Category Archives: Current Affairs

Mother Faces Ten Years In Jail For Letting Child Play Alone In Park

Following up on the case of Debra Harrell, which I mentioned in terms of Democrats being all for parents sending their children from Honduras, Guatemala, and other Central American nations (ABC News) Plenty of working parents can relate to the dilemma Debra Harrell faced when her 9-year-old daughter asked to play unsupervised in a park […]

Whoa! Washington Post Blames Hamas For Current Fighting

I must say, this piece by the Washington Post Editorial Board surprised the heck out of me. Rarely should we expect them to take a position defending Israel in such a manner. This just isn’t done in Liberal World. On the WP web front page it is entitled “Hamas’s depraved strategy”, with the subtag “Much […]

Evil, Mean Republicans To Chop $1 Billion From Obama Illegal Kids Request

Horrible, terrible, un-caring, super meanie people! (The Hill) Senate Democrats will chop $1 billion from President Obama’s emergency spending request to secure the Texas border but have rejected Republican demands to change legal protections for child immigrants from Central America. Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) told colleagues Tuesday that she will move a […]

Israel Asks: What Would You Do?

For liberals, the answer would be a bit of navel gazing, wondering “what did we do to make Hamas send a constant rain of rockets which intentionally target civilians?” Remember, they took this tact almost immediately after 9/11. (Washington Times) The official Twitter account for the Israeli Defense Forces on Monday sent out a picture […]

Could California Split Into Six States?

That’s the plan (Time) Supporters of a long-shot measure that would split California into six states plan to submit 1.3 million signatures to election officials on July 15. The quixotic effort, spearheaded by venture capitalist Tim Draper, needs officials to deem at least 807,615 of those signatures valid in order to qualify for the November […]

IRS Ordered To Explain “Lost Emails” Under Oath

Remember, not a smidgen of corruption. Fortunately, Obama will get to the bottom of the issue while ignoring the border and hitting a barbecue place (Fox News) A federal judge has ordered the IRS to explain “under oath” how the agency lost a trove of emails from the official at the heart of the Tea […]

Lois Lerner Was Super Concerned Over Lost Private Documents

Her official emails? Not so much (Fox News) Computer experts and Republican lawmakers are poking holes in IRS claims that the agency did all it could to retrieve embattled ex-official Lois Lerner’s allegedly “lost” emails, which the agency blames on a 2011 hard-drive crash. (snip) But Lerner’s communications with the agency’s IT team referred to […]

Golly Gee, IRS Failed To Follow Law On Archiving Email

Who would have thought it? (NY Times) The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report a hard drive crash that destroyed emails belonging to a senior official at the center of a scandal over the agency’s treatment of conservative-leaning political groups, the nation’s top archivist said Tuesday. “In accordance […]

Surprise: IRS Recycled Lois Lerner’s Hard Drive

That “phony scandal” and “wacky conspiracy theory”, an issue that happened because of some “rogue agents” and set of coincidences, sure seems to be getting more legit every day. Here’s the latest (Politico) Ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s crashed hard drive has been recycled, making it likely the lost emails of the lightening rod in the […]

Issa Subpoenas Lois Lerner’s “Crashed” Hard Drive

This whole thing with the “lost” emails is looking less like expected government incompetence and more like a conspiracy to cover up malfeasance. The IRS “lost” the email records of 6 other employees involved in the IRS scandal. Imagine what would happen if the IRS came calling for your tax records and you said you […]

Pirate's Cove