The Benghazi hearings were held this week and exposed what we all knew: the Obama Administration has lied since the get-go. There were two things that I would like to post. The first is the report that the House released entitled "INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT for the Members of the House Republican Conference on the Events Surrounding the September 11, 2012 Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi, Libya."

The Executive Summary states:

• Reductions of security levels prior to the attacks in Benghazi were approved at thehighest levels of the State Department, up to and including Secretary Clinton. Thisfact contradicts her testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee onJanuary 23, 2013.
  

•  In the days following the attacks, White House and senior State Departmentofficials altered accurate talking points drafted by the Intelligence Community in order to protect the State Department.
  

•  Contrary to Administration rhetoric, the talking points were not edited to protect classified information. Concern for classified information is never mentioned in email traffic among senior Administration officials

If you are a visual person, Doug Ross has painstakingly laid out the Benghazi incident in a timeline.

Ross used this come up with four conclusions:

a) Hillary Clinton lied under oath to Congress.
b) Barack Obama went to sleep knowing that a U.S. Ambassador and other Americans were under terrorist attack.
c) Barack Obama awoke refreshed the next day to begin fundraising.
d) The entire Executive Branch lied repeatedly to the American people to save Obama's chances for reelection.

Agreed.

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) took to the floor of the House to "imagine a world without balloons" and to lament the "injustice of there being no helium for comedians."

Yes, this is real. Video from The Right Scoop

Or did Joe Biden look a lot like Jeff Dunham's Walter dummy at the gun grab cry fest today?

Today, the Senate, with the help of sixteen Republican Senators, voted to proceed on new proposed gun control legislation.

Two of these sixteen were my senators from Tennessee: Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker. Instead of standing with Paul, Cruz, Rubio and Lee, they stood with Diane Feinstein, Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer. Oh they had their reasons for voting this way. You see, their vote was actually pro-second Amendment!

Alexander's office released a statement today after the vote. Laughably, the statement lead with the statement "Alexander: “Always Ready to Defend” Tennesseans’ Second Amendment Rights in U.S. Senate." 

Really Senator Alexander? Really? If you truly believed this you would have killed this thing today. If voting the way Alexander did was "defending" the Second Amendment, then why did known gun grabbers vote the same way Alexander did? Was their vote a defense of the Second Amendment?

Not to be outdone, Senator Corker released a one sentence statement on the vote:

You see what these two are doing? They vote to allow gun control legislation to proceed so they can vote against it later on. Then they'll run back to Tennessee and talk about how much of a Second Amendment defender they are. This is politics over principle folks, plain and simple and I for one am sick of it. This bill should have been killed today. Period.

Alexander is up for re-election next year. This will not be forgotten.

Via The Tennessean:

Here are the top Tweets of the week that have been retweeted by Rampart Media followers:

Michelle Antoinette Obama: The WH Is NO LONGER The ‘Peoples House’ It Is ONLY Our Invited Guests “House” - via Ironicsurrealism.com

At a “workshop” for the film 42 in the State Dining Room of the White House, First Lady Michelle Obama told the assembled guests that “this is your house, too”.
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The White House is currently not allowing the public to tour or access the White House. Only invited guests are allowed inside.


Army Training Instructor Lists Evangelism, Catholicism, US Christian Identity, Islamophobia As Religious Extremism [Image] - via Ironicsurrealism.com

A U.S. Army training instructor listed Evangelical Christianity and Catholicism as examples of religious extremism along with Al Qaeda and Hamas during a briefing with an Army Reserve unit based in Pennsylvania, Fox News has learned.


Activist Demands Other Publications Drop 'Illegal Immigrant' After AP - via Breitbart.com

After the Associated Press on Tuesday decided to drop the term "illegal immigrant" and expunge it from its style guide (used by nearly every journalist), activists then immediately began to demand other publications follow suit.

Jose Antonio Vargas, the illegal immigrant who has gained publicity in recent years after he revealed that he did not have citizenship or legal status, tweeted, "You're next, @nytimes, @latimes, @washingtonpost, @WSJ. No human being is illegal."


Report: Authorities stop less than half of all illegal border crossings - via TheBlaze.com

A sophisticated airborne radar system developed to track Taliban fighters planting roadside bombs in Afghanistan has found a new use along the U.S. border withMexico, where it has revealed gaps in security.

Operated from a Predator surveillance drone, the radar system has collected evidence that Border Patrol agents apprehended fewer than half of the foreign migrants and smugglers who had illegally crossed into a 150-square-mile stretch of southern Arizona. [...]


Slate Features Duck Genitals Scientist Defending Her Study - via NewsBusters.org

Most Americans would agree that a federal study -- burning through hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars by the way -- on duck penises is not exactly a high priority when we need to get our fiscal house in order. But Patricia Brennan would disagree with you, and she took to the liberal online journal Slate to do so last Tuesday.

Wait, did I mention that Brennan has a vested interest in defending the study of duck dongs? She's a research professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst receiving federal money for the study?

And Now the video:

Would it surprise you to know that the Democrats lie when it comes to what constitutes an "assault rifle?" Yeah, I didn't think so....