Author Archives: Bart DePalma

About Bart DePalma

Bart DePalma is a solo country attorney practicing in the mountain town of Woodland Park, CO. Bart publishes the Citizen Pamphleteer blog and his new book Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism was released December 2011.

The Woman Who Brought You The IRS Persecution Of The Tea Party Is Now Heading The IRS Enforcement Of Obamacare!

I kid you not. ABC News is reporting: The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. … Continue reading

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Barry Heard It Through The Grapevine

The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart is on a roll, this time skewering our absentee president’s primary method of keeping track of his outlaw administration: Sounds like a riff off of a classic Marvin Gaye styling: Sing it Barry! I’ll bet … Continue reading

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You Know Scandals Have Hit Critical Mass When…

They become very funny fodder for comedians. The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart skewered the IRS’ stalling the tax exempt status of Tea Party and other conservative groups while questioning them and providing the answers to leftwing groups, including perhaps the … Continue reading

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Genesis of the Benghazi Big Lie

The Weekly Standard just published leaked copies of the State Department talking point memos changing its report of the al Qaeda terrorist attack sacking our consulate in Benghazi, Libya last year into the lie of a demonstration run amok which … Continue reading

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How Government Makes Depressions

I have spent a great deal of time on this blog discussing how the government creation and subsidy of the subprime home mortgage market caused the mass default starting the 2008 recession and how Mr. Obama’s massive socialist and progressive … Continue reading

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Saving The Planet With Poverty

On Friday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) celebrated findings that the human emissions of green house gas carbon dioxide in America had fallen again: Energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2012 were the lowest in the United States since … Continue reading

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Another Day In Obama’s America

Three months into the second Obama administration and after five years of economic depression, the Associated Press discovers the faces of poverty in Obama’s America: Cynthia Marriott gave up her job search after an interview in October for a position … Continue reading

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Racing Toward “Full Employment” The Obama Way

Last month, SEVEN times more people left the labor force (663,000) because they cannot buy a job than new jobs were created (88,000). 88,000 is half the jobs necessary just to employ the Millenials entering working age. The nominal “unemployment … Continue reading

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The EU Experiment In Wealth Confiscation

After years of borrowing billions of Euros from their government directed banks to support their government welfare states, the progressive/socialist European Union governments are now reaching sovereign insolvency one after the other and the looming default on the government bonds … Continue reading

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Banning Freedom From The Streets Of Washington D.C.

From today’s Washington Examiner: The word “FREEDOM” is among the list of banned vanity license plate slogans for Washington D.C., according a government file obtained by a Freedom of Information Request filed by the transparency website GovernmentAttic.org. Thought crimes.

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