Melson’s Testimony Proves Fast and Furious was an Obama Plot

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On July 4th, Acting ATF Director Ken Melson testified for hours before representatives of the Grassley/Issa congressional committees. Personal counsel in tow, Melson made a number of allegations concerning the Department of Justice and two agencies under DOJ control—the FBI and the DEA.

According to his testimony, not only did the DOJ refuse his repeated requests that the ATF be permitted to provide information demanded by the congressional committees, the Department also arranged for tax dollars from the FBI and DEA to help finance Fast and Furious straw buyers.

And as Fast and Furious supplied weapons were found at the murder scenes of both ICE agent Jaime Zapata and Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, it means that both killings were financed by American taxpayers.

Equally disturbing to Sen. Chuck Grassley and Congressman Darrell Issa is the fact that the Justice Department tried to “conceal from Congress the possible involvement of other agencies in identifying and maybe even working with the same criminals that Operation Fast and Furious was trying to identify.”

That is, the FBI and DEA were working with the same drug dealing, gun trafficking higher ups the ATF was ostensibly targeting and hoping to unmask with Fast and Furious.

Read More at Floyd Reports By Doug Book, Floyd Reports

Shock video: Medicaid caught encouraging fraud

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Undercover citizen journalist James O’Keefe is at it again, this time capturing on video an Ohio government worker helping a “drug dealer” commit Medicaid fraud.

Posing as Russian drug smugglers who drive an exotic, $800,000 sports car and hire out their underage sister as a prostitute, O’Keefe’s operatives reportedly applied for Medicaid assistance for their father with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services, where government employee Traci Daniels told the applicants to omit listing their expensive car as an asset and report their line of work as “babysitting.”

“Maybe I just wouldn’t mention it,” Daniels said of the car, “not that I can say that. You didn’t hear that from me. … He would be immediately not qualified.”

Putting her fingers in her ears after discussing the alleged fraud, Daniels said, “Lalalalala, I don’t hear.”

Even after the operatives hinted strongly that they were in the drug business, calling their product “Bob Marley pharmaceuticals,” the worker said, “I know what you’re saying, and I don’t want to hear what you’re saying.”

Read More at WND  by Drew Zahn, WorldNetDaily

The RNC’s ‘change direction’ deception

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Some Republicans, and not just those supporting Mitt Romney for president, have questioned my “Stop Romney” campaign, announced by the Western Representation PAC several weeks ago. Given the likelihood that Romney will be the GOP’s next nominee, they believe my work will ultimately hurt Republicans’ efforts to retake the White House in 2012.

My perspective is that another Bush-like presidency, particularly in terms of big government growth, would be devastating to the country. We’d be in the same bankrupt position that another four years of Obama would bring us. If we’re going to avoid the catastrophes lurking around the corner, more of the same – even with a Republican label – is not the answer.

Some of my critics don’t understand that many in the GOP have played an active role in our nation’s self-destruction. We’ll call these the “ill-informed followers.” Others fully recognize that Republicans have been in the driver’s seat during much of our drive toward socialism, but they and their cronies enjoy the fruits of this largesse. These are the “crony capitalists.” Still others are simply progressives who see the Republican Party as yet another means of imposing their leftist vision on the U.S. and the world at large. They are the RINOs – Republicans in Name Only.

Of course, there are varying shades and mixtures of the above players. For example, even where a Republican, like Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, is driven by a progressive agenda that includes support for federal funding to Planned Parenthood, homosexuals in the military, activist judges and internationalism, she finds herself surrounded by the crony capitalists: multibillion dollar Alaska Native Corporations that directly benefit from Murkowski’s vigorous support for their no-bid federal contracting.

I have little to say to these crony capitalists and progressives who dominate the leadership of the GOP; they are a lost cause and will continue to support establishment incumbents over constitutional conservatives trying to rescue the country. In future battles, they will always pick a Murkowski and a Reid over a Miller and an Angle. Consequently, my energies are focused on reaching the ill-informed patriots who, by their vote, literally allow these destructive forces to remain in power.

Read the rest of this article at World Net Daily here.

Outrage! Bankrupt fed’s fund perverse study

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NIH-Backed Study Examined Effects of Penis Size in Gay Community

Fox News (By Judson Berger):

The federal government helped fund a study that examined what effect a gay man’s penis size has on his sex life and general well-being.

The study was among several backed by the National Institutes of Health that have come under scrutiny from a group claiming the agency is wasting valuable tax dollars at a time when the country is trying to control its debt. This particular research resulted in a 2009 report titled, “The Association Between Penis Size and Sexual Health Among Men Who Have Sex with Men.”

 

Read more here.

FDA, where walnuts are illegal drugs & tyranny replaces rationality

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(by Life Extension, August 2011 edition):  The FDA has determined that walnuts sold by Diamond Foods cannot be legally marketed because the walnuts “are not generally recognized as safe and effective” for the medical conditions referenced on Diamond Foods’s website.

According to the FDA, these walnuts were classified as “drugs” and the “unauthorized health claims” cause them to become “misbranded,” thus subjecting them to government “seizure or injunction.”

Diamond Foods capitulated and removed statements about the health benefits of walnuts from its website.

 

Read more about this in Life Extension’s August 2011 magazine here.

Why Is John Boehner Letting House Republicans Be Mitch McConnell’s Toy?

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Here is what is going to happen unless House Republicans stage an immediate revolt against their own House leadership.

Mitch McConnell, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi are going to win. They have managed to cut the legs out from under John Boehner and the House Republicans. In fact, the House Republicans have taken on all the appearances of Mitch McConnell’s basement gimp.

I’m not sure why we need them any more if the McConnell-Reid-Pelosi Pontius Pilate Act passes.

See, John Boehner ceded authority to Mitch McConnell. Instead of embracing the conservative “Cut, Cap, and Balance” plan or even pushing forward with Paul Ryan’s plan as an alternative, Boehner let McConnell move forward and cut Boehner’s legs out from under him. It was a willing sacrifice on Boehner’s part because he’d rather be legless than fight.

Now here is what Boehner and McConnell have agreed to do.

 Read More at Red State by Erick Erickson, Red State

Rep. West: Obama is ‘Sad,’ ‘Pathetic,’ ‘Fear-Mongering’ on Debt Ceiling

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Rep. Allen West calls President Barack Obama’s actions on the debt ceiling debate “sad”, “pathetic” and “fear-mongering”.

In an interview with CNSNews.com, West was asked about his recent comments that the president was fear-mongering when using the issue of Social Security payments in the debt ceiling debate.

“To come out and just say, we’re not going to – I don’t think we’re going to be able pay seniors, I don’t think were going to be able to pay veterans that’s not leadership. That’s why I said it was sad, it was pathetic, it’s fear-mongering and it’s trying to turn people against other folks who are trying to come up with viable solutions. That’s not what I think a president should be doing,” West said.

West claims the president needs to decide how to best prioritize the programs that he wants to see funded in the country, “I think the thing that the president needs to do, is sit down and say. With the revenues that we have coming in, with the revenues that we have existing in the Social Security trust fund right now. You know, what are we going to prioritize as far as spending here in the United States of America.”

 Read More at CNS News by Eric Scheiner, CNSNews.com

VERNUCCIO: Labor’s new strategy: Intimidation for dummies

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In the past decade, unions have become increasingly desperate to obtain new dues-paying members. An example of how desperate can be found in a 70-plus-page intimidation manual from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), which only recently came to light in a pending court case.

The new union tactic is to use pressure on corporate boardrooms as a means of organizing entire companies nationwide rather than recruiting workers on a site-by-site basis; in short, to organize employers rather than employees. To create this pressure, unions attempt to push businesses to the edge of bankruptcy, with little regard for the welfare of employer and employee. They attempt to strong-arm businesses into agreeing to take away the secret ballot for employees in union-organizing elections via card check. They also try to force employers to restrict their own speech on union issues so that workers will not get both sides of the story on unionization. Among the SEIU’s demands is that employers agree to bargain only with it, to the exclusion of all other unions, regardless of what workers want.

SEIU is in federal court defending itself against charges of racketeering and extortion filed by one of its unionizing targets, the catering company Sodexo Inc.Sodexo’s court discovery recently revealed an SEIU “Contract Campaign Manual” on “Pressuring the Employer.” Union pressure is nothing new, but what SEIU recommends is not limited to organizing drives and strikes. Rather, the pressure takes the form of a so-called corporate campaign, whereby the union allies itself with outside third parties to raise intimidation to a new level.

SEIU’s manual details how “outside pressure can involve jeopardizing relationships between the employer and lenders, investors, stockholders, customers, clients, patients, tenants, politicians, or others on whom the employer depends for funds.” The union advises using legal and regulatory pressure to “threaten the employer with costly action by government agencies or the courts.”

It details the use of community groups to “damage an employer’s public image and ties with community leaders and organizations.” SEIU recommends going after company officials personally. Not mincing words, SEIU states, “It may be a violation of blackmail and extortion laws to threaten management officials with release of ‘dirt’ about them if they don’t settle a contract. But there is no law against union members who are angry at their employer deciding to uncover and publicize factual information about individual managers.”

Read More at the Washington Times By F. Vincent Vernuccio, The Washington Times