(Biz Pac Review) – In spite of confusing messages and midday rain showers, the tea party showed up in force at the local IRS office in Orlando on Tuesday to express its dissatisfaction with the agency. On a warm, humid Central Florida day, dozens of protestors turned out in spite of an out of the [...]

(Info Wars) – Kentucky Senator Rand Paul has called for an independent investigation into the IRS and its politically motivated harassment of Tea Party and patriot groups. During a fundraiser in New Hampshire, Paul characterized the IRS targeting as “un-American” and said the Inspector General’s report “makes it sound as if there was some sort [...]

Top IRS official will invoke the Fifth Amendment in congressional hearing about tea party targeting program (Daily Mail) – 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 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a hearing Wednesday before the House [...]

(Breitbart) – Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has decided that  “he would not block a vote on a motion to proceed” on the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill, The Hill reports. As Breitbart News reported late Monday night, a coalition of Tea Partiers and conservatives from all around the country banded together to call on [...]

(AP) – The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner. Douglas Shulman, who vacated his position last November when his five-year term [...]

Survived WW2 Internment Camp… (Washington Examiner) – Internal Revenue Service officials not only wanted a wide variety of information from the Albuquerque Tea Party’s application for non-profit status, it also wanted to know what contacts it had with people from other political organizations too. That included an 83-year-old great-grandmother who was once held in a [...]

(Breitbart) – Acting Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman, who led the agency when it targeted Tea Party and conservative groups, testified before the Senate Finance Committee today, under oath, about when he knew about the conduct of officials in the tax exempt organizations division. He was joined by his successor, Steven Miller, and Treasury [...]

(Rush Limbaugh) – RUSH: By the way, ladies and gentlemen, US News & World Report: “Tea Party Protests Planned At IRS Offices Nationwide Tuesday — A major tea party group is planning protests at Internal Revenue Services nationwide Tuesday following revelations earlier this month that the tax agency had flagged organizations with the words ‘tea [...]

(National Review) – Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus accused President Obama of having “built up an atmosphere of guerrilla warfare” that created fertile ground for the scandals now roiling his administration. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! “This is the problem with this entire situation [with the AP], with the IRS, with Benghazi: you [...]

(TeaParty.org) – The Tea Party will not be intimidated by the Chicago-style strong-arm tactics of the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS will not silence the Tea Party or purge the conservative message from the free marketplace of ideas. On his radio show, Rush Limbaugh said, “I bet this is going to be huge…it’s entirely possible [...]

(ABC News) -  Welcome to Cincinnati – Ground zero of the exploding IRS scandal. Things started brewing earlier this month when Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington first admitted conservative groups were targeted for extra scrutiny by tax bureaucrats in Ohio’s Queen City. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! By May 14 – three days [...]

(Fox News) – The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent’s conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday — in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists. This follows the charge that the department secretly obtained two [...]