Copyright © 2013 Knight Sac Media. All rights reserved.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=55303This is one of the best places on the web to discuss American politics, foreign affairs (political, not romatic) This is intended to be a forum for rational discourse and interaction. President Abraham Lincoln was quoted as saying: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/images/Logo380x132.pnghttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/subject.aspx?subjectid=5530338013210greatplains_guyThe Apple Tax Diversion Senators beat up a U.S. success for following the tax laws they wrote. May 21, 2013, 7:23 p.m. ET. You almost have to admire Carl Levin's timing. Amid a furor over politicized IRS tax enforcement, the Michigan Democrat on Tuesday tried to change the subject to a hardy Washington perennial—corp...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289083825/22/2013 2:29:11 AMLLCFCould be.... I'm sure liberals believe the opposite.... One thing is for sure, wacko R wingers create an environment making the liberal case very plausible to most people... they keep it up and Repa will have substantial losses in mid-terms. DAKhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289080985/21/2013 9:48:46 PMLLCFhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289080875/21/2013 9:44:13 PMJoe BtfsplkWays Obama Can Restore the Public's Trust Seppuku? . . . . . But that would require some measure of honor, so I suppose that's off the table.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289075465/21/2013 4:40:33 PMPeter DierksObama Must Protect Government Unions in IRS Scandal By Chris Stirewalt May 21, 2013 “I think a lot of federal employees do their work under the radar.” -- Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents more than 150,000 federal workers including those at the IRS, in a May 2012 ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289072515/21/2013 2:32:27 PMPeter DierksObama Thinks He Has Preserved Credible Deniability Mr. Obama and green persimmons The Washington Times Tuesday, May 21, 2013 The Republicans who can’t wait to talk impeachment should sit down, shut up, and be patient. President Obama may yet deserve impeachment, but we’re not there yet. Patience, as anyone old enoug...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289072435/21/2013 2:30:47 PMPeter DierksThe big difference was that under PResident Bush 43 the "scandals" were inflated and amplified by every liberal media outlet. Under OBama they act like there is nothing to see. Even when you get a major infringement on people's liberties, liberals don't care because their socialist is in charge.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289072315/21/2013 2:28:04 PMcalgalObama's Personal Diplomats? By Mona Charen [graphic] Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on print Share on email More Sharing Services23 http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Count me as irritable on the subject, but President Obama's imperious habit of suggesting that A...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289069965/21/2013 1:11:44 PMcalgalTyranny is no Longer 'Lurking' Cal Thomas | May 21, 2013 [graphic] Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" war...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289069825/21/2013 1:08:10 PMCarolynhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289069795/21/2013 1:07:11 PMcalgal The Ultimate Clutch Player Chuck Norris | May 21, 2013 R America has the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and the UCP (ultimate clutch players). One is mixed martial artists, and the other is quarterbacks of the NFL. They all are athletic warriors...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289069725/21/2013 1:05:50 PMcalgal An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions o...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289069505/21/2013 1:02:07 PMPeter DierksIRS Scandal Is Opportunity To Reduce Big Government Tue, May 21 2013 00:00:00 E A12_ISSUES Posted 05/20/2013 06:46 PM ET Government: The IRS scandal isn't just about misconduct of a possibly criminal nature. Without big government, such a powerful, intrusive organization would be obsolete — which should be the goal...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289068595/21/2013 12:35:43 PMPeter Dierkshttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289068495/21/2013 12:32:20 PMPeter Dierks5 Troubling Questions About The IRS Scandal Tue, May 21 2013 00:00:00 E A12_ISSUES Posted 05/20/2013 06:34 PM ET Scandal Watch: Despite White House attempts to brush the IRS scandal aside as "irrelevant" or the work of rogue miscreants, huge questions remain about who ordered IRS agents to harass Tea Party groups,...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289068305/21/2013 12:27:58 PMLLCFSame old shoe, other foot. Exact same stuff Libs were saying under Bush, almost exact same type of "scandals" too. Yawn The coming economic disaster will make all this stuff look incredibly silly. Republicans are insuring mid-term losses by dithering about Obama instead of dealing with the REAL issues. Their o...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289068185/21/2013 12:25:29 PMPeter DierksCan We Get a Straight Answer When Obama Knew? White House spokesman Dan Pfeiffer offers more confusion than clarity in defending the White House response to Benghazi, IRS scandal. Tweet By Josh Kraushaar Updated: May 20, 2013 | 9:39 a.m What did the president know and when did he know it? Those simple question...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289068105/21/2013 12:22:49 PMPeter DierksA Crisis of Authority The deeper meaning of the Obama scandals.. May 20, 2013 By JAMES TARANTO Democracy is in peril: That is an emerging theme of the liberal left's response to the Obama scandals. The argument misses the point, no doubt deliberately. What we are witnessing now is not a crisis of democracy but a cr...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289067895/21/2013 12:17:52 PMLLCFWait till brain dead global dollar holders wake up and demand actual returns on their holdings.... total meltdown. Apparently folks at the fed & treasury never learned to match debt duration with their income streams. :)) I think that was a 300 level course, quite advanced for those guyz I guess. DAKhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289067545/21/2013 12:10:49 PMLLCFOf course... every problem on earth is on Obama's shoulders until proven otherwise... he is a true god in your opinion. DAKhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289067475/21/2013 12:07:40 PMgreatplains_guy5 Ways Obama Can Restore the Public's Trust and Rescue His Presidency Painful choices include appointing a special prosecutor on the IRS and offering an apology to The Associated Press. By Ron Fournier Updated: May 20, 2013 | 10:08 a.m. Swamped in controversies, President Obama and his slow-footed team are essentiall...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289059365/21/2013 12:09:27 AMgreatplains_guyWest Wing Weak: Your Guide to Obama's Scandal-Filled Week Nick Gillespie & Meredith Bragg May 17, 2013 [youtube video] The Obama White House has released the latest installment of its ongoing and self-congratulatory video series, West Wing Week. But despite touting itself as "your guide to all things 1600 Pennsylva...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289058395/20/2013 10:46:23 PMgreatplains_guyObama’s Scandals Reveal the True Face of Government Power and force are the name of the game. Steven Greenhut | May 17, 2013 The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289058305/20/2013 10:39:23 PMgreatplains_guyA Journalist 'Co-Conspirator' The feds accuse a Fox reporter of criminal behavior for doing his job May 20, 2013, 7:33 p.m. ET. Ok, we've learned our lesson. Last week we tried to give the Obama Administration the benefit of the doubt over its far-reaching secret subpoenas to the Associated Press, and now we learn th...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289058285/20/2013 10:38:49 PMgreatplains_guyThe IRS and the Drive to Stop Free Speech Such a scandal was bound to happen after the government started trying to rule the expression of political views. May 20, 2013, 7:14 p.m. ET. By DAVID B. RIVKIN JR. AND LEE A. CASEY The unfolding IRS scandal is a symptom, not the disease.For decades, campaign-finance reform...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289058205/20/2013 10:36:52 PMFUBHO The White House’s shifting IRS account By REID J. EPSTEIN | 5/20/13 6:41 PM EDT The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups — saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago. P...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289058185/20/2013 10:36:28 PMgreatplains_guyObama's War Against the Free Press Gets Creepier J.D. Tuccille May. 20, 2013 12:39 pm Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the U.S. Department of Justice "investigation" of Fox News chief correspondent James Rosen isn't the intrusive tracking of his movements and contacts — although that's disturbing enough — but the b...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289058095/20/2013 10:33:19 PMPeter DierksThere is no question that the Obama Administration requires close oversight. They are actively working to undermine the institution of democracy.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289053715/20/2013 4:29:02 PMcalgal Jewish World Review May 20, 2013/ 11 Sivan, 5773 Unbelievable but True Stories By Greg Crosby [graphic] Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on print Share on email More Sharing Services12 http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289053205/20/2013 4:15:42 PMcalgal\ Guns, God and Family: Hitting Pop Culture Katie Kieffer | May 20, 2013 American comedians are making a pile of cash with clean humor centered on guns, God and family. As scandals from Benghazigate to the IRS-targeting of conservative groups shake our country, ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289052475/20/2013 3:53:43 PMcalgal Andrew Breitbart, The Tea Party And Race Andrew Marcus | May 20, 2013 [graphic] Recommend this article [graphic] That the Tea Party has been under attack is not exactly news to Tea Partiers, though we are grateful that the rest of the country has ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289052455/20/2013 3:52:30 PMPeter Dierkshttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289047885/20/2013 12:49:53 PMPeter DierksThere is no doubt ab out why Donald Rumsfeld rose to the highest ranks of power. He is a true civil servant.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289045615/20/2013 11:30:37 AMPeter DierksI don't for a second believe that the IRS scandal was limited to political appointees. IRS NTEU Union members are in bed with the Obama political appointees. The problem is pervasive until proven otherwise.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289043545/20/2013 10:25:14 AMTimF 10 Takeaways from the Latest CBO Budget Projections The congressional budget scorekeeper projects the next decade of revenues and spending. Peter Suderman | May 15, 2013 Yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)—the nonpartisan budget scorekeeper for Congress—released its updated budget projections ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289041765/20/2013 8:32:51 AMgreatplains_guyA Pattern of Power Abuse By Investor's Business Daily May 16, 2013 Tyranny: Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the president's parade of scandals is that just days before they broke, he mocked as paranoid those concerned about government excesses. On May 5, while giving the commencement address at Ohio State Univers...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289040365/20/2013 12:30:41 AMgreatplains_guyThomas Perez Makes a Deal How Obama’s Labor nominee made a Supreme Court case disappear May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 By TERRY EASTLAND On November 7, 2011, the Supreme Court decided to hear Magner v. Gallagher, a case about racial discrimination in housing. Oral argument was scheduled for February 29, 2012. But short...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289040345/20/2013 12:27:36 AMgreatplains_guyIdeological Revenue Service By MARK HEMINGWAY May 27, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 35 With three different scandals threatening to consume the White House last week—the Benghazi cover-up, the Justice Department’s seizure of the phone records of dozens of Associated Press reporters, and the revelation of an anti-Tea Party inquis...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289040275/20/2013 12:15:20 AMgreatplains_guyEmails Directly Contradict White House By Steve Hayes, Weekly Standard - May 16, 2013 The White House on Wednesday released 94 pages of emails between top administration and intelligence officials who helped shape the talking points about the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that the CIA would provide to policymakers in bo...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289040255/20/2013 12:13:28 AMgreatplains_guySecond appeals court invalidates Obama's NLRB recess appointments By TAL KOPAN | 5/16/13 12:10 PM EDT A second appeals court has joined the D.C. Circuit in ruling that President Barack Obama’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional, concluding that some board actions taken in...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289040195/20/2013 12:08:45 AMFUBHOThe Koch Brothers Asked The WH How In The Hell It Got Its Tax Returns [graphic]BUSTED? OBAMA WORKING WITH THE IRS THE WHOLE TIME?: In 2010, The Koch Brothers Asked The WH How In The Hell It Got Its Tax Returns May 13, 2013 15 Comments Pat Dollard [graphic] If the White House illegally had the Koch Brothers tax ...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038745/19/2013 9:05:06 PMFUBHOSen. Portman: IRS will need special counsel By Meghashyam Mali - 05/19/13 01:43 PM ET Read more: thehill.com http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038675/19/2013 9:01:19 PMgreatplains_guyhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038315/19/2013 8:37:58 PMgreatplains_guyThe IRS Scandal Started at the Top The bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service did exactly what the president said was the right and honorable thing to do. Updated May 19, 2013, 3:42 p.m. ET. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to a...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038275/19/2013 8:30:41 PMgreatplains_guyPin the fail on the donkey The IRS, AP and Benghazi scandals were all about making Obama look better. Now they’ll drag down the Democrats for years to come By JOHN PODHORETZ Last Updated: 11:24 PM, May 18, 2013 The Obama administration’s sudden plunge into scandal territory has two aspects — the actual and the politic...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038245/19/2013 8:26:55 PMgreatplains_guyObama admits he’s a socialist What his ‘Bulworth’ fantasy reveals By KYLE SMITH Last Updated: 1:31 PM, May 19, 2013 You may be forgiven if you missed it during last week’s tsunami of scandals, but President Obama finally let slip that he is a socialist. Buried in the 17th paragraph of one of those mewling New York Ti...http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038215/19/2013 8:24:45 PMgreatplains_guyCyprus is a big tie money laundering destination for Russian mafia and Russian government crooks.The US was wise to steer clear of that bailout. It was the EU's problem.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038185/19/2013 8:23:09 PMgreatplains_guyThe IRS is not very friendly. People are right to be very concerned about giving more power to the IRS.http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038155/19/2013 8:21:37 PMgreatplains_guyTroubles have GOP hoping for Senate by DAVID M. DRUCKER Last Updated: 11:24 PM, May 18, 2013 Posted: 10:24 PM, May 18, 2013 After one very bad week for President Obama, Republicans are hoping that three administration scandals will equal six Senate seats, the number the GOP needs to win in 2014 to capture the chamber....http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038115/19/2013 8:20:30 PMCarolynhttp://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=289038105/19/2013 8:20:05 PM