http://samuel-warde.com Liberal News, Commentary, Social Satire & More Sat, 25 May 2013 02:49:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/former-naacp-the-tea-party-the-taliban-wing-of-american-politics/ http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/former-naacp-the-tea-party-the-taliban-wing-of-american-politics/#comments Thu, 16 May 2013 16:24:27 +0000 Samuel Warde http://samuel-warde.com/?p=13939 In an interview with MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts, former NAACP Chairman Julian Bond shared his thoughts on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) probe into the NAACP in 2004, and the current IRS targeting of conservative groups that have such keywords as “Tea Party” and “Patriot”. Bond told Roberts that the NAACP’s targeting and the Tea Party’s are not [...]]]> http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/former-naacp-the-tea-party-the-taliban-wing-of-american-politics/feed/ 0 http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/the-real-irs-scandal-by-lawrence-odonnell-and-ezra-klein/ http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/the-real-irs-scandal-by-lawrence-odonnell-and-ezra-klein/#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 09:25:01 +0000 Brandon Weber http://samuel-warde.com/?p=13815 Basically, the IRS changed the language over 50 years ago that defines what a 501c(4) tax-exempt organization can be, and that opened the door to IRS agents interpreting things on their own. Add a massive increase in applications by Tea Party groups to be tax-exempt, and, well . . . things happen. Visit NBCNews.com for [...]]]> http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/the-real-irs-scandal-by-lawrence-odonnell-and-ezra-klein/feed/ 0 http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/michelle-bachmann-blames-god-for-9-11-and-benghazi/ http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/michelle-bachmann-blames-god-for-9-11-and-benghazi/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 11:44:30 +0000 Brandon Weber http://samuel-warde.com/?p=13602 Well, to be more accurate, she blames the American people for doing things that caused her concept of a god to get vewy, vewy angwy at us, and therefore made these things happen. This from a former presidential candidate. This from a current member of the “House Intelligence Committee” – something that in itself makes [...]]]> http://samuel-warde.com/2013/05/michelle-bachmann-blames-god-for-9-11-and-benghazi/feed/ 0 http://samuel-warde.com/2013/04/stephen-colberts-hilarious-takedown-of-the-debt-monster/ http://samuel-warde.com/2013/04/stephen-colberts-hilarious-takedown-of-the-debt-monster/#comments Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:36:24 +0000 Brandon Weber http://samuel-warde.com/?p=12809 Thomas Herndon, a grad student, found a simple Excel spreadsheet error (and some missing data from countries such as Canada and Australia) in the study that has been used by Conservatives around the world such as Paul Ryan to argue for austerity – that is, cutting government spending and social services. The study encouraged conservative [...]]]> http://samuel-warde.com/2013/04/stephen-colberts-hilarious-takedown-of-the-debt-monster/feed/ 0