http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323419604578571872194739406.html?mod=opinion_newsreel President Obama had plenty of reasons to deliver his grandiose climate speech on Tuesday, among them a desire to change the subject. But the better motive was his urgent need to quell a growing revolt among his grass roots. The backlash has centered on climate, and nowhere has it been more amusingly illustrated than […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/100-of-tea-party-groups-targeted-by-the-irs/print/
Looks like the Taxman knew a natural enemy when it saw one.
Refuting Democratic suggestions that progressive groups were also swept up in the IRS probe of the tax status of Tea Party organizations, the Treasury Department’s inspector general has revealed that just six progressive groups were targeted compared to 292 conservative groups.
In a letter to congressional Democrats, the inspector general also said that 100 percent of Tea Party groups seeking special tax status were put under IRS review, while only 30 percent of the progressive groups felt the same pressure.
The Wednesday letter to the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Committee punched a huge hole in Democratic claims that progressive groups were targeted as much as the Tea Party groups from May 2010-May 2012, the height of the Tea Party movement.
The letter from the Treasury Department Inspector General for Tax Administration revealed that there just weren’t many progressive groups who even sought special tax exempt status. A total of 20 sought it, and six were probed. All 292 Tea Party groups, meanwhile, were part of the IRS witchhunt.
While conservative groups were term-targeted, liberal groups were not. If they were hit, it was as collateral damage. Switch around the politics and if this had happened under Bush, there would be screams of bloody murder, eight books, three movies and impeachment proceedings.
“Our audit did not find evidence that the IRS used the ‘progressives’ identifier as selection criteria for potential political cases between May 2010 and May 2012,” [Treasury Inspector General for Tax Adminstration Russell] George wrote in the letter obtained by The Hill.
The inspector general also stressed that 100 percent of the groups with “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12” in their name were flagged for extra attention.
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/charles-bybelezer/the-morality-of-occupation/print/ The occupation of West Germany by the United States, Great Britain and France lasted a full decade, whereas East Germany essentially remained a Soviet satellite throughout the Cold War. Only in 1990, with the momentous fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification of the country on October 3rd of that year, did the occupation […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/majid-rafizadeh/beheading-for-a-free-syria/ “Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar, Allah Akbar.” This chant, meaning “God is great” in Arabic, is repeatedly heard in this barbaric and savage video clip (below). Amidst a crowd of men standing on a small hill, while women and children watch behind, are three kneeling men – supposedly supporters of Assad’s regime – who are beheaded […]
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/islam-rape-and-theology/ Five days before 9/11, a famous Norwegian social anthropologist (and Norway may well be the only nation on Earth where there is such a thing as a famous social anthropologist) instructed her countrywomen that the way to bring down the high number of rapes – most of which, even way back then, were already […]
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-supreme-court-and-voter-registration-law Recently the Supreme Court delivered a rebuke to Governor Jan Brewer and the citizens of Arizona arguing in a 7 to 2 majority that the state violated federal law when it added a proof of citizenship requirement to a federal voter registration form almost a decade ago. According to the majority decision the high […]
http://www.newsmax.com/Newswidget/obama-tea-party-threat/2013/06/27/id/512314?promo_code=EB8D-1&utm_source=National_Review&utm_medium=nmwidget&utm_campaign=widgetphase1 BY LISA BARON While half of all voters view radical Muslims as the top terrorist threat facing the country, those who strongly support President Barack Obama think the tea party is more dangerous, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey. The poll of likely voters found that 51 percent consider radical Muslims the biggest […]
http://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2013/06/27/free-speech-in-the-uk-sayonara/?print=1
“U.S. Bloggers banned from Entering the UK.”
That’s how a BBC headline [1] broke the news that authors Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer were denied entry to the country that gave the world the Magna Carta.
“Blogger,” you see, is an insinuating term. Not quite a term of abuse, but still a word that imparts diminishment. Who are you going to believe, asked Dan Rather [2] when questioned about his — as it turned out, fraudulent — story about George W. Bush’s military service: me, Dan Rather of CBS, or some blogger sitting in front of his computer in his pajamas?
Good question, Dan! Why don’t you think about that in your ignominious retirement and get back to us — or, on second thought, don’t get back to us. Just think about what a preening fool you made of yourself before even CBS had had enough and cashiered you.
Geller and Spencer are both, in different ways, prominent critics of Islamism — i.e., of that strong current of militant Islam that seeks to spread the intolerant ideology of Islam in the West through the imposition of sharia in Western countries. You might agree with their views, and then again, you might not.
That’s hardly the point, is it?
http://pjmedia.com/blog/failure-deniers/?singlepage=true If not taxpayer-funded, the massive failure of warmism advocates would have been addressed long ago. Tuesday afternoon, as I was reading Barack Obama’s Georgetown University speech on “climate change,” it occurred to me that the biggest and perhaps most consequential difference between the government and the private sector is how each reacts when reality doesn’t behave […]
http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/the_only_climate_consensus_is_that_obamas_polls_are_cooling.html
We’ve gone from “change that we can believe in” to “executive orders that we can push through.”
Well, it’s time for another decree and now it’s “climate change.”
There are problems with all of this consensus about climate change. Where is the consensus?
The Economist, hardly a member of “The Flat Earth Society,” posted an editorial that Valerie Jarret should add to President Obama’s morning briefing:
“GLOBAL warming has slowed. The rate of warming of over the past 15 years has been lower than that of the preceding 20 years. There is no serious doubt that our planet continues to heat, but it has heated less than most climate scientists had predicted. Nate Cohn of the New Republic reports: “Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; they’re perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections”.”
OK, let me confess that I know a lot more about batting averages than climate change.
At the same time, the definition of consensus is that there is common agreement about something: General agreement or accord.
We were told 15 years ago that the earth’s temperatures were going up. Someone named Gore made a movie about the poles melting and the East Coast flooding.
We are told today that they may be going down. I guess that means that I will be soon wearing a sweater in Texas in July!
