May 23, 2013

The Tense Exchange Between Rep. Trey Gowdy and the Former IRS Head You’ve Been Waiting for…and It Doesn’t Disappoint

South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy showed up to Wednesday’s House hearing on the Internal Revue Service scandal in a fighting mood (as noted here on TheBlaze) and he only became more fired up as the day wore on. “If there’s inappropriate conduct being done on your watch in the IRS,” Rep. Gowdy said, “then that inappropriate conduct can last as long as the inspector general’s … [Read more...]

Tyrant in the White House

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When the government starts questioning political and religious associations, interferes with the rights to organize and the freedom of speech and the press, persecutes and harasses its opponents and donors of an opposition party, keep enemy lists in the White House and spies on the press, we definitely can no longer say that we live in a truly free society. This writer has lived in the United … [Read more...]

THE MOST TRANSPARENT ADMINISTRATION?

The most transparent administration in history is indeed most  transparent...The frenzy to control the message, reshape opinion, hide  evidence, silence detractors, punish contradiction, deflect criticism,  manage the news, deny responsibility and defend the indefensible with  Orwellian oratory is a constant Obamian protocol down to the most  minute detail. Practiced with agonizing regularity … [Read more...]

Mychal: Why I Do Not Like the Obamas

Mr. Massie is a respected writer and black talk show host in Los Angeles. The other evening on my twitter, a person asked me why I didn’t like the Obama’s? Specifically I was asked: “I have to ask, why do you hate the Obama’s? It seems personal not policy related. You even dissed their Christmas family pic.” The truth is I do not like the Obamas, what they represent, their ideology, … [Read more...]

The Obama administration’s history of targeting the media

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The usually-cocksure Jay Carney has rarely appeared so uncomfortable. “What I can tell you is that this president believes strongly in the First Amendment and is a strong defender of the First Amendment,” Carney insisted to a packed house of angry reporters last Tuesday afternoon. The White House had just been freshly stung by news that the Department of Justice had secretly raided the … [Read more...]

Three Signs There’s a Cover-Up

“Mistakes were made….I don’t recall” and other surefire clues. Former acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller The late columnist William Safire once said that a good clue that someone in Washington was engaged in “an artful dodge,” i.e., a cover-up, was that they used the phrase “mistakes were made.” Safire defined it as a “passive-evasive way of acknowledging error … [Read more...]

DOJ Secretly Monitored and Criminalized Three Fox News Reporters

Earlier today the Washington Post reported that Fox News' James Rosen had been secretly monitored by the Department of Justice. DOJ monitored his work and personal emails, read his work and personal emails, monitored his phones, monitored his movements and even named him as a criminal conspirator. Now, we know Rosen wasn't the only Fox News reporter targeted. Reporter William LaJeunesse, who … [Read more...]

OBAMA’S CULTURE OF POLITICAL INTIMIDATION LEADS TO THIS SCANDALOUS BEHAVIOR

Excerpts from U.S. Senate Floor Speech, Senator Marco Rubio, May 15, 2013 THESE ARE THE TACTICS OF THE THIRD WORLD “So in the span of four days, [there were] three major revelations about the use of government power to intimidate those who are doing things that the government doesn’t like. These are the tactics of the third world. These are the tactics of places that don’t have the … [Read more...]

Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform

Illustration: National Institutes of Health   The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.   Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf)  is … [Read more...]

ALL phone calls in the US are recorded and accessible to the government, claims former FBI agent

A former FBI counterterrorism agent has hinted at a vast and intrusive surveillance network used by the U.S. government to monitor its own citizens. Tim Clemente admitted as much when he appeared on CNN Wednesday night. Discussing the Boston Marathon attack and past telephone conversations of Katherine Russell and her now deceased husband, suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Clemente said that those … [Read more...]

THE LADIES IN WHITE – CUBA

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After 53 years of revolution, Cubans are increasingly exasperated by the restrictions imposed on them by the country's change-averse communist regime. In spite of, or perhaps because of, recent modest economic reforms, activism is growing as the government's opponents overcome their fear of arrest and take to the streets. But it is not easy. Today, even the church based Ladies in White -- a group … [Read more...]

‘REJECT THESE VOICES’ THAT WARN OF BIG GOVERNMENT & TYRANNY

OBAMA TO OHIO UNIVERSITY: REJECT THESE VOICES THAT WARN OF BIG GOVERNMENT AND TYRANNY

U.S. President Barack Obama gives the commencement address to the graduating class of The Ohio State University at Ohio Stadium on May 5, 2013 in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo: Getty Images) A year to the day after kicking off his re-election campaign at Ohio State University, President Barack Obama returned to the college campus and told graduates that only through vigorous participation in their … [Read more...]

How Obama Obstructs Justice in the Search for a Communist Terrorist

If the FBI wants to find Joanne Chesimard, who has just been added to the “Most Wanted Terrorists List,” it could begin by wiretapping President Obama’s friends, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and other members of the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground helped Chesimard—a convicted cop-killer—escape from a New Jersey prison in 1979 and flee to Cuba. Chesimard, also known as … [Read more...]

“Stasi” Snitch Program Could Send People Who Hate Government to Jail in West Palm Beach

Washington Times calls on Florida Governor to veto plan Given the fact that Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw is set to launch a $1 million dollar program which will encourage Floridians to report on people who “hate government,” how long before Palm Beach resident Rush Limbaugh is sent to a Soviet-style mental hospital? The example seems like a stretch but it’s not a far … [Read more...]

Black Pastor Banned By College After Criticizing Obama

A prominent pastor was allegedly disinvited from speaking at Morehouse College’s baccalaureate service this week after he criticized President Barack Obama, who will deliver the school’s commencement address.   The Rev. Kevin Johnson, a Morehouse alumnus and the senior pastor of Bright Hope Baptist Church in North Philadelphia, Pa., wrote an opinion column earlier this month in … [Read more...]

Obama’s ‘Attack’ On Civil Liberties ‘Goes Well Beyond Anything’ Imagined

In an interview with AlterNet this past week, America’s most well-known left-wing intellectual slammed President Obama for his inexplicable “attacks” on civil liberties in the forms of various laws expanding upon the executive powers set forth by President George W. Bush. Speaking with the liberal blog’s Mike Stivers, Chomsky expressed dissatisfaction with the current president’s … [Read more...]

Obama Tells Planned Parenthood: God Bless You

During a speech Friday President Obama told Planned Parenthood, America's largest abortion provider with a long track record of covering up sexual abuse and rape, "God bless you." Obama's comments come as Planned Parenthood sits back and refuses to condemn the gruesome actions of late term abortionist Kermit Gosnell. “President Obama touts Planned Parenthood as a trusted friend and health … [Read more...]

Elizabeth Warren, Socialist Part 1:

Liz Warren and the Heather Booth/Democratic Socialists of America Connection Freshman Massachusetts Senator Elizabet Warren appears to be at least as socialist as her predecessor,Ted Kennedy.Like the “Lion of the Senate,” Warren is also enmeshed in the U.S. socialist movement. Unlike Kennedy though, her ancestry doesn’t make her quite so untouchable. Like Kennedy, she almost certainly has … [Read more...]

Gestapo 2013? Colorado State Police and Homeland Security Target Christians

I recently received a letter from one of law enforcement’s finest.  He had attended a seminar in which he was told to be on the lookout for Christians.  The letter was written by an attendee, Ron Trowbridge, Undersheriff in Prowers County, Colorado.  I would like to thank Sheriff Trowbridge for the letter and the 25 years he has spent protecting the public in his county.  Fear of reprisals … [Read more...]

The whole story on Common Core

Read the sourced and footnoted response to the National Review Online and get all the facts you need to know about Common Core HERE. Compiled by American Principles project and Glenn’s research team. Common Core is the new set of federal education standards being pushed by the Obama administration and several leftist organizations but it’s even seeing some support from some conservatives. … [Read more...]

Common Core as Trojan Horse

It’s time to opt out of the creepy federal data-mining racket. Last week, I reported on the federal government’s massive new student-tracking database, which was created as part of the nationalized Common Core standards scheme.   The bad news: GOP “leadership” continues to ignore or, worse, enable this Nanny State racket. (Hello, Jeb Bush.) The good news: A grassroots revolt … [Read more...]

Obama’s ‘Fundamental Transformation of America’ just another name for One World Gov’t

Pandora’s deadly secret is out of the box.  Obama’s call for the Fundamental Transformation of America is just a fancy name for what he’s planned for America ever since his lofty proclamation in Berlin, 2008 when he announced that he is “a citizen of the world”. We now know that the Fundamental Transformation America is just another name for One World Government. In typical Obama … [Read more...]

Does Obama’s Election Commission Signal Federal Takeover of Elections?

Since March 28, when President Obama issued an executive order creating the Presidential Commission on Election Administration, a growing number of individuals and organizations have reacted to this move by raising concerns about a possible federal takeover of American elections.  The federal government is forever searching for more ways to snatch power from the states; that’s the nature of the … [Read more...]

The Perversity of Liberal “Rules”

It's been not at all troubling to me to watch President Obama be pilloried for having the temerity to comment on California Attorney General Kamala Harris' looks -- mostly because of the different standards to which Democrats and Republicans are routinely held on such "women's" topics by Democrats and the press. Here's a news flash for worshippers in the Cult of Obama: The President is just a … [Read more...]

Police Militarization, Abuses of Power and the Road to Impeachment

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These are trying times. Never in the history of this country have we been so weakened and polarized by what many view as deliberate government policy. Now anti-gunners in the U.S. Congress, the Obama administration, and legislatures across the country are seeking to exploit the Newtown tragedy to promote their “gun control” agenda that envisions federal, universal background checks on gun … [Read more...]

Wake Up America – Or There Won’t Be An America

Frank Gaffney is one of the few commentators in America today who actually understands the stakes we’re all playing for. Obamamunism isn’t primarily about economic disaster or centralized government tyranny. Those things, bad as they are, are just means to an end. The real goal is the destruction of the US military, to the advantage of the combined forces of Russia, China, Iran, North … [Read more...]

VIDEO: Obama quotes Alinsky in speech to young Israelis

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Channels theme of 'Rules for Radicals' book dedicated to Lucifer Read In his address in Jerusalem today, President Obama channeled Saul Alinsky, citing the radical community organizer’s defining mantra as he urged young Israelis to “create change” to nudge their leadership to act. Obama told a crowd of college students at Jerusalem’s main convention center that Israel “has the … [Read more...]

Marxism in Education – The Infiltration of Our School Systems by the Common Core Standards

I will tell you that George Soros and the Tides Foundation along with other major Progressive organizations and the Obama Administration are behind all of this monstrosity. Gee, I’m sooo surprised. Educational policies are supposed to lie with the states, so the government coercing the states to carry the Common Core Standards violates the Constitution. Right Side News has been … [Read more...]

Rotten to the Core: Obama’s War on Academic Standards (Part 1)

This year, I’ll be using my syndicated column and blog space to expose how progressive “reformers” — mal-formers — are corrupting our schools. One of my New Year’s resolutions is to provide you in-depth coverage of this vital issue that too often gets shunted off the daily political/partisan agenda. While the GOP tries to solve its ills with better software and communications … [Read more...]

For The Record exposes the terrifying surveillance state

Who is listening? Who is reading your emails? Who is watching you? We all have a basic idea of how much access the government has to our personal information. But what are they using it for and, more importantly, what are they capable of? Since September 11, 2001, the National Security Agency (NSA) has turned America into a surveillance state, and tonight’s premiere of For The Record, … [Read more...]