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IRS Targetting Conservatives:

• Examiner Armed Homeland Security agents monitor Tea Party at IRS protests
  Can someone please explain why, when not a single Tea Party event has turned violent but Occupy Wall Street-backed thugs rioted in Oakland and caused real disturbances in other city, the former are targets of DHS while the latter are not?
• Cleta Mitchell Legal Memorandum
  It’s widespread and, not surprisingly, still happening despite administration protestations to the contrary.
• Peggy Noonan A Battering Ram Becomes a Stonewall: The IRS’s leaders refuse to account for the agency’s corruption and abuse.
• James Taranto Who’ll Frame the President?: Obama is not a Nixon, says a Crook.
• Fox News IRS official who refused to testify, resign signed Tea Party letters in 2012
  You mean she lied about her involvement? Put on your shocked face.

Forbes Rate Shock: In California, Obamacare To Increase Individual Health Insurance Premiums By 64-146%
You mean to tell me the director of CA’s exchange was dishonestly comparing current individual plans with future group plans? Shocked. Just shocked, I say.

USA Today Teen birthrate hit another record low in 2011
Note: AZ—often criticized for an abstinence-based sex ed focus—tied for the greatest improvement…

James Taranto A Crisis of Authority: The deeper meaning of the Obama scandals.

this will be a scandal like Watergate if it turns out that the IRS was acting under orders from Barack Obama or Valerie Jarrett. If the White House’s conduct turns out to be unimpeachable, then it is something far worse: a sign that the government itself has become a threat to the Constitution.

Ben Swann Reality Check Exclusive: Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?

American Spectator Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?

The very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America.

If this had happened under a Republican, Dems certainly wouldn’t believe it was coincidental.

Jonah Goldberg Obama’s ‘Idiot’ Defense: Scandal forces the president to drop the pose of omnicompetent know-it-all.

Kirsten Powers How Hope and Change Gave Way to Spying on the Press

Michelle Malkin The Obama crony in charge of your medical records

The scandals aren’t going away:

• Glenn Greenwald Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
  

  Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret.
  …
  So do Obama defenders believe that George Bush and Richard Nixon – who never prosecuted leakers like this or formally accused journalists of being criminals for reporting classified information – were excessively protective of press freedoms and insufficiently devoted to safeguarding secrecy? To ask that question is to mock it.

  This should be a bigger story than the targeting of the AP.

• Jonah Goldberg Benghazi’s smoking guns
• Michelle Malkin Obama’s emptiest Benghazi talking point
• Peggy Noonan This Is No Ordinary Scandal: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.
• Breitbart Claim: Obama campaign co-chair attacked Romney with leaked IRS docs
• NY Times Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry, With Eye on White House
• Weekly Standard Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
  Of course they did. They had an election to throw.
  Lisa Myers, NBC:

  Imagine if we—if you can—what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.

  Yes, it would have.

USA Today More immigrant felons freed than initially reported
Wait, you mean someone from another Executive branch department lied to us? Color me shocked.

Fox IRS official who oversaw unit targeting Tea Party now heads ObamaCare office
That ought to make us all sleep better at night. Um, didn’t President Transparency tell us he was going to hold the responsible parties accountable?

CBS Hispanic Custodians On Auraria Campus Claim Discrimination
So now we have to print everything in your language in order to hire you? Simple solution to that one…

The scandals in which Dear Leader finds himself enmeshed are not going away despite the efforts of Lefty media and pundits. If anything—with the addition of the AP phone dragnet—they’re growing.

• Jonah Goldberg Bad Faith and Benghazi
• Thomas Sowell Lies About Libya
  

  Despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loudly proclaimed question “What difference, at this point, does it make?” the difference is between an honest mistake and a calculated lie to deceive the American people, in order to win an election.

• WSJ The IRS Targets Conservatives: An official admits the tax agency pursued tea party groups in the 2012 election season.
  Everyone who believes this was not political and had no effect on the election when all of the target groups were conservative and many were in battleground/swing states…sorry, but you’re deluded. Thanks for helping reelect a liar and thug.
• James Taranto Nobody’s Laughing Now: How pervasive is the Obama IRS scandal?
  

  There is an immediate political reason why it is important [for David Plouffe, former Obama campaign manager and White House aide] to deny that the IRS abuses had any political effect: If they did have a political effect, then the question becomes whether that effect was sufficient to change the outcome of the 2012 election. That is to say, unless Plouffe’s denial is true, the very legitimacy of the president’s re-election is in doubt.

Mike Adams My Phone Call To Jason Collins

USA Today Study: Despite drop in gun crime, 56% think it’s worse
Considering most people still get their news from MSM I’m surprised so few are misinformed.

Michelle Malkin A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio

It used to be the job of our Attorney General to enforce federal law. Apparently those days have passed, as the current officeholder thinks breaking our laws is a “matter of civil and human rights.”

So, Mr. Holder, which of our laws is it my civil and human right—as a natural citizen—to ignore? Paying federal taxes? Purchasing ObamaCare-approved health insurance for my employees? Submitting to a background check before buying a gun? Or is legalized lawbreaking only a civil and human right for illegal aliens?

Lee Stranahan Andrew Breitbart’s Pigford Vision

I’m the liberal that Andrew Breitbart hired to investigate Pigford.…A funny thing happened on the road, though; I stopped being a liberal.

Pigford is a story that, if nothing else, vindicates citizen journalism and demonstrates all too clearly that the MSM have an agenda that does not serve the public interest. This is corruption not merely writ large, but defined.

Mona Charen The Muslim World Hates the U.S. More Than Ever

Michelle Malkin Dissecting the Gang of 8′s enforcement sham

Fox News Officials found guilty in Obama, Clinton ballot petition fraud
Nothing to see here. Move along.

Mike Adams Time to Ban High Capacity Liberals From Campus