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The Irrelevant and Pfoolish Pfeiffer

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Yesterday's word of the day, courtesy of the Obama administration, is "irrelevant", brought to you by the letter "L", for lie, and the number 3, for the quantity of ongoing Obama administration scandals. Friedersdorf would say that the biggest Obama scandals are proven and ignored and do not include Baghazi, the IRS or AP, but let's just stick to current events.

More scandal questions

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On the IRS scandal, one question I have is why Sarah Hall Ingram is still running the office that administers Obamacare tax collections, particularly after she was directly involved with the targeting of conservative groups in her previous position. This promotion to her present post tells me that she did her job well in running the tax-exempt department.

What a relief: No scandal here, just incompetence

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From Jake Tapper:

The U.S. Marshals Service lost two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program “identified as known or suspected terrorists,” states the public summary of an interim Justice Department Inspector General’s report obtained by CNN.

Tri-scandal update [updated!]

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IRS.

USA Today provides some context.

In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.

That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn't be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.

Deeper shades of Nixon in the Obama administration

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I was expecting that this scandal would be worse than initially reported, and it is worse.

The death penalty for Castro for killing unborn children?

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There are laws on the books. Castro is being charged with aggravated murder, for inducing involuntary abortions on four separate occasions. But how can it be murder? The four unborn children weren't persons, under the law. And if convicted of the charges, and assuming Castro is sentenced to death, wouldn't there be a constitutional problem?

Shades of Nixon in the Obama administration [Update: Senior IRS officials knew]

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It is not believable when the IRS's Lois Lerner stated that their targeting of conservative-leaning organizations was not done "out of any political bias", especially since there was no such targeting of left-leaning groups, and especially a day after it was

Benghazi reheating [Update 4]

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Just to recap, here is how Susan Rice's infamous Benghazi talking points morphed from a terrorist attack to something else, with all references to militant Islamism excised out of the narrative.

Energy and other stuff

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Energy

We not only have the potential to be energy independent for electrical power, same goes for battery power.

Gun control post-mortem

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Yes, it is true that the American public favors more background checks, which was in the gun control bill that died in the Senate a few days back. Such a failure may hurt the GOP since most GOP Senators (and four Democrats) voted nay. Or not. However, a bill was still passable, despite the NRA boogeyman. Problem is, Obama is not very competent, preferring lecturing over legislating, and Harry Reid is an ineffectual Senate Majority Leader. But that's not new. Let's recap what happened.

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