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Showing posts with label Hot Air. Show all posts

Thursday, May 16, 2013

@hotairblog - Answer to Allahpundit's question

Re: Joseph Grant, retiring IRS official

From IRS website:
Grant, Kay Named to IRS Leadership Posts IR-2013-47, May 8, 2013 — The IRS announced the selection of Joseph H. Grant as commissioner of the Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division and Sheldon Kay as Chief of Appeals.
http://www.irs.gov/uac/Latest-News

Joseph Grant had been Deputy Commissioner and previously, Acting Commissioner, Tax-Exempt Government Entities

ALLAHPUNDIT - Update:

Was he promoted from acting commissioner to commissioner, or from some lower rank to acting commissioner? I can’t find any personnel announcement online. The distinction is important, as one suggests this is a legit scalp-taking and the other suggests it’s a farce. If he was installed as permanent commissioner only to “retire” now, then obviously he was pushed out against his wishes. If he was merely promoted to acting commissioner, then it looks like he was elevated for the purpose of taking the fall. If anyone has a link, please send it.

HotAir.com

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Petition to ban conservative websites approved by liberals

The undersigned hereby adamantly demand that the United States government shut down right wing hate sites. The hate speech propagated by sites like the Drudge Report, Hot Air, Instapundit, Big Government, and others must not be allowed to corrupt our political discourse any longer. These sites are dangerous not only to truth and freedom but also to our society as a whole. BAN THEM NOW!

Video: DC Liberals Sign Petition to Ban Conservative Websites

We always knew they hated the Constitution, didn't we?

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Get ready for one of the most vicious of all vicious cycles

Obamanomics is a disaster, and it couldn’t come at a worse time. Four years ago, the country may have been resilient enough to shake off the worst effects of Obama’s policies, but with our economy already reeling, his taxes will kill any chance at recovery. We will spend years running up massive deficits — which will prompt Obama to impose higher and broader taxes. Get ready for one of the most vicious of all vicious cycles.

HotAir: Martin Feldstein's prediction

WSJ: Tax Increases Could Kill The Recovery

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The difference between Conservatives and Liberals

by Mark Levin (author, radio talk show host; constitutional scholar)
We believe in civil society, they believe in the federal leviathan.
We believe in education, they believe in indoctrination.
We believe in liberty, they believe in a growing authoritarianism.
We believe in the moral order, they believe in situational ethics.
We believe in the rights of man, they believe in the power of government.
We believe in real science, they believe in social science.
We believe in cultural stability, they believe in constant transformation.
We believe in eternal truths, they believe in ideological social engineering.
We believe in separation of powers, they believe in the administrative state.
We believe in prosperity, they believe in redistribution.
We believe in private property, they believe in collectivism.
We believe in individualism, they believe in conformity.
We believe in the Constitution, they believe in centralism.

Late Justice Antonin Scalia: On the existence of the Devil

"You're looking at me as though I'm weird. My god! Are you so out of touch with most of America, most of which believes in the devil? I mean, Jesus Christ believed in the devil! It's in the Gospels! You travel in circles that are so, so removed from mainstream America that you are appalled that anybody would believe in the devil! Most of mankind has believed in the devil, for all of history. Many more intelligent people than you or me have believed in the devil."

SOURCE: NY Mag (page 4):

http://nymag.com/news/features/antonin-scalia-2013-10/

Ludwig von Mises

"The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!" --Ludwig von Mises (Bureaucracy, 1944. Yale University Press. 1969, New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House)

Ludwig von Mises

"Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments, they must run their course in life and cannot collapse otherwise than in great catastrophe."

"A man who chooses between drinking a glass of milk and a glass of a solution of potassium cyanide does not choose between two beverages; he chooses between life and death. A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. Socialism is not an alternative to capitalism; it is an alternative to any system under which men can live as human beings." --Ludwig von Mises, writing in Human Action

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"A child born abroad to a U.S. citizen parent or parents MAY acquire U.S. citizenship at birth IF certain statutory requirements are met." (U.S. State Department).

So where is your CRBA, Ted?

"Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government..."

~President Washington warning the nation about foreign attachment and influence in his Farewell Address of 1796.

NATURAL BORN CITIZENS?

"Consider that the constitutionally ineligible Senator Marco Rubio, Governor Bobby Jindal, and Governor Nikki Haley, while born in the United States, were born to no U.S. citizen parents. Furthermore, being born in a foreign country, under jus soli (right from the soil), Cruz also from the moment of birth acquired citizenship and allegiance to the country in which he was born. Being born subject to a foreign power under U.S. law, i.e., being born in allegiance to a foreign power under U.S. law, disqualifies one from being a natural born citizen and therefore eligible to be President." --Attorney Mario Apuzzo

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