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When a news account of a Fairhaven teenager who is a nationally ranked competitor was posted on a bulletin board in her school, her family says an administrator cut out the photo of her holding her rifle. A high school senior in Foxborough was prohibited by school authorities from using a photo of himself shooting a .22-caliber rifle in a competition on his yearbook page, his father says.

Irked that their sport is misunderstood, some of the junior shooters have taken to wearing a T-shirt that says, “I compete in an Olympic sport, but I can’t talk about it in school.”

If you suspected that the Administration’s plan was to stonewall until things die down and it was safe to resume ruining the lives of its opponents, Koskinen’s performance in recent days would have more or less confirmed it.
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The IRS has, in American terms, extraordinary powers. It was, for example, amusing to see Lois Lerner plead the Fifth Amendment and exercise her constitutional right not to put herself at risk of self-incrimination. As the great Walter Williams pointed out the other day, every single American waives his Fifth Amendment rights every time he signs that tax return on April 15.
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One of the darker trends of the Obama era has been the remorseless convergence of the Democrat ideologues and the punitive bureaucracy. In that sense, the removal of the Washington Redskins’ trademark – their property rights – for disrespecting progressive ideology is a harbinger of things to come.

» Not one of the nation’s news leaders has the IRS scandal as its lead story

Fox News was the only site to even have the story visible at all on the initial view.
But let’s recap what the networks thought was important:
ABC: The affair of a green beret
CBS: Climate change (of course)
NBC: Mormons, recovery of stabbing victim and Bill Clinton
MSNBC: Chris Christie’s Bridgegate II (unreal)
Fox News: The KFC Hoax
CNN: Soccer
Washington Post: WWII art
Wall Street Journal: Activity tracking devices
Miami Herald: LeBron James
The New York Times: Comfortable Hospitals and…the Tea Party is racist
Los Angeles Times: Plane crash…from 2013

“When I go to sleep at night, I lay down and I put my pistol there, I measure it where if somebody comes in the house I can pick it up and go,” Osburn says. When mowing the lawn, Osburn says, ranchers in South Texas always need a pistol ready.

“Down here there’s no question, ‘Oh, was it loaded?’” Osburn says. “Well, hell yeah, it’s loaded. Why have a gun if it’s not loaded? And it’s off safety too. That’s the way we live.”

Other ranchers tell me that the amount of OTM — other than Mexican — traffic is increasing in South Texas, and that the disposition of the travelers has grown more hostile. Ranchers say the immigrants who reach Brooks County are ready to fight.

» 24 Questions About the Massive Surge of Illegal Aliens on Our Purposely Unguarded Southern Border

In January, the federal government put up an RFI/Sources Sought listing for “Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children” making it clear that the feds expected the border to be overwhelmed by “approximately 65,000″ unaccompanied illegal alien children in the near future. Less than half a year later, the tsunami hit as planned.

Now it’s the United Nations that needs help. Specifically, people are needed to work out of New York who have experience in DDR.

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Excuse the paranoia, but you could almost get the impression that the UN is recruiting people to disarm the American population. Someone who knows more than we do may be expecting it to hit the fan soon.

Vice President Joe Biden’s erroneous claim that he doesn’t own a bank account or “a single stock or bond”was ignored by two major networks and dismissed by the third …
Only CBS This Morning took note of the factually inaccurate claim, with Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante debunking it by noting that Biden has “has money in 11 different investment funds and as much $15,000 in a savings account.”

Plante warned viewers that Biden’s boast, along with Hillary Clinton’s claim of relative poverty when leaving the White House, show how the two Presidential hopefuls “are already trying to convince you that they identify with the concerns of middle class voters. But, so far, it’s only serving to remind voters of their relative wealth.”

… and reminding voters of their relative proclivity for devising ridiculous lies on the fly – with obvious assumption that proximity of the constitutionally-protected free press to the bottom of the tank is too close for them to bother questioning their leash holders.

» CO2 GOOD; CLIMATE CHANGE BUNK; GREENS ARE RAGING EXTREMISTS, SAYS GREENPEACE CO-FOUNDER

» FLASHBACK: When the Media Crowdsourced Sarah Palin’s Emails

The media were so interested in getting into every nook and cranny of those emails that they facilitated their release, and then crowdsourced processing them. The Guardian even published a guide.
The LA Times got in on the act. So did the Daily Beast. The Washington Post published a full searchable database of all 24,000 pages.
Palin’s emails turned out to be mundane stuff. There was no scandal in there ….

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None of these media outlets are actively investigating the IRS, its targeting or its “lost” emails.

Because they’re partisan hacks like that.

At least 91 people – more than 60 women and girls, and 31 schoolboys – were abducted last week by suspected Boko Haram militants, two months after the terror group kidnapped more than 300 schoolgirls in northeastern Nigeria, according to witnesses.

» The Jihadi Menace Gets Real

ISIS is bigger, badder, richer, and better organized than any jihadi threat the United States has faced thus far. Its rise represents a foreign policy disaster of the first order.

» It’s the Islam, stupid Part the Million Bazillionth

When IRS Commissioner John Koskinen arrogantly told Congress that he had no apologies for an agency that has targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny, had a top-ranking bureaucrat take the Fifth Amendment, and destroyed its own correspondence, he meant it. Nor did Lisa Jackson, the former head of the EPA, offer any apologies for concocting a fake persona, replete with false e-mail identity (“Richard Windsor”), to hide her own communications. Kathleen Sebelius was likewise unapologetic after presiding over the ruined initial implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Nor did she pay any consequence for campaigning for Democratic candidates while a cabinet secretary, in violation of the Hatch Act.
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we are witnessing a new federal government that is a sort of rogue organism that exists for its own enhancement and is willing to do anything necessary to help those who help it.

This is not America. It is like most failed states abroad, which also are not America.

When you mewl in blissful ignorance about trying “really hard to care about money” all you do is emphasize that money worries are a non-issue for you. You insult every man and woman who are forced to “care about money” as they struggle to pay their bills and sacrifice so their kids can join a baseball league or take a dance class (like you did); you diss everyone who is forced to “care about money” because they haven’t had a raise in a couple of years, though costs keep rising — or because they are retired and aren’t seeing the interest income they’d planned on, and so the house is falling into disrepair, and they can’t sell it because young couples weighed down with student loans aren’t buying those fixer-uppers the way they used to.

Just stop it.