On the IRS scandal, one question I have is why Sarah Hall Ingram is still running the office that administers Obamacare tax collections, particularly after she was directly involved with the targeting of conservative groups in her previous position. This promotion to her present post tells me that she did her job well in running the tax-exempt department.

From Jake Tapper:

The U.S. Marshals Service lost two former participants in the federal Witness Security Program “identified as known or suspected terrorists,” states the public summary of an interim Justice Department Inspector General’s report obtained by CNN.

IRS.

USA Today provides some context.

In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked.

That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment. There wouldn't be another Tea Party application approved for 27 months.

I was expecting that this scandal would be worse than initially reported, and it is worse.

There are laws on the books. Castro is being charged with aggravated murder, for inducing involuntary abortions on four separate occasions. But how can it be murder? The four unborn children weren't persons, under the law. And if convicted of the charges, and assuming Castro is sentenced to death, wouldn't there be a constitutional problem?

It is not believable when the IRS's Lois Lerner stated that their targeting of conservative-leaning organizations was not done "out of any political bias", especially since there was no such targeting of left-leaning groups, and especially a day after it was

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