Monday, 30 April 2012

Clipfile

Clipfile - April 30, 2012

"President Obama’s administration recently declared that "the war on terror is over.”  Well, until Americans can travel freely without being assaulted and abused by the uniformed brutes and thugs of the Leviathan security state... the war against terror is not over.  How can it be?” - Bill Quick

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Thursday, 26 April 2012

In Passing

Now, just suppose this guy’s name was “Roger Clemens”...

But you KNOW the answer...  Dept
The Daily Caller:
U.S. Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich plans to resign his position soon, as two different scandals rage on in which he has provided allegedly misleading information to Congress.

Weich, who has served as Attorney General Eric Holder’s emissary in congressional communications... is the same Holder deputy who falsely told Congress that neither the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives nor any part of the Department of Justice ever allowed illicit firearms to "walk” across the U.S.-Mexico border — even as contrary facts emerged from the investigation into Operation Fast and Furious.

On Feb. 4, 2011, Weich wrote to Congress that the idea that "ATF ‘sanctioned’ or otherwise knowingly allowed the sale of assault weapons to a straw purchaser who then transported them into Mexico … is false.”
...
The DOJ has since retracted Weich’s letter but has not held anyone accountable for providing that misinformation to Congress...

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Tuesday, 24 April 2012

The Press

You’d THINK someone would be interested...


The (UK) Daily Mail lists drone sites... in the U.S.

There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit.

The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states...

Certificates of Authorizations (COAs), issued to public entities like police departments, are active in 42 locations, expired in 16 and disapproved in four.
Did’ja know the North Little Rock Arkansas Police Department has a drone registered?  As do the Miami-Dade County cops.  Why, I feel more secure already!

And from the American press?
...crickets...

Related (via Tam):
The Ultimate Answer to Kings:  Say Hello to STASI for me...

Also not covered:

Previously:

(Via:  Bill Quick)

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Monday, 23 April 2012

In Passing

Faint praise


Mitch Daniels "endorses” Dick Lugar:

I’m not for Dick Lugar for what he’s done, but for what he can do.
After 36 years:  This time for sure!

Elsewhere:
The Hoosierpundit:  The Daniels Ad, Parsed

Related:

(HT:  William Jacobson)

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Wednesday, 18 April 2012

In Passing

Buried “treasure”


Somebody at Investors Business Daily has been reading the highway bill:

IRS Might Have Stalinist Powers Under New Law

The Republican House of Representatives may soon follow the Democratic Senate and give the IRS the power to confiscate your passport on mere suspicion of owing taxes.  There's no place like home, comrade.

"America, Love It Or Leave It” might be an obsolete slogan if the "bipartisan transportation bill” that just passed the Senate is approved by the House and becomes law.  Contained within the suspiciously titled "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act,” or "MAP 21,” is a provision that gives the Internal Revenue Service the power to keep U.S. citizens from leaving the country if it finds that they owe $50,000 or more in unpaid taxes — no court ruling necessary.

It is hard to imagine any law more reminiscent of the Soviet Union that America toppled, or its Eastern Bloc slave satellites...
"MAP21” is this session’s "highway bill,” yet another of those multi-thousand page[1] pay-off-the-rubes- while-stealing-their-liberty[2] Christmas trees that Congress so dearly loves.


This time, 22 Senate Republicans chose pork over liberty and voted "aye”:
Alexander (R-TN)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Brown (R-MA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Grassley (R-IA)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

Another 22 Republicans voted against, and 3 (including run-for-the-hills Sen. Orrin Hatch) didn’t bother to vote.

Your Congress, in action.

Elsewhere:

(Via:  IP)
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[1]  the PDF is 2.7 megabytes

[2]  You really should take a look at this monstrosity.  Can you say National Endowment for the Oceans [page 559]?  Can you say Sport Fish Restoration [page 1428]?  Can you say 100 percent continuous levy on payments to Medicare providers and suppliers [page 1452]?  Can you say University Transportation Centers [page 1543]?  Can you say Secure Rural Schools [page 1609]?  Can you say Roll-Your-Own Cigarette Machines [page 1641]?  Oh yes, and Vehicle Event Data Recorders [for your car, beginning in 2015; page 1067]?  Why, there’s something for everyone!
And if you haven’t reached boiling point by the time you finish reading the table of contents, well, then you must be dead.

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Friday, 13 April 2012

Linkage

Republicans, 2014?


A Tory voter writes:

"We voted for change.  We voted to rid our country of socialism, of compromise, of personal power and individuals’ self interest in the benefits of power.  We voted to protect our hard won standards, our culture and traditions and our pride in our unique nationhood...

"We tied what remained of our severely damaged hopes wishes and aspirations to the colours of a ‘new revitalised’ Party led by a professed Conservative, a man purporting to have presence on the world stage, a man supposedly of unwavering principle and courage, a protector of our country, our culture and our establishment.  Perhaps, we foolishly thought, with this man we will get our country back.

"Wrong on every count!.”

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Clipfile - April 13, 2012

"If you think demanding free birth control entitles you to speak, but actually having the kids and raising them doesn’t, #YouMightBeALiberal.” - Jim Treacher

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Wednesday, 11 April 2012

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Clipfile - April 11, 2012

"When the desirable jobs are spending other peoples’ money, reporting on spending other peoples’ money and lobbying to spend other peoples’ money, then you know that the society is fucked.” - Tim Worstall (via David Thompson)

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