Mark’s Take: How New GOP Candidates Stack Up With the Tea Party Mark Meckler May 4, 2015 Blog, Featured, News 2 Comments This week, the GOP field of candidates grows by three more potential candidates. Having already traveled to sixteen states this year meeting with grassroots folks, some of you have asked me what I hear on the ground about the contenders and how they stack...
Wisconsin Home Invasions: When the Government Upends Democracy Mark Meckler May 2, 2015 Barf Bag, Big Government, Corruption, Featured, Mark's Commentaries, News Cindy woke up to a battering ram at her front door. She opened the door to a rushing mob of policemen, yelling and barging through her house with no explanation. She begged them not to shoot her barking dogs. Another woman had to wake her children with an...
Did John McCain Know about IRS Targeting? Mark Meckler April 24, 2015 Featured, Incumbent Accountability, IRS Lawsuit, Mark's Commentaries, News When the IRS scandal broke, Sen. John McCain sent out a press release claiming to be shocked at the news. But was he? Three years’ worth of IRS e-mail evidence continues to build against the federal government. The most interesting and possibly...
John McCain’s Credibility Questioned over IRS Targeting Mark Meckler April 22, 2015 Featured, IRS Lawsuit, News, Scandals Recent revelations have cast serious doubt on the credibility of Senator John McCain and whether he knew and even encouraged IRS targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups. McCain staffers met with Lois Lerner for six hours some eleven days prior to...
More IRS Smoking Gun Emails Mark Meckler April 22, 2015 Big Government, Corruption, Featured, IRS Lawsuit, News, Scandals As the tedious process of sorting through three years’ worth of IRS emails continues, more evidence mounts showing how far-reaching and deliberate the cover-up actually was. More of Lois Lerner’s emails show what she thought about the IRS criteria used...
Civil Asset Forfeiture Case Has a Happy Ending Mark Meckler April 18, 2015 Activist Stories, Citizens Spotlight, Engaged Citizens, Featured, News Legal battles against the government don’t often have a happy ending – but we’re so glad that in Carole Hinders’ case, it did! In 2013, IRS agents showed up at Carole’s door and told her they had seized all the money in the bank account for her...
Parents Bullied in the Name of Common Core Mark Meckler April 9, 2015 Big Government, Common Core, Education, Featured, News Third graders at Coleman A. Young Elementary in Detroit, Michigan brought a letter home that threatened them with suspension if their parents didn’t come to a meeting about the new Common Core testing – in the middle of a work day. The letter started...
State of Indiana Boycotted for Defending Religious Freedom Mark Meckler April 6, 2015 Dispersed Power, Featured, News, Pillars of Self Governance Indiana Governor Mike Pence just signed a law that is making him very unpopular with certain crowds. The crowd-sourced review site Yelp has called for a boycott of the entire state. Angie’s List cancelled a project that would bring a thousand jobs to...
Mandatory Voting is Not the Solution to Low Voter Turnout Mark Meckler April 3, 2015 Engaged Citizens, Featured, News 1 Comment We can all recognize that low voter turnout is a problem in the United States. Even in the Presidential election year of 2012, only 57% of Americans took the time to vote. But is fining people who don’t vote the solution? Pennsylvania state senator...
DEA Agents Attended Cartel-Funded Sex Parties in Columbia Mark Meckler April 2, 2015 Barf Bag, Corruption, Featured, News, Scandals First the Secret Service, now the DEA. The protectors of the President have been in hot water over the hiring of prostitutes on a trip to Columbia. Now it seems the DEA tried to outdo them – attending “sex parties” that not only included prostitutes,...