Posts Tagged ‘IRS’

Colleen Kelley and the IRS targeting the Tea Party

May 20th, 2013 | No Comments

From Coincidence of the Day: President Barack Obama met with the President of the National Treasury Employees Union Colleen Kelley, on March 31, 2010. The NTEU is “the 150,000 member union that represents IRS employees along with 30 other separate government agencies.” The Inspector General’s report, blandly titled “Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt [...]

The IRS

July 28th, 2010 | No Comments

Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words “The” and “IRS” together it spells “Theirs.”

Putting socialists with ethics issues in charge of ethics?

March 4th, 2010 | No Comments

Nancy Pelosi bitched for a decade about how unethical the Republicans were.  The Democrats were all puritanical and could do no wrong.  On a weekly basis since Nancy was put in charge of ethics of Congress, we’ve had to deal with one flap after another.  William Jefferson got the ball rolling, and it’s rolled since.  [...]

545 People

August 19th, 2009 | No Comments

I love Snopes.com.  No telling what you’ll find there.  Humor, movies, sports, paranormal, extra-terrestrial, politics, you name it, it’s there.  One of today’s stories involve an opinion piece written by Charley Reese in 1985. Politicians, as I have often said, are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. [...]

Protesting health care reform

August 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments

I’ve been watching some videos of people getting very agitated while attending health care reform forums.  In some cases, legislators have resorted to locking people out entirely, such as this: To ease the tensions surrounding the issue, Obama’s staff have vowed to “punch back twice as hard“.  And of course, some Democrats are accusing Republicans, [...]

Obama’s hiccups

January 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Everyone is saying this has been a near-flawless transition: It had to come some time. Despite a nearly flawless transition period of astute, substantive and widely praised cabinet appointments, the nascent Obama administration has unintentionally provoked its first controversy. Significantly, it is in the sphere of national security. I haven’t been quite as impressed. Bill [...]