Ted Cruz Has A Great Solution For The Border Crisis – And It Involves Abolishing The IRS

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Photo Credit: IJ Review

By Jennifer Van Laar.

Senator Ted Cruz spoke to over 3,500 people in Denver this weekend and proposed a two-birds-with-one-stone solution to tax reform and border security.

“The simplest road to tax reform is to abolish the IRS and move to simple flat tax (sic),” said Cruz.

As for what to do with 110,000 out of work IRS agents, Cruz said “we can always put them on our southern border. Seeing so many IRS agents would scare off anyone who wanted to come to America,” he told the crowd.

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Photo Credit: John Partipilo / The Tennessean

Ted Cruz’s father sparks revival spirit during tea party rally

By Brian Wilson.

The father of conservative firebrand U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz roused a crowd of tea party supporters with stories of his journey to the United States and his call for constitutional conservatism.

Rafael Cruz, pastor of Purifying Fire Ministries in suburban Dallas, received multiple standing ovations throughout his speech, delivered at a We the People rally organized by the Nashville Tea Party at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel on Saturday afternoon.

The Cuban native spent much of his lecture analyzing the merits of Declaration of Independence and accusing the federal government of straying from it. He also said how his beliefs are inspired by the same wellsprings as his son, the Texas senator who has enthused some conservatives enough to call on him to run for president.

“That passion has been like fire in him, and let me tell you, that fire has been as alive 32 years ago as it is today,” Cruz said. “That’s why I know he’s not going to compromise in Washington.”

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This Small Town Just Took A Big Stand Against Obama

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Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr

Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Agriculture / Flickr

Barack Obama recently hit a roadblock in his ongoing campaign to attend fundraisers across the nation. Upon announcing his intention to hobnob with supporters in Medina, Wash. earlier this week, city leaders explained that they will not force local taxpayers to pay for the associated expenses of his visit.

“We love welcoming people to what we think is one of the most attractive communities in Puget Sound,” said City Manager Mike Sauerwein.

While visitors might be welcome, however, he insisted that it should be at their own expense.

“We just don’t feel that we should be passing the cost of the events to our citizens,” he said.

Saurwien explained that, with previous presidential visits, taxpayers have had to pony up tens of thousands of dollars to pay for added police coverage and other incidental expenses. He urged the city council to pass that expense on to Obama’s host, former Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, for this event.

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Disturbing: Former Border Patrol Agent Calls Immigrant Surge Asymmetrical Warfare (+video)

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Retired border patrol officer, Zack Taylor, says the immigrant surge has all the hallmarks of asymmetrical warfare, which seeks to destroy the infrastructure of a nation from within.

Video courtesy of Little Bonanza Productions. For more information, please contact: [email protected].

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Passionate Farmer Takes On Her Government Harassers (+video)

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Photo Credit: Wayne Stadler / Creative Commons

With her life’s dream of being a small family farmer in Virginia, Martha Boneta obtained 64 acres in Fauquier County, Va in 2006 to raise vegetables, herbs, raw honey, eggs, and host small animals. Little did she know that a birthday party with eight ten-year old girls would trigger zealous county regulators who saw the party as an event needing special exception permits and required a hearing that would impose fees.

Thinking she had all the right commercial permits and licenses, Boneta was still threatened with $5,000 per day fines despite Virginia being a right to farm state, where local governments are considered unable to use zoning laws to bring nuisance suits for customary farm operations.

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How Our World Fell Apart

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Photo Credit: TownHall

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
—W.B. Yeats, “The Second Coming”

Wherever we look today—from the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East to the post-Cold War frontier in Ukraine to the South China Sea to our border with Mexico— our world appears to be falling apart.

This naturally raises a serious question in the minds of many people: If America, the indispensable nation, had been doing its job of holding the global system together, couldn’t this chaos and anarchy have been avoided?

The simple answer is, yes.

But if you listen to Hillary Clinton, the unraveling of the international order was inevitable under the leadership—or lack of leadership—of Barack Obama. As I reported in my book “Blood Feud,” Hillary places the blame for the sorry state of the world squarely on the man in the Oval Office.

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Gutiérrez: ‘I Think We Can Get 3 or 4, Maybe Even 5 Million People’ Amnesty via Executive Action (+video)

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Days after telling La Raza convention attendees that he is confident President Obama will use executive action to give legal status to millions of immigrants in the United States illegally, Representative Luis Gutiérrez (D., Ill.) predicted that the administration could legalize as many as 5 million people.

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Yet Another High-Profile Conservative Demands Obama’s Impeachment

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Photo Credit: Western Journalism

By B. Christopher Agee.

As calls for impeachment proceedings against Barack Obama increase among prominent Republicans, it is clear the proposition is one that resonates with a large number of Americans. A pair of polls this week shows that at least one-third of the public wants to see him removed from office.

The trend is so obvious that even the White House has admitted that the pursuit of impeachment hearings is a distinct possibility.

Alaska Senate hopeful Joe Miller added his name to the growing list of impeachment proponents in a statement released earlier this week. Echoing the sentiment of fellow Alaskan Sarah Palin, he suggested that the inaction of the Obama administration regarding the ongoing border crisis is an issue that must be addressed swiftly and decisively.

“The truth is, what we are facing with respect to the massive influx of illegals is not only a rule of law issue,” he said; “it is a public health risk and a threat to our national security.”

Miller asserted that Obama must be held accountable, suggesting that impeachment would be the most effective solution.

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Photo Credit: AP / Mark Thiessen

Photo Credit: AP / Mark Thiessen

Senate Hopeful Joe Miller Calls For Obama’s Impeachment, Blasts Mark Begich Over Border

By David McCabe.

Joe Miller, who is running in the Republican primary for the opportunity to challenge Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), has called for President Barack Obama’s impeachment, his campaign said this week.

“Sarah Palin is right; it’s time to impeach this President for dereliction of duty, selectively enforcing the law, and usurping powers that the Constitution does not authorize,” he said in a press release. “He is willfully undermining the rule of law and creating chaos.”

Palin, the former Alaska governor who shot to prominence as Sen. John McCain’s presidential running mate in 2008, has repeatedly called for Obama’s impeachment this summer.

Earlier this month, Palin penned an op-ed for Breitbart.com, saying that the crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border was “the last straw” and should be cause for Congress to bring articles of impeachment against the president. But the rhetoric around impeachment has also incorporated many of the issues conservatives have used to attack Obama throughout his two terms, including questions about the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya.

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New IRS Form Proves Obama Lied About Individual Mandate Tax

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On Thursday the IRS released a slew of draft 2014 tax forms. The new draft Form 1040 shows a new surtax line has been created for the payment of the individual mandate surtax – see line 61 of the 1040:

IRS 1040 image

President Obama has repeatedly denied that the surtax is in fact actually a tax. The most prominent example was a heated exchange on ABC’s This Week in Sept. 2009, when George Stephanopoulos confronted Obama with a dictionary:

STEPHANOPOULOS: I — I don’t think I’m making it up. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary: Tax — “a charge, usually of money, imposed by authority on persons or property for public purposes.”

OBAMA: George, the fact that you looked up Merriam’s Dictionary, the definition of tax increase, indicates to me that you’re stretching a little bit right now. Otherwise, you wouldn’t have gone to the dictionary to check on the definition. I mean what…

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Ohio Business Could Cause Headache for Alaska Senate Candidate

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Photo Credit: US News

By David Catanese.

An Ohio business accused of overcharging the federal government for contract work could pose a headache for Alaska Republican Senate candidate Dan Sullivan.

Sullivan, who is in the midst of a primary fight for the opportunity to challenge Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, this fall, has family ties to RPM International, a Medina, Ohio, paint company that paid a $65 million settlement to the federal government last year to resolve charges it didn’t provide the government with price discounts it gave to other customers.

According to the Justice Department, RPM, and its subsidiary, Tremco Inc., failed to provide “current, accurate and complete information” about “changes in discounts … and to pass those discounts on to government customers” between January 2002 and March 2011.

“In addition, Tremco allegedly improperly marketed generic products as a superior line of the same product and used a defective adhesive formula in its roofing systems,” the Justice Department charged.

RPM was founded by Sullivan’s grandfather and is now operated by his brother.

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Photo Credit: Facebook / Dan Sullivan

Photo Credit: Facebook / Dan Sullivan

Will A Scandal Surrounding This Company Bring Down A U.S. Senate Candidate?

By B. Christopher Agee.

RPM International, a corporation that owns paint supplier Tremco, recently reached a settlement with the federal government that resulted in the Ohio-based company parting with $65 million.

Among the charges levied against RPM and its subsidiary company is the allegation that it charged the government one price for products and services while offering significant discounts for other clients. The corporation was also accused of portraying “generic products as a superior line of the same product” and using “defective adhesive formula,” the Department of Justice explained.

The government entered into a contract with the company to complete jobs including roofing work on hospitals and prisons.

Though he is seeking a U.S. Senate seat thousands of miles away in Alaska, Republican Dan Sullivan is now facing scrutiny as a result of RPM’s actions. Not only is his brother now in charge of the company his grandfather started; RPM is also a heavy donor to Sullivan’s campaign.

According to reports published earlier this year, RPM started a political action committee to support the candidate; and several high-ranking officials within the corporation have donated significantly to his reserves.

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Isis Militants Blow Up Jonah's Tomb

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Islamic State (Isis) militants have blown up a revered Muslim shrine traditionally said to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah in Mosul, residents of the city said.

Residents said on Thursday that the militants first ordered everyone out of the Mosque of the Prophet Younis, or Jonah, then blew it up.

The mosque was built on an archaeological site dating back to the eighth century BC and is said to be the burial place of the prophet, who in stories from both the Bible and Qur’an is swallowed by a whale.

It was renovated in the 1990s under Iraq’s late dictator Saddam Hussein and until the recent blitz by Isis that engulfed Mosul, remained a popular destination for religious pilgrims from around the world.

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