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The scandals aren’t going away:

• Glenn Greenwald Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes
  

  Under US law, it is not illegal to publish classified information. That fact, along with the First Amendment’s guarantee of press freedoms, is what has prevented the US government from ever prosecuting journalists for reporting on what the US government does in secret.
  …
  So do Obama defenders believe that George Bush and Richard Nixon – who never prosecuted leakers like this or formally accused journalists of being criminals for reporting classified information – were excessively protective of press freedoms and insufficiently devoted to safeguarding secrecy? To ask that question is to mock it.

  This should be a bigger story than the targeting of the AP.

• Jonah Goldberg Benghazi’s smoking guns
• Michelle Malkin Obama’s emptiest Benghazi talking point
• Peggy Noonan This Is No Ordinary Scandal: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government.
• Breitbart Claim: Obama campaign co-chair attacked Romney with leaked IRS docs
• NY Times Republicans Expand I.R.S. Inquiry, With Eye on White House
• Weekly Standard Report: IRS Deliberately Chose Not to Fess Up to Scandal Before Election
  Of course they did. They had an election to throw.
  Lisa Myers, NBC:

  Imagine if we—if you can—what would have happened if this fact came out in September 2012, in the middle of a presidential election? The terrain would have looked very different.

  Yes, it would have.

USA Today More immigrant felons freed than initially reported
Wait, you mean someone from another Executive branch department lied to us? Color me shocked.

Fox IRS official who oversaw unit targeting Tea Party now heads ObamaCare office
That ought to make us all sleep better at night. Um, didn’t President Transparency tell us he was going to hold the responsible parties accountable?

CBS Hispanic Custodians On Auraria Campus Claim Discrimination
So now we have to print everything in your language in order to hire you? Simple solution to that one…

The scandals in which Dear Leader finds himself enmeshed are not going away despite the efforts of Lefty media and pundits. If anything—with the addition of the AP phone dragnet—they’re growing.

• Jonah Goldberg Bad Faith and Benghazi
• Thomas Sowell Lies About Libya
  

  Despite Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loudly proclaimed question “What difference, at this point, does it make?” the difference is between an honest mistake and a calculated lie to deceive the American people, in order to win an election.

• WSJ The IRS Targets Conservatives: An official admits the tax agency pursued tea party groups in the 2012 election season.
  Everyone who believes this was not political and had no effect on the election when all of the target groups were conservative and many were in battleground/swing states…sorry, but you’re deluded. Thanks for helping reelect a liar and thug.
• James Taranto Nobody’s Laughing Now: How pervasive is the Obama IRS scandal?
  

  There is an immediate political reason why it is important [for David Plouffe, former Obama campaign manager and White House aide] to deny that the IRS abuses had any political effect: If they did have a political effect, then the question becomes whether that effect was sufficient to change the outcome of the 2012 election. That is to say, unless Plouffe’s denial is true, the very legitimacy of the president’s re-election is in doubt.

Mike Adams My Phone Call To Jason Collins

USA Today Study: Despite drop in gun crime, 56% think it’s worse
Considering most people still get their news from MSM I’m surprised so few are misinformed.

Michelle Malkin A National Security History Lesson for Marco Rubio

It used to be the job of our Attorney General to enforce federal law. Apparently those days have passed, as the current officeholder thinks breaking our laws is a “matter of civil and human rights.”

So, Mr. Holder, which of our laws is it my civil and human right—as a natural citizen—to ignore? Paying federal taxes? Purchasing ObamaCare-approved health insurance for my employees? Submitting to a background check before buying a gun? Or is legalized lawbreaking only a civil and human right for illegal aliens?

Lee Stranahan Andrew Breitbart’s Pigford Vision

I’m the liberal that Andrew Breitbart hired to investigate Pigford.…A funny thing happened on the road, though; I stopped being a liberal.

Pigford is a story that, if nothing else, vindicates citizen journalism and demonstrates all too clearly that the MSM have an agenda that does not serve the public interest. This is corruption not merely writ large, but defined.

Mona Charen The Muslim World Hates the U.S. More Than Ever

Michelle Malkin Dissecting the Gang of 8′s enforcement sham

Fox News Officials found guilty in Obama, Clinton ballot petition fraud
Nothing to see here. Move along.

Mike Adams Time to Ban High Capacity Liberals From Campus

Kurt Schlichter Americans Run Towards the Fire

Mark Davis To the Parents of Newtown

Michelle Malkin Death Doc Kermit Gosnell’s Silent Co-Conspirators

Mike Adams Why Don Opposes Capital Rape

Fox Dad of West Virginia boy arrested over NRA shirt says he’ll fight punishment

Marcum wore the same shirt to school Monday.

Love it!

James Taranto From Roe to Gosnell: The case for regime change on abortion.

Jonah Goldberg Kermit Gosnell and abortion’s darkest side

Byron York New data on border crossings cloud security debate

John Ransom Carbon not Culprit in Global Warming, Science Is Say Scientists
Looks like Fat Albert is up against an Inconvenient Truth of his own.

Fox NYPD officer, 1-year-old son, boyfriend dead in apparent double murder-suicide; teen escaped
But don’t worry, New Yorkers, Nanny Bloomberg is keeping you safe by only arming the cops.

Judicial Watch City Recruits Minority Lifeguards Even if They Can’t Swim
If you needed more evidence that the Left is more concerned with its agenda than with reality…

Larry Elder Fox’s Juan Williams Gets It Half Right on Guns

Thomas Sowell Tests and Tiger Moms

Todd Starnes School: Americans Don’t Have Right to Bear Arms

WSJ Now He’s After Your 401(k): The White House pulls a switcheroo on retirement savings accounts.
You knew this was coming, right? The Left knows just how much money you need to retire, regardless of how hard you work or responsibly you save.

Matt Barber Religious Freedom & ‘Gay Marriage’ Cannot Coexist

Last month PoliceOne conducted the most thorough survey of police opinion regarding gun control and armed citizens.

If you’ve known many officers the results won’t surprise you. If, on the other hand, you see Obama using cops as props and assume they’re on his side of the fence, the survey could be eye-opening.

In Bloomberg’s Nannytown, one woman was dragged to a cemetery and raped, and another beaten and robbed.

Where were the police? Close enough to take an incident report. Not close enough to be of any help to the victims.

Despite what the Left will tell you, ladies, you’re on your own out there. And they would rather have you raped, beaten, and robbed–and dependent on the state for protection it does not provide–than armed for your own defense.

How’s that concealed carry ban working, Mikey? Pretty well for you and your wealthy friends who have bodyguards. Not so well for your constituents subjects.

I will tell you these are ammunition, they’re bullets, so the people who have those know they’re going to shoot them, so if you ban them in the future, the number of these high capacity magazines is going to decrease dramatically over time because the bullets will have been shot and there won’t be any more available.

– Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, defending her support of a federal ban on high capacity magazines for handguns and rifles

Her official spokeswoman, Juliet Johnson, didn’t fare any better in her defense:

she simply misspoke in referring to ‘magazines’ when she should have referred to ‘clips,’ which cannot be reused because they don’t have a feeding mechanism

There is no such thing as a high capacity clip. If there were–and it had no feeding mechanism–it couldn’t be used in a semi-automatic weapon like the AR-15.

There are three basic types of clips: en bloc, stripper and moon. Each holds a handful of rounds. They are used to reload the fixed magazines of low capacity rifles or the cylinder of some revolvers, and to make reloading high capacity removable magazines easier. Even in the last case, they aren’t as common as the more convenient lever-action reloaders.

In any case, ammunition is not purchased in clips, but is loaded by hand into clips which are then, like magazines, reused many, many, many times.

Here’s a legislative proposal: in order to vote on–much less sponsor–a bill, you must have some semblance of a clue regarding its subject.