Mark’s Take: How New GOP Candidates Stack Up With the Tea Party
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 up with the Tea Party movement. My current take: Dr. Ben […]
Wisconsin Home Invasions: When the Government Upends Democracy
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 armed policeman at the foot of their […]
Did John McCain Know about IRS Targeting?
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 disturbing piece of information deals with the fact that Republican Senator McCain and […]
John McCain’s Credibility Questioned over IRS Targeting
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 McCain’s statement expressing his shock and dismay at the IRS’ unlawful targeting and […]
More IRS Smoking Gun Emails
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 in targeting Tea Party groups and other opponents of the President Obama. In one email, […]
Civil Asset Forfeiture Case Has a Happy Ending
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 business, Mrs. Lady’s Mexican Food. But they didn’t […]
Parents Bullied in the Name of Common Core
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 by thanking 24 parents who made it to a previous meeting. […]
State of Indiana Boycotted for Defending Religious Freedom
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 Indianapolis over 5 years. Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted that he is […]
Mandatory Voting is Not the Solution to Low Voter Turnout
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 Anthony Williams thinks so. He plans to introduce legislation in the […]
DEA Agents Attended Cartel-Funded Sex Parties in Columbia
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, but were funded by the drug cartel. A foreign officer […]