From the White House
AP: When did you first learn that the IRS was targeting conservative political groups? Do you feel that the IRS has betrayed the public’s trust? And what do you think the repercussions for these actions should be? <snip>
PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, let me take the IRS situation first. I first learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this. I think it was on Friday. And this is pretty straightforward.
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Certain things, like the sun rising, or the tides shifting, can be counted on. It’s also true that when government shrinks as a share of GDP, things start to pick up.
For the past three years, gridlock in Washington has held total spending by the federal government basically flat. This means federal spending has fallen from more than 25% of GDP to 22%, creating more room for the private sector.
Contrary to popular Keynesian thinking, this means entrepreneurship will have a more pronounced,...Read the full story »
David Morrison of the (shadowy) Illinois Campaign for Political Reform laments that the IRS is not aggressive enough in attacking political speech
It’s in this context that the IRS began to investigate 501(c)(4) applicants that appeared to tilt conservative. If the IRS was applying special scrutiny to groups based on their apparent political bent, that action was categorically wrong. No group should be denied a government benefit, like a nonprofit tax status, based on its political beliefs.
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Perhaps Pres. Obama Should ask Dick Durbin When He Started Using the IRS to Abuse Political Opponents
From the White House
AP: When did you first learn that the IRS was targeting...
Keynes in Check and Economy Grows
Certain things, like the sun rising, or the tides shifting, can be counted on....
You First: Who is the Money behind the Shadowy Illinois Campaign for Political Reform?
David Morrison of the (shadowy) Illinois Campaign for Political Reform laments...
The Tribune Wants Political Insiders and Grifters to Gain New Power
From the Chicago Tribune
On Wednesday, a coalition of businesses and civic organizations...
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From the Chicago Tribune
On Wednesday, a coalition of businesses and civic organizations called CHANGE Illinois! launched a campaign to amend the state constitution to end this protection racket. They have their work cut out for them. They need to collect almost 300,000 signatures in less than a year to get the measure on the 2014 ballot. A similar effort in 2010 came up short.
CHANGE wants an independent commission to draw the legislative maps, with public input and in broad daylight. (Mapmaking...Read the full story »
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Hat Tip Bobby for Senate
May 13, 2013 Dick Durbin is shocked to find out that the IR S is being used to harass Conservative political groups
It is absolutely unacceptable to single out any political group—right, left or center—and say we’re going to target them.
October 11, 2010 Dick Durbin demands that the IRS be used to harass Conservative political groups
I write to urge the Internal Revenue Service to examine the purpose and primary activities of several 501 (c)(4) organizations...Read the full story »
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From NPR
The sudden eruption of second-term scandals in his administration will have many costs for President Obama, but surely the most grievous will be the lost opportunity to transcend the partisan wars of Washington. That aspiration was his fondest dream for his second term, much as it was for his first. Now it seems destined to be dashed once again.
Obama’s aspirations were different. He never thought he could win 40 states or 60 percent of the popular vote....Read the full story »
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The survey, done by an institute at Georgetown University, shows how utterly absurd it is to maintain that the Catholic Church continues to have a problem with priestly sexual abuse. Of the nearly 40,000 priests in the U.S., there were 34 allegations made by minors last year (32 priests, two deacons): six were deemed credible by law enforcement; 12 were either unfounded or unable to be proven; one was a “boundary violation”; and 15 are still being probed. Moreover, in every case brought to the...Read the full story »
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Who would have thought that Barack Obama would have descended to the depths that the disgraced Republican President Richard Nixon had in the scandal department?
Obama now has three going for him all at once:
The newest is the revelation that the Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of journalists who work for the Associated Press. The danger, of course, that it is a wide net meant to discover reporters’ confidential sources in the Obama administration and...Read the full story »
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Here in Paris, where we’ve been eating, drinking and otherwise indulging our senses, little attention is being paid to recent revelations about the Benghazi attack that killed four including an ambassador. I haven’t seen what the American commentariat is saying, but here are some of my thoughts about their potential political impact.
It’s clear that Susan Rice’s “talking points” for Sunday talk shows were sanitized by the State Department. It’s clear in one of those “what-did-we-know-and-when-did-we-know-it”...Read the full story »
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