A special prosecutor should probe the loss of Internal Revenue Service e-mails that may contain facts about its scrutiny of Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt status, the House Ways and Means Committee chairman said. “We are missing a huge piece of the puzzle,” committee Chairman Dave Camp said at a hearing yesterday in Washington. The […] Continue reading → 
HONOLULU—Hawaii tea party leaders are outraged the Internal Revenue Service lost emails of Lois Lerner, former director of IRS’ Exempt Organizations Unit, during a critical time when the agency admitted to targeting conservative groups for additional scrutiny. The agency informed Congress of the missing emails in a letter last week. The IRS said Lerner’s emails […] Continue reading → 
Michael Schaus, Sure… Sunday was Easter Sunday (the most important day of the year for the world’s 2-3 billion Christians). But, c’mon! It was 4:20 dude! And while millions of Americans flocked to their churches and Cathedrals, the Denver Post thought the front-page story of the day ought to be Colorado’s annual “toke-out” at Civic […] Continue reading → 
On July 2, 1881, a disgruntled federal job seeker named Charles Guiteau shot James Garfield as he waited at a Washington, D.C., train station – eventually killing the 20th president and triggering reforms that still influence the way government operates. Before the assassination, Congress debated the need for a civil service. When new presidents came into power, they […] Continue reading → 
Senate’s top Democrat attempts to rewrite history One month after he said that Obamacare horror stories were “lies,” Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) now claims that he never said anything of the sort. In a vain attempt to control reality, Reid took to the Senate floor yesterday and completely denied his previous statement that every Obamacare […] Continue reading → 
It’s apparently a challenge to find people satisfied with the Malaysian government’s performance in its search for Flight 370: A mainstream daily newspaper here ran a story Monday on praise being lavished by an anonymous Facebook user from Sweden. The mysterious disappearance of a Boeing 777 with 239 people aboard would test any government, but […] Continue reading → 
After playing some weird little games about giving the House Oversight committee honest testimony, former – technically, “retired” – IRS official Lois Lerner decided to invoke the Fifth Amendment again last week. The committee has released an extensive report, based heavily on emails that took a bit of effort to pry out of the Administration, […] Continue reading →