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Doug Shulman: IRS Fall Guy?

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 15 Comments

Just a few thoughts while watching today’s House Oversight Committee hearings about the IRS scandal:

Schulman was caught in lie after lie after lie, saying he didn’t remember this or that, and then being reminded of his own previous testimony demonstrating either (a) he did know about what he denied remembering, or (b) his earlier denials were false.

And I think I wasn’t the only viewer whose head exploded when Shulman was asked why he made more than 100 visits to the White House in a single year and began his answer, “Easter Egg Rolls with my kids . . .”

This guy has refused to apologize for the IRS scandal. Exactly why the hell George W. Bush would appoint Shulman — a donor to the Democratic National Committee — to a five-year term as IRS Commissioner is one of the great mysteries of our age. Lois Lerner has pleaded the Fifth, and it’s basically impossible to fire anybody at the IRS, so if Democrats are looking for a scapegoat to throw under the bus, the “bipartisan” Shulman seems to be a likely fall guy.

On the other hand, Ezra Klein’s Juice Box Mafia seems prepared to throw Lois Lerner under the Obama bus, too.

 


Category: Barack Obama, Scandal, Taxes, Tea Party

Was Chechen Man Shot by FBI in Florida a Suspect in 2011 Waltham Triple Murder?

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 5 Comments

The news that Ibragim Todashev was shot to death by an FBI agent in Orlando last night has gotten widespread attention because of the connection between Todashev, a Chechen immigrant, and Boston marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev:

The FBI spent three hours Tuesday interviewing both Todashev and a friend, Khusen Taramov, who told Orlando’s WESH-TV that agents had taken Todashev to be interviewed separately. Taramov said: “They were talking to us, both of us, right? And they said they need him for a little more, for a couple more hours, and I left, and they told me they’re going to bring him back. They never brought him back. . . . I told him, ‘Everything is going to be fine, don’t worry about it.’ He said, ‘I have a really bad feeling.’”
The shooting occurred in an apartment complex off Peregrine Avenue in Orlando, according to Central Florida News 13, which also interviewed Taramov, who said FBI agents “started following us, watching us” after Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his brother Dzhokar were identified as suspects in the April 15 bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people and wounded more than 170 others.
Todashev had reportedly been planning Tuesday to fly back to Chechnya, Taramov said: “He cancelled the tickets because, the FBI had been like, I don’t know, they’ve been pushing him, you know what I’m saying. They’ve been pushing him they say ‘don’t leave, don’t leave’ so he decided to stay.”

You can read the rest at Viral Read, but what caught my eye was the report by NBC News that Todashev was being questioned by the FBI in connection with a 2011 triple homicide in Waltham, Massachusetts, in which Tamerlan Tsarnaev was reportedly also a suspect.

What do we know about that crime? And how was the possible involvement of Tsarnaev and Todashev significant?

On Sept. 12, 2011, police found the bodies of three men — Brendan Mess, 25, Erik Weissman, 31, and Raphael Teken, 37 —  in a second-floor apartment on a dead-end street in Waltham.

All three men had been stabbed in the neck, and their bodies were reportedly “covered in marijuana.” Neighbors reported that one of the victims drove a Mercedes and there were frequent comings and goings from the apartment, which would lead to the obvious suspicion that the murders were drug-related. And police said from the start that they believed the victims knew their killer or killers. Two weeks ago, Michele McPhee of ABC News reported:

Massachusetts investigators have developed what they call “mounting evidence,” bolstered by “forensic hits,” that point to the possible involvement of both Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his younger brother Dzhokhar in a gruesome, unsolved triple homicide in 2011 . . .
In the wake of the Marathon bombings, Middlesex County began to probe a link between the elder Tsarnaev and Brendan Mess, one of the three men killed in the gruesome slaying on Sept. 11, 2011.  . . . Tamerlan and Mess were once roommates and did boxing and martial arts training together. . . .
Now law enforcement officials tell ABC News that some crime scene forensic evidence provided a match to the two Tsarnaev brothers. The officials also said records of cell phones used by the Tsarnaevs appears to put them in the area of the murders on that date. . . .
Roughly seven pounds of marijuana was dumped on the bodies and $5,000 in cash was left behind. Neighbors said they did not hear any signs of trouble – even with open windows – and there was no forced entry. In a 2011 interview, Leone said investigators theorized there had been more than one person at the scene of the murders based on “many factors,” but no suspects were identified.
From there the case went cold, until photos of the Boston Marathon suspects were released and family and friends of the Waltham victims recognized them and remembered Tamerlan’s strange behavior after the murders. He did not attend his friend’s funeral and vanished from the martial arts gyms where the men had sparred together.

If the killers left behind seven pounds of marijuana and $5,000, obviously the motive for the crime was not robbery.

So the question quite naturally arises, what inspired this triple murder on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks?

We have reports of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s “strange behavior” after the Waltham murders, we have his involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings, we have reports of forensic evidence connecting the Tsarnaev brothers to the murders, and now we have the report of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Chechen buddy who had bought a ticket on a flight out of the country and who was shot after attacking an FBI agent during an interrogation.

Yeah, the 2011 Waltham murder case now looks very significant.

“Keep an eye on this one,” says Michelle Malkin.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey catches something I missed:

The officials say Todashev had some connections with radical Chechen rebels, but they say it’s not clear whether he had any role in radicalizing Tsarnaev.

A month ago, Michael Rezendes of the Boston Globe reported:

Previously, investigators had said that Brendan Mess, 25, along with Erik Weissman, 25, and Raphael Teken, 37, were killed on Sept. 12, 2011 . . .
But the relative interviewed by the Globe said the murders took place the evening before, on Sept. 11, the 10th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The relative said he knew this because he was texting one of the victims about a Sunday night football game between the New York Jets and Dallas Cowboys when communication with the victims suddenly stopped at about 8:15 that evening.
“The three of them were definitely killed on Sept. 11,” the relative said. “They all stopped using their cellphones at about eight o’clock that night.”

The puzzle pieces seem to be forming a pattern. But if phone records of the victims showed they were killed on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, why did investigators tell the public otherwise?

 

Category: Crime, Terrorism

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.22.13

Posted on | May 22, 2013 | 4 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Senate Panel Approves Sweeping Immigration Bill

An immigrant recites the Pledge of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony.

An immigrant recites the Pledge of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony.

Leahy’s same-sex marriage amendment defeated; Hatch’s increase in tech visas approved


Government Drops One Charge Against Wikileaker
Charge of leaking State Department cable dropped


Top Figures Barred From Iran’s June Ballot
Former president Rafsanjani, aide to Ahamdinejad among many booted from ballot



POLITICS
Lois Lerner Takes The Fifth, Won’t Answer Questions At Congressional Hearing

Mmmm...smells like RICO.

Mmmm…smells like RICO.

Former head of IRS tax-exempt unit lawyers up

Ft. Jackson Commander Suspended Over Adultery Allegations

Sources Challenge Administration Claim Of “All Hands On Deck” Pursuit Of Benghazi Suspects


FEMA Uses “Waffle House Index” To Take Stock Of Oklahoma Disaster

Harrisburg Mayor Who Ran City Into Bankruptcy Loses Bid For Re-Election In Democrat Primary

Prosecutors Seek Retrial In Bell, California Corruption Case

Gay Florida Teen Indicted For Underage Girlfriend



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Falls On Rising US Gasoline Stocks
Apple Defends Tax Shelters, Gets Assist From Rand Paul
Victory For Dimon As JP Morgan Chase Shareholders Reject Chairman/CEO Split
Japan Trade Deficit Shows Weaker Yen No Panacea
Fannie Mae To Sell $2 Billion In Boom-Era CMBS To Cut Holdings
Home Depot 1Q Earnings Exceed Expectations
Sony Stock Jumps As Board Considers Entertainment Spinoff
Merck Signs $5 Billion Share Buyback Agreement With Goldman Sachs
Ferrero Fail: World Nutella Day Saved As Makers Cave
Cautious Optimism Greets XBox One
Yahoo Offers Flickr Revamp With 1TB Of Storage
Jive Tries Out Freemium Model With Producteev Task Manager
Sony Unveils PS4 Teaser Video Ahead Of XBox Launch
Powermat Marries PowerKiss, Vows To Use Same Wireless Charging Standard
Opera Comes To Android
Google+ Rolls Out Redesign For Mobile Web Similar To Desktop
AGENT Smartwatch Kickstarter Reaches Backers’ Goal
“Call Of Duty: Ghosts” To Launch On XBox One With Exclusive Content



SPORTS
Bruins Rally Past Rangers, Take 3-0 Series Lead

Brad Richards falls in front of Daniel Paille during the second period.

Brad Richards falls in front of Daniel Paille during the second period.

Paille scores tie-breaking goal with 3:31 left in the third period


Spurs Blow Late Lead, Beat Grizzlies Anyway 93-89 In OT


Sharks Hold Off Kings, Even Series At Two Apiece

O’s Beat Yankees 3-2 On Sayonara Homer

Victim Of Expectations? Clippers Let Coach Del Negro Go

San Francisco, Houston Win Bids For Super Bowls 50, 51

Cabrera Homers, Scherzer Rolls As Tigers Maul Tribe 5-1

Royals Rally Late, Thump Astros 7-3

Wright’s Early Error Dooms Mets, Reds Win 4-0

Darvish Coughs Up Just One Run To A’s, But It’s Too Many: Rangers Lose 1-0

Ryan Mattheus Breaks Hand Trying To Punch Out Locker



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Sharon Stone Flashes Cleavage At Cannes

Hard to believe she's 55

Hard to believe she’s 55

In town for premiere of Behind The Candelabra

It’s Official: Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio Joining “X Factor”

Lindsay Lohan Sued By Manufacturer Of Her 6126 Clothing Line

Scrape Me Up Before You Go Slow

Lindsey Vonn And Tiger Woods Take His Kids To School


Jesse James Accidentally Cuts Off His Finger

Bon Jovi Slams Bieber: “You’re An A**hole”

Barbara Walters’ Daughter Drunk And Abusive During DUI Arrest

A Life So Large – Brad Pitt’s Esquire Interview

Kristen Stewart Visits Taylor Swift’s House After Breakup With Rob Pattinson



FOREIGNERS
Norks Send Top Kim Jong Un Aide To Beijing
Abe: Norks Must Return All Those Abducted
Israeli Military Chief Issues Stark Warning To Syria After Exchange Of Fire On Golan Heights
Russia Outraged At Azerbaijan’s Eurovision Vote Snub
Former OAS Member Commits Suicide In Notre Dame In Protest Of Gay Marriage
Vatican Denies News Reports Of Pope Francis Performing Exorcism
Clashes With Rebels Resume In Democratic Republic Of The Congo
Kenya “Fine” With Obama Snub
Philippines Protests Chicom Warship’s Presence In Spratly Islands
Gay Marriage Bill Passes UK House Of Commons In Divisive Vote
Nigeria To Free Female Islamist Suspects



BLOGS & STUFF
Blackmailers Don’t Shoot: Breaking! Soulless Union Drone Elected Mayor Of Los Angeles
Power Line: A Crack In The IRS Dam
NRO Corner: Rand Paul Calls For Independent Investigation Of IRS Scandal, Says Obama “Passive” And “Detached”
Andrew Stiles: No Apology From The IRS
Questions And Observations: IRS commissioner Knew About Illegal Targeting Of Conservative Groups A Year Ago
Right Scoop: Bill Kristol Tells Marco Rubio To Walk Away From The Immigration Bill
Gateway Pundit: Holder’s DOJ Even Targeted Fox Reporter’s Parents’ Home Phone
Legal Insurrection: How Much Has The Justice Department Overreached? Other News Organizations May Have To Defend Fox
Riehl World News: An Obama Administration Feature, Not A Bug – Sharyl Attkisson’s Computers Compromised
John Podhoretz: Leaks Turn To Deluge For Reeling White House
Weasel Zippers: Biden Cracks TOTUS Joke
Daniel Foster: Next Against The Wall – White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler?
Weekly Standard Blog: Liberal Pundits Gather In The West Wing
Protein Wisdom: Leftist Shitboxes Who Once Upon A Time Politicized A Hurricane Rush To Politicize A Tornado
Ramesh Ponnuru: “Obama Scandals” Could Actually Hurt Republicans
AmSpecBlog: Did The Virginia GOP Just Hand Terry McAuliffe The Election By Nominating E.W. Jackson For Lieutenant Governor?


Category: Live at Five

‘Take That Hill’

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | 6 Comments

My 14-year-old son stayed home from school today sick, and put the TV on the Military Channel where, among other shows, we watched a documentary about the Battle of Hill 875 in Vietnam.

To call this a battle is something of a misnomer: It was a horrible blunder, a senseless slaughter caused by poor strategy and bad tactics.

Hill 875 was the concluding action of a larger campaign known generally as the Battle of Dak To, named for a village in the Central Highlands near the Cambodian border that was the forward base of operations for U.S. and South Vietnamese forces engaged in efforts to interdict North Vietnamese traffic along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

After more than two weeks of combat in November 1967, in what was known by the Americans as “Operation MacArthur,” a U.S. Special Forces patrol encountered North Vietnamese troops on Hill 875. This was a full regiment (the 174th), that had occupied the hill less than 15 miles from the border to cover the withdrawal of two other NVA regiments from the vicinity of Dak To. The 174th NVA regiment was dug into the hill in a series of camouflaged bunker positions. Brig. Gen. Leo Schweiter of the 173rd Airborne Brigade ordered the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Regiment to take the hill.

From the moment the three companies of 2/503 moved forward at 9:43 a.m. until the moment they came under fire was barely 45 minutes, and they were basically doomed from the start.

The U.S. paratroopers were outnumbered by the NVA regiment, whose concealed positions on the heavily forested hillside were part of what proved to be a deadly ambush.

As the 2/503 moved up the hill, some of the U.S. troops sensed that they were in a bad situation. They got the creepy feeling that they were being observed. A sergeant in one of the lead platoons twice radioed back to Capt. Harold Kaufman, who was in tactical command, and asked for permission to conduct “reconnaisance by fire,” i.e., to open fire into the jungle and see if the enemy would fire back, thus revealing their positions. Twice the sergeant asked, and twice permission was refused.

Capt. Kaufman evidently thought he was sneaking up on Charlie.

Yeah. Guess again, Captain.

The NVA bunkers and trenches on Hill 875 had been dug months earlier, and were heavily covered with logs and earth. These positions were all but impervious to U.S. artillery or air strikes. So once the NVA opened fire, the two American companies in the advance were pinned down, and none of their supporting fire they called in against the enemy did much to solve the problem.

Meanwhile, downhill . . .

The battalion’s reserve company (A) was guarding the rear and trying to carve out a landing zone in the jungle so that helicopters could bring supplies and reinforcements and evacuate the growing number of wounded. While Company A was doing this, they deployed a four-man team as an observation outpost, just in case. Around 2:30 p.m., when the battle uphill had already been under way for about three hours, this outpost opened fire on advancing NVA troops — an entire company of them making a flank attack.

Needless to say, a four-man team could do little to stop a company of NVA regulars, but one of these four paratroopers — PFC Carlos Lozado — earned the Medal of Honor (posthumously) for his efforts to hold back the enemy onslaught with an M-60 machine gun.

This NVA flank attack quickly rendered Company A’s position untenable. The unfinished landing zone was abandoned and Company A, to avoid being cut off, moved uphill to make contact with the two advance companies, which were themselves nearly surrounded. Re-supplying the troops by helicopter drops was nearly impossible. The situation was very bad, and it was about to get much worse.

About 7 p.m., as the paratroopers were desperately fighting to maintain their position, they called in another air strike — and the pilot inadvertently dropped two bombs inside the battalion’s perimeter, killing 42 U.S. troops and wounding another 45 in what is believed to have been the worst friendly-fire incident of the entire Vietnam War.

Among those killed in that incident was Capt. Kaufman, who had twice refused the sergeant’s request for a “reconnaissance by fire,” perhaps the only chance to avoid the ambush that devastated his battalion. It took another two days, reinforcement by another battalion and repeated bombardments before the 173rd Brigade finally captured Hill 875.

The Second Battalion suffered 87 killed and 130 wounded in the three-day battle. The 4th Battalion, which came to their relief, lost 28 men killed and 123 wounded.

And having shed so much blood to capture Hill 875, of course, the Army immediately abandoned it.

There was no tactical advantage gained. The NVA, which had been retreating toward Cambodia, completed their retreat, minus whatever casualties they suffered — which became a matter of some dispute in the “body count” politics that defined Vietnam. The U.S. commander, Gen. William Westmoreland, called the three-week Battle of Dak To a victory, a claim that caused a Marine general to ask, “Is it a victory when you lose 362 friendlies in three weeks and by your own spurious body count you only get 1,200 [enemy killed]?”

Strategically, the Dak To campaign was also worthless. The North Vietnamese commander had successfully maneuvered U.S. forces away from the target he intended to attack next. About two months after the Battle of Hill 875, the NVA launched their assault on Khe Sanh, the opening move of the Tet Offensive.

 

Category: History, Military

Ruh-Roh: Ambassador Killed by Secret State Department Weapons Program?

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | 37 Comments

Ex-Diplomats Report New Benghazi Whistleblowers
with Info Devastating to Clinton and Obama
— Roger L. Simon, PJ Media

Benghazi witness points finger at Clinton
on lapses in consulate security
— Julian Pecquet, The Hill

New whistleblowers coming forward on Benghazi?
— Ed Morrissey, Hot Air

Lawmakers dig into life-and-death issues of Benghazi
— Byron York, Washington Examiner

Breaking: New Crop of Benghazi Whistle-Blowers
Will Testify on Obama’s Missiles to Al-Qaeda Program
— Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

Pretty serious stuff here, eh? If the latest reports are true, this is much more serious than who edited the talking points:

Ambassador Chris Stevens, killed along with three other Americans in the September terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, was reportedly attempting to buy back arms sold to Libyan rebels. Roger L. Simon of PJ Media reports that whistleblowers are prepared to testify that a State Department program of arming insurgents who overthrew Libyan dictator Moammar Gaddafi was the secret the Obama administration sought to conceal . . .
Such testimony, if verified, might help explain why Obama administration officials spent several days after the deadly Libyan attack — which occurred on the 11th anniversary of the 2001 9/11 attacks — promoting the falsehood that the four Americans killed in Benghazi died as a result of “demonstrations” inspired by a YouTube video.

You can read the rest at Viral Read and while, of course, I cannot vouch for information from Roger Simon’s sources, common sense actually argues on behalf of the story they’re telling, because this has been the Benghazi mystery all along: Why all the lies?

Was the State Department’s blame-the-video story just about protecting President Obama’s re-election chances? Maybe, but the intensity of the pushback seems a bit too much to be so easily explained by “politics as usual.” And this may be the Big Secret:

Stevens’ mission in Benghazi, [new whistleblower witnesses] will say, was to buy back Stinger missiles from al-Qaeda groups issued to them by the State Department, not by the CIA. Such a mission would usually be a CIA effort, but the intelligence agency had opposed the idea because of the high risk involved in arming “insurgents” with powerful weapons that endanger civilian aircraft.
Hillary Clinton still wanted to proceed because, in part, as one of the diplomats said, she wanted “to overthrow Gaddafi on the cheap.”
This left Stevens in the position of having to clean up the scandalous enterprise when it became clear that the “insurgents” actually were al-Qaeda – indeed, in the view of one of the diplomats, the same group that attacked the consulate and ended up killing Stevens.
The former diplomat who spoke with PJ Media regarded the whole enterprise as totally amateurish and likened it to the Mike Nichols film Charlie Wilson’s War about a clueless congressman who supplies Stingers to the Afghan guerrillas. “It’s as if Hillary and the others just watched that movie and said ‘Hey, let’s do that!’” the diplomat said.
He added that he and his colleagues think the leaking of General David Petraeus’ affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell was timed to silence the former CIA chief on these matters.

Oooh! Hillary and her staff ignored the CIA’s advice and decided — with presidential authorization, of course — to provide arms to these shadowy “insurgents” anyway? And also, maybe, the takedown on Petraeus was part of an elaborate effort to cover their tracks?

Well, let’s not get ahead of ourselves here. Nobody’s verified this stuff yet, but exactly what has Joe Curl been hinting at lately?

Care to guess where this stuff is leaking from? I could, but I won’t.

 

Category: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Libya, Scandal, Terrorism

Cultural Survival Instinct

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | 40 Comments

The counter-jihad blogger known as Fjordman has an essay up at David Horowitz’s Front Page Magazine about the situation in Norway.

Norway’s immigrant population is small compared to that in the United States, but the problems arising seem much worse:

In May 2011 [Labour Party activist Eskil Pedersen] pressed criminal charges against a Member of Parliament, Christian Tybring-Gjedde from the rival Progress Party, for “racism.” The case was soon dismissed. Tybring-Gjedde had stated that in the Grorud Valley in Oslo, which has one of the densest concentrations of immigrants in the country, blond girls have to dye their hair dark to avoid harassment, children are threatened with violence if they have pig meat in their lunch box and native boys risk being physically assaulted by immigrants who think they don’t get enough time on the local football team. These are merely truthful statements. In fact, reality is often much worse than this.
The reaction of Eskil Pedersen and others of his ilk to hearing that the natives no longer feel safe in parts of their own country due to the immigration policies supported by the ruling elites is to try to silence political opponents who speak truthfully about this.

“Blond girls have to dye their hair dark to avoid harassment”? And a political leader who calls attention to this problem is subjected to criminal prosecution? Whose “racism” is really the problem, when it is the blondes who are harassed? Norway’s problem is two-fold:

  1. Unlike the United States, it has no cultural tradition of assimilating immigrants;
    but also
  2. Very much like the United States, it has a substantial number of immigrants who have no desire to be assimilated.

Permit me to hypothesize that a nation which is self-confident — which believes in the virtues of its own culture, traditions and institutions — will be more successful in assimilating immigrants, even though this same cultural self-confidence may manifest itself at times as “racism.”

Excuse the scare-quotes around “racism,” but in recent decades the word has been employed so promiscuously that its meaning has been lost and the word itself has become an obstacle to understanding. Ethnic hatred is one thing — and certainly Muslim immigrants harassing blond girls can be as easily accused of that as anyone — but “racism” is nearly always employed to accuse the majority population of hating minorities whose victimization (real or alleged) becomes a political weapon for the Left.

Eskil Pedersen is just as much a member of Norway’s majority as Christian Tybring-Gjedde, whom Pedersen accused of “racism.” But the embrace of immigrants as victimized minorities enables Pedersen and his party to smear Tybring-Gjedde’s party — to discredit them in the eyes of the respectable bourgeoisie who, in Norway as elsewhere, do not wish to be associated with “racism” — in such a way that the actual problem (i.e., social friction caused by the presence of unassimilated immigrants) cannot be addressed in terms of policy.

Are we discussing policy, or are we just calling names? Read more

Category: Culture, Intellectuals, Norway, Racism

LIVE AT FIVE: 05.21.13

Posted on | May 21, 2013 | 3 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Search Operations Continue After At Least 51 Killed By Oklahoma Tornado

Monster tornado flattened entire neighborhoods in the Oklahoma City suburbs and demolished an elementary school

Justice Department IG Criticizes Former US Attorney For “Fast And Furious” Leak To Fox News
Dennis Burke rapped for retaliating against whisteblower ATF agent

Journalists Rip Obama Administration For Rosen Targeting
Justice Department comes under fire for criminalizing basic reporting



POLITICS
Crazy Cousin John Goes To Boston To Boost Gomez

Rallying the veterans for the former SEAL

Rand Paul In New Hampshire: IRS Targeting Of Conservatives “Un-American”

Judge Criticizes “High Error Rate” Of NYPD Stops

Business-Labor Rift Could Sink Immigration Bill Just As In 2007

White House Counsel Kept IRS Probe Results From Obama

Senate Panel Okays Welfare For Newly Legal Immigrants

Supremes To Consider Prayer At Government Meetings

Bonding Bill Clash Slows Vote On Minnesota Tax Bill

Louisiana Medicaid Expansion Bills Continue To Die At The Capitol



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Ends Higher On Weaker Dollar, But Ample Supplies Restrain Bulls: NYMEX $96.71, Brent $104.80
Yahoo’s Meyer Stakes Turnaround On Tumblr Takeover
Panel Finds Apple’s Web Of Tax Shelters Saved It Billions
Hungry For A Merger: GrubHub, Seamless To Combine
Clearwire Investors Look For Higher Bid As Sprint Vote Looms
iGate Sacks CEO Murthy After Sexual Harassment Probe
New Legislation Will Help Federal Student Loan Borrowers, But Will It Hurt Lenders?
Tesla Motors May Repay Energy Department Loan As Soon As Wednesday
Stock Rally Pauses After Last Week’s Records
Websense Agrees To $906 Million Private Equity Buyout
Corn Declines For Second Day As Farmers Accelerate Planting
Google Checkout To Shut Down In November
Recharge Your Cellphone In Twenty Seconds
Ex-Nokia Team Creates Two-Part “Jolla” Mobile Phone



SPORTS
Red Wings Top Blackhawks 3-1, Take 2-1 Lead

Hey everybody! Let's give our goalie a big hand!

Hey everybody! Let’s give our goalie a big hand!

Chicago loses consecutive games for the first time in almost two months

Yankees Stroke Four Solo Dingers In 6-4 10-Inning Defeat Of O’s

Tribe Rallies Past M’s In 10th To Earn Sweep

NBA Not Making It Easy For Conspiracy Theorists

Teheran Shuts Down Twins, Braves Win 5-1

Colon, A’s Cruise To 9-2 Win Over Rangers

Astros Hang On, Edge Royals 6-5

Marquis Wins Fifth Straight As Padres Vanquish Cards 4-2

Giants Pound Zach Duke And Bullpen Impartially, Nats Blanked



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Taylor Swift Cleans up At Billboard Music Awards

Yep, eight awards.

Yep, eight awards.

“You are the longest and best relationship I’ve ever had,” country cutie tells fans

Mary J. Blige Hit With $3.4 Million Tax Lien

Arrest Warrant Issued For “Teen Mom” Jenelle Evans

Doors Keyboard Player Ray Manzarek Dies From Bile Duct Cancer, 74

Chad Johnson Arrested In Florida

Zach Galifianakis Taking Former Homeless Woman He Rescued To “Hangover Part III” Premiere


Seth Macfarlane Won’t Return To Oscars Stage

Chrissy Teigen “Buckling Down” To Be Wedding-Ready By Fall

Denise Richards: Charlie Sheen And I “Actually Enjoy Hanging Out”

Katrina Bowden Marries Ben Jorgensen

Rihanna Channels Marilyn Monroe In Instagram Pix

Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher Enjoy Alone Time On Romantic Stroll In Hempstead



FOREIGNERS
Israelis Return Fire Into Syria After Taking Fire
Guatemala’s Top Court Annuls Rios Montt Genocide Conviction
Uganda’s Daily Monitor Newspaper Raided Over Museveni “Plot”
Musharraf Granted Bail In Benazir Bhutto Case
Obama Urges Burma To Stop Violence Against Muslims
Norks Release Chicom Fishing Crew
Palestinian Official Pours Cold Water On Kerry’s Visit
Hezbollah’s Role In Syria Shakes The Lebanese
Sean Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop Of Boston, Boycotts Irish PM’s Visit Due To Abortion Changes
Labour Saves David Cameron’s Gay Marriage Bill After Tory Backbenchers Revolt
Church Of Scotland Approves Compromise On Gay Clergy



BLOGS & STUFF
Valley of the Shadow: Help Oklahoma!
American Power: Glenn Greenwald Goes All-Out To Defend Anti-Semitic Screed By Professor Joseph Massad
Michelle Malkin: Audit THIS! Tea Party Groups To Protest At IRS Offices Nationwide Today
Boston Herald: Liz Loan Plan For Students A Loony Idea
Allahpundit: Carney Claims Obama’s Lawyer Didn’t Tell Him That The IRS Was Targeting Tea Parties When She Found Out
Viking Pundit: When We Said Nobody Knew About The IRS Scandal Until Recently, We Meant Everybody Knew A Month Ago
Robert Costa: The Impeachment Option
Weasel Zippers: McRINO Now Obama’s Top Ally
Vodkapundit: Close, But No Cigar
Power Line: DOJ’s Fox News Surveillance – Legitimate Leak Investigation, Or Outrageous Violation Of The First Amendment?
JustOneMinute: The Fourth Scandal
Legal Insurrection: Hillary’s Benghazi (Scape)goat
Weekly Standard Blog: IRS’ Lerner Had History Of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries At FEC
NRO Corner: Save Some Pinocchios For NPR And The NYT
Riehl World News: CBS Pulls “Mike And Molly” Season Finale Over OK Tornado Storyline; Dems, HuffPo Not So Much
PJ Tatler: Has An Iron Curtain Descended On The Cincinnati IRS Office?
Chicago Boyz: Another (Apparent) Case Of Politically-Driven Government Abuse Of A Small Business


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Monday

Posted on | May 20, 2013 | 7 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


“I need one more day of weekend…” – Jason & The Scorchers


Especially this weekend, which seemed to be split between a high school alumni weekend and extended face time with friends on Sunday. Both of these things were good, but kinda got in the way of doing my bloggy duties in a timely fashion. That having been said, some of the links below go to NSFW places, so Reader Discretion Is Advised.


Randy’s Roundtable leads off this week with Kate Bock, then it’s Laughing Conservative with Aimee Teegarden (I think I like her recent look better). Blackmailers Don’t Shoot is back with a collection of links mixing pretty girls with rock & roll, while Fishersville Mike notes the passing of Big Bang Theory‘s sixth season with a shot of Kaley Cuoco. Ninety Miles From Tyranny checks in with another Hot Pick of the Late Night as well as some Late Night Ladies, and Reaganite Republican puts the spotlight on Miss Nicaragua. Animal Magnetism proclaims the Animal Manifesto on Rule 5 Friday, followed by the Saturday Brunettenarok, and First Street Journal does Rule 5 their own way with Americans. (Definitely SFW!)


A View From The Beach one again sadistically denies us our cavegirl fix; we’ll just have to make do with The Women of CSI, Keeping The Balance, SciFi Cutie Seeks MILFdom, In Mammoriam, Pass The Salt, Tuna?, and At Least She Does Windows.


Soylent Green kicks off the week with your AM Angel, followed by Monday Motivationer Fire, Tuesday Titillation Super, Humpday Hawtness Hunter, Afternooner Joanna, the Falconsword 100000-Hit Furball, Overnighty Cooking Shows, Corsetcare Continuummmm, AM Awesome Kourtney, and Evening Awesome Ciara. Also, still say you can’t be hypnotized?


Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Alice Eve, his vintage Babe is Beverly D’Angelo, and Sex in Advertising this week is covered by Scarlett Johansson. Dustbury checks in with Raquel Pomplun and Nancy Kwan. At The Camp of the Saints, it’s Maggie Green and TCOTS Fifth Anniversary’s Six Days Of Cheesecake: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.


The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this past week included Rihanna, Nicole Beharie, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Nanami Takahashi, Mai Nishida, Kandyse McClure, Ellen Adarna, Jessica Cribbon, Janina Gavankar, Elsa Pataky, Lea Salonga, Shay Maria, Nadine Velasquez, Madchen Amick, Nelly Furtado, and Denise Milfort with a Rule 5 linkfest.


Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox for the Memorial Day Weekend Rule 5 Blowout is Saturday, May 25.


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