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The Obama Crony in Charge of your Medical Records
22 May 2013 12:06 am Michelle Malkin

Who is Judy Faulkner? Chances are, you don’t know her — but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you. Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder and CEO of Epic Systems, which will soon store almost half of all Americans’ health information.

If the crony odor and the potential for abuse that this “epic” arrangement poses don’t chill your bones, you ain’t paying attention.
As I first noted last year before the IRS witch hunts and DOJ journalist snooping scandals broke out, Obama’s federal electronic …

Sublet My People Go
22 May 2013 12:05 am John Stossel

My kids moved out! I have two empty rooms in my apartment. Maybe I can rent them? A tourist visiting New York City could have a different experience, and save hotel money. I’d make money. Wouldn’t it be great?
No, says the government of my state.

New York recently passed a law making it very difficult for people to offer short-term rentals via popular websites like Airbnb and Roomorama, which connect room-owners and room-renters. I could be fined $25,000 if I rent to tourists through those services.
New York State Sen. Liz Krueger …

We Are the Idiots
22 May 2013 12:04 am Walter Williams

Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article “Rachel Carson’s Deadly Fantasies” (9/5/2012), wrote that her 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” led to a world ban on DDT use. The DDT ban was responsible for the loss of “tens of millions of human lives — mostly children in poor, tropical countries — have been traded for the possibility of slightly improved fertility in raptors (birds). This remains one of the monumental human tragedies of the last …

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

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’s ‘idiot’ defense
22 May 2013 12:03 am Jonah Goldberg

Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama’s bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency.

“We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots. It’s actually closer to us being idiots.” So far, this is the administration’s best defense.
It was offered to CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson by an anonymous aide involved in the White House’s …

Rachel Marsden: Fogle fiasco underscores America’s intelligence problem
22 May 2013 12:02 am Rachel Marsden

PARIS — Given that no one is officially denying it, it’s fairly safe to say that Russia’s domestic security service recently slammed America’s foreign spy service face-first into the Moscow pavement — blond wig and all — in the person of diplomatic staffer and unconfirmed CIA case officer Ryan Fogle.

When you’re benefiting from official diplomatic cover and find yourself tucking your hair into a blond wig and heading out with your compass and a written cash-for-treason offer for your target, perhaps you should revise your plan. The asset you recruit …

Undoing the Brainwashing
22 May 2013 12:02 am Thomas Sowell

This time of year, as college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they can undo some of the brainwashing that has become so common in what are supposed to be institutions of higher learning.

The strategy used by General Douglas MacArthur so successfully in the Pacific during World War II can be useful in this very different kind of battle. General MacArthur won his victories while minimizing his casualties — …

Maybe the Tzarnaev Brothers Should Have Worked For Fox News?
22 May 2013 12:01 am Ronn Torossian

As CEO of a New York based PR Agency, sometimes fancy thoughts and academic liberal talk is frustrating and its easier to simply package ideas into sound bites.

Some basic easy thoughts:

Reporters are under attack by the Obama Administration – A Fox News correspondent was accused in a Justice Department affidavit of being a possible criminal “co-conspirator” for publishing information about North Korea – as journalists are supposed to do with information they receive. The government searched his emails and personal information.
The government obtained two months of phone records from Associated Press journalists …

7 Liberal Fascists Who Are Fine With Using the IRS to Target Political Enemies
21 May 2013 12:49 am John Hawkins

“Progressivism, liberalism, or whatever you want to call it has become an ideology of power. So long as liberals hold it, principles don’t matter.” — Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” — Ayn …

Wimps Versus Barbarians
21 May 2013 12:08 am Thomas Sowell

An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels.

As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone and shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object.
Although there were professors and administrators in the room — …

The Ultimate Clutch Player
21 May 2013 12:07 am Chuck Norris

America has the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and the UCP (ultimate clutch players). One is mixed martial artists, and the other is quarterbacks of the NFL. They all are athletic warriors who are extremely determined to win.
My favorite in the UFC is Georges St-Pierre. My favorite in the UCP is Tim Tebow.

I know what you are thinking: Tebow has been in the NFL for only three years. True, but Tim’s 2011 season with the Denver Broncos was one of the most remarkable in football history.
What sportsman ever could forget how …

On Using Parents of Murdered Children
21 May 2013 12:05 am Dennis Prager

The president appeared at many rallies on behalf of additional gun control laws with parents of children murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.
I have a question for those who agree with the president’s use of these suffering souls.

How would you react if a pro-death penalty president travelled across the country with parents of murdered children — on behalf of capital punishment? After all, outside of strongly liberal locales, the great majority of parents whose children have been murdered support the death penalty for murder. And more than …

Obama Is Stingy With His Pardons
21 May 2013 12:03 am Debra Saunders

Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder gave Washington a preview of how the last few months of the Obama administration are going to look, and they’re going to be ugly.

Holder knows ugly. He was, after all, deputy attorney general when President Bill Clinton issued his infamous 140 out-the-door pardons to such unworthies as Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland after federal prosecutors issued a 51-count indictment against him in 1983 for tax evasion, racketeering and illegal trading with Iran. Even though Rich was a fugitive from federal prosecution, Holder issued …

Tyranny is no longer ‘lurking’
21 May 2013 12:02 am Cal Thomas

Given last week’s revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it’s worth recalling President Obama’s Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried “voices” warning “that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner.”

It’s no longer lurking. It’s here.
Testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee by the outgoing acting IRS commissioner, Steve Miller, as well as numerous statements by individuals claiming they have been harassed and intimidated by IRS agents, reveal a government agency out of control, or more precisely, under the control of political hacks. …

An Interview With Andy Schlafly: Can He Get Obamacare Overturned In The Supreme Court?
20 May 2013 7:01 am John Hawkins

Have you heard about the lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare that has been filed in Texas?

A Texas doctor sued the U.S. over President Barack Obama’s health-care reforms on claims the U.S. Supreme Court overlooked when it upheld the Affordable Care Act last year.
Steven Hotze of Houston claims the law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, violates the U.S. Constitution’s origination and takings clauses, which weren’t part of arguments before the Supreme Court. The high court upheld the act by a 5-to-4 vote.
Hotze’s suit, filed today in federal …

Hey, Big Spenders
20 May 2013 12:05 am Thomas Purcell

I don’t know who they are, but I’ve got to hand it to them. I’m too cynical to do what they do.
I speak of the Americans who, every year, donate money to pay down America’s national debt.

The Bureau of the Public Debt – part of the Treasury Department – began allowing such donations in 1961. According to Title 31, Chapter 31 of the U.S. Code, any citizen is free to give a “gift” to Treasury, under the condition that the money will be used only to pay down the debt.
Last …

IRS and AP Scandals Cast a Big Chill on Free Speech
20 May 2013 12:02 am Michael Barone

Chilling effect. That’s the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech.
There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days.

The Obama administration’s Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of office, cellular and home telephone records from multiple Associated Press reporters and editors to investigate an alleged breach of national security.
The AP story in question, on a foiled terrorist plot, had been withheld for days at the request of the CIA. It …

IRS Scandal another Reason Why We Need the Fair Tax
19 May 2013 12:06 am Doug Patton

“It will create a bureaucracy with the efficiency of the Post Office, the frugality of the Pentagon and the compassion of the IRS.”
- Mantra of those who opposed HillaryCare in the 1990s.

In the idealistic constitutional fantasies of those who harbor high hopes and short memories, the accumulating effect of the scandals piling up like rotting garbage at the front door of the White House will result in the impeachment and removal from office of Barack Hussein Obama, 44th President of the United States. Despite the dog and pony show Congress …

Speech to the Best Graduating Class Ever
19 May 2013 12:05 am Thomas Purcell

Students, faculty, family members and friends, it is my great honor to deliver your commencement speech today.
It is my opinion that our society must take every opportunity to praise our young people for their hard work and accomplishment, and that is why ceremonies such as this are so important to our country’s future.

It was not so long ago, after all, that a more conservative America saw things differently. What a harsh place America once was – particularly for our young students.
So primitive were educational practices when I was young that …

Obama’s History of Intimidation and Duplicitous Behavior
19 May 2013 12:03 am Rick Jensen

President Obama wants you to believe he is the Sergeant Schultz of unlawfully targeted IRS harassments: “I know nussink! I see nussink! I didn’t even leave ze fundraiser zees mornink!”

President Roosevelt used the IRS to intimidate and exact revenge on political enemies. Richard Nixon, JFK and Clinton co-opted the agency into a partisan sledgehammer designed to ruin lives and crush honest political opposition.
John Andrew’s 2002 book, “The Power to Destroy,” unearths these dank political corpses, destroying whatever naive notions you may have of those storybook figures.
What’s most heinous is that …

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