“When the Democrats do it, that means that it is not illegal”
Embattled IRS official Lois Lerner will not testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee unless she’s given immunity from prosecution, her lawyer told POLITICO Tuesday.
“They can obtain her testimony tomorrow by doing it the easy way … immunity,” William W. Taylor III said in a phone interview. “That’s the way to resolve all of this.”
More: FBI investigators have not contacted any of the 41 conservative groups involved in class-action IRS lawsuit
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
Family members of Navy SEAL Team VI and special forces soldiers on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., with regard to the deaths of their sons, whose helicopter was blown from the sky by Taliban jihadists on Aug. 6, 2011 in Afghanistan. […]
The plaintiffs claim that certain disclosures of classified information by Vice President Biden and Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding SEAL Team VI’s responsibility for conducting a secret mission that ended the life of arch-terrorist Osama Bin Laden, placed “targets on the backs” of the servicemen and their families.
Bragging about the killing of Bin Laden resulted in the Taliban retaliated by blasting the helicopter out of the sky and killing all on board, according to the plaintiffs.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
One of China’s biggest manufacturers of wind turbines is shutting down its subsidiaries in Italy, Canada, the US, and Belgium. Sinovel has gone through two CEOs, layoffs, court battles over alleged theft of a US company’s software, and internal restructuring–all in the past year.
The Tolerant Left
LetTexasSpeak has been doing a live broadcast from the [Texas State Capitol] rotunda where women have been sharing their abortion related testimonies. The pro-abortion crowd has responded with repeated chants of “hail Satan.” It’s taken us all day to get a video recording, but here it is…
Reader Tips
Tonight, English author, producer, and songwriter Mitch Murray takes youthful angst and romantic volatility to comedic mood-swinging heights with his 1965 hit single Down Came The Rain.
You gotta be pretty worked-up to start the word “rain” with an “L” sound.
The comments are open, as always, for your Reader Tips.
We Don’t Need No Stinking Giant Fans
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Alberta's wind turbines aren't keeping up? @globeandmail: Alberta's rolling blackouts halted after heat pushes demand to limit @sunlorrie
— Ray Cecile (@RayCecile) July 3, 2013
A Triumph of No Consequence
Malcolm Pollack explains the pesky matter of cause-and-effect to the NYT’s Charles Blow, whose latest column kneads a dog’s breakfast of almost randomly-selected statistics into a paste that he then clumsily smears, with a furrowed brow, onto Republicans:
“What has happened, Mr. Blow, is the triumph of everything you hold dear: diversity, secularism, multiculturalism, radical non-discrimination, porous borders, our infantilizing and paternalistic welfare state, the rejection of the wisdom of centuries — and the decoupling of folly, sloth, hedonism, ignorance, envy, improvidence and lust from the consequences thereof.”
Meanwhile, the stats will keep blowing.
Let Them Fix That Headline For You
Honey, I Finished The Hamburger
The Tolerant Left
State senator Donna Campbell, who issued the third point of order against Davis’s filibuster (which ended it), has also been the target of extensive verbal abuse from pro-choice protesters, according to her spokesman Jon Oliver.
They’ve received Facebook messages and e-mails saying, “I hope you’re raped” and “I hope your daughter’s raped,” Oliver tells me.
Just keeping it classy.
‘Al Qaeda-inspired’ Terror Plot Foiled
We are so getting a pressure cooker registry.
Not A Muslim
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m studying how to Build Your Own Gas Mask.
” Marine Le Pen is spoiling for a fight. “
“We cannot be seduced,” she said, brimming with confidence after her party secured 46pc of the vote in a by-election earthquake a week ago. Her candidate trounced the ruling Socialists in their own bastion of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
“The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves, and that is our incredible strength. What are they going to do, send in tanks?” she told the Daily Telegraph at the Front National’s headquarters, an unmarked building tucked away in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Her office is small and workaday, almost austere.
“Europe is just a great bluff. One side there is the immense power of sovereign peoples, and on the other side are a few technocrats,” she said.
h/t EBD
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
Hear my prayer. (h/t peterj)
What We Really Need Is Democracy
“Dear World, pay attention: Muslims protesting in the millions against Islamism. This is Historic.”
Let’s hope so.
(Updated at 2pm with video)
Reader Tips
As the sun sets, and we await the traditional fireworks display, take a moment to remove your helmet and sing along: “Oh Canada“.
Your tips and alternative melodies in the comments.
The Sound Of Settled Science
It seems NOAA has ‘de-modernized’ the official Death Valley station to use older equipment to make a record more likely.
And still failed.
h/t Kevin B
Riding Mass Transit Is Like Inviting 20 Random Union Thugs Into Your Car
CBS: Bay Area Rapid Transit workers walked off the job early Monday morning after last-minute negotiations failed to produce a new contract agreement. The strike left about 400,000 BART riders finding other ways to get work.