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A law that has to be broken in order to save the life of a child--to prevent him from being torn apart by vicious dogs--is very likely an evil law. And a "justice" system that punishes a man (even if "only" by fining him) for being a lifesaving hero--is institutionalized evil. Why, as a (theoretically) free citizen, does any American tolerate this?
Lois Lerner tried to take the Fifth Amendment at yesterday's hearing. She not only botched it but also showed the arrogant face of the IRS.
Budget cuts have had tragic consequences in the state of Oregon, where a woman stayed on the line with 911 for more than 10 minutes as her ex-boyfriend attempted to break into her home. She was told there was no one to send from either the Josephine County Sheriff's office or the Oregon State Police. The man eventually got inside the house, and the woman was raped.
Republican Rep. Darrell Issa declared Thursday that the embattled IRS official who refused to testify Wednesday had no right to do so, and is now looking to haul her back before his committee.
The chairman of the House oversight committee made the call after consulting with attorneys about IRS official Lois Lerner's bizarre appearance before the panel on Wednesday. Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division which oversaw the controversial targeting of conservative groups, caused confusion Wednesday morning when she pleaded the Fifth and refused to answer questions -- but also delivered an opening statement in which she asserted her innocence.
"After consulting with counsel, Chairman Issa has concluded that Ms. Lerner's 5th amendment assertion is no longer valid," spokesman Ali Ahmad said. "She remains under subpoena, the Committee is looking at recalling her for testimony."
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., May 23 (UPI) -- In the Internal Revenue Service targeting scandal and others, Washington and the media are obsessed with the question: What did the president know and when did he know it?
That misses the point. Barack Obama's presidency is much more damaging to the nation than the mistakes of subordinates now coming to light.
Evil clowns pretending to be journalists.
FTA " The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics made his comments in the homily of his morning mass at his residence, a daily event at which he speaks without prepared comments.
He told the story of a Catholic who asked a priest if even atheists had been redeemed by Jesus.
"Even them, everyone," the pope answered, according to Vatican Radio. "We all have the duty to do good," he said. "
I think the boy needs to bone up on John 3:16. What about Ecclesiastes 7:20 does he think he can supersede?
This pope will put no one in heaven. Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
2 Timothy 4:3-4 (NIV)
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
Despite the jihadists' very explicit calls to jihad and repeated quranic references as the basis for their act of Islamic ritual slaughter (beheading) on the streets of a London suburb, delusional dhimmi Mayor Boris Johnson said that neither "Islam nor UK policy is to blame" for the beheading of a UK soldier wearing a Help for Heroes' t-shirt on the streets of Woolwish yesterday. The UK Muslims who wanted to "start a war in London tonight" said "We are forced by the Qur'an".
Boris Johnson has said that the blame for the brutal murder of a soldier in Woolwich lies with the ‘warped mind-set’ of his killers. Johnson sounds like the one with the warped mindset. As one eyewitness who spoke with the jihadists after the slaughter of the soldier observed, “He was not high, he was not on drugs, he was not an alcoholic or drunk, he was just distressed, upset. He was in full control of his decisions and ready to do everything he wanted to do."
It takes a warped and deluded brain to deny reality in the face of reality. A is A.
This extraodinary dhimmitude will result in further bloodshed and jihad in the streets of England.
Lois Lerner, the IRS official in charge of tax-exempt groups, took her too-clever-by-half act to Congress yesterday and may have waived her right to claim her Fifth Amendment privilege in the process. Appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, she couldn’t resist citing a little history, bragging on her public service, instructing the committee as to the purpose of the Fifth Amendment, and proclaiming her innocence of everything the committee might be interested in — all before asserting her Fifth Amendment privilege.
Chairman Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) was a bit taken aback. He had never seen anybody try that before. Neither had I. Witnesses and lawyers know, or should know, that you can’t selectively invoke the Fifth Amendment — that is, partially testify. That is why, if a decision is made to take the Fifth, a lawyer will instruct his client to invoke it after almost every question, after identity is established, out of an abundance of caution. You don’t want your client to unintentionally waive the privilege.
The notice said the government in the Dunmaili district of Yining had decided to “further implement the Party’s activities to dilute religious consciousness and advocate a civilised and healthy lifestyle.”
One of the campaign’s aims, it said, was to end the “the abnormal phenomenon” of ethnic minority women and youth wearing Arab dress, growing long beards or covering their faces in veils.
Women who had already “been transformed” would be invited to hold talks to discuss their experience, as would women who had launched successful careers.
Hou Hanmin, a Xinjiang government spokeswoman, told Reuters she was not aware of the notice, but that generally people in the region were free to wear what they wanted, including ethnic minorities. “However, for certain jobs and in education there are rules about what you cannot wear simply as a matter of convenience,” she said by telephone.
Yining, also known as Ghulja or Yili, has a population of some 515,000 people, about 46 percent of whom are Uighur, according to the 2010 census figures. It was the site of deadly riots in 1997.
