Yes, we’re going to assert eminent domain in order to buy a department store so that a mall developer can go forward redeveloping the local mall which will include a Sam’s Club and a Whole Foods.
Why? Because Dillard’s owns it’s own property and wrote a contract saying it had the right of refusal to any redevelopment and they don’t want to play with the new guy.
Between fracking and this old Longmont has become a hotbed.
First they came for Fox News, and they did not speak out—because they were not Fox News. Then they came for government whistleblowers, and they did not speak out—because they were not government whistleblowers. Then they came for the maker of a YouTube video, and—okay, we know how this story ends. But how did we get here?
Rand Paul 2016!! He impresses me more every day.
These two videos are taken from Hot Air which is worth a read.
This quote is from the Wall Street Journal. Bold is mine. And may I say outrageous.
The Senate panel, in a report released Monday, said that Apple used technicalities in Irish and U.S. law to pay little or no corporate taxes on $74 billion over the past four years. The report focused on the tax implications of Apple’s use of overseas entities. The report found no evidence that Apple did anything illegal.
Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.), chairman of the investigations panel, on Tuesday accused Apple of employing “alchemy” and “ghost companies” to escape tax collectors in the U.S. and Ireland, the base of the firm’s international operations outside the Americas.
“Apple has sought the Holy Grail of tax avoidance,” said Mr. Levin. “Apple is exploiting an absurdity, one that we have not seen other companies use.”
And as long as we’re on Rand Paul, how about this quote in bold:
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). “This is an important moment,” Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. “You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda. It’s an irony you cannot overcome.”
Oddly enough even after this report, where the UN determines it was the rebels using the chemical weapons, the US govt has decided to fund the rebels. Based on what?
Two schools. It’s horrendous. Pray and give if you can. Those folks are in trouble and could use a hand up.
My donation receptacle of choice? UMCOR.
Roger L. Simon has some pretty interesting scoopage on Benghazi.
PJ Media recognizes this is largely hearsay, but the two diplomats sounded quite credible. One of them was in a position of responsibility in a dangerous area of Iraq in 2004.
We will report more as we learn it.
Stay Tuned.
And from the National Review we have
Notes on Dan Pfeiffer.
A good rant on Benghazi.
And from the NYpost….Rich Lowry on the IRS
and John Podhoretz on those reporters from Fox getting investigated for “crimes” of journalism.
fyi,
I just got back from the dentist where I had to sign my name to at least 4 different pieces of paper, along with printing it.
Ace of Spades gives room for Stephen den Beste to write on the press and why they fight so hard to make certain that Obama is successful.
According to him:
But no one wants to hang Obama’s head on their wall. Any good little liberal press person who does that will be scorned for the rest of their lives by all the people they know whose opinions they value. You! You’re the one who ruined it all! It’ll be a hundred years until we can get another non-white-male elected, and it’s all your fault!
No one wants to be the one who breaks the spell, even though the Emperor truly does not have any clothes. Everyone is thinking the same thing: You know, Obama really isn’t a very good president. Truth to tell, he’s been terrible. People voted for him because he was black. He’s the first Affirmative Action President.
They’re all thinking that, but it’s, you know, racist and if anyone says it, they could start the process of ruining everything
Interesting thing…..bullshit. I don’t think for a second that Obama, this Barack Obama in any way reflects every other minority/female potential president out there. He is reflective of a knee jerk progressive community organizer and that’s it.
IF the media backs him because they assume that future minority/female candidates will be judged on his record then THEY are horrible racists and they think you are a horrible person.
Holder “isn’t sure” how often he’s approved the seizure of media records.
As his Justice Department faces bipartisan outrage for searching phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says he is not sure how many times such information has been seized by government investigators in the four years he’s led Justice.
AND
After reading the ABC report on the Benghazi emails I thought to myself, “self….these 12 aren’t all there were. There were at least 5 others before these.” Let the count begin.
Assuming they are the ones who leaked to CNN an email written by Ben Rhoades (a Deputy National Security Advisor close to the President), the White House might have been too clever by half Tuesday. An act that was obviously meant to pour water on the Benghazi fire started by an ABC News report, has only ended up being gasoline. Now both CNN and ABC have joined conservative media in calling for the White House to release all the emails surrounding the editing of the CIA talking points.
UPDATE:
Wait…as I was closing up the computer, I found 2 more I had saved.
1- Jonah Goldberg on Benghazi.
As Washington Examiner columnist Byron York notes, the obsession with the smoking gun stems from “the Washington mind-set that the cover-up is always worse than the crime.”
This cliché isn’t an iron law of the universe. The media like it, I think, because the coverup invariably involves them. When the story is about how the media have been misled, the media can always be counted on to perk up, as we saw last Friday when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney was eaten alive on C-SPAN.
But the true core of this story has nothing to do with media vanity or talking points — or a political circus. The real issue is that for reasons yet to be determined — politics? ideology? incompetence? all three? — the administration was unprepared for an attack on Sept. 11, of all dates.
When the attack came, it essentially did nothing as our own people were begging for help — other than to tell those begging to help that they must “stand down.”
This is why I don’t think Benghazi will ever be “the” scandal of the presidency. The CIA is involved in this story. Something was going on there that needs to be kept hidden for whatever reason. Unless you get reporters REALLY digging, the truth will not be known.
2 – Justified! Well, my salt intake is justified anyway.
Can someone say “What the hell does that mean?” when the president says something like “There’s no there, there.”
Mr. Obama noted Monday that the administration directly provided Congress with the emails months ago. He noted that Congress reviewed them and “concluded there was nothing afoul in terms of the process we had used.”
“Suddenly, three days ago, this gets spun up as if there’s something new to this story,” he said. “There’s no there, there.”
Seriously, what does that mean? There is no new information? There is nothing to the story? There is nothing “afoul”? There is no something?
There IS new information….
If you read this Kessler piece in the WashingtonPost you can see that people never ask the followup. What the hell does that mean?
As the scandals pile up (now the AP phone call tapping, IRS leak of private information, and the IRS scandal having spread to DC and CA) one can only hope that this headline:
EXCLUSIVE: HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP: ‘WE WILL INVESTIGATE’ IRS, BENGHAZI, AP SCANDALS
will expand to all the other crap that has not gotten the attention it’s deserved. Can we re-visit F&F? hmmm?
Yesterday Best of the Web took on the David Plouffe tweet
What IRS did dumb and wrong. Impt to note GOP groups flourished last 2 elections, overwhelming Ds. And they will use this to raise more $.
He notes:
It’s curious indeed that Plouffe seems to have a very specific idea of what would constitute effectiveness, namely preventing Republican fundraising from “overwhelming Ds.” Even if his factual premise is accurate, however, it is possible that the IRS abuses were politically effective by some other measure.
That will be the next scandal. Organizations that closed up vs revealing their donors will be coming forward.
In the meantime the NYTimes prefers to look at the big IRS story as a story of how the IRS went after the little guys vs the big groups that really are abusing the system in a big way.
During the same period, the agency singled out dozens of Tea Party-inspired groups that had applied for I.R.S. recognition, officials acknowledged on Friday, subjecting them to rounds of detailed questioning about their political activities. None of those groups were big spenders on political advertising; most were local Tea Party organizations with shoestring budgets.
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The I.R.S. has done little to regulate a flood of political spending by larger groups — like Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, co-founded by Mr. Rove, and Priorities USA, with close ties to President Obama — as well as Republican leaders in Congress and other elected officials. And an agency that is supposed to stay as far away from partisan politics as possible has been left in charge — almost by accident — of regulating a huge amount of election spending.
Yes, to the NYTimes the story is not the unethical, illegal, horrid story about how the IRS has been targeting conservative groups, but how the IRS should really be targeting BIG conservative groups (and we’ll throw in this one liberal group too, to be fair).
Ah yes, the NYTimes taking it’s talking points from Nancy Pelosi. These people have no shame.
John Podheretz has a nice rundown on the IRS news.