My View by Silvio Canto, Jr.

Obama scandals by the minute!

2013-05-21T00:01:00.000-05:00

Have you seen anything like this before? The Obama administration is in a scandal-a-day mode. Again, I have never seen this before and I remember Watergate, Iran-Contra and the Clinton Oval Office scandals.

Today, we learned that the scandals expanded to "Fast & Furious". It looks like the DOJ tried to undermine a whistle-blower by leaking some documents. Wonder if we will hear from the "civil lilibertarians" about that?

The other "new scandal" is about 2 Fox News reporters.

Last, but not least, there are now some doubts as to when the White House learned of the IRS story. There are some reports that some key people knew about the IRS investigation but did not tell President Obama.

Does it make any sense that key White House staffers would keep an IRS story away from President Obama? It makes no sense to me and we need an independent prosecutor to cut through the crap.

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Sunday: A chat with Humberto Fontova & Henry Gomez at Cuba Nostalgia

2013-05-20T17:23:00.002-05:00

We did two shows this weekend from Cuba Nostalgia.

On Sunday, we spoke with Humberto Fontova about his new book, "The longest romance". This book is about the US media and Fidel Castro.

In segment 2, Henry Gomez discussed his involvement with The Babalu Blog.

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Saturday: A chat with Valentin Prieto & Alberto De La Cruz at Cuba Nostalgia

2013-05-20T17:23:00.000-05:00

We spoke with Valentin Prieto about the story of The Babalu Blog. Val started the blog 10 years ago.

In segment 2, Alberto De La Cruz, Managing Director, discussed the current status of the blog.

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Cuba Independence Day

2013-05-20T00:01:00.000-05:00

On this day in 1902, Cuba became an independent country. I recall my grandmother, born in 1892 when Cuba was still a Spanish colony, told me stories of celebrations, parties, Cuban flags hanging from windows and a general sense of happiness around the island.

Of course, independence did not fix Cuba's problems. The island went through several ups and downs, government changes and the communist takeover of 1959.

Cuba did enjoy a lot of success in the first half of the 20th century. The island nation achieved macro-economic success, from per capita income to literacy. Unfortunately, Cuba's political problems made it difficult for country to enjoy a stable political climate.

Maybe Cuba will eventually celebrate another independence day as a democratic country. We hope so!

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Remembering Robin Gibb who died a year ago

2013-05-19T00:01:00.000-05:00

Robin Gibb of The Bee Gees died a year ago. In recent years, Robin had been very active in supporting World War II veterans:

"There has been much talk about Robin Gibb's contribution to popular music since the announcement of his death.

But he will be remembered by a much older group of men for a very different reason. This was another side to the former Bee Gees singer that many people rarely saw."

Today, we remember one of the group's songs.

Click here for "Alone again":

"'Leaving' that's all you ever seem to say and I'm tired
The wants you have me for have expired
Sleeping and reading ev'ry book I can find to get my mind off
In all I was a soul you were using

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train
Don't desert me now or I am dead

People, the sun is going down on your heads so read your paper
There's no one there for you to confide in
It's instinct to always to have a shoulder to cry on and to rely on
Someone there to share and to shine on

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train
Don't desert me now or I am dead

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train
Don't desert me now or I am dead

I am alone again
You can't believe the tears that I've shed
I'm on a bound down train..."

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Frank Sinatra died 15 years ago this week

2013-05-18T00:01:00.000-05:00

Time flies and we recall that Frank Sinatra died 15 years ago this week. It seems like it was yesterday that I was driving and heard the story about Sinatra's break on the radio:

"Sinatra emerged from an Italian-American family in Hoboken, New Jersey, to become the first modern superstar of popular music, with an entertainment career that spanned more than five decades. In the first incarnation of his singing career, he was a master of the romantic ballads popular during World War II. After his appeal began to wane in the late 1940s, Sinatra reinvented himself as a suave swinger with a rougher, world-weary singing style, and began a spectacular comeback in the 1950s.

In addition to his great musical success, Sinatra appeared in 58 films; one of his earliest was Anchors Aweigh (1945). Playing a cocky Italian-American soldier who meets a violent death in From Here to Eternity (1953), co-starring Burt Lancaster and Montgomery Clift, Sinatra won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. His film career flourished after that, as he starred as Nathan Detroit in the movie musical Guys and Dolls (1955) and played a heroin addict in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955), for which he was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actor. He also starred in the musicals High Society (1956) and Pal Joey (1957) and turned in a memorable performance as an Army investigator in the acclaimed film The Manchurian Candidate (1962).
By the late 1950s, Sinatra had become the epitome of show-business success and glamorous, rough-edged masculinity. He even headed up his own entourage, known as the Rat Pack, which included Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop. The group had originally formed around Humphrey Bogart, who died in 1957. The Rat Pack first appeared together on the big screen in 1960’s casino caper Ocean’s Eleven. They would go on to make Sergeant’s Three (1962), Four for Texas (1963) and Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964). Onscreen and in real life, the Pack’s famous stomping grounds included Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York (notably the Copacabana Club).

Sinatra worked steadily in film throughout the 1960s, though many of his performances seemed almost perfunctory. His last major Hollywood role came in 1980’s The First Deadly Sin. A famous heartthrob, Sinatra married four times, divorcing his longtime sweetheart Nancy Barbato after a decade and three children (Nancy, Frank Jr. and Christina) to marry the actress Ava Gardner in 1951. Their marriage lasted less than two years, and in 1966 Sinatra married the 21-year-old actress Mia Farrow, 30 years his junior; they were divorced in 1968. In 1976, he married Barbara Blakely Marx (the former wife of Zeppo Marx), and they remained together until his death."

Click here for Frank Sinatra's "THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT":

"Some day, when I'm awfully low, When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you...
And the way you look tonight.
Yes you're lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft, There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.
With each word your tenderness grows, Tearing my fear apart...
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.
lovely ... Never, ever change. Keep that breathless charm.
Won't you please arrange it?
'Cause I love you ... Just the way you look tonight.
Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm, Just the way you look to-night...."

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"Four Pinocchios" 6 months late!

2013-05-17T00:30:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

It's nice to read that The Washington Post gave President Obama 4 Pinnochios for what he said after the Benghazi attack:

"During the campaign, the president could just get away with claiming he said "act of terror," since he did use those words -- though not in the way he often claimed. It seemed like a bit of after-the-fact spin, but those were his actual words -- to the surprise of Mitt Romney in the debate.

But the president's claim that he said "act of terrorism" is taking revisionist history too far, given that he repeatedly refused to commit to that phrase when asked directly by reporters in the weeks after the attack. He appears to have gone out of his way to avoid saying it was a terrorist attack, so he has little standing to make that claim now.

Indeed, the initial unedited talking points did not call it an act of terrorism. Instead of pretending the right words were uttered, it would be far better to acknowledge that he was echoing what the intelligence community believed at the time--and that the administration's phrasing could have been clearer and more forthright from the start."

It's nice but 6 months late!

The media chose to ignore Benghazi. It showed no curiosity whatsoever on the incredulous story that a YouTube video caused "a movie review club" to get angry and attack a US consulate.

No one in the media checked the calendar, i.e. the attack happened on September 11. I'm amazed that no one saw that. Speaking of the calendar, as well as the deteriorating situation in Benghazi, why didn't someone in the media ask President Obama about the lack of plan to defend our embassies or consulates on the anniversary of September 11?

The media did not challenge the story even after the president of Libya said that it was a terrorist attack.

We'll take the Pinocchios but they did come a little too late.

By the way, how many Pinocchios is Candy Crowley going to get?

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National security & Special forces today

2013-05-17T00:01:00.000-05:00

We discussed the importance of special forces in today's world with our friend Barry Jacobsen, military historian and former special forces member. These forces are a very important in today's very complicated world,

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Anger? Wait 'til people do their taxes next year?

2013-05-16T00:30:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

In about 9 months, Americans will come face to face with ObamaCare. It will happen when they sit down to fill out their tax returns. My guess is that most people will be angry.

ObamaCare and the IRS will work hand in hand in the implementation of the law, as Byron York points out today:

"A look at the text of the health care law reveals that much of it consists of amending the Internal Revenue Code to give the IRS more power. When Obamacare goes fully into effect in January, every American will have to prove to the IRS that he or she has "qualifying" health coverage, meaning coverage with a list of features approved by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. That will be done by submitting a document to the IRS, something like a W-2, to confirm coverage."

There is more! In simple language, the IRS will be the manager of the new law.

The IRS will ask you questions that you thought heretofore belonged in the very confidential relationship of doctors and patients.

The IRS will also need to hear about "raises" and changes in your financial condition.

Didn't a bunch of colonists threw tea in the harbor the last time that something like this happened?

The IRS and HHS will monitor the people through a "database", or a huge intrusion into your personal, financial and health information.

Again, my good guess is that most Democrats who voted for this monstrosity will shut off their phones next spring. They won't like what voters are telling them.

Many shocked Democrats will likely introduce bills in the US Senate to stop the implementation.

Others will blame their "staff" for not telling them everything that was in the bill. Some will blame Bush for invading Iraq!

Some will insult our intelligence, like Mr Axelrod this morning:

"The government is simply too big for President Obama to keep track of all the wrongdoing taking place on his watch, his former senior adviser, David Axelrod, told MSNBC. “Part of being president is there’s so much beneath you that you can’t know because the government is so vast,” he explained."

So let me get this straight. The government is too big for one man to keep track

SO we want to make the government bigger SO that he has more trouble keeping up with it?

Welcome to the era of big government. This is what big government looks like.

Now let the Democrats explain why this is better than what we had before.

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Looking for a grown-up who will accept responsibility and fire somebody!

2013-05-16T00:01:00.001-05:00

The incredible parade continues and no one has accepted responsibility for anything. We can say that no one, and I mean no one, gets fired in this town.

Today, the AG Holder, the one who did not know that an agency of his department put 2,000 high powered weapons in the hands of deadly Mexican cartels, came to Congress and said this:

""I was not the person involved in that decision. But be that as it may, I was recused in that matter as I described in a press conference held yesterday the decision issued the subpoena was made by the people involved in the case.""

AG Holder did tell Congress that his "deputy" did it. Yes, a certain Mr Cole did it and all questions should be directed to him.

On a related front, the White House is now blaming Treasury for the IRS going rogue.

President Obama! AG Holder! Is anybody running anything around here?

President BO should listen to one of the biggest "yes we can" screamers of recent years, "the madly in love with BO" Dana Milbank:

"President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency."

You are right Dana. You are very right indeed!

Speaking of President Obama & AG Holder, maybe they learned in the "I see nothing" school of Hogan's Heroes:

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Obama and scandals: Obama always in the dark!

2013-05-15T10:09:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

The "scandal a day" Obama administration gave us something else to react to:

"The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news."

To be fair, we want the government to punish those who leak national security secrets. "Leaks" put our people at risk. The men and women who do these dangerous jobs deserve a government that will prosecute "leakers".

What amazes me about the AP story is that the White House is once again in the dark.

Sorry but this does not pass the smell test.

Does Jay Carney want me to believe that AG Holder can seize AP telephones records over an alleged national security "leak" and not mention it to President Obama?

Sorry but I am confused!

What's next? Secretary Hagel announces that troops are going to Syria
and the White House learns about it on the front pages of newspapers?

When will Jay Carney walk into the Oval Office and tell President Obama that he is done making a fool of himself?

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72 hours of AP, the IRS & Benghazi plus Obama looking very confused!

2013-05-15T00:01:00.000-05:00

What a 72-hour period. I can not reccall the last time that the news cycle saw 3 stories of this magnitude and seriousness.

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The man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...

2013-05-14T08:34:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

Back in 2011, Frank Burke wrote this about President Obama's managerial style:

"In classic management theory, Barack Obama would have to be described as an abdicative manager.

The abdicative manager evidences a tendency to flee from responsibility and is frequently encountered in situations where he or she never wanted the job in the first place (for instance, a son or daughter who inherits a company or the individual who discovers that they are incapable of adequate performance). Abdication can be exhibited in a variety of ways, ranging from physically removing oneself through travel (the confusion of movement with action), to obsessing about personal interests or a limited range of controllable subjects."

President Obama's "abdicative style" is also the byproduct of a career devoid of any managerial experience. After all, this is a man who was elected president of the US without ever running anything.

Beyond style, President Obama seems to love being surrounded by people who idolize him, according to a review of Kenneth Walsh's new book:

"Walsh, who has covered the White House for 25 years and written several books on the presidency, credits Obama for trying to get out of the so-called "bubble," but found that instead the president often relies on a tiny cadre of Chicago aides, thus living in "a bubble within the bubble."

He called top Chicago aide Valerie Jarrett "one of the leading idolizers" who blocks the access of critics to her boss. "Jarrett has gone too far in limiting others' access to the president, according to a number of White House and congressional sources," writes Walsh in the book, due out June 1. "Her goal is to keep Obama in a cocoon of admirers who won't, in her mind, shake him up too much or present views that might be contrary to her understanding of Obama's positions.""

An "abdicative style" plus "a bad case of narcissism" is a time bomb that will consume the man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

President Obama survived the first term because of a media in the tank and a very effective vote gathering machine that got him 50.7% of the popular vote.

President Obama won't be so lucky in his second term. He either gets in the game or will lose all credibility as a manager.

Speaking of "the man who lives at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue", The White House just said that they didn't know anything about DOJ seizing AP's phone records.

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Friday dump? More like a Friday nuclear bomb!

2013-05-14T07:59:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

It's possible that the Obama administration "dumped" the IRS story on Friday so that people would forget Benghazi.

However, I disagree! The IRS story is like dropping a nuclear bomb so that the fans forget last night's game.

Today, we heard that The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is up in arms about IRS leaks:

"Now -- on the heels of news the IRS's apology for having targeted conservative groups -- NOM is renewing their demand that the Internal Revenue Service reveal the identity of the people responsible.

"There is little question that one or more employees at the IRS stole our confidential tax return and leaked it to our political enemies, in violation of federal law," said NOM's president Brian Brow, in a prepared statement. "The only questions are who did it, and whether there was any knowledge or coordination between people in the White House, the Obama reelection campaign and the Human Rights Campaign. We and the American people deserve answers.""

Yes, we deserve answers. I don't want to hear that some bureaucrat in Cincinnati (George Will) flipped the wrong switch or went on a rampage because his wife left him for "a tea party member".

Somebody up the "food chain" made this call to target opponents of the Obama administration.

Let me be fair and give President Obama the benefit of the doubt since I don't know that he knew about it or engineered such a stupid act.

At the same time, how many times are we supposed to believe that President Obama is surrounded by people who never tell him anything?

Fast & Furious? Solyndra's financial statements? Benghazi?

Put me down as someone who believes that the IRS scandal will lead to one of two things:

1) The resignation of President Obama, specially if the scandal gets close to him; or,

2) The crippling of the Obama presidency, if we learn that this is another example of his lackadaisical managerial style.

President Obama will lose either way. The country will lose too! We need to address serious problems and this administration's self inflicted wounds are making it difficult to do so.

P.S. We spoke with George Rodriguez of The San Antonio Tea Party on Tuesday's show. George revealed some of the difficulties that he faced with the IRS. George confirmed that many Tea Party activists were intimidated by the information requests. They thought that it was all bureaucratic problems. He obviously does not feel that way today. Click here for Monday's show:

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IRS intimidating Tea Party groups

2013-05-14T00:01:00.000-05:00

We spoke with George Rodriguez of The San Antonio Tea Party and Frank Burke, contributor to American Thinker on Monday's show.

George revealed some of the difficulties that he faced with the IRS. George confirmed that many Tea Party activists were intimidated by the information requests and the massive legal costs associated with them. They thought that it was all bureaucratic problems. He obviously does not feel that way today.

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The latest IRS story will make ObamaCare even more unpopular

2013-05-13T10:08:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

Put me down as one who thinks that this IRS story is really going to hurt President Obama. Benghazi is hard to follow but everyone understands getting an audit letter from the IRS.

What we are learning, and probably will learn more over the next few weeks, is that the Obama administration was using the IRS to punish its enemies.

Yes, I said punish its enemies. What else do you call it when the IRS is used to harass political opponents? Add to this that IRS officers knew of the problem back in 2011 and this is a first class scandal.

I remind you that the House wrote articles of impeachment in the summer of 1974 based on President Nixon's misuse of the IRS. (Article 2)

The IRS scandal will make it even more difficult to implement ObamaCare or to sell citizens that they will love the program once they learn how it will benefit them.

No way. The IRS scandal will make it very difficult!

As we learned over the weekend, the IRS will be the key agency enforcing ObamaCare:

"Once Obamacare is fully implemented in 2014, the IRS will enforce 47 new tax provisions along with distributing subsidies to 18 million people and tax credits to small businesses. The Treasury Department expects the cost of enforcement from 2010 to 2013 to total $881 million. Former IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman informed Congress last year the agency would need an additional $13.1 billion in 2014.""

How will the IRS do it? As Rick Moran said: forms, forms and more forms and probably a few more forms!

Just what the country needs: more IRS forms!

Last week, we heard that ObamaCare was behind schedule in the implementation of the exchanges, i.e. Senator Baucus' train wreck.

A few days ago, we heard that the HHS Secretary was looking for "donations" to implement ObamaCare. The hilarious angle here is that they are looking to health care executive for money! You can't make this up!

We heard today that the IRS is targeting anti-Obama groups, a lot of them!

All of this adds up to more troubles for ObamaCare, especially now that the American people know that the IRS will be the agency asking you to fill out a few more forms!

ObamaCare just got more unpopular in the last 48 hours!

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Berlin 1949 and presidential leadership

2013-05-13T00:01:00.000-05:00

We recall something that happened back in 1949:

"On May 12, 1949, an early crisis of the Cold War comes to an end when the Soviet Union lifts its 11-month blockade against West Berlin.

The blockade had been broken by a massive U.S.-British airlift of vital supplies to West Berlin's two million citizens."

It was one of President Truman's finest moments. Of course, we also remember the story of the "candy bombers", the pilots who dropped candy to children behind the Iron Curtain.

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Dumb, illegal, and it started in 2011

2013-05-12T14:34:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

On a scale of 1 to 10 (1 is smart and 10 is really dumb), we rate the IRS targeting "tea party & patriots" story as a triple 10! It ranks up there with Manny Ramirez "cutting off" a cut-off throw from the centerfielder to the shortstop!

Of course, Manny's antics are funny and they happened on a baseball field. There is nothing funny about the IRS playing politics. This is even more scary now that we learn about the way that the IRS will work with ObamaCare:

"When Obamacare's individual mandate takes effect in 2014, all Americans who file income tax returns must complete an additional IRS tax form. The new form will require disclosure of a taxpayer's personal identifying health information in order to determine compliance with the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate."

We are very happy to read that The Washington Post is calling for a full IRS investigation. The Wall Street Journal is outraged too. Good to see both sides coming together on this.

The Obama administration is already bringing "Bush" into it. I guess that everything is Bush's fault with this crowd! The problem is that it was the IRS on Obama's watch who admitted to targeting conservatives NOT the Bush IRS making life difficult for pro-abortion groups.

The bottom line is that the IRS is not supposed to be a political tool. Millions of Americans file tax returns or forms on the assumption that the IRS will not look at their numbers or data with a "partisan" eye.

We need more than a bureaucratic apology from someone who is apparently not "good at math".

We need for President Obama to do what he never did on "Fast & Furious" or Benghazi. We need a speech to the nation admitting that people in his administration violated the law and that someone will go to jail for this. We also need to know why this practice has apparently being in place since 2011!

The issue won't go away until President Obama acts like a man and admits that something very bad happened on his watch.

As we wrote before, IRS computers are not manufactured to target "tea party groups"! Someone in the IRS made the decision to do this.

This issue won't go away until we find out who did it and why.

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Happy Mothers Day 2013

2013-05-12T00:01:00.000-05:00

We take a moment to say happy Mothers Day to all of our mothers, grandmothers, aunts, wives and mothers to be. Did I miss anyone?

We spoke with Alice Leon, singer songwriter, and Amarilys Gacio-Rassler, author, about the meaning of Mothers Day.

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Wonder how Democrats feel that President Obama is starting his jobs tour in Texas?

2013-05-11T10:37:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

President Obama is back in Texas. He was greeted at the airport by our very upbeat Governor Perry, a man who is always selling Texas here, there and everywhere.

This is President Obama's second trip to Texas this spring. Maybe somebody told President Obama that the White Sox are in town to play the Rangers or Astros.

Or, maybe he will catch a Spurs' game and see how San Antonio is booming. It is a great success story because Mayor Castro (Democrat) can tell businesses from Illinois and California that taxes are low and public sector unions are spineless in a "right to work" state.

Seriously, it may be good for President Obama to check out Texas and see what we are doing right.

For example, Texas has the 18th best unemployment rate in the country. We are doing a lot better than Illinois (50) or California (48).

Of course, you need to live in Texas to understand why businesses are moving here.

Texas has 3 big things going for it:

First, we like taxpayers NOT taxes. We want people to come here, make money and enjoy prosperity. We think that Texas wins when people are prosperous.

Second, we are not a heavily regulated state. No one hates the Obama EPA more than Texans.

Third, workforce quality is second to none. We have great companies and schools.

Let me join fellow Hispanic Senator Cruz and welcome President Obama to Texas. Let's all remember what Senator Cruz said today:

"Texas continues to outperform the nation in terms of economic growth and job creation. The state’s unemployment rate has consistently remained below the national average, currently at 6.4 percent, compared to the national rate of 7.6 percent. Eight of the 15 fastest-growing large cities between 2010 and 2011 were in Texas. And as states with high spending and high taxes are losing jobs, Texas is gaining them. In fact, between 2006 and 2012, Texas gained one million jobs, while California lost 359,000 jobs. Additionally, Texas continues to receive national accolades for its robust business climate, most recently in a report released this week by Chief Executive Magazine, naming Texas the best state for business for the ninth consecutive year."

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Benghazi plus IRS audits prove that the Obama campaign was in panic mode in 2012

2013-05-11T01:30:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

Just finished watching a bit of Press Secretary Jay Carney get grilled by reporters.

Did you get the feeling that Carney was ready to submit his resignation and let someone else carry the water for this corrupt enterprise called the Obama administration? I don't know Carney personally but I can't believe that he is very happy being the face of this story!

The good news is that the media is asking questions. The media looked like the scorned woman who just learned that the man of her dreams has been lying to her.

The bad news is that this White House can't come clean. By the way, it would do President Obama a lot good to go back and check out what President Kennedy did after The Bay of Pigs. He took responsibility for the whole thing and put the issue behind him.

Today's story about the IRS is even worse than Benghazi. This is what we learned today:

"The IRS apologized on Friday for inappropriately flagging conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS unit that oversees tax-exempt groups, said organizations that included the words "tea party" or "patriot" in their applications for tax-exempt status were singled out for additional reviews."

Sorry but I have a hard time believing that the IRS computers just decided to target organizations with the words "tea party" and "patriot".

Sorry but computers are not that smart. They are not manufactured with a partisan hard disk. They have to be programmed to flag such groups.

Who programmed the computers? Who made that decision? I would like to know because this is very criminal.

Here is another item from the campaign. Do you remember when Senator Reid made his remarks about Gov Romney and taxes? It seemed like a totally irresponsible and ruthless remark at the time.

Was Senator Reid involved in this IRS episode? Was someone taking orders from Senator Reid? Was someone feeding him information about conservative candidates?

I don't know the answer but he was the one who brought up the issue of taxes.

It is shocking to hear that the IRS would target any group, left or right.

How desperate was the Obama campaign about its reelection changes? The answer is very desperate!

They were desperate enough to lie to a mother about the death of her son in Benghazi and then the IRS story!

Maybe Governor Huckabee was not so crazy when he suggested that President Obama would not complete his term.

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Thumbs up for Price Harry!

2013-05-11T00:30:00.002-05:00

We love Prince Harry. We praised him for going to Afghanistan rather than using some excuse to avoid military service.

Prince Harry is in the US and spent sometime with the wounded warrirors. It was great and the pictures were fabulous:

"Dressed in his Army Air Corps fatigues and desert boots, the 28-year-old Prince, known as Captain Wales in the military, listened intently as he was given a briefing on advances in prosthetics after meeting the center's commander, Rear Admiral Alton Stocks.
He was then shown around the huge complex by Dr Chuck Scoville, chief of rehabilitation, including a demonstration in a revolutionary Computer Assisted Rehab simulator.
He watched as an double amputee army specialist injured on in Afghanistan - who could not be identified for security reasons - demonstrated what he had been learning on the machine which is used to help wounded soldiers normalise their balance."

He also attracted a lot of girls but that's what happens when you are single prince.

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Benghazi got very crazy on Friday

2013-05-11T00:01:00.000-05:00

You can't blame this one on Fox News because it came from ABC:

"ABC News has obtained 12 different versions of the talking points that show they were extensively edited as they evolved from the drafts first written entirely by the CIA to the final version distributed to Congress and to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice before she appeared on five talk shows the Sunday after that attack."

This is either a coverup or a massive coincidence.

The problem is that the Obama administration did not come clean from day 1. They should have told the public that it was a terrorist attack not some stupid video.

Didn't someone say that the cover up is usually worse than the scandal? Yes it is!

P.S. We spoke with Barry Jacobsen, military historian, about Benghazi in segment 2 of Thursday's show:

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What if two guys named Koch bought the LA Times and saved jobs?

2013-05-10T10:02:00.000-05:00

(My new American Thinker post)

The left is going into irrational overdrive because the Koch brothers may buy the LA Times:

"Common Cause, Daily Kos, Free Press and Courage Campaign are among the groups protesting the sale to the conservative financiers, calling them "radical right wing ideologues." A sale of the company is considered imminent."

We hear that "half" of the staff will quit! I guess that must be the "half" of the staff still working there after all of the job cuts in recent years. The problems go back to 2008!

Frankly, I think that the reporters should be cheering that two guys with deep pockets will buy a newspaper losing readership and sinking in competition with the new media.

After all, how many jobs are the guys at "Daily Kos", "Common Cause", "Free Press" and "Courage Campaign" going to offer all of those reporters threatening to resign if the Koch duo takes over the newspaper? The answer is none.

My advice to the anti-Koch heroes, or those who want to save the world from right wing ideology, is to pick up the phone and chat with some of their unemployed friends of the old media. They will discover that working for "right wing ideologues" who pay faithfully every two weeks is actually a pretty good life after all.

After all, the best job in the world comes with a paycheck and security.

God bless the employer who puts a direct deposit in your checking account on pay day. He is a lot better than the liberal who can't make payroll anymore.

There are two problems with the liberal panic over the purchase of The LA Times.

The first one is reality. In other words, do any of these guys at the LA Times know that they work for an industry in decline? It's really hard to believe that these reporters think they will resign and get jobs in this industry.

The second one is free speech. The Koch Brothers have every right to buy the newspaper and run it as they see fit. After all, isn't that what the current ownership has been doing all of these years.

Call their bluff. Let's see how many of these reporters would rather be unemployed than working for the Koch Brothers!

Call their bluff and let's see how many will really quit!

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Abortion pills and 15-year old girls don't go together!

2013-05-10T00:30:00.000-05:00

It does not get any more crazy than this. The Obama administration is OK with 15 year old girl (yes I said 15) buying a “Plan B” post-coital emergency contraception".

How in the world did we get here? The answer is the moral devaluation that we've been witnessing for years, as Heather McDonald writes about:

"The demoralizing of juvenile sex has left us in the preposterous situation of viewing the decision to buy a pack of cigarettes as weightier, and more in need of an adult’s full cognitive and moral capacities, than a teen’s decision to have sexual intercourse."

Yes, a 15-year old girl can not buy cigarettes or drive a car but she can get "a morning after pill" to end her pregnancy.

Check out Thursday's show:

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