Six reasons the Benghazi buck stops at The White House

Photo: CIA World Fact Book/U.S. GovernmentBased on reportage about the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks that left four Americans including the U.S. ambassador dead in Benghazi, it’s fairly obvious most media haven’t waded through the Accountability Review Board report.

Then-Sec. of State Hillary Clinton selected four members of the board.

It’s also obvious media haven’t read President Barack Obama’s Executive Order No. 13597.

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Federal judge squelches First Amendment in anti-Christian ruling

Snip: American Freedom Law CenterThe city of Dearborn hosts a yearly ‘Arab’ festival and that makes sense. Dearborn has the largest Arab population compared to any other U.S. city and the city is also home to  the largest mosque in the U.S.—adherents are Shia Muslims.

Now a federal judge has squelched First Amendment rights for Christians in Dearborn.

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Branco's Tea Party cartoon: Picture worth ten thousand words

A. F. Branco's work is popular because he can sum up a position with brush strokes even a low-info voter can understand. (Used with permission: A. F. Branco)

I started seeing works by A. F. Branco on Facebook and was delighted to learn he permits usage of his work with a linkback and credit. Branco says a lot with an image, and I personally think this one is a classic in summing up the latest trifecta of scandals for the Obama administration. Past scandals like Fast and Furious and Solyndra were largely ignored by legacy media. These scandals, however, found legacy media in the crosshairs. Poetic justice of a sort.

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Miller says ‘Targeting is a pejorative term’; Dems make much of Bush appointees

Congressional hearing on IRS persecution of conservative groups; outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller is at forefront. (Snip: C-SPAN 2)A congressional hearing is underway on Capitol Hill and as usual, it’s a political circus. Republicans want to know why conservative groups have been persecuted by the Internal Revenue Service.

Democrats pointed out some appointees were selected by President George W. Bush, while they omit the fact none of the current accusations have anything to do with Bush. Dems did point out that some “progressive churches” and the NAACP received extra scrutiny during the Bush administration, but it came nowhere close to the current persecution.

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Persecution aside, IRS’ Ingram a poster child for federal government dysfunction

Screen Snip: Internal Revenue Service/U.S. GovernmentPresident Barack Obama’s point person in overseeing the mammoth ObamaCare bill—at least from the tax aspects—is front and center right now, and she has a checkered past.  Sarah Hall Ingram was in charge of the division that gave conservative tax-exempt wannabes such a hard time.

Ingram got more than $100,000 in taxpayer funded bonuses between 2009-2012. The left of center Washington Post (via The Washington Examiner) said the bureaucrat also got a $47,900 bonus during the administration of President George W. Bush (2004).

Ingram is a poster child for the need for reform of the federal government at all levels. This latest scandal isn’t just about IRS.

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Leahy’s amendment enabled unconstitutional Pentagon power grab over ‘civil disturbances’

Photo of partial view of Pentagon: U.S. GovernmentSen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) authored a bill that repealed language of the 2007 Defense Authorization Bill. The most worrisome part of Leahy’s bill includes this:

“Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances.”

Although Democrats waged an ongoing war against Republican President George W. Bush for 8 years, the administration of President Barack Obama has not only followed many of Bush’s policies, the Obama administration has expanded them.

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Clearinghouse needed for Americans to report IRS, other federal offenses

President Barack Obama was against same sex marriage and for American unity when he spoke during the Saddleback forum before he won the presidency in 2008. Obama has flipped on those positions and others. (Photo: C-SPAN snip)Should Americans who don’t want government sitting on their shoulder 24/7 form a clearinghouse for offenses committed by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies?

It’s not just IRS that’s disregarded limits on government power over freedom of speech and other rights, however.

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