In the last few days of the Ford crack smoking scandal, the most explosive new suggestion is that Anthony Smith, the young man pictured here hanging out with Mayor Ford, may have been murdered because of the video tape of Mayor Ford smoking crack. To date, though, the evidence for this has been pretty thin. It all stems from conversations between Mayor Ford’s new ‘logistics’ chief David Price and Ford’s former Chief of Staff Mark Towhey. On top of that, we only have anonymous accounts of what was said in those conversations. Read More
In order to be fully transparent in the on-going mayoral crack scandal, Mayor Rob Ford’s staff has apparently ordered all staff emails and electronic records destroyed. Read More
Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales to admit to massacre of 16 Afghan villagers to avoid death penalty.
Michele Bachmann’s announcement that she would not seek re-election was greeted with surprise and a good deal of skepticism:
Suburban New York school guard threatens to go home for his guns and come back and blow up the school.
The immediate rush of the IRS scandal has slackened a bit. But the story and the investigations are clearly by no means over. One of the things I’m most interested in, however, is what you might call the underbrush of the scandal cropping up in the right-wing media. We have a relatively narrow case of targeting of right-wing groups by keywords out of the IRS’s Cincinnati office. It’s still sort of mind-blowing how even line-level IRS employees didn’t get that that was a problem. But happen it did.
And yet, that’s now triggered an avalanche of claims of harassment or targeting where there seems little or no evidence any targeting ever happened. Basically any conservative group that ever got audited or scrutinized is now taking it as a given that they were targeted as conservatives. Conservative religious groups are now saying they’re being targeted too. Read More
Gun rights group in Colorado offering free ammo to volunteers working to unseat pro-gun control state legislators.
Marco Rubio says the only way to get to the bottom of the IRS scandal is to repeal Obamacare. Watch.