[Iran Press TV] A powerful New York State politician, Sen. Thomas Libous, was charged Tuesday with lying to FBI agents investigating whether he used his influence to get his son a job.
Libous' son, Matthew, was charged in a separate indictment with filing false tax returns and obstructing a tax investigation. Father and son appeared separately before a federal judge in White Plains for arraignment.
Libous, a Republican, is in his 13th term in the state Senate representing a Binghamton-area district. He is deputy majority coalition leader, making him the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, and a close ally of Democratic Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo.
Federal Sherlocks charge that Libous lied to FBI agents, who interviewed him in 2010 about allegations that he used his influence to secure his son a job with a Binghamton law firm. He also allegedly denied -- falsely -- that he knew nothing about an arrangement with a lobbying company that paid the law firm $50,000 a year to cover part of his son's salary.
The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... said friends report that Libous acknowledges he made a call to help his son get a job but did not promise to do anything in return. A friend also told the newspaper Libous was surprised by the charges.
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The government lies to us all the time. Why is it a crime to lie to them? It's not like perjury, is it?
[BREITBART] Conservative election integrity organization True The Vote filed suit in federal court Tuesday against Mississippi's Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and the Mississippi Republican Party, asking a judge for an immediate injunction against them so that the election material from the state's June 24 GOP primary runoff can be inspected.
The lawsuit comes as allegations that Sen. Thad Cochran's ...establishment Republican senator-for-life from Mississippi, sometimes referred to as a 'low-life scoundrel.' He has been in the Senate since 1978. In 2014 the state's Democratic Party helped him cheat a Tea Party challenger out of a primary victory... (R-MS) campaign and his allies engaged in voter fraud to win last Tuesday's runoff against conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel. Cochran bested McDaniel by fewer than 7,000 votes but did so with an overwhelming turnout from liberal Democrats in the black community.
"All we are asking is that the MS State Republican Party follow the law; allow their designated county representatives to inspect the poll books and ballots, give them the review time they are permitted by law, and allow them to uphold their responsibility to MS voters," True the Vote president Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement about the suit. "True the Vote has been inundated with reports from voters across Mississippi who are outraged to see the integrity of this election being undermined so that politicos can get back to business as usual. Enough is enough."
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True the Vote, along with Club for Growth and a few others are real life Davids fighting some particularly awful Goliaths.
[DAILYCALLER] Ex-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 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... spoke at a 2010 government conference where Lerner's underling Nikole Flax announced the new IRS program scrutinizing groups applying for tax-exempt status.
Both Lerner and Flax experienced "computer crashes" that led to the permanent deletion of their emails, according to the IRS, which said it cannot hand over their emails to congressional Sherlocks on two House committees.
Both Lerner and Flax briefed fellow government bureaucrats on the new targeting at the conference, where Lerner appeared at a workshop called "Will the IRS Come Knocking?"
Flax announced the new program scrutinizing groups at the Washington Non-Profit Legal & Tax Conference at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, D.C. from February 18-19, 2010. At the time, Flax worked under Lerner in the Exempt Organizations office.
Lerner gave a luncheon speech at a morning session featuring workshops entitled "Current Developments Affecting Exempt Organizations" and "Will the IRS Come Knocking? What You Need To Know About IRS Audit Plans And Practices For Tax Exempts," which was moderated by Washington lawyer and former IRS exempt director Marcus S. Owens. Lerner served as "government faculty" for the conference, according to a program obtained by The Daily Caller.
Flax, a frequent White House visitor, announced that 155 new employees were recently added to the Exempt Organizations office, and said that 100 of these employees would be working in the examinations office to audit nonprofit groups. Flax also announced the addition of new Washington-based "tax law specialists" to work on private-letter rulings for groups that would need renewal of their charitable tax-exempt status.
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[BUSINESSINSIDER] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Jay ... 's family fortune has come under increasing scrutiny in recent weeks following a series of comments she made about her finances while on tour promoting her new book, "Hard Choices." But just how much has Clinton earned in the years since her husband, former President Bill Clinton ...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of is... , left the White House? Financial disclosures filed by Clinton when she served as New York's junior senator and as secretary of state in the B.O. regime show her family earned more than $163 million from 2001 until 2012. The disclosures also detailed the taxes paid by the Clintons and how much they gave to charity during those years.
During Clinton's years in the Senate the disclosures, which were published by OpenSecrets.org, included full tax returns filed by her and her husband. These returns detailed the Clintons' total income, charitable gifts they made, and their total taxes paid from 2001 through 2007. For those seven years, the Clintons earned total income of $108,817,646, the vast majority of which came from Bill Clinton's speaking fees. They paid over $33 million in federal income taxes for an effective tax rate of about 31%. The Clintons also gave more than $10 million to charity from 2001 through 2007, which is about 9% of their total income from this period.
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Definition of an Millionaire. Some one worth over A100 million dollars and claims to be dead broke.
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That's Hillionare.
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earned more than $163 million from 2001 until 2012
That was the legal declarable income.
What about the rest?
If you've ever been around a large molding machine (where incredible stresses and pressures are present) when it 'goes south', you don't want folks standing there waiting for you to tell them to bug out in fifteen (or two) different languages.
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English is our planetary language. If you can't speak it, you are missing out. Especially in case of fires and factory explosions.
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It's simple. Sorry about the kids, but don't sign the confidentiality agreement and don't go to work there. Stay the hell away from that place. Do not participate in this operation. Do not cooperate. The Champ created this mess. Let him deal with it.
It's the same thing with the IRS IT department. Just don't work there. Don't participate. Stay the hell away from it and refuse to be complicit.
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Of course it was against the law, not a confidentiality agreement, for Lois Lerner to share IRS info with the FBI. Laws are for little people (who might actually be looking out for other little people). When she goes to jail or is hit substantially with forfeitures and fines, call me.
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I really would like Obama to walk through one of these camps, so he can see what has been unleashed thanks to his work. There is going to be an outbreak sooner than later, watch.
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I really would like Obama to walk through one of these camps, so he can see what has been unleashed thanks to his work
Obama wouldn't care - these are brown people not black - and so are not 'his people' (according to Mr. Holder). To the left it's all about race.
Plus Obama and ValJar wouldn't be able to keep the sh*t-eating grin off their faces.
[NEWS.YAHOO] Throughout Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s desperately dry Central Valley, those with water to spare are cashing in.
As a third parched summer forces farmers to fallow fields and lay off workers, two water districts and a pair of landowners in the heart of the state's farmland are making millions of dollars by auctioning off their private caches.
Nearly 40 others also are seeking to sell their surplus water this year, according to state and federal records.
Economists say it's been decades since the water market has been this hot. In the last five years alone, the price has grown tenfold to as much as $2,200 an acre-foot — enough to cover a football field with a foot of water.
Unlike the previous drought in 2009, the state has been hands-off, letting the market set the price even though severe shortages prompted a statewide drought emergency declaration this year.
The price spike comes after repeated calls from scientists that global warming will worsen droughts and increase the cost of maintaining Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,'s strained water supply systems.
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Price = Demand/Supply.
Almost mythical how meddling always makes a shortage.
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From "The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]: Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.
In other words, if certain peoples attack or violate the people of the US and the people of the US from within, domestically, and people feel threatened by them, he will stand with the peoples whose elements attacked the people of the US.
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Clarification/Correction: In other words, if certain peoples attack or violate the people of the US from within, domestically, the result being the people of the US feel threatened by them, he will stand with the those people whose elements attacked the US.
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Yeah JohnQC. Although I expect they are measuring the resistance and after the elections will construct something that will bring blows and then it is martial law time.
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Success has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan.
Obama will be saved by the Beltway Party, formerly known as Trunks, cause they won't play the same hardball game the socialist play by demonizing and painting their opponents in the manner they the socialist do daily.
[POLITICO] Rep. Luis Gutiérrez said Tuesday that President Barack Obama has the power to "heal" undocumented immigrants. "If [Republicans] want to come back and discuss [reform], fine," the Illinois Democrat said on MSNBC. "But in the interim period, I believe the president of the United States has already in statute, in the law, the ability to heal and put in a safe harbor millions of undocumented immigrants while the Congress of the United States finally decides it's going to take action."
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Again Illinois apologizes for showing just what 'Stuck on Stupid' means
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Yea verily, Chicago Jesus will lay his blessed hands upon them and CAST OUT the hateful lack of documentation -- making the children and their extended families whole with citizenship, work-free housing and EBT cards.
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Turning water into wine is like turning the undocumented into the permanent Democratic supermajority.
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Gutierrez = a donk poster boy for idiocy and national suicide. He is for flooding the country with illegal immigrants first and foremost. He is for America somewhere way down on his list. Possibly an America hater.
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Heal, what do you mean heal? Is there something about all these immigrants which would require the gloved one to come down from the clubhouse for healing? Something we don't know about?
[NEWS.YAHOO] President Barack Obama Jedi mind meld... defiantly dared congressional Republicans on Tuesday to try to block his efforts to act on his own and bypass a divided Congress that has thwarted his policy initiatives.
"So sue me," he taunted on a sweltering day, as he pushed politicians to pay for road and bridge repairs. "I'm not going to apologize for trying to do something."
Obama struck an aggressive tone in the face of a lawsuit threat from House Speaker John It is not pronounced 'Boner!' Boehner ... the occasionally weepy leader of House Republicans... and in the wake of two defeats before the Supreme Court, including a unanimous decision from the court that he overreached when he appointed members of the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in recess.
His remarks came a day after Obama declared that he would act on his own to address weaknesses in the nation's immigration system after Boehner informed him that the House would not take up an immigration overhaul this year.
He has already taken a series of executive actions, including an order requiring federal contractors to pay a higher minimum wage and initiating steps to to lower carbon emissions in coal-fired power plants.
"So far this year, Republicans in Congress have blocked or voted down every serious idea to strengthen the middle class — not ideas that are unique to me," he said. "But the Republicans have said no to raising the minimum wage, have said no to fair pay. They've said no to extending unemployment insurance for over 3 million Americans looking for a new job."
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Actually, I don't blame Obama one bit for taunting the GOP; Boehner doesn't have the stones to stand up to him or defund anything.
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What does the minimum wage have to do with fair play? Is it fair to compel employers to pay their workers more than the market value of the labor? Is that what he's saying? It's hard to tell because these people speak in such incoherent, disjointed sentences. Maybe he thinks if can put the word fair into the same sentence as minimum wage, incoherent as that sentence may be, people will subconciously link the two terms.
[Iran Press TV] US Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... said on Tuesday Washington would deport undocumented children back to Central America as the B.O. regime had vowed to do so.
Kerry made the remarks in Panama during a meeting with leaders from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, countries from which tens of thousands of children have entered the United States in the past few months without documents.
He said that the US is aware of the fact that migrants desire a better life, however, there are rules which must be complied with.
"We obviously understand people who want to do better, and who look for a better life," Kerry said, adding "but at the same time, there are rules of law, and there is a process and there is false information that is being spread about benefits that might be available to these young people who are looking for that better life."
President Barack Obama Ready to Rule from Day One... said on Monday that Kerry was going to Central America in order to discuss the issue. His visit comes after Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden The former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body... went to Guatemala on June 20 to talk about the exodus of children which itself will complicate Washington's relations with its allies in Mexico and Central America.
Tens of thousands of undocumented children from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras are immigrating to the US now, often unaccompanied by parents, at the Texas border. Their numbers could go up to 90,000 this current year and 150,000 next — from only about 6,000 in 2011.
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Of course, they won't be deported right away. They have to have a hearing - in ninety days or so. If they don't show up, the court will issue an arrest warrant. Of course, DHS is really backed up, so it will take them a while to get around to it. If they get caught, they will be scheduled for another hearing. After the cycle repeats a few times, the kids will have graduated from high school, and eligible for in state tuition. After all they've been through, it would be heartless to deport them at that point.
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By that time Obama will be impeached, the Repubs are coming.
Their spokesperson Umm pusher will be out.
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A country that is so big a failure that their children flee through Mexico to excape, such a country should probably be disolved and become (a) a UN protectorate or (b) a US territory and the government that previously ran such a country should be tarred and feathered.
Conservative election integrity organization True The Vote filed suit in federal court Tuesday against Mississippis Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and the Mississippi Republican Party, asking a judge for an immediate injunction against them so that the election material from the states June 24 GOP primary runoff can be inspected.
The lawsuit comes as allegations that Sen. Thad Cochrans (R-MS) campaign and his allies engaged in voter fraud to win last Tuesdays runoff against conservative state Sen. Chris McDaniel. Cochran bested McDaniel by fewer than 7,000 votes but did so with an overwhelming turnout from liberal Democrats in the black community.
All we are asking is that the MS State Republican Party follow the law; allow their designated county representatives to inspect the poll books and ballots, give them the review time they are permitted by law, and allow them to uphold their responsibility to MS voters, True the Vote president Catherine Engelbrecht said in a statement about the suit. True the Vote has been inundated with reports from voters across Mississippi who are outraged to see the integrity of this election being undermined so that politicos can get back to business as usual. Enough is enough.
A devastating new Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General report released on Tuesday reveals that the Obama administration has yet to determine whether 1,295,571 of the over 8 million Obamacare enrollees are U.S. citizens lawfully in the country.
The finding, located on page 11 of the report, states that 44% of the remaining 2,611,780 application "inconsistencies" are related to verifying "Citizenship/national status/lawful presence." Another 960,492 application inconsistencies were related to verifying whether subsidy applicants provided accurate income information.
Moreover, the Inspector General report only covered the federal Obamacare exchanges to determine how the Obama administration resolved verification problems through December 2013. As for the 15 state-run Obamacare exchanges, the report says four--Oregon, Nevada, Vermont, and Massachusetts--are simply "unable to resolve inconsistencies."
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...establishment Republican senator-for-life from Mississippi, sometimes referred to as a 'low-life scoundrel.' He has been in the Senate since 1978. In 2014 the state's Democratic Party helped him cheat a Tea Party challenger out of a primary victory...
...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...
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Conservative election integrity organization True The Vote filed suit in federal court Tuesday against Mississippis Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann and the Mississippi Republican Party, asking a judge for an immediate injunction against them so that the election material from the states June 24 GOP primary runoff can be inspected.
A devastating new Health and Human Services (HHS) Inspector General report released on Tuesday reveals that the Obama administration has yet to determine whether 1,295,571 of the over 8 million Obamacare enrollees are U.S. citizens lawfully in the country.
