On Monday, Rep. Harold Rogers (R-KY) of the House Appropriations Subcommittee asked acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel about bonuses in the agency, some of which had to be approved by the president. Werfel said he did not know whether the
On Monday, IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel told the House Appropriations Subcommittee, “The solution here is, in my opinion, not more money.” He continued, “If you start with more money, that’s the wrong starting point.” Werfel said that the right steps
On Monday, at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with new acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) asked Werfel, “Do you feel that the IRS has betrayed the American people?” Werfel answered, “I do…the trust has been violated.”
On Monday, at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with new acting IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel, Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY) suggested that funding should not be cut for the IRS thanks to scandalous spending, and added that non-profit status should be
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa may be leaving office dead broke, but that won’t stop the city from dropping $75,000 as a goodbye present. According to the Los Angeles Daily News, “It will be a month of celebrations for Mayor
A recently-introduced California bill from Assemblywoman Shirley Weber (D-San Diego) would force county probation officers to give paroled criminals information on how to register to vote. AB149 notes that current California law requires that to register to vote, you must
If you’ve ever wondered what would happen in a state completely dominated by Democrats, California is finding out in a heavy way. Over the first half of the year’s legislative session, the legislators have introduced a whopping 2,255 bills, ranging
The California state attorney general is suing massive organic food chains Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods for allegedly carrying ginger and plum candies with lead in them. The state has been pushing an ever-more-restrictive set of food labeling regulations over
Speaking at the Reagan President Library on Friday night, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) presented a more diverse vision of Republicanism – but more importantly, called for a Republicanism with passion. “Reagan never diluted what he had to say,” Paul explained.
The United States and China have agreed to hold regular, high-level meetings aimed at setting standards for behavior on cybersecurity and commercial spying, The New York Times reported. It would be the “first diplomatic effort to defuse the tensions over
I couldn’t help but laugh when I read this article in the New York Times about women legislators and their “purse boys.” When Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican, represented Texas in the Senate, she had her purse trotted through the Capitol
The HBO series Sex and the City embraced not only casual sex but the glory of Manolo Blahnik shoes. That materialism irked Cynthia Nixon, who co-starred as the sensible Miranda on the long-running show (and subsequent movie franchise). The actress,
On Thursday, a California state appeals court ruled that no further executions could take place in the state thanks to the lethal injection regulations, which the court said were improper. The state has not executed anyone since 2006, when a
Triumphalist progressive claims that early California figures prove Obamacare will reduce health insurance costs are coming to a screeching halt as closer analyses reveal Californians will actually experience a staggering 64% to 146% increase in individual health insurance premiums come
Magnuson Park in Seattle, Washington is famed for its beautiful shoreline and acres of recreational area. But it’s also home to a not insignificant level of radiological contamination. The federal government’s known about it since 2009, according to local reports.
While President Obama and his minions in the Democratic Party claim that health care premiums will drop under Obamacare, the opposite is true, according to a new study from the Milliman consulting firm. The study showed that health insurance premiums
On Thursday, the Centennial Institute released a video from Caleb Bonham, a conservative pundit, touring a local college campus and asking the students to sign a thank you card to the IRS for targeting tea party groups. Predictably, the geniuses
George W. Bush has been blamed by the left for everything from hurricanes to the IRS targeting conservative non-profits. But now, it turns out that former Democratic National Committee head and current Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe blames Bush for
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says that Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, who has threatened to take the city into bankruptcy over its unsustainable finances, is bluffing. “I think he’s using it, at this point, judiciously to make sure that he can
In what is tantamount to an admission of the abandonment of journalistic impartiality, the New York Times Public Editor, Margaret Sullivan submitted an analysis of the paper’s coverage of the resurrection of Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner’s career. In a navel-gazing column designed to explore the
While many countries–the U.S included–are still struggling to rebound from recent struggles in the housing market, China is trying to control the flow of outside investments into its housing infrastructure. As the New York Times put it: “So many speculators want to
The government obtained “thousands and thousands” of phone records of Associated Press staffers according to CEO Gary Pruitt. Pruitt held a town hall meeting with AP staff and revealed that the phone records obtained by the DOJ included incoming and
By JOHN S. MARSHALLAssociated PressSAN FRANCISCOJack Vance, an award-winning mystery, fantasy and science fiction author who wrote more than 60 books, has died. He was 96. Vance died Sunday evening at his home in Oakland, his son John Vance II
After reports broke that the Department of Justice would be holding an off-the-record meeting with members of the press to discuss its policies on monitoring journalists, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced that the Gray Lady would not
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
