We already knew the government’s excuse for the IRS scandal—that
it was a couple of staffers gone rogue at the Cincinatti office—was
absurd. Now one of the those Cincinatti employees, speaking
anonymously to the Washington Post,
has confir...
In his opening statement before a hearing of the House Ways and
Means Committee today, former acting IRS director Steve Miller
apologized for the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS,
saying: “Partisanship has no place in the IRS.”
Afte...
Opponents of voter ID laws like to say that voter fraud doesn’t
matter and never affects election results. But as we learned this
week, voter fraud is the reason John Rizzo, a Missouri House
representative, won in the state’s 19th House
district
In th...
The bipartisan drumbeat for privacy safeguards regarding
domestic drone use continued at a congressional
hearing Friday morning. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on
Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations was
overshadowed in everything but...
In bizarre testimony on Capitol Hill today, IRS
acting director Steve Miller told Congress that agents
used secret codenames to identify him, including “space cowboy,”
“gangster of love,” and “Maurice.”
“...
One of the most convincing arguments against the death penalty
that I have heard is that the justice accomplished by an execution
isn’t worth the death of an innocent man. Meaning, as DNA evidence
and technological advances have proven, occasionally...
As if the IRS wasn’t in enough trouble already, its also facing
a lawsuit for mishandling medical records.
A medical company in California filed a class-action lawsuit
against 15 IRS employees, alleging that they wrongly seized over 60
million medic...
The official who ran the IRS office on tax-exempt organizations
when the Tea Party was being targeted is now the director of the
IRS office on Obamacare.
The IRS confirmed her position to
ABC:
Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office
respo...
There is
no toilet paper in Venezuela.
Its new president, Nicolas Maduro, is importing 50 million rolls
into the South American socialist paradise.
That’s a lot of caca in Caracas.
But this is what happens when the government nationaliz...
