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5/21/2013

Flattery, Vanity and Ego: Obama's Case Against A Fox News Reporter

As Katie wrote earlier, the President Obama's Department of Justice secretly monitored the e-mails, phone calls and even physical movements of Fox News reporter James ... Read More
5/21/2013

Obama's "Deficit Reduction" Budget Is Almost All Tax Hikes

It went largely unnoticed at the end of last week due to the Obama scandalpalooza, but the Congressional Budget Office's score of President Obama's budget ... Read More
5/20/2013

Carney: Okay Fine, Senior Officials Knew the IRS Report was Coming, but Nobody Told Obama

More information seeps out, and the "official" story changes again.  Knock me over with a feather: Even MSNBC can't fully turn a blind eye to ... Read More
5/20/2013

Smoking Gun, or Just "Coincidence"?

You decide.  Jeffrey Lord, at the American Spectator, examined White House visitor logs and found a very interesting fact: In short: the very day after ... Read More
5/20/2013

DOJ Secretly Monitored and Criminalized Three Fox News Reporters

Earlier today the Washington Post reported that Fox News' James Rosen had been secretly monitored by the Department of Justice. DOJ monitored his work and ... Read More
5/20/2013

IG Report Confirms: DOJ Official Smeared Fast and Furious Whistleblower John Dodson

Monday the Department of Justice Inspector General [IG] confirmed what Townhall and other media outlets have been reporting for more than a year now: DOJ ... Read More
5/20/2013

With Obama's Approval, Reid Mulls Nuking the Filibuster in July

You may have seen Heather's piece on this story yesterday, but it merits a second spin.  The White House and the vast bureaucracy of the ... Read More
5/20/2013

DOJ's Witch Hunt Against True the Vote

By now you know the IRS has been targeting conservative groups, but one group in particular has been put through hell by the Department of ... Read More
5/20/2013

Criminalizing Investigative Journalism

Amazingly, the Obama administration is seeking to punish the practice of investigative journalism.  To the excellent post by Katie below, I'd add this quote from ... Read More
5/20/2013

DOJ Targeted Fox News Reporter by Monitoring Movements

It turns out President Obama's Department of Justice wasn't just targeting Associated Press reporters. The Washington Post has revealed DOJ specifically targeted Fox News' Reporter ... Read More
5/20/2013

White House Spokesman: "The Law is Irrelevant"

Dan Pfeiffer evidently drew the short straw at the White House over the weekend.  He was thrust into the unenviable role of top administration mouthpiece ... Read More
5/20/2013

White House Advisor: Republicans Should Apologize to Susan Rice

Over the weekend, White House Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer was deemed with trying to rescue the Obama administration amid growing scandals. The IRS scandal has ... Read More
5/20/2013

Tea Parties to Protest IRS Offices Across the Country Tuesday

Tea Party groups from across the country are planning to protest IRS offices Tuesday as details of inapropriate targeting by the agency continue to emerge. ... Read More
5/20/2013

Obama's Chief Lawyer Knew About IRS Targeting Weeks Ago

The IRS scandal keeps getting closer and closer to the top of the White House food chain as Obama officials desperately try to spin their ... Read More
5/19/2013

Something at the IRS Doesn't "Add Up"

New defenses and distractions in the IRS scandal are going to come rolling out from the administration and its defenders like water off a duck's ... Read More
5/19/2013

Put Jack Lew Under Oath

In an interview with Al Hunt, Jack Lew -- now Treasury Secretary and President Obama's Chief of Staff from January 2012 until this spring -- ... Read More
5/19/2013

White House Advisor Attempts to Defend the Handling of the IRS Scandal

Dan Pfeiffer, a White House Senior advisor, attempted to defend the Obama administration’s handling of the IRS scandal on today’s Face the Nation. Pfeiffer claimed ... Read More
5/19/2013

Bloomberg: Skip College and Become Plumbers

At an event on Friday the Mayor of New York City put his foot in his mouth…again. Michael Bloomberg attempted to give mediocre high school ... Read More
5/18/2013

Just Following Their Leader

The IRS scandal has shocked decent Americans, of every political stripe, to their core.  Did the President know about this specific wrongdoing?  Hopefully, we'll soon ... Read More
5/18/2013

Harry Reid is Considering Rule Change to Block Filibuster

Well, Harry Reid is resorting to desperate measures in order to try and regain some power in the Senate. Reports say that he is getting ... Read More
5/18/2013

Outside Money Could Change Massachusetts Senate Race

It appears the Scott Brown victory of 2010 is still haunting the Democrats. Outside groups are spending more money than ever to make sure that ... Read More
5/18/2013

Boom: Obama Administration Knew of IRS Targeting in June of 2012

Earlier in the week, White House spokesman Jay Carney categorically denied that no one at the White House was aware of the IRS targeting operation ... Read More
5/17/2013

Another Lie From Lerner

To its credit, The Atlantic points out yet another lie Lois Lerner profferd at her press conference last week.  She blamed the political targeting beginning ... Read More
5/17/2013

Administration Knew of Targeting Before the Election

So there it is -- a hitherto-missing link in the chain of information that every Obamaphile was dreading.  Senior Obama administration officials knew that the ... Read More
5/17/2013

CBS News: Benghazi Counterterrorism Response Team "Ruled Out From The Start"

CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson -- last heard from explaining that while her bosses have been supportive of her Benghazi reporting, her network's shows and producers ... Read More