Rich’s Select Committee Double-TAkes!

Special Double Edition Rich TAkes!

Lots has been going on, and very little has been going on. Trey Goudy is named Chairman of the Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, The EPA has been asking human subjects to stick their head up a tail-pipe, and the IRS targeting seems to track directly to the White House (to the surprise of virtually no one).  Trey

The EPA has also proposed regulating (read: taxing) cow farts. And the FCC has raised the ugly head of Net Neutrality once again. Oh yes, the TEA Party is not dead yet.

Judicial Watch: New Documents Show IRS HQ Control of Tea Party Targeting

Linking straight to the White House

The Terrifying Implications of the IRS Abuse-DOJ Connection

Gun-running in Libya and Syria led to 9/11/2012 at Benghazi?

House approves select committee to investigate Benghazi attack

I’m not sure if better late than never applies here, John Boehner should have done this a year ago

CIA Whistleblower faces the ire of an angry Justice Department over Benghazi questions

Hillary Language On Benghazi Identical To Rhodes Email — 1 1/2 Days Before!

Clinton advisor Dick Morris traces video talking points directly to Hillary.

Fast & Furious: Benghazi Edition

Speaking of Fast & Furious, I remember raising my eyebrows when I heard reports of an early Secretary of State speech in Mexico City inn early 2009. She said, “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade,” Mrs. Clinton said, using unusually blunt language. “Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians.”

Besides the obvious, which is, if we controlled our borders this wouldn’t be happening, my second thought was that legal semi-automatic firearms sold in the US would not be at the top of any drug cartel’s wish list. Much better would be Mac10s, Uzzis, and AK47s from black market sources, which would also be cheaper than US AR-15s when purchased in bulk.

The timing here is important, this story appeared in the NY Times on March 25, 2009.

Clinton Says U.S. Feeds Mexico Drug Trade – NYTimes.com

Judging by her statements in Mexico City, Hillary must have been in the loop on fast & Furious as well. No other logical conclusion can be reached. 

The Obama administration announces on March 24 that Project Gunrunner will be expanding: “March 24, 2009: David Ogden, deputy attorney general at the time, stated, “The president has directed us to take action to fight these cartels and Attorney General Eric Holder and I are taking several new and aggressive steps as part of the administration’s comprehensive plan.””

Fast & Furious timeline:

Fast and Furious: The Events Leading to Eric Holder’s Contempt Vote

And this from MRC:

“DOJ’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is increasing it’s efforts by adding 37 new employees in 3 new offices using $10 million dollars in Recovery Act funds and redeploying 100 personnel to the southwest border in the next 45 days to fortify it’s Project Gunrunner- which is aimed at disrupted arms trafficking between the United States and Mexico. ATF is doubling it’s presence in Mexico itself, from 5 to 9 personnel working with the Mexicans specifically to facilitate gun tracing activity which targets the illegal weapons and their sources in the United States.”

Flashback: David Ogden Announces New Efforts With Project Gunrunner “As Directed By the President”

Vid at the link.

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Rich TAkes! on Halloween

RichTAkes! on Halloween

Why Obamacare should scare the wits out of you.

White House Predicted in 2010 That 93 Million Would Lose Their Health Plans Under ObamaCare Dr Obama

your group coverage will be on the chopping block next

As Obamacare Takes On Water, The Electorate Wakes Up To Its Horrors

Report: White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies to keep quiet

setting up the insurance death spiral

Obama administration knew millions could not keep their health insurance

HHS issued regulations within the first three months of ACA passage, mostly nullifying the plain language for grandfathered health insurance plans in the bill. The insurance companies are simply complying with the regulations.

Hill aides can quietly stay off health exchanges

Members of the House and Senate allow their aides to stay off the exchange, keep their current coverage.

Thousands Of Consumers Get Insurance Cancellation Notices Due To Health Law Changes

No surprise here. Just wait until the employer mandate kicks in, just before the ’14 mid-terms

HIDDEN CAM PRANK! Obama’s Halloween! – YouTube

a lesson in redistributive change

Obamacare shock: $12,600 deductible, 40 percent co-pay, zero competition

EffectsAffordableCareActHealthInsuranceCoverage_2.pdf

the CBO report showing that at least 30 million will still be uninsured.

Bradley Allen: ObamaCare 2016: Happy Yet?

the nightmare has only just begun…

More Americans In 3 States Have Had Their Insurance Canceled Under ObamaCare Than Have Filed An Exchange Account In All 50

total individual policy cancellations due to Obamacare projected to exceed 14 million

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On Defunding, DeLay, and the War On Coal TAkes!

Congress is back in session, the fiscal year ends September 30, and still no budget. Nothing new there, since Obama has been President, there has never been a budget. They are still working on FY2009, which Pelosi and Reid pinned on Bush in the 2009 Omnibus Bill. Yet another CR (Continuing Resolution) Showdown is developing since the House soundly passed a CR which fully funds the government except for Obamacare, which is not now, nor will ever be ready for PrimeTime.

It is time to call both of your Senators now and tell them to

defund bumpersticker

Palin — Bombs Away on Obamacare; Cruz Is over the Target

House passes spending bill to defund Obamacare 

Will Mitch and the Senate grow a pair for the show-down?

Unhappy Birthday for Obamacare

Fund: Doctors are fleeing their profession, and patients like the reform less and less.

CBO: Obamacare to Cost $1.930 Trillion, Leave 30 Million Uninsured

No Surrenders

Cleveland Clinic, Cited By Obama In Health Law Pitch, to Offer ‘Early Retirement’ to Thousands, Cut $330 Million, Citing ObamaCare

No surprise, Medicare will be cut by billions, Medicare Advantage will greatly diminished beginning Oct 1

Obamacare Doctor Rationing Begins in California

56% Favor Delaying Individual Health Care Mandate, 26% Opposed

Fox News poll: 68 percent concerned about their health care under new law

Obamacare: Walgreens Dropping Current Coverage for 160,000 Workers

Supreme Court to Consider New Obamacare Case

involving Kathleen Sebelius’ HHS Mandate, which requires employers to provide abortion-related insurance coverage, even if those employers have a religious objection to abortion.  Hobby Lobby won their appeal, which has not been challenged by DOJ.

Screw ObamaCare: Why I’m leaning toward remaining uninsured

(and many of you should do the same)

on the joys of the cash plan, and why it makes sense for some

Genius: Starting in 2014, Obamacare begins taxing… itself.

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The Paducah TAkes!

I ran out of hours yesterday at Paducah, KY, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to update the latest

RichTAkes! Paducah Edition

some links I found interesting lately

How Obama Literally Hypnotized America-Part 1

Pavlov’s theory of psychology also says that propaganda can create mass hypnosis, and people can become conditioned to verbal or other symbols used in propaganda. Such masses can lose their discretion and be easily influenced.

Obama’s speeches often use an unnaturally slow language to start. Unnaturally slow speech is a common hypnotic technique in order to allow the subject time to respond to suggestions, imagine images, and feel sensations conjured by the hypnotist.

Are We Witnessing Conversational Hypnosis At Work? | A Nation ADrift-Why?

loads of links here

Phony Scandals

KUHNER: President’s socialist takeover must be stopped

the case for impeachment, 2010. It’s even worse today.

Kim Strassel: New Links Emerge in the IRS Scandal

Just a phony scandal. I know, because Obama saith so.

IRS Harassment of Pro-Life Groups Continues Despite Claims to Contrary

Thomas More Society Reveals Ongoing IRS Misbehavior and Religious Liberty Violations

Exclusive: Dozens of CIA operatives on the ground during Benghazi attack – Jake Tapper

Phony Benghazi scandal update

NSA reveals more secrets after court order

NSA surveillance reach broader than publicly acknowledged

more revelations about the phony NSA scandal

Court: Ability to police U.S. spying program limited

More on the NSA outrage

Judicial Watch: Defense Department Teaching Documents Suggest Mainstream Conservative Views “Extremist”

 “Extremist” is said to mean anyone who actually believes in the principles that the US was founded upon

U.S. Rice Farmers Cash In On Venezuelan Socialism

another example of the tragedy of nationalizing entire industries in the name of socialism

Mexico’s Looming Oil Battle: Bid to Bring in Foreign Investment Sparks Protests

Mexican lefties trying to hang on to another underperforming socialized asset “for the people”

Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time

the creeping economy is the real scandal

Sorry: Businesses cannot avoid Obamacare by switching to part-time staff

they will just lay them off or fire them instead

80% Of US Adults Are Near Poverty, Rely On Welfare, Or Are Unemployed | Zero Hedge

33 Shocking Facts Which Show How Badly The Economy Has Tanked Under Obama | Zero Hedge

We all know the economy sucks despite the lies coming out of the White House

When welfare pays better than work

You’d need to earn 50k and actually hold a job to equal some welfare incomes

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Intimidation, Corruption and Scandal TAkes!

Rich TAkes!

The White House is facing loads of scandals these days, the IRS has been targeting citizens who oppose Obama for slow-lane tax exempt approvals for years, Benghazi news is still breaking,

and  the DOJ has been accessing phone records of reporters from the AP, Fox, and others…

Strassel: The IRS Scandal Started at the Top

of course it did

Richmond tea party IRS letter.pdf

The 55 questions the IRS asked one tea party group after more than two years of waiting – including demands for names of all its donors and volunteers

Full text: The IG’s 54-page IRS tax scandal report

IRS officials in Washington were involved in targeting of conservative groups

Israel-related groups also pointed to IRS scrutiny

Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups’ Confidential Docs

IRS Office That Targeted Tea Party Also Disclosed Confidential Docs From Conservative Groups – ProPublica

ProPublica is a George Soros backed effort. Disclosing information from pending applications is illegal

True the Vote Files Suit Against the IRS

the first of many lawsuits

IRS sued for stealing the medical records of 10 million Americans

DHS monitors nationwide TEA Party protests of the IRS – Glenn Beck

since when did we approve a national federal police force? Vid from the radio show at the link

IRS figure who invoked 5th Amendment may be compelled to testify

“We know where that will lead. It will lead to a special prosecutor,”

– Rep. Stephen F. Lynch of Massachusetts (D)

A special prosecutor in the IRS matter is inevitable

– WaPo

Beck came up with this reason why Stevens was in Benghazi last October. Clinton was supplying al-Queda with arms, and Stevens was trying to get them back to send to Syria.

Why are we arming AQ? Additional links below the vid

U.S.-Approved Weapons Transfer Ended Up With Libyan Jihadis

General Makarov confirms Syrian terrorists armed with U.S. made Stinger missiles

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, they will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.

Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”

This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.

Benghazi: Disgrace and Dishonor of an American Commander In Chief

In the chain of command, the only stand down authority who can order 4 star General Commanders to withhold their men from a rescue is the Secretary of Defense and President of the United States of America

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Rich TAkes! Mid-May 2013

Rich TAkes!

Benghazi is boiling, Amnesty, Abortion, the IRS and Gun Control highlight the news.

Here’s some links I found interesting lately…

IRS KNEW TEA PARTY TARGETED IN 2011

Senior IRS officials knew of targeting conservative groups in 2011; IRS chief counsel knew in 2011

Ways and Means to IRS: ‘Provide All Communications Containing Words ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Patriot,’ or ‘Conservative’

We don’t need no Second Amendment?

 Cost of Unlawful Immigrants to the U.S. Taxpayers

Heritage Foundation Executive summary

 DeMint on Immigration Reform: ‘If People Read The Bill, It Will Be Blocked’ 

NumbersUSA: Immigration bill to bring in at least 33 million

that’s not counting the current rush to the border 

Senate passes internet sales tax bill amid opposition from conservatives

this could set yet another dangerous precedent

Benghazi Upate:

The Benghazi Scandal Grows

Team Obama caught in a lie, which many of us knew all along

 Benghazi Talking Points Underwent 12 Revisions, Scrubbed of Terror Reference – ABC News

the first MSM  Benghazi “exclusive” It’s about time.

 Talking Points Timeline.pdf

evolution of a cover-up 

The Damning Dozen: Twelve Revelations from the Benghazi Hearings

 Benghazi Witness: Special Forces Told Not To Go To Besieged Consulate

Diplomat: U.S. Special Forces told “you can’t go” to Benghazi during attacks – CBS

Sharyl Attkisson doing some excellent reporting

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