Lois Lerner’s Sob Story
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 23rd, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Lois Lerner’s Sob Story
Ian Tuttle, National Review
Employers won’t hire her. She’s been berated with epithets like “dirty Jew.” Federal agents have guarded her house because of death threats. And she’s spent hundreds of thousands of dollars defending herself against accusations that she orchestrated a cover-up in a scandal that has come to represent everything Americans hate about the IRS.Behold, the martyrdom of Lois Lerner.
In Brownbackistan, Everything Is Awesome!
Thomas Frank, Salon
If you visit the campaign web site of Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, who is fighting a difficult battle for re-election, you will see a series of large-type boasts about his nonexistent economic achievements, and then you will read this:
Public Pays for the Secret Service’s Mistakes
Dana Milbank, Wash Post
The last lunch hour of the summer was like many others outside the White House gates.In Lafayette Square, office workers were eating, or just sitting, on the park benches. On the sidewalk nearest the White House, tourists were taking photos of the Executive Mansion through the ornamental fence. In the pedestrian section of Pennsylvania Avenue, the usual suspects presented their causes: anti-China, anti-nuclear, anti-gun, anti-same-sex-marriage. Jehovah’s Witnesses offered pamphlets. A man held a picket sign asking, “What Is Terrorism?”