IRS Approves Some Speech Applications
Current Event According to USAToday, on-line, May 12. 2013 IRS separates Tea Party applications WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for subjecting Tea Party groups to additional scrutiny during the 2012 election, but denied any political motive. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the [...]
The Authority To Raise Revenue
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 189 Current Event According to FoxNews.com; May 14, 2013 House committee to probe Sebelius soliciting money for ObamaCare signups House Republicans are starting a probe into Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate, to help sign up uninsured Americans for ObamaCare. [...]
Unaccountable Federal Reserve
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 186 Current Event According to the Wall Street Journal; September 20, 2011 GOP Leaders Urge the Fed Not to Act Top Republican congressional leaders, in a rare effort to directly influence Federal Reserve policy, expressed reservations about the central bank taking additional steps to spur the recovery, saying further [...]
Subverting HIPPA
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 185 Current Event According to Foxnews.com/AP, April 19, 2013 Obama taking executive action on guns after Senate vote Blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Obama is turning to actions within his own power to keep people from buying a gun who are prohibited for mental [...]
Unfaithful Execution of The Law
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 184 Current Event According to The Hill.com, 03/19/13 House GOP grills top Obama immigration official over release of illegal detainees House Republicans grilled the Obama administration’s top immigration official on Tuesday for releasing more than 2,000 illegal immigrants from detention facilities. Republicans accused the administration of playing politics and [...]
The States’ Defense of Marriage
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 183 Current Event According to NBCNews.com, March 26, 2013 Supreme Court Tackles Federal Defense of Marriage Act An eighty-three year-old former IBM programmer is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a law that cost her more than a quarter of a million dollars and deprived her, and [...]
Unsustainable Unconstitutionality
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 182 Current Event According to ABCNews, Mar 13, 2013 President Obama: There Is No Debt Crisis There has been no shortage of dire warnings about the mounting US national debt, but President Obama is now offering a different assessment: no big deal. “We don’t have an immediate crisis in [...]
Food Stamps Linked To Obesity
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 181 Current Event According to The New York Daily News, March 13, 2013 Mayor Bloomberg says costs of treating obesity will ‘bury all of us’ Mayor Bloomberg warned that the cost of treating obesity “is going to bury all of us” on Wednesday as he continued to defend his [...]
Are You Smarter Than a Sixth Grader?
Current Events vs. Founding Documents Entry 180 Current Event According to FoxNews.com, March 14, 2013 Cruz, Feinstein tangle over 2nd Amendment as panel approves assault-weapons ban Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Dianne Feinstein tangled Thursday over the Second Amendment, with the pro-gun control Feinstein accusing the freshman Republican senator of trying to “lecture” her as [...]
