My latest in the Washington Times: The 1-percenter who doesn’t pay his ‘fair share’ - President Obama

The multimillionaire Barack Obama paid lower taxes than Warren Buffett's secretary.

[Photo by: Charles Dharapak ** FILE ** President Obama pauses as he speaks about his proposed 2014 budget as he stands with acting budget director Jeff Zients in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on April 10, 2013. (Associated Press)]

The 1-percenter who doesn’t pay his ‘fair share’ - President Obama
He takes tax breaks he wants to take away from the rest of us

Resolved: No American citizen shall be required to pay federal income taxes at a rate higher than the country’s millionaire president pays.

Let’s call it the Alternative Maximum Fairness Tax: Calculate your current tax rate, compare it to the president’s and pay the lower of the two.

The White House admitted in a Friday afternoon news dump, of course that President Obama paid only an 18.4 percent effective federal income tax rate on his adjusted gross income last year of $608,611. The highest income-tax rate last year was 35 percent (and has now increased to 39.6 percent, thanks to the fiscal cliff tax hike). Once again, the president piously demanded that “the wealthiest Americans should pay their fair share” and yet, in the very same paragraph, the multimillionaire president admitted to paying less than half the standard rate for his income bracket.

If that weren’t enough hypocrisy, Mr. Obama once again called for the so-called “Buffett Rule” of raising taxes on high earners at the same time that he admitted to breaking the rule by paying lower taxes than Warren Buffett’s secretary. This president then had the audacity to claim that he believes in “protecting families making under $250,000 from seeing their taxes go up.” I suppose the operative word there is “seeing.” President Obama is clearly fine with hiking your taxes so long as you don’t see it happen. That’s why he cleverly hid 20 separate tax hikes on families making under $250,000 inside Obamacare.

Swing by The Washington Times to read it all. And, as always, thanks for sharing it with your 5,000 closest friends on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else the cool kids hang out.

My Washington Times latest: Shaking the moss off the GOP

Shaking the moss off the GOP
It’s time for the party to clean house

Would you invest in a company with a string of failures as sweeping as the GOP establishment’s? Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole: All products of the establishment and all failed candidates who opened the doors to the Obama and Clinton eras.

Even when establishment candidates do manage to win office -- George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush -- it’s a stretch to call their presidencies successful. The only undeniably successful Republican president of the modern era -- Ronald Reagan -- reached the White House by overcoming the opposition of the GOP establishment. And now the Gipper is considered to be among the greatest presidents in American history.

This pattern continues in the Senate. Today’s Republican superstars were yesterday’s GOP primary enemies: Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. Now the Republican establishment hopes you’ll forget that they opposed these men just as they did Ronald Reagan.

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Entering the 2014 elections, there are 13 Republican senators who face re-election. Their average tenure in Washington is more than 18 years. In that time, federal spending has nearly doubled, and our national debt has tripled. They’ve proven themselves uninterested or incapable of addressing this economic and moral deficit of stealing from our children.

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It’s time to clean house.

We need more Ted Cruzes and Mike Lees, more Rand Pauls and Marco Rubios, and we can’t just sit around waiting for the GOP establishment to deliver. They haven’t and they won’t. It’s time to take a page out of Sarah Palin’s playbook. It’s time to take on the establishment. For the sake of our party and the republic, it’s time to lock and load.

Swing by The Washington Times to read it all and be sure to check out The Real Conservatives National Committee mentioned in the column. It's time for courage. It's time to clean house.

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Sarah Palin: Loaded for Bear

Ask yourself, do you trust the GOP establishment to choose your leaders? Do you trust them to choose your candidates for the 2014 elections?

My Washington Times latest: Happy birthday, Obamacare

[Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times]

Happy birthday, Obamacare
The health care law’s lies stand exposed

Imagine a world where politicians were forced to tell the truth and forced to put their money where their mouths are. Don’t laugh. What if we simply included politicians’ promises about the laws they propose right into the laws themselves? These would serve as measurable conditions for the law’s survival. If the promises prove to be empty, the law would automatically expire.

Now imagine applying this standard to the most consequential law of our lifetimes: Obamacare. The president’s health care takeover annexed one-sixth of the U.S. economy under direct government control, which, in turn, threatens the other five-sixths. You can’t escape it. Now, three years since Obamacare was signed into law, it has become simply undeniable that it was based on deception.

Swing by The Washington Times to read the worst of the Obamacare lies: Happy birthday, Obamacare. And as always, thanks for sharing it on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else the cool kids hang out these days.

These lies beg an obvious question: If Obamacare is so great, why did the Democrats feel the need to lie so much about it?

Daily Caller: Facebook fraud and the war hero

America needs more patriots like my cousin, U.S. Army staff sergeant, combat veteran and Bronze Star recipient Erik Wolf. Unfortunately, that’s not what an impostor had in mind when he created dozens of fraudulent versions of the war hero on Facebook in an attempt to defraud unsuspecting Americans eager to serve the troops who serve us. 

Numerous phony Facebook accounts using photographs of Erik and his wife Annie have popped up, each with variations of his name. First came “Wolf Erik.” Then “Benjamin Wolf,” “Mark Wolf,” “Collins Wolf,” and so many others, each with an elaborate but fictional biography centered on the same disturbing theme: his wife is dead. 

Here's just one of the creepy fake pages:

This stolen photo is of the real Erik and Annie and they are just fine. Their real concern is for the potential financial victims of this scam. They've even taken to posting "proof-of-life" photos on their real Facebook pages.

Go to The Daily Caller to read the full disturbing details and how a heroic couple like Erik and Annie deal with it: Facebook fraud and the war hero. And thanks for sharing it on Facebook, Twitter and everywhere else the cool kids hang out these days.