There group had a good rejoinder: They sent back a copy of the United States Constitution.

I wonder if the IRS found it subversive.

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@drewmtips' Dark Horse pick for the most important scandal gets some play.

House Republicans are starting a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate, to help sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare.

Sebelius in recent weeks has asked various charitable foundations, businesses executives, churches and doctors to donate money to nonprofit organizations, such as Enroll America, that are helping to implement President Obama's health care overhaul.

[T]he solicitations, through speeches and phone calls, have raised questions about whether a federal official can ask for money from groups he or she oversees.

And would therefore be in a position to either reward or punish by executive action.

It will be good to have the donors on the record-- so we can see how they fare as far as government favor in the future.

ObamaCare is broken; Obama "accidentally" asked for too little money (in order to sell it dishonestly to the public). So now Sebelius is ask-threatening groups to "voluntarily" pay additional money into ObamaCare to make it work.

Wink-wink, who knows, wink-wink, your donations might just wink-wink be really appreciated.

By the Way: If you are familiar with this blog at all, you know the pace of posts is 30-40 minutes between each one, unless it's a long essay or the like that I'm leaving up for a while (out of ego).

Point is, the Arrested Development thread was not going to stay long at the top... until I had to spend an hour defending my right to post about any subject other than Obama at all.

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I guess I need a political hook, so... Alternate media streams threaten to blah blah blah existing broadcast networks blah blah blah complete collapse of so-called "mainstream media" blah blah blah as the asteroid destroyed the dinosaurs blah blah a more individualized "pull" form of media delivery which will extinguish the current "push" model.

I've been a skeptic of this project -- the more one wants something to happen, the more reason there is it probably shouldn't -- but the trailer, at least, seems funny, and much in the spirit of the old show.

more...

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Wayne Brady has a point, and that point, though he won't come out and say it, is that Bill Maher is a liberal racist. (Warning: HuffPo link.)

Bill Maher uses Wayne Brady as the exemplar of the "Fake Black," the sissy black. Why he does, who knows. Wayne Brady thinks it has something to do with the fact that Brady speaks well and doesn't have a history of violence, and Bill Maher thinks that an "Authentic Black Man" would be a "misunderandables" and prone to violence.

A dumb thug, then. That's Bill Maher's image of The Real Black Experience.

Brady knocks that down, noting that that's a stereotype and denies the full range of the black experience. That stereotype exists, Brady allows, but is not actually "The Black Man" as exists as an archetype in Bill Maher's head.

That said, Brady notes that if that's what it takes to prove himself as Authentically Black to Bill Maher, he can and will "beat his ass in public."

Brady calls this his "fantasy." No, dude. It's all of our fantasy.

Oh, and Brady also continues alleging that the Black Women Bill Maher Has Slept With -- the ones that Maher thinks give him "black cred" -- may or may not be women at all, and are either trannies or have that tranny-like look that the tranny-curious find appealing.

By the way, it's not racist to assume Wayne Brady can in fact kick Bill Maher's ass. Bill Maher is a dwarf p*ssy.

Oh: Wayne Brady sort of jokes that Bill Maher may not be all that funny, but he really doesn't hit him on it, apart from knocking DC Cab (a POS movie made back in the days when Bill Maher was convinced he was movie star material).

It annoys me, though, that he won't really push this point, as if he doesn't want to offend Bill Maher's zombie-clapping idiot fans.

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Live feed here. So far, it's another guy who doesn't know anything at all.

News: Holder says he wasn't part of the AP investigation at all, because, if I have this right, he himself was questioned by the FBI as a possible leaker. So he recused himself.

An couple of odd lines from Holder: Speaking about the administration's civil rights record, he declared "I'm proud of what we've done," then lists, as his only proof of a strong record on civil rights, treating terrorists kindly.

No one follows up -- that's all well and good for terrorists, but how about American citizens?

Then, speaking about the Administration's promise to make drone decisions more transparent, Holder says, "That was a promise, by me, that I think will be kept."

Outstanding. Can't get a stronger guarantee than that.

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He doesn't allege specifics, but says the IRS began "hammering" him shortly after he subjected Obama to one of his few difficult interviews in April 2012.

Jay Carney on Now: Live feed at Fox.

In the words of the reporter from Idiocracy, so far he's just been "blah blah blah, lot of bullshit." He's claiming the White House knows nothing.

He just said he has to wait for the IG's report before doing anything.

So whoever picked up "We have to wait for the investigation" in the Scandal Draft, your boy is already producing points.

Carney Babbles: Chuck Todd is asking why Obama supported a law in 2007 which would provide judicial oversight for investigating the media (in leak-hunts), but then flip-flopped in 2009 and killed the bill.

Carney said multiple times that Obama supported the bill in 2007, which is... irrelevant, and misses the point of the question, which is "Why did he change his mind?" He then resorts to claiming that the legislative history of the bill is all too complicated to get into.

Six thousand Conservative Writers just decided to call their books "UNFETTERED."

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I say "wiretap" but I don't mean recording conversations, but registering phone calls made and received.

Just saw it breaking, via @allahpundit. Townhall has a brief.

Attorney General Eric Holder has recused himself from the Associated Press leak investigation. He will officially announce his recusal at a press conference Tuesday afternoon. Fox News is reporting his recusal comes partially because Holder has testified about potential national security leaks surrounding a May 7, 2012 Associated Press story.

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You guys really need to be on this.

Somehow a Scandal Draft has begun. With my first pick, I took "Low Level Employees," then grabbed "Obama Makes an Historic Speech" with a bonus pick I got from a trade last season.

But their are plenty of strong candidates still available.

Update: "Can't comment on an ongoing investigation" was just snapped up. I'm shocked it lasted into the third round.

Darn: I'm glad I got you guys in because some serious prospects are getting snapped up.

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They like talking about the scientific discipline of mind much like an alcoholic whoremonger might like talking about Church and living a clean life.

The actual practice of the preaching? Not so much. Not so much.

It's a good article, worth a quick read, noting leftists' religiously-based thinking on the Oregon Medicaid Study, universal preschool, and global warming.

Unrelated: Yesterday's best sentences, he wrote darkly.

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Me, 6:55am: "New Obama administration scandal by noon? I'll take the under."

A mere 24 minutes later, this story was published: EPA waives fee requests for friendly groups, denies conservative groups

Conservative groups seeking information from the Environmental Protection Agency have been routinely hindered by fees normally waived for media and watchdog groups, while fees for more than 90 percent of requests from green groups were waived, according to requests reviewed by the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

I have no idea where these low-level employees could have gotten the idea that it's okay to treat people differently based on their political leanings.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a president in the White House who referred to Americans who disagree with him as 'our enemies.' Think about that. He actually used that word. When Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush used the word 'enemy,' they reserved it for global terrorists and foreign dictators -- enemies of the United States. Enemies of freedom. Enemies of our country. Today, sadly, we have president who uses the word 'enemy' for fellow Americans -- fellow citizens. He uses it for people who disagree with his agenda of bigger government -- people speaking out for a smaller, more accountable government that respects freedom and allows small businesses to create jobs. Mr. President, there's a word for people who have the audacity to speak up in defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the values of limited government that made our country great. We don't call them 'enemies.' We call them 'patriots.'

John Boehner didn't know how right he was there.

Update: As a reminder, there's another scandal involving EPA and their use of private email accounts (e.g., former administrator Lisa 'Richard Windsor' Jackson) that CEI's Chris Horner was already pursuing.

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