Democrats Just Blocked Ted Cruz’s Proposed Next Step in the IRS Scandal | TheBlaze.com

Democrats Just Blocked Ted Cruz’s Proposed Next Step in the IRS Scandal | TheBlaze.com:
"Cruz excoriated the IRS on the Senate for purposefully targeting conservative groups, and then working to cover up the scandal by refusing to testify and claiming key emails have been lost. Cruz also said Attorney General Eric Holder has refused to call for a special prosecutor, and that Congress must act to create one to ensure an impartial criminal investigation."
Cruz also said that the IRS paid a $50,000 fine after admitting it gave away confidential taxpayer information to the political opponents of the National Organization for Marriage. “That is textbook abuse of power,” he said.

He concluded by saying the Obama administration has used the IRS for political purposes in ways that Richard Nixon only imagined.

Another Government Agency Says It Lost Emails Subpoenaed by Congress | TheBlaze.com

Another Government Agency Says It Lost Emails Subpoenaed by Congress | TheBlaze.com:
"Just hours after Congress shellacked the IRS over emails allegedly lost after a hard drive crash, the Environmental Protection Agency says it’s having its own computer issues and may have also lost emails that Congress is seeking."

Mon dieu!----French Joblessness Soars To Record High; Rises For 36th Month In A Row

French Joblessness Soars To Record High; Rises For 36th Month In A Row | Zero Hedge:

"More Hollande 'broken promises' as French joblessness reaches a new record high.
Aside from the idiotic month when officials forgot to send text messages, this is the 36th month in a row of worsening employment in France.
That must explain why, along with a collapsing PMI, French bond risk remains near record lows..."

6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds

6.9 million multiple voters in 28 states, report finds « Watchdog.org:
RICHMOND, Va. — Some 6.9 million Americans are registered to vote in two or more states, according to a report obtained by Watchdog.org.
“Our nation’s voter rolls are a mess,” says Catherine Engelbrecht, president of the election-watch group True The Vote.
“Sensible approaches to roll maintenance are fought tooth and nail by radical special interests who can use the duplicity in the system to their advantage,” she said.
The latest interstate voter cross check tallied 6,951,484 overlapping voter registrations, and they’re just the tip of the iceberg.
The cross-check program involves only 28 states and does not include the three largest: California, Texas and Florida.
“Duplicate registration is an open invitation to voting fraud,” said Clara Belle Wheeler, a member of the Election Board in Albemarle County, Va.
“This ability to vote more than once dilutes the legal votes and changes the results of elections.”

The Dire Warning Representatives of Immigration and Border Officials Just Gave to Congress | TheBlaze.com

The Dire Warning Representatives of Immigration and Border Officials Just Gave to Congress | TheBlaze.com:
“Over the last four years, our union has repeatedly advised Congress and America that the administration’s immigration policies are failing in the field,” said Chris Crane, president of the union who represents Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, in his prepared testimony to the committee.
Crane said his group has told ICE for years that the administration’s policies are failing, and he said things will only get worse if things don’t change. “If the administration continues with its current policies, it can expect the current crisis to further escalate, and crises in other areas to potentially emerge,” he said.
Crane’s comments are a slap to the Obama administration, which has continued to insist that its support for amnesty-style immigration changes are not the cause of the border rush.
In 2011, just 6,500 unaccompanied children came across the border. But in the same Judiciary hearing, officials from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and ICE said by mid-June of this year, 52,000 have been apprehended, more than double the 24,000 seen all last year."

Hospitals Spy on Your Purchases to Spot Bad Habits

Hospitals Spy on Your Purchases to Spot Bad Habits - Bloomberg:
"You may soon get a call from your doctor if you’ve let your gym membership lapse, made a habit of picking up candy bars at the check-out counter or begin shopping at plus-sized stores.
That’s because some hospitals are starting to use detailed consumer data to create profiles on current and potential patients to identify those most likely to get sick, so the hospitals can intervene before they do.
Information compiled by data brokers from public records and credit card transactions can reveal where a person shops, the food they buy, and whether they smoke. 
The largest hospital chain in the Carolinas is plugging data for 2 million people into algorithms designed to identify high-risk patients, while Pennsylvania’s biggest system uses household and demographic data.
Patients and their advocates, meanwhile, say they’re concerned that big data’s expansion into medical care will hurt the doctor-patient relationship and threaten privacy."

America Should Be Outraged When You See What This Whistleblower Was Forced To Do At This VA Hospital

America Should Be Outraged When You See What This Whistleblower Was Forced To Do At This VA Hospital:
"The scheduling clerk at the Veterans Administration office in Phoenix has come forward with evidence admitting that she’s being told to hide the deaths of veterans, and that it’s still happening.
“Someone is trying to hide the number of U.S. veterans who died here waiting for care.”
She claims that someone above her has been changing the record back, and then the vet is suddenly listed as alive.
Beginning early in 2013, she said, “I was told by managers to take requests for new appointments from veterans seeking care, and hide them.”

“They went into a desk drawer.”

City Council in Hot Water for Bigotry and Discrimination After Banning Event Because it Was Sponsored By Chick-Fil-A

City Council in Hot Water for Bigotry and Discrimination After Banning Event Because it Was Sponsored By Chick-Fil-A | LibertyNEWS.com:
"The Canadian city of Nanaimo’s city council is caught in a circle of embarrassment as it tucks its tail and reverses a horrible policy it recently passed.
The policy banned an event sponsored by U.S. based Chick-Fil-A because of the owners belief that homosexuality is sin and gay marriage should not be allowed. 
The city council went so far as to label the view as hate and passed a rule banning any events sponsored by the company.
It couldn’t be more obvious that this is blatant discrimination against Christianity and religious views, and the community backlash made it clear the city wasn’t happy with the decision.
The city council has now reversed the policy and is backing away from its discrimination."

Crime KILLS cities--------Police respond to reports of armed subjects, large crowd at Muskegon intersection

Police respond to reports of armed subjects, large crowd at Muskegon intersection | MLive.com:
"The Catherine Avenue home where the males were located had the words "AFFA LADA" in wooden letters on the outside and appeared to be vacant.
A man in the crowd said the lettering represents a local motorcycle group.
He didn't elaborate."

Revealed: The Lois Lerner Emails That Weren’t Lost | TheBlaze.com

Revealed: The Lois Lerner Emails That Weren’t Lost | TheBlaze.com:
"House Ways & Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said Wednesday that former IRS official Lois Lerner suggested investigating Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) before she was forced to leave her position due to the IRS targeting scandal.
According to documents unearthed by Camp, Lerner received an invitation to speak at an event that was intended for Grassley."

7 Photos Show How Detroit Hollowed Out During the Highway Age

7 Photos Show How Detroit Hollowed Out During the Highway Age | Streetsblog USA:
"While searching for images of highway interchanges in urban areas, I came across these historic aerial photos of Detroit on a message board, showing how the city fabric has slowly eroded. It’s a remarkable record of a process that has scarred many other American cities."

What could possibly go wrong?--------2 new downtown Muskegon townhouses to be built with city loan

2 new downtown Muskegon townhouses to be built with city loan | MLive.com:
"MUSKEGON, MI -- In an effort to jumpstart downtown residential development, the city of Muskegon has finalized a $500,000 loan for the construction of two more "Heritage Square" townhouses on Clay Avenue. 
The city commission on Tuesday, June 24 approved the loan to Gary Post's Heritage Square Development, which has built and sold four townhouses on Clay between First and Second streets.
The money to fund the loan is from the city's economic development fund.
 The loan fits in with the city commission's action plan that calls for efforts to spur additional residential development downtown, said Muskegon City Manager Frank Peterson.
 "We want to get these (residential developments) unstalled," Peterson said. "
This was small enough where we could have an effect on it.""

Oregon Obamacare Employees Now Getting Cushy Bonuses

Oregon Obamacare Employees Now Getting Cushy Bonuses | The Daily Caller:
Now that Oregon’s Obamacare exchange has entirely given up on fixing or running its own Obamacare website, the state exchange is handing out hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayer funding as bonuses to employees that stick around until the federal government takes over.

...Thirty-eight employees will be awarded bonuses worth one to three months pay to convince them to stay on with the exchange through the next nine months. 
All remaining 163 employees will be eligible for a bonus worth two weeks of government pay if they remain at the exchange through March 15.
...Hamstreet expects the bonuses to cost another $650,000 of federal taxpayer funding.
....The state-run exchange was awarded $305 million of federal taxpayer funding to create its state-run exchange, which it abandoned in April, and has so far spent over $250 million.
The exchange never launched a functional website which was able to enroll customers online, a problem which the state blames on its contractor Oracle.

Ken Braun: Detroit-area bus subsidies need repairing as much as road funding does

Ken Braun: Detroit-area bus subsidies need repairing as much as road funding does | MLive.com
A $1 billion road-funding proposal to patch up Michigan’s pothole-infested pavement has been put on ice for the summer because state lawmakers won’t put up the votes to hike the gasoline tax.
Opponents argue politicians should clean up sloppy spending elsewhere in the state budget before hitting motorists up for more.
One place to start is to ask whether all Michigan mass transit riders are paying their fair share.
A big chunk of funding for Michigan’s big city bus systems comes from fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees paid by those of us who drive on the roads.
The Detroit Department of Transportation alone received $47.6 million from state taxpayers for operating revenue in 2012 (the last year of reporting in the Federal Transit Administration’s database.) 
Yet, DDOT bus riders actually benefiting from the service paid just $23 million in fares.

No Joke: Anti-Gun Leftist Takes Aim At Cartoons

No Joke: Anti-Gun Leftist Takes Aim At Cartoons:
"For Mark Joseph Stern, it is apparently not enough to enact strict gun control legislation in an effort to curb violence by making sure criminals are the only armed Americans.
In a recent Slate article, the writer lamented the ostensibly improper existence of exaggerated gun use in children’s entertainment of bygone eras."

Panera and Chili’s Turn to Tablets to Streamline Service

Panera and Chili’s Turn to Tablets to Streamline Service - NYTimes.com:
BRAINTREE, Mass. — An idea came to Ronald M. Shaich, the chief executive of Panera Bread, as he was driving his children to school about four years ago:
What if everyone could order lunch the way he did?
...They had to go to another line, and if they wanted any kind of espresso drink, we sent them to a fourth line.”
So, the corporate chieftain who once declared that “the food business is not a technology business” has spent $42 million to update Panera. 
“The goal is to eliminate friction points so that customers have a better experience,” Mr. Shaich said, “because if they have a better experience, it will help our business.”

TROOPATHON: Tune in to the LIVE Broadcast from the Reagan Library to Help Support the Troops

TROOPATHON: Tune in to the LIVE Broadcast from the Reagan Library to Help Support the Troops:
"Since its beginning 7 years ago, Troopathon has raised over $4.5 million for care packages for our brave men and women in harm’s way. These care packages are much appreciated by the troops and countless political pundits and celebrities have joined the efforts over the years to promote this day-long event.
 The event is broadcast at www.troopathon.org and is being hosted by Stephen K. Bannon, Executive Chairman of Breitbart News Network and joined by actor and dedicated patriot Gary Sinise."

VIDEO: Veteran Told to Pay Fine, Ditch Flag or Risk Losing His Home

VIDEO: Veteran Told to Pay Fine, Ditch Flag or Risk Losing His Home:
"A Florida veteran is at risk of losing his home. It’s not due to failure to pay his mortgage or because of any violation of the law by him. No, Larry Murphree is being threatened with foreclosure of his home by the Sweetwater HOA because of a small American flag that he displays in his flowerpot."

History for June 26

History for June 26 - On-This-Day.com: 

Birth anniversaries of Pearl Buck (1892-1973), Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) and Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911-56).

 

Happy Birthday! Derek Jeter, Greg LeMond, Gretchen Wilson

 

1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. 


1942 - The Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter was flown for the first time. 




1959 - U.S. President Eisenhower joined Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in ceremonies officially opening the St. Lawrence Seaway. 


1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall. 


1976 - The CN (Canadian National) Tower in Toronto, Canada, opened. 


1981 - In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts. 



1997 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld state laws that allow for a ban on doctor-assisted suicides. 


1998 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employers are always potentially liable for supervisor's sexual misconduct toward an employee.