Did the White House use the IRS to pressure this critic of Obamacare?
Did the White House use the IRS to pressure this critic of Obamacare?
They called my editor and feigned concern that the Washington Times was taking advantage of me… by publishing my op-eds critical of Barack Obama. Around the same time the IRS put a hold on our tax refund that required an arbitrator and several months to resolve. We finally received our refund (and interest) but never an explanation. The local IRS office and the arbitrator seemed genuinely confused by the ordeal using terms like “very strange” and “unusual” but never could explain why it happened. One wonders. [emphasis mine]
A lot of these stories have been popping up in the news since the IRS scandal broke last week. In these examples, which differ from the IRS scandal itself in that the IRS hassled an individual in some petty way, the harassment occurred soon after it was clear that this individual was publicly critical of Democratic Party policies,
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Did the White House use the IRS to pressure this critic of Obamacare?
They called my editor and feigned concern that the Washington Times was taking advantage of me… by publishing my op-eds critical of Barack Obama. Around the same time the IRS put a hold on our tax refund that required an arbitrator and several months to resolve. We finally received our refund (and interest) but never an explanation. The local IRS office and the arbitrator seemed genuinely confused by the ordeal using terms like “very strange” and “unusual” but never could explain why it happened. One wonders. [emphasis mine]
A lot of these stories have been popping up in the news since the IRS scandal broke last week. In these examples, which differ from the IRS scandal itself in that the IRS hassled an individual in some petty way, the harassment occurred soon after it was clear that this individual was publicly critical of Democratic Party policies,
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
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