Well the tag line of SOTR is the Intersection of Politics and Style, isn’t it? Enjoy!

This room is seriously fabulous. I love the enormous crown moulding, tall ceilings and windows coupled with a modern table, Chesterfield love seat and regency chairs.

This room is moody and elegant. A definite win for those that love leather, and animal prints.

I just love this powder room! Lacquered walls and an antique sink that cost the owner a seriously pretty penny.

What a fantastic kitchen. It feels modern, classic and city, yet I could see it in a nice West County home as well.

Look at the warmth of this room! It’s tiny and everyone knows how much I hate purple; yet it works here. I would have each purple piece done in hunter green instead, but that’s just me.

This is so pretty. A totally modernized take on a vintage set of chairs and china cabinet. The white furniture and upholstery perfectly balances the fantastic black walls. Notice the graduated molding on the ceiling!

The casework here is stunning. Big thick chunky moldings are always a show stopper, but pairing them with black walls takes the whole look to another level.

This is so comfy as a homework area. Forget a breakfast room when you have a bookcase like that!! Coffee and decor mags while the kiddos handle their homework.

Isn’t this divine? I love the chairs, black embossed wallpaper, and the boxwood balls as centerpieces. Chic.

For the men out there: a serious theater/media room. Can you imagine watching The Avengers in here? I can.

Now this is how you mix modern and antique pieces to achieve an eclectic, well collected look that is welcoming as well. I love plates on walls. I have them on every wall in my main level.

I’m cross posting these pics to my Pinterest account, so followers over there can enjoy them too.

Photo credits – Bing search engine

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Also of note is how strict gun control laws are in Chicago.

Via DNA Chicago:

CHICAGO — Five people were killed and at least 18 people were injured in shootings across the city this weekend, including a 12-year-old boy injured in an accidental shooting.

The latest slaying took place Sunday about 2:10 a.m. in the 300 block of South Cicero Avenue, where a man was shot in the face, police said.

Edward Jordan, 53, of the 4900 block of West Lexington Street, was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital and pronounced dead at 8:05 a.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

On Saturday night, a woman was killed and two others were shot while the group was in Ryan Harris Memorial Park in Englewood, said Officer Hector Alfaro, a police spokesman.

The victims were standing in a group with others when at least one shooter fired in their direction about 9:10 p.m. in the 6800 block of South Lowe Avenue.

Read the rest here: DNA Chicago

Summary via The UK Daily Mail:

Second ‘house of horrors’ abortion clinic where doctor ‘twisted heads off fetus’ necks with his bare hands’ is investigated in Texas

Houston doctor Douglas Karpen is accused by four former employees of delivering live babies during third-trimester abortions and killing them

Witnesses said he would either snip their spinal cords, stab a surgical instrument into their heads or twist their heads off with his hands

Texas Department of State Health Services is using in its investigating of the doctor

Accusations come days after Dr. Kermit Gosnells was found guilty of murdering newborns at his Philadelphia abortion clinic

So, no. Those of us that still possess a conscience will not stop discussing Gosnell or pressing for more information. These horrific atrocities are rampant in a largely unregulated abortion industry. Now the work of investigating, uncovering and prosecution has begun. It’s about time.

Via The Blaze;

As Billy reported over on the front side, a prominent professor is speaking up in the wake of this week’s IRS scandal, suggesting that the Internal Revenue Service targeted her with an audit for her work defending her Catholic faith against progressive groups.

Similarly, the nonprofit Thomas More Society is now alleging that the IRS withheld approval for tax-exempt status from two pro-life organizations because of their demonstrations against abortion provider Planned Parenthood.

In one case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for tax exempt status for Coalition for Life of Iowa. In a phone call to Coalition for Life of Iowa leaders on June 6, 2009, the IRS agent “Ms. Richards” told the group to send a letter to the IRS with the entire board’s signatures stating that, under perjury of the law, they do not picket/protest or organize groups to picket or protest outside of Planned Parenthood. Once the IRS received this letter, their application would be approved…
In another similar case, the IRS withheld approval of an application for charitable tax-exempt recognition of Christian Voices for Life, questioning the group’s involvement with “40 Days for Life” and “Life Chain” events. The Fort Bend County, Texas, organization was subjected to repeated and lengthy unconstitutional requests for information about the viewpoint and content of its educational communications, volunteer prayer vigils, and other protected activities.
Thomas More Society special counsel Sally Wagenmaker calls the IRS authority in these cases is “disturbing.”

“The IRS’s role should only be to determine whether organizations fit the section 501(c)(3) test for ‘charitable, religious, or educational’ qualification, not to inquire about the content of prayers, protests, and petitions,” she says. ”It’s high time that the IRS be called to account for its workers’ potential to trample on our constitutional rights, through such ostensibly innocuous means…what the Ways and Means committee will discuss may only be the tip of the iceberg of IRS abuses.”

Make no mistake about it, the fact that the IRS intimidation scandal includes punishing Pro Life groups is a clear indicator of the presidents involvement.

A Declaration of Reascendance

In 1776, our Founding Fathers faced a crisis of tyranny in their own government, and lacking our good fortune of having them in their past, they found themselves left with no other option, than to issue the Declaration of Independence, which of course began with:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Fortunately for us however, because of their actions, and their later efforts almost two decades later, which resulted in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, we no longer need to dissolve the political bands which connect us with one another, we only need to reassert them.

First and foremost, we should reassert that:

–We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
And amend the next phrase to:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter ***or to abolish*** it, ***and to institute new Government, laying*** reaffirming its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

That is the job of our legislators to perform, and to see to it that it is held to. But even more than that, it is our responsibility as citizens to see to it that our representatives are reminded of their responsibilities and of our awareness of that.

Through the creation of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, and further acts of Congress, we have an agency of the government, the Internal Revenue Service, which has been acting in rebellion to both the Constitution, the laws of the land and its own charter, abusing its power, intimidating the people of our land, and doing so while operating directly under the supervision and oversight of the Commerce Dept, the Justice Dept and the President of the United States of America.

As such, it has become self-evident that neither of these entities can any longer be trusted with managing or investigating that which they have already so completely lost control of.

As our representatives in Congress, We The People insist and demand that you, our Senators and Representatives, shall see to it that there be:

an immediate halt to normal operations of this IRS
an immediate hiring freeze
an immediate investigation by an independent prosecutor
an immediate halt to any plans that this agency be given oversight of any area of our healthcare system
For when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, (H/T Dana Loesch’s “Defund the IRS” and Jim Hoft “Now is the time to Speak Out“):

IRS, Labor Department Audit Businessman on Obama’s Enemies List

Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained

IRS Faces Class Action Suit For Theft Of Health Care Records

IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo

IRS to Tea Party Group: “Provide Details of Your Planned Event With NEWT GINGRICH”

IRS Asked For Facebook Posts, Thoughts

POLL: Most Want IRS Officials Fired or Jailed

Top Obama Official Illegally Revealed Conservative Group’s Tax Status in 2010

Obama Campaign Attacked Romney With Leaked IRS Documents

Pro-Israel Z Street Group: IRS Told Us We Might Be Funding Terrorism

Democrat Senators Demand IRS Scrutinize Tea Party Groups

Though it is our right, because we have you, our Senators and Representatives, representing us in government, we do not need to do as our Founders did, and throw off our Government, we only need to re-apprise you of your duty to institute reliable Guards upon it for our present and future security.

–And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

Find your representative here.
Find your senator here.
Contact:
John Boehner
Eric Cantor
Mitch McConnell

On Twitter: #DefundIRS

Signed,

We The People of the United States of America

(Blogodidact – GGI – The Bell News)

Congressman Devin Nunes went on the Hugh Hewitt Show tonight and dropped this bombshell. The Holder-Obama Justice Department tapped the House of Representatives Cloak Room.
Via the Hugh Hewitt website, via The Green Room:

HH: The idea that this might be a Geithner-Axelrod plan, and by that, the sort of intimation, Henry II style, will no one rid me of this turbulent priest, will no one rid me of these turbulent Tea Parties, that might have just been a hint, a shift of an eyebrow, a change in the tone of voice. That’s going to take a long time to get to. I don’t trust the Department of Justice on this. Do you, Congressman Nunes?

DN: No, I absolutely do not, especially after this wiretapping incident, essentially, of the House of Representative. I don’t think people are focusing on the right thing when they talk about going after the AP reporters. The big problem that I see is that they actually tapped right where I’m sitting right now, the Cloak Room.

HH: Wait a minute, this is news to me.

DN: The Cloak Room in the House of Representatives.

HH: I have no idea what you’re talking about.

DN: So when they went after the AP reporters, right? Went after all of their phone records, they went after the phone records, including right up here in the House Gallery, right up from where I’m sitting right now. So you have a real separation of powers issue that did this really rise to the level that you would have to get phone records that would, that would most likely include members of Congress, because as you know…