Today\’s quote – and it is a truly astonishing one, given that it was made by someone who claims to be a journalist – comes to us from NBC/MSNBC\’s Chuck Todd. Todd, it seems, cannot figure out for the life of him what the problem is with the Internal Revenue Service – arguably the most feared government agency there is, unless you are on the FBI...
No matter how bad this stinks, the stench keeps getting worse. Look at what Patrick Howley of dailycaller.com uncovered, and reported in his latest blog: TheIRS prematurely “retired” data-storage devices and filled out”disposal” documents for hardware that still existed and wassupposed to still be in use, according to a Sept. 24, 2013 TreasuryInspector General...
Do you know who Meriam Ibrahim is? Not if you rely on CBS, NBC or ABC for your news you don\’t. So if you\’re one of those unfortunate souls, let me tell you. Ms. Ibrahim is a Sudanese national who was born Muslim, butconverted to Christianity. No big deal, right? Well, in medieval countries like Sudan it is. Last year Ms.Ibrahim...
Did you know that the 2.9% contraction in our first quarter-2014 GDP is not bad news? That, actually, this was just a facet of bad weather and, in reality, the economic news is very good? Me neither. But that is what they are selling at CNN. And Yahoo. And CBS. ABC and the New York Times? As I write this it is not on either...
Generally conservative incumbent Thad Cochran (R-MS) appears to have squeaked out a primary victory over unconditionally conservative tea party favorite Chris McDaniel. Cochran probably won by convincing enough Mississippi Democrats – who are unlikely to ever vote Republican in the general election – to cross over and vote for him this one time. The funny part? ...
Remember how awful the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) performance was in the first quarter – no growth, and actually down 0.1%? Remember when it was revised – even further downward – to minus 1.0%? That was a horror show. Well, there has been another revision. Latest data show that our first quarter GDP is actually -2.9%. Since I would not blame you for thinking...
This is for anyone left who still believes the Obama administration is not covering up the IRS\’s targeting of groups likely to be critical of President Obama during Mr. Obama\’s 2012 re-election campaign. Excerpted from yesterday\’s article at foxnews.com: Thetop U.S. official in charge of archiving federal records testifiedTuesday that the IRS ran afoul of the law by...
Over the years, millions of illegal aliens have entered the USA from Mexico. And now, due in no small part to President Obama\’s tacit “approval”, a huge new wave of illegal Mexicans, along with Guatemalans and Hondurans, are streaming over our borders. At first blush this should be a major political benefit for the Democrat Party which, correctly...
Rep. Harold Watson “Trey” Gowdy (R-NC) – a former prosecutor and solicitor, with an impeccable reputation and highly successful conviction rate – will chair the select committee investigation into the Lie-RS scandal. This has enraged Democrats. But I have to believe that they are even more fearful of Mr. Gowdy than they are angry. Want a taste of...
With all the news about the Lie-RS scandal, and the lightning-fast deterioration of Iraq from tenuous democracy to shari\’a law state (courtesy of ISIS – the terrorist offshoot of al qaeda, which President Obama told us, during the 2012 election campaign, was all but nonexistent), the VA scandal is getting less attention than it should. It\’s not like the VA scandal is going to...
How absurd is the absolute nonsense spouted by current IRS Commissioner john koskinen? Read the following excerpt from David Martosko\’s article for the London Daily Mail (where I am getting far better coverage than is generally available in US media) and see for yourself. (In reading it, please note that I have left in links to the Daily Mail\’s additional stories, which...
Maybe it was the fact that, uncharacteristically, there were as many Republicans on Morning Joe today as there were Democrats. But host Joe Scarborough had this to say about how coverage of the IRS scandal has, at least until now, been downplayed or buried altogether by mainstream media: “CBS,ABC, NBC, the Washington Post, The New York Times, you can put themall out there. ...
Sarah Kliff, formerly of the Washington Post and currently of Vox.com (Ezra Klein\’s new internet baby) has, for years, championed ObamaCare. But now she allows as there might be a bit of a problem with the state exchanges. Actually, maybe a huge one. Excerpted from Ms. Kliff\’s latest blog: Morethan a dozen states decided to build new health...
This week, the US Supreme Court is likely to rule on Hobby Lobby\’s lawsuit, which contends that the company – privately owned by the devoutly Christian Green family – should be exempted from ObamaCare because its requirement that abortion-inducing drugs be available to policyholders is against the family\’s religious beliefs. I am guessing – not predicting, I...
Today\’s quote comes to us from “Morning Joe” regular Mark Halperin – hardly a fan of the Republican right – who was honest enough to say this about the IRS\’s beyond-BS claim to have lost the emails of lois “liar” lerner and six other IRS people currently under investigation: “Becausewhen any government agency, particularly one as powerful as...
