Links of the Day

IRS inspector general: No, liberal groups weren’t “targeted” the way tea-party groups were
No, IRS Targeting Was Not “Bipartisan”
Debunked: #IRS not targeting progressive groups like they did Tea Party groups
IRS Inspector General calls acting IRS head, in effect, a liar
IRS Agents keep taking the Fifth.
A Coalition Serves Freedom Of Information Request On Bloomberg
Do Unto Others, If You're a Cop
The case for polygamy

Links of the Day

Media Deliberately Misreported George Zimmermann Case from Earliest Moments
Bloomberg Bus Tour Mourns Terrorists, Cop Killers and Child Abusers
Ride the David Gregory Recursion
It’s time for “The Lerner Rule”
Good news: Howard Dean not ruling out a presidential run
Question: What happens when “settled science,” isn’t?
A New Conspiracy Theory: IRS Tea Party Targeting Helped Win The Election For Obama
Shorter Andrew McCarthy: The FISA Court Is What Its Critics Claim–A Rubber Stamp. And That’s A Good Thing.
Every one counts 1 in 12 on Bloomberg’s gun victims list are crime suspects.
Gun criminal David Gregory asks Glenn Greenwald why he shouldn’t be arrested. In Gregory’s case, it was because he was connected.
Slate’s List of Gun-Violence Victims Included Murder Suspects and Boston Bomber
Global Warming Assumes Room Temperature
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Compares Affirmative Action Supporters To Jim Crow-Era Segregationists…
Bloomberg’s taxpayer funded internet

Links of the Day

Official Tells ABC FBI Deputy Director ‘Misspoke’ About Major Claim During NSA Hearing
The Case of Officer Julian Steele
Oops: Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Also Lists Cop Killers As Victims
Brooklyn District Attorney Ordered To Testify On Pattern Of Prosecutorial Abuses By His Office
Joseph Weekley: Self-Pitying Stormtrooper
Manchin; I come to bury him
Mindf*cker: Actual footage of Rev. Jim Jones preaching at The People’s Temple

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Dot Connecting The NSA's Stories and Reality in Court
Show and Tell
Texas Police Allegedly Arrest Mother Who Simply Asked To See Warrant Before They Enter Home To Arrest Son
Holder: Let’s not do that whole subpoena thing, eh?
How To End New York's Stop and Frisk Tomorrow
Democratic Senator: I’m Really More Of A Republican
PZ tries to cover his ample posterior
Question for pro-choice Dems: If gun control is worth doing if it saves just one life, how about limiting late-term abortions?
“Any Other Questions?”
Former New Brunswick Internal Affairs Chief Indicted For Mishandling Dozens of Investigations

Links of the Day

Michael Lind's Revisionist Libertarian Smear
Amash to Clapper: “Perjury is a serious crime”
Cops Plead Guilty to Helping Plant Drugs on Woman Sexually Harassed by Judge
Former Georgia Judge Sued By Woman Who Says Drugs Were Planted On Her After Accusing The Judge Of Sexual Wrongdoing
Nevada Woman Arrested After Being Reportedly Assaulted In Courtroom By Marshal As Judge Ignores Her Pleas
Cop Allegedly Sexually Assaults Woman; Arrests Her For Protesting It While Family Court Judge Does Nothing
When women play the sex card
Chief counsel in lawsuit against IRS: top Democrat Cummings’ claim is ‘ridiculous’
There's more, much more, to the Lois Lerner story
Pelosi on Gosnell, late-term abortion, and faith: This is sacred ground to me
Yes, Gun Control is Still Pretty Much Astroturf   
DOJ Falsely Claimed That Reporter James Rosen Was Involved In Bombings In Trying To Hide Fact It Spied On Him
PZ Myers, professional "biologist"

Links of the Day

Clapper’s Lie
Here’s National Intelligence Director Clapper Apparently Lying to a Senate Committee About Surveillance
Today’s attempted narrative on the IRS scandal: A Republican in the IRS says “Nothing to see here”
IRS violated privacy laws, claimed privacy rights to block investigation of violation
Wow: IRS Claims Law Protecting the Privacy of Taxpayer Information Also Protects the Privacy of Those Who Violate Taxpayer Privacy
Confirmed: gun control “zombie” sent ricin letters to President Obama, Michael Bloomberg, MAIG, in order to frame Second Amendment supporter
IRS agent tells pro-life group, “Keep your faith to yourself.”
Dear God. OfA Really IS Pronounced ‘Ofay,’ Isn’t It? Edition.
That's Not What I Meant!

Links of the Day

Liberal groups: We weren’t targeted for extra scrutiny
Jim McDermott to Megyn Kelly: How can we be sure these IRS tea-party victims are telling the truth?
Plouffe: Hey, media, you should be investigating Issa instead of Obama
Welcome to the surveillance state
NSA's Verizon Spying Order Specifically Targeted Americans, Not Foreigners
Martin Bashir Broadcasts Misleading Edit Of Lee Atwater Quote To Portray GOP As Racist
This Is Just Too Damn Perfect

Links of the Day

Fixing our 'Mickey Mouse' Copyright Laws
The problems of a post-modern legal system
Investigating Obama Scandals Polls 7 Times Higher Than Gun Control
But For Video: Gun, Gun, Gun
The New Spin: 'We're Idiots! We're Stupid! Trust Us!'
This week’s media meme: The GOP might be “overreaching” on these scandals, you know
National Organization for Marriage Representative: Yes, We Have Smoking Gun Proof the IRS Leaked Our Confidential Donor List to Our Chief Political Rival, Human Rights Watch
IRS Inspector General: All the Cincinnati IRS Workers Refused to Say Who'd Ordered the Targeting; Compares Scandal to... Nixon's Abuses
Rep. McDermott (D-WA) "She Was Asking For It"
Jim McDermott to tea-party groups: You brought this IRS scrutiny on yourselves by applying for tax exemption, you know
Treasury IG: No IRS employee interviewed by us would acknowledge who ordered the targeting of conservatives
Holder’s Perjury: DOJ Slays Strawman, Makes Things Worse

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“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

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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

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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