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IRS Revokes Tax-exempt Status from Patrick Henry Center

Tuesday, 22 April 2014 10:13

English: US Postage stamp, Credo issue of 1961, 4c, famous quote by Patrick Henry (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Now, at last, Gary Aldrich is free to speak his mind on matters of great concern to him without having to worry about overstepping the bounds imposed on his First Amendment rights by the Internal Revenue Service. His Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty had its tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code revoked, effective last July. The final determination letter was dated December 31 but just released to the media this week. It said:

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Welfare Recipients 3, Taxpayers 2

Monday, 21 April 2014 15:09

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Say Goodnite America! (Photo credit: Templar1307)

This article first appeared at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Monday, April 21, 2014:

The Census Bureau, teaming up with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, confirmed what many have long suspected: the United States is a welfare state, and the recipients are gaining on the taxpayers. According to their just-released Current Population Survey, there are nearly 150 million people on the dole compared to fewer than 90 million being squeezed to make the payments. And the longer the game goes on, the worse the score will get.

After Terence Jeffrey, former editor at Human Events and now senior editor at CNSNews, dissected the pages-long survey, he lamented:

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Earth Day, 45th Edition

Monday, 21 April 2014 09:59

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On nearly every calendar Tuesday, April 22, 2014 is denoted as “Earth Day”, putting it into the same category as “Presidents Day” or “Independence Day.” Indeed some consider it the most holy of secular celebrations, the culmination of 45 years of indoctrination of the theme that it’s moral to force people to go green. In a burst of excessive enthusiasm Margaret Mead, a cultural anthropologist icon and agreeable participant in several marriages as well as romantic relationships with other women, once wrote:

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Obama Finds Another Excuse to delay the Keystone Pipeline

Monday, 21 April 2014 04:03

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Truck hauling 36-Inch Pipe to build Keystone-Cushing Pipeline (Phase II) south-east of Peabody, Kansas, USA. Location is Timber Rd and 20th St in Marion County. Looking south-west with rural Whitewater Center Church in background. Photo taken by Steve Meirowsky on July 10, 2010. Note: The rear wheels on this truck has independent steering. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

With President Obama’s State Department deciding on Friday to delay further any decision on the Keystone XL Pipeline, his environmentalist supporters were overjoyed. Nearly everyone else saw it as a political stunt designed to put off the decision until after the election.

The State Department is using faintly plausible excuses for the additional delay:

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The President’s lies are Finally Catching up with him

Thursday, 17 April 2014 13:06

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In the latest Fox News poll 37 percent of those polled think that President Obama lies “most of the time” while another 24 percent say he just lies “some of the time.” 20 percent say he lies “only now and then” while 15 percent say he never lies. Put another way, 85 percent of those polled thinks the president lies, while

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Census Bureau Reports 62 Million more Takers than Payers

Thursday, 17 April 2014 08:49

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The latest Current Population Survey, a joint venture between the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau , showed 148 million “benefit takers” compared to the benefit providers – workers in the private sector – who number less than 90 million. According to Terence Jeffrey, the senior editor at CNSNews, that’s a ratio of 3:2 and it’s only going to get worse: “As more Baby Boomers retire and as ObamaCare comes fully online … the number of takers will inevitably expand. Eventually there will be too few carrying too many, and America will

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The Left Attacks Pulitzer for its Public Service Award to Washington Post

Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:53

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This article was first published at The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor on Wednesday, April 16, 2014:

Instead of supporting the Pulitzer Prize Committee’s decision to give its coveted Public Service award to the Washington Post for publishing Edward Snowden’s revelations over NSA’s spying on innocent Americans, the Left (i.e., those supporting the surveillance state) has instead rather come unglued over the matter. Rep. Peter King, the noisy center-left RINO from New York, was first out of the box:

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Zero School Tolerance Ends a Promising Career in Law Enforcement

Wednesday, 16 April 2014 19:42

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Jordan Wiser, an 18-year-old student at Ashtabula County Technical and Career Campus (A-Tech) in Jefferson, Ohio, about 60 miles northeast of Cleveland, has been snared in the zero-tolerance web. His plans to become a police officer are probably ended. He’ll be lucky to find work anywhere if

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Social Security Stops Seizing Refund Checks for Decades-Old Debts

Wednesday, 16 April 2014 08:51

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Social Security Poster: old man (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Mary Grice, a resident of Maryland, was expecting her refund checks of $4,462 from the IRS and the state of Maryland. They never came. Instead she got a letter from the Social Security Administration (SSA) saying that they took them to settle a debt owed by her father – in 1977. When the Washington Post learned that she was filing suit over the matter, things began to happen. She told them: “It was a shock. What incenses me is the way they went about this. They gave me no notice.”

Her attorney, Robert Vogel, amped up the issue, putting the SSA on the defensive. Their explanation was spotty. Apparently

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Pulitzer Prize Award Over NSA Revelations Generates Vitriolic Criticism

Tuesday, 15 April 2014 08:45

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The Pulitzer Prize gold medal award 한국어: 퓰리처상 ...

The Pulitzer Prize gold medal award (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Washington Post’s Executive Editor Martin Baron anticipated that there would be strong criticism voiced when those opposed to Edward Snowden’s revelations learned of the Pulitzer Prize Committee’s decision to award its prestigious Public Service award to his paper. He may not have estimated the degree and extent and especially the vitriol of that criticism.

Said Baron:

Disclosing the massive expansion of the NSA’s surveillance network absolutely was a public service. In constructing a surveillance system of breathtaking scope and intrusiveness, our government also sharply eroded individual privacy. All of this was done in secret, without public debate…

[Without Edward Snowden’s disclosures] we never would have known how far this country had

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IRS Revokes Tax-exempt Status from Patrick Henry Center

Earth Day, 45th Edition

Obama Finds Another Excuse to delay the Keystone Pipeline

The President’s lies are Finally Catching up with him

The Left Attacks Pulitzer for its Public Service Award to Washington Post

Zero School Tolerance Ends a Promising Career in Law Enforcement

Pulitzer Prize Award Over NSA Revelations Generates Vitriolic Criticism

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