Spending Daily | May 31, 2013

“IRS May Have Targeted Conservatives More Broadly”

McClatchy reports, “A group of anti-abortion activists in Iowa had to promise the Internal Revenue Service it wouldn’t picket in front of Planned Parenthood. Catherine Engelbrecht’s family and business in Texas were audited by the government after her voting-rights group sought tax-exempt status from the IRS. Retired military veteran Mark Drabik of Nebraska became active in and donated to conservative cau...

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My title comes from a Cole Porter lyric for “Anything Goes.”  If anything, it’s even more relevant today than when he wrote it 79 years ago.

For instance?  For instance, we dither around while tinhorns in Iran and North Korea threaten to nuke us.  I say that when you’re in an alley fight with thugs, you toss out the Marquis of Queensbury rules and do whatever needs to be done to cripple your opponent.  What you don’t do is ask him time and again what you have to give him so that he...

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