Bachmann Hustled Out Of Press Conference When Asked About Ethics Problems
In other news, the FBI reportedly met with Mitch McConnell's campaign staff today. I'm looking forward to the part where they find out one someone on his own staff made the recording. Not a "left wing" group.
Also — did you know assault rifles are never used to commit crimes?
Atlanta gunman killed after holding fire fighters hostage
Dear sweet American Jesus who is all-knowing and all-powerful and loves capitalism and hates liberals, why do you let bad things like this happen in your name?
In an email exchange with a constituent, Republican state Rep. Michele Presnell of Burnsville was asked whether she was comfortable with a prayer to Allah before a legislative meeting. Presnell responded: "No, I do not condone terrorism."
While our first instinct is of course to laugh at this dumb bigot lady — which is a good instinct! — we actually feel sort of sorry for her, and not just because she suffers from the same tragic affliction of not knowing how to spell her own name as fellow Republican Jesus freak Ms. Bachmann (no, not Marcus, the other Ms. Bachmann). READ MORE »
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Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) thinks background checks will allow the government to create a national gun registry:
"Some of the proposals, like for example- universal background checks- would allow the federal government to surveil law-abiding citizens whoexercise their Constitutional rights. One of the provisions we expect to see in the bill based on what we saw in the Judiciary Committee- on which I sit- would allow the Attorney General of the United States (Eric Holder) to promulgate regulations that could lead to a national registry system for guns. Something my constituents in Utah are very concerned about, and understandably so."
And seriously — is a national gun registry bad? Or unconstitutional? Not that I know of.
Delete your old emails or the government can read them
IRS documents released Wednesday suggest that the tax collection agency believes it can read American citizens' emails without a warrant.
The files were released to the American Civil Liberties Union under a Freedom of Information Act request. The organization is working to determine just how broadly federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI or the IRS' Criminal Tax Division interpret their authority to snoop through inboxes.
The IRS apparently interprets that authority very broadly, the documents show: as long as you've stored your email in a cloud service like Google Mail, and as long as those emails haven't been deleted after a few months, the agency thinks it doesn't need a warrant to read them.
The idea of IRS agents poking through your email account might sound at the very least creepy, and maybe unconstitutional. But the IRS does have a legal leg to stand on: the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 allows government agencies to in many cases obtain emails older than 180 days without a warrant.
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