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John Rich ✔ @johnrich Instead of paying taxes next year I'm going to not pay and #pleadthe5th then say "I don't recall what happened" just like they're doing. 3:18 PM - 23 May 2013 291 Retweets 131 favorites Of all the scandals the Obama administration is currently juggling, some theorize that the IRS’ targeting of its political enemies could do the most damage. After all, no other organization seems to have such unchecked power to intimidate and harass the average American, not to mention the arrogance to match. So if the IRS can plead ignorance and get away with it,...

Miss Honduras herself... how cool is that? Hello, I am writing to you because i noticed you have some very old photos from 2008 featured of me on you site. Im sending you some new photos if you would like to post them. Thank you very much :)  Jennifer Andrade Well, mebbe those pics were old- but they were fine, believe me. Yet after the reach-out, naturally I feel obligated~ thanks Jen! More at Reaganite Republican... (should be SFW, couple bikini shots)

My e-mail: Dear Sir, Your decision to terminate Reporter Larry Conners after he was abused by the IRS for asking probing questions of Mr. Obama is shameful, to say the least. This action proves to millions of viewers and others that the press is so far in the tank for the Obama administration and the Left in general that they don't realize they've grown gills. Hopefully, your station will either go out of business, lose their license or be sold to someone concerned with journalism, not partisanship. Also, I hope that you and anyone else responsible for this decision will...

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow warned her very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very liberal audience that the Virginia Republican Party just picked a slate of “very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very conservative” candidates to run for office this fall. …… And those Republican loyalists who showed up for the convention picked candidates for this state-wide election who are very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very conservative. A very conservative Tea Party style slate of candidates. … But suffice it to say, I didn’t use enough “verys” in describing them. …

Women of America – particularly female "Star Trek" fans – co-writer/producer Damon Lindelof has something to say to you: There was no practical reason for Alice Eve to appear in her lingerie in "Star Trek Into Darkness," and he's sorry for that.

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Saw it last night. Couldn't make sense of certain aspects of it until I realized they're telling the 9/11 truther plot that Bush planned everything. (Spoilers ahead with plot details revealed)

Kristen Stewart: Um, sweetie? You don’t need to screw the director once you’ve already gotten the part. Also, the perma-stoned look is so 2004.

Saul Goodman, is that you? Apparently, you don't have to be a fictional lawyer on a tv series in order to break bad. Marco Antonio Delgado, a 46-year-old lawyer from El Paso, TX, goes to trial next week on alleged charges that he conspired to launder $600 million for the Milenio cartel or Cártel de los Valencia by drafting fake court papers representing that cash proceeds were from legal settlements when in fact they were drug receipts as reported by Torsten Ove for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. It's funny because organized crime cannot exist without dirty lawyers. The accused lawyer has...

Supply-siders, led by Arthur Laffer, have made the case that taxes affect behavior — a proposition rejected by the Obama Administration until now. In a closed-door meeting at the White House, Vice-President Biden endorsed a new tax on violence, a move that would force film producers, writers and software developers to reconsider the material they are creating. In essence, Mr. Biden is conceding that a higher tax would impede development and encourage creators to move their energies toward other endeavors. According to participants in the meeting, the vice president endorsed evangelical preacher Franklin Graham’s proposal to tax movies, books and...

During an “Ask Me Anything” event on Reddit today, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow admitted that she was a fan of FOX News anchor Shepard Smith citing his “anchorman gravitas.” Maddow was asked by a Reddit user if she admired any anchors from other cable news channels. “I really like the way Shep Smith balances anchorman gravitas… with a willingness to put the artifice aside and acknowledge what it really going on,” Maddow explained. “Some of us can pull off seeming like human beings on TV, some of us can pull off V.O.G. (Voice of God) authority, but Shep is really very...

Commence w/ the Palin treatment, evilmonkeys! Some people might be startled to hear Democratic strategist James Carville out there on ABC's This Week (with fellow Clinton alum Stephanopouos) -the 'progressive' home field- praising conservative rising-star Ted Cruz up-and-down like this- yet it appears that's precisely the reaction he was looking for: 'I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years. I further think that he’s going to run for president and he is going to create something. ... I’ve listened to excerpts of his speech in South Carolina. He touches every button, and this guy...

(VIDEO AT LINK) CHRIS MATTHEWS: I'm trying to figure out why this country isn't getting reflected on Congress -- in the Congress. It's a bother. In a democracy you'd like to think that what you really deep down feel -- now the only way to explain it is problems with the polling which you can always talk about. And it's this visceral thing. It's the guy, mostly the guy, the white guy, mostly, who is gun absorbed. Let's be honest about it. Absorbed without putting a negative on it. Just really believes in the Second Amendment; cares deeply about it...

Sarah Palin's totem is the mama grizzly, and her admirers are as protective of her as the fabled bear is of her cubs. Their target today is the resurgent Netflix (NFLX), which reported its first quarter results earlier this week. Twitchy -- conservative commentator Mchelle Malkin's Twitter monitor/controversy generator -- reports that the hashtag #SarahPalinFilms arose on Tuesday night, attributing it to "lefties" whose apparent dismissiveness towards Palin is belied by their purported obsession with her: "You know, because her 15 minutes have come and gone and she's totally not living rent-free in their heads." #Sarcasm. Sensing an opportunity to...

MoveOn.org has started a petition to get ESPN reporter Chris Broussard immediately suspended from the network for comments he made regarding Jason Collins's homosexuality, which Broussard said was a sin according to his personal Christian beliefs. The group said Broussard was engaging in "gay bashing." The petition reads: Chris Broussard's hateful attack on Jason Collins for being gay was an unacceptable misrepresentation of the Christian faith. ESPN must immediately suspend Chris Broussard and guarantee that their network will never again be used for gay bashing. In its "petition background" statement, the left-wing organization says that after Jason Collins "emphasized the...

Back in college I worked at the Borders in Thousand Oaks. I shelved books at 4 a.m. While working there, politics and religion came up a lot, and I was the sole defender of two ideologies: Christianity and conservatism. One of the most interesting conversations I ever had was with a fellow college student named Bob. Bob and I enjoyed talking about all the great issues of life. One day he looked at me and said something I’ll never forget. “Paul,” he said, “you wanna know the difference between Republicans and Democrats? I’ll tell ya. Everyone’s a Democrat until some...

I recently spent 96 mesmerizing minutes viewing the latest film release of the story of Sir Nicholas Winton at the Detroit Film Theatre within the Detroit Institute of Arts complex. “Nicky’s Family” (http://www.menemshafilms.com/nickys-family) portrays the bold actions of a young British businessman who saved 669 Jewish children from almost certain death in the days before World War II broke out on Sept. 1, 1939. The story of determination is amazing. The story of a humble man is inspiring. I am sure some in the theatre were learning of Nicky’s actions for the first time. The film shares the story of...

Former Alaska Governor and Nuclear Football Near-Miss Sarah Palin joined the predictable chorus of bitter White House Correspondents’ Dinner non-invitees Saturday night by tweeting her ass-heavy misgivings about the event, inviting an even more predictable revelation of her own hypocrisy. On Monday’s Martin Bashir show, host Martin Bashir pointed out that Palin had smeared her own kin with assclownery, but also added a bit of canny career advice for the fading pit bull. In case you missed it, Governor Resignate Palin sent a charmingly profane tweet Saturday night, informing her followers that “That #WHCD was pathetic. The rest of America...

John "Big Man" Venizelos wears horn-rimmed glasses and fancies Ralph Lauren Polo but the prepster is just a doper, and the reputed Bonanno associate will plead guilty for his role in an alleged $1 billion drug ring which brought hydroponic bud into New York and sent powder cocaine into Canada as reported by Mitchel Maddux for the New York Post: "prosecutors also say they seized letters written by an unnamed colleague of Venizelos that discussed the Bonanno associate's ties to organized crime - including references to sit-downs with captains in various New York La Cosa Nostra families." Drug trafficking always...

It used to be that whenever an important news story broke, cable television viewers would quickly turn to CNN for must-see coverage of what was happening. However, according to a poll conducted regarding the five-day coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing, that is definitely no longer the case. The survey, which was conducted by the liberal Huffington Post website and the international marketing agency YouGov, determined that former titan CNN came in as far less trustworthy than Fox News over which was the most believable cable news channel. During the poll, which was based on interviews of 1,000 adults last...

The response to anything Governor Palin tweets, writes, or says is often akin to Pavlov ringing the bell to feed his dog. She tweets, and the hounds come running. The Governor’s tweet on Saturday rightly calling out the “Let Them Eat Cake” mentality of both the “a**clown” press and politicians in DC garnered a lot of pearl clutching fauxrage from the Left and some of the “me too” pseudo-conservatives. Some wrongly deemed her a hypocrite for calling out the White House Correspondents’ Dinner self-absorption and decadence in the time of financial hardship for much of the nation. However, Governor Palin...

They say the truth often comes out in humor. At Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, President Obama said: … “Some of my former advisers have switched over to the dark side. For example, David Axelrod now works for MSNBC—which is a nice change of pace since MSNBC used to work for David Axelrod.” …

A 19-year-old who boasted of his narco life on Facebook has been sentenced in a Texas federal court to ten years in prison for his role with a Mexican cartel as reported by KGBT: "Facebook posts by the teen show that he bragged about trafficking cocaine, selling firearms, recruiting drug dealers and kidnapping rival drug dealers before taking them to Mexico where they would be tortured and killed." It's unclear at what age the teen narco first began working for the Mexican cartels but it's common for the crime groups to recruit U.S. kids as young as 13 to act...

Can you imagine the firestorm that would happen if a conservative talker called President Obama a “SOB?” On Wednesday’s Hardball, host Chris Matthews called Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) that:I don’t know why it is, because I’m not always partisan. But I really do have a problem with Mitch McConnell. I would like to see him get stung hard on this one. So, why do I think like that? (laughter) Because he tends to be a SOB generally? Does anybody like that guy? …

In all of cable, not just cable news, Fox News was the most-watched channel throughout all of last week. During the Boston bombings and subsequent manhunt, the new "Most Trusted Name In News" averaged 2.874 million viewers during primetime, and 1.77 million in total day. CNN came in a distant third with 1.985 million and 1.329 million respectively. Because no one turns to left-wing talk radio when major news is breaking, MSNBC humiliated itself with a 19th place showing. Fewer than a million viewers tuned in in primetime, and fewer than 600,000 in total day. This is not a small...

Al Jazeera, the Qatar-financed media network which in January bought Al Gore’s Current TV, now is interested in acquiring the Tennis Channel. A source close to the New York Post said, "the Tennis Channel is in play and the Qataris are looking hard.” If such a deal is successful, Al Jazeera’s plan to ramp-up its stake and presence in live U.S. sports programming, offered by its “beIn Sport” network, would get a boost. Described as “North America’s Premier Sports network,” beIn Sports USA was launched last August. The Al Jazeera affiliate offers two channels and twenty-four hour coverage with, at...

The Five co-host Bob Beckel waited until near the end of Tuesday afternoon’s show on Fox to address his recent controversial suggestion to “cut off Muslim students coming to this country,” but when he did, he stood by his statements. Beckel made the original comments during a panel discussion on The Five Monday, drawing some startled reactions from his more conservative co-hosts. Earlier today, he appeared on Fox with Megyn Kelly, who pushed him to explain what he meant and warned him that he was entering “dangerous” territory. That discussion evidently did not deter Beckel from tripling down on his...

$300,000. That's how much a guy named 'Coomer' makes each month from an oil well he drilled. In his own back yard. So forget about digging for gold or trawling for Alaksan King Crabs, Discovery's newest show chronicles the “high stakes, comical roller coaster ride through the world of wildcat oil drilling.” “’Backyard Oil’ is our first foray into the comedy space, and it’s comedy at its finest. It’s a great sweet spot for us because they are drilling for oil but they happen to be hilarious as well,” the show’s executive producer, French Horwitz, told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column....

Nearly two dozen defendants were arraigned last Friday in a Manhattan federal court for their alleged roles in a gambling ring for the fabulous people but missing from the crowd was reputed Russian mobster Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov who remains a fugitive as reported by Richard Behar for Forbes: "The feds call him a 'major figure in international Eurasian Organized Crime' who has been involved in 'drug distribution, illegal arms sales and trafficking in stolen vehicles.' In the current gambling case, he's accused of using his status as a thief-in-law (or vory v zakone) -- a select group of the highest-level criminals...

Liberals are spinning the growing body of evidence that the two suspects in the Boston Marathon terrorist bombings were likely motivated by radical Islamic beliefs. Case in point: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone star Olivia Wilde, who unleashed a tweet this weekend that tried to distract Americans from that probability. She also shamefully used the terrorist attack as a cudgel against gun control critics. First up--Wilde blames America for creating terrorists using a week-old op-ed about hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay prison. (TWEET-AT-LINK) Wilde offers no criticism of President Barack Obama, who promised to shut Guantanamo Bay down five years ago...

In a piece published earlier today, Big Journalism made note of the fact that, in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, ratings confirm that CNN has now lost its "Big News" ratings dominance to Fox News. For over a decade, whenever major news broke, Americans were simply expected to abandon their regular news source to tune in to CNN. What we've seen lately, though, and without a doubt during the Boston Marathon terror attack, is that this is no longer the case. Fox News is now, if you will pardon the expression, "The Most Trusted Name In News." While...

Regular viewers of Bill Maher‘s show are well aware that one of the issues that gets Maher most fired up is the equal apportionment of senators to each U.S. state. Amidst discussion of the Boston bombings and gun control tonight, Maher went on a small rant against the Constitution and how every state does not deserve the same number of senators. He found it ridiculous that a small state like Wyoming gets as many senators as a huge state like California. The panel was discussing gun control and why it failed in the Senate this week. Maher found it ridiculous...

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I’ve been monitoring this Yahoo News site linked below with its regular updates from news media types during this evening’s events in Watertown. Below is a screencap taken immediately after the arrest of terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev is allegedly complicit in the murders of at least three individuals, including 8 year-old Martin Richard – and the maiming and dismemberment of several others. LATEST ON THE BOSTON MARATHON EXPLOSIONS via Explosions at the Boston Marathon News & Headlines.

It started with the false claim that a Saudi man was a suspect (he was actually a victim), something the networks ran with (including the rumour that he had been thrown into a cage) and were then forced to retract. Then there was a second “attack” at the JFK library that turned out to be an unrelated fire. Pundits weighed in uselessly, calling for the deaths of all Muslims in the world on Twitter or else somehow laying responsibility at the feet of the otherwise peaceful and democratic Tea Party (was Sarah Palin anywhere near the scene – we have...

The one that praises scum like these commie, muslim terrorists? REDford's timing couldn't be better to catch the shiite storm he deserves. Granted I doubt that these two terrorists are going to be given a job teaching in Chicago but you never know. I would also like the media to ask our Muslim president on who's side he is on now? I think the American public deserves an answer since he is trying to take away our guns when he is arming terrorists and allowing them to kill Americans, It seems we already know. I will keep my guns thank...

Kiddy network Nickleodeon will premiere Nicky Deuce on May 27 which "centers on Nicholas Borelli II, a.k.a. Nicky Deuce, a nerdy teen who finds himself in Brooklyn with a mobster uncle he never knew he had after his plans to attend math camp go awry" as reported by The Huffington Post. The film casts several actors from The Sopranos, and last year Nickelodeon executive Majorie Cohn said "having the Sopranos actors adds a level of authenticity and fun" as then reported by Martin Chilton for The Telegraph. The Italian American ONE VOICE Coalition is calling for a boycott of Nicky...

The feds variously have charged nearly three dozen individuals on racketeering and other counts for their alleged roles in two separate but interconnected gambling and money laundering rings tied to the Russian Mafia which, among other things, took sports bets in the former Soviet Union for Russian oligarchs and operated poker games in New York for the rich and famous as reported by WNBC: "sources say the poker dens were often frequented by high-profile New Yorkers from the business, sports and entertainment fields." Among those charged in one racketeering conspiracy for his alleged ringleader role with the New York operations...

While CNN and MSNBC were broadcasting President Obama‘s remarks on the failed gun control compromise, Fox News’ The Five crew were discussing the media reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings. Co-host Greg Gutfeld went after media figures who he said attempted to “ascribe blame to people they already hate.” Andrea Tantaros reviewed what she sees as a history of “journalistic malpractice” after major incidents like this one, from the furor over the Sarah Palin target map after Tuscon to ABC News’ Brian Ross linking the Aurora shooter to the Tea Party. She said that there seemed to be no “repercussions”...

When MSNBC host Martin Bashir disappeared from his post at the helm of his eponymous 4 p.m. program, many assumed that it had something to do with the fact that the first terror attack on U.S. soil since 9/11 had occurred just hours earlier. This was backed up by the fact that his program was guest-anchored by MSNBC’s straight news purveyors and not his frequent fill in hosts Karen Finney or Joy-Ann Reid. It was, however, soon revealed that Bashir was “on assignment,” but few could have been aware of how inappropriate that assignment would be. Bashir, who had spent...

Mark Potok, a fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center, appeared on MSNBC to discuss the rise of right-wing militias over the course of the Obama presidency in connection with the bombing of the Boston Marathon on Monday. He said that foreign nations view Americans as being “insane” for allowing hate speech to continue to be protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Alex Wagner said that it remains unclear whether the attack on the Boston Marathon was perpetrated by foreign or domestic elements. “But the mere fact that both are being treated with the same amount of suspicion...

An analyst says the investigators are focusing more on the possibility of a homemade act of terror in Boston but we need to be very careful not to fall into the potential Islamophobia and surveillance of the Muslim minority. The comments came after the twin bombing at the major northeastern US city of Boston near the finish line of the city’s annual cross-country marathon race killed at least three people and injured over 130 others. This is while Boston city officials explained to reporters at a nationally televised press conference that they had no suspects but were “questioning” some people....

And he was pretty far-gone, too- wow h/t These are the Times

The FBI arrested dozens this morning for their alleged roles in an extensive gambling ring tied to the Russian Mafia which took sports bets and operated poker games for the rich, famous and powerful in New York as reported by WNBC: "sources say the poker dens were often frequented by high-profile New Yorkers from the business, sports and entertainment fields." Among the premises raided was "the Helly Nahmad gallery, which is inside the Carlyle Hotel on Madison Avenue" according to sources as reported by The New York Times: "the hotel often plays host to a wealthy and well-known clientele." It...

Film permits requested by the porn industry have all but ceased in Los Angeles County as producers decide how to work around much opposed law that requires actors to wear condoms during shoots. Film LA, the non profit organization that processes permits for motion picture, television and commercial production across Los Angeles, has seen applications for permits from the adult film industry plummet to only two so far this year. In previous years, an estimated 500 film permits are requested by the adult film industry annually. "Most production companies have ceased shooting in LA County," said Diane Duke, chief executive...

JD Mullane, a local reporter in Philadelphia, has been covering the capital murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell since day one -- which up till now has been a lonely job in the courtroom. Monday, the trial resumed and via Twitter, Mullane reported that the Washington Post, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fox News, and others showed up today: jdmullane @jdmullane In Philly #gosnell trial New York Times in the. Courtroom, WSJ, WaPo, Inky, PhillyMag, me 2:12 PM - 15 Apr 13 13 Retweets 3 favorites

You can call Chris Matthews anything you want — “dimwitted political hack” would be entirely appropriate — but please don’t insult an entire profession by calling Chris Matthews a “journalist.” On March 30, Kaufman County, Texas, district attorney Mike McLelland and his wife were shot to death at their home. Five days later, Chris Matthews invited Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center onto MSNBC to promote speculation that McLelland’s murder was committed by the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. In other words, the important thing about this crime — the thing that made it worth eight minutes of national...

Bill Maher has said a lot of REALLY dumb things throughout his career, but this howler uttered with a straight face on HBO's Real Time Friday might possibly be his stupidest. "Do you know who the role model for every president should be? Jimmy Carter" (video follows with transcript and commentary):(VIDEO-AT-LINK) BILL MAHER: America needs to start defining peace as strength. Do you know who the role model for every president should be? Jimmy Carter. Because he is the one out of all of them who figured out how to sit in office for four years and never fire a...

Conservatives have spent the better part of the last couple of days shaming the MSM into finally covering the Gosnell horror. The MSM has finally relented and has, belatedly, begun to cover the Philadelphia atrocities after massive pressure throughout social media. However, there is still total silence on the Spanish-speaking side of the mainstream media fence. Behold three screencaps from the websites of each of the national networks: Univision, Telemundo, and MundoFox. (Click on the images to enlarge) On Univision, no new coverage since the indictments in 2011.Here’s Telemundo, which is part of the NBC umbrella. Nothing.Nothing on MundoFox either.....