Planned Parenthood Pulls $85 Million In Profit On Abortion Sales

May 20, 2013 Leave a comment

Since Roe v. Wade was decided in 1973 over 50 million abortions have been performed in the United States. According to the CDC’s most recent date in 2009 there were around 800,000 abortions performed in our country. Nearly 40% of those abortions take place at Planned Parenthood, which made over $100 million in abortion sales and earned $85 million in profits according to their 2011-2012 annual report. Most of those abortions took place in inner cities, targeting black and hispanic children. Yet we’re not allowed to discuss Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, and her  racism. We’re supposed to bury our head and pretend abortion is about women’s health. In reality, it’s about murder and racism.

The conservative media was outraged over the Kermit Gosnell trial. Gosnell was  ultimately convicted of murdering several babies born via botched abortions. He snapped their necks shortly after birth. Conservatives weren’t just outraged over the murdering of botched aborted babies. We understood that had these babies still been in the womb Planned Parenthood would defend to the death the right of Gosnell to snap their necks. No matter how much the left wants to pretend that an unborn baby (which the media arrogantly dismisses as a “fetus”) is just a clump of cells, the reality is that it’s a separate and distinct human life.

From the founding of Planned Parenthood the goal was to reduce the number of minorities and other “undesirables.” Sanger and the Eugenics crowd of the early 20th century made that abundantly clear. It should come as no surprise that most abortion clinics are in minority neighborhoods. Gosnell’s clients were almost all black. In New York City, 41% of all minority conceptions end in an abortion. Killing black and Hispanic babies is a multimillion dollar industry sold to us as women’s health. Planned Parenthood alone pulls in 9 figures on abortion sales while turning an $85 million profit. They claim abortion is only 3% of their business but it directly correlates to their profits.

The left is forever accusing conservatives of being racist and hating minorities. Yet it is conservatives who have been defending the right of black and Hispanic babies to live since Roe was decided 40 years ago. If conservatives hate blacks so much why wouldn’t we support their death via abortion? The fact is that throughout the past 150 years it has been progressives that have advocated racism, not conservatives. We support the right of blacks, Hispanics and all racial and ethnic minorities to live their lives free of government intrusion. This includes the right to be born without state sponsored or state supported abortion threatening minority lives.

Gosnell and all the other grotesque abortion clinics show us a number of things. First, these people don’t care about women’s health. Planned Parenthood forever complains about back alley abortions if Roe is overturned. Yet they support Gosnell and the legion of dirty abortion clinics out there. Second, Gosnell highlights for us that abortion targets minorities for death. Third, for all Obama and the left claim they want abortions “safe and rare” the result is neither. With over 800,000 abortions in 2009 and 50 million since 1973 it isn’t rare. With Gosnell’s operating legally, even protected by states supportive of abortion or fearful of Planned Parenthood political reprisals, it isn’t even safe. Of course, abortion has never been safe for babies, it always results in their death.

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The Condemnation of Big Government

May 18, 2013 2 Comments

From the beginning of the progressive movement more than a century ago their goal has been a massive Federal government run by experts and a legion of bureaucrats. They have long wanted to control our every move via regulation. As for us little people, we’re supposed to trust our betters running the government because after all they’re experts. We’re also supposed to trust that these people will be fair in their application of the regulations they expertly write and enforce. This is the government Obama and his progressive administration so desperately want. Yet when it comes down to administering such a government, it’s become quite clear that everyone from the top to the lowest level bureaucrat is incapable of fairly enforcing the never ending pages of government regulation.

The IRS scandal is a good example of the problem with massive government. Steven Miller, the man Obama didn’t actually fire but who was leaving at the end of his term in June, testified before Congress yesterday. He claims the IRS did nothing illegal in targeting conservative groups. He may very well be right, there may be no Federal law or regulation preventing this targeting. Us little people are expected to trust the IRS to fairly apply the regulations they create, yet it’s clear we can’t trust them. The IRS asked one pro-life group for the content of their prayers. They targeted conservative hispanic groups and engaged in political intimidation for years. The IRS stalled conservative groups for years but of course gave speedy approval to Obama’s groups.

Obama acted outraged when he “discovered” the IRS scandal allegedly last week. Funny thing about the original public disclosure, it was via a planted question. The IRS knew about the targeting in 2011 and did nothing about it. The White House knew in June 2012 and did nothing about it. Why? Because it would hurt Obama’s re-election chances. Just like the Benghazi talking points memo, the Obama administration wanted to keep information from the American people because it would hurt the President’s re-election chances. So they don’t tell us about terrorism or al Qaeda ties in Benghazi, they don’t tell us about subpoena’s of AP journalists phone records over a “leak.” The interesting thing about that scandal is that the administration was simply paying the AP back for reporting the story one day before the administration planned on crowing about the foiled al Qaeda plot. Beat the administration to the punch and they’ll harass you.

Not even Chris Matthews is buying the administration line on the IRS scandal. Where Matthews and the left will get this scandal wrong is that they’ll blame low level bureaucrats and mistakes made within the Obama administration. What the public ought to take away from these scandals is that big government cannot be trusted. They’ll use the IRS to target political groups they don’t like then cover it up until after an election. They’ll punish the press for printing stories the government doesn’t want printed. They’ll not provide the public with information that makes the government and its leaders look bad. Then when called out for all of their misdeeds, the government and its leaders will either blame the opposition or claim their own incompetence. Of course don’t you dare suggest smaller government, that would be an outrage. You should be controlled by your betters in government, they know best! If they target conservatives in the IRS nonprofit office, they’ll get promoted to the Obamacare department of the IRS. Don’t question our betters.

Perhaps there is something positive to having Obama in the White House. We’re getting a chance to see that the progressive vision of big government doesn’t work. The progressives are incapable of managing the massive government they so badly want. They’re also incapable of fairly applying the laws and regulations they pass. They don’t need the Tea Party protesting in Washington to destroy the public’s idea of big government. The progressives merely need to expose themselves via their own expansion and mismanagement of government. They’ve shown themselves incompetent and unfair. They’ve shown themselves willing to target, with the massive power of government, anyone who questions them or challenges them. It’s been a long time since such a good case was made for the conservative vision of smaller government. Obama has been good for something after all.

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AP Accuses GOP Of Badgering Obama

May 17, 2013 2 Comments

The AP appears to be back on board the Obama train as they ran an article today accusing Republicans of “badgering” the President. That was just the headline. It appears those dastardly enemy Republicans aren’t satisfied with the Benghazi emails. They want more information about the White House talking points and they want more information about the situation generally. How dare they badger the President for such information! Never mind that the first emails released leave a gap of 67 hours between the attack and first email. Don’t pay attention to the fact that meetings took place in the White House in which notes exist. Benghazi is now about a badgered President.

What we still don’t know is why the administration blamed the video in the first place. In the many talking points drafts the video doesn’t appear until the very end. In the released emails, the video doesn’t appear until the very end. So why did Susan Rice and the entire Obama administration claim the video caused the attack? Who decided that was fact? Who decided to put it into the talking points? We still have no idea because the White House thinks a handful of emails ought to satisfy the badgering hordes.

What we still don’t know, what still hasn’t been asked by the Republicans is why Ambassador Chris Stevens was in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. What was he doing there? What official business was he conducting. We still have no idea why the ambassador was in Benghazi or what he was doing or planning to do. Why didn’t he have enough security? Obama blames budget cuts but the fact is sequestration was six months off last September and played no role in the lack of security in Benghazi. Yes, questioning the security puts Hillary Clinton’s reputation at risk. So what? Four Americans died within her State Department. She’s responsible for security expenditures, the public has a right to know if she screwed up by not providing enough security.

This isn’t about Hillary Clinton, it isn’t even about Obama. It’s about figuring out what happened in Benghazi and pinpointing ways to prevent such an attack in the future. There are potential crimes that took place here, from what we know Obama and Hillary should not be the target of such a criminal investigation. However, there are chain of command issues that a special prosecutor needs to look at. The fact that the administration so adamantly opposes a special prosecutor suggests, fairly or unfairly, that they have something to hide. It suggests there’s more here than meets the eye.

Obviously incompetence isn’t a criminal offense. But it can and should result in Congressional investigations. Democrats would have been well within their rights during Bush’s last two years to conduct investigations about the Federal government response to Hurricane Katrina. Likewise, Congressional investigations are required for Benghazi and the other Obama scandals. It isn’t a matter of badgering a President, it’s a matter of holding him and his administration accountable. Congress is charged with such under the Constitution and we should expect nothing less from our elected representatives. Perhaps as the Republican House continues investigating they might ask why Ambassador Stevens was in Benghazi and what he was planning on doing there.

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Eric Holder Needs To Go, Special Prosecutor Needed

May 16, 2013 Leave a comment

President Obama is just as outraged at the IRS abuses as the American people. See, he’s one of us! Except he’s the President and he alleges he found out about a scandal within his own executive branch at the same time the rest of us found out. He told the country last night he forced the resignation of acting IRS chief Steven Miller. Miller claims in an email to IRS employees he was leaving in June because that’s when his assignment was scheduled to end. Which version is correct? That’s anyone’s guess. We can bet that President Passive isn’t going to get to the bottom of it.

The White House released a bunch of Benghazi emails that they seem to think vindicates their position. It does no such thing. The emails prove Jay Carney was wrong in suggesting the White House had a limited role in creating the Benghazi talking points. The CIA wanted to scrap the talking points and the video didn’t become the focus of them until the very end. Of course Attorney General Eric Holder won’t be appointing a special prosecutor to investigate the deaths of four Americans, including an ambassador. If there was ever a case where a special prosecutor could actually help a President it’s this one. Unless the administration is afraid of a special prosecutor finding out what really happened in Benghazi.

At the center of all of these problems is Eric Holder. Holder claims that in the AP phone monitoring scandal he recused himself from the investigation of the original leak. There is no written evidence that Holder recused himself and he has no idea when he actually recused himself. He passed the matter off to one of his deputies in the Justice Department and if you were paying attention Holder suggested Congress couldn’t subpoena the deputy. If so, isn’t it convenient for Holder. Does anyone really believe that Holder wasn’t involved in the AP subpoenas? Doesn’t anyone believe that he didn’t at least know about them?

At yesterday’s Congressional hearing Eric Holder called Rep. Darrell Issa ”unacceptable and shameful.” This is a classic administration tactic. Rather than answering questions, tough though they may be, Holder is shifting focus away from himself and onto Issa. As though it’s outrageous that Issa is questioning the administration. Isolate and demonize, it’s straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook.  Hillary Clinton did the same thing during her Benghazi testimony in January. What’s unacceptable and shameful is how little Holder seems to know about the Federal agency that he runs. Just like Obama, he seems to know nothing. Do we have a government managed by a President and his cabinet or is our government run by a cabal of bureaucrats who do whatever they please?

Eric Holder needs to be fired. Obama can easily make Holder the fall guy for all of his problems. One big head rolling is likely to calm most of these storms. Firing the temporary IRS chief isn’t good enough. If Obama wants to stop the bleeding, he takes out Holder. He won’t do it of course, Holder is to good at using the Justice Department in illegal ways while deflecting criticism with a torrent of “I don’t know’s.” Like Obama, Holder knows nothing about anything. Fast and Furious, AP phone tapping, denying a homeschool family asylum. Holder knows nothing and as such he’s valuable to Obama.

Beyond Holder, a special prosecutor needs to be appointed for all of these scandals. There are enough links between the Obama campaign and secret tax information of conservatives and their organizations that a special prosecutor should investigate. We should have an independent review of the AP phone subpoena. Benghazi needs a fresh set of eyes, free of the political eyes both sides of the aisle have on the matter. The American people have a right to know what’s going on within their government. A special prosecutor is the best way to find out. We shouldn’t count on it though. Obama and Holder have either too much to hide or don’t like the idea of outsiders snooping around.

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Is Obama Just A Figurehead?

May 15, 2013 4 Comments

Left-wing news outlet ProPublica acknowledges that it received secret tax information from IRS informants about conservatives. An Obama re-election co-chair used leaked IRS documents to attack Romney last year. The IRS spent most of the last three years asking conservative groups about speeches members made, offices members or their family have run for or may run for in the future, to say nothing of demands for Facebook and Twitter accounts. All while progressive groups were approved without scrutiny. Media members and other assorted troublemakers who have questioned the President in, public or otherwise embarrassing ways, have been subjected to IRS audits. We’re told Obama and the White House knew nothing about all of this.

Eric Holder’s Justice Department hacked the phone lines of 20 AP reporters after a security leak. Holder claims the leak was one of the top three most important, crucial leaks he’s seen since 1973. Holder has no idea how many journalists have been targeted over the last four years but we should trust him because it was an important leak that threatened national security. It makes one wonder why, if this was such an important leak, Obama knew nothing about the targeting of journalists. Did no one at the Justice Department bother to ask the President what his opinion was of wiretapping journalists? Are we to believe that Obama never asked anyone at the Justice Department “hey what’s going on with the investigation of that really important national security leak”?

Benghazi is much the same. Obama claimed to be friends with Ambassador Stevens. Yet on the night the consulate was under attack Obama went to bed without knowing what happened. Leon Panetta testified that he never spoke with anyone at the White House on the night of the attack nor for a couple days after. Did Obama really say “that’s a shame” then go to sleep when he found out about the attack? Why did he do nothing to save the ambassador? The coverup afterward is bad enough but there are legitimate questions regarding Obama’s whereabouts on the evening of the Benghazi attack. There are even more questions as to why Obama appears to be disinterested in the attack as it happened.

The White House response seems to be that the President is completely out of the loop when it comes to all the details of the Federal government. David Axlerod suggested the Federal government is so big that it’s impossible for the President to keep up with it all. Sort of a rich argument coming from the party and President of ever expansive government don’t you think? It seems almost unfathomable that the President wouldn’t know about the wiretapping of journalists after such an allegedly big security leak. It seems impossible to believe Obama didn’t have any idea that conservative groups were being targeted by the IRS. Especially so when there were media reports about it for years and his own campaign used leaked information. Did Obama really care so little about the Benghazi attack that he went to bed rather than orchestrate a response?

Maybe Obama will blame the IRS scandal on Senate Democrats who demanded Tea Party investigations for years. Maybe Obama will finally hang Hillary out to dry once and for all. Maybe he’ll blame the press phone tapping on career Justice Department lawyers. At the end of the day though Obama is the President of the United States. He’s the chief executive, the CEO if you will of the Federal government. He’s ultimately responsible for all of these problems, the buck stops in the Oval Office. Yet for Obama it’s always someone elses responsibility, he knows nothing. Is he so intellectually uncurious that he doesn’t bother to look into anything within his administration? The way the White House has responded to all of these scandals one might be led to think that Obama is nothing but a figurehead.

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Has Obama Committed An Impeachable Offense?

May 14, 2013 4 Comments

The President is currently mired in three major scandals. We all know about Benghazi and the IRS Scandal. The third involves the Justice Department secretly obtaining the phone records of journalists at the Associated Press, allegedly for the purposes of discovering a whistleblower. The White House of course has directed the media to the Justice Department, who will no doubt either refuse to comment or send the press back to the White House. This is an issue that won’t go away, largely because the press has a vested interest in protecting their sources. How can we have a free press when the government spies on members of the media?

The IRS Scandal is completely blowing up on Obama. At yesterday’s press conference Obama claimed he learned about it when the media reported it. How can it be that the chief executive of the government not know about this scandal? Especially so when there were press reports about it over two years ago and the American Center for Law and Justice served upon Obama’s Chief of Staff an official complaint three weeks ago? Jay Carney acknowledges the White House found out three weeks ago. How is it Obama didn’t find out until last Friday? He’s either lying or a completely incompetent manager. Perhaps Valerie Jarrett is protecting the President from bad news but it’s on him to get rid of someone like Jarrett if she’s doing that. The scandal also extends beyond Cincinnati. The targeting was agency wide.

Yesterday Obama claimed that he called Benghazi a terrorist attack the very next day after it happened. No one is buying it, not even the liberal Washington Post. There is video out there of the President as late as September 26th claiming the video caused a riot which led to four American deaths. Drudge is reporting that a fourth bombshell is about to hit, perhaps from the CIA. It’s the CIA that Obama is currently blaming for the revisions to the administration talking points. One suspects that the CIA doesn’t think very much of being hung out to dry and as such they may be planning their revenge. Whether they release information about gun or missile running to Syria or if they release more information about the revisions remains to be seen. If there is one arm of the Federal government a President would be wise not to toy with it’s the CIA.

The question here is whether any of this reaches the level of an impeachable offense. As it stands today, there is not an impeachable offense. There is complete and utter incompetence within the Obama administration. Obama appears to be completely incapable of managing the executive branch. Right now his best argument is his own incompetence, his own mistakes. If he must blame someone, he can blame other people’s mistakes. As it stands today, there is no direct link between the IRS and the White House and no direct evidence that information was exchanged. In Benghazi there is evidence of extreme incompetence from Obama and the State Department. However until a weapon running scheme can be identified with hard evidence there isn’t an impeachable offense. As it stands on May 14th, 2013 we don’t yet have evidence that Obama engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors.

We have two choices with Obama, neither of them very good. We either believe he’s grossly incompetent or grossly evil. Today the conclusion reached must be grossly incompetent and thus he must not be impeached. As time goes on, that analysis may change as we don’t know what will be released in the coming days, weeks and months. We may discover a widespread scheme to threaten and harass whistleblowers, which could rise to the level of impeachable offense. We have to let the investigations play out. What sad position this country is in. It’s one thing to disagree with the President politically, it’s one thing to question his political moves. It’s another thing entirely when we are presented with a choice between our President being profoundly incompetent at managing the executive branch or profoundly evil in how he wields his power.

UPDATE: There appears to be anti-conservative bias throughout the Obama administration. At the EPA 92% of liberal groups FOIA requests saw their FOIA fees waived while 92% of conservative groups saw their requests for fee waivers rejected. The same thing appears to be happening at the FCC, where it rejects conservative FIOA requests and grants liberal FOIA requests. How far this bias goes is unknown at this point. It makes the IRS scandal less surprising and more business as usual for the Obama administration.

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Team Obama’s Fundamental IRS Miscalculation

May 14, 2013 Leave a comment

Last Friday the Obama administration made one of the few tactical political errors they’ve made. They had an IRS executive causally acknowledge that the tax agency targeted conservative groups with terms like Tea Party and patriot in their names for additional scrutiny. The IRS also targeted Jewish groups and shifted their targeting terms so as to capture as many conservative groups as possible. The Obama administration has successfully shifted focus away from Benghazi but the IRS scandal isn’t quite as controlled as they expected. Information continues to leak out, including that top officials at the IRS knew about the targeting of conservative groups in 2010. One finds it difficult to believe an Inspectors General report with that sort of information didn’t make it to the White House.

In 1974 Article 2 of the proposed articles of impeachment against President Nixon focused on his abuses within the IRS. We are nowhere near that level with Obama yet, largely because we don’t know how deep Obama is personally into all of this. The information trickling out isn’t just that the IRS targeted conservative groups for additional scrutiny. The IRS also may have been involved in the leaking of information concerning donations made by Mitt Romney’s PAC. Last year Romney donor Frank VanderSloot was attacked by Obama’s campaign as a “wealthy individual with a less than reputable record.” He was then subjected to two IRS audits. So the question now is two fold. First, did the IRS provide VanderSloot’s tax information to the Obama campaign? Second, did the IRS respond to the Obama campaign’s accusation in deciding to audit VanderSloot or in the alternative did the administration order up an audit?

Team Obama didn’t think the IRS announcement would legitimize complaints made nearly a year ago about the IRS and its use of private tax information for the benefit of the President. Now that the agency has admitted to targeting conservatives, even the media is taking seriously the claims of conservatives which were summarily dismissed just a few weeks ago. That David Plouffe seems to be justifying the IRS actions certainly isn’t helping Obama’s case. We’ve know for a long time that Obama views Republicans as “the enemy.” Is it possible he really has an enemies list and uses the IRS to attack them?

Obama has, not surprisingly, called the IRS scandal “outrageous” and “concerning.” Nixon also claimed he wasn’t a crook, so Presidential shows of outrage over scandal isn’t exactly meaningful. Bringing this back to what really matters, Benghazi, Obama called the investigation a “sideshow.” In this we can see what the administration intended to do with the IRS scandal. Obama got to moralize and show indignation over the IRS scandal while dismissing out of hand the more important and more damning Benghazi scandal. We can see in his comments Monday what the administration really wanted to do with these two issues. The IRS is an outrage but don’t pay attention to that Republican sideshow in Benghazi. When a President plays that card, it’s usually time to pay attention to the sideshow.

The IRS scandal has snowballed out of control for the administration, which will result in the opposite of its intended effect. In Benghazi the administration is relying on the State Department investigation of Thomas Pickering. Pickering never bothered to depose Hillary Clinton or any of her immediate underlings. He claims he already determined she wasn’t involved, which is of course complete nonsense if one listens to Gregory Hicks testimony. The Pickering investigation is a sham, everyone knows it.  Yet Obama relies on it. Because the public is outraged over the IRS scandal and because it’s likely few believe the administration wasn’t somehow involved people are going to be more likely to believe the worst about Benghazi.

This is the miscalculation of Obama’s political team. They really thought the IRS scandal would give Obama the opportunity to stamp his feet in moral indignation while Republicans shifted focus from Benghazi to the IRS. Obama still has an amount of cover over at the IRS. What the politicos didn’t anticipate was a whole host of additional IRS charges, including leaks of financial information by the IRS and politically motivated audits, making its way into the mainstream press. They were slow to react, waiting until Monday for Obama to say anything. That would have been fine but for the snowball effect but once things got out of control Team Obama didn’t respond quickly enough. Now because people believe the administration is up to no good via the IRS, people are more willing to believe the worst about Benghazi.

We know Benghazi goes all the way to the top as we know Obama was involved in the decision making. We obviously don’t know if Obama or any of his White House staff were involved in the IRS scandal. Presumably investigations will take place and we’ll find something out eventually. The question isn’t so much whether there’s an impeachable offense here, there isn’t right now. Incompetence yes but incompetence isn’t impeachable. The question is at what point do the Democrats cut and run from Obama? He’s a lame duck with no political future. If things begin to get out of control scandal wise look for Democrats to distance themselves. They will cut and run to save their own careers before sticking their neck out for a lame duck Obama. Right now, Obama risks losing the country on both of these issues because folks don’t buy that the IRS targeting wasn’t political in nature. Because they question the IRS scandal, they’re going to question Benghazi as well. Team Obama is in full on crisis mode and they should be.

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