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Wednesday, July 31st  Obama Bails Out Detroit Without Knowing It While the federal government refuses to bailout Detroit, looks like federal taxpayers will be stuck with some of the bill anyhow. As it turns out, in order to shirk costs, city officials are crafting a plan that will shift retirees into the new insurance markets that will soon be operating under Obama Care. Who will be footing the bill for this shift to Obama Care exchanges? You and I! This is really a case of not thinking through the consequences of legislation.  I'm not nearly as frustrated with Detroit as I am with Washington and I bet ...

Breaking News from Nationalreview.com Good morning, The House Ways and Means Committee has uncovered new documents in the IRS scandal, and National Review Online has the exclusive . The content of the e-mails suggests that the IRS colluded with the FEC during a campaign-finance investigation of a conservative group. Eliana Johnson reports . Jonah Goldberg looks back on the George Zimmerman case . When does the editing of audio and video cross the line between reporting and fiction? The answer is easy: when it ignores the facts and tries to sway to the public. ...

 HOTAIR.COM 3 Hours Ago Local paper ahead of Obama's visit: "Take your jobs plan and shove it" by  Erika Johnsen posted at 3:01 pm on July 30, 2013 by Erika Johnsen As I'm writing this, President Obama is doing his usual economic grandstanding routine in Chattanooga, Tennessee — and considering that Amazon just announced that they're going on an  epic hiring spree , their local Chattanooga warehouse is making a mighty convenient backdrop for the president jobs-oriented speech. The president is going on and on about "the ingredients we need" for good jobs, and all of his latest Keynesian stimulus ideas for economic growth, and talking up America's need to "invest" in the jobs and infrastructure of the future. Funnily enough, courtesy of Obama's first and biggest round of what we were promised would amount to successful stimulus spending, Chattanooga is the home of one of those sorts of supposedly high-tech and cutting-edge projects of wh...

 DAILYCALLER.COM 2 Hours Ago Rubio, Lee, Cruz struggled to get time on the floor to discuss Obamacare defunding by  Alexis Levinson Tweet WASHINGTON — Sen. Marco Rubio complained Tuesday that his attempts to get time on the floor to discuss defunding the Affordable Care Act with Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee were repeatedly denied. The three Senators are spearheading the push to use the continuing resolution to defund the healthcare law, and are hoping to get more Republican Senators on board. The three have circulated a letter to that effect. Some Republican colleagues have signed on, but others, such as Sen. Richard Burr, criticized it as the "dumbest idea" he had ever heard. On Tuesday afternoon, Rubio tweeted a complaint that they were unable to schedule a time for the three of them to discuss the effort on the Senate floor. @SenMikeLee , @SenTedCruz  & I have been trying to get time on Senate floor 2 speak together about  #obamacare .Keep being told no time av...

 TOMGRAVES.HOUSE.GOV 2 Hours Ago Rep. Graves' Defund Obamacare Act Gains 100th Cosponsor Rep. Graves' Defund Obamacare Act Gains 100th Cosponsor Washington, Jul 30  - U.S. Rep. Tom Graves' (R-GA-14) Defund Obamacare Act (H.R. 2682) gained its 100 th cosponsor today when House Republican Conference Vice Chair Lynn Jenkins (R-KS-2) signed onto the bill. The milestone was reached just 19 days after Rep. Graves and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) launched a new bicameral effort to prevent taxpayer dollars from being used to fund Obamacare. "Our 100 House cosponsors are backed by millions of Americans who want relief from Obamacare," said Rep. Graves. "Families and individuals want to know why they still have to pay for and be punished by the law while businesses and special interests get a break. Congress has the power to right this wrong if we choose not to fund the law. I thank Vice Chair Jenkins and all the other cosponsors of the Defund Obamacare Act for joining what...

 THEBLAZE.COM 2 Hours Ago 'The Limbaugh Theorem': Rush Has a Theory on the Secret Behind Obama's Popularity by  Jason Howerton (Fox News) Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh's exclusive interview with Greta Van Susteren, which will air tonight at 10 p.m. ET, covers a variety of topics, including what he refers to as the "Limbaugh Theorem." In a sneak peek of the interview, Limbaugh presents his theory about why President Barack Obama continues to be popular among some voters, even as his policies fail. "Obama has positioned himself as an outsider…That's one of the reasons why the constant campaign," he said. "So he doesn't appear to be governing, so he doesn't appear to be part of Washington. So he appears to have this mysterious, powerful bunch of forces that are opposing him and stopping him from creating jobs and stopping him from giving people proper health care…but he is constantly out there fighting." "And he does t...

 NEWS BUSTERS 6 Hours Ago Censored! IRS Scandal Being Buried by Big Three Networks by  Geoffrey Dickens The Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks have colluded with the Obama administration to censor the latest IRS scandal news. The following is a list of key developments in the IRS scandal and how many days it has been since they were discussed, if at all, by the Big Three on their morning and evening news shows: Update, Monday, July 29:   Stephanopoulos and Crowley Skip IRS Scandal with Lew, Gregory Cues Up Talking Points; Only Wallace Pursues Latest story counts as of Tuesday morning July 30: IRS Employees Ordered to Send Tea Party Applications to Office of Obama Political Appointee On July 17, as reported by  CNSNews.com , a letter released by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform reported that IRS employees were ordered to send Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS's Chief Counsel, which was headed by William Wilkins, who at...

Tuesday, July 30th  A GOP of Bold Colors “Let's have a new first party – a Republican Party – raising a banner of bold colors, no pale pastels. A banner instantly recognizable as standing for certain values which will not be compromised.” – Reagan While I myself am a registered conservative, I look to the Republican Party as the closest representative of conservative values in American politics. Overtime, that appears to be fading. Sometimes I look at Washington lately and I wonder if it is possible to distinguish one party from the other. While many see the parties as bec...

 THEGATEWAYPUNDIT.COM 8 Hours Ago Shocking… IRS Now Has More Agents Than German Army by  Jim Hoft ( Deutsche Welle ) The  Internal Revenue Service  includes an estimated  106,000 agents and employees .The Treasury Department allocated  $11.522 billion  to the agency for operations in 2009. Thanks to Obamacare the agency is  expected to hire  from 11,800 to 16,500 new agents. That means the IRS will have from 117,800 to 122,500 after Obamacare is implemented. The IRS has more agents than the German ( 62,279 ), Spanish ( 75,000 ) and Canadian ( 68,250 ) armies. The  Family Research Counsel  also points out these shocking facts: **  The IRS has its own SWAT team. **  It has its own intelligence unit. **  And it has more agents than the armies of Canada, Spain or Germany have soldiers Don't you feel safe now? Shocking… IRS Now Has More Agents Than German Army http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/07/shocking-irs-now-h...