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AP CEO calls Justice Department’s records seizure unconstitutional
The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s secret seizure of two months of reporters’ phone records “unconstitutional” and said the news cooperative had not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department. Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed… Read more »
The end of ‘hope and change’? Obama promised a new age but it feels a lot like 1973
In then-Sen. Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, he ran to the left of Hillary Clinton as a moral reformer. Obama promised to transcend the old politics and bring a new era of hope-and-change transparency to Washington. Five years later, those vows are in shambles. True, the killing of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, has become… Read more »
What IRS Scandal?
“Is this still America?” Congressman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) asked rhetorically last Friday, as he and other members of the House Ways and Means Committee questioned IRS officials about the agency’s “targeting” scandal. With all due respect to the Congressman, here’s a rhetorical answer: this is Obama’s America, and it is unlike anything we’ve known before…. Read more »
Who’s Responsible in the White House?
Scoff if you like-but it’s true. A paranormal event has escaped the attention of the mainstream media. Not only is the White House haunted, we know the name of the ghost: It’s “Not Me”. It’s not like he’s unknown either! Bil Keane made him famous in the wildly popular syndicated comic strip Family Circus. Remember… Read more »
Obama Not Outraged; He Adores the IRS
So, we are to believe that it is just a coincidence that tea party groups oppose the Obama administration and for 27 months, beginning in March 2010, the Internal Revenue Service didn’t approve even one tea party application for tax-exempt status? Is it also a coincidence that during the same time period, dozens of liberal… Read more »
Obama: the Buck Doesn’t Stop Here
This week saw the utter implosion of the Obama second term. First, a hearing for whistleblowers over the Benghazi terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2012, revealed that the White House had failed in their duty to provide security to Americans on the ground in Libya. Then, ABC News reported that the Obama administration had manipulated… Read more »
China, US to form group on climate change
The United States and China are to set up a joint working group on climate change and have a shared view on the “increasing dangers” of global warming. The two countries “recognize that the increasing dangers presented by climate change measured against the inadequacy of the global response requires a more focused and urgent initiative”,… Read more »
How Long Will Wastewater Keep Killing the Smelt?
In December of 2010 the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board voted unanimously to require Sacramento to clean up their sewage discharges to the highest standards by removing the ammonia and other pollutants before discharging their sewage water into the Delta. Families Protecting the Valley, along with others, had pointed out through a marketing… Read more »
A Government Of the Crisis By the Crisis and For the Crisis
When Obama’s former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel said that “you never want a serious crisis to go to waste,” many didn’t realize he was inaugurating a new credo for governance. Rahm’s statement was originally understood as the administration’s intention to capitalize on actual crises while they were hot, to promote legislation liberals had craved… Read more »
This Is Good News?
According to the L.A. Times article below, a Government Accountability Office report leaked to the media Thursday “appears to run counter to widespread criticism of the state rail authority’s ridership revenue estimates and is likely to provide a dose of good news to the controversial project.” That’s one way to look at it. Another way… Read more »
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