[NEWS.INVESTORS] Let's cut to the chase here: The IRS ...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies... is obstructing justice because it doesn't want the truth to come out . The agency has been caught red-handed targeting opponents of the B.O. regime, including the tea party, pro-Israel groups and conservative news media.
It purposely delayed issuances of tax-exempt status to nonprofit groups and held investigations entirely outside its own mandate.
What the IRS is hiding is bound to be the work of malicious wardheelers cloaking themselves as impartial civil servants, plotting among themselves against their political enemies through email.
The stiff-arms given by the IRS at every juncture -- from Lerner's invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at a House hearing to this latest claim about preventing duplicates -- is consistent with that scenario.
As a result, the IRS is moving closer and closer to rogue status -- an agency so contemptuous of the law and confident of its impunity that it's becoming a law unto itself.
Would the IRS itself be just as casual about deadlines if private citizens failed to file their taxes by April 15?
Would it show understanding to a corporation that said it had lost all its emails with tax records in some sort of server crash that somehow wiped the whole thing clean?
Does the IRS let anyone it has accused of tax evasion take the Fifth or withhold the incriminating evidence?
Absolutely not. Yet it somehow expects the courts and Congress to go along with the sloppiness and obstruction it would never tolerate in the people it "serves."
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Question is, which Republican has the stones to make abolish the IRS a plank in their campaign?
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As a result, the IRS is moving closer and closer to rogue status -- an agency so contemptuous of the law and confident of its impunity that it's becoming a law unto itself.
The IRS crossed that line years ago. The difficult point here is, what other entities was Lerner providing information to ?
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The IRS has approximately 80,000 employees. I'd fire up to 5,000 in management positions, replace them with outsiders, and no budget increases for ten years.
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The difficult point here is, what other entities was Lerner providing information to ?
I'm guessing the DoJ was complicit in this whole deal. If Holder was an honest man we wouldn't need Congressional hearings. Lerner and her colleagues would already be in jail. So that implicates Obama as well because he should have ordered Holder to investigate.
[NATION.PK] 'Islamophobia ...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do... ' is generally defined as "prejudice against, hatred towards, or fear of Islam". To ensure that the term can be used in as wide an array of situations as possible, 'Moslems' are deemed interchangeable with 'Islam' in the definition. This implies that Moslems and Islam are synonymous and that all Moslems showcase an identical adherence to Islam. This in turn reflects blatant neglect of cultural, sceptic and humanist Moslem identities which view adherence to Islamic scriptures in varying lights.
The self-contradiction of the misnomer aside, there are few regimes and states -- if one can take the liberty of dubbing the kingdom of al-Saud as such -- that are more 'Islamophobic' than Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... . While the Kingdom is the birthplace of Islam, and is considered the religious hub owing to the presence of Masjid al-Haram and Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, the al-Saud family has long treated Islamic heritage as their personal property and Islam itself as a blank cheque for perpetual transactions.
The al-Saud family has a centuries long association with demolition of mosques, burial sites, homes and historical locations central to Islamic history, culture and heritage. It flaunts an antediluvian and narrow version of Islam (Wahabbism), which ironically started off as a "revivalist" movement in the 18th century. Wahabbism strictly condemns veneration of any historical sites or shrines, and deems the act as "shirq". The Saudi 'Islamophobia' and prejudice targets every other version of Islam.
At the start of the 19th century the Saudis led by Abdul Aziz ibn Muhammad ibn Saud attacked Karbala and Najaf, destroying holy sites like the tomb of Imam Hussain, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. By 1804 the Saudis had taken their destruction to Mecca and Medina and demolished the tombs of Fatimah, the youngest daughter of the Prophet, and Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, his first wife, along with many other structures related to the Prophet's closest companions at Jannatul Mualla and Jannat al-Baqi cemeteries.
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the islamic state also thinks the black rock at mecca promotes idolatry and ought to be demolished
I'm with them on that
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[NATION.PK] It seems Wajihuddin Ahmed is fast becoming the new Javed Hashmi for Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf; a respected veteran that is being ostracised for trying to make the party a democratic and accountable institution. From being the party's candidate for the presidential election of 2013 to being labelled "mentally unstable" by party ranks; Justice Wajihuddin's story -- just like Javed Hashmi's -- is a stark reminder of the fate that is to befall anyone who challenges the edicts of Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... .
On Tuesday, an intra-party tribunal headed by Wajihuddin Ahmed, the retired Chief Justice of the Sindh High Court, set up to investigate rigging in PTI's intra-party polls ordered the expulsion of big shots Jehangir Tareen and Nadir Khan Leghari from the party for manipulating the polls that were held before the 2013 general election. Also in the line of fire were Pervaiz Khattak, the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... chief minister, and ex-Lahore party chief Aleem Khan, both of whom were ordered to be stripped from office and barred from re-entry into the party. To this PTI contends that the tribunal was disbanded by party chairman, Imran Khan in the month of April, and thus the order holds no weight, and they are right. According to the standards of the PTI's "democratic" party charter -- in which the chairman holds unfettered and unlimited power to override and reverse any decision -- the contention is correct; PTI members are not bound by the decision, and Wajihuddin can be safely considered a rouge judge. But according to the democratic pretensions of the party and by the notions of accountability and due process that Imran Khan has so often advocated; the whole saga sinks the myth of PTI's democratic nature and shows Imran Khan to be the antithesis of what he purports to be -- an autocratic dictator.
Wajihuddin's tribunal was not disbanded when he concluded his judgement and ordered immediate re-elections -- since massive irregularities were unearthed in the intra-party polls -- his tribunal was disbanded when it summoned Imran Khan to answer why new elections haven't taken place yet. Not only does this show the fact that Imran Khan wilfully chooses to ignore corruption in party ranks, it also shows how he reacts to dissent; effectively silencing it. What legitimacy remains in his pursuit of a favourable Judicial Commission verdict? In one go he has demolished the whole narrative he painstakingly built during the dharna -- with the talk of stolen mandates and accountability -- shooting his already shaky credibility in the foot. With his own house in disarray, what legitimacy does he have to preach reform to others? More shameful is the reaction of the PTI's social media contagion, which spent no time in demonising Wajihuddin and accusing him of conspiring with the PML-N; who, incidentally, only a few months ago was a paragon of integrity and living proof of PTI's honest foundations. Day by day, PTI is being joined by opportunistic electables, while politicians of merit are being chased out for daring to disagree with the mighty Khan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[NEWS.INVESTORS] Let's cut to the chase here: The 
