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[which one civil rights organization
calls “the single largest group of hard-core anti-Semites in North America.”
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The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch blog noted on Tuesday that Paul had reportedly accepted the speaking engagement at the Fatima Center’s September “Fatima: The Path to Peace” conference in Canada.

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Beyond the obvious, what do a far-right Italian politician, the president of
the John Birch Society and former U.S. Rep. Ron Paul have in common?

In early September, the men are all scheduled to speak – along with a lengthy list
of archconservative clergy, lawyers and academics – at a conference in Canada
sponsored by the Fatima Center, part of the “radical traditionalist Catholic”
movement, perhaps the single largest group of hard-core anti-Semites in North America.

Paul, the former Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate, is
the keynote speaker of the weeklong conference slated for Sept. 8-13 in
Niagara Falls, Ontario. A physician before entering politics, Paul got into
considerable hot water in 2008 when The New Republic published
“Angry White Man,” an article about the contents of newsletters he
published. What the newsletters revealed, the magazine reported, “are
decades worth of obsession with conspiracies, sympathy for the right-wing
militia movement, and deeply held bigotry against blacks, Jews and gays.”
Paul denied writing the newsletters that bore his name.

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I received the invitation from my speaker’s bureau about this group that was
strongly anti-war and they wanted me to speak to a Conservative Catholic Group
about non-interventionist foreign policy and I said “wow, that sounds right up my
alley.” … The article that came out yesterday is disturbing, and I have not read it
yet, but the question is raised – exactly who is making the allegations. I have not
yet sorted it out, and it makes me uneasy, but frequently the opposition uses tactics
which are pure demagoguery and falsehoods.

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Is Scott Walker in jail yet?

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A former federal prosecutor has been appointed as a special prosecutor
in Wisconsin, as part of a wide-ranging investigation into state-level issues,
including the 2011 and 2012 recall elections, according to The Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel.

The Journal Sentinel reported on Monday that the probe grew out of leads discovered
during an earlier investigation of aides who served Gov. Scott Walker (R) during his
time as Milwaukee County executive. That case ended with six people convicted on
criminal charges.

The current probe was initiated by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office,
but now involves multiple counties. Francis Schmitz, a former assistant U.S. attorney
who was once considered by President George W. Bush for the post of U.S. attorney
for the eastern district of Wisconsin, is now leading the case as a special prosecutor,
according to the Journal Sentinel.

"It's now spread to at least five counties," a source told the paper. The same source
said that Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf had been
investigating "all over the place."

The case apparently opened in February 2012. And according to the Journal Sentinel,
the investigation is looking at a number of issues, including the recall races, a current
legislative leader, and the 2012 gubernatorial recall contest between Walker and
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett.

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On Sunday, a 60 Minutes investigative report by veteran CBS reporter Steve Kroft and Government Accountability Institute (GAI) President and Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Peter Schweizer revealed how leadership PAC loopholes allow members of Congress to convert campaign cash into lavish lifestyle upgrades for themselves and their family members.  
“It's another example, unfortunately, where the rules that apply to the rest of us, don't really apply to the members of Congress,” said Schweizer on 60 Minutes.
The report, which contained selected material from Schweizer’s forthcoming book Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets, revealed embarrassing and outlandish instances of cronyism and self-enrichment by members of Congress. Despite the fact that funds from leadership PACs are supposed to go to help elect fellow members of one’s own political party, lax campaign laws allow lawmakers to turn their leadership PACs into private slush funds to fund just about anything.

Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ), for example, tapped his wife, a lawyer and an associate law dean at Rutgers School of Law-Camden, to be a PAC compliance officer for his leadership PAC. She approved the use of donor dollars to fly her, Rep. Andrews, and their two daughters to Edinburgh, Scotland for a wedding at a posh resort. Andrews’s leadership PAC paid $16,575 in airfare. His campaign committee picked up the rest of the tab, which was slightly under $14,000. Schweizer says Andrews’s leadership PAC even paid for the wedding gift, which was china from Bloomingdale’s. Andrews and his wife even merged a campaign event with their daughter’s graduation party, allowing them to combine the costs of the two events, even though the PAC did not pick up the entire bill.
When Kroft confronted the Democratic New Jersey congressman, Andrews said, “I think we should take a look at having clearer rules at what they can and cannot be spent for. I'd be for that.” Andrews claimed he could not speak more on the matter because of a pending House Ethics investigation, even though Kroft said the committee told him they were fine with Andrews speaking about the matter.
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) attempted to use $6,230 in campaign funds to pay for a personal trainer. Meeks’s staff claimed using campaign money for a fitness instructor is a legitimate expense, because gym visits alleviate stress from Meeks’s “official duties.” The investigation also revealed that Meeks has used $35,000 from his leadership PAC on NFL games.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss’s (R-GA) leadership PAC dropped $107,752 at the Breakers resort in Palm Beach during the 2012 election cycle. That is over three times as much money as he gave the National Republican Senatorial Committee to get fellow Republicans elected. One year, Chambliss spent nearly one-third of his entire leadership PAC funds on golf, limos, and at least one private jet ride. His leadership PAC also picked up a $26,814 dinner tab at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and $10,344 at Pebble Beach.
The 60 Minutes special also revealed how members of Congress exploit a self-loan loophole that allows politicians to loan their own campaigns money at high interest rates and then let the loans linger to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars in passive streams of profit for themselves.
Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA) has bagged at least $294,245 since 1998 by loaning her congressional campaign money at interest rates up to 18%—a scheme that effectively funneled campaign contributor donations into her personal bank account. After numerous attempts to interview Napolitano, Kroft finally confronted her outside a Hispanic Caucus meeting.
“She told us that as a woman and a minority, banks wouldn’t lend her money, so she had to withdraw $150,000 from an investment account to lend it to her campaign,” said Kroft.
Kroft then questioned why she would charge 18% interest. “That’s what the Mafia gets,” he exclaimed.
“It isn’t like I’ve really profited,” said Napolitano. “I still live in the same house. I drive a small car. I am not a billionaire, or a millionaire, for that matter.”
The 60 Minutes report also revealed that members of Congress are permitted to use leadership PAC money to hire their own family members. As Kroft and Schweizer point out, most corporations have nepotism laws that prevent the hiring of family members. And while congressional rules bar family members from serving on a congressman’s official staff, lawmakers are free to hire family to serve on their campaigns.
Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) put his daughter, grandson, daughter’s mother-in-law, grandson-in-law, granddaughter, and another relative—six family members in total—on his campaign payroll. The Paul progeny received a combined $304,599.
Kroft also confronted retiring Rep. Rodney Alexander (R-LA) about actions Schweizer reports on in Extortion. Alexander paid his two daughters over $130,000 in combined expenses for working on his campaign, which he won with an overwhelming 78% of the vote. Kroft asked Alexander what his daughters did.
“They do everything that others do for other campaigns,” said Alexander. “Somebody has to do that work. I kept it with someone I can trust. If one can’t trust their daughter, then who can they trust?”
Kroft and Schweizer agreed that leadership PACs are hotbeds of cronyism and self-enrichment.
“The abuse is substantial and pretty widespread,” said Kroft.
Schweizer agreed and said that is precisely how the Establishment likes it.
“We hear a lot about how there's so much partisan fighting in Washington,” said Schweizer. “Here's a great example of bipartisanship. Both sides like this current system.”
Sunday's 60 Minutes report is just the tip of the iceberg. According to Schweizer's publisher, next week's Tuesday release of Extortion will include never-before-released documents and revelations on several top Democrats, Republicans, President Barack Obama, and Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Graham is SOOOOO Easy!  

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What I find comical is that like much of the left, Box thinks that cutting and pasting the entire contents (for Box that means what is inside) of the Encyclopedia Britannica qualifies one as an expert. This is a organism who hasn't been able to construct a paragraph on his own, due to his own Union-shop style laziness and history of being a quitter.