Comparisons to Nixon are unfair. Obama makes Nixon look like a great American hero.
California congressman David Nunes made the claim yesterday that the Justice Department wiretapped telephones in the House of Representative’s Cloak Room, an exclusive part of the Capitol where members are able to privately interact with one another. Nunes made the claim on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show.
Congressman: Justice Dept. Wiretapped the House of Representative’s Cloak Room | The Weekly Standard
Arctic sea ice is melting very slowly, and ice extent is the highest for the date since 2002.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The slow melt is not surprising, because temperatures in the Arctic are almost 5C below normal.
COI | Centre for Ocean and Ice | Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut
The Guardian has been whining mindlessly about Alaska melting, in the middle of Alaska’s coldest spring on record.
The Nenana Ice Classic tripod is still standing and will probably remain upright for a few more days, which could mean a new record for the latest breakup ever in Alaska’s oldest and richest guessing game.
“I’m thinking we’ve probably got a record breaker here,” Ice Classic manager Cherrie Forness said on Wednesday from Nenana.
The latest breakup in the 97-year history of the Ice Classic is on May 20, 1964 at 11:41 a.m. Alaska Standard Time. The Tanana River ice and the forecast for the next few days leads her to believe this year’s winning time will be later than that, Forness said.
“It’s supposed to get cold again and it’s still staying below freezing at night,” she said.
While the Tanana River ice is starting to show signs of weakening in a few spots above and below the tripod in the form of open water holes, the ice right around the tripod is holding fast, she said.
“There’s no water yet near or around the tripod,” Forness said.
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Obama Plans to Make Statement on IRS Scandal
Fantastic speech – a must watch.
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One of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign co-chairmen used a leaked document from the IRS to attack GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 election, according to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
In early April 2012, NOM published documents which it said showed this leaked confidential information did not come from a “whistleblower” but “came directly from the Internal Revenue Service and was provided to NOM’s political opponents, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC).”
Claim: Obama Campaign Co-Chair Attacked Romney with Leaked IRS Docs
Apparently the 2012 election was a fraud, stolen by Obama’s minion of criminals.
Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir.
State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore, and “cited their education and career interests” for being in the area. The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates.
The Quabbin, in Belchertown, is one of the country’s largest man-made public water supplies. Boston’s drinking water comes from the Quabbin and the Wachusett Reservoirs.
7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State « CBS Boston
h/t to Dave G
U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect
By Jed Morey on May 14, 2013
Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects offered the nation a window into the stunning military-style capabilities of our local law enforcement agencies. For the past 30 years, police departments throughout the United States have benefitted from the government’s largesse in the form of military weaponry and training, incentives offered in the ongoing “War on Drugs.” For the average citizen watching events such as the intense pursuit of the Tsarnaev brothers on television, it would be difficult to discern between fully outfitted police SWAT teams and the military.
The lines blurred even further Monday as a new dynamic was introduced to the militarization of domestic law enforcement. By making a few subtle changes to a regulation in the U.S. Code titled“Defense Support of Civilian Law Enforcement Agencies” the military has quietly granted itself the ability to police the streets without obtaining prior local or state consent, upending a precedent that has been in place for more than two centuries.
U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect | Long Island Press
He has already announced that he can kill US citizens on US soil – if he doesn’t like them.
h/t to phodges
