Some real news came out of the release of the Inspector General’s report on the IRS abuse, and from the Congressional hearings this week. The Obama administration lied when it claimed it had no idea the IRS was targeting Conservative
In a speech on national security today, President Barack Obama made a bizarre reference to an incident that occurred in Austin, TX on February 18, 2010 when a pilot deliberately crashed a small aircraft into an Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Politicians can survive sex scandals. Politicians can succeed with the last name “Weiner.” But it remains to be seen if a politician can survive both. Disgraced former-Congressman Anthony Weiner is already seeing his hopes of becoming the next mayor of
One suspect in the barbaric beheading of an off-duty British soldier has now been identified as Michael Abedolajo. Abedolajo, a Muslim from a Christian family, has also been linked with hate preacher Anjem Choudary. Both killers are of Nigerian background,
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who is likely to run for governor of California after his term as mayor expires next month, has wasted the vast majority of his time as mayor, according to the L.A. Weekly. In 2012, Villaraigosa
WASHINGTON, May 22 (UPI) — A West Point Academy staff member faces charges after being accused of videotaping female cadets in their showers and locker rooms, Pentagon officials said. Sgt. 1st Class Michael McClendon allegedly planted cameras in the facilities
In a May 21 piece, the New York Times’ Michael D. Shear blamed the lag time between the IRS targeting of conservative groups and the reporting thereof on Rush Limbaugh. When the IRS finally admitted that it had indeed unfairly targeted conservative
At least when it comes to the overreaching Department of Justice leak investigations, President Obama has finally lost one of his biggest fans, The New York Times. In a Wednesday editorial written by the full editorial board, the Times said
(AP) NEW YORKAnthony Weiner’s run for a renaissance is officially on. The ex-congressman whose career imploded in a rash of raunchy tweets two years ago said in a YouTube video announcement late Tuesday that he’s in the New York City mayoral
In the drip-drip-drip strategy of information release that characterizes the Obama White House, on Tuesday White House press secretary Jay Carney admitted that Mark Childress, deputy chief of the White House staff, had two conversations with the Treasury Department about
The provocative headline “Obama administration mistakes journalism for espionage” doesn’t appear in a traditionally conservative paper like the NY Post or Wall Street Journal; it’s in the Washington Post. And before you equivocate, no, it’s not hovering over the byline
(AP) Policy, discretion guide media sources probesBy MARK SHERMANAssociated PressWASHINGTONIt was a rare moment in relations between the media and the government: In 2008, FBI Director Robert Mueller called the top editors at The New York Times and The Washington
On May 19, the Syrian military, working with Hezbollah fighters, began taking the city of Qusayr back from opposition forces. According to The New York Times, it was one of “the war’s most intense ground battles,” and it brought Hezbollah
We are constantly bombarded with judgments of how we live our lives. People who wouldn’t last a day in the shoes of an average American beat us over the head with a non-stop stream of demands and commands on how
The Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration, J. Russell George, reportedly refused to give “substantive details” about the investigation of the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative to the House Oversight Committee, frustrating committee members. According to reports,
Nate Silver, the New York Times‘ political number-cruncher, has earned his bragging rights after schooling conservative pollsters in the 2012 presidential election. However, his attempted “debunking” of one aspect of the IRS scandal is nothing of the sort. There are two claims
The New York Times, ever eager to leap to the defense of embattled Obama Administration officials, has a puff piece extolling the virtues of White House Spokesman Jay Carney amid the slings and arrows he must suffer. Noting that Carney
On Saturday, Vito Lopez, a New York state lawmaker accused of repeatedly molesting his female aides and making sexual comments about a 14-year old intern, announced he will resign from office on Monday. The announcement came one day after those
Last week, senior IRS official Lois Lerner was speaking at the American Bar Association conference in Washington, D.C. when she was seemingly-spontaneously asked a question about IRS discrimination against conservatives. She then admitted that the IRS had “used names like
Even as Reps. Mike Kelly (R-PA) and Jim Renacci (R-OH) requested that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew demonstrate that there was no partisanship in the administration’s decisionmaking with regard to shutting down General Motors dealerships in 2009, former Obama car czar
In no uncertain terms and with no hedging, The New York Times reports that the Obama administration was aware of the fact that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups as far back as June of 2012. The Treasury Department’s
Today’s lead editorial in the New York Times, “The Republicans’ Scandal Machine,” attempts to dismiss two out of the three major scandals that have hit the Obama administration over the past week. Never has the so-called “paper of record” even been
The Young America’s Foundation conducted its annual review of commencement speakers at the nation’s top universities and once again found that very few conservative speakers were invited to give graduates their traditional send-off into the “real” word. In what it
Barack Obama’s political Svengali, David Axelrod, appeared on Wednesday’s “Morning Joe” on MSNBC to respond to the latest revelations regarding the Obama Justice Department’s extensive investigation into Associated Press reporters, including secret wiretaps and collections of phone logs of the reporters
It is said that America is a monarchy ruled by a president, while Great Britain is a democracy ruled by a king. There is more than a little truth to this statement. America’s democracy is representative and indirect, a reflection
