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So I’ve been informed that Patheos is doing another behind-the-scenes makeover of the website. The upshot? I won’t be able to post anything today as the elves do their work. In the meantime, here are some of my favorite songs which you may enjoy while you wait patiently for a post. Or, you can go read something controversial. Like a post about Hell. Or perhaps a post about Lying.
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The Motels, Suddenly, Last Summer.
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Hi. We’re from the IRS, and we’d like to ask you some questions.
That’s when you break out your pocket copy of the Constitution, read the agents of the Eye of Sauron the First Amendment, inform them that the interview is concluded, and walk the hell out.
Next step? Call your attorney, and your Congressional representatives constituent services offices.
Uh, you probably think I’m making this headline up, but truth is stranger than fiction. Besides, it’s all right here on C-Span. [Read more...]
Not the enemy of freedom
Or the IRS and AP scandals? Well, just like the claims that people of conscience make against the HHS Mandate, all of these scandals revolve around the suppression of the First Amendment rights that Americans hold sacrosanct. [Read more...]
As the hours click off the clock, more and more folks are coming out of their caves to complain about how their recent IRS audits are a little too well timed to be just coincidental.
Today, Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham, and the head of the ministry his father started, has written a letter to President Obama crying foul. [Read more...]
Their fetching new logo…
The IRS, seeking to shed its image as a benign, and somewhat boring, revenue collection agency of the US Government, has asked the President to allow the agency to be more suitably named.
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Remember how during the Presidential campaign word got out the Mitt Romney had made a donation to the National Organization for Marriage? The Internal Revenue Service may have been the conduit of that information. [Read more...]
Thus avoiding the death penalty. More on that news here,
By Russell Goldman (@GoldmanRussell)
May 14, 2013
Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell agreed today to serve two life sentences and waive his right to an appeal in order to avoid the possibility of being condemned to death. [Read more...]
I mean, it’s so bad, even CNN’s Piers Morgan is seeing the light.
Benghazi, IRS, AP - doesn't add up to much 'transparency' does it, Mr President? — Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) May 13, 2013
“Now, let’s make sure these women are vindicated by delivering what all women deserve: Access to the full range of health services including safe, high-quality and legal abortion care.”
–Ilyse Hogue, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America [Read more...]
A long time ago, over on the YIMCatholic Facebook page, I shared a music video. It’s a little ditty about the Whole Foods parking lot and it did go viral. It also made some readers scratch their heads and ask,
Did I miss something? Why is this on the YIM page? [Read more...]
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