(Rush Limbaugh) – It’s Bigger Than Obama — We’re Witnessing What Happens When Liberalism Rules. BEGIN TRANSCRIPT – RUSH: I am getting the sense that there is an effervescing rage in the country over what is happening. If you’re watching these hearings today, if you are listening to the media, I hate to say, “I [...]
‘Here are a group of people who are admittedly racist’ (The Blaze) – Julian Bond, chairman emeritus of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), said Tuesday that he supports the Internal Revenue Service’s political targeting of Tea Party groups because “they are the Taliban wing of American politics.” And he doesn’t [...]
(Breitbart) – The IRS scandal is growing by leaps and bounds in a way that must be terrifying to an Administration already dealing with fallout from the uncovering of their Libya lies and the knowledge that the Department of Justice seized the phone records of 20 Associated Press reporters. Tuesday morning, ABC News revealed what [...]
(Weekly Standard) – “If I could then goo back to the IRS issue,” said a reporter from the AP. “The president did use the word ‘if these activities had taken place,’ but there has been an acknowledgement on the part of the IRS leadership that these things did indeed occur. I wondered why the president [...]
(Politico) – Tea party groups on Monday are threatening to sue the Internal Revenue Service after the agency admitted last week that it wrongly targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit status. The agency has maintained that although its actions were inappropriate, laws weren’t broken. FAX BLAST SPECIAL: Impeach Obama NOW! The IRS said on Friday [...]
(Breitbart) – On Monday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) fired back on assertions by the IRS that its efforts to target conservative groups were relegated to low-level employees. “Of course not,” he told Breitbart News. McConnell noted that he had raised the issue of IRS targeting of conservatives in 2012, and further noted that [...]
Expands To Groups Opposed To Gov’t, Teaching Constitution… (Fox News) – An IRS campaign to apply additional scrutiny to conservative groups went beyond targeting “Tea Party” and “patriot” groups to include those focused on government spending, the Constitution and several other broad areas. The additional guidelines created by the agency were part of a timeline, [...]
(Washington Post) – At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general. The documents, obtained by The Washington Post from a congressional aide with [...]
(CNS News) – The House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight has thrown down an investigative gauntlet to the Internal Revenue Service, demanding that the agency hand over by next Wednesday every communication in its records that includes the words “tea party,” “patriot” or “conservative.” The committee is also demanding of the IRS that by [...]
(Breitbart) – An Inspector General report indicates that IRS officials knew as early as 2011 that conservative groups were being targeted for additional scrutiny in determing tax-exempt status, contradicting previous statements by the agency. On Friday, the IRS admitted to and apologized for targeting groups that had the words “Tea Party” or “patriots” in their [...]