House Leadership Rejects Senate Immigration Bill

Mike Flynn Breitbart.com Big Government 23 May 2013

This week, the Senate Judiciary Committee completed its work on the “Gang of 8″ Amnesty Bill. The full Senate is expected to take up the legislation the first week of June, when it returns from Memorial Day recess. On Thursday, House GOP leadership made clear that the [...]

Sen. Rand Paul Rips Colleagues For ‘Berating’ Apple Over Taxes

Rand Paul Rips Congress A New One

Daisy Chicks on the Right 5/23/2013

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So, Congressmorons are pissed off because Apple has (legally) used tax loopholes to get out of paying lots of taxes on its gazillions of dollars it has made by being a successful company that’s grown the American way. The [...]

Benghazi Investigation Deepens: Lawmakers Seek Interviews of 13 Officials Involved

Stephen F. Hayes The Weekly Standard 5/23/2013

As the investigation into the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi intensifies, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking to conduct transcribed interviews with thirteen top State Department officials in the coming weeks in order to learn more. Those named in the letter include [...]

Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda

John Hudson Foreign Policy 5/21/2013

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, which voted overwhelmingly to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN). “This is an important moment,” Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. “You will [...]

Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment

Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani The Los Angeles Times 5/21/2013

A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups.

Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the [...]

Farage Bashes Tax-Advantaged Hypocritical European Politicians

Tyler Durden Zero Hedge 5/21/2013

With Tim Cook being fried on Capitol Hill, it is perhaps ironic that the issue of taxes is front-and-center in the European parliament today. However, as usual, the always-willing-to-tell-the-truth Nigel Farage points out the gross hypocrisy of a political elite calling for higher taxes (on the wealthy and more broadly [...]

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