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Did Lois Lerner Seek IRS Audit Of Sen. Chuck Grassley?

Fox News runs with they headline that she did, and Rep. David Camp thinks she did, but, Grassley thinks she was targeting a Tea Party group. Some news orgs follow along with the Grassley targeted meme, others go with group targeted Congressional investigators have uncovered emails showing ex-IRS official Lois Lerner targeted a sitting Republican […]

Revisionist History Prevails On Iraq Invasion

So who lost Iraq? The blame game mostly fingers incompetent Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Or is Barack Obama culpable for pulling out all American troops monitoring the success of the 2007-08 surge? Some still blame George W. Bush for going into Iraq in 2003 in the first place to remove Saddam Hussein. One can […]

10 Reasons Why Iraq’s Bloodbath Is Not W’s Fault

1) In 2011, President Barack Obama pronounced Iraq “self-reliant and democratic,” and “a country in which people from different religious sects and ethnicities can resolve their differences peacefully through the democratic process.” In 2010, Vice President Joe Biden called Iraq “one of the great achievements of this administration.” Obama ignored pleas by top generals who […]

Exposed: How The Va Red-Flags ‘Disruptive’ Vets

Imagine how much better off America’s veterans would be if the federal government spent more time delivering actual care and less time compiling tyrannical lists. The death-inducing secret waiting lists for patients are just the tip of the iceberg. Did you know, for example, that the VA keeps a database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets […]

The Secretary Of Education Should Put His Money Where His Mouth Is On Teacher Tenure Reform

It’s hard to find truer words than those of Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Rolf M. Treu. In his recent ruling that California’s teacher tenure laws violate the California state constitution, Judge Treu stated such laws cause “the potential and/or unreasonable exposure of grossly ineffective teachers to all California students in general and to […]

Soccer Fans Often Feel Pain — And Sometimes Even A Bite

In an exclusive interview, Raffaele Raia — the noted Italian soccer aficionado from Oliveto Citra, near Salerno — said America is missing only one thing to fully grasp World Cup soccer. “Until Americans live and die with it, as we Italians do, you won’t truly understand,” Raia said. “That means the World Cup not as […]

Coburn: 1,000 Vets Died Because of VA “Malfeasance”

According to the report, the VA had: excruciatingly long wait times doctor shortages excessive and undeserved bonuses for staffers and medical personnel head-spinning corruption and malfeasance Coming soon to hospitals everywhere, courtesy of Obamacare: : The worst, of course, is the sheer number of veterans who’ve died from neglect, sub-standard care, and bureaucratic incompetence in the […]

Shots Fired Across Southern Border To Harass US Law Enforcement

They aren’t shooting at anyone in particular. Just shooting to be a pain in the hind end: Source: “Not shooting at game wardens, but shooting to be a nuisance.” Another trusted law enforcement source explained that the game wardens have been bringing in much higher numbers of illegal immigrants and destroying the rafts the human […]

United Nations Civilian Disarmament Job Openings in New York

In January, the federal government put up an RFI/Sources Sought listing for “Escort Services for Unaccompanied Alien Children” making it clear that the feds expected the border to be overwhelmed by “approximately 65,000” unaccompanied illegal alien children in the near future. Less than half a year later, the tsunami hit as planned. Now it’s the […]

Biden: Gay Rights Trump Pretty Much Everything

Someone let Joe Biden off his chains again (Yahoo News) Vice President Joe Biden declared Tuesday that protecting gay rights is a defining mark of a civilized nation and must trump national cultures and social traditions as the Obama administration sought to mobilize a global front against anti-gay violence and discrimination. Biden told a gathering […]

Golly Gee, IRS Failed To Follow Law On Archiving Email

Who would have thought it? (NY Times) The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report a hard drive crash that destroyed emails belonging to a senior official at the center of a scandal over the agency’s treatment of conservative-leaning political groups, the nation’s top archivist said Tuesday. “In accordance […]

Omission Control

Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there. The CBS correspondent reported on Fast and Furious, the shifting explanation for the Benghazi, Libya, attacks and the bungled rollout of the Obamacare website. “But as time went on, it was harder […]

The Education Establishment’s Success

Many view America’s education as a failure, but in at least one important way, it’s been a success — a success in dumbing down the nation so that we fall easy prey to charlatans, hustlers and quacks. You say, “Williams, that’s insulting! Explain yourself.” OK, let’s start with a question or two. Are you for […]

Child Migration Changes The Issue

The political fallout caused by the massive migration of 90,000 children this year (52,000 so far) over the Mexican border completely recasts the immigration debate. No longer must Republicans hypothesize or may Democrat deny that amnesty catalyzes illegal immigration. The children of Central America have resolved that question by descending on our border, demanding admission […]