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Channeling Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest creation, the pre-eminent logician and crime solver Sherlock Holmes was wont to compare the human brain to an attic.  It was his belief that the finite space was best...

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The IRS and Your Health

As Americans watch congressional hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, they should ask themselves what this enormously powerful, corrupt, politically motivated agency might do with its new job of...

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The IRS, EPA, etc. are the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party

In the late 1860s, it was entered into the congressional record that the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) was founded to serve as “the terrorist wing of the Democratic Party.” Their purpose was to kill Republicans,...

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Translating Obamaspeak

I have never been good with foreign languages, so it’s little wonder that I have had so much trouble figuring out what Barack Obama is talking about.  Still, it didn’t take me too long to realize that...

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Tea Party Patriots Set Biggest Protest Since 2010

IRS Scandal Is Focus of Public Outrage In an ominous sign for the Obama White House, thousands of Tea Party patriots will gather on the west lawn of the Capitol Wednesday to protest the IRS assault on...

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Reps. Gosar, Salmon, Schweikert and Franks to Host Congressional Field Hearing

“The I.R.S. and the E.P.A. – Bureaucrats Out of Control?”  PRESCOTT, AZ –U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar, D.D.S (AZ-04) joined by Congressmen Matt Salmon (AZ-05), David Schweikert (AZ-06) and Trent Franks...

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This is neither a Republic nor a Democracy. It’s Tyranny.

For the last several decades, we have bantered with one another, the media, and our representatives about whether we live in a democracy or a republican form of government. The debate can stop now. We...

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Oversight Committee: Lerner Waived Her 5thAmendment Right

WASHINGTON- On a vote of 22-17, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today approved a resolution determining that IRS official Lois Lerner waived her 5th amendment rights when at a May...

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Watch Trey Gowdy Tear It Up Over IRS Enforcer Lois Lerner’s Claims

Trey Gowdy lists nine assertions he made AFTER supposedly invoking her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent. That constitutes waiving those rights! See also Issa’s opening statement:

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House Hearing: The IRS IS Broken

ICYMI . . . Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) Hearing on the Status of Internal Revenue Service’s Review of Taxpayer Targeting Practices  June 27, 2013 (Remarks as Prepared) It has been six weeks since the IRS...

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UPDATE: Reps. Gosar, Salmon, Schweikert and Franks to Host Congressional...

“The I.R.S. and the E.P.A. – Bureaucrats Out of Control?” WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Congressman Paul  Gosar, D.D.S (AZ-04) joined by Congressmen Matt Salmon (AZ-05), David Schweikert (AZ-06) and Trent...

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IRS political targeting isn’t new. It began under JFK in 1961

Listen to Arthur Brooks introduction of Mitch McConnell in this AEI video. About a minute in, he talks about how the IRS began targeting political groups as part of its Ideological Organizations Audit...

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Rep. Schweikert discusses IRS scandal, Navajo Generating Station, more

David Schweikert and Kevin Scholla discuss issues of importance to Arizona and the nation on the Palin Radio Update    

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IRS refunding millions to illegal immigrants filing fraudulent tax returns

The Congress of the United States is currently debating a massive, ill-considered immigration “reform” bill. This debate is taking place in the shadow of a massive scandal involving the widespread...

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Is now really a time for a moon park? (Iron Man, Lindsay Lohan, and others...

Democrats in Congress are trying to build a national park at the Apollo landing site on the Moon. Yes, we’re serious. With all due to respect to Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, we compiled a helpful...

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Video: IRS Scandal Started at the Top

Why isn’t this colossal violation of trust between a government and its people getting more attention? Oh yes—the scandal cascade! Enough scandals all at once, and focus is diffused, and people tune...

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Obama’s political IRS, free speech, and campaign finance

That the treatment of so many tea party and other conservative groups applying for tax exempt status by the Obama Administration’s Internal Revenue Service has been a scandal is not dependent on...

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Obama Campaign Tour Sparked By Stagnant Economy, Lagging Poll Numbers, and...

No wonder President Obama is leaving Washington to launch a two-month campaign tour to sell his ideas on how to jumpstart the economy. He’s a man with a severe headache, living in an increasingly...

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Rep. Gosar: At the IRS, the name of the game is target and discriminate

ICYMI . . .  WASHINGTON, D.C. -Today, the STOP IRS Act (H.R. 2565), which would require the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to terminate any employee who targets individuals or groups because of their...

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Gosar: The American people are now public enemy number one

Osama bin Laden. Saddam Hussein. John Dillinger. Bonnie and Clyde. These terrorists, mass murderers, bank robbers and professional criminals at one point in our nation’s history were Public Enemy...

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