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The IRS Audit From Hell
22 May 2013 12:03 am

From prominent election lawyer Cleta Mitchell comes the disgusting detail with which the IRS hounded conservative groups, demanding so much information as to constitute a deliberately crippling workload.

Mitchell notes that prior to 2010, the scrutiny of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) applications was brief and non-intrusive. She reprints a typical questionnaire to one of her clients in 2009, asking little more than an update on its articles of incorporation. Mitchell says that before 2010, applications for 501(c)(3) took 3-12 months and for 501(c)(4)s usually only 3-6 months.
Then, in 2010, it all changed.
To …

Obama Losing Control Over Events
15 May 2013 12:03 am

“A statesman’s duty is to bridge the gap between his vision and his nation’s experience. If his vision gets too far out ahead of its experience, he will lose his mandate. But if it hues too close to the conventional, he will lose control over events.” — Henry Kissinger in “Years of Upheaval”

President Barack Obama is losing control over events. The single greatest power a president has is to determine the national agenda — to set the table and decide on the menu. But second term presidents often find themselves …

Why Obama Didn’t Send in the Troops
14 May 2013 12:04 am

Why didn’t President Obama order troops to Benghazi to protect what remained of our diplomatic delegation and their security staff? The only known communication between the president and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during the attack took place about one and one half hours after the assault began. Why didn’t Obama call for reinforcements?

More to the point, as the attack escalated and its dimensions became clearer, why didn’t the defense secretary ask him for authority to order relief for the beleaguered mission? Why didn’t he even ask?
Clearly, the president must have …

Next Step On Benghazi: Special Committee
10 May 2013 12:02 am

Now that we know that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knew that Benghazi was a terrorist attack three hours after it started and that somebody in Washington barred sending reinforcements to the beleaguered consulate, it’s time to ask why. The best way to do that — the only way to do that — is through a special committee of the House of Representatives armed with subpoena power and focused solely on Benghazi.

Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf has already secured the signatures of 139 of his fellow Republican Congressmen (60 percent of …

Benghazi: Beginning of End of Obama
8 May 2013 12:03 am

Americans can stand pretty much anything but not being lied to by their president. When Bill Clinton lied about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, his personal favorability ratings dropped twenty points and never recovered for the duration of his presidency.

As the Benghazi hearings unfold, it will become more and more clear that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton knowingly lied to the American people when they both pretended that the attacks on our consulate in Benghazi was just a demonstration against the anti-Muslim video gone violent. Even as …

Obama Losing Power
1 May 2013 12:03 am

Listen to the air going out of the economy; it sounds like an air mattress deflating. As Obamacare comes closer to reality, its drawbacks — or at the very least its growing pains — alienate more of its erstwhile supporters. President Obama’s failure to pass the gun control bill was more than a legislative reversal. He lost in the court of public opinion. Despite his histrionics exploiting the Newtown, Conn. tragedy, he failed to move public opinion. In fact, polling suggests that it moved the other way — from a …

Sequestration: Obama’s Revenge
24 Apr 2013 12:03 am

So many of the unattractive parts of the personality and presidency of Barack Obama are evident in how he has handled the sequestration issue. It’s worth looking at it for what it tells us about our president and his administrative style.

Start with his detachment from the business of government and administration. Confronted with a Congressional mandate to cut about $40 billion in spending this year from a total non-defense discretionary budget of about $600 billion, he just ordered across the board reductions in proportion to the legislative totals.
When President Truman …

Boston: The Price of Distraction
17 Apr 2013 12:03 am

Immediately after 9/11, America was united, vigilant and determined not to permit a repeat of the slaughter of the innocents. But since then, we have let down our guard.
Partisans on the right might say that we did so because the attorney general and the president tied the hands of those who are charged with our homeland defense. Partisans on the left might say that budget cuts impaired our ability to staff our homeland security efforts adequately. Both would be partially correct.
But the fact is that we have let down our …

The New Wedge Issue: Gold
10 Apr 2013 12:03 am

As public concern mounts over Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s policy of unlimited and unrestrained printing of currency, the political focus on gold is increasing. Each month now, our currency expands by over $80 billion. Each year, the amount that comes into circulation equals the total money supply that was in circulation in 2007, before Bernanke went crazy with the printing press.
By excluding food and fuel from the calculations, he has managed to bring in the Consumer Price Index at less than his 2 percent annual inflationary target, but few …

GOP Senate Chances Look Good
3 Apr 2013 12:14 am

Having blown five likely Senate wins on bad candidates and worse consulting, it is best not to count chickens before they hatch. But the prospects for Republican gains in the Senate in 2014 are brightening, and there is a solid shot at regaining control.
Two seats seem poised to fall into Republican laps. In West Virginia, the retirement of Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller leaves a void that Republican Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito seems likely to fill. Capito is the daughter of long-time West Virginia governor Arch Moore (a former client) who …

Home Schooling: The Empire Strikes Back
20 Mar 2013 12:03 am

With over two million children now schooled — usually quite well — at home, the education establishment and the teachers unions find themselves leaking students at an alarming rate. Driven by bad public education, the threat of school violence and a virtual prohibition against values-based learning in government schools, more and more Americans are taking advantage of their right to home school their children. The very success of their experiences — as measured by test scores, jobs after graduation, and college admissions — are violating the fundamental credo of the …

The Coming Obamacare Backlash
19 Mar 2013 12:04 am

It’s worth remembering that President Obama decided not to let his new Obamacare scheme take effect until 2014. At the time of its passage in 2010, it seemed politically wise to delay its implementation. Republicans won the election of 2010 and lost that of 2012. But the full impact of the new law will begin to become apparent in 2014 and the effect will be horrific, deeply damaging the Obama Administration and the Democrats who backed it.
The main brunt of the impact will be on premiums for health insurance coverage. …

Beat Obama Over Spending
16 Mar 2013 12:02 am

Republicans need to focus their fire on spending, spending and spending. Obama is vulnerable and exposed and can be taken down over this issue. His recent drop in polling can be directly attributed to his spirited opposition to the sequester cuts.
Ever since President Obama succeeded in raising taxes, he has been left naked and unprotected on his opposition to spending cuts. No longer can he deflect proposals to curb the massive federal spending and debt by saying that we should first try to raise taxes on the rich. Now that …

Game Changer in Latin America
14 Mar 2013 12:02 am

The twin developments of the death of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez and the election of Jorge Mario Bergoglio may offer a turning point for Latin America.
Chavez had established an eight-country empire of minions willing to do his bidding including Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Cuba. In addition, the Dominican Republic and Brazil are under his influence.
His power is maintained by massive cash handouts to the poor, which lure them to support his version of revolutionary, socialist change. Free food and medical care flow freely from his …

Latinos: New Republicans?
13 Mar 2013 12:03 am

A new poll taken by Mexico’s leading public opinion researcher shows that U.S. citizens of Latino descent are potentially strong allies of the Republican Party. The survey found strong indications that Latinos in the U.S. are deeply worried that the Democratic Party may lead their new country down the same path of debt and dependence that bedeviled the nations they left.
By 59 to 34 percent, U.S. Latinos agreed, “Democrats are closer to the leaders we had in Latin America, always giving handouts to get votes. If we let them have …

Medicare Vs. Medicaid
12 Mar 2013 12:04 am

Only a small suffix separates the two major health care programs run by the federal and state governments, but their relative political, budgetary and equity considerations are miles apart. When Obama lumps “entitlements” together, he inevitably means Medicare and Social Security. But the entitlements that need reining in are neither of these: They are Medicaid, food stamps, disability, subsidized housing and welfare.
Republicans, from Congressman Paul Ryan on down, must take aim at the means-tested entitlements and leave the Democrats to propose cuts in Social Security or Medicare.
Last year, Medicaid costs …

After Chavez’ Death, a New Burst of Freedom
7 Mar 2013 12:04 am

Ding, dong the wicked witch is dead! Or the male equivalent. It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
Chavez ruled an empire, which included effective and total control over the governments of Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and very substantial influence over Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Uruguay and Argentina. His nine nation block stands for tyranny, oppression and authoritarian rule purchased by massive recycling of our oil cash to purchase food, clothing and medical care for the poor — giving them everything they need but freedom, a job, independence, and …

GOP Voters Back Immigration Reform
6 Mar 2013 12:03 am

A new blockbuster survey by the noted Republican survey research firm McLaughlin and Associates reveals a stunning reversal of opinion by Republican voters on the issue of immigration reform. Where once there was hardened opposition to such legislation, a national sample of 500 self-described likely Republican voters shows broad support now emerging for the measure.
Asked about an immigration reform proposal that would “grant illegal immigrants legal status and a green card and then, after a wait of several years, they could apply for citizenship if they pay back taxes, pay …

Obama’s Army Seeks Revenge
27 Feb 2013 12:03 am

The never-ending Obama campaign announced this week that it was raising funds from big donors — only a relative handful — to put together a $50 million fund for an army of grass-roots activists in swing states to go after Republican Congressmen and Senators who dare to vote against the president’s wishes.
Over the next two years, they will be spreading their tentacles all over the nation, invading currently-Republican districts but might be turned to blue in 2014, in pursuit of a House majority and of a sixty-vote Democratic Senate.
This “purge” …

Stop the Nonsense: Sequester Won’t Hurt
26 Feb 2013 12:03 am

President Obama and his media allies are pushing the notion that sequester will destroy Western civilization. States are saying that the cuts will devastate the economy, and the Pentagon insists they will “hollow out” the military. A total of 800,000 DOD employees will have to take a 20 percent pay cut. Head Start is at risk. All manner of chaos will descend if we trim the discretionary budget from 1,034 billion to 950 billion!
Don’t believe it for an instant.
Start with defense spending. The U.S. now spends 19 percent of its …

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