Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts

Andrew Napolitano: What If They Are Hiding The Truth?

The hard questions need to be answered.     What if President Obama secretly agreed with others in the government in 2011 to provide arms to rebels in Libya and Syria? What if the scheme called for American arms merchants to sell serious American military hardware to the government of Qatar, which would and did transfer it to rebel   ... MORE

Police Raid A Marijuana Dispensary, Destroy Equipment, Eat Pot Brownies, And Joke About Assaulting Amputee

by Ed Krayewski.   Public service is a noble pursuit. Cops in Santa Ana, California, donned ski masks to break and enter into a local medical marijuana dispensary, raiding it with guns drawn in a May 27 police action. They then proceeded to remove surveillance cameras and recording equipment, but they didn't remove it all. Video from a camera   ... MORE

What Would James Madison Do? New Book By Charles Murray Tells Citizens How To Fight Government Tyranny

by Jay Cost.      Charles Murray’s By the People: Rebuilding Liberty without Permission is an important book that advocates of constitutional government should consider carefully. While Murray overstates the case, his book articulates a novel argument, replete with insights on the nature of political corruption and how to fight it. Murray’s book    ... MORE

FBI Lies May Have Led To Execution of 14 Innocent People

The Washington Post reports:  The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave flawed testimony in almost all trials in which they offered evidence against criminal defendants over more than a two-decade period before 2000. Of 28 examiners with the FBI Laboratory’s   … MORE

Ex-Drug Cop Says He Stole Cash, Planted Drugs Many Times

by MaryClaire Dale, AP.      A disgraced ex-police officer testifying against his drug squad colleagues acknowledged Tuesday that he stole drug money, planted evidence and lied on police paperwork too many times to count. Jeffrey Walker told jurors that the Philadelphia Police Department drug squad targeted white "college-boy ... khaki-pants types"   ...  MORE

DOJ Will Not Prosecute IRS's Lois Lerner For Contempt

by Susan Jones.       After all, she took one for the team. President Obama's Justice Department is refusing to prosecute Lois Lerner for contempt of Congress, a decision that "is disappointing and exhibits a disregard for the rule of law," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform       ... MORE

Tyranny: An Essential Feature of Socialism

by Doug Reich.   I recently heard a television pundit lament the likely outcome of his own prediction that the liberally biased media, after a temporary fit of outrage over the egregious scandals engulfing the Obama administration, will return to its sycophantic posture just in time for the next election cycle. While I agree with this prediction, the more  ... MORE

John Stossel: Chicago Fray

Money can't buy you love, but ...  Rahm Emanuel, current mayor of my old hometown, Chicago, is not a gentle soul. But he's smarter than his big-spending predecessor, Richard M. Daley, and the union pawn, Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, who becomes the new mayor if he beats Emanuel in a run-off election April 7. Emanuel was the tough Obama chief of staff  ... MORE

Americans Get It: Record Low Confidence In Government

by Emily Swanson.     Is the sleeping giant waking up? Americans' confidence in all three branches of government is at or near record lows, according to a major survey that has measured attitudes on the subject for 40 years. The 2014 General Social Survey finds only 23 percent of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the Supreme     ... MORE

Andrew Napolitano: Obama And The Clinton Emails

A violation of national trust.      Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady, U.S. senator from New York and secretary of state, used a private email server for all of her emails when she was President Obama's secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. During that time, she enjoyed a security clearance identical to that of the president, the       ... MORE

Stanley Kurtz: When Hillary's Server Meets Obama's Pen

The next level of tyranny.    Would a Hillary Clinton presidency rerun the corruption, secrecy, and paranoia of the 1990s?  Sure, but that’s not the half of it.  The larger problem would be a marriage of Hillary’s “Go to hell” attitude with Obama’s dangerous expansion of executive authority. What happens when someone who thinks “the rules don’t apply   ... MORE

H A Goodman: Jon Stewart and Jimmy Fallon Have A Point: Why Not Ask the NSA To Produce Hillary Clinton's Emails?

Big Brother has every one of them. Political attacks against Hillary Clinton often times make for good comedy, which is why during this Daily Show segment, Jon Stewart asks the following questions: "Don't we have a facility in Utah that collects all of our emails, anyway, solving the whole archive problem?" he asked. "Can't you just ask them, or they   ... MORE

VIDEO: Christopher Hitchens - On Drug Decriminalization

George Will: The House Takes On IRS Lawlessness

Preventing Lois Lerner 2.0.     Representative Peter Roskam is now chairman of the Ways and Means subcommittee whose jurisdiction includes oversight of the Internal Revenue Service, and hence of Lois Lerner’s legacy. He knows how interesting her career was before she, as head of the IRS exempt-organizations division, directed the suppression  ... MORE

Ron Paul: Dept of Homeland Security, What is it Good For?

Get rid of TSA and FEMA.        Late Friday night, Congress passed legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security for one week. This vote followed weeks of debate over efforts to attach a prohibition on funding President Obama’s executive order granting amnesty to certain illegal immigrants to the Homeland Security funding bill.      ... MORE

The Most Brazen Drug Thieves On The Texas Border

by Josh Eells.      America's dirtiest cops. The temperature was nearing triple digits when Jonathan Treviño strapped on his bulletproof vest, slipped his .40-caliber Glock into his ankle holster and got ready to go to work. It was Thursday, July 26th, 2012, one of those summers in South Texas when the hot air settles on the Rio Grande Valley like a  ... MORE

It's Official: Harry Reid Should Be Committed

by Jonathan Emord.      Rubber band causes broken face, rib cage, and head injury. In most jurisdictions, civil commitment proceedings are commenced when an individual poses a danger to himself or others.   By that definition, Harry Reid should be civilly committed.   We know based on his public actions that Reid poses a danger to others.         ...  MORE