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This is Lois Lerner, who headed the Internal Revenue Service’s exempt organizations division during the time that the IRS was singling out “tea party”-affiliated groups and other politically conservative people with audits and intimidation…

Lois Lerner, Internal Revenue Service, taxes, government
Where do these people keep coming from?

Lois Lerner of the IRS invoked the Fifth Amendment so as not to potentially perjure herself during hearings in the House of Representatives investigating her agency’s unethical and illegal activities.

Every year, you and I and millions of other Americans have to file 1040 forms with the IRS.  If we don’t, we go to jail.  If we withhold information on the 1040 forms, we go to jail.  If we don’t sign the forms, we go to jail.  At no time does the IRS afford us the right to invoke the Fifth Amendment so as not to incriminate ourselves. 

Lois Lerner in her capacity as a high-ranking official of ...

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I did not watch President Obama’s inauguration today. There is nothing particularly interesting about a leader with no real vision. Sadly that’s a trait that has been shared by every president since Reagan. But I digress…

It does interest me this afternoon however that President Obama continued the tradition established by former president George W. Bush of having a “free speech zone” marked off for the event…

Freedom Plaza is the site of one of the only authorized demonstration zones, where a strip of the plaza is designated a free speech zone.

The “free speech zones” were a routine and chronic practice of George W. Bush. Nobody who protested his policies was allowed anywhere close to him when he was president and out in public. There were many instances when protestors were limited to an area nearly a mile away from Bush.

The “free speech zones” were wrong then. They ...

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I’m looking at this one of two ways: that Pat Robertson sincerely believes what he is saying here. Either that, or as I have heard it said a number of times in my life: “Whom God would destroy, He first makes mad.”

During a broadcast of his 700 Club this week, Christian Broadcasting Network founder and “evangelist” Pat Robertson said that it was perfectly justifiable to divorce a spouse with Alzheimer’s disease, on the basis that the illness is “a kind of death”.

What. The. Hell. ?!?!?

In all honesty, I can’t see how Pat Robertson – if this is his genuine belief – is any different from those who support abortion and the “right to choose”. You know: the things that his Christian Coalition was alleged to be standing against for all those years?

(Well, as a follower of Christ, I always thought that the Christian Coalition was ...

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The Republicans in the North Carolina legislature should just say it and get it over with.

Matt Mittan was the first to bring my attention to the just-released maps for North Carolina’s newly-redrawn congressional districts.

And how has the GOP now “controlling” (I have never liked how a party “controls” a legislature and I don’t see how anyone else should like it either) Raleigh done, following decades of Democrat-led gerrymandering?

By doing their own gerrymandering!

From the original article at Carolina Journal…

(Carolina Journal) Three Democratic incumbents will face a tough re-election fights next year under new congressional maps released today by the Republican-controlled state legislature.

The redrawn maps significantly weaken U.S. Reps. Brad Miller, D-13th; Heath Shuler, D-11th; and Larry Kissell, D-8th. Republicans currently have six of 13 congressional seats. If previous voting patterns hold, the GOP could gain a 9-4 or even 10-3 advantage in 2013.

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Good friend Danny de Garcia II forwarded this piece from his own blog: “Top 10 Politician Lines (And Why They’re Lies)”. I am directing y’all to it in turn because I found it to be a brief but noteworthy essay detailing the most commonly heard cliches out of the lines of incumbents and candidates… and why we should never take them at face value.

Here’s a sample…

4. “I’m a leader that people can count on.”
Technically speaking, if elected officials obeyed the Constitution, there would be very little evil that they would be allowed to work against the people. It’s a dangerous thing to believe in men.

5. “I’m not dominated by party politics.”
(Yet they’re running with a party label. ‘Nuff said.)

For more of the list visit The Official FALCON Blog....

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It is by faith alone that we please God. It’s just the conceited bastitches among mankind who keep insisting that we must please them with our works.

(Can’t think of a better way to preface this post than with that thought from earlier this week.)

Yes folks, it’s time to once again chronicle for posterity – in addition to laughing at – what is called on this blog and others the “Church Of Christ In Name Only” (COCINO) and the minions of Johnny Robertson.

A few nights ago numerous e-mails came in saying that I should check out what local cult leader Johnny Robertson – prime evil of the self-professed “Church of Christ” wacko fringe group – had brought in: some guy from the cult’s breeding ground in Texas, not just for the group’s annual “tent meeting” in this area but also, apparently, for the express purpose of “taking on ...

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Yah, talking about Micah Robertson, son of local cult leader Johnny Robertson of the so-called “Martinsville Church of Christ”. Someone sent me an e-mail saying that Robertson the Lesser was doing daddy’s show tonight (why is it that Micah seems so ashamed to acknowledge that Johnny is his father?) and I was about to work on a video project and needed some background noise, so I dialed up the Martinsville feed of WGSR for chuckles.

Even while busy authoring a DVD, I was able to poke tons of holes in Robertson the Lesser’s alleged “presentation”.

First of all, I’m not at all convinced that Micah Robertson is completely confident in what he professes to believe. The guy comes across as too nervous, too insecure. He drones on and on like a monotone robot.

Well, when I tuned in Micah Robertson was claiming that pianos and guitars were carved idols and ...

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Every time I read a story like this (getting to be all too often these days) the first thing that comes into mind is that line by Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men: “Who ARE these people?!?”

Now it’s Louise Slaughter, Chairwoman of the House Rules Committee of the United States House of Representatives. Politico is reporting that Slaughter has implemented some new guidelines for decorum among members of the House, particularly in regard to how representatives discuss the President of the United States (no doubt in response to Joe Wilson’s crying aloud of “You lie!” during Obama’s health “reform” speech last week).

So in case you’re wondering, here is what is allowed…

– refer to the government as “something hated, something oppressive.”

– refer to the President as “using legislative or judicial pork.”

– refer to a Presidential message as a “disgrace to

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And lemme tell you why.

Because as much as it does bother me to see those who have expressed outrage at President Obama’s health care plans being labeled as an “angry mob” by officials and now being officially targeted by what can only be called Obama’s own army of brownshirts…

…I have to remember that much the same thing was happening during the previous eight years during George W. Bush’s tenure, what with “free speech zones” and loyalty oaths and people getting arrested for showing dissent… and sometimes arrested for no clear reason at all.

Hell, I was threatened with physical violence by one of Bush’s thugs before he was President, just because I was a reporter with an independent newspaper (i.e. outside the grasp of Bush’s control-freak nature).

I remember all too well telling Bush supporters what kind of a man he really was, and how the way he ...

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Folks, please understand that I am not on a “get the ‘Church of Christ In Name Only'” binge tonight. Heck, I’ve so many projects on my plate right now that I’m pretty much relying on the reports that others have been sending me lately about the cult. Like earlier today when I posted that cult leader Johnny Robertson can’t spell worth a hoot even as he condemns preachers of other (and in my opinion, legitimate) churches in the area.

And now later this evening, it is Robertson’s chief henchman/second cousin who accompanied him from Texas, James Oldfield (heh-heh… bet y’all didn’t know that the two were related, did ya?) who is up to no good.

Who is Oldfield and the “Church of Christ” cult (remember, it’s not the real Church of Christ at all) going after this time? None other than the Salvation Army.

I came in from some ...

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