
• Stop the Killing. Stop the Crying.

Second Amendment

• Peter King: House gun bill ready Monday
•  Gun debate in Senate likely to feature amendments to weaken or strengthen laws
• Obama invites Newtown mom to deliver White House weekly address
• Don’t be fooled. Gun confiscation has already begun in NY
• Democrats push bill in Congress to require gun insurance under penalty of fine
• Broken Background Checks Won’t Stop Gun Violence
• Rep. Carolyn McCarthy: If guns ‘aren’t in the stores, they can’t be bought’
• What about national CCW reciprocity, cross-state sales?
• Gun Thread (4-14-2013)
• Coburn Amendment: Breaking the Glass

Big Government, EPA

• The next ban… e-cigarettes
• The President’s self created trap on Keystone XL

Foreign Policy

• Ron Paul plans foreign policy institute

Media, Terrorism

• Texas ADA, DA and his wife were murdered by… former justice of the peace
• Disgraced Lawyer Charged With Threatening E-Mails, Suspected in Murders of Texas Prosecutors
• MSNBC: The Network America Turns to for Irresponsible Speculation About News
• SNL Lampoons New Gun Bill: Dealers Must Ask, ‘Are You a Good Person?’
• ESPN Claim: Two NASCAR Drivers Told To Avoid Interviews With NRA Logo In The Background

Education

• Our Education System Is a Complete Disaster

Civil Discourse

• Actress Stacey Dash Told to 'Go Die' After Slamming Cuba Trip by Jay-Z, Beyoncé

Legislation

• H.R. 1467: To reduce the annual rates of pay of Members of Congress by 20 percent and prohibit further adjustments to such rates.

State Government, Budget Battle, Second Amendment

• House OKs Dems’ budget, setting up showdown with Senate
• Contact Sen Hewitt to Oppose HB 1840 in Washington State Senate

It's The Economy

• Bitcoin Is Changing The World
• The Recurring Rate of Non-Recovery

Politics

• Sen. Sessions: Immigration Reform Bill 'Will Not Withstand Public Scrutiny'On the Agenda