Links of the Day

“Cincinnati IRS Agent: Special ‘task force’ in DC made decisions about processing Tea Party applications”
Higher ups in the IRS knew about targeting Tea Parties? You don’t say
CNN Botches Key Facts In Holder Story
I believe Lois Lerner
Don't Blame the IRS For Doing Their Job
REPORT: Lois Lerner’s history of politically targeting the Right goes back to the 90s
Howard Dean: Benghazi Was Over A Year Ago
IRS agent Stephen Seok, who intimidated conservative groups, gets punished… with a promotion
BUSTED: The Case Against McConnell Bugger, Curtis Morrison

Links of the Day

MSNBC contributor wonders: Why didn’t Romney make a bigger deal about the IRS scandal last year?
Gee, Why Would IRS Target Tea-Partiers?
Court Which Issued Secret Subpoena for James Rosen's Emails Kept the Filings Secret for a Year and a Half Despite Being Ordered by Another Federal Court to Disclose the Documents
THE SCANDAL ERIC HOLDER CAN'T PRETEND HE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT
Yup. Eric Holder Perjured Himself.
DoJ Went Judge-Shopping for Judge Who Would Approve Secret Warrant?
Convicted Felon: Hey, Making It Harder For Law-Abiding Citizens To Get Guns Would Be Awesome
News Corp: No, the DoJ never informed us of the Rosen warrant
Revealed: Holder personally vetted Rosen warrant, DOJ fought for prolonged secret monitoring of accounts
Fox News Whitewashes Reality To Smear Holder With Perjury Accusations
The IRS’s rank and file may not be understanding their problem. Yet.
Holder: Golly, I wish Congress would keep me from claiming reporters are spies, or something
The Protected Predator Class
On Second Guess, Still Wrong
House committee investigating whether Holder perjured himself in testifying on DOJ leak probes
Fox News Gets Its Flawed Holder Perjury Investigation
The New York Times Provides a Few New Tidbits on the Rosen Affair

Links of the Day

The Death of Andrea Rebello: Excuses 2.0
The First Reaction: It Wasn't Our Fault
About those “doctored” Benghazi e-mails…
Why Dan Pfeiffer called the law ‘irrelevant.’ (Spoiler: so people won’t go to jail.)
Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Your Word Against Ours: How The FBI's 'No Electronic Recording' Policy Rigs The Game... And Destroys Its Credibility
Issa goes after IRS inspector general for not informing Congress sooner
White House-created “doctored” war on Jon Karl and Stephen Hayes falls apart
It’s easy to be smug when you think you’re smart and virtuous. Exhibit A: Lois Lerner
House Oversight e-mails: IRS IG report was originally supposed to be released … last September?
Released Video From Silva Beating Shows His Last Moments; Video Of Actual Beating Still Missing

Links of the Day

Chait: ‘There, There. There’s No ‘There’ There.’
Apparently Erroneous Reporting About Allegedly Erroneous Reporting
Media Matters: We’re not defending letting the DOJ sift through reporters’ phone records, but Media Matters is
"Media Matters Action Network," Media Matters' Activist 501(c)4 "Educational or Social Charity," Shits the Bed
A quick, Moron-friendly guide to the IRS mess and how Media Matters is gaming the system
The White House's New Game: The Benghazi Emails Were Doctored or Something

Links of the Day

Ezra Klein tries valiantly to defend the IRS
Pickering: Why would we interview the person in charge when we could blame the flunkies, or something
Of Course the Pickering-Mullen Report Is A Whitewash – And Of Course Hillary Lied, Too
Firing miscreant IRS officials won’t deal with the basic problem of the IRS’s existence
…So, Pat Smith would have the same ‘absolute moral authority’ as Cindy Sheehan, right?
Senior IRS officials knew of targeting conservative groups in 2011; Update: IRS chief counsel knew in 2011
Why The FBI Doesn’t Record Interrogations
QotD, HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA (Breathe) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA edition.
Four Pinocchios for Obama on Benghazi terror claim
The Myth of the Scientific Liberal
It’s Time For a Near-Absolute Federal Ban on Third Trimester Abortions
McClatchy circles back to #benghazi, and the lies about the video.
FBI: We'll Decide When You are Lying to Us

Links of the Day

Secrets of the NYPD
NYPD Chief Ray Kelly And Mayor Bloomberg Still Think Privacy Is A Good Thing -- Just Not YOUR Privacy
Benghazi Hall of Shame
After Months of Dishonest Spinning on Benghazi, Jay Carney Clings to ARB Report
IRS: Oh, by the way, we improperly targeted conservative and tea-party groups last year
'Mistakes Were Made'
It’s Official: Obama Lied During Presidential Debate
As a ‘Christofascist Godbag,’ I Need Some Civility Lessons From Melissa McEwan

Links of the Week

Vindicated: Charges Of A Benghazi Cover-Up No Longer ‘Fox-Induced Hysteria’
Den Beste: Hooray for the Second Amendment!
Entitlement personified
Idaho State Police Harrassment of Ron Paul Supporter!
The real Benghazi story: The dogs that aren’t barking
Kirsten Powers: Let's Stop Pretending on Late-Term Abortion
Lighten Up – It Was Just Lies About Sex

Links of the Day

Jay Carney: Benghazi "Happened a Long Time Ago"
Lee Fang’s Boner
Abortionist on LiveAction sting: “I really consider them terrorists”
Why Gun Owners Don't Trust Obama—Even When They Agree With Him
Yet Again, Anarchists Highjack Peaceful Left Wing Protest
Report: State Department’s Benghazi review panel now under investigation
Timeline: Emails Reveal State Department Flack Has Fingers All Over Talking Points Deception, Stating That Her "Superiors" Were Unhappy With Implication They'd Ignored Warnings

Links of the Day

Undercover Video By Live Action Puts Into Question Just How Rare Gosnell-Type "Abortions" Really Are
Media Matters for America will never apologize about #pigford, the cowards.
The Scarborough Evolution
The Wheels of Injustice Turn Slowly
The business of progressive science
How anti-racism creates racists
Former Police Chief Defends NYPD's 'Stop And Frisk' Program, Because It Has A Checklist
Late-term abortionist on Live Action: “I really consider them terrorists”

Links of the Day

A tale of two Scarboroughs: From rabid gun rights crusader to gun control advocate
Scarborough: Republicans are going to lose “in a big, big way” because of their gun votes
"I want to know what anybody wants to know. You see these two schmucky looking guys in baseball caps and one's just outta high school..."
ABOUT THAT 90% BACKGROUND CHECK CLAIM...
The Myth Of 90% Support For Gun Control
More '90 Percent' Nonsense Debunked
Bloombergite gun-grabbers debating whether to flip Mark Pryor’s seat to the GOP.
ATF nominee B. Todd Jones may have gone after whistle-blowers.
A Great Way to Explain How Gun Control Lost

Links of the Day

Charlie Rangel Sues To Overturn Congressional Censure (Not Because He's Innocent)
Argument Recap: Guilt by association because we’re all criminals
A Fact Found About Brady and Ken Anderson
Will Judge Ken Anderson’s arrest help or hurt proposed Michael Morton Act or Timothy Cole Commission?
Chris Matthews on Boston Bombers: ‘What difference does it make why they did it if they did it?’
Media Hype "Unicorn Killer" Smear To Undermine Earth Day And Its True Founder
Memo: The Aaron Sorkin Model of Political Discourse Doesn't Actually Work
Civil Libertarians Appalled by Tsarnaev Manhunt, Boston Residents Thrilled
Stop Granting Special Privileges to the Police
Congressional Panel Releases Report on Beghazi: Hillary Not Truthful In Claiming That She Was Unaware of Requests for Improved Security; White House Blamed Video In Order to Deflect Attention Away From State's Refusal to Provide Security

Links of the Day

13 Worst Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970
The Morning Plum: Foes of immigration reform pounce on Boston bombing
Salon’s Sirota Hits Conservatives Who ‘Suddenly Pretend They Care About People in Boston’
I Am Sure Progressives Everywhere Are Disappointed: Chechnyans, Not Tea Partiers
Lurching From One Emotionally-Driven Piece of Legislation to the Next
That 'Broken' Senate
The Waco Incident – 20 Years Later
The left’s misfire on gun control legislation
Former Texas DA Actually Being Held Accountable for Misconduct
No Warrant, No Entry

Links of the Day

Obama Responds to His Gun Control Defeat With Self-Righteous Solipsism
Obama not handling gun-control failure in Senate very well
Your Bitter Tears, Jugears, They Sustain and Nourish Me
Petulant, childish jerk wants you all to know how very much you’ve disappointed him
“A pretty shameful day in Washington”
The sweetness of their tears
How the Media Blew the Gun Control Debate
Texas Police Dept. Provides Statement to TheBlaze on Vet Arrested After ‘Rudely Displaying’ Rifle
Gabby Giffords on the Gun Lobby
Florida Judge Pens Brutal Rebuke of Crooked Drug Cops

Links of the Day

Untangling the Spin: Polling on Background Checks Highly Misleading
It’s hard being right all the time
Will Krugman Blame Sarah Palin for the Boston Bombing?
Some free advice for Elizabeth Colbert-Busch.
Illinois county to pay ACLU $600K after high court voids eavesdropping law
Blog posts pulled using DMCA restored (mostly) as fake “originals” vanish

Links of the Day

Lewis attorney says gun confiscation no “error”
Blue-on-blue crime
Separating Truth From Lies Around the Kermit Gosnell Case - Amanda Marcotte
The Wingnut Mind
Don’t be fooled. Gun confiscation has already begun in NY
Universal Background Checks for All Elected Officials? Sure – and Make the Results Public
Salon.com Was Never Profitable, It Will Never Be Profitable, But That’s Not the Point. Lefty Propaganda Is The Point.
News flash: Texas district attorneys NOT murdered by Aryan Brotherhood.
Salon’s sad attempt at smearing the Right wrt Kermit Gosnell.
NY’s Cuomo and DHS lie, collude on gun confiscation gambit?
The Coming Federal Gun Registry
“The Pro-Gun’ Provisions of Manchin-Toomey are Actually a Bonanza of Gun Control”
‘Legalize Polygamy!’

Links of the Day

The New York Times Deliberately Falsifies the Chronology to Present a Whitewashed Version of L'Affaire Weiner
The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy: From Zero to Smearing Mitch McConnell In 60 Seconds
Report: Liberal group Progress Kentucky behind McConnell taping
Update on Le Affaire Mitch McConnell.
Harris-Perry is right because Limbaugh is wrong!
Amanda Marcotte Declares, Contrary to the Facts, That Gosnell's Abbatoir Was "Underground" and Pro-Lifers Drove Women There
On Gosnell, Leftwing Media Finds A Talking Point
Boycotting the gun grabbers
Abortion is slaughter
CAN YOU AT LEAST BE AGAINST THIRD TRIMESTER ABORTIONS?

Links of the Day

Corrupt federal prosecutors escape even a slap on the hand
I suspect a connection
Mitch McConnell versus Mother Jones
McConnell campaign demands FBI probe of Mother Jones’ secret recording of meeting
Intellectual Honesty and Great Britain
Why We Need To Stop Exaggerating The Threat To Cops
Mother Jones Publishes Nothingburger Recording of Mitch McConnell Oppo Session About Ashley Judd, Revealing That He's Anti-Ashley Judd; Asks FBI to Investigate for Wiretappin
Ashley Judd’s Batty Beliefs Are Fair Game

Links of the Day

Glenn Greenwald, Pseudo-Dissident
Bill Maher has never been a libertarian
Washington Post: Mark Begich (D) is terrified of the NRA.
Guns, Homes, and…Spouses
Jake Tapper politely calls Barack Obama, Mike Bloomberg pig-ignorant about guns.
Don’t be fooled
QotD, And House Democrats Deserve This, Too edition.
How The Right Is Distorting Melissa Harris-Perry's "Lean Forward" Ad

Links of the Day

Everybody’s outraged that Jeremy Irons said gay marriage could lead to fathers marrying their sons for tax reasons
Incestuous homogamy
Jeremy Irons: If Same Sex Marriage Is Legalized, Fathers Could Marry Sons
Amanda Marcotte: So Dangerously Crazy, Even Conor Friedersdorf Fears Her Now
Nine words to explain gun control enthusiasts?
Don't trust the media
Justice Department Seeks To Keep Secret The Names Of Prosecutors Of Aaron Swartz

Links of the Day

How to fight the left-wing hate machine
Chuck Todd: NRA 'Probably Going to Win' Gun Control Fight
Fact check: Is Obama right that 40% of gun sales lack a background check?
Gun Control Advocates: We Could Win a Secret-Ballot Vote!
To Serve and Protect: But Police Don’t Have to Protect Specified Individuals
Guns and Race
Paul Krugman in 1998: Internet’s Economic Impact No Greater Than Fax Machine
The Inconsistency of the Left on Big Money