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American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF)

American Craft Beer Fest (ACBF): "May 31 & June 1, 2013 - Boston, MA - Seaport World Trade Center Boston. Presented by BeerAdvocate & Harpoon Brewery. "

(Via.) The Beer Advocate

Obama’s rating steady amid controversies, likely buoyed by rising economic hopes - The Washington Post

The president’s approval rating, at 51 percent positive and 44 percent negative, has remained steady in the face of fresh disclosures about the IRS, the Benghazi attack and the Justice Department’s secret collection of telephone records of Associated Press journalists as part of a leak investigation.

via www.washingtonpost.com

Why Those Who Support and Perpetuate Violence Against Innocent Citizens By Empowering The State’s Monopoly On Violence Must Lie

Lies, Lies, and More Lies: "Gun control advocates are compulsive liars. They have to be because the truth doesn’t support their agenda. Even the names of gun control groups – suggesting ‘violence policy,’ ‘violence prevention,’ and ‘gun safety’ – are all lies. And the term ‘gun control’ itself is a lie. Virtually everything coming from gun control advocates today is a lie."

I’m not talking about simple distortions or cases of “my statistics are better than your statistics,” these are intentional, calculated, bald-faced deceptions, foisted on the American public by ideologically motivated zealots trying to force an agenda of citizen disarmament and government control.  That’s not to say that everyone who supports gun control is driven by the same ideology, or that there are no honest, passionate, idealistic, true believers among the ranks of gun control advocates.  There are some very good, honest, sincere people who promote gun control, but unfortunately these misguided souls are steeped in emotion and inculcated with the never ending lies of the professional gun haters.

Let’s dissect some of the lies:

(Via.) The Firearms Coalition

IRS Scandal: Stonewalled in Cincinnati - ABC News

By May 14 – three days into the mess -- IRS staffers in Cincinnati were hard to find as reporters descended on the city. At the home of IRS staffer Elizabeth Hofacre, who was caught up in the blossoming controversy, mail below the slot in her front door was noticeably piling up when an ABC News reporter stopped by last week.

A few miles away, IRS analyst Mitchell Steele, answered the door of his home in a bath robe though the work day was just about to begin downtown. He seemed genuinely beaten down and told ABC News "this isn't fair to me."

Yet another staffer – Stephen Seok, one of the supervisors in the Determinations Unit at the heart of the scandal – would not answer his phone or front door even though he and his family could be seen coming and going. His windows were covered by taped-up sheets of white paper.

READ MORE: ABC NEWS FULL COVERAGE OF THE IRS SCANDAL

Back at the John Weld Peck Federal Building where ousted acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller said "rogue" agents did their work, it was fairly calm for the first couple of days. There was a heightened security presence outside, some workers said, but nothing too extreme.

At the IRS office on the fourth floor, a woman who answered the buzzer referred reporters to officials in Washington, though they were not returning very many calls. That staffer also said she was not allowed to speak to anyone – a line that was repeated by agency personnel during the week.

via abcnews.go.com

Fox News: ‘We Will Unequivocally Defend’ Rosen Against ‘Chilling’ DOJ Investigation - TVNewser

“We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter. In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”

via www.mediabistro.com

Breaking - Report: DOJ Leaked Docs to Smear Fast & Furious Whistleblower, Says IG

Tracy Schmaler, the Director of the Department’s Office of Public Affairs, who resigned her position at the DOJ after emails uncovered through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request showed that she worked with leftwing advocacy group Media Matters for America to smear whistleblowers and members of Congress and the media who sought to investigate DOJ scandals under Attorney General Eric Holder.

via www.breitbart.com

Is This the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Ties the IRS Scandal to the White House? | TheBlaze.com

The story focuses on Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union (i.e. the union for IRS employees), and her meeting with President Obama on March 31, 2010 — one day before the IRS started targeting conservative groups.

via www.theblaze.com

Jenny Beth Martin Tea Party Group To Picket IRS Offices Tomorrow. Really? Does She Really Think The IRS Gives a Rat's Ass About a Bunch of Tea Partier Picketers?

The protests were originally scheduled only for Cincinnati, where the IRS has said employees responsible for the targeting were based. But Tea Party Patriots head Jenny Beth Martin tells Whispers she received requests to protest across the country. A call to action on the group's web site tells supporters that "the IRS is out of control" and so it is "calling for anyone and everyone to protest the IRS' complete abuse of power" on Tuesday at noon. The site helpfully includes a mapof local IRS offices for protesters, as well as sample protest signs (such as "Abolish the IRS") and aform for those who believe they were inappropriately reviewed by the IRS to fill out and get help. US News and World Report.

Talk about wasted sword motion... Jenny Beth Martin the head of Tea Party Patriots has organized a protest outside IRS offices tomorrow. I'm fascinated by this type of response circa 2013. An open question for Jenny Beth Martin:

What makes you think the IRS will respond to your protest in any meaningful manner?  

Gee, I wonder what the original Tea Partiers would have done? 

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Senate panel OKs restrictive gun bill - Springfield, IL - The State Journal-Register

Opponents argued that a “patchwork” of different rules would confuse gun owners.

“Don’t they kind of have to know town-by-town what the restrictions are, and isn’t that potentially undue burden on them to exercise that (Second Amendment) right?” said Sen. Matt Murphy, R-Palatine.

With no limits as to the type of places or buildings home-rule units can deem off-limits, Sen. Dave Luechtefeld, R-Okawville, raised the concern that some cities could create enough restrictions to potentially ban concealed carry entirely.

“If you get a community that’s too restrictive, doesn’t that trample on gun rights?” Luechtefeld asked.

via www.sj-r.com

Beat-Up Poet? Punished Over Benghazi Security Failures, Diplomat Fights Back with Scathing Verse | TheBlaze.com

“The Queen’s Henchmen / request the pleasure of your company / at a Lynching – / to be held / at 23rd and C Streets NW [State Dept. building] / on Tuesday, December 18, 2012 / just past sunset. / Dress: Formal, Masks and Hoods- / the four being lynched / must never know the identities/ of their executioners, or what/ whose sin required their sacrifice./ A blood sacrifice- / to divert the hounds- / to appease the gods- / to cleanse our filth and /satisfy our guilty consciences…

via www.theblaze.com

IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about the Chicago Way - Page 2 - chicagotribune.com

This was Chicago. And for a business owner to get involved meant one thing: It would cost you money and somebody from government could destroy you.

The health inspectors would come, and the revenue department, the building inspectors, the fire inspectors, on and on. The city code books aren't thick because politicians like to write new laws and regulations. The codes are thick because when government swings them at a citizen, they hurt.

And who swings the codes and regulations at those who'd open their mouths? A government worker. That government worker owes his or her job to the political boss. And that boss has a boss.

The worker doesn't have to be told. The worker wants a promotion. If an irritant rises, it is erased. The hack gets a promotion. This is government.

So everybody kept their mouths shut, and Chicago was hailed by national political reporters as the city that works.

I didn't understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old bosses. Now there are new bosses. And shopkeepers still keep their mouths shut. Tavern owners still keep their mouths shut.

Even billionaires keep their mouths shut.

One hard-working billionaire whose children own the Chicago Cubs dared to open his mouth. Joe Ricketts considered funding a political group critical of Obama before last year's campaign. Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Obama's former chief of staff, made it clear that if the Cubs wanted City Hall's approval to refurbish decrepit Wrigley Field, Ricketts better back off.

It happened. He backed off. It was sickening. But it was and is Chicago.

And now — with the IRS used as political muscle and the Obama administration keeping that secret until after the president was elected — America understands it too.

via www.chicagotribune.com

The IRS Will Come for You Next, Unless Congress Acts Now - The Daily Beast

This wasn’t standard protocol—it was opposition research. The IRS abused its power, bullying groups of citizens who didn’t have the financial and legal resources to fight back and violating their First Amendment right to assemble freely and criticize the federal government.

via www.thedailybeast.com

CNN Poll: Obama’s Approval Rating Unchanged Since Scandals Hit | Video | TheBlaze.com

Benghazi, the AP phone flap, the IRS targeting conservatives…none of it apparently has affected President Barack Obama’s approval rating.

via www.theblaze.com

Shotgun executive taken into custody at Colo. gun show on cabbie terror tip - National gun rights | Examiner.com

How much more scared a person would be who is not a corporate president and who can’t summon two lawyers on a Saturday is a fair consideration to question, as is the physical danger an innocent person and bystanders could be placed in when untrained persons are encouraged and rewarded for putting the finger on others based on poorly-defined tripwires, stereotypes and official hysteria.

via www.examiner.com

DOJ subpoenas are 'unconstitutional,' hurt press, AP president says | Fox News

Associated Press President Gary Pruitt said Sunday the Justice Department sent a strong – and negative- message to future sources that the government would go after them if they spoke to the press. It’s a move Pruitt called not only unconstitutional, but said it damaged the ideal of a free press in the country.

via www.foxnews.com

Obama Uses Commencement Address to Recall Jim Crow, Racism | The Weekly Standard

Whatever success I achieved, whatever positions of leadership I’ve held, have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs, and have instead been due to that sense of empathy and connection – the special obligation I felt, as a black man like you,

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George Will On IRS: "Big Government Is Impossible To Monitor, That's The Lesson" | RealClearPolitics

GEORGE WILL: Big government. The best construction on the IRS scandal is big government is impossible to monitor. That's the lesson of this.

RON FOURNIER: But any government has to be trusted.

WILL: Any government has to be trusted. But the bigger the government gets, the bigger the distrust ought to be and will be.

via www.realclearpolitics.com

Obama: "As An African American You Have To Work Twice As Hard As Anyone Else If You Want To Get By" | RealClearPolitics

African American you have to work twice as hard as anyone else if you want to get by.

via www.realclearpolitics.com

Dan Pfeiffer: IRS Behavior ‘Inexcusable’ Whether or Not Illegal - ABC News

This morning on “This Week,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service is “irrelevant,”

via abcnews.go.com

THE REALLY BAD NEWS FOR THEM ISN’T THAT PEOPLE ARE CALLING IT A CULTURE OF INTIMIDATION, IT’S THAT T…

THE REALLY BAD NEWS FOR THEM ISN’T THAT PEOPLE ARE CALLING IT A CULTURE OF INTIMIDATION, IT’S THAT THEY AREN’T BEING INTIMIDATED ANY MORE: White House defends IRS handling, McConnell asserts ‘culture of intimidation.’

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Authorities: Hofstra student was killed by police. Some people are giving this an anti-cop…

Civilian “combat shooters” who participate in IPSC or IDPA competitions practice, practice, practice, head shots to the bad guy while missing the hostage. Sometimes they do it after 10 push-ups or a 50 yard run (designed to induce physical stress). 99% of the time they miss the hostage and get the bad guy.

Regular street cops are allowed to carry guns but don’t get this level of training.

The student was killed because the city is too cheap to provide adequate realistic training.

via pjmedia.com

Report: Hofstra Student Was Shot, Killed by Cop Trying To Rescue Her | Video | TheBlaze.com

Authorities say a police officer’s bullet killed a New York college student during the response to a home invasion at an off-campus home.

via www.theblaze.com

IRS Official Lois Lerner Called Lawyer To Plant Targeting Question | TPM LiveWire

“On May 9, I received a call from Lois Lerner, who told me that she wanted to address an issue after her prepared remarks at the ABA Tax Section’s Exempt Organizations Committee Meeting, and asked if I would pose a question to her after her remarks," Roady said in the statement, obtained by TPM. "I agreed to do so, and she then gave me the question that I asked at the meeting the next day. We had no discussion thereafter on the topic of the question, nor had we spoken about any of this before I received her call. She did not tell me, and I did not know, how she would answer the question.”

via livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com

Lew asks Congress for debt increase, says it’s 'not open to debate' - The Hill's On The Money

Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Friday urged congressional leaders to raise the debt limit and insisted that the White House is not going to negotiate over the increase because lawmakers have "no choice."

"We will not negotiate over the debt limit," Lew wrote. "The creditworthiness of the United States is non-negotiable. The question of whether the country must pay obligations it has already incurred is not open to debate."

via thehill.com

Benghazi and IRS Targeting: Politics by Other Means | RealClearPolitics

What do the Benghazi cover-up and the IRS scandal have in common? They were both about winning elections, under false pretenses.

via www.realclearpolitics.com

IRS Commissioner: Activity 'Absolutely Not Illegal' | The Weekly Standard

IRS commissioner Steven Miller said the IRS's targeting of conservatives "is absolutely not illegal"

via www.weeklystandard.com

Congressional hearing turns into IRS smackdown as disgraced former commissioner and Treasury Inspector General face tea-party scandal questions | Mail Online

‘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?’

via www.dailymail.co.uk

A Bad Week for Obama, a Worse Week for Statism - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Or as Steven Greenhut writes in today's column, "Any sane person would conclude that all administrations and bureaucracies essentially are corrupt given that they thrive on the exertion of power of other people."

via reason.com

Woodward: 'I Would Not Dismiss Benghazi,' Similar to Watergate | The Weekly Standard

"But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, 'Oh, let's not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let's not tell the public that there were warnings.' I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, 'Oh, let's not let these things out.' And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, 'Oh, let's not tell this, let's not show this.' I would not dismiss Benghazi. It's a very serious issue. As people keep saying, four people were killed.

via www.weeklystandard.com

RNC Hispanic Outreach Director Becomes A Democrat | TPM LiveWire

Citing the GOP's "culture of intolerance," Pantoja confirmed his party change in an email sent Monday to Florida Nation. Pantoja also drew reference to a much-maligned dissertation from the Heritage Foundation's Jason Richwine that sought to discourage non-whites from immigrating to the United States on the basis that those groups have lower IQs. Richwine resigned from his post at Heritage last week.

via livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com

Kurt Hofan believes that If armed resistance to tyranny is 'un-American,' America has died

St. Louis gun rights: "Stanley Fish, professor of (in?)humanities and law, wrote an op-ed for the New York Times Monday speculating that perhaps the NRA is 'un-American.' Not all NRA members, mind you--not the recreational shooters, or those who believe that the Second Amendment protects the right of self-defense (although Fish describes himself as 'deeply unpersuaded' by that argument). So to whom does he refer? Only the 'militant' members, and most of the leadership. Let's have him explain who the 'militants' are:

'I mean those who read the Second Amendment as proclaiming the right of citizens to resist the tyranny of their own government, that is, of the government that issued and ratified the Constitution in the first place.'"

(Via.) Examiner.com

Ammoland Launches "The Gun Feed" (It's like The Drudge Report for Guns)

Ammoland's new "The Gun Feed": The Gun Feed is a new Drudge Report style news website that has just been launched by Ammoland, it is a 24/7 news website that is proudly devoted to the online firearms community and showcases the latest firearms news headlines from around the web.

The people at Ammoland have a great thing going on here, give them some love back by visiting often and add The Gun Feed to your favorites list.

(Via.) Ammoland

Beck Ties Together Benghazi, IRS, & AP Scandals: ‘Fundamental Transformation’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

“First you threaten the watchdogs. You tell the watchdogs, you shut up or you’re going to jail. And those who break through and show that they’re brave enough, you have to show them how aggressive you’re willing to get,” Beck summarized. “You have to show them, ‘I’m going to go around the Constitution because I have that kind of power. I’m not afraid. The press is more on my side than your side. They’ll shut up and so I will go after and I will find you!’”

“At the same time they’re threatening reporters by showing the reporters, they have 20 phone lines. All of the reporters know ‘The government knows who I have talked to, the government knows when I talk to them,’” he concluded. “I can guarantee you there’s a lot of reporters that were on those phone lines talking to sources that are now going, ‘Oh, crap.’ It’s complete.”

“This is the last part of the fundamental transformation. What do all of these have in common?” Beck asked. “Transformation: Transform the Middle East, transform the First Amendment, and transform the media and the watchdogs. [The] fundamental transformation of the United States of America.”

via www.theblaze.com

Boehner on IRS: 'Who's going to jail over this scandal?' - Washington Times

House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday that it’ll take more than firings to clear up the IRS scandal — it’ll take someone ending up serving jail time.

via www.washingtontimes.com

State Department shuts down Benghazi questions: ‘You’ll have to take my word for it’ | WashingtonExaminer.com

“You’ll have to take my word for it,” said a spokesperson for the most transparent administration in history when reporters asked her to substantiate her claim that the CIA removed references to terrorists from the Benghazi talking points before the State Department ever saw them.

via washingtonexaminer.com

7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State « CBS Boston

State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.

via boston.cbslocal.com

Holder Isn't Sure How Often Reporters' Records Are Seized : The Two-Way : NPR

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.

via www.npr.org

Carney: W.H. 'People Were Aware' of IRS Targeting Conservatives, But Didn't Do Anything About It | The Weekly Standard

Matt Drudge Warns of 'American Holocaust'

Matt Drudge, the influential conservative aggregator, took to his personal Twitter account this morning to issue some extremely dire predictions for America following news that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting conservative groups:

via www.economicpolicyjournal.com

After IRS, Benghazi, should I trust government? Column

Politics over principle -- and public safety. That's what a cynic would conclude is going on here. And you know, these days the cynics are often right.

via www.usatoday.com

Violent Crime Dropped Dramatically Over 20 Years, Latest U.S Justice Department Study Confirms

DOJ Confirms: Violent Crime Dropped Dramatically Over 20 Years: Despite the fact that firearms ownership has significantly increased in the past decade "The U.S. Department of Justice Tuesday issued a report that provides further evidence that the use of firearms in violent crimes has dropped dramatically nationwide over the past 20 years."

(Via.) Ammoland.com

N.Y. Man Arrested for Gun Violation in NY — His Offense? Two Extra Bullets | TheBlaze.com

The state troopers saw a .40-caliber pistol on Dean’s passenger side when they approached his window. Although it was lawfully possessed by Dean, they discovered nine bullets within the magazine, putting him two bullets over the seven-bullet max set by the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act.

Dean was arrested for this violation and charged with unlawful possession for the number of bullets in the ammunition feeding device and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, according to the Journal News. Both are misdemeanor charges that went along with infractions he received regarding the light outage on his vehicle as well.

via www.theblaze.com

‘No Possible Justification’: Associated Press Livid After DOJ Secretly Obtains 2 Months of Its Phone Records | TheBlaze.com

The records obtained by the Justice Department listed incoming and outgoing calls, and the duration of each call, for the work and home phone numbers of individual reporters, general AP office numbers in New York, Washington and Hartford, Conn., and the main number for AP reporters in the House of Representatives press gallery, according to attorneys for the AP.

via www.theblaze.com

Colt Introduces Its New Polymer Framed Mustang XSP

New Polymer Framed Colt Mustang XSP: "Colt’s Manufacturing Company LLC, one of the world’s leading designers, developers and manufacturers of firearms, is proud to introduce the newest member of the Colt Mustang family, the polymer framed Mustang XSP. Like its predecessors, the classic Colt Mustang and Mustang Pocketlite, the XSP is sure to become a popular option for concealed carry."

(Via.) Gun Nuts

Rumsfeld: IRS also retaliates against outspoken business leaders | WashingtonExaminer.com

"Having been in the position of a chief executive officer, I can understand why a businessman might be reluctant to speak out against the actions of federal agencies that have the power to harm their enterprises," he wrote in Rumsfeld's Rules, which goes on sale Tuesday.

"By doing so, corporate leaders could expose themselves and their companies to government retaliation--from the IRS, the SEC, congressional committees, or the many other agencies of the federal government that regulate and oversee their operations," he added.

via washingtonexaminer.com

Yes, the Marketplace Fairness Act Does Authorize a Sales Tax Audit Bonanza | TheBlaze.com

Now for the woefully incomplete part. Look at what protection the bill does NOT provide. There is no protection whatsoever for sellers that make honest mistakes. If a Mississippi retailer selling into California mistakenly types a 6 instead of a 7 when entering an item code and collects a lower tax rate for the California Board of Equalization (yes, they really call it that) than it should have, that retailer is subject to the full audit and enforcement authority of the kind and gentle folks from Sacramento. If a Texas retailer selling specialty coins into Colorado mistakenly thought that its item was exempt from Colorado sales tax (as “coins” and “precious metal bullion” are, while certain types of paper money and tokens are not) and failed to collect it when the sale was made, they are legally liable and will have to deal with their good friends from Denver.

via www.theblaze.com

‘This Is Tyranny’: MSNBC Hosts Lambaste Obama Admin, IRS Over ‘Unspeakable’ Targeting of Conservatives | TheBlaze.com

“There’s been many overblown claims of tyranny and abuse of power from the government over the last few years. We’ve heard those. We’re coming for your guns — that kind of thing,” he said. “This is tyranny. If this is the government, a nonpartisan agency coming after specific groups, this time it’s real.”

via www.theblaze.com

Althouse: "We can’t democratize good food without placing tangible value on the work done in the home."

Wartman imagines a program that will be supported by the taxpayers because the money comes only from "a tax on harmful food products." She likes the symmetry of the positive and the negative reinforcement. She inhabits a policy wonk dream world that has so little to do with the ways of the human being that I'd like to think she's doing one of those "Modest Proposal" satires. But she's not. She's one of these people who are infatuated with government and have no realistic idea of what an awful husband the government really is.

via althouse.blogspot.com

Susan Collins: I Don't Buy Rogue Agents' Claim

"I just don't buy that this was a couple of rogue IRS employees," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. "After all, groups with 'progressive' in their names were not targeted similarly."

via www.newsmax.com

Outraged GOP: It's time to audit the IRS; targeting of conservative groups called 'chilling' - Washington Times

Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican and chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, called the IRS practice a dangerous problem that warrants congressional action.

via www.washingtontimes.com