Fox News Still Trying To Link Obama To IRS Controversy

          In this news blog by Laura Santhanam Fox News host Gretchen Carlson claims that the president Obama had previous knowledge and played a role in IRS targeting of political groups. In the news video form today October 21, 2013 Carlson talks with Jay Sekulo, the chief counsel with the conservative American Center for law and Justice which also filed a lawsuit against the government over allegations about what the IRS did. Now Obama’s name is still not on the lawsuit but Jay insists that Obama had previous knowledge.                                                                                                                                                            Laura’s blog is mostly intended for those who saw the news or have heard about the IRS. Santhanam does not believe that Obama took part in this as she showed her evidence which proofs that Sekulo does not have enough evidence to put the president in with the lawsuit. Based on the interview with 15 IRS employees and the GOP-Led House Oversight Committee, a July 16 memo issued by the office of Rep. showed that not one of these witnesses reported any political motivation or White House involvement.              

           In this case I would have to agree with Santhanam because she also believes, based on the evidence that Obama wasn’t involved with the IRS therefor the Fox News should drop the accusations and the speculations towards the president.

The Fight Against AlShabab

by The Editorial Board

In this article the Editorial Board from New York Times, talk about Al Shabab terrorizing and how America plays a part in this. As of last Saturday the Navy Seals had done a raid on a Somali villa in an attempt to find a senior Shabab commander and capture American commandos of a key terrorist suspect in Libya. Al Shabab has been expanding towards Kenya and beyond do to Somalia not having a central government for two decades. If the Kenyan troops that is part of an African Union mission do not leave Somalia, Al Shabab threatens to intensify attacks on Kenya. A month ago on an upscale mall in Kenya, Al Shabab made a four day long terrorist attack which killed more than 60 people. Rumors say that some of the Al Shabab attackers were Americans although this hasn’t been proven. The author tells us that the Obama administration should cut off financing for Al Shabab including fund raising in the United States. Some evidence that the author presents show us that several Somali Americans have been prosecuted for terrorist financing and some have been indicated on suspicion of traveling to train and fight with Al Shabab. Also a Congressional Research Service report said more than 20 young men from Minnesota are believed to have gone to fight in Somalia. Strongly agreeing with the author, I also think that the U.S. has problems of their own that can’t be resolved yet and don’t see the point in funding for Somalia’s military. If even some of our people are in with the Al Shabab what is being shown hear. Why are we helping someone else win a war or fight that is not ours? Cutting off the funding for the Somalia military would help our economy in many ways. I’m not saying not to help but its money that could be used for helping our own people. They can’t win the war against terrorism in America, gang wars or dug wars and they want to fix someone else’s war on terrorism!!?