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Obama's Chief Lawyer Knew About IRS Targeting Weeks Ago

The IRS scandal keeps getting closer and closer to the top of the White House food chain as Obama officials desperately try to spin their way...

Leo W. Gerard: IRS Scandal a Carbuncle -- on a Cancer-Wracked Body

Permitting Tea Party, left-wing, libertarian, middle-of-the-road -- whatever -- groups to define themselves as untaxed social welfare organizations that may accept unlimited, untaxed, secret corporate gifts and sponsor political ads is a sarcoma on democracy.

Teen Wins $50K for Super Battery

A California high school senior has won a $50,000 prize in the International Science and Engineering Fair for her invention of a battery improvement that enables super-fast charging. Eesha Khare, 18, who will attend Harvard University...Show More Summary

Report: Three Fox News Staffers Targeted By Justice Department

Fox News reports that three Fox staffers, two reporters and one producer, were targeted by Barack Obama's Justice Department. Fox doesn't have all the details yet on a reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, but their emails showed up in a IG report regarding Fast and Furious. Show More Summary

CNN Washington AM Note

BREAKING OVERNIGHT: CNN: North Korea fires another projectile into the sea off its east coast, South says North Korea on Monday fired a projectile into the sea off its east coast for the third day in a row, South Korean officials said, urging Pyongyang to refrain from "tension-creating acts." The South Korean Defense Ministry still […]

SNL Goes There – Knocks Obama in IRS Targeting Scandal (Video)

Saturday Night Live went there last night. Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler mocked the Obama administration’s latest scandal last night– The best line was this: “And, really Obama you found out about this scandal from TV? You found out from … Continue reading ?

Put Jack Lew Under Oath

In an interview with Al Hunt, Jack Lew -- now Treasury Secretary and President Obama's Chief of Staff from January 2012 until this spring --...

Forrest Gump II [CBD]

First treatment of the planned sequel to Forrest Gump. [Casting notes: Tom Hanks is too fat, but he has demonstrated that he can lose the weight, so let's try to get him to reprise his role. Haley Joel Osment is...

Legendary City of Central America Found?

The famed Honduran city called Ciudad Blanca (or The White City in English), which inspired explorers as famous as Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés to search for it, may have been found at last. Archaeologists and filmmakers including...Show More Summary

BREAKING: Nationwide TEA PARTY PROTESTS Set for Tuesday at IRS Offices (Pass It On!)

PROTEST THE CORRUPTION – PROTEST THE CRIMINAL OBAMA IRS  Thanks to Barack Obama the Tea Party is once again outraged and motivated. The Tea Party Patriots on behalf of Tea Party, Patriot groups, 9/12, liberty activists, and the American people, … Continue reading ?

Rand Paul Continues Attacks on Clinton Over Benghazi

Click here to view this media Sen. Rand Paul continued with his charges from earlier this week that former Sec. of State Hillary Clinton had "her fingerprints all over these talking points" on the Benghazi attack and claims that she never "really accepted culpability" because she failed to resign shortly after the tragedy. Show More Summary

Tea Parties to Protest IRS Offices Across the Country Tuesday

Tea Party groups from across the country are planning to protest IRS offices Tuesday as details of inapropriate targeting by the agency...

If you could see inside other people’s hearts (poignant video, watch it)

Oopsie. Artist Miguel Jumps on Woman’s Head at Billboard Music Awards (Video)

I believe I can fly… But can’t. Miguel drop kicks a fan at Billboard Music Awards. The R&B artist jumped and landed on a fan’s head during his appearance this weekend.

Midday open thread

Google's Sergey Brin wears some scary lookin ish. Lawmakers questioned Google about privacy concerns with it's Google Glass technology. I'm no Luddite, but this thing is a bit ummm...unsettling: Google followed all its privacy and data...Show More Summary

Freeney Signs with Chargers

Eager to fill the hole left by injured outside linebacker Melvin Ingram, the Chargers signed one of the elite pass rushers of the last decade. Dwight Freeney, formerly of the Indianapolis Colts, signed a two year deal with San Diego....Show More Summary

Obama delivers historic Morehouse commencement

President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Benghazi, Dept. of Justice—swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement address at the historically black Morehouse College. "What I ask of you today is the same thing I ask of every graduating class I address," Obama told 500 graduates and [...]

Open Thread

Yes, it's real. Hope everyone had a happy weekend. Open thread begins below...

Paul: Clinton Should Have Resigned Over Benghazi Failures

Dismissing whether his comments were a 2016 preview, Senator Rand Paul said that Hillary Clinton should have resigned as secretary of state following her failures to provide security to the Benghazi consulate prior to last year’s 9/11...Show More Summary

ABC's Jonathan Karl to CNN: 'I regret the email was quoted incorrectly'

(CNN) – Jonathan Karl, chief White House correspondent for ABC News, addressed criticism of his reporting on the Benghazi talking points controversy, saying in a statement to CNN that he regrets the inaccuracy of his report. “Clearly, I regret the email was quoted incorrectly and I regret that it’s become a distraction from the story, […]