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Islamic State video shows destruction of ancient Iraqi artefacts
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Lois Lerner Received $129K in Bonuses
[FREEBEACON] Former IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
official Lois Lerner
...the former head of the IRS Exempt Unit. She is a past president of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws and a member of the Massachussetts bar. She was held in contempt of Congress for her role in the IRS targeting of regime political enemies and refusing to testify. The dog ate her computer's hard drive with all her emails on it...
received $129,300 in bonuses between 2010 and 2013, records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show.
You can keep the money, just don't come back.
Over a three-year period, Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt division at the heart of the IRS targeting scandal, received a 25 percent retention bonus--averaging $43,000 a year--on top of her regular salary.

The federal government uses retention bonuses to incentivize valuable employees who are considering retirement or private sector jobs to stay at their agencies.

Former acting IRS commissioner Steven T. Miller recommended Lerner for a $42,000 retention bonus in December 2009, when she first became eligible for retirement.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  good thing we paid EXTRA to retain this piece of partisan shit
Posted by: Frank G || 02/26/2015 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Earned every bit of it suppressing the Tea Party activist for the 2012 election. Did the Inner Party well. Not quite 10 pieces of silver, but actually peanuts for what she achieved in keeping the power and the Treasury (the source of all patronage) in the party's hands.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2015 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Payoff from the WH for doing what she was told to do.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2015 8:54 Comments || Top||

#4 
Posted by: Spereling Hupeling6103 || 02/26/2015 9:01 Comments || Top||

#5  It's a great gig if you don't mind a little guilt.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/26/2015 11:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Guilt is only for the non-Left. They sell it like the old Catholic Church sold indulgences (Martin Luther to the courtesy phone). Power is self rationalizing.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2015 11:42 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
White House 'Unable To Accommodate' Latino Republican Congressman On Air Force One
[BREITBART] The White House reacted to reports today that it snubbed Latino Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) by turning down his request to travel to Miami on Air Force One for the president's town hall speech.
It's all those diet restrictions. They just can't accommodate them all.
"In this case we were unable to accommodate the Congressman's request," White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest explained to members of the press on Air Force One. "But we typically try to do so when we can."
They can't keep tacos fresh in the First Refrigerator...
Earnest referred to the White House "standard practice" to invite the member of congress from the district when traveling to another part of the country. That member was Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL), a representative of a district including Miami Gardens, a suburb of Miami.
All Latinos eat that sort of stuff, y'know?
Curbelo was invited to the event, according to the Miami Herald, but could not attend.
...and then they drink too much tequila and get drunk and do hat dances, and how much space for that is to be found on The First Airplane?...
"They said, 'Sorry, there's no space on the plane for you,'" Curbelo told the Miami Herald, referring to the White House.
For that matter, where's the room for those big-assed hats they wear!
The president traditionally takes a few members of Congress any time he travels, and the cabin features seating specifically for their use. Traditionally, the president spends some time in the cabin speaking to members who join him for travel around the country.
He'd have probably wanted to take his wife and his dozen or so kids with him...
According to the White House, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s Latino Democrat Rep. Linda Sanchez, a champion for immigration reform, did get permission to travel with Wilson to Florida for the town hall event.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2015 12:34 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm afraid if I was Curbelo I'd be relieved.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 02/26/2015 15:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe it's those big hats they wear and fear of them interfering with the flight attendants and stuff.

Posted by: Spereling Hupeling6103 || 02/26/2015 16:06 Comments || Top||


Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2015 12:33 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It will get smacked down in courts, but the fact this assclown is acting like a king and tyrant more everyday is beyond unsettling.

I really don't think he is going to leave in 2 years.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2015 12:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Nowhere in the Constitutionis there a right to ammuntion. That should be an easier ruling for Roberts than the Obamacare tax ruling.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/26/2015 13:05 Comments || Top||

#3  When the hell did we pass the point where rule by executive fiat became law?

This sort of thing will cause a revolution
Posted by: OldSpook || 02/26/2015 15:28 Comments || Top||

#4  Next president's first act should be to rescind every executive order issued by Obama.

And if the next president has any real balls, he can suspend enforcement of all acts signed by Obama until his legal status is confirmed.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/26/2015 16:11 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm surprised he hasn't told the congress and senate to go home for good.
Posted by: chris || 02/26/2015 17:29 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm surprised he hasn't told the congress and senate to go home for good.

Why? Boehner and McConnell are his allies.
Posted by: Iblis || 02/26/2015 17:49 Comments || Top||

#7 
This sort of thing will cause a revolution.


No, no it will not ... and therein lies the problem.
Posted by: Thomoting Schwarzeneggar6888 || 02/26/2015 23:37 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Sanctioned North Korea shipping firm still active, renamed ships - U.N. panel
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 02/26/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Home Front: Politix
Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.
[WASHINGTONPOST] The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hillary Rodham Clinton
... sometimes described as The Heroine of Tuzla and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Elihu Root ...
's tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the B.O. regime, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday.

Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation's 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations.

The agreement, reached before Clinton's nomination amid concerns that countries could use foundation donations to gain favor with a Clinton-led State Department, allowed governments that had previously donated money to continue making contributions at similar levels.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you're in need of an international wealth and power building scheme with maximum tax advantages, consider a Foundation.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2015 2:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Unregistered agent of foreign powers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/26/2015 8:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Small credit-card donations are beneath them.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/26/2015 14:02 Comments || Top||


Government
President Obama confirms that illegal immigrants who qualify for his programs won't be deported regardless of judge's order
[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK]
  • 'If you’ve been here for a long time and if you qualify, generally... even with legal uncertainty, they should be in a good place,' Obama said

  • POTUS was participating in a town hall hosted by Telemundo and MSNBC and led by an anchor affiliated with both networks, Jose Diaz-Balart

  • ICE Officials who don't abide by his directives are 'going to be answerable to the head of the Department of Homeland Security,' the president said

  • Obama again promised to reject legislation under consideration by the the Republican-led House and Senate undoing his actions

  • 'I will veto that vote, because I’m absolutely confident that what we’re doing is the right thing to do,' he said to rancorous applause.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2015 12:34 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He doesn't give a shit about even pretending to follow the law anymore. The tyrant is out in the open.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2015 12:36 Comments || Top||

#2  He's a tyrant (well, a puppet tyrant), but an elected one. He does have that in common with Hitler. Often people wish to be subjects.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/26/2015 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  rancorous applause

That word does not mean what you think it does.
Posted by: KBK || 02/26/2015 13:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Getting better all the time: Obama Dares GOP: Go Ahead, ‘Have a Vote on Whether What I’m Doing Is Legal…I Will Veto’

I fear that he will plunk some whack-o's magic twanger and things will get really ugly.
Posted by: Spereling Hupeling6103 || 02/26/2015 16:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Contempt is a disregard or disobedience of public authority. As
applied to injunctions, criminal contempt is wilful disobedience of the
courts' decree, thus resulting in a disregard for the courts' authority.
Criminal contempt in the federal courts has to some extent been limited.
both substantively and procedurally, by statute; but for the most part,
the common law rules still prevail.' Formulation of general rules determining
the evidentiary requirements for criminal contempt is difficult
because the violation is defined largely by the terms of the specific injunction.
For example, a guard accused of mishandling a federal prisoner
in a county jail could not be convicted of criminal contempt because this
conduct was not embodied in a decree.8 But where there was a court
order committing a prisoner into the custody of a sheriff to be held safe
until the expiration of his sentence, his conduct in allowing a prisoner to
go free was criminal contempt.' Thus it is seen that an injunction is
analogous to a criminal statute. Conduct not forbidden cannot be criminal
contempt. But, like statutes, injunctions frequently must be phrased
in general terms to be effective and therefore require subsequent judicial
interpretation to ascertain what they prohibit."

http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2810&context=ilj
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 02/26/2015 16:41 Comments || Top||

#6  And the RINOs are perfectly fine with this tyrant.
Posted by: Airandee || 02/26/2015 22:18 Comments || Top||

#7  AFAIK the US Constitution does NOT recognize Partial, Semi-, or Quasi-US Citizens + Permanent Residents - ITS EITHER THEY ARE, OR THEY ARE NOT.

EITHER DEPORT THEM ASAP, EN MASSE' IFF NEED BE, OR ELSE STOP P ******** WUSSYING AROUND + MAKE THEM DE FACTO CITIZENS-RESIDENTS.

WHY? BECAUSE THE FEDS ARE BREAKING CONSTITUTIONAL + FEDERAL LAWS IFF THEY DON'T, WHICH THEY ARE NOT TO BE DOING.

Many Years or Decades of Pervasive or Perennial PCorrectness-Deniabilty has affected the Fed so much I won't be surprised iff they don't know the difference between right or wrong, up versus down, etc. anymore.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/26/2015 22:21 Comments || Top||


Spokeswoman For Major Christie Donor Sez No Fundraising Plans For Jersey Governor
[Daily Caller] NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- A spokeswoman for Home Depot founder Ken Langone told The Daily Caller on Wednesday that Langone "is not hosting any fundraisers for Governor Christie at this time."

Langone, known as one of Governor Christie's biggest Republican donors, talked up the Jersey GOP'er as the best bet for 2016 Republican nominee to his wealthy friends just one month ago. However, since former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker entered the potential 2016 spotlight, Christie's political stock appears to be going down. One particular Christie donor who now appears to be supporting Bush is Johnson & Johnson heir and New York Jets owner Woody Johnson. Johnson attended fundraising event in Chicago for Bush's political committees recently.
I'm very sorry sir, we're only accepting deposits today.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2015 07:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


FCC Chair Refuses to Testify before Congress ahead of Net Neutrality Vote
[NATIONALREVIEW] Two prominent House committee chairs are “deeply disappointed” in Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler for refusing to testify before Congress as “the future of the Internet is at stake.”

Wheeler’s refusal to go before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday comes on the eve of the FCC’s vote on new Internet regulations pertaining to net neutrality.

The committee’s chairman, Representative Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), and Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Fred Upton (R., Mich.) criticized Wheeler and the administration for lacking transparency on the issue.

“So long as the chairman continues to insist on secrecy, we will continue calling for more transparency and accountability at the commission,” Chaffetz and Upton said in a statement.

“Chairman Wheeler and the FCC are not above Congress.” The vote on the new Internet regulations is scheduled for Thursday.
Who needs a Congress? The regime accomplishes it's goals through regulatory fiat.
The FCC’s two Republican commissioners have asked Wheeler to delay the vote to allow more time for review.

The changes would allow the commission to regulate the Internet like a public utility, setting new standards that require the provision of equal access to all online content.
Posted by: Fred || 02/26/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The cable companies and free markets vs. Soros and government control?
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2015 8:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Issue a subpoena . If he refuses, arrest him. Then fire him.
Posted by: DarthVader || 02/26/2015 11:54 Comments || Top||


'Kerry Blasts Netanyahu: He's 'Wrong' On Iran Deal Like He Was On Iraq War
[TPM] Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's opposition to a potential nuclear deal with Iran, calling it as wrongheaded as the prime minister's backing of the Iraq War.

"Israel is safer today with the added time we have given and the stoppage of the advances in the nuclear program than they were before we got that agreement, which by the way the prime minister opposed," Kerry said during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. "He was wrong."

Kerry was later asked to address Netanyahu's criticism of a hypothetical deal with Iran as a threat to Israel.
Interesting, in light of the fact Netanyahu was NOT the prime minister of Israel at the time of the Gulf War, and 'then' Senator Kerry voted in support of the invasion.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2015 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And how many times ha Kerry been wrong.
Posted by: chris || 02/26/2015 0:55 Comments || Top||

#2  and the stoppage of the advances in the nuclear

But I'm confounded by the acquisition of Russian technical contracts, thousands of centrifuges, and ballistic missiles. I'm sure there's an obvious answer. Someone, please help me understand the obvious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/26/2015 1:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Sleepers?
Posted by: 3dc || 02/26/2015 1:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Yes, yes, John. Don't get excited---your face might crack.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/26/2015 6:19 Comments || Top||

#5  I tend to believe Netanyahu. The current regime doesn't know how to tell the truth.
Posted by: JohnQC || 02/26/2015 8:14 Comments || Top||

#6  Getting his talking points from Marie Harf, he is.
Posted by: Spereling Hupeling6103 || 02/26/2015 9:07 Comments || Top||

#7  I'm still wondering if he ever paid the sales tax on his yacht from three years ago.
Posted by: Raj || 02/26/2015 10:30 Comments || Top||

#8  'Kerry Blasts Netanyahu: He's 'Wrong' On Iran Deal Like He Was On Iraq War

Is he referring to Obama?
Posted by: gorb || 02/26/2015 16:59 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2015-02-26
  Islamic State video shows destruction of ancient Iraqi artefacts
Wed 2015-02-25
  SECURITY MoD: Iraqi forces liberate most of al-Baghdadi, Anbar
Tue 2015-02-24
  ISIS executes three of its leaders for cowardice in Diyali
Mon 2015-02-23
  Libya: ISIS claims it bombed Iran envoy's residence
Sun 2015-02-22
  Hotel staffers arrested after deadly bombing
Sat 2015-02-21
  Dozens Dead in Shebab Attack on Mogadishu Hotel
Fri 2015-02-20
  45 dead in eastern Libya bombings, Islamic extremists claim responsibility
Thu 2015-02-19
  Rebels report death of 195 pro-Assad fighters in Aleppo
Wed 2015-02-18
  IS launches attack to regain Yazidi city of Shingal
Tue 2015-02-17
  Islamic State militants 'burn to death 45 in Iraq'
Mon 2015-02-16
  Egypt launches air strikes against IS militias in Libya
Sun 2015-02-15
  SECOND Copenhagen shooting at synagogue
Sat 2015-02-14
  21 Coptic Christians slaughtered in Libya
Fri 2015-02-13
  Thousands expected at funeral for 3 Muslims killed in US
Thu 2015-02-12
  France says it has dismantled 15 terrorist networks


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