So, here’s my takeaway from the IG report on the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups:  in passive language, and thanks to insufficient managerial oversight, suddenly, ex nihilo, spreadsheets were developed that put conservative organizations into the exempt division’s cross hairs. This was done, ex nihilo, because [?] wanted to make sure that conservative-sounding groups — with triggers that included “patriot”, “TEA Party,” “constitution,” “limited government,” or some suggestion the the

via Glenn Reynolds And for those of you youngsters who don’t understand the reference:

I grant you that it’s difficult to parody the strained jargon of the metrosexual agonizers and penis deniers, as I attempted to yesterday with my post on the baseball team that pulled a car off  a trapped young girl, but I must point out that it is reactions like this one that suggest I can still pull it off with stunning aplomb. Beta male.  Me. Honestly.  To borrow from Brad

Dag.  Things is about to get real!

It’s beginning to look like Jake Tapper may single-handedly save CNN: CNN has obtained an email sent by a top aide of President Barack Obama, in which the aide discusses the Obama administration reaction to the attack on the U.S. posts in Benghazi, Libya. The actual email differs from how sources characterized it to two different media organizations. The actual email from then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben

The Hill: House Republican members are defying Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and five committee chairmen by endorsing a measure that would set up a special panel to investigate the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya. A growing number of members on the committees with jurisdiction over the Benghazi matter — Intelligence, Judiciary, Oversight and Government Reform, Armed Services and Foreign Affairs — have signed onto Rep. Frank Wolf’s (R-Va.) resolution. Boehner

Dana Loesch: St. Louis Reporter Larry Conners revealed via Facebook yesterday that he has been “hammered” by the IRS since his much-discussed interview with President Obama. Conners, a veteran reporter, asked tough, but fair question during the interview which was slammed by progressives in media. Conners says: Shortly after I did my April 2012 interview with President Obama, my wife, friends and some viewers suggested that I might need to

me:  “So.  That Obama has some nerve, doesn’t he?  All these scandals?  All these denials?” me:  “You’ve said a mouthful, bub!” me:  “…” me:  “…” me: “Well, then. I guess I’m ready for a coupla Bloody Marys.” me:  “Make mine a couple of Bloody Bulls and I’m all in, cowboy.” me:  “Giddyup.” me:  “Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!”  

Yes, it’s true that even after the President went (briefly) before the press yesterday, repeated a set of lies that we already know to be lies — and we know this as a matter of fact, not conjecture, based on internal State Department emails and, once corroborated, to the under-oath testimony of the Benghazi whistleblowers — and essentially dared the Republican leadership (and to some extend the mainstream press) to

Jim Geraghty, Morning Jolt: Allow me to remind you what Obama said a week ago: “Unfortunately, you’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They’ll warn that tyranny always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these