Zombie Politics

'Conservative Republican' at IRS defends treatment of Tea Party.  John Shafer, who described himself as "a conservative Repub...

A shout out today to Jim McDermott (D-WA) for finally asking why the tea party groups, who supposedly loathe government handouts, wanted to ...

Meet the group the IRS actually denied: Democrats! In fact, the only known 501(c)(4) applicant to have its status denied happens to be a p...

A recent piece in the New York Times echoes what I said yesterday. With the House set on Friday to convene the first of its hearings into...

Now that all the dust has settled down from the "big" three scandals things have pretty much played out like I predicted. Conserva...

Interesting piece in the Times yesterday on the origin of the IRS controversy. Any group claiming tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(...

With seven million people working for the federal government, I'm surprised that we don't here more stories about government fuck up...