Just days ago, House Speaker John Boehner shocked the conservative world by at last granting his long-awaited approval for next week’s contempt of Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder. But it wasn’t the thought of doing what’s right for the family of Brian Terry, Jaime Zapata, or others killed in the Regime’s Fast and Furious scheme that prompted the Speaker’s decision.  After all, Mr. Boehner is hardly one to risk a loss of political advantage—or more importantly, anger the national media—just because a few hundred people have been killed by his Democrat friends.

No, the very cautious Congressman Boehner and other Republican leaders at last chose to take a stand because of reports that “…at least one and perhaps two sources within the Justice Department…have approached the Issa committee seeking whistle blower status.”

For weeks, it has been suggested that House and Senate committees investigating Eric Holder’s participation in Operation Fast and Furious were receiving vital information from a leak in the Department of Justice.  An example of said information is the collection of wiretap applications produced by the House Judiciary Committee last week—documents proving that Attorney General Holder and others at the Department had been lying to Congress in claiming no knowledge of ATF tactics in its scheme of smuggling guns to Mexico.

In a letter to Holder, Darrell Issa made it clear, “…the wiretap applications amply demonstrate the immense detail documenting gun walking tactics that should have prompted senior officials in the (DOJ) Criminal Division to shut down the program immediately.”  Yet for the past year, Holder and his DOJ minions had maintained that the Operation was not halted because the Department knew nothing of the ATF’s reckless and illegal tactics. That was a lie, and thanks to the DOJ employee or employees now seeking whistle blower protection, Holder and his colleagues are STUCK with it.

Read More at Western Journalism. By Doug Book.

Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m just getting old. But it seems to me that the current occupant of the Oval Office is trying cussed hard to show his “warrior” colors.

It seems every time we turn around these days there is another report on how Obama is killing US enemies. There is something just plain unseemly about all the media attention focused on the Commander-in-Chief’s war fighting activities.

OK. This ain’t my first rodeo. I understand there is a political campaign on and I also understand that the American people are loath to swap horses in the middle of the stream—especially if that stream happens to be a war.

I further understand that Obama’s campaign people are heavy-handed and are playing to the lowest common denominator in their expected electorate at the polls in November and, I suppose, the President “making war” is the way they have chosen to impress that particular set of American voters.

But, I must tell you, that for the remainder of us who pay the freight (in blood and treasure) for the military adventures of the President, we are anything but impressed!

Read More at Canada Free Press. By J.D. Longstreet.

On Monday morning, Washington awoke to learn that Commerce Secretary John Bryson had been involved in a series of auto accidents in southern California on Saturday evening, and cited with a felony hit-and-run by responding police. This news was of course shocking.

For several hours, the White House and the Commerce Department declined comment. In this vacuum, the rumors took a life of their own. Some speculated there was alcohol involved, despite initial police accounts that this was not the case. After official statements reported seizures were the cause of the accidents, the ire turned on that initial speculation, blaming the sardonic culture of Twitter.

But the entirety of blame did not lie with those on the social network. Nobody can deny that Twitter is not a forgiving place absent of (sometimes inappropriate) snark and vitriol, but it is also a venue for compassion, which is evidenced any time a notable figure passes away and the timeline becomes a place for remembrance and prayer. Some rightly issued apologies for inappropriate remarks, and the discussion largely fell silent.

Part of the blame surely lay at the feet of an inept White House communications operation, unable to provide the general public with any answers to the health and well-being of a cabinet secretary. This media stonewall continued in Press Secretary Jay Carney’s daily briefing.

In Carney’s first answer, we learned that President Obama had not spoken with Secretary Bryson. This seemed odd. A cabinet secretary is hospitalized following serious traffic incidents and a police citation and the president does not pick up the phone to check on his welfare?

 Read More at heritage.org. By Rory Cooper.

Liar, killer, and convicted 1978 “Speedway Bomber” Brett Kimberlin is engaged in a part-time career of using police to harass, intimidate, and even facilitate the death of conservative bloggers across the nation. In what has come to be called “SWAT-ing,” Kimberlin and a number of suspected associates make bogus calls to 911 in order to report a serious domestic crime–in one instance, masquerading as a husband who admits to the brutal murder of his wife. Police respond with the dispatch of a SWAT team to the address provided in the call only to find, after breaking down the door and training nervous sights on the first male in view, that the whole thing is a hoax. By choosing prominent conservative bloggers as victims of this life-threatening scheme and other criminal escapades, Kimberlin hopes to intimidate into silence those who have reported to the American public the odious past and current criminal exploits of this George Soros dependent and devotee.

In 1978, Kimberlin engaged in an 8 day bombing spree in Speedway, Indiana–bombings which resulted in widespread panic and the death of one man. It has been suggested that Kimberlin began the Speedway crime wave in order to divert attention from the fact that the grandmother of an underage girl with whom he had started a “relationship” was found murdered in her garage. It seems the disapproving grandmother had attempted to remove the young girl from Kimberlin’s clutches.  It is altogether possible that she paid for that insolence with her life.

A short time later, Kimberlin was arrested and served some 17 years in prison for a number of offenses, including participation in a marijuana ring that supplied 4 states with the drug. Like many other incarcerated losers, Kimberlin studied law while in jail. Nothing serious, of course, just enough to assist in the filing of fraudulent, nuisance suits against anyone with sufficient resources to finance Kimberlin’s way through the remainder of his psychopathic existence.

In the most recent of these adventures, Kimberlin falsely accused “Allergic to Bull” blogger Aaron Walker of assault. Kimberlin then won a restraining order in the Maryland District Courtroom of Judge C.J. Vaughey, a low-grade moron who literally told Walker—a Yale educated, practicing attorney—to “forget” the Supreme Court’s decision in Brandenburg V. Ohio (a seminal First Amendment case.) Rather than rule according to Supreme Court precedent, Vaughey decided his court would “go by Vaughey right now.” And in the judge’s twisted mind, that meant REVERSING the Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg in order to trample Walker’s first Amendment rights by ruling he would NO LONGER BE PERMITTED to blog the truth about Kimberlin! Adding insult to injury, as a result of Kimberlin’s persistent harassment of Walker and fearful of the sociopath’s vicious past, Walker’s employer terminated both the attorney and his wife.

Read More at The Western Journalism. By Doug Book.

There was a time when President Obama could have run for president of the world. He had sky high approval ratings just about everywhere but in Muslim countries.

But three years of incompetence in foreign affairs has sapped his approval ratings until now, solid majorities in many countries overseas don’t think much of our Lightworker.

Politico:
Approval of Obama’s international policies has dropped from 78 percent to 63 percent in Europe; from 34 percent to 15 percent in Muslim countries; from 40 percent to 22 percent in Russia; and from 57 percent to 27 percent in China, reports the Pew Global Attitudes Project.

The study suggests that U.S. foreign policy unilateralism and the Obama administration’s aggressive use of drone strikes are partly to blame for the surging global discontentment for Obama’s foreign affairs approach.

In 17 of 20 countries, a majority oppose U.S. drone attacks in nations such as Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. Outside of the United States, no plurality exists in support of this policy.

Read More at American Thinker. By Rick Moran.