In April 2009 IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman testified at the House Small Business Committee hearing on IRS Oversight. During questioning Shulman offered that a “big focus” of his time at the IRS would be a concerted effort to insure his
Joan Walsh recently mocked Peggy Noonan for suggesting Barack Obama bears any responsibility for the IRS scandal, but she had a somewhat different view of the way rhetoric influences action after the Tucson shooting in 2011. Back in January 2011,
Democratic Party Communications Director Brad Woodhouse just tweeted out his response to word that some news outlets, including the New York Times, have refused to attend a private meeting with AG Holder: POTUS asked AG to review how leak investigations
Progressive propaganda doesn’t seem to be doing well in the ratings since President Obama’s reelection. MSNBC dropped to fourth place behind the HLN network in May. The Hollywood Reporter notes it was a really bad month for the progressive network.
Last month a blogger at Green Car Reports noticed that Tesla had sold more of its Model S cars in the first quarter of 2013 than Audi, BMW and Mercedes had sold of their top models over the same time
In response to Trailer moments: Back in Dec. 2011 I wrote this after viewing the Prometheus trailer: I’m looking forward to this and yet I’m not sure this isn’t messing up the mythology a bit. Part of what was so
The Dean of Harvard College has stepped down over a scandal involving the search of email accounts without notifying account owners. The search of staff accounts was an attempt to plug a media leak about an ongoing cheating investigation. Evelynn
Chariman Issa has issued a subpoena for documents related to the talking points produced to explain what happened in Benghazi on 9/11. In a letter explaining the need for the subpoena, Issa argues that the administration has not been forthcoming
The DOJ’s investigation of leaks to reporters took another turn this weekend when a public disagreement broke out over whether or not the agency had notified News Corp of subpoenas for phone records. Writing at the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza
President Obama is outraged over the IRS scandal. Attorney General Holder is remorseful over the James Rosen subpoena. Former Secretary of State Clinton is exasperated by Benghazi. Lois Lerner is apologetic for the targeting of Tea Party groups. An unnamed
Blue Oyster Cult is best known for the classic rock staple (Don’t fear) The Reaper. It’s a great song but, as a fan of the band, I find it unfortunate that many people’s knowledge of their music seems limited to
Andrew Stuttaford at National Review highlights an interesting report on The Center for American Progress (CAP), the progressive think tank most closely associated with President Obama’s administration. Among other things, they publish the progressive blog Think Progress. CAP is partly
In 2010 the LAPD completed an investigation into alleged gun purchases made by SWAT team members for the purposes of reselling the guns at a profit. Now the FBI has been called in to determine if any laws were violated.
Former adviser to the President Austan Goolsbee was accused of looking into private tax records of White House critics. An IG investigation of the matter was completed two years ago but has never been released. Ten days ago, on Twitter,
Texts and photos from Trayvon Martin’s cell phone were released Thursday by defense attorneys for George Zimmerman. Some of the photos appear to have been released online previously while others, including photos of a Smith & Wesson handgun, appear to
The Inspector General Act of 1978 mandates that “particularly serious or flagrant problems” be shared with Congress by the relevant agency within seven days. During yesterday’s congressional testimony Inspector General George argued that such reporting would be “impractical” and “counter-productive.”
The man who defended Kermit Gosnell in court believes the takeaway from the trial is that more abortion restrictions are needed. This places him solidly to the right of President Obama who ignored the trial and instead vowed to fight
One of the criteria used to determine which tax exemption applications would receive additional scrutiny was general criticism of how the “country is being run.” Emails released this morning by the House Oversight Committee reveal that there were four criteria
Did officials in Libya make enough requests for additional security or not? The ARB report seems to say both things are true. In a story published Tueday by The Hill, Gregory Hicks’ attorney, Victoria Toensing, points out an interesting contradiction
While Occupy was alive in this country the media in this country mostly referred to it as a group of protesters concerned about inequality. Newspapers in Europe were less circumspect, referring to the group as “anti-capitalist” on a fairly routine
Reporter Sharyl Attkisson, who has been dogged in her reporting on administration scandals including Fast and Furious and Benghazi, believes her computers have been compromised. Attkisson tells Politico “I can confirm that an intrusion of my computers has been under
The newly published request for a search warrant of James Rosen’s email account makes clear that Rosen himself is a target of the investigation. The document compares Rosen to an “intelligence officer” whose actions make him a “co-conspirator” rather than
The Daily Beast reports that one of the Benghazi fall guys is refusing to take the fall. Raymond Maxwell was put on indefinite leave by the State Department after its Administrative Review Board (ARB) investigation of Benghazi for reasons that
The Obama administration has clearly decided it is too difficult to play defense on the I.R.S. scandal. They are now pushing a cooked up counter scandal in a blatant attempt to turn the tables on their accusers. Ever since Steve
A new report by CBS’s Sharyl Attkisson presents a new administration fallback on Benghazi. The people who made the decisions now claim they are just “idiots.” But that’s not what the record shows, at least when it comes to decisions
