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VIDEO: Bloody Terrorist Who Murdered Soldier in London: ‘You People Will Never Be Safe!’ Remind me again how British soldiers run over people on city streets in broad daylight and then butcher them like cattle: A British soldier was reportedly murdered near an Army barracks by two men who beheaded him while shouting “Allahu Akbar!” Eyewitnesses [...] - Matt Ross

Just a few thoughts while watching today’s House Oversight Committee hearings about the IRS scandal: Thought bubble over Doug Shulman’s head: “Y’know, in retrospect, I should have pleaded the Fifth, too.” #Guilty #Perjury — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 22, 2013 Shulman is now picturing himself on the evening news getting perp-walked in an orange [...] - Matt Ross

The news that Ibragim Todashev was shot to death by an FBI agent in Orlando last night has gotten widespread attention because of the connection between Todashev, a Chechen immigrant, and Boston marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev: The FBI spent three hours Tuesday interviewing both Todashev and a friend, Khusen Taramov, who told Orlando’s WESH-TV that agents had taken [...] - Matt Ross

– compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Senate Panel Approves Sweeping Immigration Bill Leahy’s same-sex marriage amendment defeated; Hatch’s increase in tech visas approved Government Drops One Charge Against Wikileaker Charge of leaking State Department cable dropped Top Figures Barred From Iran’s June Ballot Former president Rafsanjani, aide to Ahamdinejad among many booted from ballot POLITICS [...] - Matt Ross

My 14-year-old son stayed home from school today sick, and put the TV on the Military Channel where, among other shows, we watched a documentary about the Battle of Hill 875 in Vietnam. To call this a battle is something of a misnomer: It was a horrible blunder, a senseless slaughter caused by poor strategy [...] - Matt Ross

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama – Roger L. Simon, PJ Media Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton on lapses in consulate security – Julian Pecquet, The Hill New whistleblowers coming forward on Benghazi? – Ed Morrissey, Hot Air Lawmakers dig into life-and-death issues of Benghazi – Byron York, [...] - Matt Ross

The counter-jihad blogger known as Fjordman has an essay up at David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine about the situation in Norway. Norway’s immigrant population is small compared to that in the United States, but the problems arising seem much worse: In May 2011 [Labour Party activist Eskil Pedersen] pressed criminal charges against a Member of Parliament, Christian [...] - Matt Ross

– compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Search Operations Continue After At Least 51 Killed By Oklahoma Tornado Monster tornado flattened entire neighborhoods in the Oklahoma City suburbs and demolished an elementary school Justice Department IG Criticizes Former US Attorney For “Fast And Furious” Leak To Fox News Dennis Burke rapped for retaliating against whisteblower ATF [...] - Matt Ross

– compiled by Wombat-socho “I need one more day of weekend…” – Jason & The Scorchers Especially this weekend, which seemed to be split between a high school alumni weekend and extended face time with friends on Sunday. Both of these things were good, but kinda got in the way of doing my bloggy duties [...] - Matt Ross

Colleen M. Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union By now, you’ve probably seen the news: Report: Head of IRS Employees Union Met With President Obama the Day Before Tea Party Targeting Began Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union which represents employees of the Internal Revenue Service, met at the White [...] - Matt Ross

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Case against Fox’s Rosen, in which O admin is criminalizing reporting, makes all of the other “scandals” look like giant nothing burgers. — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) May 20, 2013 Serious idea. Instead of calling it Obama’s war on whistleblowers, let’s just call it what it is: Obama’s war on journalism. — Eli Lake (@EliLake) May [...] - Matt Ross

Jonathan Karl of ABC News is evidently a Republican, and liberals think it’s a horrible scandal that a Republican could be employed as a reporter: “Didn’t he see the ‘No Republicans Allowed’ sign?” Meanwhile, Jason Richwine’s recent resignation from the Heritage Foundation, a subject I haven’t previously discussed, yields a secondary story that is either [...] - Matt Ross

– compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Senate Committee Moves Toward Vote On Immigration Judiciary Committee still wrestling with contentious high-tech worker visas, same-sex marriage issues AP President Blasts DOJ Subpoenas Says DOJ actions are unconstitutional, hurt press Burma’s Thein Sein: Military Will Always Have Special Place In Government Dismisses allegations that military involved in anti-Muslim [...] - Matt Ross

“It looks like they’ve lost Bob Schieffer,” says John Hoge, which might be a slight exaggeration. Schieffer is a liberal, but he’s also a veteran Washington journalist who has seen enough scandals to know what a scandal looks like, and he was having none of the Jedi mind trick — “These are not the scandals [...] - Matt Ross

by Smitty Speaker Boehner on the IRS scandal: Sure, there are malefactors who should be jailed. But the larger issue, sir, it the system itself. The IRS has now become Checkov’s Gun. If all that’s done is a appoint a special prosecutor, locate one or two more flagrant folks, and jail them, a major point [...] - Matt Ross

When the White House sent Obama’s senior adviser out to do five Sunday shows, his orders were obviously to claim that (a) only Republicans care whether the administration is lying about Benghazi, and (b) the answer to any question about Benghazi is “largely irrelevant”: Wallace repeatedly asked Pfeiffer where the president was and what he [...] - Matt Ross

Dan Riehl points out that “three Hispanic males” were implicated in the murder of a gay black man in Greenwich Village, a potentially relevant fact that the New York Times couldn’t be bothered to mention in maundering on about the historic vicinity of the crime: Mark Carson did not hide that he was gay, and [...] - Matt Ross

– compiled by Wombat-socho Rule 5 Sunday: In The Heat Of The Night The Daley Gator Pirates Cove Blackmailers Don’t Shoot Animal Magnetism Rick’s Rants Ninety Miles From Tyranny The Fate of Basseley Nakoula First Street Journal Rhetorican The Camp of the Saints Hump Day Report Winds Of Jihad Rick’s Rants #Gosnell Convicted: Quick Reactions [...] - Matt Ross

That’s what “many Democrats” seem to be saying: “Partisanship or the perception of politics has no place in the IRS,” acting commissioner Steven Miller said in a brief opening statement to the Ways and Means Committee . . . And many Democrats turned to what they saw as the bigger issue: A tax code that [...] - Matt Ross

U.S. consulate, Benghazi, Libya, Sept. 11, 2012 “Fraud flows from the top down, not the mid-level up. Mid-level officials in the White House and the State Department do not call the shots — they carry out orders.” – Andrew McCarthy Well, that’s just “common sense,” but what does common sense count for nowadays? In an [...] - Matt Ross

The back of this T-shirt asks, ‘What do you do?’ So the final jump of Airborne school was supposed to happen Thursday night and graduation was supposed to be noon Friday. But the C-130 was grounded by mechanical problems, so my Army son didn’t get to make his fifth jump until about 5 p.m. Friday, [...] - Matt Ross

Dan Collins calls attention to Obama’s dog-whistle tactics, as described by Kimberly Strassel in the Wall Street Journal: The way to limit Romney money was to intimidate donors from giving. Donate, and the president would at best tie you to Big Oil or Wall Street, at worst put your name in bold, and flag you [...] - Matt Ross

Shorter Steven Miller: “I can’t recall. I’ll have to refer to my earlier evasive non-answers and get back to you on that.” #IRS — Robert Stacy McCain (@rsmccain) May 17, 2013 VIDEO: ‘I Don’t Remember’ Who Targeted Conservatives, Ex-IRS Boss Testifies in Scandal Hearing It would be a gross understatement to say that ex-IRS acting [...] - Matt Ross

Irrationality comes in many varieties, including tribal loyalty, religious fanaticism and anti-social alienation: Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller. Sources tell Miller that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was hiding in as police pursued him, and [...] - Matt Ross

– compiled by Wombat-socho TOP NEWS Second IRS Official Resigns As Obama Appoints New Commissioner Head of tax-exempt and government entities division Joseph Grant goes under the bus Obama Claims Ignorance Of IRS Targeting Probe President denies knowing about TIGTA report Pelosi Claims GOP Attacks On Obama Based On Fear “And because he’s strong and [...] - Matt Ross

When last we checked in on Think Progress award-winning blogger Meg Lanker-Simons, the progressive feminist was charged with making a fake Facebook threat to “hate-f*ck” herself. Now it turns out that “Meg Lanker-Simons” is the alias of a dangerously crazy criminal formerly known as Meghan Michelena, who in 2006 pleaded guilty to aggravated assault after getting [...] - Matt Ross

Ace of Spades has at times discussed the bizarre delusion of becoming “blog-famous,” as if someone with a blog could get a double mastectomy and thereby enjoy fame equivalent to being Angelina Jolie who is (you may have noticed) a Hollywood movie star. Hollywood movie stars are famous, by definition. A blogger who became a [...] - Matt Ross

The Third-Place Cable Network Nobody Watches™ has decided to give America’s Least Popular Cable News Personality™ a special assignment: ”White in America.” Paul Bedard reports: CNN correspondent Soledad O’Brien, known for her “Black in America” documentaries that sometimes irk viewers, is now turning her cameras on whites. . . . “We’re not just working on ‘BIA,’ [...] - Matt Ross

The World’s Least Credible Blogger™ has been tying himself into laughable knots of hilarious self-contradiction lately, attempting to defend President Wiretap Benghazi Failure against . . . Well, facts. Facts have always been optional with Obama, who has relied on his media-generated force field to survive all previous encounters with unfortunate reality. Obama’s fawning fanboy Charles [...] - Matt Ross