Ousted Internal Revenue Service’s interim head Steven Miller appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday to testify on his agency’s targeting of conservative groups. And although a slightly bored-looking Miller spent most of the four-hour interrogation doing his best U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder impersonation (i.e. playing the “I don’t know” game), some important … [Read more...]

The Internal Revenue Service claims the disclosure of conservative groups’ confidential information to investigative journalism outfit ProPublica was “inadvertent and unintentional.” After the IRS admitted to deliberately targeting conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, ProPublica reported it had received nine still-pending applications as part of its request for … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON — The outgoing leader of the Internal Revenue Service testified Friday that he could not specifically finger the person responsible for the agency’s targeting of tea party groups.“I don’t have names for you,” Steve Miller, the acting commissioner of the IRS who resigned this week because of the scandal, said during testimony during a hearing before the House Ways and Means … [Read more...]

'We lost a lot of donors because of this whole cloud hanging over us' The IRS and the entire Obama administration are under scrutiny after revelations last week that hundreds of conservative organizations suffered undue harassment and intrusion by the IRS after applying for tax-exempt status – and now at least one tea-party leader tells WND the scandal interfered with with his group’s … [Read more...]

The Internal Revenue Service scandal involving the apparently unjustified targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has also hit home with the Hispanic community. George Rodriguez, former president of the San Antonio Tea Party, said that when the organization applied for non-profit status, leaders were intimidated by IRS workers with excessive paperwork and meddling … [Read more...]

Benghazi emails show State Department had heavy hand in watering down account of attack WASHINGTON –  State Department officials repeatedly objected to -- and tried to water down -- references to Al Qaeda and prior security warnings in the administration's initial internal story-line on the Benghazi attack, according to dozens of emails and notes released by the White House late … [Read more...]

Another tidbit of information since the release of the  Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration report, confirming that the IRS targeted conservative groups such as "Tea Party, Patriot and 9/12" groups, among others, delaying their applications in some cases for over two years, asking highly "inappropriate" questions and delaying their approval process, leaving them in limbo as they … [Read more...]

And just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the Obama administration, something new comes along. From the Washington Post: Internal Revenue Service officials in Washington and at least two other offices were involved in the targeting of conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, making clear the effort reached well beyond the branch in Cincinnati that was initially … [Read more...]

Philadelphia, PA – Today, Dr. Kermit Gosnell, the Philadelphia abortionist who ran the so-called “house of horrors,” was convicted by a  jury of his peers of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies who were born alive and then killed with scissors. Gosnell was also found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the 2009 drug-overdose of Karnamaya Mongar. The jury found Gosnell … [Read more...]