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Posted by New Neo on July 20, 2013 20 Comments
As opposed to what should be considered a bombshell? I refer you to this column by Peggy Noonan entitled “A Bombshell in the IRS Scandal”: The IRS scandal was connected this week not just to the Washington office—that had been established—but to the office of...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on July 18, 2013 16 Comments
The House Oversight Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing today at 11:00am ET on “The IRS’ Systematic Delay and Scrutiny of Tea Party Applications.” (Livestream also at the bottom of this post). FOX News’ Carl Cameron reported Wednesday evening on the O’Reilly Factor that...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 27, 2013 7 Comments
There was joy in liberal blogospheric Mudville when it was reported that terms like “progressive” also were used as a screening mechanism. PROOF! The IRS Scandal was not a scandal! Uh, yes, it was a scandal. Via The Hill, Treasury IG: Liberal groups weren’t targeted...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 24, 2013 8 Comments
While the public shifts its attention to more recent scandals, such as that of the flap regarding the NSA, the scandals of days gone by like the IRS and Benghazi still haven’t been resolved. USA Today reports this afternoon that an IRS official says the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 24, 2013 27 Comments
That’s what today’s vote on the Corker amended immigration bill is about. The Senate bill cannot pass the House, there’s been no public debate and consensus within the Republican Party on the key issues of legalization and citizenship for law-breakers, and most if not all...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 20, 2013 14 Comments
We’ve been pushing back since the election against the meme that the Tea Party movement was dead. The movement is roaring back because the underlying conditions which gave rise to the movement have not changed.  If anything, the concerns over abuse of government power have...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on June 15, 2013 21 Comments
In the wake of intense criticism over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups, former and current embattled IRS officials, Steven Miller and Lois Lerner, have reportedly received threats of physical violence. From Sky News: Ousted IRS acting commissioner Steven Miller has received threats, a source...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 20 Comments
Misfired 2010 email alerted more IRS officials to Tea Party scrutiny A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati in July 2010 alerted a broad group of Washington IRS officials to the heightened scrutiny being given conservative groups, according to an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 03, 2013 11 Comments
Question Professor, I live in the liberal blue state of California. I really get the sense that liberals are trying to outlaw everything that conservatives find important. It really feels like they look at a menu of conservative issues, values, and hobbies and pick the...

Posted by Mandy Nagy on May 30, 2013 8 Comments
Investigators from both the House Ways and Means and House Oversight committees will be interviewing two front-line IRS workers from the Cincinnati office in Washington DC this week, and another two next week, according to congressional sources who spoke to CNN today. House investigators are...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 29, 2013 11 Comments
Mitch McConnell is going there in his campaign. The IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups is a potent issue and we can’t let people forget it in November 2014. This video reminds me of the Remember November videos from 2010.

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 19, 2013 13 Comments
Oh come on, all you. Really. How could anyone think differently? Anyone? Buhler? John Kass, IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way (h/t @bryanjacoutot): I didn’t understand it all back then, but I understand it now. Once there were old...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 10 Comments
At congressional hearings yesterday, it was revealed that the IRS planted a question at an ABA meeting in order to give Lois Lerner of the IRS the opportunity to get ahead of the pending Inspector General Report and make it seem as if the IRS had voluntarily...
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