FOXNews Latino: The Internal Revenue Service scandal involving the apparently unjustified targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has also hit home with the Hispanic community. George Rodriguez, former president of the San Antonio Tea Party, said that when the organization applied for non-profit status, leaders were intimidated by IRS workers with excessive paperwork and meddling questions. “They asked us all sorts of things that were out of the

Right wing hips and knees and colons and prostates and heart valve transplants hardest hit. — Though, on the glass-half-full side, streamlining approval for progressives wishing to have those Rachel Maddow glasses grafted directly to their faces is soon to be a reality. Yes we can! (h/t Drudge)

Personally, I believe Republicans should respond by introducing a bill that would require any lawmaker introducing a bill have at least a working knowledge of what it is s/he is hoping to legislate.  But then, that’s my idea of a Utopia — and admittedly, it lacks that whole forward feel.  The Hill: A House Democrat inspired by the last James Bond movie has offered legislation to produce handguns with “personalization

Because of a bank error — yes, US Bank took money out of our account that they weren’t authorized to take out, essentially charging us two car payments in a single month, and when told about it, responded that they’d have to send us a cashier’s check to refund the money, which will take 2-3 weeks — I find myself without access to any funds over the next few days,

— which not coincidentally was one of the first thoughts I myself Tweeted as the scandal broke.  Because it seems both obvious and inevitable.  And is all the more reason ObamaCare must be stopped — a move that more and more it seems will require the forcible removal of the House GOP leadership. CNS: Byron York of the Washington Examiner wrote yesterday that the IRS scandal could lead to fears about

While CNN runs with the two-rogue Cincy scoundrels! whitewash theory, certain British papers with real journalistic skin in the game do some actual reporting.  The Daily Mail: Letters from the IRS to tea party-related organizations in Oklahoma City and Albuquerque, New Mexico show that IRS headquarters in Washington, D.C., and two satellite offices in California, were directly involved with sending harassing letters to conservative organizations that sought tax-exempt status. The

Interesting.  And without a doubt built upon racist, sexist, and homophobic hypotheses — nothing more than politicized assertions strung together and meant to frustrate the little bitchy metrosexuals who bang the gong for the welfare state, and whose virility cannot be questioned — trying to pass themselves off as “science.” Having stipulated that:  where do the faux-conservatives and RINOs fall on this scale?  Physically speaking, I mean? Because let me

On his show last evening, Mark Levin read from the transcript of an interview then-Senator Barack Obama gave to Alan Colmes on June 28 2006, in which Senator Obama — in discussing the Bush Administration’s criticism of the New York Times for publishing leaked classified information — concluded that the press shouldn’t be molested or pressured by government and should be left alone to do its job.  That is, the

To nutshell even further:  the Determinations Unit of the IRS, which is manned by “determination specialists,” didn’t understand the rules for determinations, of which unit they were the specialists, and therefore burdened all of the groups with “TEA Party” in their names. Moreover, no really really high-ranking IRS officials knew any of this, despite reports to the contrary that are backed by paper trails, and even if they did, they