Lets examine the parallel benefits of a healthy regimen for our bodies and our country. After all, isn’t America a living breathing being of sorts with people in place of cells. These cells can be beneficial, malignant or have no
While most political junkies were focused on the Obama Regime scandals, Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee quietly passed immigration bill S. 744 13-5 out of committee. The Republican no votes were Senators Grassley, Cruz, Lee, Cornyn, and Sessions. Senators Flake, Hatch & Graham voted with all
The day’s top stories in social media and technology for 5/21: Threats from Anonymous shut down Gitmo’s Wi-Fi, teens using Facebook less, social media is front line during disasters, Twitter toilet prank lands student in trouble, Teen Mom 2 star
As if Obama’s week couldn’t get any worse, it turns out the White House got the pronunciation of “gif” wrong. In a brief NYT profile of Steve Wilhite, creator of the GIF image format, who receive a lifetime achievement award
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
Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax exempt division of the IRS targeting conservatives groups will be taking the fifth amendment at a House Oversight hearing tomorrow. But Chairman Issa has issued to her a subpoena nevertheless. The
If you can find the story on Lois Lerner pleading the Fifth, I’ll give you a cookie. By the way, they’ve changed the position of that headline since the screencap. Now, instead of being way down low under sports
Not really. The IRS had little interest in 501(c)(4) political activities until the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reform. That law barred dedicated political-advocacy groups from soliciting and spending soft money–funds that aren’t subject to tight federal campaign-contribution limits and are used
In response to Dems Still Trying to Make IRS Scandal About Citizens United: At the Wall Street Journal, Justice Department veterans David Rivkin and Lee Casey discuss how Citizens United loomed large in the Left’s imagination, even as the IRS scandal was
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
During Tuesday’s Senate hearings into the widening IRS scandal, Senator Ron Wyden (OR-D) suggested that the conservative groups, targeted for paralyzing IRS harassment and leaks to the left-wing media, had it coming. Wyden said that if political groups don’t want
This news comes via Roger L. Simon of PJ Media, who says his sources, two former U.S. diplomats, “sounded credible.” Simon doesn’t report which department the whistleblowers work in, but notes that they are colleagues of the former diplomats, and
Add Labor Unions to the list of people concerned about the implementation of Obamacare. Labor is now publicly “balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law. They warn that unless there are changes, the results could be