by Jane Richey | Jul 25, 2013 | Politics
President Obama sure was excited about his speech yesterday. He talked for more than an hour in sweeping, grandiose terms about everything that’s happened since he became President, and everything that’s still going to happen. If only more of it were true. Here are...
by Jane Richey | Jul 19, 2013 | Politics
The Treasury inspector general (IG) who outlined the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups aggressively defended his office from Democratic attacks on Thursday, saying he had never seen an independent auditor treated that way. Democrats at a House Oversight hearing...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Wednesday night said the Treasury Department is lying to Americans about the size of the federal debt since it has not changed significantly for the last few months even though the government continues to borrow. Bachmann cited a...
by Jane Richey | Jul 18, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
IRS employees were ordered by their superiors–including Lois Lerner who pleaded the 5th Amendment against self-incrimination rather than testify in Congress–to send certain Tea Party tax-exemption applications to the office of the IRS’s Chief...
by Jane Richey | Jul 3, 2013 | Constitutionally Limited Goverment, Politics
Challenging African youth to seize a “moment of great promise,” President Barack Obama declared Sunday that the future of the young and growing continent still rests in ailing South African leader Nelson Mandela’s vision for equality and opportunity....
by Jane Richey | Jul 1, 2013 | Fiscal Responsibility, Politics
The National Institutes of Health is spending $253,800 of federal taxpayer money to study ways to educate Boston’s male prostitutes on safe-sex practices.According to a description of the federally funded project, a previous study of male sex workers in Boston found...
