While some protest, riot and decry injustice and out rage over the Zimmerman verdict, the Treasury Department is admitting the confidential tax information of  political candidates and campaign donors are being improperly scrutinized by government officials. However, the Justice Department is declining to prosecute any of the instances of potential wrongdoing.

Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration, J. Russell George, told Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley investigators are looking into two allegations the IRS “targeted for audit candidates for public office.” George also told Grassley that government officials have taken part in at least four “unauthorized access or disclosure of tax records of political donors or candidates,” since 2006.

Grassley has given DOJ Head, Eric Holder until July 26th to answer his questions. Holder has yet to respond.

This is no longer about politics, but rather about civil liberties. The more Progressives do this and get away with it — the more embolden they’ll be to continue stepping on our rights.

Senator Harry Reid was answering questions at the Center for American Progress on Monday when a man identified himself as a student at the University of Southern California.  Turns out Reid’s not a fan of the Trojans.

As the guy was asking the Senate Leader a question, Reid interrupted him, saying, “I hope you have a better football team than last year, that was a disaster.”

The country is going to Hell in a Progressive hand basket — and “USA Today” thinks this is news worth reporting. No wonder this nation is full of so-called low information voters.

Someone ought to put a ‘trojan’ over Reid’s head, protecting us from his brand of social disease.

Senator Harry Reid says the Justice Department should review George Zimmerman’s case following his acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.  But not once did he ever call for calm from protesters and rioters.

“This isn’t over with and I think that’s good,” he said on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press.’

Whadda ass-hat.

Back in 1988 I started studying criminal profiling as I looked to pursue a career as a true crime writer. One of the cases I delved into was that of seven-year-old Monica DaSilva, who disappeared from her bedroom in October 1990.

Initially, Reno police believed that the parents did something to her. Three weeks later, Monica skull, ribs and collarbone were found in Lagomarsino Canyon at the Lockwood Dump, east of Reno, in Storey County in October 1990.

I had other idea’s about who killed Monica.

According to my findings, she was kidnapped and murdered by a white male, about 30, who had been escalating into becoming a serial murderer for at least eight years prior to Monica. I also believed he lived in the Reno/Sparks area and had knowledge of the homes lay out, because he did not enter through the window as detectives suspected.

Instead, he moved through the house undetected — showing he had a strong sense of his skill-set. For RPD, this was one of the first times they’d ever dealt with anyone with a stalker, kidnapping, murdering pedophile.

There are other things about this murderer that I’ve come to believe over the years as well. He is moderately educated: a high school graduate — but with an above average IQ.

My findings showed that Monica’s murderer also worked at jobs that he believed he was above, but these same jobs place him in or near his victims or the victim’s homes. He is also comfortable with the dark and blends in well with his environment in both the day and the night.

Now a 61-year-old Missouri man, arrested in the killing of a girl in North Las Vegas decades ago is being looked at for the kidnapping and murder of Monica. Jasper Everett Goddard, a registered sex offender was arrested on a felony warrant from the state of Nevada in the 1986 death of April Marie Rhodes.

The police report says in 1986, Goddard lived in a Statz Street apartment two doors away from where April lived. The little girl went to a drive-in movie with her mother, Katherine, and 11-year-old brother, Thomas, on November 23, 1986.

They came home from the movie and the children went to bed. Police later found April is an isolated storage room in the same complex, where she had been raped and beaten to death.

Goddard is linked to April’s death through DNA evidence left at the scene.

At the time of their abductions, both April and Monica were seven years old. They were both sleeping near windows in rooms with their brothers, who were left unharmed.

Goddard was also convicted on charges of sodomy and sexual abuse of an 8-year-old girl in 1989 in Springfield, Missouri.

Daisy Marilyn (Smith) Wildgrube died May 25, 2013.  She was my Uncle, Adam Smith’s, sister.

Daisy was born on December 11, 1935 in Fortuna, the youngest of seven children of Harry and Iva Smith from the Dyerville area. Daisy was laid at the Fortuna Sunrise Cemetery.

She went to elementary school in Rohnerville and graduated from Fortuna High School in 1954, marrying Luke Wildgrube a year later. Daisy spent many years working for ‘Twin Harbors Lumber Mill’ pulling green chain and running the stacker, and her last years in the office as the secretary.

Daisy spent many years putting lunches together for the ‘Six Rivers National Forest Service’ during fire season; and looking for a new recipe. After her job ended at the mill after it closed, she was the head cook at the ‘Dinsmore Lodge Recovery Center’ when it opened back in the early 80’s.

Mid 80’s Daisy was co-owner/partners with Linda Elliott and Judy Allen of the ‘Dinsmore Cafe’ until it became a hardware store. Daisy retired after all that working and enjoyed traveling with her husband.

Daisy is survived by her children Neil and Kathy of Rio Dell; grandson Travis Wildgrube, Fortuna; Nadine Hartman, Fortuna; grandson Luke Hartman, Fortuna; granddaughter Lisa and Mike Williamson of Arlington, WA; and Marilyn D. Wildgrube, Rio Dell, her brother Ozzie Smith, his wife Joann, Fortuna; sister-in-law Barbara Smith and brother-in-law Albert Mendes.

She was preceded in death by her parents Harry and Iva Smith; siblings Ed Smith, William Smith, Nancy McCullough, Emma Mendes, Adam Smith and husband, Luke Wildgrube.

“Everyone wishes to have truth on his side, but not everyone wishes to be on the side of truth,” writes Richard Whately.

Often times, I feel exactly this way as I sit down to write a message to you. It’s not that I doubt what I write; rather, it’s that I doubt you agree with what you read.

Time and again I’m inspired by something I read, saw or heard and I can’t wait to share my thoughts on the subject. But after sharing them with you, my words seem to fade into nothingness – forgotten, ignored or missed.

As one friend put it on Facebook, after I posted a You-Tube video of a young man being treated as a criminal during a sobriety check point stop: “What rights are being taken away from assholes who drive even slightly impaired. Shame on you, when so many people from our area are killed or impaired because of drunk/ impaired driving!”

She missed the point and felt obliged to respond: “The driver wasn’t asked if he had been drinking. So by not following what the intent is of a ‘sobriety check,’ the officer violated his own standard of action. Furthermore, the driver in this case was neither drunk driving or violating any laws.”

My question is this — if you’ve done nothing wrong, why are you allowing yourself to be treated as criminal? That’s why I doubt you.

There are two headlines showing an attack on our religious freedom is underway. This isn’t about any one faith, rather  it’s about our civil liberty.

• “TSA Allowing Muslim Passengers to Carry Prayer Beads and Whisper Prayers on Flights.”

• “College Employee Asks Student to Remove Cross Necklace at Sonoma State University.”

They have this in common: How faith is to be or not to be expressed. And both instances violates our U.S. Constitution.

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” reads the First Amendment.

Simply stated — no one can tell you or me how to express our faith and get away with it legally, unless we refuse to do anything about it. Remember, what violates your neighbor’s rights, violates yours and it violates mine.

Henderson, Nevada police arrested a family for refusing to let them use their home during an investigation into their neighbors in 2011. Now, Anthony Mitchell and his parents Michael and Linda Mitchell are suing the Henderson, its Police Chief, six of its officers and North Las Vegas and its Police Chief in Federal Court.

Although plaintiff Anthony Mitchell was lying motionless on the ground and posed no threat, officers, including Officer David Cawthorn, then fired multiple ‘pepperball’ rounds at plaintiff as he lay defenseless on the floor of his living room,” reads the complaint. “Anthony Mitchell was struck at least three times by shots fired from close range, injuring him and causing him severe pain.”

Officers then arrested him for obstructing a police officer, searched the house and moved furniture without his permission and set up a place in his home for a lookout. The family’s claim includes the ‘Third Amendment’ violation: “No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.”

This is what the ‘police state’ looks like — and if you don’t start protecting your civil rights, now — it’ll only get worse.

The bear statues at each end of the Klamath River Bridge on U.S. 101 in Del Norte County were cast to replace the original ones that formerly stood at the ends of the G. H. Douglas Memorial Bridge, which washed out during the December 1964 flood. These statues represent the grizzly bear, California’s official state animal.

The contract specification for the replacement bear statues called for them to be exact  replicas of the statues once on the California State Fairgrounds in Sacramento. Each eight-ton bear was cast by the Maurice Lafayette Company of San Francisco in 1965.

While the four bear statues currently welcome visitors to Del Norte County, the original bears from the Douglas still exist. Two continue to stand guard on what remains of the old Douglas Memorial Bridge on the south bank of the Klamath River, while the other two are at the south end of the new Klamath town site.

The statues, at one point, even served as the inspiration for Klamath’s Margaret Keating School’s ‘Golden Bears’ mascot.

BOSTON — National Guard units seeking to confiscate a cache of recently banned assault weapons were ambushed on April 19 by elements of a Para-military extremist faction. Military and law enforcement sources estimate that 72 were killed and more than 200 injured before government forces were compelled to withdraw.

Speaking after the clash, Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage declared that the extremist faction, which was made up of local citizens, has links to the radical right-wing tax protest movement. Gage blamed the extremists for recent incidents of vandalism directed against internal revenue offices.

The governor, who described the group’s organizers as “criminals,” issued an executive order authorizing the summary arrest of any individual who has interfered with the government’s efforts to secure law and order. The military raid on the extremist arsenal followed wide-spread refusal by the local citizenry to turn over recently outlawed assault weapons.

Gage issued a ban on military-style assault weapons and ammunition earlier in the week. This decision followed a meeting in early this month between government and military leaders at which the governor authorized the forcible confiscation of illegal arms.

One government official, speaking on condition of anonymity, pointed out that “none of these people would have been killed had the extremists obeyed the law and turned over their weapons voluntarily.”

Government troops initially succeeded in confiscating a large supply of outlawed weapons and ammunition. However, troops attempting to seize arms and ammunition in Lexington met with resistance from heavily armed extremists who had been tipped off about the government’s plans.

During a tense standoff in Lexington’s town park, National Guard Colonel Francis Smith, commander of the government operation, ordered the armed group to surrender and return to their homes. The impasse was broken by a single shot, which was reportedly fired by one of the right-wing extremists.

Eight civilians were killed in the ensuing exchange. The local citizenry blamed government forces and not the extremists for the civilian deaths.

Before order could be restored, armed citizens from surrounding areas had descended upon the guard units. Smith, finding his forces over matched by the armed mob, ordered a retreat.

Governor Gage has called upon citizens to support the state/national joint task force in its effort to restore law and order. The governor also demanded the surrender of those responsible for planning and leading the attack against the government troops.

A number of extremists remain at large.

This is how the American Revolution began on  April 20th, 1775. 

A friend sent this to me and he doesn’t know who wrote it — but  it’s a great lesson.  Remember — if you don’t know your history, you’re doomed to repeat it.

Happy 237th Independence Day, America!