The Watcher’s Council The People’s Cube Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: Which of the current scandals do you think is potentially most damaging to the Obama Administration? Why? The Razor: [...]

NoisyRoom.net By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow, of Utah, walks off following an interview at his office Thursday, May 16, 2013, in Salt Lake City. U.S. authorities in Idaho said they have arrested Fazliddin Kurbanov, a man from Uzbekistan accused of conspiring with a designated terrorist organization in his home country and helping [...]

KeyWiki.org Alice Palmer Alice Palmer is a Chicago based academic, socialist activist and former friend, employer and political ally of Barack Obama. She employed Obama as her Chief of Staff during her failed run for Congress in the mid-1990s. She introduced Obama to people of influence in Chicago before he “took over” her Illinois State [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Of the IRS abuse cases that have recently come to light, the use of the IRS to enforce the defunct “Fairness Doctrine” on broadcasters is one of the most disturbing. “I am alarmed by reports that suggest a federal official at the IRS instituting a de facto Fairness Doctrine,” [...]

By: Bethany Stotts Accuracy in Media Three brewing scandals have formed a vicious trifecta which threatens to sink the Obama Administration: the Internal Revenue Services’ targeting of conservative groups, the Benghazi scandal, and the subpoena of two months of phone records from the Associated Press. The Administration’s relationship with the news media, according to The [...]

The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up. Even taking into consideration the normal high level of quality in both the Council and Non-Council entries, this was a tough call with some exceptional pieces to choose from and the close [...]

By: James Simpson Examiner.com As Congressional Democrats scurry for cover in the wake of the growing scandal surrounding IRS harassment of tea party and conservative groups, President Obama announced on Wednesday that acting IRS chief, Steven T. Miller would resign. As with Benghazi and seemingly everything else these days, Obama claims to have known nothing [...]

By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media The scandal involving the politicization of the IRS under the Obama administration continues to grow. Congressmen briefed by IRS officials say that instead of 300 groups that received closer scrutiny, the number has climbed to 471. More drip, drip, drip. But in an effort to stop the bleeding, President [...]

The Watcher’s Council Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The revelations about the IRS targeting voices opposed to Barack Obama’s political agenda came of no surprise to filmmaker Joel Gilbert. His private financial accounts were hacked into and the information used by a George Soros-linked journalist, Seth Rosenfeld, before the presidential election. Gilbert wants to know who provided [...]

By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media You would have thought that the Obama administration would have learned from the growing Benghazi scandal that the best way to handle such controversies is to get out in front of them, and put it all out there, rather than let it drip, drip, drip, as is now happening [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Five months before Barack Obama was elected to his first term as president, Herbert Romerstein and I finished a Washington, D.C. briefing on “The Stealth Candidate”—Barack Obama—and his communist connections. I opened it up for questions. “I’m Dana Milbank from The Washington Post,” said the questioner. “So what’s the [...]

The Watcher’s Council Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: Should Rape Be A Capital Crime? Rhymes With Right: Should rape be a capital crime? It would be easy to simply say [...]

NoisyRoom.net By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton The leader of the immigration enforcement agents’ union claims La Raza is running U.S. immigration policy. – ICE National Council Mark Levin is a true American patriot and once again he has brought to light the ongoing Marxist takeover of America. On his show on May 9th, he interviewed Chris Crane, [...]

By: James Simpson Examiner.com 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 [...]

KeyWiki.org David Kusnet David Kusnet works for the Tony Podesta’s Washington D.C. lobbying firm the Podesta Group. Kusnet is “an accomplished author and a former presidential speechwriter, has extensive experience creating speeches, reports, and opinion pieces, as well as authoring or co-authoring five books. David works with clients to craft compelling messages and develop strategic [...]

The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up! But before we get to that, I and my fellow Council members want to wish the mothers amongst you an absolutely wonderful Mother’s Day. Is there any bond like that of a [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media “Beck Crosses the Line Again” was the headline over a Jonathan Tobin Commentary article about Glenn Beck’s attack on Michael Bloomberg at the NRA convention. Tobin insisted that Beck “spoke in front of a large backdrop that photo-shopped Bloomberg’s face into what appears to be a famous photo of [...]

The Watcher’s Council ‘What difference does it make’? Well, Mrs. Clinton, we may be about to find out. (graphic by the amazing Chris Muir at Day By Day, of course) Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media Bill Ayers’ claim that the Weather Underground bombed property, not people, in order to protest the Vietnam War, is two lies in one. First, they specialized in anti-personnel bombs using heavy metal staples. Second, Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn were not opposed to the war, only to a [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media We have seen in the Boston bombings case how terrorists depend on a network of sympathizers. But the Russian connection remains a mystery. The press should follow up on the Russian angle to the Islamic terrorist bombers story before President Obama gets carried away with cooperating with Russian President [...]

The Watcher’s Council Every week on Monday morning, the Council and our invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum with short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question: How do you feel about minors being able to buy the Morning After Pill without prescription or parental notification? The Razor: I [...]

NoisyRoom By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton There’s an absolutely incredible video you need to watch from Mike Vanderboegh of Sipsey Street Irregulars. He nails what we have been working to expose for years. The only thing missing is credit to Trevor Loudon of New Zeal for exposing Frank Marshall Davis first. Once Mike read up on this [...]

NoisyRoom Hat Tip: Walid Shoebat Mike Vanderboegh at Liberty Oath Keeper with Stewart Rhodes From Walid Shoebat: Mike Vanderboegh founded the Three Percenters Movement, which is based on the reality that only three percent of the early American colonists took to the battlefield and still won. He is also the guy who not only broke [...]

KeyWiki.org Joseph Stiglitz Joseph Stiglitz is Professor of Economics at Columbia University, New York. He is also a member of the Committee on Global Thought and Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Initiative for Political Dialogue at Columbia. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 for his analysis of markets with asymmetric [...]

By: Bethany Stotts Accuracy in Media The mainstream media are absent on the Misha story, preferring to let the discussion of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s possible mentor devolve into hearsay reporting rather than to delve in-depth into the background of this Islamist. Perhaps he undermines the narrative that this was a couple of self-radicalized kids who were [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media If the FBI wants to find Joanne Chesimard, who has just been added to the “Most Wanted Terrorists List,” it could begin by wiretapping President Obama’s friends, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and other members of the Weather Underground. The Weather Underground helped Chesimard—a convicted cop-killer—escape from a New [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The Washington Post says that Ken Cuccinelli, who is running for governor of Virginia, has an image problem because he has described sex between homosexuals as “wrong” and branded President Obama’s team as “the biggest set of lawbreakers in America.” When one reads the front-page Post article with these [...]

The Watcher’s Council Alea iacta est… the Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and we have the results for this week’s Watcher’s Council match-up. Before we get started, some flowers, a little medicinal tonic for healing purposes and best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery to Matthew White. Heal up soon Matthew!! [...]

By: Cliff Kincaid Accuracy in Media The claim that the Russians somehow “warned” the U.S. about Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s radical Islamic connections has been accepted by most news organizations and commentators as established fact. But while U.S. intelligence agencies have a lot to explain, the Russian security services have been treated with kid gloves and even [...]