Michele Bachmann promises to work to repeal Obamacare
According to a Bloomberg national poll, the majority of Americans are as depressed as I am about the direction that the country is going in. And I think that that the health care reform bill is part of...
View ArticleHow Obamacare raises your taxes if you don’t buy health insurance
Story here from the Daily Caller. (H/T Hot Air) Excerpt: Individuals who don’t purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging the...
View ArticleDo secretaries usually pay more in taxes than their rich bosses?
From ABC News. Excerpt: Treasury Secretary Geithner yesterday declined to answer a key question about the president’s proposed “Buffett Rule”: How many millionaires and billionaires pay lower tax...
View ArticleIs Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan revenue neutral? Does it tax the poor more?
Presidential candidate Herman Cain Consider this article by rock-star economist Arthur Laffer. Excerpt: In the recent past, federal tax revenues from the personal and business income taxes, all payroll...
View ArticleWhat happened to the ethics charges against Newt Gingrich?
Here are the facts from Legal Insurrection. Excerpt: So Romney is going on attack. The centerpiece will be Newt Gingrich’s consent to a single ethics violation (out of 84 charged) in the 1990s. The...
View Article36 Obama aides owe $833,000 to IRS, federal employees owe $3.4 billion
From Investors Business Daily. Excerpt: How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich,...
View ArticleHuman Rights Campaign leaks list of pro-marriage donors and their addresses
Here are the facts from the National Organization for Marriage. Excerpt: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM), today demanded a federal investigation of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and the...
View ArticleIRS refunding billions to illegal immigrants for children in Mexico
From WTHR News. (H/T Doug Ross at Director Blue) Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service says everyone who is employed in the United States – even those who are working here illegally – must report...
View ArticleIRS apologizes for flagging conservative groups for audits in 2012 election year
From the Associated Press. Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating...
View ArticleIRS gave confidential documents from conservative groups to liberal group...
The IRS also held up tax-exemption applications of conservative groups. Excerpt: A newly obtained watchdog report described how the “inappropriate” IRS program that flagged conservative groups for...
View ArticleIRS audited the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association after they ran...
Todd Starnes of Fox News Radio reports. Excerpt: The man known as America’s pastor was among those targeted by the Internal Revenue Service after the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association ran newspaper...
View ArticleIRS official who targeted Tea Party groups now a director in Obamacare...
ABC News reports. Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for...
View ArticleThe IRS abuse of power scandal started from the top
This Wall Street Journal article argues that the IRS was simply following the overall public tone set by Obama. Excerpt: In April 2012, an Obama campaign website named and slurred eight Romney donors....
View ArticleObama met with anti-Tea Party IRS Union boss one day before the IRS...
Newsbusters reports on this incredible scoop by the American Spectator. Excerpt: Jeffrey Lord at the American Spectator has reviewed the White House logs looking for a relationship between meetings...
View ArticleA closer look at one of the conservatives persecuted by the fascist IRS
From National Review, a true story of the IRS persecuting a conservative group. (H/T ECM) Excerpt: Catherine Engelbrecht’s tale has all the markings of a classic conspiracy theory: She says she thinks...
View ArticleIRS fascist Lois Lerner pleads the fifth to avoid transparency and...
The UK Daily Mail reports. Excerpt: The Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Lois Lerner, who heads up the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt division, plans to invoke the Fifth...
View ArticleIRS chief visited White House a reported 118 times from 2010 to 2011
The Weekly Standard reports. Excerpt: The Washington Examiner reports that the IRS chief visited the White House more than once a week under President Obama, after having visited less than once a year...
View ArticleCincinnati IRS employee: Washington told us to target the Tea Party
Breitbart has the transcript of the testimony. Excerpt: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) revealed new testimony from IRS employees on CNN’s State of The...
View ArticleMUST-SEE: Founder of Tea Party group testifies in Congress about IRS fascism
Fox News reports on the testimony of Becky Gerritson. Excerpt: Becky Gerritson, President of Wetumpka Tea Party in Alabama, gave emotional and powerful testimony this morning during a hearing on how...
View ArticleObama’s deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter met with IRS chief at the...
Jake Tapper of the left-leaning CNN reports. Excerpt: (links removed) Comments made by former White House adviser and Obama deputy campaign manager Stephanie Cutter on CNN’s “The Lead” last week about...
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