“I am deeply disappointed that Ranking Member Cummings has decided to broadly disseminate and post online a 205 page transcript that will serve as a roadmap for IRS officials to navigate investigative interviews with Congress.  After unsuccessfully trying to convince the American people that IRS officials in Washington did not play a role in inappropriate scrutiny of Tea Party groups and declaring on national television that the case of IRS targeting was ‘solved’ and Congress should ‘move on,’ this looks like flailing.  Americans who think Congress should investigate IRS misconduct should be outraged by Mr. Cummings’ efforts to obstruct needed oversight.

 “In the course of this fact based inquiry, Ranking Member Cummings has wrongly argued that questions about IRS conduct are somehow not legitimate.  His own previous release of excerpts from this very same transcript undermines his claims that the Committee is somehow trying to keep some specific revelation from public view.”

Today Project Veritas released a video exposing the outrageous waste, fraud and abuse that comes with the free government cell phone program, “Lifeline” aka "ObamaPhones". 

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I was reading John Hayward's article on Beauty Queen Conventional Wisdom and it suggested something I've been thinking about for a while. I will probably rock no one's world with this, because it's so obvious, but sometimes very obvious things need to be stated, or else we overlook them. Because they're so obvious.

The Political Correctness which dominates our public thought and public expressions is a type of soft gestural liberalism which serves as a safe haven for people who do not know much or think much, and thus becomes the default position of millions upon millions.

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Via The Hayride, here's Guillory explaining why he made the switch back to the party that was founded as an Abolitionist Movement in 1854.

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It’s about time America had the intel hearing, and were told about these prevented bomb plots.

Fact is, we needed some adults in the room, to clarify exactly what we’ve been arguing about. For the past two weeks, people were chewing over and regurgitating misleading opinions and trumped up outrage, without actually understanding the nature of these security programs. Much of the fuel for this debate was provided by people who were highly critical of the war on terror to begin with, and were using libertarian arguments as a cloak. A lot of us fell for it.

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What I found interesting in this video of "The View's" Barbara Walters defending Bill Maher, who reportedly calling Trig Palin a "retard," is that the audience doesn't buy it for a second.

Walters's absurd defense, where she claims someone as smart and worldly as Maher might not have known how hurtful using the word "retarded" in that context is, is met with stony silence from the audience.

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According to the Sarasota County Sheriff's office, a 48-year-old man was arrested and charged with Child Abuse and being Principle to Possession of Cocaine for allegedly bringing a 6-year-old boy along with him to to buy drugs late last week.  

Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a white pickup truck just after 10:00 p.m., Friday night. The vehicle had just left a residence at Dixie Avenue and Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., and ran a stop sign as it left the area. When deputies approached the vehicle they found Fallon Miller, DOB 2/10/81 (driver, no permanent address), passenger Gregory Wagner, DOB 4/28/65, 3735 Aloha Drive, Sarasota, and the child sitting between them.

Deputies noticed Miller had put crack cocaine in her mouth in an attempt to conceal the drugs and after a short struggle the small white was collected as evidence. Miller admitted hiding a crack pipe beneath the child and acknowledged her driver’s license was suspended.

The area where the drug deal occurred has had a number of narcotics-related violent crimes recently and Wagner knowingly put the six-year-old child at risk. Wagner is charged with Child Abuse and being Principle to Possession of Cocaine. Miller is charged with Possession of Cocaine, Tampering with Evidence, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia and Driving While License is Suspended

Last week, Obama's political action arm, Organizing For Action, held rallies throughout the country advocating for stricter gun laws. Their rallies drew small numbers as seen here and here. 

We can thank the vigilant San Bernardino Sun for putting a spotlight on perhaps the smallest of the rallies.

"On Flag Day growing up, I used to always wave a flag with my grandson, and it hit me that the victims of that horrible tragedy won't ever be able to do that," said Curtis Lewis, the group's gun violence prevention coordinator. "We need people to stand up and write to Congress to say they want laws that respect the Second Amendment but also help prevent these tragedies."

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Has the collection of phone metadata on every American helped keep the country safe? According to testimony given this morning, the answer is yes, but not in a very significant way.

Julian Sanchez, a Cato Institute research fellow who has done excellent work on this story, summed it up this way:

So: 7 years of collecting every American's records has "contributed" to maybe 10 investigations, no claim that contribution essential.

— Julian Sanchez (@normative) June 18, 2013

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – According to Police, a paralyzed man was stabbed multiple times during an argument Monday night in what appears to be a quarrel over a paraplegic woman.  

The incident occurred at an apartment complex in Southwest Philadelphia, when a male visitor allegedly got into a fight with the 43-year-old victim over a female resident, who is also paraplegic.

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