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Tyranny Waters Not Cold Enough For You Yet?

Steve MacDonald

The IRS scandal is just the tip of a very large and intimidating iceberg.  Watch, and feel the chill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wrxI878HjKc Here’s an NRO story about this as well. And then this by Mark Steyn. Meanwhile, who regulates the regulators? The president’s senior communications adviser dismisses media queries as “offensive“; the attorney general sneers at attempted … Read more

Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun?

Steve MacDonald

I’m sure this is just another coinceidence, right? From The American Spectator Is the White House Visitors Log the trail to the smoking gun? The stunning questions are raised by the following set of new facts. March 31, 2010. According to the White House Visitors Log, provided here in searchable form by U.S. News and World Report, the … Read more

This Week on GrokTALK!

Steve MacDonald

Dr. Julianne Cooper returns to discuss  ADHD and other coding of children, and we’ll discuss the drugs used to ‘dumb down’ our students. The Honorable Jenn Coffey  will visit to talk about stand your ground in NH, knife rights, up coming blade shows in Atlanta and more. And Ann Marie Banfield from Cornerstone Policy Research … Read more

Schadenfreude, Mr. Morgan? Or is that just the scales falling off your eyes?

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CNN’s Piers Morgan, the Brit Twit who decided that taking on Pro-Second Amendment folks during the run up to the Senate’s attempt to pass stricter gun laws to boost his ratings (er, #FAIL), is seemingly having a change of mind about it all.  You see, after poo-pooing (or screaming, taking your pick) that that these … Read more

The answer, obviously if you had been paying attention, is “Yes!” (shades of SB11)

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WMURHe keeps asking, so we keep answering.  This week, Pindell finally gives an UP to the TEA Party movement, along with a question:

Tea Party: The decentralized movement got a new reason for being this week with the news the IRS was targeting them. Since they were proven right on this does it mean everyone needs to take Agenda 21 more seriously?

After all, there is a difference between being paranoid (which many have place the TEA Party because of our warning of an incipient Tyrannical Government) and being what our Founders instructed us to do: be vigilant.  The problem is that while many Americans are familiar with Hard Tyranny in other countries (e.g., Soviet Union, Iran, third world countries with Strong Man despots masquerading as Democracies) they’re blinkered when it comes to Tyranny in other forms (i.e., the soft despostism of De Tocqueville moving onward to the medium Tyranny exemplified by Atlas Shrugged; good intentions that morph in to “you WILL do it because we know it is good for you”).

Much has happened with this IRS scandal – and it is becoming clear that the IRS has institutionalized an attitude that “we are above the law”.  Combine that with a Big Bureaucracy, a Public Sector Union mentality, and almost unlimited Power, you have seen an extremely

Sidenote:  YES, finally we see a real use for the word EXTREMISTS!

biased hierarchy willing to stomp on those that are perceived as a threat – not merely as a political one, but as an existential one.  One that has to be stomp on and stomped out.

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Shaheen Received Money from IRS Employees Union

Steve MacDonald

Open Secrets identifies the National Treasury Employees Union, which covers the IRS, as Liberal.  Go figure?

They only donate to Democrats, which includes New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, according to this recent press release…

Senate Democrats received more than $570,000 from IRS Union

Washington, D.C. – This week news broke that Senate Democrats were guilty of pressuring the IRS to target many of the conservative groups that the embattled agency now stands accused of doing.  But, a closer look reveals further evidence of Jeanne Shaheen’s feigning outrage: Shaheen was reaping the benefits from Democrats’ close relationship with the IRS, receiving $5,000 from the IRS Employees Union.

“While Democrats were pushing the IRS to target conservatives and other political enemies, their campaigns benefited from more than half a million dollars in campaign contributions from the IRS union,” said NRSC Communications Director Brad Dayspring. “After years of pressuring the IRS to crackdown on their political opponents, Jeanne Shaheen and her Democratic colleagues must be honest with taxpayers and return the IRS union’s contributions immediately.”

Senator Shaheen has been backtracking, back-peddling, disavowing any partisanship on the 501(c)(4) IRS scandal, but given how partisan she is, that’s hard to swallow.  you’d be hard pressed to find her supporting the rights of TEA party groups anywhere, let alone New Hampshire.

So would you be surprised to know that she isn’t the only hyper-partisan New Hampshire Democrat who has taken issue with third party issue advocacy and targeted TEA Party groups (though  not in writing to the IRS–that we are aw are of) and has also taken money from their union.

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Shaheening – 501(c)(4) For Me But Not For Thee?

Steve MacDonald

Shaheening; to be Shaheend: Named after our soon to be former New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen, defined as either applying political pressure against the same thing you are simultaneous hoping to take advantage of for yourself, or being the victim of the pressure applied. Ex: While New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen and her Senate allies … Read more

Congressman Mike Kelly (R-PA) outlines every American’s fear of the Tyrannical IRS

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Note: be sure to listen to the resounding applause he got at this Congressional hearing concerning the IRS scandal of “punish your enemies” [Obama] in presenting actual Tyranny to those groups and individuals that expressed a political thought against the ruling regime of President Obama and the Progressives he represents.

Listen to the description of the IRS that is given by Kelly and ask yourself:

“This reconfirms everything that the American public believes. This is a HUGE blow to the faith and trust the American people have in their government.

Is there ANY limit to the scope of where you folks can go?….Is there anything at all?  Is there anyway that we can ask you, is there any question that you shouldn’t have asked, Mike?  Goodness, how much money do you have in your wallet?  Who do you get emails from? Whose sign do you put up in your front yard?

This is a tax question?  You don’t think that’s intimidating? it’s sure as hell intimidating!”

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Transformation Milestone Reached, Is This Still America? Geographically Maybe.


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Today, we passed a milestone on the Fundamentally Transforming America Highway.  It wasn’t noticeable visually but audibly during the Congressional Hearing on the recently disclosed IRS abuses.  The abuses where the Federal Government is targeting its own citizen’s based on their political beliefs.  The following exchange between Representative Kevin Brady of Congress and the Former Acting head apparatchik of the tyrannical bureaucracy the IRS, Steven Miller,  courtesy of Mail Online (emphasis mine):

 “Texas Republican congressman Kevin Brady had the harshest criticism for Miller.

‘Is this still America?’ he asked him.

‘Is this government so drunk on power that it would turn its full force, its full might, to harass, and intimidate, and threaten an average American who only wants her voice, their voices heard?’

The apparatchik later went on to say

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Muslims who use Twitter….Are Going to Hell

Steve MacDonald

Sheikh Abdul Latif Abdul Aziz al-Sheikh said Wednesday that Muslims who use Twitter or other social media have “lost this world and his afterlife,” as quoted byBBC News. Lost in the next world…they’re going to hell. But I bet…and I’m just guessing here..that if it is OK to lie, cheat, steal, kill, or do anything … Read more

IRS Agents – Just Following Orders

Steve MacDonald

IRS agents in Cincinnati may not be willing to take the fall as rouge, lone-wolf agents on some personal vendetta against the right.  A local news channel claims an exclusive–They say they were just following Orders… Of course they were.  These are public employees.  That’s what they do.   FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather

US News.com Says Jeanne Shaheen Pressured IRS

Steve MacDonald

Not exactly a bastion of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, US News connects the dots between public rhetoric and policy efforts by Democrat Senators that specifically mention right wing groups, with the ongoing partisan actions taken by the IRS against conservative and TEA party groups.

From “Senate Democrats pushed for Tea party snooping before criticizing it…”

“From Max Baucus to Chuck Schumer to Jeanne Shaheen, key Senate Democrats publicly pressured the IRS to target groups that held differing political views and who, in their view, had the temerity to engage in the political process. The IRS listened to them and acted. And other Democrat senators like Kay Hagan and Mark Pryor said and did nothing about it.”

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Boo Hoo Hamster Can Finally Write Something about the DOJ – AP Story

Steve MacDonald

Last night Skip observed that the progressive mouthpiece for the Democrat blogosphere in New Hampshire (Bleu Hampshire) had been awfully quiet given all the newsy tid-bits peppering the interwebs.  Nothing to report on Benghazi, The IRS, HHS, DOJ seizing AP phone records, dead Americans, failed Middle East policy…nothing.

But there is good news. Blue Hamster has leave to react to at least one of the recent scandals…

The Soros funded, highly political (non-profit) Media Matters, has release instructions on how the Democrats should respond with regard to the Obama-DOJ seizing two months worth of phone records from the AP.  (I have included them on the jump so that you wont have to be bothered with visiting their site to find out what they have been told to think.)

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I wonder if…

Steve MacDonald

I wonder if anyone in the New Hampshire Democrat Party Political Machine had unathorized access to illegally obtained IRS infromation during the 2012 campaign, or at any point after the 2010 election cycle? Just a question.

“Can’t Keep Up…” – You and me both Steve

As Steve alluded to yesterday, the beast is so swollen, engorged on coercive bureaucratic fat, that it finally burst, raining juicy Big Gov abuse stories all over the land.  Though the forecast predicted the fallout,  I didn’t think so many would hit in one week. (The cynical side of me thinks that many of these stories would serve as a nice smoke screen distraction to redirect attention from Benghazi, but that’s just my cynical side.)

Big Gov can’t help itself.  The chemistry for abuse is intrinsic to the beast and pushes through its swollen veins, suffusing every crevice.  Hubris and power and a naked zeal to do as one pleases is the toxic cocktail that explodes when mixed in  vast, opaque, honey combed cubicles and goes unchecked.  This is the nature of the ginormous beast and it is impossible to oversee and manage.  There are going to be abuses. There is going to be waist and inefficiencies.  It happens in every entity that grows beyond itself whether it’s a company, a corporation, a code base (sorry for the nerd out), or with government. The difference is that with government, it has the power of the state.  The power to seize, coerce and apply violence to do so.  The power to acquire individual information, property, and throw down demands that the individual must labor to meet in order to “qualify”.

And this is the result.

Quick take on the biggies:

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“Scandal Cascade” – this is starting to look like Jimmah is off the hook!

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The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen

Don’t worry, Jimmah – there’s an even worse dude coming in as your reliever!

I notice that Blue Hampshire has nothing / nada / zilch on the scandals (Front Page / All Posts) that have erupted since Friday stemming from the Obama Administration’s hubris of power – the DOJ going after the media (and expecting nary a sound from the sycophantic media), the IRS going after Conservative groups that held to or espoused to a form of government much less large than now and within a bounded fenced in area, HHS going after cash for Obamacare, the CIA / State Dept brouhaha over who didn’t say when about what concerning letting 4 American civilians get murdered…..a meltdown of super-major proportions.

Nary but a cricket sound from THE bastion of Progressivism here in NH otherwise known as the cheerleading squad  for an ever increasing sized, ever increasing cost, and an ever increasing intrusive Activist Government that rejects the the notion of the Constitutional Republic (re: the rejection of enumerated powers, the activating of an income tax, and regulations that would make the Politboro blush) and a subsuming of the Individual into the Collective (except for in one’s bedroom – except that Sandra Fluke led the movement to demand that our wallets be present).  And, oh yeah, Obamacare, the Progressivism capstone and Obama’s Legacy Schtick, really does seem to be the incipient political train wreck barreling down the tracks as little is operationally ready for the first train station stop in October.  I really do hope that the Law is strictly held up to its own Law (yup, Alinsky’s own Rule to make them live by their own Rule Book – and the Rule Book ain’t a 1/4 done) – and I will admit: I do hope this House of Cards that is little more than a Old Western Town’s facade to the Temple of Progressivism comes tumbling down and tumbles hard.  And before you Progs start screaming “you hateful person”, remember, not a single Republican voted for this pile of legislative doo-doo.  You own it.  You own the economy.  You own the gridlock.  You own everything.

And now, you are about to be blamed for it.  Deservedly so, as Progressivism IS the Root Cause.  Every single bit can be traced down to your philosophy.  Enjoy – and weep.

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NH US Senator Jeanne Shaheen: on Both Sides of the IRS “Targeting Tea Party Groups”

Steve MacDonald

New Hampshire US Senator Jeanne Shaheen on Feb 16th, 2012 (In a letter she signed and sent to the head of the IRS requesting they investigate 501(c)(4)’s in the run up to the 2012 elections)

“We write to inquire if the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is investigating or intends to investigate whether groups designated as “social welfare” organizations, and thus receiving tax or other advantages under section 501 (c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 26 USC § 501 (c)(4), are improperly engaged in a substantial or even a predominant amount of campaign activity.”

“…The promotion of social welfare does not include direct or indirect participation or intervention in political campaigns on behalf of or in opposition to any candidate for political office.”

See also here and here.

Last weekend (5-10-2013) we learned this…

Organizations were singled out (by the IRS during the 2012 election) because they included the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their applications for tax-exempt status, said Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division that oversees tax-exempt groups.

In some cases, groups were asked for their list of donors, which violates IRS policy in most cases, she said.

And what did New Hampshire US Senator Jeanne Shaheen have to say about that?

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“FBI Launches Criminal Probe of IRS Conduct.”

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Post title taken from Instapundit.  Which made me think of the upcoming corresponding headline, soon to be seen on a blogsite near you: “IRS Agents swoop into local FBI offices” Tit for tat?  You really don’t think that with Government as large as it is, it couldn’t happen?  The Bureaucracy’s version of a “brush back” … Read more

Blogline of the Day: Sir Winston Churchill on the Obama IRS Scandal?

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obama-big-brother2As Steven Hayward of Powerline points out, this speech by the British Prime Minister during WWII given while campaigning to retain that position after the war’s end, points out that a Socialist Government brooks no dissent. Yes, the title of this post is a wee bit over the top (after all, Churchill is no longer with us), but even though these words were spoken almost 70 years ago, the meaning still holds true – the Collective cannot tolerate thoughts contrary to its own.  After all, if people start thinking on their own, they have just gone “Individualistic” – the opposite of the most High Truth of Socialism: We ARE (and WILL BE) in this together.

My friends, I must tell you that a Socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Although it is now put forward in the main by people who have a good grounding in the Liberalism and Radicalism of the early part of this century, there can be no doubt that Socialism is inseparably interwoven with Totalitarianism and the abject worship of the State. It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism.

Look how even today they hunger for controls of every kind, as if these were delectable foods instead of wartime inflictions and monstrosities. There is to be one State to which all are to be obedient in every act of their lives. The State is to be the arch-employer, the arch-planner, and arch-administrator and ruler and the arch-caucus-boss. . .

A Socialist State once thoroughly completed in all its details and its aspects—and that is what I am speaking of—could not afford to suffer opposition. . . Socialism is, in its essence, an attack not only upon British enterprise, but upon the right of the ordinary man or woman to breathe freely without having a harsh, clumsy, tyrannical hand clapped across their mouths and nostrils. . . Have we not heard Mr Herbert Morrison descant upon his plans to curtail Parlimentary procedure and pass laws simply by resolution of broad principle in the House of Commons, afterward to be left by Parliament to the executive and to the bureaucrats to elaborate and enforce by departmental regulations? . . .

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