DNC: GOP 'Making Up' Scandals 'Out of Thin Air'

April Fool's Day was more than a month ago, but that didn't stop DNC spokesman Brad Dayspring from emailing supporters Friday that the GOP was "making up so-called 'scandals' out of thin air." This will obviously be news to the three IRS employees who have been forced to resign or placed on leave. It will also be news to the dozens of reporters who had their phone records seized by the Justice Department. "Out of thin air" obviously means something different to Democrats.
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Congressman: Holder May Have Broken Law in AP Scandal

Attorney General Eric Holder may have violated federal law when he did not put his recusal from the secret Associated Press phone records seizure case in writing, Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID) suggested during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. 15 May 2013

Obama Lectures Congress on 'Partisan Agendas' as IRS Scandal Deepens

A day after the Inspector General released an audit that found the IRS inappropriately targeted Tea Party and conservative groups, President Barack Obama on Wednesday again lectured Congress on bipartisanship, warning members of Congress that their actions in the coming days should not "smack of politics or partisan agendas." 15 May 2013

Deer Smashes PA Bus Windshield, Takes Short Ride

A deer has taken a ride on a western Pennsylvania bus. The white-tailed deer crashed through the windshield of a public bus being driven Tuesday evening in Johnstown, about 65 miles east of Pittsburgh. 15 May 2013

Obama to Hold Thursday News Conference on IRS

President Barack Obama says he's ready to take questions at a news conference Thursday about revelations that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny. 15 May 2013

Obama: IRS Acting Commissioner Has Resigned

President Barack Obama on Wednesday announced the resignation of the top official at the Internal Revenue Service following a controversy over the agency's targeting of conservative political groups. 15 May 2013

Ex-SC Gov. Sanford Reclaims House Seat in Comeback

Republican Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor whose extramarital affair derailed his political career, returned to Congress on Wednesday with his Argentine "soul mate" at his side. 15 May 2013

Holder: 'I Know Nothing'

Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department's handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to talk to The Associated Press before issuing subpoenas for the news service's telephone records. 15 May 2013

IRS Will Only Get Worse Under Obamacare

The mainstream media is rightly shocked and outraged to find the IRS has admitted to harassing and targeting the political opposition of President Obama just because they had “tea party” or “patriot” in their name, or an even graver sin, put on the IRS applications that they were a group dedicated to liberty, the Constitution or, as one report said, “seeking to make America a better place to live.” 15 May 2013

Gutfeld to Write for Breitbart News

Breitbart News Network, LLC, the parent company of leading media website Breitbart.com, announced today that it will team up with Greg Gutfeld, co-host of Fox News’ The Five and host of Fox News’ Red Eye, as well as multi-NY Times best-selling author, most recently of The Joy of Hate: How to Triumph over Whiners in the Age of Phony Outrage. Gutfeld will be joining Breitbart News as a regular columnist and contributor to “The Conversation” vertical. 15 May 2013

Flashback: President Obama Targeted Gibson Guitars, Boeing on Ideological Grounds

Even mainstream media outlets are running story upon story about the Obama administration's possible ties to grabbing a wire service's phone records and using the IRS to bully conservative groups. Those who have been paying attention to the New Media shouldn't be surprised. In fact, here are two recent examples where the Obama administration appeared to use an ideological cudgel to bash conservatives. 15 May 2013

Goodlatte: 'Defintely Should Not Solely Rely' on Holder, DOJ

While House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) is not ready to demand a special prosecutor to investigate the IRS conservative and Tea Party targeting scandal, he warned that Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice should not be trusted to handle the investigation on its own. 15 May 2013

Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama

Yet once again, those who seek to know the full truth about what has happened to America during the Obama years need to keep their eye on the key figure. And that key figure is not Eric Holder, any more than it is Hillary Clinton. Instead, the key figure is Barack Obama. 15 May 2013

IRS Manual: 5 Years in Prison, $5,000 Fine for Leaking Tax Docs

The Inspector General report released late Tuesday omitted the names of the IRS agents or personnel involved in targeting tea party and limited government groups. But according to the official IRS manual, any individuals found to have engaged in the “unauthorized disclosure of a return or return information” may be subject to felony charges punishable by a fine of up to $5,000 and five years in prison. 15 May 2013

La Raza CEO: Heritage Must Denounce Former Employee

On Monday, Janet Murguia, President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, published a post regarding the controversy surrounding Heritage Foundation’s former policy analyst, Jason Richwine. Although Richwine promptly resigned from his position on Friday, Murguia claims that is not enough. 15 May 2013

Report: IRS Demanded Conservative Education Group Name Students

When a Tennessee lawyer asked the IRS for tax-exempt status for a mentoring group that trained high school and college students about conservative political philosophy, the agency responded with a list of 95 questions in 31 parts, including an ultimatum for a list of everyone the group had trained, or planned to train. 15 May 2013

Congressman on IRS Scandal: Koch Bros. 'Abused the System'

Congressman Alan Grayson (D – FL) told Breitbart News he thinks the “Koch brothers have abused the system by setting up 501c3’s that are doing political activity,” arguing, “It doesn’t make any sense to look for something on the other side, because it’s not there,” he said, adding, “You just can’t find something that’s similar to what the Koch brothers and other right-wingers have done, so in that sense, it’s not shocking to me that the IRS did what it did. You have to look for things where they are to be found.” 15 May 2013

Boehner on IRS: 'Who Is Going to Jail?'

At a press conference on Wednesday, House Speaker John Boehner addressed the growing scandal of the IRS targeting tea party and conservative organizations. "My question isn't about 'Who is going to resign?'", Boehner said. "My question is 'Who is going to jail over this scandal?'" 15 May 2013

Washington & Wall Street: Should JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon Wear Two Hats?

When it comes to the world of investment, the American model of corporate governance is decidedly monarchist in nature. Corporate chieftains behave like kings, with little accountability to the owners of the business – the shareholders. The debate over whether JP Morgan Chairman & CEO Jamie Dimon should carry both titles is a case in point. Most public companies combine the role of chairman and chief executive, but my view is that this is a terrible mistake. 15 May 2013

Enemies List: IRS Wanted Names of Tea Party Members

The IRS targeting of tea party and conservative groups was designed to intimidate organizations ahead of the 2012 election. Overwhelming these organizations with burdensome requests for detailed information caused several to abandon setting up non-profits. Breitbart News has reviewed IRS information requests to a half-dozen organizations. The most chilling request from the IRS was for a list of volunteers. It has the feel of a modern-day "enemies list." 15 May 2013

Rising Student Debt, Declining Personal Responsibility

Washington’s proposals will serve to propagate a system of growing dependency. Being personally responsible for one’s actions is integral to a free-functioning democracy. If anything, that need has never been more critical or timely than it is now; yet the opposite is the message from Washington. Government’s tentacles reach ever further into our lives, increasing dependency. The forgiveness of student debt will only aggravate the situation, making another promise with no regard to the costs. 14 May 2013

AP President Scoffs at DOJ Response to Phone Scandal

Gary Pruitt, president and CEO of The Associated Press, sent a sternly worded follow-up letter to the Department of Justice today, one which said its attempt at explaining what happened hardly proved reassuring and appeared dubious at face value. 14 May 2013

True the Vote Founder: DOJ Scrutinized Us After IRS Filing

“All I have is the truth, and it’s important that Americans know about this and that our government look into any possible connections between the multiple federal agencies who all showed interest in us in such rapid succession of each other and the issues with IRS abusing power,” said Engelbrecht. 14 May 2013

Inspector General: IRS Reviewed Every Org with 'Tea Party' in Name

The Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury has released its 54-page report on the targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Among the findings: all applicants with the words "Tea Party" in their names were reviewed, and other names such as "We The People" were included later; also, senior IRS officials claim the wrongdoing was not instigated "by any individual or organization outside the IRS." 14 May 2013

White House Under Siege over IRS Investigation Timeline

On Tuesday, White House Spokesperson Jay Carney claimed that President Barack Obama and other White House officials were unaware that an independent inspector general had been investigating the IRS about whether it targeted conservative groups until they read about it in press reports last Friday, even though the White House general council's office was notified "several weeks ago" about the investigation. 14 May 2013

Traditional Marriage Group to Sue IRS Over Leaks

The National Organization for Marriage, a conservative organization whose confidential records were leaked by the IRS to its left-wing critics, announced on Tuesday it will sue the tax agency for damages. NOM’s 2008 tax return was, according to a press release the group sent out on Tuesday, taken by the IRS and subsequently leaked to its primary political opponent the Human Rights Campaign. 14 May 2013

No Death Penalty for Gosnell

A Philadelphia abortion doctor convicted of killing three babies who were born alive in his grimy clinic agreed Tuesday to give up his right to an appeal and faces life in prison but will be spared a death sentence. 14 May 2013

Rubio 'Disappointed' Senate Committee Rejected High-Tech Exit Visa System

An estimated 40% of illegal immigrants in this country weren't smuggled across the border. They came here on legal visas and simply stayed after their visa expired. While the implementation of a system to track when visa-holders exit is one of the "triggers" in the Gang of 8 enforcement provisions, on Tuesday the Senate Judiciary Committee rejected the inclusion of a secure, high-tech system to monitor exits of visa holders. With the vote, four of Sen. Marco Rubio's fellow "Gang" members rejected a provision he supports. 14 May 2013

Holder on Associated Press Scandal: It Wasn't Me

On Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder, whose Department of Justice has been the subject of scandals ranging from Fast and Furious to pulling phone records of Associated Press editors and reporters, said that he had “recused” himself last year from a federal probe that led to the AP records pull. 14 May 2013

Carney on IRS: We Cannot 'Say Something Concretely Happened That Was Inappropriate'

In a wild press conference today, White House press secretary Jay Carney blithely informed reporters that just because the IRS had admitted to giving extra scrutiny to conservative non-profit applicants doesn’t mean something negative had occurred. President Obama has already said that it would be “outrageous” if reports about IRS profiling were true. 14 May 2013

Paul Resolution Condemns IRS, Seeks Investigation

As fallout from the IRS scandal rippled through Washington, Sen. Rand Paul introduced a resolution Tuesday condemning the IRS actions and calling for an independent investigation. The resolution also instructs that the investigation should examine whether criminal charges should be brought against individuals who knowingly targeted organizations because of their political views. 14 May 2013

White House Relies on Incompetence Defense as IRS, AP Scandals Grow

The DC political world has been rocked by twin revelations that the IRS targeted conservative and tea party non-profits for heightened scrutiny and Eric Holder's Justice Department obtained private phone records of reporters from the Associated Press. At heart of both scandals is the Administration's attempts to neutralize political opponents and government whistleblowers. The White House defense has been that it wasn't aware of these activities until reported in the press. In other words, Obama is incompetent, rather than culpable. 14 May 2013

At Least 9 of 12 Gosnell Jurors 'Pro-Choice'

According to Philadelphia local affiliate NBC 10, at least nine of the twelve jurors who found abortionist Kermit Gosnell guilty of first-degree murder for killing babies born alive at his clinic identified themselves as “pro-choice.” 14 May 2013

VA GOP Lt. Gov. Candidate Admits He Funded Mysterious Group Behind Mailers

On Friday night Corey Stewart, one of seven candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor in Virginia, admitted to a crowd of 50 Tea Party activists that he was not only "connected to" the mysterious Virginians for Limited Government (VLG) group that has paid for attack mailers on five of his opponents; he's also provided funding for the group. 14 May 2013

Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs

The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending. 14 May 2013

WH Spox Carney Shocked to Learn DOJ Investigated AP Phone Records

On Monday night, after reports surfaced that the Justice Department--and, more specifically, Attorney General Eric Holder--approved subpoenas to obtain the phone records of reporters from the Associated Press, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the White House was shocked to learn of these revelations. 14 May 2013

Senate Judiciary Begins Voting on New Guest Worker Program

On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes its work on the "Gang of 8" amnesty legislation. Tuesday's meeting, and an additional meeting Thursday, will consider changes to the new guest worker visa program in the bill, as well as rules governing visas for high-skilled workers. Supporters of the legislation have a working 12-6 majority on the committee and should be able to block any amendments that would toughen the bill or make it more restrictive. 14 May 2013

Another Pro-Stewart Mailer From Mysterious Group in VA GOP Race for Lt. Gov.

Breitbart News has learned that the mysterious Virginians for Limited Government (VLG) group has sent out another direct mailer. On Thursday, a direct mail piece paid for by VLG arrived in the mailbox of at least one Virginian, who forwarded a copy of it to Breitbart News. The mailer clearly supports one candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, Corey Stewart, and opposes two others, E.W. Jackson, and Pete Snyder. 14 May 2013

GOP Probes Sebelius Fundraising Push

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have gotten caught with her hand in the cookie jar, the Hill reports. She has been asking healthcare executives and community groups to support Enroll America, which is a non-profit group that is designed to promote ObamaCare by catalyzing people to enroll in new coverage options. 14 May 2013

House Panel To Question IRS Commish Friday

The House Ways and Means Committee is going to have a formal hearing on Friday in which they will question IRS Commissioner Steve Miller and Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George about the evidence that the IRS targeted conservative groups applying for tax exempt status between 2010 and 2012. The committee said they would examine the IRS’s "practice of targeting applicants for tax-exempt status based on political leanings." 14 May 2013

IRS Officials In DC Involved In Targeting Conservatives

New reports by the Washington Post and other outlets reveal that efforts by the Internal Revenue Service to target conservative groups attempting to gain tax-exempt status were not just the work of IRS officials in Cincinnati. New evidence has been given that the road not only leads to the El Monte and Laguna Niguel offices in California, but also leads higher up--to Washington, D.C. 14 May 2013

Eric Holder's Media Manipulations Under Scrutiny

Newly discovered intrusions on the media from Holder and the DOJ are just the latest in a litany of others. As this reporter uncovered before the election, emails between now former Holder spokeswoman Tracy Schmaler and the leftwing advocacy organization Media Matters for America show the administration colluding with the far left-wing group to smear media figures, whistleblowers and members of Congress like Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 14 May 2013

Analyst: Many Amnesty Applicants Won't Have to Learn English, Pay Fines, Back Taxes

Amnesty proponents claim the Senate's "comprehensive immigration reform" bill does not grant illegal immigrants "amnesty" because illegal immigrants will have to learn English, pay fines, pass background checks, pay back taxes, and go to the back of the line. Jon Feere, a legal analyst at the Center for Immigration studies, though, contends that illegal immigrants may be able to avoid all of these requirements given how the bill is written. 14 May 2013

Clintons Freeze Weiner

According to the New York Post, Bill and Hillary Clinton are going to make sure Anthony Weiner’s dreams of becoming mayor stay all wet--they will not support him in his efforts. 14 May 2013

Justice Ginsburg: 'Unelected Old Men' Decided Roe v. Wade

Ginsburg said that, should the 1973 decision be overturned, “it’s not going to matter that much.” The justice stated that, even in “the worst-case scenario,” regulation of abortion would simply return to the 50 states, and “you would have a number of states that will never go back to the way it was.” 13 May 2013

GOP Rep: Eric Holder Needs to Re-Read Constitution

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) told Breitbart News he thinks Attorney General Eric Holder needs a refresher course on the U.S. Constitution in the wake of reports that the Department of Justice secretly obtained two months of the Associated Press's phone records. 13 May 2013

EXCLUSIVE: House Majority Whip: 'We Will Investigate' IRS, Benghazi, AP Scandals

On Monday, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) responded to reports that the Department of Justice had secretly obtained two full months of phone records from the Associated Press, prompting the AP’s President and Chief Executive Officer Gary Pruitt to call it a “massive and unprecedented intrusion.” He also commented on the administration’s ever-changing story with regard to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2012 in Benghazi, Libya, and the IRS’ admissions that it politically targeted conservative organizations for scrutiny. 13 May 2013

Conservative Group Says IRS Leaked Docs to Rival

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) says someone inside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) leaked its confidential tax return to one of its chief political opponents, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). HRC’s president, Joe Solomonese, served as the co-chairman of the Obama reelection campaign. 13 May 2013

Multiple Agencies Involved with IRS in Intimidation

Tea party groups' allegations that the IRS has long been targeting them for their political beliefs were recently confirmed by an apology from the IRS. The scandal gained traction as congressional leaders began efforts to hold the IRS accountable and understand the depths of the federal government’s politically-motivated abuses of power. Yet given the history of such abuses, the problem may extend further than the IRS, and require a "government-wide" probe across several agencies, as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has suggested. 13 May 2013

Philly Abortion Doctor Guilty in 3 Babies' Deaths

A Philadelphia abortion doctor was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder and could face execution in the deaths of three babies who authorities say were delivered alive and then killed with scissors at his grimy clinic, in a case that became a flashpoint in the nation's debate over abortion. 13 May 2013

Report: IRS Began Targeting Tea Party in 2010

ABC News investigative reporter Jonathan Karl has obtained an advance copy of the forthcoming Internal Revenue Service Inspector General report that reveals the IRS placed a wide array of limited government groups in its crosshairs as early as 2010. 13 May 2013

Obama Commits to 20 Fundraisers

With his administration under fire for scandals concerning the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi and the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups, President Obama is prioritizing: he has now committed to 20 fundraisers for 2014. 13 May 2013

Obama: IRS Scandal 'Outrageous'

In an extremely short mini-press conference after speaking with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama was asked about the IRS’ recent apologies for targeting conservative organizations. He called such actions “outrageous” and then gave the all-purpose answer that anyone responsible had to be held to account. 13 May 2013

Reid: I Support Investigation of IRS

As pressure mounts on the Obama administration for action on the IRS’ admitted targeting of conservative nonprofit applicants, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tweeted that he would be supporting an investigation into the matter. 13 May 2013

Heritage Pulls Out of BuzzFeed Immigration Summit

On Sunday evening, BuzzFeed Editor-in-Chief Ben Smith announced that The Heritage Foundation has dropped out of the BuzzFeed Brews immigration summit taking place this Tuesday. Heritage’s Derrick Morgan, the only immigration reform critic among the various participants, is replaced by the Daily Caller’s Mickey Kaus. 13 May 2013

EXCLUSIVE: McConnell: IRS Revelations 'Just The Beginning'

On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back on assertions by the IRS that its efforts to target conservative groups were relegated to low-level employees. “Of course not,” he told Breitbart News. McConnell noted that he had raised the issue of IRS targeting of conservatives in 2012, and further noted that the Washington Post “dismissed it as a bunch of red herrings.” The scandal, McConnell said, extends up the chain. 13 May 2013

IRS Employees Donated Over Twice as Much to Obama in 2012

With all eyes now on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for its selective targeting and harassment of conservative tax-exempt organizations before the 2012 elections, IRS officials and President Barack Obama are scrambling to paint the scandal as the handiwork of a few bumbling, nonpartisan IRS underlings. 13 May 2013

Amnesty Bill Waves Away Rule of Law

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee resumes its markup of the "Gang of 8" amnesty legislation. The committee is working through more than 300 amendments to the proposal. Supporters of the "Gang" legislation have a working 12-6 majority on the committee, so all amendments intended to tighten or clarify provisions in the bill will likely be rejected. If enacted, the "Gang" legislation would take our current complicated immigration system and make it almost completely arbitrary. 13 May 2013

Feds Killing Off Private Bus Lines Based on Bad Study

The story of the coming demise of several Chinatown bus lines in New York City is a tale of multiple failures in both government and the media, and shows that both have a bias against entrepreneurs that kills new, start up ideas with unfair regulations, faux public advocacy, and dismal reporting. 13 May 2013

Square Modifies Its User Agreement to Prohibit Firearms and Weapons Transactions

This past week, vendors using the Square Account mobile phone application, which processes credit and debit card transactions, received an updated user agreement dated May 9th, 2013. In this agreement, Part One, Section 6, states "By creating a Square Account, you also confirm that you will not accept payments in connection with the following businesses or business activities: [this section has been modified to add item number] “(23) sales of (i) firearms, firearm parts or hardware, and ammunition; or (ii) weapons and other devices designed to cause physical injury.” 13 May 2013

Nordstrom: Only Clinton Could Waive Security Requirements For Benghazi

In testimony before the House Oversight Committee on May 8, former Tripoli Regional Security Officer (RSO) Eric Nordstrom said security at the consulate in Benghazi was substandard and that the only way Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the other Americans could have been there was for then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to have waived the security requirements. 13 May 2013

Washington & Wall Street: Ben Bernanke's Global Inflation Strategy

The Fed has no intention of moderating its money expansion. In fact, financial ministers from the Group of Seven nation just met and spent most of their time trying to convince the Germans to behave as recklessly as the Japanese. Liberal economists argue that nations like Germany and the UK should reject “austerity” and print money too. But higher inflation in the future is the only result of current Fed reflation policy, with no growth in terms of real jobs and real wages. 13 May 2013

IRS Warned Employees Not to Target 501(c)4 Donors in 2011

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted on May 10 that “low level” staff in its Cincinnati office, supposedly “not motivated by political bias,” targeted 75 conservative tax-exempt organizations, including many Tea Party organizations applying for exemption under Section 501(c)4 of the tax code. The groups were singled out for audit and investigation because they used the names “Tea Party” and “Patriot.” Yet in July 2011, the IRS had warned employees to drop audits of donors to similar 501(c)4 organizations. 13 May 2013

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SALUTING OUR FALLEN AMERICAN HEROES

Memorial Day is one of our national holidays where the true meaning far too often gets lost in the shuffle. In the mix of the hustle and bustle of our everyday lives, let us not forget the real reason for this weekend: those patriots who made the ultimate sacrifice during a time of war.

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