[Townhall] "They’ve been burned. They’ve been hammered. They’ve been bludgeoned," George Washington University law professor Miriam Galston explains to the Washington Post. "They’re trying to survive."
In this heartbreaking discussion during this special time of year, the "they" are the poor, long-suffering folks . . . at the Internal Revenue Service.
It is a terrible, too-long-ignored scandal, which should tear at the heartstrings of every American.
"Years of conservative attacks on the Internal Revenue Service have greatly diminished the ability of agency regulators to oversee political activity by charities and other nonprofits . . ." posits the recently published Post analysis.
Apparently, it is all part of a scheme by "conservatives" to "scale back the IRS and shrink the federal government." They write as if that were a bad thing.
You see, the Post argues, conservatives "capitalized on revelations in 2013 that IRS officials focused inappropriately on tea party and other conservative groups based on their names and policy positions . . . Among conservatives, the episode has come to be known as the ’IRS targeting scandal.’"
Also on pro-Israel groups. It wasn’t just conservative groups, but anyone King Barry the First might disapprove of.
Did you get that? There was no scandal ‐ just an "episode."
Oh, sure "conservatives" call it a "scandal." But not the Post. Even though the IRS did indeed target Tea Party and conservative groups and frustrate, delay and thwart their most precious First Amendment rights to freedom of association and freedom of speech ‐ in some cases for many years.
Yet, the Post article does not seek to detail and decry this clear denial of constitutional rights, admitted to by the IRS. Instead, the paper zeroes-in on the "use" of this violation to mobilize a political check on the power ‐ and budget ‐ of the agency responsible: the Internal Revenue Service.
[Townhall] WASHINGTON -- As Washington conservatives question whether partisan FBI officials working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller have stacked the deck against President Donald Trump, a criminal case in Las Vegas points to the sort of federal prosecutorial abuses that give the right cause for paranoia.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial in the infamous 2014 Bunkerville standoff case against rancher Cliven Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and co-defendant Ryan Payne, on the grounds that federal prosecutors improperly withheld evidence.
The standoff, in which both sides were armed, was a national news story that pitted a Western rancher against federal officialdom. Bureau of Land Management officials had tried to seize Bundy's cattle following a decades-long dispute over grazing fees. The rancher had stopped paying federal grazing fees in 1993 to protest a BLM directive that he cut back on cattle grazing in order to accommodate the threatened desert tortoise.
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Withholding evidence or funding the manufacture and distributing evidence from foreign source produced dossiers (and labeling it intelligence), nothing new here.
Bottom line: If they cannot be fired them, they DO NOT work for you.
[DAWN] A CLEAR majority of the global community ‐ in fact, over half of the UN’s members ‐ voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reject the unilateral US move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
A General Assembly resolution, spearheaded by Egypt and co-sponsored by Pakistain, termed any attempts to alter the status of Jerusalem as "null and void" while calling on all states "to refrain from the establishment of diplomatic missions in the Holy City. ..."
A breakdown of the voting reflects some interesting facts. The 128 countries who favoured the resolution include Moslem states as well as the wider community of the Global South, along with most EU member states. Amongst the nine who voted against it, apart from the US and Israel, are tiny island nations and a couple of Central American states. Many other states abstained.
The tone of the US ‐ both of its president and UN ambassador ‐ before and after the vote was antagonistic and intimidating. The US threatened to cut off funding to the UN, while before the vote Mr Trump told the global community that he would be "watching those votes", adding that any country that resisted US diktat would see aid money dry up.
True, there have been many rabble-rousers on the world stage, but rarely in recent history has the leader of one of the world’s major powers issued such naked threats publicly.
While the US has a right to fashion its own foreign policy ‐ even if in the case of Jerusalem such policies fly in the face of international law and globally acknowledged facts ‐ there are ways to make one’s point, especially at a forum as august as the UN. Such blatant threats do not behove states that swear to respect democracy and the global order.
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Fime - we'll just show you co**suckers more arrogance by eliminating our funding of the UN and moving the headquarters to Detroit.
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I really don't understand why we tolerate Pakistan's existence. They do nothing but breed terrorism and I have no sympathy for them if they got nuked out of existence.
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Egypt? Pakistan? Both third world shit holes. Their only export is Jihad and crazy bullshit clerics. There is no international law that we are cosigned to, that says we have to have the UNs permission to place an embassy. The UN has become a cancer on the world. When North Korea and Iran are on the human rights commission we cave cancer filtering into the body. It was a marginal idea on the onset, it never ended any war, it did start a couples. The UN is responsible for the rape and human trafficking of millions of women across the globe. Cambodia and Thailand's AID epidemic was entirely due to sending infected African soldiers to those nations for demining.
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Trump should meet with some of the Baluchistan leaders. Just a casual meet and greet on his way to making a big trade deal with India. Let dismemberment of Pakistan run through their holiday dreams.
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Meatball sub? Wow I could go for one of those right now.
Made a rocking, easy pasta sauce the other day:
1 lb ground beef, brown, about 2/3 of the way done (drain here if you do such a thing) added in shredded parmesan, oregano, garlic. When browned, poured in jar of mushroom sauce and added two string cheeses worth of mozzarella, melted it into the sauce. Added thin sliced green olives, one of those little jars of Tomato Pesto, basil S&P to taste, served topped with shredded parmesan.
I would have used mastaccioli, family wanted spaghetti. Cook al-dente or a bit less (the sauce will cook the pasta a little more), toss in butter, olive oil, garlic salt.
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Pretty much any firehouse with a working kitchen of some kind works rjschwarz
There is almost always at least one, often several firemen who are pretty goof cooks in their own right! Yes there are duds, but rare to encounter those.
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Thanks SCFI - 2 boxes of pasta, quick, hearty, tasty, and we got 8 meals for about $12.
Now, there are three on the department who are quite proud of their smoking. Everyone and their other can cook, so imagine what the department + family feeds are like...oh momma.
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Townhall] "They’ve been burned. They’ve been hammered. They’ve been bludgeoned," George Washington University law professor Miriam Galston explains to the Washington Post. "They’re trying to survive."
[DAWN] A CLEAR majority of the global community ‐ in fact, over half of the UN’s members ‐ voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to reject the unilateral US move to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
