Links of the Day

‘A Cult Worthy of Jonestown’? Hey, Democrats Embraced Jim Jones!
Federal Judge: NSA Metadata Collection Likely Unconstitutional
Podesta Compares GOP Congress to Notorious Democrat Mass Murderer
A loudmouth female police cadet, Trayvon Martin, and the “Knockout Game”
Rachel Maddow is a nightmare!
New York Times on the Gun Control Battle in Congress
Haters Gonna Hate, Deniers Gonna Deny
Poking holes in another argument from Amanda Marcotte
WORSE THAN WATERGATE
Drug Warriors Kidnap and Sexually Assault a Woman After Getting Permission From a Dog
First NYPD Officer Being Prosecuted for Stop and Frisk Misconduct

Links of the Week

Paul Krugman, The Wonk Gap, and The Eternal Church of the All-Seeing State
When Obama Claimed He Was "Outraged" By IRS Targeting Scandal, He Was, Get This, Lying
Who Got To George Zimmerman's Girlfriend?
Selena Roberts: The Serial Misleader
LA County Sheriffs Charged with Systematic Abuse, Corruption in Federal Case
Excellence in police marksmanship
Chief Judge For 9th Circuit Cites "Epidemic" Of Prosecutor Misconduct
Chief Judge Writes Scathing Dissent Warning of “Epidemic Of Brady Violations” By The Justice Department
Another Burge victim has conviction thrown out
Lawsuit Charges NYC Cops With Stomping a Parakeet (and Beating Humans) During a Warrantless Raid
Gawker & the Truth; never shall the twain meet
The latest Zimmerman drama

Links of the Week

Fullerton Police Lawyers: Kelly Thomas Killed Himself
NYPD: Baby, You Know We Love You. Why Do You Make Us Angry Like That?
Politico Magazine: It's Your Fault Obamacare Doesn't Work Yahoo/Daily Ticker: It's Your Fault The Economy Sucks
Latest Orlando MAIG public records are in.
POLITICS: Have You, At Long Last, Sir, No Sense of Shame?
Martin Bashir resigns from MSNBC
MARTIN BASHIR'S RESIGNATION: THE ANGRY LEFT REACTS
Issa: FBI impeding inquiry into IRS targeting of conservative groups
Missouri Lawyer Accuses Police Of Threatening To Kill His Family Pets And Kick In Front Door If He Insisted On A Warrant
How Do You Charge an Unarmed Man with Shooting People? Get the NYPD Involved.
Senator Al Franken (D, Minnesota) is in more trouble than the Democrats want to admit.
The Plum Line is officially alarmed that the GOP will win in 2014/2016.
The Other Way To Conform Cops’ Stories
Sex differences are hard-wired
FBI: Just Because We Use The Radical Leftist Southern Poverty Law Center As A Source For Our Hate Crime Stats Doesn’t Mean We Endorse Them…

Links of the Day

Texas DA who prosecuted Tom DeLay has mud on face again
Anti-Gunners New Ploy: “Gun Control” Becomes “Gun Safety”
Trouble with Maryland Correctional Officers
Colorado anti-gun state Senator Evie Hudak (D) abruptly resigns her seat. #recall
Colorado Democrat Resigns to Avoid Recall Fight
Obama responds to IRS abuse scandal by adding more regulations to abuse

Links of the Day

Nuclear: Reid, Senate Dems pass rule change barring filibusters on executive and judicial nominees, 52/48
Quote of the Day, Don’t Get MAD: Get EVEN edition. #obamacare
You’re Not Allowed to Have an Opinion
The cable news sewer
Politico’s Stephanie Simon Twice Claims Arne Duncan Apologized for ‘White Suburban Moms’ Remark; No He Didn’t
The Modern Corporate Harem
Harry Reid opens Pandora’s box
Senate Goes (Partly) Nuclear, Limits Filibusters For Some Nominees
Nuclear: Reid, Senate Dems pass rule change barring filibusters on executive and judicial nominees, 52/48
Fox News Absolves GOP Of Any Blame In Obamacare Problems

Links of the Week

On Responsibility and Obama
Salon Writer Calls for Lara Logan's Firing Over Benghazi - He's Wrong, Here's Why
Climate Change advocate tells Piers Morgan it’s ‘journalistic malpractice’ to include ‘skeptics’ in the discussion
Angelene Richardson, Less Than Boston Strong
Is “Actually Punished” Enough? - Prosecutorial Misconduct
In A Split Second - NYPD allowed to shoot bystanders
White House to Darrell Issa: Please don’t expect transparency. Issa to WH: HAHAHA no.

Links of the Week

What Is The Quantum of Proof Necessary for Police to Rape and Torture you in New Mexico?
Something Needs Clenching
New Mexico Police Allegedly Stop Man For Minor Traffic Violation And Use Repeated Digital and Surgical Anal Examinations To Find Drugs . . . And Find Nothing
Welcome to Deming, New Mexico -- Where Police Rape is a Matter of "Protocol"
Wendy Davis declares she’s totally “pro-life” outside the womb
Hillary, Media Matters & #Benghazi Cover-up Part 1.5 : David Brock Is A Liar

Links of the Day

Friendly reminder from CNN: Senate Democrats killed a 2010 GOP proposal to let more people keep their plans
Jonah Goldberg Unloads On Greg Sargent, Liberal Healthcare Policy Wonks And Assorted Other Fools
Looking Back On Past Global Warming Predictions Is Always Fun
Here Come the Astroturf Libertarians
IRS' Lois Lerner gave confidential Tea Party tax info to FEC, violating law
"Qualified Immunity": A License to Commit Criminal Violence
Did The DEA Think Patty Would Go Away?
Felony! Lois Lerner Shared Confidential Info About Conservative Groups With FEC

Links of the Day

Religious fanatics upset that their dogma is not being respected. #fracking
Jamie Leigh Jones Probably Lied About Her Rape. That Doesn’t Mean Most Women Do.
But For Video: Philly Cop Dismissed For Being A 'Freaking A-Hole'
White House Confirms What We've All Known...Dick Durbin Is A Lying POS  Ok, Now It Gets Good...Joan Walsh Calls Obama Administration A Liar
Dick Durbin: Unnamed House Republican told Obama in meeting, “I cannot even stand to look at you”; Update: Doubles down
The philosophical failure of science
Harry Reid, Barack Obama fingered as sources for Dick Durbin lie about GOP.
Feds confiscate investigative reporter’s confidential files
LA County Sheriffs Hassle Photographer, Trample Constitution, Get Lauded by Bosses

Links of the Day

Philly cop hassles, arrests open carrier with permit
Why We’re Doomed
NYPD: It's Your Job To Do Things We'll Punish You For Doing
If the Bitch Didn't Want Her Face Broken, She Shouldn't Have Mouthed Off
Recess Appointments Are Awful When the Other Guy Does Them!
Chris Matthews: I Wish We Could Go Back to the Days of Friendly Politics, But the Racist Terrorist Tea Party Traitors Who Hate the President Because He's Black Won't Let Us
Surveillance Video of Dallas Police Shooting Contradicts Police Report on Incident: “Obviously there is much more to this situation than that video”
DOJ Stops Hiding Its Use of Warrantless Wiretaps, Making Constitutional Challenges Possible
It’s time to stop being silent on binge drinking & how it turns women into rape victims

Links of the Day

MILLER: Smoking gun exposed- D.C. police covers up giving Feinstein illegal ‘assault weapons’
ATF Bars Agent’s Book On “Fast and Furious” Because It Would Lower Morale
Issa: Lerner, others at IRS used personal e-mail to transmit confidential taxpayer data
Pelosi Loves Gerrymandering
“Police Officers Three Times More Likely to Murder Than Concealed Carry Permit Holders”
Colorado gun-rights advocates going in for recall, round two
Here’s why cops should be required to wear a lapel camera while on duty
Niall Ferguson: Paul Krugman Has Gotten Nearly Everything Wrong, And Yet This Has Only Provoked Further Arrogance, Self-Flattery, and Sneering At Those Who Got It Right
How the IRS Helped Break the Tea Party Fever

Links of the Day

BarryCade Smoking Gun
MIT's Lindzen: IPCC Report "Hilariously Flawed"
ATF Blocking Fast & Furious Book
At HuffPo, Wendy Davis Was ‘Filibuster Heard ‘Round the World’; Now It’s ‘Cruz ‘Hijacks Senate’
ACLU Fights DOJ, ATF Attempts at 'Censorship' of Fast and Furious Whistleblower Book
Feminist Catchphrase Translator
Voter Intimidation Group Receives Tax-Exempt Status
Federal judge to DOJ: No, you may not dismiss this Fast & Furious case just because you feel like it
Oddly, media less excited about Ted Cruz’s futile filibuster than Wendy Davis’s
Joe Manchin is a Coward
Cops Accused of Forcing Woman to Delete Video of Husband’s Arrest Sparked by ‘Unloaded’ Shotgun and Trespasser on His Hunting Property – but We Have the Footage
Jose Guerena Case Settled, Sheriff Dupnik Speaks
A parody of scientody

Links of the Day

Lois Lerner Resigns From IRS; IRS Suddenly Grants True the Vote Tax-Exempt Status; Files to Dismiss True the Vote's Lawsuit
A Convenient (and Profitable) Exit
Obama pushes gun control at Navy Yard memorial
Cut the crap - IRS defenders
The Government’s Lame “Gotcha” Backfires
No Mr. President. It is not what sets us apart.
I'm Just Shocked! - Navy Yard Shooter Lied in Screening

Links of the Day

DOJ Scrambles To Try To Explain Why It Never Investigated Systematic Misrepresentations By NSA To FISA Court
Shortening coverage on the Navy Yard shooting
Democrats leave committee hearing on Benghazi before victims’ families testify
These Pictures Prove Fox Is Lying: Democrats Didn't Walk Out Of Benghazi Hearing
Appeals court overturns DeLay conviction, acquits him
Court of Appeals Overturns Tom DeLay Conviction
“Tom DeLay money laundering verdict overturned”

Links of the Day

Retraction: Aaron Alexis Wasn't Blocked by State Law Forbidding Sale of AR-15
Miller at WashTimes Catches NYT’s Aaron Alexis Story Error, Notes Media ‘Obsessed’ With Linking AR-15 to Navy Yard Murders
Washington Navy Yard Already Suffers the Restrictions That Gun Control Advocates Favor
Mistrust: The Real New Normal
The Rhetoric of Bad Aim
Piers Morgan: On second thought, does it really matter what kind of gun was used at the Navy Yard?
Eric Boehlert refuses to acknowledge armed citizens involved in stopping 1966 Texas Tower shooter; Instapundit schools
MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe: Joe Scarborough, Steve Schmidt and Michael Steele Are Conservative

Links of the Day

Gun Control: Watch Joe Scarborough Get His Shine Box
Bad news: Colorado Democrat defeated in recall election over gun control not taking it well
Lois Lerner in February 2011: Tea Party is “Very Dangerous”
IRS Scandal: Playing “count the lies” with Lois Lerner
“Tea Party Matter very dangerous” – Emails show lois Lerner specifically targeted tea party
CNN Shows How Not To Report On The Colorado Recall Elections
Is the FBI Investigating the IRS Scandal?
501(c)3 Nonpartisan Organization Media Matters: Press' Coverage of Obama Has Become "Almost Universally Hostile"

Links of the Day

Your Move, Bloomberg: NRA Wins Big in Colorado Recalls
Play with the Bull, Get the Horns
What The Colorado Recall Doesn't Prove
How Many Lies Can A Politician Stuff Into A Single Sentence About NSA Surveillance?
Bloomberg’s Gun Grabbers Get Asses Kicked In Colorado
Houston Family Sues Harris County For Abuse Allegedly Caught On Tape
SUSIE MADRAK'S VIEW OF 9/11
The Democratic Delusion: ‘Voter Suppression’ Resulted in Recall of Pro-Gun Control Politicians

Links of the Day

Syria Agrees To Declare Chemical Weapons Arsenal
Colorado Newspaper Runs Pro-Gun Group's Anti-Semitic Ad
PJ Tatler: ‘Russia Backing Away from Fake Syria Weapons Deal’
Two Minutes of Hate for George Zimmerman
Mailvox: The oppression of St. Scalzi
The collapsing charade of "global warming"
Dissent and the godless Left
The One and Only Good Thing About Partisanship
Anyone in the Media want to ask Howard Dean About This?
Man Says Cops Violently Beat, ‘Tortured’ & Jailed Him For Two Days Before Eventually Releasing Him With No Charges

Links of the Day

Howard Dean: Warmongering for #Syria attack!
Endgame: It’s time to bomb Syria, says … Howard Dean
One-and-a-Half Party System: Republicans Want to Lose
1974 Ehrlich and Holdren Senate Testimony
Cooks ’97% consensus’ disproven by a new peer reviewed paper showing major math errors
NGAC: Oppose CCW Because NYPD Sucks
Huge Defeat for Gun Grabbers Looming In Colorado?
Another St. Trayvon?
I would like to thank the #antiwar movement for tacitly admitting that it was all a lie.
Thug: Shorty was selling us crack
Mayor Bloomberg Loves Cameras Watching Everyone... Except His Cops
The Blasphemy Police

Links of the Day

THE DUMBEST POLICE CHIEF IN THE COUNTRY?
City wants defense lawyer to pay for wrongful imprisonment
Tulane Law Dean And Former U.S. Attorney Faces Questions Over Confrontation With Filmmaker On Campus
If You Find Yourself Yelling "YOU'RE HOBBITS" You've Probably Lost An Argument Already
Exclusive: Jim Letten Tells Charles C. Johnson That the Decision to Prosecute O’Keefe Was Made “At Highest Levels of the Justice Department”
The Wrong Guy Game
Predictable consequences

Links of the Day

How Can People Say This Stuff With A Straight Face?
Two MSNBCs In One
“Frowned Upon”
Even More on Obungler’s “Sons
THE TRAYVON MARTIN LIES CONTINUE
Treasury IG Report Run-Around
Blaming The Dead
The Benghazi "Firings"
Pat Smith: ‘I want the whole world to know that Hillary lied to my face and you don’t want her to be president’
Stupid Left on Chris Lane murder

Links of the Day

"We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody."
Bellingham, WA, Settles with Legal Gun-Toter for $15K
Has EMILY’s list ever asked anyone to apologize for calling Sarah Palin “Caribou Barbie”?
USA Today: IRS under fire from all sides over lack of transparency
Once again socialism is proven to be a lie
Bad Cop Raids' Policy Implications: Big Taxpayer Payouts, Like $4 Million to a Lancaster Couple Cops Shot
Oh Mann! Climate baiter Mann claims he is a ‘baitee’
After a Thorough and Searching Review, John Kerry's State Department Clears Itself of All Possible Negligence in Benghazi Attack
MSNBC analyst: Why do gun-rights fans cite the Second Amendment given the neo-confederate thread among them?

Links of the Day

LAPD Detains A Photographer For 'Interfering' With A Police Investigation... From 90 Feet Away
Gun Control Strategists' Battle Plan Explicitly Includes Pushing Emotionalism and Suppressing Facts
NRO Argues That Lois Lerner's Coordination with the FEC May Have Been a Felony
Double-damned lies and comparative statistics
Why a Federal Judge Says the NYPD's Stop-and-Frisk Program Is Unconstitutional
Pennsylvania Democrats Use Image of Gov. Corbett with Crosshairs
“Never Been No Bad Person”
Another nail in the Gasland coffin
It’s time to call Warmists “deniers”
MSNBC: Maybe the Tsarnaevs were really far right anti-government terrorists
Right-Wing Race Baiting And The Florida Bus Beating

Links of the Day

Scarborough: Let’s face it, MSNBC primetime is a mouthpiece for Democrats
The SPLC Claims No Knowledge of Sarah Palin Map They Mentioned After Tucson
New Orleans Newspaper Petitions for Documents Related to Prosecutorial Misconduct in Danziger Bridge Police Shootings to be Unsealed, Cops Seeking to Get Convictions Overturned
If the DEA does it, it isn’t perjury
Media Matters Deliberate Dishonesty On Internet Gun Sales & Gun Show “Loophole”
Powers: It’s “Democratic ladies” pushing ignorance in the abortion debate
Deputies Under Investigation for Alleged ‘Police Brutality’ Captured in Viral Video

Links of the Day

The Gentler Sex
Because We Train ‘em That Way
The $4.1M Accident That Can Never Happen
I resemble that remark
The Death of the Nerd
Study Finds 5 Ways Conservative Media Erode Trust In Scientists
DEA going NSA?

Links of the Day

The Untouchables: America's Misbehaving Prosecutors, And The System That Protects Them
DEA settles $4.1 million suit after college student forgotten in cell for 5 days
How To Talk To A Liberal About “Climate Change”
Police Continue to Harass and Threaten Citizens for Perfectly Legal Act of Photographing Them
IRS Harasses Pro-Life Groups
Vile Lie-Peddler @Karoli Kuns and the Posthumous Vindication of Breitbart
Issa Blasts Acting IRS Chief for Slow Pace, Will Subpoena Documents

Links of the Day

New York Informant Caught Planting Crack Before Arrest Of Businessman
Robin Roberts and ABC News!
POLITICS: For Paul Krugman, Everything's An Exception
When did national Democrats know that Filner was sexually harassing women?
Nancy Pelosi must resign from the House over Bob Filner coverup.
Bob Filner to taxpayers: How about you pay my legal fees to defend these sexual harassment suits, sweetheart?
Leftism, the Ideology of the Intelligent, Educated, Informed, and Nuanced

Links of the Day

What Defense Lawyers Really Think
Justice review of Phila. police will be broader
Zimmerman THE STORY BEGINS: Fake facts never die!
New Yorker Begins The Collective's Coordinated Mass-Hate on Anthony Weiner
Lawsuit Alleges That Pittsburgh SWAT Team Engaged in Gang-Style Retaliation
Want To Burglarize A House With Impunity, Then Nickle-And-Dime The Restitution? It Helps To Be A Bank.

Links of the Day

Fired Cop Thug Jonathan Josey to be Rehired!
Treasury IG to add O’Donnell case to probe?
Federal Marshals Raid Woman’s Home After She Screams And Hides From Officer Pointing Gun At Her Through Window
Ed Schultz Identifies Detroit’s Fatal Flaw: City Became A ‘Conservative Utopia
IRS rank-and-file STILL not getting it?
“Racist and Proud” sign wrongly used to show Zimmerman supporters are racist
Ray Kelly Says That the NYPD Has Never Stopped and Frisked a Person Who Didn't Have It Coming
No compromise with stupid, cowardly, irresponsible bints
Joe Scarborough is a blooming idiot, and “stand your ground” laws have been around for a long time
Police errors may have caused victims their lives in CT home-invade horror
ZIMMERMAN VERDICT PART 7: WHY THE JURY DIDN’T LEARN ABOUT TRAYVON MARTIN

Links of the Day

Melissa Harris-Perry’s Delusional Assessment Of Detroit: Happens When Gov’t ‘Small Enough To Drown’ In Tub
Fired Whistleblower to Sue Angela Corey, Zimmerman Prosecutors
Chicago Police Chief Says People Are Stupid
Treasury IG: IRS improperly probed political candidates, campaign donors
Cops Drag Woman Having Diabetic Episode Out of Car After Minor Car Wreck, Leave Her Limp and Handcuffed on Asphalt on Summer Day in New Mexico
Samizdata quote of the day - Companies have no broad “duties
Start Thinking Like a Cop

Links of the Day

Why The Zimmerman Jury Found Him Not Guilty
The Zimmerman Verdict: Be Careful What You Wish For
The Zimmerman Crucifixion Ends
Zimmerman prosecutors still in denial
Moving the goalposts
Your “press corps” is almost completely incompetent!
“Peak Oil” Blog Signing Off

Links of the Day

IRS supporters 0-for-3 on putting scandal to rest
Cops And Union Rep Lie About What Video Shows Because Judge Never Allowed Recording As Evidence
The Anthony Mitchell Case
One Key Difference Between Our Side and Theirs
Get Ready for More DUI Checkpoint Video as Libertarians Build an Organized Campaign
Note To Libs Who Swoon Over Liberal Europe: Majority of Countries Ban Abortions After 12 Week Mark, Only Two Have Laws Allowing Late-Term Abortions…
The Overreach of the IRS Overreach Narrative
Greg Sargent And Me

Links of the Day

Third Amendment Case in Nevada!
Nevada Family Says Police Occupation of Homes Violated the Third Amendment
Nevada Family Sues After Police Reportedly Demand To Use Home As Stake Out, Bash In Door, Shoot Homeowner with Pepperballs, and Arrest Him And His Father
Police Take Over Private Home, Giving Rise To Possible Third Amendment Violation
THE QUOTE OF THE DAY
"These human burdens are ours, but we don't want 'em.  So we demand that you take 'em off our hands.  That way we don't get stuck with 'em."
IRS investigation still lags–I’m guessing they can’t find anyone who wants the job
But For Video: Former Cop Rory Bruce Acquitted Edition
East Haven internal affairs report slams officers' conduct, actions as 'unconstitutional'
Know your enemy : the foot soldiers.

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

Links of the Day

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

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

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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

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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”

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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

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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

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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!’

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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?

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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

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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

Links of the Day

He Sued. He Won. Who Knew?
The Dorner Reward: Let's Get Technical
Racist Supreme Court Justice Compares Homosexuality to Incest
NPR And How Same-Sex Marriage Opens The Door For Polygamy
Ted Olson's Faulty Polygamy Argument
“Polygamy would have to be permitted”
Black Men Have Much To Discuss About Murderous Crime
Because It Wasn't Already Contentious Enough ... WaPo Op-Ed Injects Race Into the Gun Debate
Washington Post Printing False and Racist Stuff Again
Ezra Klein Wronger Than I Thought About Scalia
BREAKING: I'm a Democrat
Are your indoor tomato plants probable cause for an armed raid?

Links of the Day

Top Democratic donors promise to flip Senate to Republicans in 2014.
Joan Walsh goes around the bend!
Olson Claims ‘Gay Marriage’ Not Like Polygamy
Why polygamy will eventually be legalized
Conduct, Not Status
Cops Disarmed By Ammo-Hoarding Gun Nuts, Complains Salon Writer
So what if Adam Lanza had been an NRA member?
Piers Morgan Admits Truth Behind Magazine Restrictions
The Bad Sort of Stringray