When Ms. Gabriel was in town we went to hear her speak at The Baptist Church on Waters Ave across from Memorial Hospital.
I have read her book (s) and have heard her many times.
She has the guts to speak out and has been targeted for death.
Would it not be nice if she had been our Sec. of State instead of Hillary and Kerry?
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Senator Cruz at his best: http://www.cruz.senate.gov/?p=video&id=1456
Where is the rest of the cowering world? Watching soccer and Wimbledon? Too self absorbed?
And Obama can't get a lone Marine out of a Mexican jail?
How pathetic!
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Koskinen has every right to contribute to whatever political party he chooses.
The question is, has he paid his income taxes unlike the former Sec. of The Treasury and does his political bias effect his telling and pursuing the truth? (See 1 below.)
Koskinien is symptomatic of the kind of appointments Obama makes. Their focus is protect the anointed at any cost and screw the public they are supposed to serve and who pays their salaries.
Obama is everything he says and would have us believe about others - callous, devious, empirical, obstructionist, liar and the list of his false and defensive accusative attacks are endless.
As for his presumed heir apparent, Hillary is simply a female edition.
If we want more of Obama, elect Hillary. Yes, there will be a 'smidgen' of difference but the results will be the same because their accomplishments reflect arrogance and incompetence!
This from a friend and fellow memo reader. I too read Krauthammer's book:
During a recent O'Reilly TV show, Charles Krauthammer, one of the best minds in America, commented on where America is under Obama's reign. He referenced the last chapter of his latest book “Things that Matter”, published in 2013, .
Having already read the book, I grabbed it and re-read the last chapter “Decline Is a Choice” and I just about flipped! When I read a book and hit material that really hits, my yellow magic marker gets a workout and those 17 pages virtually emptied a marker.
Also from another friend and fellow memo reader:
"The Arctic Ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in
some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a
report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consulaff, at Bergen,
Norway.
"Reports from fishermen, seal hunters, and explorers all point to a
radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of
temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration expeditions report that
scarcely any ice has been met as far north as 81 degrees 29 minutes.
"Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed the gulfstream [sic] still very
warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and
stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers
have entirely disappeared.
"Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic,
while vast shoals of herring and smelts which have never before
ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing
grounds. Within a few years it is predicted that due to the ice melt
the sea will rise enough to make most coastal cities uninhabitable."
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Oh, did I neglect to mention that this report was from
November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The
Washington Post 92+ years ago.
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From Alexandra Kendrick, Jack Kingston's Lovely Finance Director:THANK YOU!!! I am looking forward to seeing all of you tonight at the Soho. Because of YOUR hard work we made our goal of $200,000 WOOP, WOOP!!! We are expecting over 200 people.
Just returned from the fund raiser bash for Jack. Truly a great evening and I hope it will help to keep his and Libby's spirits up as Jack's opponent gets nastier and nastier with his attack ads.
Jack's opponent is capable of outspending Jack because he just reaches in his own pocket - to the tune of $4 million so far.
Jack knows this and is responding by building a grass root campaign.
Jack is a tireless campaigner and is best suited both from experience and personality to be our next Senator.
If you agree with my assessment talk up Jack's campaign and if you are on the fence, let's chat.
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Have a great weekend. Stay cool!
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Dick
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1) IRS Chief Koskinen a Major Democratic Donor for 4 Decades
IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, appointed by President Barack Obama to steer the agency through the numerous investigations into the IRS targeting scandal, has donated close to $100,000 to Democrats and the party's organizations for more than four decades.
Koskinen donations include a total of $7,300 to the campaigns to elect Obama to the White House, $19,000 to the Democratic National Committee from 1988 to 2008, $3,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and $2,000 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, according to official records of political contributions, with 1979 being the earliest date on record.
The 48th chief of the IRS has also donated to every Democratic candidate for president since 1980, and has given $3,800 to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for her various political campaigns.
His most recent contribution was in Feb. 2013 to Virginia Democratic Sen. Mark Warner, ten months before his nomination on Dec. 23 was confirmed by the Senate after Democrats cut off a Republican-led filibuster.
In an interview with CNN Thursday, "Situation Room" host Wolf Blitzer noted that Koskinen is a Democrat and the concerns that have been raised that his party affiliation may preclude him from approaching the scandal objectively.
Koskinen responded, "I've never been a partisan operative or political operative," but confirmed that he has contributed to campaigns for "the last 40 or 50 years."
He added, "I was actually asked by the [George W.] Bush administration to come in and work on Freddie Mac," where he initially served as non-executive chairman, and later CEO, CFO, and chief operating officer.
Unlike the IRS, which is a government agency, Freddie Mac is a government-sponsored public company.
Koskinen also served under President Bill Clinton as Chair of the President's Council on Y2K.
Koskinen's earliest contribution on record was a $1,000 donation to Gary Hart, then a Democratic candidate for Senate in Colorado and future two-time presidential candidate.
Koskinen came under heavy fire last week at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing during which Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan blasted him for the disappearance of emails of former IRS official Lois Lerner and the destruction of her hard drive just ten days after committee chairman Dave Camp wrote to Lerner's boss asking for the information.
Ohio GOP Rep. Mike Turner also was critical of Koskinen, telling him that his personal integrity and that of the agency were on the line because he had not contacted the FBI to investigate the loss of the emails.
Democrats, however, rushed to his defense and apologized to Koskinen for the way he was treated by Republicans during his testimony.
Massachusetts Rep. John Tierney, a 17-year veteran of the House said, "I don't think I've seen a display of this kind of disrespect in all the time I've been here in Congress, and it's unfortunate that anyone should have to be subjected to it."
Other Democrats have also staunchly defended Koskinen, the Daily Caller reported.
California Rep. Xavier Becerra told Koskinen during a hearing, "This hearing has been conducted as less of a hearing then it might have been as an inquisition. You deserve better. You certainly are obligated to give truthful answers, and we appreciate your trying to."
Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind said Koskinen was a "public servant who by all accounts is a model of integrity, honesty, and professionalism," and accused the committee of being "desperate to find any type of evidence that may point to a cover-up that does not exist."
And Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal said, "You have an individual here who has a distinguished career, who served in Republican and Democratic administrations, coupled with the fact he took an oath today.
"Unless those here didn't hear him take the oath or witnessed take the oath and then have [Ryan] suggest [to] him 'I don't believe you.' That is isn't the way this committee has functioned in the past."
Koskinen admitted to Blitzer that the loss of the emails looked "suspicious" and that he considered it a "serious matter.
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He added, "I was actually asked by the [George W.] Bush administration to come in and work on Freddie Mac," where he initially served as non-executive chairman, and later CEO, CFO, and chief operating officer.
Unlike the IRS, which is a government agency, Freddie Mac is a government-sponsored public company.
Koskinen also served under President Bill Clinton as Chair of the President's Council on Y2K.
Koskinen's earliest contribution on record was a $1,000 donation to Gary Hart, then a Democratic candidate for Senate in Colorado and future two-time presidential candidate.
Koskinen came under heavy fire last week at a House Ways and Means Committee hearing during which Wisconsin GOP Rep. Paul Ryan blasted him for the disappearance of emails of former IRS official Lois Lerner and the destruction of her hard drive just ten days after committee chairman Dave Camp wrote to Lerner's boss asking for the information.
Ohio GOP Rep. Mike Turner also was critical of Koskinen, telling him that his personal integrity and that of the agency were on the line because he had not contacted the FBI to investigate the loss of the emails.
Democrats, however, rushed to his defense and apologized to Koskinen for the way he was treated by Republicans during his testimony.
Massachusetts Rep. John Tierney, a 17-year veteran of the House said, "I don't think I've seen a display of this kind of disrespect in all the time I've been here in Congress, and it's unfortunate that anyone should have to be subjected to it."
Other Democrats have also staunchly defended Koskinen, the Daily Caller reported.
California Rep. Xavier Becerra told Koskinen during a hearing, "This hearing has been conducted as less of a hearing then it might have been as an inquisition. You deserve better. You certainly are obligated to give truthful answers, and we appreciate your trying to."
Wisconsin Rep. Ron Kind said Koskinen was a "public servant who by all accounts is a model of integrity, honesty, and professionalism," and accused the committee of being "desperate to find any type of evidence that may point to a cover-up that does not exist."
And Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal said, "You have an individual here who has a distinguished career, who served in Republican and Democratic administrations, coupled with the fact he took an oath today.
"Unless those here didn't hear him take the oath or witnessed take the oath and then have [Ryan] suggest [to] him 'I don't believe you.' That is isn't the way this committee has functioned in the past."
Koskinen admitted to Blitzer that the loss of the emails looked "suspicious" and that he considered it a "serious matter.
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