IRS Exec: From Tea Party Targeting to IRS Obamacare office

Posted on May 17, 2013 by ChrisA

Wow… Sarah Hall Ingraham is her name and ABC news reports.

IRS Tea Party Targeting to IRS Obamacare

 

How long will this state of affairs last? Depends on the tone deafness of the Obama administration.

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Male Suicide: Where’s the Outcry?

Posted on May 17, 2013 by ChrisA

Male Suicide: Where’s the Outcry? | Via Meadia.

Unemployed men are 126 percent more likely to kill themselves than their employed counterparts. And as we’ve written before, unemployed men are generally unappealing candidates for marriage, hurting their romantic prospects and increasing their sense of alienation. Unmarried men are a whopping 240 percent more likely to take their own lives than married men.

Perhaps most shocking about this story is the relative silence with which it has been met. If women were taking their lives in record numbers, largely due to their inability to find employment or husbands, you could bet that federal tribunals, support groups, and cries for policy change would abound. But thousands of men take their own life, lost in the shadows, and much of the press seem content to let the stories remain there. (emphasis added)

The fact of the matter is it’s a male, and “nobody” really cares. Men, nobody is gonna give a damn about you until you give a damn about yourselves and demand attention.

Dr. Helen comments in her column: “One way of taking back one’s own masculinity, they suggest, is to take one’s own life.”

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Brune Brown: “I had a slide that said Breakdown. At what point did I think that was a good idea?”

Posted on May 17, 2013 by ChrisA

There’s two things that I’ve learned in the last year. The first is vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous…

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Trust Issues: IRS Will Only Get Worse Under Obamacare

Posted on May 16, 2013 by ChrisA

IRS Will Only Get Worse Under Obamacare.

 

And while we sit here and shudder at what has happened, it’s important to know that the IRS – the organization that just spent four years targeting the political opposition of the sitting President has been empowered by the President, through the healthcare law, to police every, single Americans’ healthcare choices.

Do you want to know how bad this is going to get? Starting in 2014, all Americans are being forced to pay for health insurance. But under Obamacare – the IRS and not you will determine whether the insurance you have chosen “qualifies.” You’ll be forced now to send that information via your tax return. And if the government doesn’t like it, the IRS can hit you with a tax penalty.

The IRS can raise money for itself simply by deciding that you don’t have “qualifying” health insurance. Now, supporters of Obamacare will argue that there are rules and laws to mandate the IRS don’t arbitrarily do that. But there are also rules and laws mandating that the IRS can’t go after people because they have “patriot” or “tea party” or happen to oppose the sitting President’s policies. Those rules didn’t seem to stop the IRS from doing just that for last four years.

And here is what is worse: under Obamacare, the IRS was already given a billion dollars and hired 700 agents just to police our healthcare. It is estimated the IRS will need another 13 billion dollars and 15 thousand new agents just to police Americans healthcare over the next decade and keep up with their tax collection duties.

There are so many reasons to repeal the President’s healthcare law – but the recent admission by the IRS that they intentionally targeted the President’s political opposition has to jump to number one. After all, Do you want the people who can’t be trusted with our tax laws to be involved in your health care?

Do you? Do you trust the IRS to be involved in your healthcare? Progressives, there is no corruption you won’t endorse for more government involvement in health care. So the question is for the rest of us.

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IRS Improperly Seized 60 Million Personal Medical Records

Posted on May 15, 2013 by ChrisA

Suit Alleges IRS Improperly Seized 60 Million Personal Medical Records – Forbes.

“This is an action involving the corruption and abuse of power by several Internal Revenue Service agents,” the complaint reads.

“No search warrant authorized the seizure of these records; no subpoena authorized the seizure of these records; none of the 10,000,000 Americans were under any kind of known criminal or civil investigation and their medical records had no relevance whatsoever to the IRS search. IT personnel at the scene, a HIPPA facility warning on the building and the IT portion of the searched premises, and the company executives each warned the IRS agents of these privileged records,” it continued.

The claim asserts that the IRS agents’ seizure of medical records violated the 4th Amendment.

“These medical records contained intimate and private information of more than 10,000,000 Americans, information that by its nature includes information about treatment for any kind of medical concern, including psychological counseling, gynecological counseling, sexual or drug treatment, and a wide range of medical matters covering the most intimate and private of concerns,” the complaint states.

“Despite knowing that these medical records were not within the scope of the warrant, defendants threatened to ‘rip’ the servers containing the medical data out of the building if IT personnel would not voluntarily hand them over,” the complaint reads.

“Moreover, even though defendants knew that the records they were seizing were not included within the scope of the search warrant, the defendants nonetheless searched and seized the records without making any attempt to segregate the files from those that could possibly be related to the search warrant. In fact, no effort was made at all to even try maintaining the illusion of legitimacy and legality.”

The IRS has not returned requests for comment.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The IRS is intimately involved with Obamacare. Is it worth it?

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Behind the Curtain: D.C. turns on Obama

Posted on May 15, 2013 by ChrisA

Behind the Curtain: D.C. turns on Obama – POLITICO.com.

The dam of solid Democratic solidarity has collapsed, starting with New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd’s weekend scolding of the White House over Benghazi, then gushing with the news the Justice Department had sucked up an absurdly broad swath of Associated Press phone records.

Game on.

 

 

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Scandals: Nothing to see here, move along

Posted on May 15, 2013 by ChrisA

Key administration execs: We know nothing.

Nothing to see here

For all the supposedly smart, highly educated, well groomed people in positions of power, they sure seem to be WILLFULLY IGNORANT. The MSM needs to look in the mirror and ask themselves some tough questions.

Stop making excuses, “Man Up”, put your big boy clothes on and take some responsibility. We, the people, are sick and tired of the “Nothing to see here, move along” BS.

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Obama: “I know nothing”

Posted on May 15, 2013 by ChrisA

White House reels from 3 scandals | Boston Herald.

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Tea Party Group Sent IRS Copy of Constitution When Asked for Reading Materials

Posted on May 15, 2013 by ChrisA

Too funny: Tea Party Group Sent IRS Copy of Constitution When Asked for Reading Materials.

When the IRS targeted an Ohio woman’s Tea Party organization and asked her to send the agency the books the group read in 2010, she sent the IRS a copy of the Constitution.

Marion Bower said that the IRS targeted her organization in 2010, and it took “nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status.”

“I was trying to be very cordial, but they wanted copies of unbelievable things,” she told ABC News. “They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies.”

You can’t make this stuff up.

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The IRS Is Accessing Your Health Records. You Trust Them?

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

The IRS Is Accessing Your Health Records. You Trust Them? – Forbes.

6. Under Obamacare, the government has also expanded who the IRS can share your information with, although prior laws don’t seem to have constrained the agency.

Yep, they got that part down.

Well, do you?

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Florida quietly shortened yellow light standards & lengths, resulting in more red light camera tickets for you

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Florida quietly shortened yellow light standards & lengths, resulting in more red light camera tickets for you | wtsp.com.

Couldn’t possibly happen in Colorado or inside the 24 square miles surrounded by reality. Nothing to see here, move along.

All of these timings are greater than 4 seconds. Some time back I timed yellow light timing at a few Boulder intersections with red light cameras. My memory is a little hazy, but I believe they are all easily under 4 seconds. I’ll do some measuring next time I’m in town.

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Media-Administration: Chummy chum chum….

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Top CBS, ABC, CNN execs all have relatives working as advisors for White House « Hot Air.

But Grenell’s not arguing to the contrary: The point here is simply to show that our government leadership and our media leadership are so chummy that, not infrequently, they’ve literally lived in the same house. It’s an especially vivid illustration of a wider problem.

Wake up America.

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Obama Tells Harvey Weinstein, Justin Timberlake to Blame Rush Limbaugh

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Simple minded: Obama Tells Harvey Weinstein, Justin Timberlake to Blame Rush Limbaugh – Elspeth Reeve – The Atlantic Wire.

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“For the IRS to say it was some low-level group in Cincinnati is simply false,”

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

… said Cleta Martin. IRS Scandal About to Blow Wide Open? | Power Line.

None of this comes as a surprise to conservatives. I had lunch today with two conservative donors who have a great deal more money than I do, both of whom were targeted years ago by the Democrat-controlled IRS. One of my friends had wrapped up an audit, and then, the following year, was identified as a major Republican donor in the New York Times. A week after the Times article appeared, he got a call from the IRS, saying they were going to audit him. He expressed surprise, telling the IRS agent that he had a letter from the agency to the effect that he should be fine for the next three years. Which was greeted with silence; he didn’t hear from the IRS again. My other friend, also a significant Republican donor, was the subject of an audit that seemed patently unreasonable. In the course of it, the IRS agent explained apologetically that he was just following orders from Washington.

This is life in the Age of Obama. If you are a conservative, you are an enemy of the state. Still, you have to wonder about a country where the government harasses those who describe themselves as “patriots.” Can such a country possibly have a future? It seems doubtful.

Very simply, this is a threat to our very democracy. There is no more powerful organization than the IRS. For them to even appear political is damning. For them to actually be used as a political tool, that’s a threat to democracy, pure and simple.

Heads need to roll at all levels of the IRS. A totally new culture should be implemented immediately. Better yet, lets get a national sales tax and shrink the IRS to a fraction of its current size. Ahhh, but there’s always Obamacare, of which the IRS plays a very critical role. That…. is a topic for another day.

 

 

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IRS scrutiny went beyond Tea Party, targeting of conservative groups broader than thought | Fox News

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

IRS scrutiny went beyond Tea Party, targeting of conservative groups broader than thought | Fox News.

Max Baucus…

“These actions by the IRS are an outrageous abuse of power and a breach of the public’s trust. Targeting groups based on their political views is not only inappropriate but it is intolerable,” the Montana Democrat said in a statement. “Americans expect the IRS to do its job without passion or prejudice. We need to get to the bottom of what happened here. … The IRS will now be the ones put under additional scrutiny.”

It appears that since they “came clean” on a part of this, that only happens in Washington if you are really really guilty.

What did Obama have to say?

Obama said he first found out about the practice on Friday. He said that if agents behaved in a partisan fashion, “I’ve got no patience with it. I will not tolerate it.”

Let me simpify it for you Mr. President. They already admitted to it, the basic premise IS true. There is no doubt.

 

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Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Gov’t obtains wide AP phone records in probe

Arnie Robbins, executive director of the American Society of News Editors, said, “On the face of it, this is really a disturbing affront to a free press. It’s also troubling because it is consistent with perhaps the most aggressive administration ever against reporters doing their jobs – providing information that citizens need to know about our government.”  (emphasis added)

The most aggressive administration ever against reporters doing their jobs. Wow, if that was really the case, sure seems like the editorial staffs of the local papers would have expressed conccern?

Nothing to see here, move along.

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Twitter / DRUDGE: Warning to reporters and sources: …

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Twitter / DRUDGE: Warning to reporters and sources: ….

Warning to reporters and sources: Assume all your communications are being monitored. Time to move back to the parking garage

Of course, for reporters to be worried they have to be “off the party line”.

 

 

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Lessons from the IRS scandal

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

Paul Mirengoff: Lessons from the IRS scandal | Power Line.

President Obama tried today to catch up with the IRS scandal, condemning the IRS officials who targeted conservatives. Obama clearly perceives the threat this scandal poses to trust in government, and hence to his project of vast expansion of governmental power. It’s possible too that he feels genuine outrage about the IRS’s targeting of conservatives.

But neither presidential outrage nor condemnation can mitigate the central concern that this scandal reinforces — that the federal government is dominated by leftists who, quite apart from what the executive may desire, are eager to use their power to promote liberalism and harm liberalism’s opponents. (emphasis added)

Which is exactly why the media’s reporting of big government screw ups always has the background of  “there’s nothing to see here, move along”. Of course, the Associated Press is getting a taste of what happens when you “cross the line”.

Paul goes on to investigate the expansion of government power via Obamacare. Follow the link…

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Government gone wild: US Justice Department acknowledges wide-ranging surveillance of Associated Press

Posted on May 14, 2013 by ChrisA

US Justice Department acknowledges wide-ranging surveillance of Associated Press — RT USA.

Is our government doing their job? Or perhaps the correct question is “What is the job of government?”.

Criticize the government and the IRS audits you.

Print leaked information in the press and the get surveilled by the Department of Justice.

If the press had been doing their job in covering this adminstration, they would have gotten surveilled a helluva lot sooner. Government gone wild.

 

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Wake up legacy media

Posted on May 13, 2013 by ChrisA

The government is not your “good buddy”.

Govt obtains wide AP phone records in probe

“There can be no possible justification for such an overbroad collection of the telephone communications of The Associated Press and its reporters. These records potentially reveal communications with confidential sources across all of the newsgathering activities undertaken by the AP during a two-month period, provide a road map to AP’s newsgathering operations, and disclose information about AP’s activities and operations that the government has no conceivable right to know,” Pruitt said.

The government would not say why it sought the records. U.S. officials have previously said in public testimony that the U.S. attorney in Washington is conducting a criminal investigation into who may have leaked information contained in a May 7, 2012, AP story about a foiled terror plot. The story disclosed details of a CIA operation in Yemen that stopped an al-Qaida plot in the spring of 2012 to detonate a bomb on an airplane bound for the United States.

One can only wonder if the legacy/msm is smart enoght to connect the dots. Color me skeptical.

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