It's about time:
President Obama "obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch," Chris Matthews said tonight. [snip]
"What part of the presidency does Obama like? He doesn't like dealing with other politicians -- that means his own cabinet, that means members of the congress, either party. He doesn't particularly like the press.... He likes to write the speeches, likes to rewrite what Favreau and the others wrote for the first draft," Matthews said.
"So what part does he like? He likes going on the road, campaigning, visiting businesses like he does every couple days somewhere in Ohio or somewhere," Matthews continued. "But what part does he like? He doesn't like lobbying for the bills he cares about. He doesn't like selling to the press. He doesn't like giving orders or giving somebody the power to give orders. He doesn't seem to like being an executive.”
(Politico, see video)
There is SO very much in the news today of importance to Amerians. His one really caught my eye:
Via Twitchy: Revelations about the political thuggery of the IRS are more chilling every day. The Daily Mail reports
that IRS creeps ordered Linchpins of Liberty, a conservative
educational group that mentors high school and college students, to hand
over a list of "who has received or will receive" training:
When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train.
'Provide details regarding all training you have provided or will provide,' the IRS demanded. 'Indicate who has received or will receive the training and submit copies of the training material.'
That question was part of the tax collection agency's February 14, 2012 letter to Kevin Kookogey. founder of the group Linchpins of Liberty. He had submitted his application 13 months earlier.
'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' he asked MailOnline.
It's 'an impossible question to answer fully and truthfully,' he said, 'without disclosing the names of anyone I ever taught, or would ever teach, including students.'
[...] Like the leaders of many tea party-affiliated groups whose tax-exemption applications have become the subject of angry complaints, Kookogey called the IRS's inquisition an overreach, 'especially considering that my organization mentors high school and college students.'
Continue reading at Hysciennce.
Other news items today:
How do the AP reporters feel about Obama's administration now?
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone
records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the
news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented
intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.
The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the work and personal phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP. It was not clear if the records also included incoming calls or the duration of calls.
In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.
In a letter of protest sent to Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday, AP President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt said the government sought and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation. He demanded the return of the phone records and destruction of all copies. (continue at AP)
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By R.J. Godlewski
© April 20, 2013, All Rights Reserved
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If the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City and Washington did not irreparably alter American society forever, then the April 15, 2013 attack in Boston certainly did. Or should have. Americans, despite several early conflicts and a brutal civil war, have always fashioned themselves as a patriotic people fighting wars continuously “other there…” Sadly, those belligerents “other there” are now here, amongst us, and plotting for our destruction. They appear normal, even friendly, but beneath their outward presence lurks an absolute evil that turns onetime babysitters into baby killers.
Today, many – if not most – Americans are coming to terms with Islamic radicalism exhibited within Chechnya and surrounding regions as if a relatively modern phenomenon. Sadly, such conflicts have raged within the Caucuses since at least the early 19th century. The region “took a more formidable development when Moslem fanaticism, awakened by the sectarian professors of Mirditism, embodied itself in Schamyl, the soldier priest, who gave to these rival races religious unity…”[1] Yossef Bodansky, writing in the first decade of the 21st century, would characterize this as “Chechenization…the profound transformation of a predominantly Muslim society from its traditional, largely pre-Islamic structure to one dominated by Islamist-Jihadist elements that historically have been alien to that society.”[2] Nor can we leave this prospect with Chechnya, for the jihadists declared the willingness to “write several bloody chapters in the new history, even if [they] have to destroy everything on Earth in the process”.[3]
Such a war has now thrust itself upon American shores and our great republic will never be the same. For years, I have done my best to awaken the American people to the realities of this war, even predating the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.[4]My book, Mini-Manual of the Independent Counterterrorist, has now reached a second edition and can be purchased for less than the cost of a McDonald’s lunch. Yet, the implications remain extraordinary. The great citizens of this nation must assume personal responsibility for protecting our communities. I cannot help but wonder what would have happened on last Monday if “someone” had noticed a backpack being dropped next to several children. The reason that America does not represent a police state is because “We the People” have declared to the world that we are sufficiently responsible enough to protect ourselves.
Instead, America has trended towards a country where many expect the government to solve all our problems from educating our children through creating jobs and finally apprehending terrorists. A nation of ~316,668,567[5]individuals expects to remain adequately protected by a measly 800,000 federal, state, and municipal law enforcement personnel. That is at least 395 Americans for every police officer in the country to serve. Just two individuals – one of which represented a naturalized citizen – killed a police officer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. What would have happened had dozens of armed and trained Americans been able to lend immediate aid to the officer? We shall never know because a recalcitrant electorate has permitted a progressive government to forestall this possibility.
The new “Boston massacre” occurred simply because evil exists. There are people amongst us today – perhaps even right next to you at this particular moment – that care less about innocent human life than you care about the weeds growing in your driveway. They will murder innocent children, maim others, and then go entertain themselves as if merely returning home from the office on a Friday afternoon. They do not exist because the police have not stopped them. They exist because you have not stopped them. Innocence, in the 21st century with at least a century’s worth of Islamic jihadist history against the rest of the world, remains utter nonsense. Freedom bears a price and liberty demands vigilance. Otherwise, we simply remain sheep fattened for the slaughter.
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R.J. Godlewski (GOD LESS KEY) is an independent counterterrorism consultant and the director of the private International Nuclear Emergency Response Team. He is currently a graduate student of military studies, asymmetrical warfare at American Military University working on his thesis regarding “Targeting Narco-submarine Networks through Deep Penetration, Autonomous Maritime Irregular Warfare Units operating within a Hunter-Killer Role.” He recently completed his graduate certificate in security management and holds a B.A. in intelligence/terrorism studies, minor degree in Middle East area studies, as well as an undergraduate certificate in explosive ordnance disposal. He is the author of Skills of the Assassin: Understanding the Tactics of the Professional Killer.
Notes
[1] Alfred Rambaud, The History of Russia: From the Earliest Times to 1877: Volume II trans. Leonora B. Lang (New York: John B. Alden, 1886), 237.
[2] Yossef Bodansky, Chechen Jihad: Al Qaeda’s Training Ground and the Next Wave of Terror (New York: HarperCollins, 2007), 2-3.
[3] Ibid., 33.
[4] My second not-for-profit effort, the Civilian Counter-Terrorism Institute, was incorporated in Oklahoma in March 1995, just three weeks prior to the bombing.
[5] According to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
Now we know why the media has tried to cover up and ignore the story of baby murderer Dr. Kermit Gosnell, who killed born alive babies by slitting their necks and severing their spinal cords .
by Jill Stanek , Life Site News:
Thanks to pro-lifers Michelle Wolven and Catherine Davis, a small group of us have been on this story for weeks.
While they were digging through online records of Georgia abortion clinics, they stumbled on the fact that Attorney General Eric Holder’s wife Sharon Malone Holder (both pictured right) co-owns with her sister an Atlanta area abortion clinic building.
The building is located at 6210 Old National Highway, College Park, Georgia.
The business itself is called Old National GYN. Click on deed above and see below… [snip]
The story was so big, Catherine handed it off to Watchdog.org reporter Troy Anderson.
Anderson’s article, “Holder’s family papers over his ties to abortion doctor,” was published in Human Events today.
Anderson’s story deepens beyond the obvious breaking news that Sharon Holder, an OB/GYN herself, co-owns a building – and has for many years – that operates as an abortion clinic. (continue reading at Life Site News, hat tip Sharon Sebastian of Darwin's Racists)
From Human Events: Troy Anderson and Will Swaim
Holder’s family papers over his ties to abortion doctor
Eric Holder Jr.’s family is moving fast and furiously to bury the U.S. Attorney General’s ties to one of Georgia’s most notorious abortion doctors.
Just cleared by an internal report in the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning debacle, the nation’s top lawman now faces allegations that his connection to Dr. Tyrone Cecil Malloy is a conflict of interest that helps explain Holder’s failure to prosecute abortion providers who run afoul of federal law.
Critics say it may also explain why Holder has been eager to prosecute pro-life advocates who counsel women outside abortion clinics.
Documents obtained by Watchdog show that Holder’s wife and sister-in-law co-own, through a family trust, the building where Malloy operated. A Georgia grand jury indicted Malloy on Medicaid fraud charges in 2011. A state medical board twice reprimanded the doctor.
Holder and his wife, Sharon Malone Holder, an obstetric and gynecological doctor at Foxhall OB/GYN in Washington, D.C., failed to respond to several requests for comment.
But reached by phone at her home in Minneapolis, Margie Malone Tuckson, Holder’s sister-in-law, said there’s no link at all — that Fulton County tax records showing the property belongs to her and Holder’s wife “are wrong.”
“I don’t own this property and my sister does not own this property. We are not technically on this deed,” Malone Tuckson said.
However, public documents reviewed by Watchdog.org show that the family transferred ownership to a family trust in 2009, eight months after President Barack Obama’s inauguration. But even the new deed directly names Holder’s wife and sister-in-law as trustees. After inquiries by Watchdog reporters, Tuckson contacted the Fulton County Assessor’s office and asked them to change tax records to reflect the “new” ownership.
But none of these technical changes obscures the Holders’ conflict of
interest. Catherine Davis, a founding member of the National Black
Prolife Coalition and president and founder of The Restoration Project —
a Stone Mountain, Ga.-based pro-life, pro-family organization — said
she’s outraged by the revelations. (continue at Human Events, hat tip Sharon Sebastian of Darwin's Racists.
We will be following this...
It's about time Republicans too charge and quit letting the Left be in charge of these debates. They need to take charge of the news cycle also, quit allowing the Left to set the agenda.
As the Republican Party released a 100-page report on Monday about
what the party can do better to win elections, committee members are
recommending that the Republican National Committee step in to regulate
these televised showdowns come 2016.
And RNC chairman Reince Priebus told The Daily Caller that the party does not only want to reduce the number of debates. The RNC, he said, also wants to explore the possibility of choosing who actually asks the questions during the debates.
“I think the party should have more control over who moderates, and we should have more control over the partners,” Priebus told TheDC. “And if we can come up with a mechanism to take more control over the debate processes, that’s what we’re going to try to do.” [snip]
“So with an eye toward the recommendations, the RNC will create a system
that sets earlier guidelines for a more rational number of debates,” he
said. “We will take a leading role in organizing the debates — and will
work with state parties and our rules committee to ensure balance in
every aspect.” (read more at the Daily Caller)
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