The Senate Ethics Committee is where scandals go to disappear. Last Thursday Leeann Tweeden, a radio news anchor in Los Angeles went public with the revelation that Minnesota Senator Al Franken had sexually assaulted her. Franken, you’ll remember is a typical liberal, sanctimoniously denouncing millions of American voters as racist, sexist bigots just because we […]
Update: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has voted to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in Contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions at committee hearings. The full House will vote next week. The undisputed facts overwhelm denials and diversions from the Democrats and the media. In an effort to identify the […]
After several months without any investigative progress the IRS scandal is back in the headlines. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform has been leading the investigation since May of last year. Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder protesting the appointment an Obama campaign donor to lead the […]
Most of the media have misrepresented the IRS harassment of Tea Party and Conservative organizations as either innocent mistakes or deserved scrutiny of shadowy groups with suspicious motives. But a review of the documented experience of these groups leads to the inescapable conclusion that it was deliberate, politically motivated intimidation. Non-profit organization are tax exempt. […]
The IRS scandal was launched on May 10 by Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, as she spoke to a meeting of the American Bar Association. In her answer to an audience question that she had planted, she said that “our line people in Cincinnati,” had demanded answers to invasive, offensive questions and […]
The decision by a high ranking IRS official to in invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify to a Congressional hearing grabbed most of the headlines. But that wasn’t the only shocker. On May 10 Ms. Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, gave an address to a meeting of the American Bar […]
We live in the era stultifying, bureaucratic complexity, imposed by government. The serpentine federal tax code is beyond human comprehension and is almost universally hated. Then there’s federal election law. The First Amendment to the US Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” It’s simple and easily understood. […]
In Knox Vs The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) the Supreme Court rebuked the fiercely partisan union for violating the free speech rights of non-members. The ruling diminished the political power of government employee unions, and the Justices appeared to be offering to further diminish that power whenever someone brings them a relevant case. As […]
Today the voters of Wisconsin decide if their governor will be recalled as punishment for standing up to government unions. The chart explains why the employees of the State of Wisconsin are so important to the national unions and the national Democratic Party. Membership in unions, the Party’s number one source of financial and volunteer […]
Washington Post columnist agrees the government union system is set up to benefit Democrats but doesn’t see corruption! By now most readers probably know that the citizens of Wisconsin must endure yet another recall election because Governor Walker and the GOP legislature enacted reforms to reduce the power of public employee unions. The unions counter-attacked […]
