This is maddening. Lois Lerner will be invoking her fifth amendment rights and therefore, not answering any questions regarding the IRS scandal. (LA Times) Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, [...]
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This whole IRS scandal is getting rather incestuous. First, we find out Sarah Hall Ingram not only received over $100,000 in bonuses while discriminating against tea party groups, and now she’s running the Obamacare office. Now we find out Lois Lerner’s husband has some interesting connections to Obama and his campaign. The Internal Revenue Service [...]
READ MORE »Is it time to discuss abolishing the IRS? Sen. Ted Cruz thinks so. “Mr. President, if your #1 priority is fixing the problem, let’s abolish the #IRS and ensure it NEVER happens again!” Perhaps it’s no longer a ‘fringe‘ notion? Over the course of several election cycles, what was once a fringe notion advanced by long-shot candidates [...]
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**Welcome Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion readers! Thanks Prof. Jacobson for making this your ‘post of the day’!** **Updated–see below** The IRS scandal is a very tangled web and I think it will be a while before we realize the depths of the issue. Just how many IRS officials are involved and how many organizations were targeted? The President [...]
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Well we’ve determined math is hard. Apparently keeping track of #Scandalpalooza is too. (h/t Chicks on the Right) House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer joined the confused club Tuesday showing that even Democrats can’t keep track of the scandal upon scandal upon scandal crashing down on the Obama administration. While responding to reporter’s questions during his weekly meeting [...]
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This IRS ‘scandal’ gets uglier by the minute. Apparently, tea party and patriot groups weren’t the only ones targeted, but also groups focused on the Constitution, government spending, and several other areas. The internal IG timeline shows a unit in the agency was looking at Tea Party and “patriot” groups dating back to early 2010. [...]
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You have to know when you get an alert from Drudge that says “It’s Starting…IRS issues 159 pages of new rules”, it’s not going to be good. Are you ready for this America? This is what you voted for. (Reuters) – The Internal Revenue Service has released new rules for investment income taxes on capital [...]
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