http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:servo1969/ en-us Thu, 16 May 2013 20:07:47 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020349/posts Barack Obama loves the troops… To hold his umbrella. POTUS deploys Marines for rain in Rose Garden with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan. (Major Garrett) thegatewaypundit.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020349/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 20:07:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020082/posts Many were shocked to learn that IRS agents actually targeted conservative advocacy groups for heightened scrutiny when making decisions concerning their tax exempt status. I don't know why so many people were shocked. This is what university administrators have been doing for nearly twenty years. I've been writing about it for over ten years because I know that what you see on the campus today is what you will see in the broader culture tomorrow. It all began in my home state back in 1995. That was when a gay activist and UNC administrator named Jonathan Curtis targeted the Muslim... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020082/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 05:29:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020079/posts For those of you who hate the Tea Party, I have a one word reply to you: Ha! Because they were right, and you were very, very wrong They were right about the IRS, right about Boston, right about Benghazi.   They were right about Eric Holder and the threat that our top law enforcement officer posed to the Bill of Rights; they were right about Obama and his smarmy, made-up, intellectual know-it-all-ism; they were right about the press being active advocates for partisan purposes while ignoring Obama’s smarmy, made-up, intellectual know-it-all-ism; they were right about the GOP being wrong on... townhall.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020079/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 05:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019920/posts ...while some junkies live, Elvis died. And this Elvis syndrome is, oddly enough, happening again right now, politically. And now, this week, the chickens have not only come home to roost, they’re freebasing in the garage. The family is fed up. Our national hive of hacks are really nothing more than the Memphis Mafia, the folks who protected Elvis Presley through his worst excesses, until his particular administration ended on a toilet. But why did the media become so much like this mafia? This behavior is caused by a deep desire to be liked and to be perceived as cool.... breitbart.com/Big-Journalism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019920/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 20:59:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019911/posts As predicted, Wednesday afternoon's testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder focused heavily on revelations that the Department of Justice subpoenaed phone records from the Associated Press following their publishing leaked information about a terror attack. The House Judiciary Committee had the wrong guy at the witness table, though, since Holder, who'd recused himself from the matter couldn't offer much new information. This left the committee members to fill the time by attacking their opponents, and allowed for a dispute that resulted in Holder calling a Congressmember's behavior "unacceptable and shameful." At the start, it seemed as though the focus might... theatlanticwire.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019911/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 20:41:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019899/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Here's Cody in Spring, Texas, as we go back to the phones. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi. CALLER: Hey, Rush. I just wanted to remind you that this is not the first time that this type of IRS scandal has surrounded Barack Obama. If you remember all the way back to 2008 with Joe the Plumber, he was simply playing a game in his front yard with his son. He asked Obama a question and made him look bad. Next thing you know, all of his financial information was released to the press. The next day,... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019899/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 19:42:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019896/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Now, I've had people say, "Rush, how do we handle this? What's the best way to deal with all this?" See if you agree with this. Dr. Krauthammer on Fox News Special Report during the All-Star Panel last night, Bret Baier said, "Charles Krauthammer, when the president says there's no 'there' there, it almost seemed that he was challenging reporters to say, 'No, really, there's no "there" there.'" KRAUTHAMMER: The one advice I'd give to Republicans is stop calling it a huge scandal. Stop saying it's a Watergate. Stop saying it's Iran-Contra. Let the facts speak for... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019896/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 19:37:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019875/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Let me start digging into this IRS Stack that I have here. UK Daily Mail: "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... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019875/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 18:34:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019863/posts FULL TITLE - "The Media Meme of the Day is BS! Obama Isn't Disengaged -- He Leads a Government Waging War on Its Domestic Enemies" BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did you hear how David Axelrod attempted to defend Obama on the IRS scandal? I think he was on MSNBC today. David Axelrod said (paraphrasing), "Well, you know, the government's too big. The government's simply too vast for Obama to control it." Bingo! Exactly! That's the whole reason the Tea Party exists. The government is too big. Not only is the government too big, it's growing. It's growing to the point that... RushLimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019863/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 18:21:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019823/posts What’s a military museum without firearms of yesteryear? Chicago Alderman Edward Burke introduced an ordinance last week that would allow museums in the Windy City to possess and display unloaded guns classified as “curios or relics” after learning that the Pritzker Military Library and other city museums are currently banned from including them in exhibits. If passed, the museum’s president and CEO told FoxNews.com it would allow its estimated 15,000 annual visitors to see a significant World War II artifact personally returned stateside from a now-deceased U.S. Army officer. “Alderman Burke heard our story about this and really came to... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019823/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 16:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019796/posts SodaStream is an Israeli company which makes a really cool and really popular product, essentially a make your own soda at home device. I plan on getting one. Its U.S. division is SodaStreamUSA.This video shows the SodaStream story of building bridges between Jews and Arabs:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl85AL1l0H0Nonetheless, SodaStream has been the subject of a vicious boycott by the anti-Israel BDS movement, that grouping of Islamist, anti-Israel leftists and academics and other fringe players like Code Pink, which seeks to delegitimize Israel. The latest iteration, as you know, was the pressure campaign which succeeded in convincing Stephen Hawking to boycott an Israeli conference.SodaStream... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019796/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 16:02:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019780/posts FULL TITLE - "BREAKING: Boehner on IRS Scandal: My Question Isn’t Who’s Going to Resign, My Question Is Who Is Going to Jail? (Video)" The Republican Leadership team held a press conference this morning. Speaker Boehner led off and finished with this: “In addition to this the IRS has admitted to targeting conservatives. Even if the White House happens to be stuck on the word “if.” Well my question isn’t about who’s going to resign. My question is about who’s going to jail.“ Via America’s Newsroom: [video] thegatewaypundit.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019780/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 15:28:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019735/posts Obama added: "Keep in mind by the way these so-called talking points that were prepared for Susan Rice, five, six days after the event occurred, pretty much matched the assessments that I was receiving at that time in my presidential daily briefing." The careful parsing of Obama's statement indicates the Administration’s sensitivity to the president’s lackluster attendance record on daily intelligence briefings. As Breitbart News exclusively reported the day after the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack, Obama did not attend his intelligence briefings (known officially as the presidential daily brief, or PDB) for the week leading up to the attacks.... breitbart.com/Big-Peace http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019735/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 14:05:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019732/posts Lois Lerner, the IRS official now at the center of a scandal involving tax agents who selectively targeted conservative groups, is scheduled to receive an award and give the commencement address at Western New England University School of Law. A spokesperson for the school said the university was aware of the controversy, but would still honor Lerner, who directs the agency’s exempt organizations division. “Our plans have not changed at this time,” said David Stawasz, a spokesperson for the university, in an interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Ms. Werner has apologized for the actions of certain IRS employees.... dailycaller.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019732/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 13:54:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019710/posts The Associated Press is far from satisfied by the Department of Justice's initial response regarding the government grabbing months of phone records from the wire service. Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, sent a sternly worded follow-up letter to the Department of Justice today, one which said its attempt at explaining what happened hardly proved reassuring and appeared dubious at face value. "The scope of the subpoena was overbroad under the law, given that it involved seizing records from a broad range of telephones across AP’s newsgathering operation. More than 100 journalists work in the locations served... breitbart.com/Big-Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019710/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 13:20:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019709/posts On Tuesday, White House Spokesperson Jay Carney claimed that President Barack Obama and other White House officials were unaware that an independent inspector general had been investigating the IRS about whether it targeted conservative groups until they read about it in press reports last Friday, even though the White House general council's office was notified "several weeks ago" about the investigation. When pressed by reporters about how he could "categorically" be so sure that nobody in the White House knew about the IRS's actions before Friday, Carney deflected the questions. He became less steadfast in his defense, saying he had... breitbart.com/Big-Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019709/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 13:11:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019707/posts Assuming they are the ones who leaked to CNN an email written by Ben Rhoades (a Deputy National Security Advisor close to the President), the White House might have been too clever by half Tuesday. An act that was obviously meant to pour water on the Benghazi fire started by an ABC News report, has only ended up being gasoline. Now both CNN and ABC have joined conservative media in calling for the White House to release all the emails surrounding the editing of the CIA talking points. Friday, in a bombshell report that blew the long-simmering Libya scandal wide... breitbart.com/Big-Journalism http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019707/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 13:04:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019670/posts - Federal government demanded a list of everyone a Tennessee organization had ever trained, or planned to train - Linchpins of Liberty mentors high school and college students and teaches them conservative political philosophy, but is not tea-party-linked - 'Can you imagine my responsibility to parents if I disclosed the names of their children to the IRS?' asked the group's founder - IRS Inspector General report listed seven questions the agency should never have asked, but this wasn't one of them When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and... dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019670/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 12:03:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019666/posts The first question for White House spokesman Jay Carney at Tuesday's press briefing went right to the heart of the growing crisis facing President Obama: In the matters of the Benghazi terror attack, the IRS targeting conservative groups, the Justice Department going after AP phone records, “…doesn’t responsibility for setting tone, setting direction ultimately rest with the president?” That question of “where the buck stops” harkens back to another Democrat who occupied the Oval Office some 60 years ago, “Give ‘em Hell” Harry Truman but the answer is as relevant today. Benghazi may not be "Obama's Watergate," as Sen. Lindsay... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019666/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 11:56:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019655/posts So the American Civil Liberties Union, concerned about the US government's alleged propensity to surveil the email of American citizens without a warrant, filed a request with the Justice Department under the Freedom of Information Act for more information. This is what it got: A memorandum entitled “Guidance for the Minimization of Text Messages over Dual-Function Cellular Telephones” that is completely blacked out. All fifteen pages of it. Mr. President, I don't think "transparent" means what you think it means. ricochet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019655/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 11:27:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019650/posts Larry Koler recently wrote an excellent post asking whether or not we are having an intellectual debate with the Left. Of course, they don't want one. I keep thinking that the problem with politics in America is that those who listen to NPR nod their heads to the received knowledge of the cognitive elite. Meanwhile, on the street level, I have found that arguing politics with people is like trying to talk to the Obamaphone woman. I cringe at the idea of making a multi-pointed argument for free markets to Obamaphone woman. But, really, that's what we are up against.... ricochet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019650/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 11:09:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019641/posts In the first months after the Benghazi attack, the most urgent question, and one only rarely asked, was "What were Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton doing during the seven and a half hours between the initial emergency communications from Benghazi and the final American deaths?" A negative answer was provided in February by Leon Panetta: they were not engaging with their subordinates; they were not contacting anyone to discuss options; they were giving no orders for action; they remained entirely uninvolved. We are left to speculate about the positive answer to that question. Were they sleeping? Curled up by the... americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019641/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 10:46:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019541/posts The Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury has released its 54-page report on the targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Treasury report does not conclude that the review of certain organizations' tax-exempt status was inappropriate, but rather that the selection criteria used to identify these organizations were wrong. Other important findings include: 70% of applications for tax-exempt status by all organizations of any kind were approved in fiscal year 2010 Over an 18-month period, all applicants with the words "Tea Party" in their names were reviewed; later, "Patriots" and "9/12" were added;... Breitbart.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019541/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 01:14:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019531/posts Barack Hussein Nixon (M.Ryan) ABC News’ Trey Hardin: West Wing Of White House Authorized IRS-Gate Targeting Gee, it wasn’t a local IRS office scandal after all. ABC’s Trey Hardin suggested “with a very strong sense of certainty” that the West Wing of the White House authorized the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Via ORYR: [Video] From the video: Trey Hardin: “I will tell you this on the IRS front. I’ve worked in this town for over 20 years in the White House and on Capitol Hill and I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019531/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 00:55:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019528/posts Are You Now or Have You Ever Been a Friend of Newt Gingrich? Yes, the Obama IRS actually demanded a California Tea Party group to provide details of a rally with Newt Gingrich. The group was seeking non-profit status. This question was asked of one to a Tea Party groups by the IRS: 29.) Provide details regarding the townhall(sp) planned on February –, 2012 with Newt Gingrich.Unreal. Here’s a copy of the questionnaire: For the record: I have more information on this group. But am holding back since they are afraid to come out with all of the details right... Gateway Pundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019528/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 00:49:10 GMT