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Tea Party shutdown
A 16 day partial government shutdown that occured in October 2013 as part of an effort by the Tea Party to defund the Affordable Care Act
Blocking implementation of the Affordable Care Act seems to be one of the Tea Party's top priorities, this resulted in the Tea Party shutdown.
Tea Party shutdown by scrivener December 8, 2013
IRS scandal
A scandal involving political organizations illegally claiming tax exempt status, section 501(c)(4) of the tax code specifically prohibits tax exempt non-profits from engaging in partisan politics
As part of the IRS scandal organizations like the Tea Party and NORML were investigated for violating the tax code, some rwnjs have suggested that the Obama Administration did something improper by allowing the IRS to enforce the law.
IRS scandal by scrivener December 8, 2013
Photoshop hoc, ergo hoc vera
Photoshop hoc, ergo hoc vera is a logical fallacy whereby something is assumed to be true because someone photoshopped a picture of it.
An example of "Photoshop hoc, ergo hoc vera" is a picture of a Nobel Prize stained in blood stating that someone doesn't deserve a Nobel Prize because they are responsible for more deaths than Hitler. "Photoshop hoc, ergo hoc vera" applies people assume that the picture is true just because someone made it, and then share it with others.
Photoshop hoc, ergo hoc vera by ScriVener September 9, 2012
Idaho
The reason that there were only 49 entrants in the "Miss Ebonics USA" pageant. No contestant wanted to wear a ribbon across her torso that said "I da ho".