"GOOD ENOUGH FOR US"

A great, uplifting story from The Blaze.

The Blaze

For his dying wish, 10-year-old Oliver Burton wanted more than anything to visit Buckingham Palace and have afternoon tea with the Queen of England.

 Burton, who has Down Syndrome, has reportedly been battling several types of cancer practically his entire life. Tragically, he was recently diagnosed with terminal spine and bone marrow cancer.

Unfortunately, the real Queen was unable to grant the dying boy his wish for whatever reason. Enter, Oscar-wining actress Helen Mirren.

After learning about Burton’s wish, Mirren stepped up to the plate and invited the boy and his family to the Gielud Theatre to see her play the role of the Queen in Peter Morgan’s “The Audience.”

After the show, Mirren, still dressed as the Queen and in character, invited the 10-year-old backstage to have tea and cakes served by footmen. She also introduced Burton to her corgis.

“She stayed in character for the whole thing. Oliver thought she was the real Queen, and well, that’s good enough for us,” the boy’s father, James Browne, said, according to the Daily Mail.

ROSEN V. UNITED STATES

I would think that James Rosen of Fox News will have a massive case for a lawsuit once the dust clears from the latest Obama scandal.

May the record state that I think it's time we mount a massive resistance to take the criminals in office out of office. Email, phones,  pigeons...whatever way you communicate, do it.

Why are we waiting for the government to tell us what it's going to do about corrupt government?

The Blaze

The U.S. Department of Justice is currently in damage control mode after it surfaced that the DOJ obtained Fox News reporter James Rosen’s personal and work phone records, Google emails and tracked his movements to and from the State Department.

But that’s not all.

On Tuesday night, Fox News’ Bret Baier reported that the DOJ also obtained the phone records of Rosen’s parents. Yes, his parents. This has not yet been verified by administration officials.

Additionally, the Justice Department obtained the phone records for at least five different numbers used by Fox News as a part of its leak investigation, the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza reports. Rosen was investigated for his reporting on North Korea’s nuclear program.

U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen, who directed the leak investigation into Rosen, seized the records for at least 30 different phone lines, Lizza writes.

The president and chief executive officer of the AP 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.

Considering President Obama's continual, partisan attacks on Fox News, it would be sweet irony should Mr. Rosen win a massive lawsuit against the Department of Justice. That would also require heads to role, one would assume. Then again, one would also assume that the president and his staff took their oath to uphold the Constitution seriously.

THE EXORCIST

The Pope committed an exorcism this week. In public. On video.

DOG IN THE RUBBLE

“Well, I thought God just answered one prayer to let me be okay, but he answered both of them.  Because this was my second prayer.”

REFUSAL TO LEAD

Senior White House Adviser Dan Pfeiffer was on Fox Sunday with Chris Wallace and told Mr. Wallace that it is "irrelevant" where President Obama was during the Benghazi attacks.

Considering what Pfeiffer goes on to explain, I have to agree: it seems irrelevant where Obama was because the important fact is that he did absolutely nothing.

The Blaze

Wallace asked whether Obama was in the White House Situation Room.

“I don’t remember what room the president was in on that night. That’s a largely an irrelevant fact,” Pfeiffer replied.
The assertions from Republicans here that somehow the president allowed this to happen or didn’t take action is offensive,” Pfeiffer said. “It is absolutely offensive. And there’s no evidence to support it.”

“I’m simply asking a question,” Wallace said. “Where was he? What did he do? How did he respond — who told him you can’t deploy forces and what was his response to that?”

Pfeiffer repeated, “The president was in the White House that day, he was kept up to date by his national security team, he spoke to the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs earlier, and as events unfolded he was kept up to date.”

Was in the WHite House that day, talked to ecretary CLinton and the Chariman of that joint chief and then received a couple of briefings. So the correct inference here is that Mr. Obama found out about Benghazi, and then went about his normal routine while making no additional orders or decisions about how to keep those brave Americans alive.

It seems every day we find a new way to highlight this man's incompetence.

HOW DO YOU PRAY?

The IRS was asking pro-life groups to detail the content of their prayers.

True story. I wish I had some insightful, intelligent comment to add, but I don't because it's so hard to fathom how this happened for so long to so many, and still no heads are rolling in DC.

Looks like the Tea Party was right all along. Call us fringe radicals and tell the college kids to reject our voices, but tyranny is here and thriving in America.

IRS LASHING

Superb speech by Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania.

LIBERAL ABUSE

Karl Rove made a revelation last night (to me, at least) that back in 2010 Congressional Democrats had urged the IRS to look into the finances of Tea Party groups that were in the midst of mass protests against big government, over taxation and the trampling of the Constitution.

US News and World Reports has an incredible article detailing every piece of this story. It's a must read, for sure.

US News

From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted. And other Democrat senators like Kay Hagan and Mark Pryor said and did nothing about it.

Indeed. And it goes much deeper.

NY Times - 2010

WASHINGTON — With growing scrutiny of the role of tax-exempt groups in political campaigns, Congressional Republicans are pushing back against Democrats by warning about the possible misuse of the Internal Revenue Service to audit conservative groups. 

Leading Republicans are suggesting that a senior official in the Obama administration may have improperly accessed the tax records of Koch Industries, an oil company whose owners are major conservative donors.

And the Republicans are also upset about an I.R.S. review requested by Senator Max Baucus, the Montana Democrat who leads the Finance Committee, into the political activities of tax-exempt groups. Such a review threatens to “chill the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights,” wrote two Republican senators, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah and Jon Kyl of Arizona, in a letter sent to the I.R.S. on Wednesday.

...

Democrats dismissed the Republicans’ complaints as groundless, but the accusations have already gained some traction.  

How amazing. Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration coordinated an attack on groups with opposing political beliefs and targeted them with audits and harassment from the IRS.

How strange this is since our President told us last week to "reject" the voices which claimed tyranny was always a step away. Maybe that's because he, like the rest of us, knows it's already here.

Whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. 

IG ON THE IRS

The Inspector General's report in the Internal Revenue Service is public as of today, and it's as awesome as you might have thought.

Not only did the IRS bully and delay conservative groups for 13 months (some for up to three years), but they also worked across the country to do this together. It was not a small, isolated incident as some have suggested.

Here is the report in full.

IG report

CHRIS MATTHEWS CAVES

 Chris Matthews is afraid of guns and does not think you should own one. So it was surprising to hear him provide the same argument against President Obama's scandals that the gun owners of America have been using against gun control for a long time.

Did you catch that? "The steering wheel does not control the car."

What a perfect way to explain why gun control does nothing to prevent gun-related homicides.

TRAYVON'S PAST

It's funny how the media is ignoring the Trayvon Martin story now that the trial has begun and evidence is being presented in a court of law rather than public opinion.

It seems that there are still a few things left for us to learn from the trial; like the idea that if you brag about selling drugs and being a standard thug on Twitter and Facebook, they might use that to defend the guy who may  or may not have been attacked by you.

Click Orlando

ORLANDO, Fla. -
State prosecutors in the case against George Zimmerman are pushing to keep Zimmerman's attorneys from bringing testimony about Trayvon Martin's past during the trial.

The state said in motions filed on Friday they want to prevent Zimmerman's attorneys from bringing up Martin's personal life, including his school records, previous suspension from school, fights, text messages sent prior to his death unless related to case and his social media use.

The motion also says the state wants to prevent the defense from using Martin's toxicology report, which showed the level of marijuana in Martin's blood the night he was shot and killed.

The state's filings suggest they fear the defense may try to attack Martin's character, instead of focusing on whether Zimmerman murdered Martin. Assistant prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda argued that Martin's past is irrelevant and would clearly be

 That's pretty damning stuff. If Trayvon was high and had a history of posting aggressive and/or violent content on his social media, I think that's fair game for Zimmerman's defense.

How intriguing that the prosecutions desire to paint Trayvon Martin as a good kid by not talking about who he was at all.

IT ALL ADDS UP

In the midst of three scandals drowning any semblance of virtue of the Obama administration it is easy to overlook a glaring hypocrisy that proves the antagonistic nature of the Obama Administration towards anyone with whom they disagree.

While President Obama has issued executive orders banning the deportation of those invading our country from the south, he has denies asylum to a family of conservative Christians who had to flee Germany to avoid prosecution for their religious beliefs.

The Blaze

The Romeike family has for years been battling for the right to educate their children as they see fit.  Today, the United States government has denied their request.

Originally from Germany, Evangelical Christians Uwe and Hannelore Romeike wanted to homeschool their six children, but it is against the law in Germany.  They faced threats of legal action from the government and crippling fines before choosing to immigrate to the United States in 2010, seeking political asylum.

U.S. Immigration Judge Lawrence Burman granted the Romeike’s request, but it was overturned in 2012 by the Board of Immigration Appeals, after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement challenged the decision.

Today, in the words of the Home School Defense League Association, which has represented the family, “the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama Administration’s denial of asylum granted to the Romeike family.”

The parents could face jail time if forced to return home.

If these people were gay, and Bush were still president the media would be howling like wolves.

IT'S ALL RELATIVE

Fun.

GONELL AND OBAMA: KINDRED SPIRITS

Kermit Gosnell was found guilty of murder this week.

In short, Gosnell the Monster was inducing labor and then using scissors to snip the spines of living, breathing babies.

As horrific and appalling as that may sound, you will never believe who in DC supports this type of behavior. Actually, since you're here, you probably already know.

The answer is Barack Obama. The only State Senator in the Illinois chamber to vote against legislation that was fully designed to prevent just such atrocities that were being performed in Chicago.

In case you got here by accident and think me crazy, here's the audio proof.

IRS INFRINGEMENT

The Daily Mail has revealed the eleven page, fifty-five question document which the IRS sent to the Richmond Tea Party and the contents are quite stunning.

I am posting the entire letter, but if you're in a hurry feel free to scroll down to my the highlights (with commentary) below.

Keep in mind as you scroll through all of this that the IRS demands a response that is signed and sworn to "under penalties of perjury" by the organizers.

Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this information, including accompanying documents, and, to the best of my knowledge and belief, the information contains all the relevant facts relating to the request for the information, and such facts are true, correct, and complete.

Richmond Tea Party IRS Letter by jonseidl

 Hihglights

Question 2.  The IRS demanded the identification of each volunteer and the name of any board member of the Richmond Tea Party who has or may in the future, run for political office.

"Please identify your volunteers."

"If you have a board member or officer who has run or will run for a public office in the near future, please describe fully."

Why the IRS needs the identity of volunteers is beyond me, and it certainly seems nefarious that they want to know the political ambitions of board members and officers; however, I can understand the idea of making sure this is a non-profit and not a PAC.

Question 3 asks for the identity and credentials of any person who spoke at a Tea Party event hosted by the Richmond Tea Party. It seems now that the IRS is keeping track of your political activity. Give that some thought. Through bully tactics, and the threat of a felony conviction should your information be protected, the IRS is demanding that Tea Party organizers reveal the identity of those who spoke at events AND give details of what they said. How is this not tyranny?

3) Provide the following information for all the events and programs you have conducted and participated since October 22, 2010 to now. Please answer the following for each event. 

3b - Copies of handouts you provided to the audience, participants and the public.

3d. - If speeches or forums were conducted in the event or program, provide detailed contents of the speeches or forums, names of the speakers or panels, and their credentials. 

In no way is this constitutional. This series of demands alone shows how dead the Republic really is, but fear much, they're not done.

Question 6 is just as creepy as number 3. Why does the IRS care if my organization works to have the people's voice heard in Congress?

6) Have you attempted or will you attempt to influence the outcome of specific legislation (in the near future)? lf so, provide the following:

a) Provide copies of all communications, pamphlets, advertisements, and other materials distributed by the organization regarding the legislation.

Somebody's not happy that nobody is happy about Obamacare.

The rest of the questions focus mainly on income versus expenditures and things that seem like normal questions from the IRS such as fundraising amounts and who contributes what to the organization. I am fine with that, and I think most other Americans are as well.

As frightening as the obvious points are there is one point that I infer to be the worst: the progressive tactic of political upheaval is not one of blatant assault on the people, but rather one of slowly, methodically assaulting from every angle. President Obama and those who agree with his intent for America do not want an outright and visible war on the Constitution and political dissent. They prefer a subtle yet overwhelming approach which is exactly what they are doing.

What better way to wage that war than to spread it out over as many different areas as possible? Why have a central, concentrated assault when you can attack the enemy from a full-circle vantage point?

Let the President fight for amnesty for all illegals while using Executive Order to decriminalize the invasion of our country. Then let the DOJ allow racist organizations to intimidate conservative voters at polling places and have the IRS take on conservative groups while demanding names and speeches of those who oppose the administration's legislation. All the while, stay soft on the enemy that is Islamic Fundamentalism. Speaking of which, any chance the IRS is getting involved in transcribing the sermons of American Imams? That would only be fair, right?

This is more than a slow walk to tyranny and despotism, this is the view from the back of the line while we try to convince those around us that it's a bad idea.

I have so much more I want to share, and I will at another time, but an IRS van just pulled into my driveway, and the guys in the fancy brown suits want to talk.

BIRD CATCHER

Pretty amazing.

PROTECTION AT ALL COST

Here's a fascinating, and exciting story from Texas. The only people not worried about the safety of your child are working for the government so it is vital to keep the safety of your child as close to home as possible.

KETK

Union Grove, Texas (KETK) — This week the 2-a district Union Grove put up a large sign outside their schools stating that their staff is armed and will --quote-- "Use whatever force necessary" to protect their students.

Community support for the school has been overwhelming since they voted to allow licensed and trained teachers and administrators to carry a firearm on campus back in January.

Any employee that decides to carry a firearm in the school must also complete crisis intervention training and a hostage situation management course.

OBAMA'S MOMMA DAY

Yesterday I was in Target with my dad and brother, and we spotted a Mother's Day card with Barack Obama on the cover. I wondered aloud if the inscription read, "If it were up to me, you never would have been a mother" as an ode to Obama's documented vote in favor of allowing new-born babies to suffocate to death because their mothers did not deem them fit to live. How awful, how sad.

As blue as my humor may have been, it looks like I may have not been too far off the mark.

Here's what Twitchy captured from the White House's Twitter feed this morning, Mother's Day.

That's correct. Thanks to Obama, 1 in 3 women gained access to preventive care - like birth control....

Which means "like, but not limited to, birth control."

I have no issue with birth control; I have a problem with the "like, but not limited to..."

What are we paying for thanks to the President? God only knows. Which is important for Mr. Obama to understand. God does know.

By the way, if my opening comments about Mr. Obama's harsh stance in favor of allowing babies to die a slow and painful death seems harsh, read his transcribed comments from the IL state Senate,
and then let me know how you feel in the comments section. I doubt you walk away with a patient, loving mind for him.

IRS BULLY TACTICS

The IRS has admitted to targeting Conservative groups during the 2012 tax season. No worries though, IRS says it is very, very sorry.

Washington Post

WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service is apologizing for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status.

Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews.

Lerner said the practice, initiated by low-level workers in Cincinnati, was wrong and she apologized while speaking at a conference in Washington.

Many conservative groups complained during the election that they were being harassed by the IRS. They said the agency asked them an inordinate number of questions to justify their tax-exempt status.

Certain tax-exempt charitable groups can conduct political activities but it cannot be their primary activity.

Twitchy has more that is worth a look as well.

WHITE HOUSE: US SOLDIERS MAY BE TERRORISTS

The Weekly Standard has a chilling video of Jay Carney from today's White House Press briefing in which Carney finds it impossible to deny that US soldiers in Afghanistan may be terrorists too.

No joke.

That Jay Carney would dodge this question and hide behind the "I need more details" defense, proves that this White House dose not give American soldiers the benefit of the doubt when in the field of combat. Maybe that's why they handled Benghazi so poorly; they couldn't decide which side to believe. And why Carney would be fielding questions from reporters in the White House who seem so sympathetic to the cause of Al Qaeda is disturbing to say the least.

For Mr. Carney I provide an answer which he is free to use from this point forward: "There is a huge difference between collateral damage in war and the targeting of innocent civilians in order to incite panic. Suggesting that American soldiers fighting for the freedom of the Afghan people who have been brutalized and enslaved by a demonic, radical religious group for thousands of years are in any way equitable to the terrorists whom they fight is unacceptable in the People's House of the United States, and quite frankly makes me wonder how you got into this room in the first place."

RECIPE FOR FAILURE

Do you ever get the feeling that there are an innumerable amount of amateurs  running the government?

Me too, and it turns out that there may be a very good explanation.

Breitbart

Hollywood denizens opened up their considerable check books for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign last fall, and now it's payback time.

A number of prestigious diplomatic posts have opened up recently, and some of the entertainment industry's more generous donors could fill them, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Among posts still in play, sources tell THR, is the coveted ambassadorship to France, previously thought to belong to hedge fund chief Marc Lasry, a major contributor to Obama and to Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative....
Whomever Obama decides on for the coveted Paris post, he or she will join a surprising number of nominees with Hollywood ties. Among them: Emmy-nominated television producer Colleen Bell, said to be in line for Belgium or Hungary; longtime Democratic activist and executive John Emerson, whose name has come up as a possible ambassador to Germany; HBO executive James Costos, who according to sources is under consideration for Spain; media executive-turned-political activist Rufus Gifford, who is being eyed for Denmark; and political consultant Noah Mamet, who is in the running for Argentina.

PRAYERS FROM THE ENEMY

The Obama administration insisted that a Muslim Imam give a prayer over the bodies of American heroes killed by soldiers of Allah in Afghanistan.

Some of the dead soldiers were from Seal Team 6, the elite unit known for taking down Osama bin Laden.

The Blaze

Parents of fallen service members spoke at a press conference on Thursday morning, an event during which they accused the U.S. government of complicity in the deaths of their sons. The families highlighted a number of grievances, including the notion that military brass invited a Muslim cleric to their children’s funeral in 2011 — an imam who they claim “disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen.”

 

Three families of fallen Navy SEAL Team 6 special forces members and one family of an Army National Guardsman held the event at the National Press Club to make this startling allegation, among many others. Their children perished during the fatal Chinook helicopter crash that occurred in Afghanistan on August 6, 2011. The presser was an effort, as noted in a press release, to corroborate the notion that the U.S. government is “as much responsible for the deaths of their sons as is the Taliban.”

There's plenty more in the full article, but just imagine having a gay son who dies and the US government brings in Fred Phelps to give the prayer over his grave. Offensive to say the least.