IRS Docs Show “BOLO” for Tea Party Groups: Docs “Didn’t Exist” for FOIA Request, But Did for IG Audit

from the RightScoop:

The hole the IRS has dug for themselves just keeps getting deeper and deeper. Now it has been proven that the IRS lied to avoiding filling a FOIA request of documents pertaining to the Tea Party:

FREE BEACON – The Internal Revenue Service denied the existence of any documents related to its policy of targeting Tea Party organizations in response to a 2010 Freedom of Information Act request, even though such documents were later discovered by the IRS inspector general.

The 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, a conservative nonprofit group, filed a FOIA request in 2010 through investigative journalist Lynn K. Walsh seeking all IRS documents related to the agencies tax-exempt division specifically mentioning the Tea Party.

IRS headquarters responded in 2011 that it “found no documents specifically responsive to your request.”

However, the May 14 inspector general report found that the “first Sensitive Case Report [identifying Tea Party groups] was prepared by the Technical Unit” in April of 2010.

The report’s timeline chronicles the existence of numerous 2010 emails, memoranda, and policies related to the targeting of conservative organizations.

According to the IG timeline, an email was sent on July 27, 2010 “updating the description of applications involving potential political campaign intervention and providing a coordinator contact for the cases.”

“The description was changed to read, ‘These cases involve various local organizations in the Tea Party movement [that] are applying for exemption under 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(4).’”

The IRS determinations unit developed a “be on the lookout” listing on Aug. 12, 2010, “in order to replace the existing practice of sending separate e-mails to all Determinations Unit employees as to cases to watch for, potentially abusive cases, cases requiring processing by the team of specialists, and emerging issues.”

for full article: http://www.therightscoop.com/uh-oh-the-irs-lied-about-existence-of-tea-party-documents-to-avoid-foia-request/

Life Under ObamaCare

IRS Targets Conservatives: Is this the Tip of the Iceberg?

The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector general report obtained by ABC News.

As we reported on “Good Morning America” this morning, the IRS began targeting “Tea Party or similar organizations” in March 2010. That was when the Cincinnati-based IRS unit responsible for overseeing the applications for tax exempt status starting using the phrases “Tea Party,” “patriots” and “9/12″ to search for applications warranting greater scrutiny.

During this first phase, 10 Tea Party cases were identified. By April of 2010, 18 Tea Party organizations were targeted, including three that had already been approved for tax-exempt status.

By June 2011, the unit had flagged over 100 Tea Party-related applications and the criteria used to scrutinize organizations had grown considerably, flagging not just “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in group names, but also groups that were working on issues like “government debt,” “taxes” and even organizations making statements that “criticize how the country is being run.”

The report, done by the Inspector General for the IRS, also shows that senior IRS officials in Washington was aware of what was going on as early as August 4, 2011 when, according to the report, the IRS chief counsel held a meeting with the IRS’s Rulings and Agreements unit “so that everyone would have the latest information on the issue.”

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/irs-began-targeting-conservatives-in-2010/

Hhhmm…….. Something tells me that this may just be the “tip of the Iceberg!”

High School Teen Believes He Is Bullied Because He is a Convservatives……. By Adults

Via Freedom Works:

I am currently in my freshman year of high school and the incidents are happening more frequently and I believe are more severe.  As you can imagine, the ongoing pressure and bullying has been disturbing to me, my friends and my family.

Just before the 2010 Midterm election, I was on the front page of the local newspaper for my political volunteer work and my teachers noticed. One of my seven teachers made it very clear that she dissaproved of my civic engagement. In a period of two months, my Geography teacher frequently would take me aside after school for a few minutes and tell me how stupid, wrong and misguided I was for being Republican. The harassment with this specific teacher got so bad, I had to switch schools halfway through the year.  At this time I was only 12 years old. To my knowledge, this teacher was not disciplined at all for her actions.

for the rest of the story: http://weaselzippers.us/2013/03/31/15-year-old-high-school-freshman-tells-story-of-being-bullied-by-teachers-for-being-conservative/

Jim DeMint to Head Heritage Foundation; Resigning from Senate

South Carolina Republican Jim DeMint will give up his Senate seat in the beginning of January to lead the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., the senator announced on Thursday.

DeMint, a well-known conservative who was re-elected to a second term in 2010, will replace Heritage President Edwin J. Feulner, who has led the organization since its founding 36 years ago.

From DeMint’s statement released Thursday morning:

I’m leaving the Senate now, but I’m not leaving the fight. I’ve decided to join The Heritage Foundation at a time when the conservative movement needs strong leadership in the battle of ideas. No organization is better equipped to lead this fight and I believe my experience in public office as well as in the private sector as a business owner will help Heritage become even more effective in the years to come.

for full article: http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Ao1bjW9gY9QkZqQGfSgO_IybvZx4?p=JIM+DEMINT&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-563

Parenting Styles and Politics

What leads a child to grow up and vote for a Republican candidate like Mitt Romney or a Democrat such as Barack Obama? Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that parenting style and childhood temperament plays a key role in determining a child’s future political mindset—as in, the bumper sticker your kid decides to slap on her car when she turns 18 might depend on how you reacted when she sneaked out of the house to meet her boyfriend.

The study found that children of strict parents were more likely to turn conservative while those of lenient parents were more likely to lean left. What’s more, children “with higher levels of fearfulness during young childhood” were more likely to have conservative values at age 18, while kids “with higher levels of attentional focusing and activity or restlessness” tended to be liberal, according to LiveScience.

for full article: http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2012/10/25/this-parenting-style-makes-kids-grow-up-into-right-wingers/

Chris Matthews: Right Has “Hatred” for Obama, and Want Him Out of the White House

from RealClear Politics:

“Well, I think they’re more political than either you or I,” Chris Matthews said about conservatives. “I think they hate Obama. They want him out of the White House more than they want to destroy al-Qaeda. Their number one enemy in the world right now, on the right, is their hatred, hatred for Obama. And we can go into that about the white working class in the south about looking at these numbers we’ve been getting the last couple days, about racial hatred, in many cases. This isn’t about being a better president, they want to get rid of this president. That’s their number one goal and they’re willing to let Romney go to the hard center, even to the left on some issues, as long as they get rid of this guy.”

“Romney went in there tonight with 16 ounce gloves. He didn’t want to look too ferocious, he just wanted to win. And the way he wanted to win was not making himself into the right-winger that the right wing that’s supporting him really are,” Matthews also said.

see video at: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/10/22/chris_matthews_racial_hatred_for_obama_makes_right_want_to_get_rid_of_obama.html

Voices Without A Vote: This Video SAYS IT ALL

THIS IS THE “WHY” THIS ELECTION, AT THIS TIME, AT THIS MOMENT, IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME!!!!!!!

http://www.Liberty2012.tk

Stupid Stuff Liberals Say!

Jon Huntsman to Bow Out of GOP Presidential Run

     In the Palmetto state, as the Republican candidates try to build momentum for the “non-Romney” choice, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is set to announce midday that he is withdrawing from the race, and will endorse the GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney. His announcement will come just hours before the next scheduled debate.

      Many think that most of his supporters will go to Mitt Romney, while others believe they will spread out amongst the other remaining candidates. To slow the Romney train, one of the others would need a great showing in SC on the 21st, as well as in Florida on the 31st. The polls are not presently indicative of that, but polls are known to be wrong.