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In her recent appearance at a hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Lois Lerner, the IRS Director of tax-exempt organizations, pleaded the Fifth. Thus, two very important issues are raised by this action. The first significant topic involves the notion that if this entire IRS improper “targeting” scandal is as simple […]Continue Reading
If you were to suddenly appear this weekend at the numerous barbecues or pool parties, without any knowledge of our nation’s history, it might be hard to understand the real meaning of Memorial Day. Is it a day to sell cars, clothes and mattresses? Is it a day off of work, a time to join […]Continue Reading
The FBI has arrested a suspect in a case involving the discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin and says investigators are working “around the clock” to address any remaining risks. The U.S. attorney’s office for Eastern Washington had no comment on whether additional charges might be sought. Matthew Ryan Buquet, […]Continue Reading
Prime Minister David Cameron convened an emergency meeting of his intelligence chiefs on Thursday after two Islamists hacked a soldier to death with meat cleavers on a south London street. A dramatic clip filmed by an onlooker just minutes after Wednesday’s killing showed a man with hands covered in blood shouting Islamic slogans and promising […]Continue Reading
How does President Barack Obama, a man of such keen intelligence, with such promise to “change” America, find himself in so much serious trouble? From the IRS targeting conservatives to the continued confusion over what happened at Benghazi to provoking a battle with The Associated Press by subpoenaing phone records that could involve as many […]Continue Reading
Would you like to have a “skinny” health insurance policy? Probably not. But if you’re employed by a large company, you may get one, thanks to Obamacare. That’s the conclusion of Wall Street Journal reporters Christopher Weaver and Anna Wilde Mathews. They report that insurance brokers are pitching and selling “low-benefit” policies across the […]Continue Reading
Conservatives have alleged that progressives have been engaged in a callous attempt under this plutocratic administration in creating artificial crises so that the plutocracy can abridge citizens’ rights. I mean further than they’ve already abridged them. And until now the press has ignored this vast right wing conspiracy theory time after time: Fast and Furious, Solyndra, […]Continue Reading
A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects who authorities were questioning him about at the time. Ibragim Todashev’s Chechen roots and mixed martial arts background mirror that of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the Boston bombing […]Continue Reading
Breitbart -by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY On Tuesday, an estimated 175 Tea Party activists protested outside the IRS office in the suburban Chicago community of Downers Grove. Here’s a report from someone who attended the event: What surprised many was a Homeland Security vehicle came past the protest twice. As you can see from the picture, the vehicle had […]Continue Reading
by Philip Hodges Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, gave his weekly rant about global warming on the Senate floor and blamed “deniers” and “anti-science” members of the Republican Party for wildfires, storms, tornados, and other weather patterns. His office clarified yesterday that his references to Oklahoma tornados were completely coincidental, and that […]Continue Reading
by Common Constitutionalist Benghazi is not a singular event. It’s not just about the death of the ambassador and three others. It’s not just about why help was not sent or even where Obama was all that time. Although these are important, the real scandal is what was going on in Benghazi and why was […]Continue Reading
Imagine you are the President of the United States. A boatload of scandals that have been building (and ignored by the media) for years suddenly start to unfold over the course of a few weeks – safely after the President has won re-election, of course. And with each one the story is the same: the […]Continue Reading