THE FOUNDATION
"It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence." --George Washington, Farewell Address, 1796TOP 5 RIGHT HOOKS
Hillary Considered Resigning
Hillary Clinton knew the night of Sept. 11, 2012 the attack on the Benghazi consulate was not because of a YouTube video but was a full-blown terrorist attack. According to Edward Klein's book "Blood Feud," which details the rivalry between the Clintons and the Obamas, Barack Obama called Clinton the day of the attack and told her to lie. There were two more months of election season and Obama needed to keep his "al-Qaida is decimated" story alive. At that point, Klein says, Clinton even considered resigning over the request. However, politics won out. Hillary's lead adviser said, "If her resignation hurt Obama's chances of winning re-election, her fellow Democrats would never forgive her. Hillary was already thinking of running for president in 2016, and her political future, as well as Obama's, hung in the balance." Under pressure from Obama, Clinton went ahead and blamed that obscure YouTube video, thus preserving Democrat power. More...Comment | Share
Hillary Clinton and Rape
In 1975, Hillary Clinton successfully defended an accused rapist. Nothing wrong with that -- it's part of being a lawyer. But her personal attacks on the alleged 12-year-old victim were outrageous. After tapes surfaced of Hillary laughing about the case years later, the victim decided it was time to speak out against the paragon of women's achievement herself. "Hillary Clinton took me through hell," the victim said. Asked what she would say if she met Clinton again today, the woman, now 52, said, "I realize the truth now, the heart of what you've done to me. And you are supposed to be for women? You call that [being] for women, what you've done to me? And I heard you on tape laughing." Doesn't sound like Hillary is quite the person to break that glass ceiling.Comment | Share
Tacit Immigration Admission
"White House officials, saying that misinformation about administration policies helped drive a surge of illegal migrants from Central America across the South Texas border, on Friday announced plans to detain more of them and to accelerate their court cases so as to deport them more quickly," reports The New York Times. Furthermore, "Migrants unfamiliar with the American system have been confusing the notice to appear in court, the immigration equivalent of an indictment, with a permit to stay in the United States." They even dispatched Joe Biden to Guatemala to clear things up with prospective border-crossers. The Obama administration has made flouting immigration law its signature policy -- a great way to ensure Hispanics become a unified Democrat voting bloc. Now they're quietly saying, "Oops," and slapping a Band-Aid on the problem.Comment | Share
Cooking the Books
The United States was hot -- in the 1930s. Since that time, the states have cooled, not in an upside-down hockey-stick sort of way, just a gradual decline. According to Christopher Booker, a columnist for The Telegraph, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wants to make global warming all that much more real for us. So NOAA has cooked the books, putting in the data from computer models instead of actual observations of the earth's temperature. Yeah science! "Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence," Booker writes, "must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology." More...Comment | Share
North Dakota Oil Boom
As countries like oil-dependent Iraq continue to devolve and OPEC retains control of the global oil market, there's never been a better reason to look for energy production domestically -- especially when we already have the means of supplying this resource. Take, for example, North Dakota: The state "has drilled its way into the record books," reports The Daily Signal, "producing more than a million barrels of oil a day [emphasis added]. Fueled by the energy revolution in the Bakken Oil Fields, North Dakota now supplies 12 percent of the nation's total oil production." Incredibly, "The state currently produces more than 1 percent of total global output," the Signal adds, "and according to the director of North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources, Lynn Helms, that number is expected to grow." That's assuming the Obama administration doesn't hand down more stifling regulations. Obama's war on the economy is to blame for rising energy costs. States like North Dakota, if left alone, will not only help Americans' fiscal burden, but may allow the U.S. to become energy independent.Comment | Share
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Don't Give Up -- We Sure Won't
The last five-plus years have provided plenty of discouraging developments, but there is good news: All the scandals have Barack Obama on the ropes, limiting the amount of damage he can do over the next two years. We must persevere in the fight for Liberty and hold the Obama administration accountable. Your Patriot Post team pursues this goal in every edition and we ask you to stand with us today.We have all enjoyed the fruits of prosperity that our forefathers purchased at great sacrifice, many with their lives. With the current unprecedented assault upon Liberty, each and every one of us is called to make our own great sacrifices. Future generations deserve no less, and we ask for your support in this great struggle.
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RIGHT ANALYSIS
IRS 'Not Being Forthcoming'
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The IRS explanation for its targeting of Tea Party and Patriot groups for additional scrutiny has morphed over the last several months from being an isolated incident involving a few "rogue agents" in Cincinnati to its latest incredulous "dog ate the homework" scenario involving lost emails at a time conveniently coinciding with the heart of the period being investigated. At one point, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified his belief that missing emails from Lois Lerner would be recoverable, only to change course last Friday by conceding the hard drives had been "recycled." It's an interesting time for the IRS to go green.
All this led an exasperated Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to tell Koskinen, "Nobody believes you." Ryan added, "You can reach into the lives of hard-working taxpayers and with a phone call, an email or a letter and you can turn their lives upside down. You ask taxpayers to hand us seven years of their personal tax information in case they're ever audited, and you can't keep six months' worth of employee emails? I don't believe you. This is incredible."
Ryan went on to accuse the IRS chief of "not being forthcoming." But why would Koskinen be forthcoming, since the actions of the IRS two years ago had their desired effect of leaving his boss Barack Obama in office? No one has to believe the IRS chief -- he just has to play along in the cover-up.
Indeed, Koskinen remains defiant, telling the House Ways and Means Committee, "I don't think an apology is owed" for not informing investigators about the email loss. "Not a single email has been lost since the start of this investigation," Koskinen added, before blaming "the agency's aging information-technology infrastructure" on a lack of funding. In fact, the Democrats on the committee apologized to Koskinen.
In advance of his testimony, the IRS commissioner also claimed that not all IRS emails qualify as "official records," although the IRS Manual states otherwise. But we likely wouldn't have known about this latest revelation if not for a Senate panel asking Koskinen to attest that all relevant information had been forwarded to Congress -- it was only then we found out about this latest twist.
Meanwhile, The Daily Caller reports, "Lois Lerner's computer allegedly crashed in June 2011, just ten days after House Ways and Means Committee chairman Rep. Dave Camp first wrote a letter asking if the IRS was engaging in targeting of nonprofit groups. Two months later, Sonasoft's contract ended and the IRS gave its email-archiving contractor the boot." Suspicious to say the least.
It may take a special prosecutor and granting immunity to certain participants to get to the bottom of this scandal. Even then, some may fall on their sword rather than rat out their supervisors. After all, the guy at the top has the power to pardon on his way out.
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Who's Stuck in Iraq Now?
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TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS
- Arnold Ahlert: A Loss of Faith
- Ken Blackwell: Hillary's Jugger-Not?
- George Will: Stopping a Lawless President
- Peggy Noonan: What America Thinks About Iraq
- Star Parker: Court Decision in California Will Improve Education
OPINION IN BRIEF
The Gipper: "It's hard when you're up to your armpits in alligators to remember you came here to drain the swamp."Columnist Arnold Ahlert: "It's no accident that everyone gets a trophy nowadays. The same society that tolerates the obfuscation of morality isn't about to make 'onerous' distinctions between talent and ambition, or lack thereof. The resultant protection of oh-so-delicate egos may have seemed like a good idea, but it has seemingly taught millions of Americans that they have a divine right not to be offended. This unprecedented and stratospheric level of hypersensitivity has amplified the divisions among us. ... In such a dubious environment, a loss of faith is unavoidable. ... Twentieth century history alone is replete with examples of people who lost faith and, as a result, allowed themselves to be exploited by some of the most evil men in history. That's because a society with little faith in itself can easily conflate competence with charisma, and hope with hogwash. Haven't we kidded ourselves long enough?"
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Columnist Ken Blackwell: "Hillary Clinton launched her latest 'listening tour' with a new book. It was supposed to be a non-campaign rollout. But it turned out not so promisingly. ... Her first stumble was in announcing to Diane Sawyer that she and Bill had left the White House in 2001 'dead broke.' ... [And] she now vigorously maintains she was wrong on Iraq and wrong on marriage. And this is a qualification? Would-be challengers to 'Hillary the Inevitable' can only be inspired by her troubled launch of her book tour. Long-time observers already recall the stumbling debut of Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1979. Every poll that year showed Kennedy would blow away the beleaguered Jimmy Carter. Every poll, that is, except the poll of primary voters of 1980. Kennedy's inability to answer the simplest questions from friendly interviewers had him tripping over his own tongue at the starting gate. He never fully recovered."
Fred Thompson: "It's not just Lois Lerner's e-mails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can't produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the Tea Party targeting scandal. But don't worry, you can trust them not to screw up like this in calculating your Obamacare tax."
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et Fidelis!
Nate Jackson for The Patriot Post Editorial Team
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