ACTION REQUIRED! I’ve had it, both “Fed” up and an epiphany. This time it is personal and we Americans need to internalize it. It occurred to me during my radio show, and in the midst of a tirade, that the bureaucratic pros don’t give a sh*t for the most part if we complain, scream and shout.

First, there are good people working in, and a legitimate role for them and many of the federal government institutions. To be clear I am not advocating violence. There are millions of us that are related to or know someone in the Federal Government at some level – low, middle or high. I / we / you need to confront that person in your front yard, the grocery store, town square or golf course and ask simple questions.

• Is he or she a part of and in agreement with the blob sized leeches that are being highlighted in the recent scandals?
• Does he or she support and defend the mediocrity and in too many cases outright idiocracy that our tax dollars pay for?
• What if anything is he or she doing about it?

Maybe, when millions of our civil servants feel the heat and congregate in their emblazoned hallways, they will ponder and some may cower, as we the people demand they make their affiliation known.

What else would you ask the civil servants who are paid with our tax dollars?

When we demand more of ourselves and those that comprise our American culture, we will be better and someday exceptional again. I believe our best days are ahead of us.

Unanswered questions need to be resolved. Go for it.

Radio personality said to be the buyer of County Road property

Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target  tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting  tax-exempt status to the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a shady charity headed by  the president’s half-brother that operated illegally for years.

According to the organization’s filings, Lerner approved the foundation’s tax  status within a month of filing, an unprecedented timeline that stands in stark  contrast to conservative organizations that have been waiting for more than  three years, in some cases, for approval.

Lerner also appears to have broken with the norms of tax-exemption approval  by granting retroactive tax-exempt status to Malik Obama’s organization.

Read more at Daily Caller

By JOHN D. MCKINNON and SIOBHAN HUGHES Wall Street Journal POLITICS | Updated May 12, 2013, 7:48 p.m. ET

The Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of conservative groups went beyond those with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names—as the agency admitted Friday—to also include ones worried about government spending, debt or taxes, and even ones that lobbied to “make America a better place to live,” according to new details of a government probe.

The investigation also revealed that a high-ranking IRS official knew as early as mid-2011 that conservative groups were being inappropriately targeted—nearly a year before then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told a congressional committee the agency wasn’t targeting conservative groups.

The new disclosures are likely to inflame a widening controversy over IRS handling of dozens of applications by tea-party, patriot and other conservative
groups for tax-exempt status.

Read more at Wall Street Journal

Top U.S. Internal Revenue Service officials knew as early as June 2011 that agents were singling out groups promoting limited government for special attention, nine months before the agency’s head told lawmakers that such targeting wasn’t occurring, according to an inspector general’s report to be released later this week.

A timeline of written criteria for identifying political cases noted that the standards were changed in July 2011, “based on the concerns” the director of Exempt Organizations “raised in June 2011,” according to the report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

In March 2012, then-IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman told Louisiana Republican Representative Charles Boustany, chairman of a Ways and Means oversight subcommittee, that “there’s absolutely no targeting” of groups based on their political leanings.

Read more at Bloomberg

1973: reporters investigate All the President’s Men. 2013: reporters are All the President’s Men.

You knew the mainstream media was biased, but this is incredible. It was revealed today that CBS News President David Rhodes’ brother is Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, who was instrumental in rewriting the Benghazi talking points. But it gets worse. It is now learned that ABC President Ben Sherwood’s sister, Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, is a Special Assistant to Barack Obama on national security affairs. But even this isn’t it! CNN’s deputy bureau chief, Virginia Moseley, is the wife of Tom Nides, who until February was Hillary Clinton’s deputy.

Ben Rhodes is a top NSC advisor with absolutely no foreign policy or military experience. None! This idiot has advocated intervention both in Libya and now Syria. How has that worked out for us? He is responsible for helping to massage the Benghazi talking points to watered down drivel. His greatest accomplishment appears to be a Master’s Degree in fiction writing received from New York University. So perhaps we should call him Obama’s fiction writer!

Read more at Washington Examiner

By David Webb

It’s time to expand our interaction with the Patriot listener and advance critical thinking on all issues. This isn’t just about politics. It is about a needed resurgence of American Exceptionalism. Each week we will pick a topic sent in by a listener. You will present your topic and cohost a segment, taking calls from listeners and advocate for your position.

The Founding Fathers Forum is your 15 minutes of fame. Here’s how you can participate.

• Pick your topic
• Make your case in 150-200 words. Facts matter, do the math where applies and sourcing is always a plus.
• Email it to Ray my Producer HERE
• We will select one person each week and contact you to plan your segment

By Eric Benson | Published May  5, 2013

You were very critical of the Romney campaign’s minority-outreach efforts, or lack thereof. Why did it have such a blind spot when it came to black voters?

Romney and his team were the old white boys’ club, and the RNC was in cahoots with them. I know because the RNC had hired me as a consultant to put together a black-voter-outreach website that we had all but completed in June of 2012. It had video testimonials from Allen West, Tim Scott, Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll from Florida, and just regular black conservatives saying, “Hey, here’s why I’m a Republican.” I thought we could make some inroads. We were going to use it as a tool to remind black Americans that they had a choice in this election, and it wasn’t just about Barack Obama’s skin color.

But that project was buried because Reince Priebus, the chairman of the RNC, through [communications director] Sean Spicer, said, “Well, we don’t have enough money to fund additional activities.” It’s funny the RNC now says they have $10 million for minority outreach. When we wanted maybe $20,000 to launch the website and put on a couple of events right before the election, the money wasn’t there. It was all of this double-talk. I’m disgusted on a lot of levels.

Why do you think they were so resistant to launching the site?

Read more at the New Yorker

Some men deserve to have their balls chopped off. When you’re a man, you’re supposed to act like a man, which means, when confronted with a difficult situation don’t run like some school girl. But for Ben Rhodes, that’s exactly what he did in writing the talking points for Ambassador Susan Rice—the UN ambassador who went on a dog and pony talk show extravaganza immediately following the Benghazi atrocity.

One of the problems in America is the fact that some national security advisers have absolutely zero national security backgrounds. It just happens to be that at least one deputy national security adviser in the Obama administration is a video game geek with zero military or intelligence background—Ben Rhodes.

Little ole Benny is a 35 year old pansy who is also a failed novelist. Several years ago, he attempted to write a story tentatively titled The Oasis of Love. But in 2012, the novelist put another story together about a crowd of Muslims storming at least two US assets abroad all because they were upset over some video found on YouTube.

Read More at Kerry-Patton.com

Today’s incident was reported by Web security company, Umbrella Security Labs on their blog:

“At around 18:45 UTC OpenDNS resolvers saw a significant drop in traffic from Syria. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.

Although Twitter remains relatively silent, the drop in both inbound and outbound traffic from Syria is clearly visible. The small amount of outbound traffic depicted by the chart indicates our DNS servers trying to reach DNS servers in Syria.”

Read more at ABC