Progressives misguidedly defend the IRS’s ability to harass government criticis

IRSProgressive web sites such as Daily Kos are arguing that it would have been just fine for the IRS to investigate all groups critical of the government, as opposed to just conservative groups critical of President Obama in particular. Thus, if the IRS also investigated non-conservative critics of President Obama, or critics of other politicians, it did nothing wrong, since it was supposedly not engaged in viewpoint discrimination against conservatives. This is an erroneous reading of the First Amendment, as Supreme Court rulings make clear.

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IRS scandal: It’s hard to fire federal officials despite Constitutional provision

Lois LernerIt’s hard to get rid of a career bureaucrat, even at the supervisory level. “After you’ve been here for a year, it’s easier to kill you than fire you.” That’s what my co-workers at the Bureau of Labor Statistics would tell me on a sunny day, after we’d used up our lunch hour, but didn’t want to go back to work yet.

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Brit patriots who take to streets to show solidarity, respect for butchered soldier met with police brutality

zx113182_1London cops look the other way for Muslims… but beat Pro-English marchers.

Before the cries of “Allah Akbar” had finished echoing through the Woolwich neighborhood, which had just witnessed the butchering and beheading of a member of Her Majesty’s Forces in broad daylight, patriotic British citizens attempted to march in support of the slain Squaddie. They were met with club-wielding London police officers, as reported by The Daily Mail.

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Lois Lerner could have avoided current mess by having her attorney read her opening statement

IRS's Lerner pleads the FifthA day has passed since Lois Lerner, director of Exempt Organizations at the IRS, appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and this much is clear:

She cannot be fired. As the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto noted yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1956 decision in Slochower v. Board of Continue reading

Man kidnapped off NYC street, held in captivity for one month

Queens street where man was kidnappedIt is a crime that, were it not for the recent sensational story of three women held in captivity in a Cleveland home for 12 years, would be hard to fathom in terms of its duration and the degree of abuse suffered by the victim. The one common thread running through both stories is that they are over, the victims returned to their families, the perpetrators in custody.

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Patriotic Greeks vow massive march if ‘mega-mosque’ is built in Athens

zz18GREECE1-articleLargeOne in ten “Greeks” is a Muslim illegal alien…

After suffering centuries of violent oppression at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, a patriotic Greek organization has threatened to respond with a massive show of force if Muslims attempt to construct a mosque in Athens, as reported by the Macedonian International News Agency.

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Obama NLRB appointments declared unconstitutional by another appeals court

NLRBAnother federal appeals court has ruled that President Obama’s so-called “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional because the Senate was not in recess at the time: “We hold that the Recess of the Senate in the Recess Appointments Clause refers to only intersession breaks.” So ruled the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, in its 2-to-1 ruling in NLRB v. New Vista Nursing and Rehabilitation.

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