Category Archives: Blogosphere

Iraq: another wasted campaign

Posted on June 20, 2014 | 2 comments

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We sure know how to lose ’em, eh?

Via Dr. Boli.

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Posted in Blogosphere, Iraq, The Culture, The War, Troops

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Widening the IRS email scandal

Posted on June 18, 2014 | 5 comments

Okay, say the federal gestapo (known as the IRS) really did lose three years worth of former director Lois Lerner’s emails. Just as a thought experiment.

What about all the other fed agency recipients of her emails in those years? Not to mention the originators of the ones sent to her? Are they also missing?

They might well be, for as Instapundit says: “I think it’s fair at this point to assume that the ‘missing’ emails are missing because someone in the White House was behind this.”

If so, then if there is a conspiracy (to protect the White House) that is much wider than anyone has noticed so far. Congress could start by subpoenaing all Lerner emails for those years from all federal agencies.

Via Instapundit commenter Buffalo 1836.

UPDATE:  Instead, Congress wants the actual IRS hard drive they claim destroyed the missing emails. Any competent IT guy should be able to recover them.

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Abolish the IRS: The dog ate their emails

Posted on June 14, 2014 | 2 comments

The federal gestapo known as the IRS doesn’t bother to be honest anymore. They cover-up and dare anyone, including Congress, to do anything about it.

“There needs to be an immediate investigation and forensic audit by Department of Justice as well as the Inspector General.”

Who, Eric Holder? Fart, Barf & Itch? Ha, ha. Not in ObamaLand. The law doesn’t apply to them and their cronies. And the Democrat media couldn’t care less.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  401 days since the IRS scandal and the official cover-up began. With the continuing cooperation of the Democrat news media: “The New York Times today devotes zero words to the story. Take a look at the front page here: Nothing.”

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Rule 5: Texas Tan Line

Posted on June 12, 2014 | 3 comments

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Via MyOldRV

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Ride-share in Austin? You could lose your car

Posted on June 10, 2014 | 1 comment

The regulators and the regulated are at it again, the former protecting the latter from competition, instead of, you know, helping the consumer. Ha, ha. Regulation is never about the consumer. That’s just political window dressing.

Try to offer ride-sharing service here in Austin via the Lyft or Uber apps? You could lose your car. Simple as that. No consumer protection here, fella, just competition protection.

As the Instapundit says, when the market rules, the opportunities for graft decline. And the regulators can’t have that. Not even in Texas. No sirree.

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Maureen Dowd, druggie

Posted on June 5, 2014 | 2 comments

I think it’s cool that they sell marijuana candy in Colorado and very funny that the NYTimes lefty propagandist Maureen Dowd stupidly ate too much of it when nothing happened immediately from a little bit.

Then she got what all goofballs do: a non-stop eight-hour high. If we can believe her. She’s never been very trustworthy.

What a genius. They should never have let Dowd out of Manhattan. She’s fairly presentable up there in the lefty booby hatch, but hopelessly outclassed anywhere else. Next time, Maureen, if there is a next time, just stay home and make it up. You know, the way you usually do.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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Waiting for Bowe

Posted on June 5, 2014 | 1 comment

Amid all the cacophony about the alleged deserter the White House traded five al Queda bosses to get back, we’ve yet to hear from the man himself: Army PFC (when he was captured) now Sergeant (promoted in captivity) Bowe Bergdahl.

Wormtongue’s latest controversy arises, in part, from his Rose Garden presser welcoming home Bowe with his, ahem, eccentric parents. But it’s also due to the left’s adoration of anti-war soldiers like Bergdahl and its persistent military blindspot: “…its failure to comprehend the centrality of honor to military culture.”

I’m reminded of Marine PFC Robert Garwood who was brought home from Vietnam under a cloud of disgrace. His parents never got near the Rose Garden. His explanation of how he was captured and why other POWs thought he was a collaborator wasn’t very persuasive but at least we got his version to weigh against the others.

A military court eventually acquitted Garwood of desertion while convicting him of “communicating with the enemy” and ordered him dishonorably discharged. He later collaborated with two authors in an interesting book on his case, which remains controversial, at least in the Marine Corps.

We’re still waiting to hear from Bowe, and we should because there’s bound to be another side, his side, to this whole deal. Whether it will change any minds remains to be seen, but for now his silence is deafening.

UPDATE:  Oops, turns out ol’ Bowe, whom Obamalot contends served honorably, converted to Islam and declared himself a jihadi. Wonderful. Does Wormtongue ever tell the truth about anything?

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