Monday, June 10, 2013

Barker's Newsbites: Monday, June 10, 2013


Had an interesting discussion with a buddy and "nephew" this weekend!

Specifics...????

Hmm... not quite yet... indeed perhaps never (at least here at Usually Right)...

I'd suggest my buddy and BELOVED "nephew" read this followed by this... and then we'll have some actual "meat" to chew over.

Note... I offer this NOT to say, "Look! It's in these books! It's gotta be right!"

Nope... I'm simply stating that reading the books will not only provide "education" in and of itself... but that reading these books will give insight into what I believe, why I believe it, and thus provide a foundation for further discussion so that we're talking to each other and not past each other.

Again, "boys," as I freely admit now - and stated on Saturday night - I was throwing a bunch of related stuff out there. I wasn't focusing upon one student or one school or even higher education itself in a vacuum...

Nope... I was all over the place - on purpose - because of how I connect the dots. (And again... I'm connecting the dots based upon a great deal of information that I've gathered studying the subject... plus of course real world experience - which we all have!)


10 comments:

William R. Barker said...

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20130610/DA6QUFM00.html

As a candidate, Barack Obama vowed to bring a different, better kind of leadership to the dysfunctional capital. He'd make government more efficient, accountable and transparent. He'd rise above the "small-ball" nature of doing business. And he'd work with Republicans to break Washington paralysis.

"You can trust me," Obama said back in 2008. And - for a while, at least - a good piece of the country did.

* FOLKS... (*SIGH*)... I TRUSTED HIM (RELATIVELY AT LEAST!) BACK WHEN HE WAS CANDIDATE OBAMA! I LARGELY BOUGHT INTO THE BULLSHIT!

A series of mounting controversies is exposing both the risks of political promise-making and the limits of national-level governing while undercutting the core assurance Obama made from the outset: that he and his administration would behave differently. The latest: the government's acknowledgement that, in a holdover from the Bush administration and with a bipartisan Congress' approval and a secret court's authorization, it was siphoning the phone records of millions of American citizens in a massive data-collection effort officials say was meant to protect the nation from terrorism.

* FOLKS... YES THIS LATEST SCANDAL HAS IT "ROOTS" IN BUSH ADMINISTRATION POLICIES AND THE PATRIOT ACT (YA MIGHT WANNA CHECK SENATOR OBAMA'S VOTING RECORD ON THAT ACT BTW), BUT AS WITH MOST THINGS "BUSH," OBAMA DOUBLE-DOWN ON BUSH POLICIES... SUPER-CHARGED THEM! (OF COURSE... THIS BEING AN AP/MYWAY PIECE... YOU SHOULD EXPECT THE DELIBERATE ATTEMPT TO SHIFT BLAME EVER SO SLIGHTLY TO BUSH.)

This came after the disclosure that the government was snooping on journalists.

* NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSH... (*SMILE*)

Also, the IRS' improper targeting of conservative groups for extra scrutiny as they sought tax-exempt status has spiraled into a wholesale examination of the agency...

* NOTHING TO DO WITH BUSH...

Collectively, the issues call into question not only whether the nation's government can be trusted but also whether the leadership itself can.

* NOTE: NO MENTION OF BENGHAZI... (*SHRUG*)

The government is an enormous operation, and it's unrealistic to think it will operate smoothly all of the time. But, as the head of it, Obama faces the reality of all of his successors: The buck stops with him.

* ACTUALLY... NO. (*SHRUG*) THAT'S HIS GIFT! HILLARY'S GIFT AS WELL, IT SEEMS! THEY'RE LIKE SGT. SCHULTZ... THEY SEE NOTHING... THEY HEAR NOTHING... THEY KNOW NOTHING! THUS... NOTHING IS THEIR FAULT.

A Quinnipiac University poll conducted late last month found 49% of people consider Obama honest and trustworthy...

* SEE WHAT I MEAN, FOLKS...?! AMAZING... AND DISGUSTING. DISHEARTENING.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/10/us/booz-allen-grew-rich-on-government-contracts.html?hp&_r=1&

“The national security apparatus has been more and more privatized and turned over to contractors,” said Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit group that studies federal government contracting.

“This is something the public is largely unaware of, how more than a million private contractors are cleared to handle highly sensitive matters.”

(*PURSED LIPS*) (*NOD*)

It has gone so far, Ms. Brian said, that even the process of granting security clearances is often handled by contractors, allowing companies to grant government security clearances to private sector employees.

(*NOD*)

[Man of the hour] Edward J. Snowden’s employer, Booz Allen Hamilton, has become one of the largest and most profitable corporations in the United States almost exclusively by serving a single client: the government of the United States.

* I DID NOT KNOW THIS!

Over the last decade, much of the company’s growth has come from selling expertise, technology and manpower to the National Security Agency and other federal intelligence agencies. Booz Allen earned $1.3 billion, 23%of the company’s total revenue, from intelligence work during its most recent fiscal year.

* SOUNDS LIKE FAR TOO HIGH A CONCENTRATION OF DEPENDENCY... FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF BOTH SIDES!

The government has sharply increased spending on high-tech intelligence gathering since 2001, and both the Bush and Obama administrations have chosen to rely on private contractors like Booz Allen for much of the resulting work.

* AND HOW EFFECTIVE HAS THIS BEEN...???

Thousands of people formerly employed by the government, and still approved to deal with classified information, now do essentially the same work for private companies. Edward J. Snowden, who revealed on Sunday that he provided the recent leak of national security documents, is among them.

* KEEP READING...

As evidence of the company’s close relationship with government, the Obama administration’s chief intelligence official, James R. Clapper Jr., is a former Booz Allen executive.

The official who held that post in the Bush administration, John M. McConnell, now works for Booz Allen.

(*PURSED LIPS*)

Booz Allen employees work inside the facilities at the NSA, among the most secretive of the intelligence agencies. [The firm] employs about 25,000 people, almost half of whom hold top secret security clearances... In January, Booz Allen announced that it was starting work on a new contract worth perhaps as much as $5.6 billion over five years to provide intelligence analysis services to the Defense Department. Under the deal, Booz Allen employees are being assigned to help military and national security policy makers, the company said.

* FOLKS... WE'RE CREATING A FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER HERE. DELIBERATELY!

William R. Barker said...

http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/06/10/cbs-news-u-s-state-department-cover-ups-range-from-prostitution-charges-to-drug-rings/

Uncovered documents show the U.S. State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal behavior ranging from sexual assaults to an underground drug ring.

* WE KNOW THEY HAVE! I REMEMBER NEWSBITING ABOUT HILLARY'S STATE DEPARTMENT TRYING TO COVER UP SEXUAL ASSAULTS BY THEIR PERSONNEL OVERSEAS!

CBS News reports that is has unearthed documents from the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS), an internal watchdog agency, that implicate the State Department in a series of misconducts worldwide.

* HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON'S STATE DEPARTMENT...

(*SHRUG*)

The memo, reported by CBS News’ John Miller, cited eight specific examples, including allegations that a State Department security official in Beirut “engaged in sexual assaults” with foreign nationals hired as embassy guards and the charge and that members of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s security detail “engaged prostitutes while on official trips in foreign countries” — a problem the report says was “endemic.”

* ENDMIC.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

Former State Department internal investigator Aurelia Fedenisn told CBS News, “We also uncovered several allegations of criminal wrongdoing in cases, some of which never became cases.”

* COVER-UPS... SUCCESSFUL COVER-UPS... OR SO IT ONCE MAY HAVE APPEARED!

Often times, other DSS agents were simply told to back off of investigations of high-ranking State Department members.

* BY WHOM...?!?! TOLD BY WHOM...?!?!

Fedenisn told CBS that “hostile intelligence services” allow criminal behavior to continue.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

In one such cover-up, investigators were told to stop probing the case of a U.S. ambassador who was suspected of patronizing prostitutes in a public park.

* "TOLD TO" BY WHOM...?

The memo states that the ambassador was permitted to return to his post despite having, “routinely ditched…his protective security detail” in order to “solicit sexual favors from prostitutes.”

* THE SECRETARY OF STATE IS THE "BOSS" OF EACH AND EVERY AMBASSADOR. EACH AND EVERY AMBASSADOR IS APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT AND APPROVED BY THE SENATE... BUT THEN RESPONSIBLE TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE. THESE ARE NOT LOW LEVEL EMPLOYEES.

A draft of the Inspector General’s report on the performance of the Diplomatic Security Service, obtained by CBS News, states, “Hindering such cases calls into question the integrity of the investigative process, can result in counter-intelligence vulnerabilities and can allow criminal behavior to continue.”

* WHO DID THE HINDERING...? REGARDLESS OF THE NAME(S), THOUGH, THE ULTIMATE RESPONSIBILITY LAYS AT THE FEET OF THEN-SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON.

Fedenisn was part of the team that drafted the whistleblower report, and CBS News reports that two hours after the charges were reported, investigators from the State Department’s Inspector General showed up at her door.

* GEEZUS...

A statement to CBS News states, “It goes without saying that the Department does not condone interference with investigation by any of its employees.”

* FOLKS... MY GUESS IS THAT WHILE OBAMA AND CLINTON AND THE REST OF THE TOP PEOPLE MANY NEVER GO TO JAIL OR BE FORMALLY DISGRACED FOR THEIR LIES AND FAILURES RELATING TO BENGHAZI... BENGHAZI WAS THE STRAW THAT BROKE THE CAMEL'S BACK WITH REGARD TO "PEOPLE IN THE KNOW" DECIDING "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH" AND THUS... ALL THE LEAKS WE'RE GETTING NOW.

William R. Barker said...

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20130608/NEWS02/306080064/Indiana-schools-dilemma-Offer-health-insurance-part-timers-cut-hours?nclick_check=1

Schools across Indiana are cutting back the hours of teacher assistants, bus drivers, cafeteria workers and other aides to avoid having to offer them health insurance under the federal health care employer mandate that begins next year.

"We cannot go out and raise the price of our product to assist us covering this. We would have to go the taxpayers and ask for some type of increase and I just don't see that happening," said Les Huddle, superintendent of the Lafayette School Corporation, where more than 150 of the schools approximately 600 non-certified employees have had their hours reduced to meet the federal definition of part-time.

* ONE... MORE... TIME...

...where more than 150 of the schools approximately 600 non-certified employees have had their hours reduced to meet the federal definition of part-time.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

The Shelbyville Central School System likewise is cutting back the hours of about 100 instructional aides as well as hours for some substitute teachers, bus drivers and coaches.

(*STILL SHAKING MY HEAD*)

"When they were writing this law, did they really think about the 7th and 8th grade basketball coach or the substitute teacher or the part-time instructional aide?" said superintendent David Adams. "I'm not sure that that's what this law was written for. Schools have some special situations that you don't maybe get in the business world."

* NICE TRY! (WE'RE ALL EQUAL, BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL, HUH? ONLY INSTEAD OF "EQUAL" WE FOCUS ON "DIFFERENT.")

* FOLKS... DOESN'T THIS IDIOT SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT REALIZE THAT NO ONE ACTUALLY READ THE FUCKING BILL...?!?! (HOW MUCH DO YOU WANNA BE THAT OL' DAVE IS A REGISTERED DEM?)

The 2010 Affordable Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, requires employers with at least 50 full-time workers to offer health insurance to those working at least 30 hours a week. If they don't, they face a financial penalty.

* AND THANKS TO JUSTICE ROBERTS... (*SHRUG*)

* FOLKS... AGAIN... THE CONSTITUTION IS A DEAD LETTER AND THE RULE OF LAW HAS BEEN DECLARED NULL AND VOID. GOVERNMENT SHOULD NO MORE BE ABLE TO REQUIRE A PRIVATE EMPLOYER - ANY PRIVATE EMPLOYER - TO OFFER HEALTH INSURACE THAN IT IS TO REQUIRE EMPLOYERS TO PROVIDE A CAR (A PARTICULAR CAR AT THAT!) OR A HOUSE (A PARTICULAR HOUSE AT THAT!).

* FOLKS... FEEL FREE TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE FOR YOURSELVES. (*SHRUG*)

William R. Barker said...

http://thehill.com/blogs/regwatch/healthcare/304453-irs-cements-obamacares-tanning-tax

The Internal Revenue Service is making permanent the 10% tax on tanning from ObamaCare.

* THE IRS IS...??? NOT CONGRESS...???

* FOLKS... AGAIN... THE CONSTITUTION IS A DEAD LETTER. I DON'T EXAGGERATE WHEN I WRITE THIS!

Indoor tanning services have been subject to the excise tax since July of 2010. It was designed to help offset the sweeping healthcare bill’s cost by raising an estimated $2.7 billion in revenue.

The tax had been considered temporary while the IRS collected feedback from the public and interested parties about how it should be applied. As of Tuesday, the tax will be considered permanent.

“After considering the written comments and comments made at the public hearing, the proposed regulations are adopted as final regulations by this Treasury decision and the corresponding temporary regulations are removed,” a notice to be filed in the Federal Register reads.

* "TREASURY DECISION...???"

* RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU REMEMBER "I'M JUST A BILL, ON CAPITAL HILL!"

(*CHUCKLE*)

* SERIOUSLY, THOUGH, FOLKS... IT AIN'T FUNNY. IT'S TRAGIC.

* BY THE WAY... CHECK THIS OUT: https://s3.amazonaws.com/public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2013-13876.pdf

* FOLKS... GOVERNMENT IS OUT OF CONTROL.

William R. Barker said...

http://freebeacon.com/a-billion-bucks-in-bullets/

The U.S. government has given the embattled Afghan National Army (ANA) more than $1 billion in taxpayer-funded ammunition, according to the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s (SIGAR) latest oversight report.

* CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT, FOLKS...?!

This is in addition to $288 million that has been spent on ammunition for the troubled Afghan National Police (ANP), which has been cited by SIGAR for its widespread corruption.

(*SILENCE*)

In addition to the billion-dollar ammo purchase, the United States has spent more than $878 million on weapons for the ANA and another $5.6 billion on military vehicles. (However, a large amount of this money has been wasted on vehicles that either do not work or that have been destroyed beyond repair, according to SIGAR.)

(*CLAP...CLAP...CLAP*)

William R. Barker said...

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/09/18866221-on-eve-of-zimmerman-trial-in-trayvon-martin-killing-new-video-becomes-public?lite

As George Zimmerman prepares to go on trial on a charge of second-degree murder, a video has been released that the defense says could help authenticate the 911 call. But lawyers for Martin’s family say it doesn’t belong in court.

* WHY SHOULD LAWYERS FOR MARTIN'S FAMILY HAVE A VOICE IN THE MATTER? ISN'T THIS A CRIMINAL TRIAL... THE STATE OF FLORIDA vs. GEORGE ZIMMERMAN...?

The video, which the defense says was extracted from Trayvon Martin’s phone, shows two men fighting, apparently over a bicycle or an incident involving a bicycle. Zimmerman’s lawyers say Martin took the video, and that a voice on the recording is his. The person recording is not seen.

* AND... SO... WOULDN'T THE REASONABLE THING BE TO CLEAR THE QUESTIONS UP RATHER THAN HIDE THE EVIDENCE FROM THE JURY...??? (I MEAN... IF "JUSTICE" WERE THE GOAL, THAT IS...)

The video was released by Zimmerman’s defense through a website where his lawyers have been posting press releases and possible evidence. Members of Zimmerman’s defense team say they have a policy of making evidence in the case available to the public, and that the tape is the only known sample of Martin’s voice.

* SOUNDS REASONABLE... SO LET'S GET THE VOICES ANALYIZED!

A police detective, Chris Serino, wrote in an early report that he could hear a man yelling “Help” or “Help Me” 14 times. Prosecutors say the voice is Martin’s.

* THEY "SAY" IT'S MARTIN'S? WHAT'S A VOICE ANALYSIS SHOW...???

Defense lawyers say it could be George Zimmerman, who they say was being pummeled by Martin.

* AGAIN... WHY NOT GET A VOICE ANALYSIS...???

Kendall Coffey, an NBC News legal analyst, said that Zimmerman’s lawyers would have to show that the video is relevant enough to the case to overcome its potential for prejudicing the jury. Because the video does not show what happened the night Martin was killed, Coffey said, “The question then becomes: What does it show?”

* I'M CONFUSED. ARE WE TO BELIEVE THERE WERE TWO DISTINCT MARTIN/ZIMMERMAN MEETINGS...? TWO DISTINCT AND SEPARATE FIGHTS...??? WHEN WAS THIS VIDEO TAKEN...??? IN ANY CASE... SEEMS TO ME LIKE FAIRNESS REQUIRES THE JURY TO SEE AS MUCH EVIDENCE AS EITHER SIDE WANTS TO PRESENT AND THEN LET 'EM MAKE UP THEIR OWN MINDS.

In a June 5 order, Judge Debra Nelson said text messages from Martin’s phone could not be used in opening statements by either side.

* IT'S PRETTY OBVIOUS THAT (AT LEAST AS FAR AS POSSIBLE) THE FIX IS IN.

During the trial, she ruled, lawyers will have to argue the relevance of the material before jurors see it.

* CALL ME OLD FASHIONED... BUT AS A JURIOR I'D WAN T TO SEE ALL THE EVIDENCE. LET THE DEFENSE MAKE ITS CASE!

* FOLKS... ZIMMERMAN COULD BE ME OR YOU. OR MARTIN COULD BE ME OR YOU. IN EITHER CASE... WHY NOT LET EACH SIDE MAKE ITS CASE...?!

The judge also has yet to determine whether a jury will hear from experts about the screams on the 911 tape. Testimony from experts in recent days conflicts: A state expert says the person screaming is Martin; defense experts say it’s impossible to tell.

* A "STATE EXPERT," HUH? HEY... NEVERTHELESS... LET HIM (HER?) TESTIFY? AND LET HIM (HER) BE CROSS-EXAMINED!

William R. Barker said...

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/08/18846323-three-americans-killed-in-afghanistan-insider-attack-officials-say?lite

Three Americans were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday when a man in an Afghan National Army uniform opened fire, the military said in a statement.

* MURDERED. (THREE AMERICANS WERE MURDERED.)

In a statement, the International Security Assistance Force said two U.S. service members and a U.S. civilian were killed “when an individual wearing an ANA uniform turned his weapon against” them.

* YA WANNA BE THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PAID FOR THE BULLETS... THE GUN... THE UNIFORM... AND THE TERRORIST'S PAY AS WELL?

Insider attacks accounted for one in every five combat deaths suffered by NATO-led forces in Afghanistan and 16% of all American combat casualties according to 2012 data, Reuters reported.

* AND YET OBAMA AND BIDEN AND THE REST OF THEIR MERRY BAND OF SCUMBAGS SAYS THE BIGGEST PROBLEM FACING THE MILITARY IS... er... INTERNAL SEXUAL HARRASSMENT...?!?! IT'S SICK, FOLKS... AND "WE THE PEOPLE" ARE TO BLAME FOR PUTTING THESE VERMIN IN OFFICE!

* THE BLOOD IS ON OBAMA'S HANDS. BEYOND OBAMA... BESIDES HIS CABAL OF ELECTED AND APPOINTED POLITICAL CRONIES, THOUGH, YOU'VE GOTTA BLAME THE TOP U.S. MILITARY BRASS. THOSE IN CHARGE HAVE CLEARLY FAILED TO PREVENT THESE MURDERS! THESE CONTINUING MURDERS...

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/science/earth/what-to-make-of-a-climate-change-plateau.html?_r=0

* SUBTITLE THIS: "YA GOTTA LUV THE NYT!"

As unlikely as this may sound, we have lucked out in recent years when it comes to global warming.

* ER... "LUCKED OUT...???" I... er... THOUGHT THIS WAS "SCIENCE," NOT "CHANCE," NOT "COINCIDENCE?" WHAT'S THIS... er... "LUCKING OUT" NONSENSE?

The rise in the surface temperature of earth has been markedly slower over the last 15 years than in the 20 years before that.

* "MARKEDLY SLOWER" IS TIMES-SPEAK FOR "THERE'S BEEN NO GLOBAL WARMING SINCE... OH... THE MID/LATE 1990's. (OF COURSE EDUCATED, KNOWLEDGIBLE PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW THIS... BUT FOR TIMES READERS... YEAH... I CAN SEE WHY THE AUTHOR AND HIS (HER?) EDITOR WOULD PREFACE WITH "AS UNLIKELY AS THIS MAY SOUND..."

(*SMIRK*)

And that lull in warming has occurred even as greenhouse gases have accumulated in the atmosphere at a record pace.

* BUT... BUT... BUT... SHOULDN'T THAT BE I*M*P*O*S*S*I*B*E ACCORDING TO THE "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...???

(*GUFFAW*)

The slowdown is a bit of a mystery to climate scientists.

* AGAIN... FOLKS... YA GOTTA LUV THE TIMES...!!!

* MYSTERY... SCIENCE... MYSTERY... SCIENCE... (WHAT...?! DO THEY HAVE A DART BOARD WITH THE TWO LABELS REPLACING THE NUMBERS...?!)

[G]iven how much is riding on the scientific forecast, the practitioners of climate science would like to understand exactly what is going on. They admit that they do not...

* ONE... MORE... TIME... (*PAUSE*)... "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! ("SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!! "SETTLED" S*C*I*E*N*C*E...!!!)

As you might imagine, those dismissive of climate-change concerns have made much of this warming plateau. They typically argue that “global warming stopped 15 years ago” or some similar statement, and then assert that this disproves the whole notion that greenhouse gases are causing warming.

* YEP. PRETTY MUCH! (SOLAR ACTIVITY SEEMS TO BE THE MAIN DETERMINING FACTOR FROM WHAT "WE" CAN TELL...)

Rarely do they mention that most of the warmest years in the historical record have occurred recently.

* BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE... BECAUSE THE EARTH IS SEVERAL BILLION YEARS OLD... BECAUSE ALL THROUGHOUT HISTORY - BEFORE MAN... AFTER MAN - THE EARTH AND PORTIONS OF THE EARTH HAVE GONE THROUGH WARMING PERIODS AND COOLING PERIODS... ICE AGES EVEN!

The starting point is almost always 1998, a particularly warm year because of a strong El NiƱo weather pattern.

* AND WHAT CAUSES EL NINO...??? (THEY DON'T KNOW! WE DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND SEA FLOWS EITHER...!!!)

* FOLKS... YEAH... IT'S FUNNY IN A SENSE... THEY JUST WON'T GIVE IT UP... BUT IT'S ALSO PATHETIC AND DANGEROUS IN THE SENSE THAT THIS GLOBAL WARMING NONSENSE IMPACTS ACTUAL GOVERNMENTAL AND PRIVATE SECTOR POLICIES... USUALLY TO THE DETRIMENT OF HUMAN BEINGS.

* I COULD DECONSTRUCT THE WHOLE PATHETIC "DEFENSE OF THE INDEFENSIBLE" THE TIMES OFFERS... BUT WHY BOTHER?

William R. Barker said...

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/350644/stop-blaming-rogue-agents-eliana-johnson

We can officially dispense with the notion that the targeting of tea-party groups began when a couple of rogue agents in the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office set out to streamline their work.

The heart of the effort to target tea-party and other conservative groups, we are learning, occurred in Washington D.C....

* LONG ARTICLE BECAUSE IT NAMES NAMES AS WELL AS TITLES.

* THE GIST IS... DEMOCRATS MISUSED THE IRS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES. UNDER OBAMA'S WATCH.