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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 05:10 AM | Comments (378)
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Happy Friday and Happy Memorial Day Weekend.

Just a cover video from me today and also, note, I'll be out of town until Wednesday. more...

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Throw another scandal on the pile.

...Initially, FBI officials said Todashev, 27, became violent and lunged at an agent with a knife while he was being questioned...

...The agent, acting on an "imminent threat," then shot Todashev, they said...

...However, later in the day, some of those officials had backed off that preliminary account, and it's no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting, The Associated Press reported...

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Losing in Blue

CEO magazine put out its annual business friendliness ranking of the states and here are the bottom 10 states:

And unshockingly they're all nearly all blue states with blue state legislatures (can you name the exceptions?). And all of them either lost congressional seats or stayed the same during the 2010 reapportionment. So people are voting with their feet.

By contrast the top 10 are almost all red states and most gained seats in Congress. And are in general just nicer places to live.

Quote of the Day - Reason #17 Why Breitbart Only Read the Comments

While scanning last night's ONT I just happened to catch this comment. In context it all makes sense but you won't see anything like this elsewhere in the conservative blogosphere.

499 Posted by: yankeefifth at May 22, 2013 10:37 PM (Z9EHQ)

She's a retard Red Sox fan....but she's OUR retard Red Sox fan.

Don't fuck with peaches, or you'll have to deal with Dildo!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 22, 2013 10:40 PM (O6Tmi)

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Here's a piece on a name that just might be getting more mention in the Scandal Summer to come -- Obama's consiglierte, Valerie Jarrett.

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I don't know why I'm even slightly surprised.

I think people have a natural impulse to believe there's some truth in what someone says -- I think we (or I, at least) have a tic somewhere that says "Well, no one lies completely brazenly; there's always some tiny safe harbor of truth their statement takes refuge in."

But that's wrong. Sometimes, people just Straight Up Lie About Everything.

A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agencyÂ’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity.

A superb civil servant. She's certainly earned her taxpayer-paid vacation.

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Some are a little meh on this story, because, they say, the law requires Eric Holder (and no one else) to sign these sorts of warrants.

So, they're saying: Didn't we already sort of know/guess this? The knock-down isn't that the story is false, but that it is, or should have been, obvious, and hence isn't shocking news.

Ehhhh... I guess I admit I didn't consider that.

Still... certainly it's news to me he signed the warrants, given that he'd been so fulsome in noting his complete recusal from decision-making in the AP case.

I guess I was assuming that the signature here, too, may have been delegated.

But it wasn't.

So I insist this is a big story. It adds to what we know. Perhaps many (smarter than I) suspected this was the case, but knowing beats suspecting.

Posted by: Ace at 02:39 PM | Comments (134)
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Via NBCNews, Michael Issikoff reporting:

Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

Oh it gets slightly better: Today Barack Obama announced that Eric Holder had agreed to "review" the procedures employed in subpoenaing journalists' phone logs and emails.

In other words: It sounds an awful lot like Obama has appointed Holder to investigate himself.

[Update - JohnE.] That part of Obama's speech:

Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs. Our focus must be on those who break the law. That is why I have called on Congress to pass a media shield law to guard against government over-reach. I have raised these issues with the Attorney General, who shares my concern. So he has agreed to review existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters, and will convene a group of media organizations to hear their concerns as part of that review. And I have directed the Attorney General to report back to me by July 12th.

I'm sure that'll clear everything up.

[Update 2 - JohnE.] Video below from 7 days ago. more...

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The dates are intriguing.

Joseph Stack -- who wrote a paean to the Communist way in his suicide note, which the Washington Post chose to delete in order to make him appear to be a Tea Partier* -- crashed his plane in the IRS building on February 18, 2010.

It is suspected that an unknown incident or directive started the IRS' inspection of Tea Party groups on February 25, 2010. The actual persecution began in March.

Today Obama made special mention of Joseph Stack's suicide/murder, noting it as a terrorist incident.

* Most media continue refusing to acknowledge this.

Here is the end of Stack's suicide note -- often deleted by the media.

saw it written once that the definition of insanity is repeating the same process over and over and expecting the outcome to suddenly be different. I am finally ready to stop this insanity. Well, Mr. Big Brother IRS man, letÂ’s try something different; take my pound of flesh and sleep well.

The communist creed: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The capitalist creed: From each according to his gullibility, to each according to his greed.

–Joe Stack (1956-2010), 02/18/2010

Another Date: WisRich writes:

ntriguing? Bah. How about this date:

***January 27th, 2010.***

The date Obama berated the Supreme Court for striking down McCain-Fiengold and unleashing, gah, free speech from people like the Tea Party folks.

This was the Clarion Call to Action for the progressives at every level of government.

Could be both. January 27 provided the actual motive, while February 18 provided the pretext.

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Lois Lerner on administrative leave, which I think means she continues to be paid for not working as "punishment."

It is Now Time To Put This Partisan Witchhunt Behind Us (TM) so that the President Can Get Back to the Job He Was Elected to Do (TM).

Because Middle Class (TM).

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