19 May, 2013 (13:03) | Crime & Punishment, Politics | By: ricjames
You know, you would expect someone who’s supposed to be advising the President to have a little better precision of language than this: This morning on “This Week,” White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on “This Week” that the legality surrounding the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue service [...]
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18 May, 2013 (08:16) | 2nd Amendment, Economy, Politics | By: ricjames
There have been several manufacturers who have responded to the raft of knee-jerk, wrong-headed gun laws getting rammed through state legislatures that restrict law-abiding gun-owners’ ability to exercise their civil rights by publicly stating their intention to move out of the states that pass these restrictions. The ridiculous restrictions on magazine size and the laughably [...]
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16 May, 2013 (17:38) | Law, Politics | By: ricjames
The IRS reportedly also held up conservative pro-life groups in their little unbalanced application of US tax laws over the past three years and what they were demanding in order to allow people the same treatment as the Administration’s friends was no less than their freedom of speech: IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt [...]
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16 May, 2013 (14:33) | Law, Politics | By: ricjames
In case you’ve missed it, the IRS has admitted that its agents have deliberately targeted for increased scrutiny, outright harassment, and unjustified delay conservative groups with real or imagined connections to the Tea Party and the like. In short, they have explicitly come out as being precisely the dangerous, civil-rights-trampling, overreaching governmental power abuser that [...]
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15 May, 2013 (17:27) | Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
In Virginia, the GOP is heading into their 2013 Convention for the purpose of deciding their nominees for State offices, specifically the Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General. I managed to make it to the last one in 2009 but will not be going to this year’s. That prospect is a bit disappointing to me [...]
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11 May, 2013 (12:19) | GWOT, Politics, The Media | By: ricjames
It’s taken several months, but now that the 2012 elections are well over and in the rearview mirror, the media can’t avoid covering the scandalous actions the Obama Administration has taken with regard to the September 11, 2012 attack on the US embassy in Benghazi. Not that they didn’t try to avoid it, but the [...]
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23 April, 2013 (09:40) | 2012 Elections, Politics, Virginia Politics | By: ricjames
A trial is underway in South Bend, IN, regarding charges filed against 2 Democrat operatives from St. Joseph County alleging that these 2 were involved in forging dozens of signatures on the ballot petitions supporting Barak Obama in the 2008 Presidential primaries. The petitions were required to allow Obama to be included on the ballots. [...]
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21 April, 2013 (14:17) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames
With the capture of the second bomber we are now in a position to be far more deliberate and thorough in moving the investigation forward. We know a lot more now than we did just 3 days ago but there’s more we need. There’s also some stuff we don’t need. This may sound premature but [...]
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18 April, 2013 (06:00) | Politics | By: ricjames
This article by Rand Paul is another of the “the GOP has got to change” articles that have proliferated since last November. I have issues with some of Senator Pau’s stances on things, so while I may applaud his words or deeds in general, don’t take that as unmitigated support. Still, the article is different [...]
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17 April, 2013 (23:00) | Crime & Punishment, GWOT, Politics | By: ricjames
A letter that was sent to Senator Wicker (R-MS) tested positive for ricin, an extremely powerful poison. The alert was raised when the letter went through the off-site mail handling facility that checks each and every letter and package destined for Congress. A similar letter mailed to President Obama has been reported, as well. The [...]
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