Phone call recording of IRS agent reveals anti-Christian, anti free speech bias
From Alliance Defending Freedom. Excerpt: Alliance Defending Freedom made public Monday audio of a phone conversation that the Internal Revenue Service placed to a non-profit organization that provides...
View ArticleHuman Rights Campaign refuses to reveal name of IRS leaker
CNS News reports. Excerpt: The Human Rights Campaign, a homosexual advocacy group, will not say who provided it with a confidential list of donors to the National Organization for Marriage, although...
View ArticleIRS sent $46 million in “tax refunds” to 23,994 illegal aliens, all living at...
From CNS News. Excerpt: The Internal Revenue Service sent 23,994 tax refunds worth a combined $46,378,040 to “unauthorized” alien workers who all used the same address in Atlanta, Ga., in 2011,...
View ArticleNew study: IRS targeting of Tea Party conservatives had significant effect on...
From the American Enterprise Institute. Excerpt: In a new research paper, Andreas Madestam (from Stockholm University), Daniel Shoag and David Yanagizawa-Drott (both from the Harvard Kennedy School),...
View ArticleNew poll: 26% of Obama supporters think Tea Party is top terrorist threat
Nile Gardiner writes about it in the UK Telegraph. Excerpt: Rasmussen has just published an extraordinary poll which highlights the deep-seated prejudice against the Tea Party among both US government...
View ArticleTreasury Dept. IG: IRS targeted 292 Tea Party groups but only 6 progressive...
Tim M. sent me this article from the Washington Examiner. Excerpt: Refuting Democratic suggestions that progressive groups were also swept up in the IRS probe of the tax status of Tea Party...
View ArticleDOJ won’t prosecute government officials for unauthorized access of tax records
The Washington Times reports on a story of government tyranny. Excerpt: A government watchdog has found for the first time that confidential tax records of several political candidates and campaign...
View ArticleIRS employee union opposes making Obamacare apply to themselves
CNS News reports. Excerpt: The National Treasury Employees Union, which represents Internal Revenue Service employees, is urging its members to oppose legislation that would force federal employees off...
View ArticleObama administration sues state of Texas for passing laws to prevent voter fraud
From the Hill. Excerpt: The Justice Department will file a lawsuit against Texas on Thursday, arguing that the state’s voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act. Attorney General Eric Holder vowed to...
View ArticleDepartment of Defense training manual labels Founding Fathers as “extremists”
The Daily Caller reports. (H/T Dad) Excerpt: A Department of Defense teaching guide meant to fight extremism advises students that rather than “dressing in sheets” modern-day radicals “will talk of...
View ArticleIRS hindered efforts to stop illegal immigrants from using fake Social...
From CNS News. Excerpt: An audit report published this month by the inspector general for the Social Security Administration says that the Internal Revenue Service’s reluctance to penalize employers...
View ArticleIRS exchanged confidential taxpayer information with White House
ECM sent me this article from The Daily Caller. Excerpt: Top Internal Revenue Service Obamacare official Sarah Hall Ingram discussed confidential taxpayer information with senior Obama White House...
View ArticleDOJ selects Democrat donor to head investigation of IRS corruption
From the Washington Times. Excerpt: The Justice Department selected an avowed political supporter of President Obama to lead the criminal probe into the IRS targeting of tea party groups, according to...
View ArticleFBI declines to prosecute IRS for targeting Tea Party groups ahead of 2012...
Investors Business Daily reports. Excerpt: The FBI says it won’t prosecute anyone at the IRS for its admitted targeting of the president’s political foes. This just as the agency claims the law is no...
View ArticleChairwoman of Tea Party group targeted by IRS, ATF, FBI: “I refuse to be...
Real Clear Politics has the transcript. Snips: Nearly two decades of running our small business, my husband and I never dealt with any government agency, outside of filing our annual tax returns. We...
View ArticleNot a smidgen: 100% of 501(c)(4) groups audited by the IRS were conservative
The Wall Street Journal reports. Excerpt: A Republican House committee chairman said the Internal Revenue Service targeted tax-exempt conservative groups for audits, widening the scope of GOP ire over...
View ArticleTreasury Department threatens private companies for responding to Obamacare...
Investors Business Daily reports on how the Treasury Department is threatening private companies who lay off employees because of the costs imposed on them by Obamacare. Excerpt: In what may be...
View ArticleDarrell Issa: e-mails suggest Democrat congressman prompted IRS to target...
Katie Pavlich reports on Townhall.com. Excerpt: New IRS emails released by the House Oversight Committee show staff working for Democratic Ranking Member Elijah Cummings communicated with the IRS...
View ArticleHouse Republicans vote to hold Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress
From CBS News. Excerpt: The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to hold former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions related to the...
View ArticleDemocrats refusing to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests
Katie Pavlich at Townhall breaks the story. Excerpt: On May 21, 2013 the National Republican Senatorial Committee sent the IRS a Freedom of Information Act request asking for “any and all documents or...
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