And it’s a bipartisan scandal, though it’s hard to tell that judging by the names some groups have adopted — as the I.R.S. should know. Can you tell which of these lean left and which ones right? Patriot Majority USA, Crossroads GPS, American Future Fund and the Citizens for Strength and Security Fund. (Nos. 1 and 4 are liberal, 2 and 3 are conservative.)

The majority of the organizations that appear to be most politically active — from groups that run their own ads, like American Action Network and Americans for Prosperity, to the mysterious Center to Protect Patie

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/16/opinion/the-real-irs-scandal.html

From a helicopter it’s easy to see the indus­try’s impact on the Athabasca Valley. Within minutes of lifting off from Fort McMurray, heading north along the east bank of the river, you pass over Suncor’s Millennium mine—the company’s leases extend practically to the town. On a day with a bit of wind, dust plumes billowing off the wheels and the loads of the dump trucks coalesce into a single enormous cloud that obscures large parts of the mine pit and spills over its lip. To the north, beyond a small expanse of intact forest, a similar cloud rises from the next pit, Suncor’s Steepbank mine, and beyond that lie two more, and across the river two more. One evening last July the clouds had merged into a band of dust sweeping west across the devastated landscape. It was being sucked into the updraft of a storm cloud. In the distance steam and smoke and gas flames belched from the stacks of the Syncrude and Suncor upgraders—”dark satanic mills” inevitably come to mind, but they’re a riveting sight all the same. From many miles away, you could smell the tarry stench. It stings your lungs when you get close enough.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2009/03/canadian-oil-sands/kunzig-text

AUSTIN, Texas —What kind of courage does it take, for mercy’s sake? The majority of the American people (55 percent) think the war in Iraq is a mistake and that we should get out. The majority (65 percent) of the American people want single-payer health care and are willing to pay more taxes to get it. The majority (86 percent) of the American people favor raising the minimum wage. The majority of the American people (60 percent) favor repealing Bush’s tax cuts, or at least those that go only to the rich. The majority (66 percent) wants to reduce the deficit not by cutting domestic spending, but by reducing Pentagon spending or raising taxes.

The majority (77 percent) thinks we should do “whatever it takes” to protect the environment. The majority (87 percent) thinks big oil companies are gouging consumers and would support a windfall profits tax. That is the center, you fools. WHO ARE YOU AFRAID OF?

I listen to people like Rahm Emanuel superciliously explaining elementary politics to us clueless naifs outside the Beltway (“First, you have to win elections”). Can’t you even read the damn polls?

CNN.com – Hillary Clinton: No regret on Iraq vote – Apr 21, 2004 www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/04/21/iraq.hillary/ Apr 21, 2004 – Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is not sorry she voted for a resolution … Clinton, the former first lady, voted in favor of the Iraq war resolution in …

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Hillary Clinton Says She Wouldn’t Have Voted For Iraq War – ABC … abcnews.go.com › ABC News Blogs › Politics › Political Radar by David Chalian – in 177 Google+ circles Dec 18, 2006 – ABC News’ David Chalian Reports: As Sen. Hillary Rodham http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2006/12/hillary_clinton-2/ continues to assess a possible presidential candidacy and the contours of …

Wallace began with background checks, citing the 1.7 million people who’ve been denied because of the checks — but LaPierre argued that most of those people weren’t prosecuted, and we can’t say they “were stopped from getting a gun at all.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/chris-wallace-skewers-nras-wayne-lapierre-on-gun-rights-thats-ridiculous-and-you-know-it-sir/

WATCHLIST SUSPECTED TERRORISTS BUY GUNS

by the Government Accountability Office determined that 247 people on the watch list bought guns last year, and also showed that between 2004 and 2009, more than nine out of ten individuals on the list who tried to buy guns succeeded.

“It defies common sense,” said Sen. Lautenberg, D.-New Jersey, who requested the GAO report, “that people on the terror watch list continue to be cleared to buy weapons legally in the United States.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/247-us-terror-watchlist-bought-guns-2010/story?id=13480320#.UXoCgoq3M6U

He’s a coward who wouldn’t serve his country in time of war. It’s important to remember that, when given a chance to serve his country with

a gun he refused and avoided the draft. So we are talking about a gun lover who is uncomfortable to the point of girlish terror to be in a situation where EVERYONE is armed. LaPierre took numerous student deferments to avoid serving in Vietnam and has never served in the Armed Forces in any capacity.