http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oh-news/ en-us Thu, 23 May 2013 01:36:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022776/posts The six Cincinnati workers we have identified, who sent scrutinizing letters to conservative groups with words including "patriot, liberty, tea party or 9-12" in their names are Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr, Stephen Seok, Liz Hofacre and a woman identified only as Ms. Richards. But was all of this done at the hands of a small group of Cincinnati employees working together? During Friday's congressional hearing, that appeared to be the theme. Now, that explanation just became less likely. Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr and Liz Hofacre are IRS agents. Stephen Seok is a supervisor IRS agent But... Fox 19 Cincinnati Ohio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3022776/posts#comment Thu, 23 May 2013 01:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021960/posts Monday afternoon, ABC News released a chilling report that details what journalists have faced while trying to get some answers from the Cincinnati IRS office, which is where a majority of the Tea Party targeting took place. According to ABC, an "armed uniform police officer with the Federal Protective Service" "escorted" reporters through the public building. ABC says if the intent wasn't to "scare off" employees who might talk, "it was the effect." Breitbart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021960/posts#comment Tue, 21 May 2013 11:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021497/posts According to Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan, former Cleveland Browns linebacker David McMillan was shot and killed on Saturday: I should note that as of this post, no local Atlanta newspapers or television stations seem to be reporting the news; the only source so far appears to be Ruiter, so there is a slight chance that the report could be erroneous. If it stands as true, may McMillan rest in piece. UPDATE: Ruiter responded to our question by tweeting to us, "sadly my report is 100% true." McMillan was a 5th round pick by the Browns in 2005 and... Dawgs by Nature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021497/posts#comment Mon, 20 May 2013 03:42:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021266/posts During the summer of 2010, the dozen or so accountants and tax agents of Group 7822 of the Internal Revenue Service office in Cincinnati got a directive from their manager. A growing number of organizations identifying themselves as part of the Tea Party had begun applying for tax exemptions, the manager said, advising the workers to be on the lookout for them and other groups planning to get involved in elections. “I don’t believe there’s any such thing as rogue agents,” said Bonnie Esrig, a former senior manager in the I.R.S. office in Cincinnati. The specialists, hunched over laptops on... NY Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3021266/posts#comment Sun, 19 May 2013 12:41:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020973/posts Tense moments in the early morning hours, as a woman carrying a gun confronts a man trying to get into her home. The attempted home invasion happened on the 1900 block of Loxley near Upton, just before 5 a.m. Thursday. It proved Betty Collins is a woman who stands her ground - with a gun in her hand. "I said, 'Get on the ground.' and he got on his knees. I said, 'no, put your face in the dirt and you're gonna stay there.'," recounted Collins. The past two mornings, she says, someone has stolen items from her car. This... 13abc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020973/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 13:43:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020871/posts Two members of Congress are asking if the Treasury Department disproportionately targeted more Republican or conservative owned auto dealerships during the government-lead restructuring of General Motors in 2009. Breitbart.com reported today that Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) released a letter asking Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to release documents regarding the process and methodology that determined which GM dealerships were closed. examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020871/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 01:04:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020912/posts Two members of Congress are asking if the Treasury Department disproportionately targeted more Republican or conservative owned auto dealerships during the government-lead restructuring of General Motors in 2009. Breitbart.com reported today that Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) released a letter asking Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to release documents regarding the process and methodology that determined which GM dealerships were closed. GM was loaned $50 million by Congress as part of the restructuring included consolidating dealerships and closing some of the under-performing GM dealerships. In 2009 and 2010 there were several reports in the press raising the question whether... Examiner.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020912/posts#comment Sat, 18 May 2013 05:46:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020714/posts How long will the shale boom last? ODNR official sees ‘beginning of a historic era’ for oil and gas; other observers aren’t sure By Dan Gearino and Spencer Hunt Friday May 17, 2013 3:32 AM Oil and gas companies nearly doubled their production from Ohio’s Utica shale last year, part of an energy surge that is still in its early stages and whose potential is far from clear. The companies extracted 635,896 barrels of oil and 12.8 billion cubic feet of gas from the Utica in 2012, which is a year-over-year increase of 93 percent and 87 percent, respectively, according... The Columbus Dispatch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020714/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 17:23:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020452/posts Inspired by ABC News, a drama in three acts. April 25, 2009: IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman has selected Sarah Hall Ingram to succeed Steven T. Miller (who will become Commissioner, LMSB, which oversees tax administrations for the largest corporations and partnerships in the U.S.) as the commissioner of the Tax Exempt/Government Entities Division of the IRS. From May 14, 2013: Joseph Grant, the acting commissioner of tax exempt and government entities, wrote in response to the report that the decisions were made in an attempt to increase efficiency, not to target groups with a particular political view. "The mistakes outlined... Slate http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020452/posts#comment Fri, 17 May 2013 00:29:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020360/posts Last night, Barack Obama tried to take control of the narrative on one of the scandals that have rocked his administration by announcing that IRS Commissioner Steve Miller had resigned by request of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. As it turns out, Miller was leaving in a month anyway, but the outgoing IRS chief took the time to note that the wrongdoing was limited to two IRS employees in the Cincinnati office, who had already been “disciplined” — which directly contradicts the Inspector General’s report, which shows managerial involvement since March 2010 at least, and coordination between multiple offices and units.... Hot Air http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020360/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 20:27:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020230/posts Conservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission that it targeted Tea Party-related groups for close scrutiny. The scandal on Wednesday broadened enough to prompt President Obama's Treasury Secretary Jack Lew to request the resignation of acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. Mr. Jordan, who chairs a Tea Party-leaning conservative caucus in the House of Representatives, sent a letter on March 27, 2012, to the IRS, seeking... Toledo Blade http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020230/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 15:34:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020208/posts It's rigorous work keeping pace with all of these scandals, as House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer discovered earlier this week, but we're doing our best nonetheless. On the IRS targeting issue, we covered a lot of ground yesterday and earlier, but the "fun" never ceases. It will come as a surprise to no one that IRS employees lean heavily Democratic. Their livelihoods depend on the existence of big, complicated government, so of course they'd vote blue. In the 2012 cycle, during which their agency's abusive methods were in place, IRS employees donated to Barack Obama over Mitt Romney by more... Townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020208/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 14:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020144/posts (CNN) -- Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller has said his agency has pinpointed two "rogue" employees in the agency's Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for "overly aggressive" handling of Tea Party requests for tax-exempt status over the past two years, a congressional source told CNN on Wednesday. WYFF4.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020144/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 12:15:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020114/posts CINCINNATI, OH (FOX19) -FOX19 has exclusively learned that as many as four people may be the first Cincinnati Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees to face disciplinary action, and possibly even criminal charges, for allegedly targeting Tea Party and Liberty groups applying for non-profit status. Fox 19 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3020114/posts#comment Thu, 16 May 2013 10:56:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019873/posts A 91-year-old man wants to stop his daughter from evicting him from the home he built 56 years ago in Zaleski, Ohio, a small community south of Columbus. GMA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019873/posts#comment Wed, 15 May 2013 18:31:50 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 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019355/posts The Liberty Township Tea Party was one of several Tea Party groups in Ohio who were harassed by the IRS in the lead-up to the 2012 elections. The group recently released the extensive list of the questions sent to them by the IRS. Ohio patriot Carol Greenberg sent in this information. As many of you know, the IRS issued an apology for targeting “tea party” and “patriot” groups. We within the Liberty Township Tea Party are painfully aware of these intrusive actions. Click this link and download a PDF to see the type of questions that were demanded of us... thegatewaypundit.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3019355/posts#comment Tue, 14 May 2013 17:57:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018650/posts LUCASVILLE, Ohio — One family wept loudly and another family cheered Wednesday as a man was executed for killing a 6-month-old as he raped her. Steve Smith, 46, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Lucasville in southern Ohio for the 1998 killing of his live-in girlfriend's daughter, Autumn Carter, in Mansfield. Smith had recently tried to get his sentence reduced to life in prison, arguing that he was too drunk to realize that his assault was killing Autumn and that he didn't mean to hurt her. The Ohio Parole Board and Gov. John Kasich turned him... AP via NBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018650/posts#comment Mon, 13 May 2013 03:30:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018321/posts House Speaker John Boehner is facing mounting pressure to create a special or select committee to investigate the Benghazi terror attacks in which four Americans were killed. The House resolution to form a special committee now has at least 139 co-sponsors who are putting Boehner in the difficult position of leading efforts to get the White House to release emails on Benghazi-gate but not agreeing to the demands of many rank-and-file Republicans. foxnews.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3018321/posts#comment Sun, 12 May 2013 00:07:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017933/posts The Ohio attorney general said on Friday that DNA tests showed Cleveland kidnapping and rape suspect Ariel Castro is the father of the six-year-old born while he allegedly held the girl's mother and two other women captive for nearly a decade. Attorney General Mike DeWine said in a statement that "forensic scientists worked throughout the night to confirm that Castro is the father of the six-year-old girl born in captivity to one of the kidnapping victims." Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017933/posts#comment Fri, 10 May 2013 18:37:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017701/posts "Helping to free three women from nearly a decade in captivity would seem to be enough. Neighbor Charles Ramsey has also become a star, offering moments of levity in an unspeakably horrible story, free publicity for a restaurant chain and unexpected lessons in race relations. Ramsey lived next door to where Ariel Castro is alleged to have kept the women in a makeshift prison until Monday afternoon. Or let him tell it: "I got the day off from work, so naturally you're doing nothing." Actually, he was "eating my McDonald's," a fact he trumpeted so frequently that the grateful food... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017701/posts#comment Fri, 10 May 2013 02:59:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017419/posts According to voter registration records, Ariel Castro, the Cleveland kidnapper, is a registered Democrat. He was also the alleged leader among the three Castro brothers, who were arrested this week, and the owner of the house at 2207 Seymour Ave., where the three abducted local women had been kept in captivity for over a decade. Why is this important? Whenever a crime or a scandal captures national attention, the pattern in the mainstream media is to either identify the culprit as a Republican or hold silence -- in which case we can rest assured that the culprit is a Democrat.... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017419/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 14:29:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017541/posts In last night’s Athletics-Indians game, the A’s trailed by one run with two outs in the ninth inning. Up came shortstop Adam Rosales to face Indians closer Chris Perez. On a 1-1 pitch, Rosales blasted a 93 mile per hour fastball to left center field for a game tying home run. Only the umps didn’t see it that way. They ruled the ball had hit the outfield wall, giving Rosales a double. After a brief protest from A’s manager Bob Melvin, the umpire crew headed for the replay room to make sure of their call. Replays definitively showed the ball... dailycaller.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017541/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 19:31:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017456/posts The man who is being hailed as a hero for rescuing the lives of three women kidnapped for a decade says that he would like any reward money to be turned over to the victims. Charles Ramsey became an instant Internet sensation on Monday when he helped free Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michele Knight from the house next to his where they had been trapped for around 10 years. “Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little, pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms,” he told WEWS following the rescue. “Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway.”... Business Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017456/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 15:56:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017354/posts NEW YORK — Helping to free three women from nearly a decade in captivity would seem to be enough. Neighbor Charles Ramsey has also become a star, offering moments of levity in an unspeakably horrible story, free publicity for a restaurant chain and unexpected lessons in race relations. Ramsey lived next door to where Ariel Castro is alleged to have kept the women in a makeshift prison until Monday afternoon, when Ramsey happened to be home and heard Amanda Berry's scream. AP via WPXI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3017354/posts#comment Thu, 9 May 2013 11:35:50 GMT