90 Miles From Tyranny

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Girls With Guns

Self Defense is a Civil Right, Gun Ownership is a Civil Liberty. Removing, restricting or reducing civil liberties and/or civil rights is Tyranny.

IRS Employees Erased 422 Backup Tapes Containing 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s Emails

Investigators at the Internal Revenue Service are looking to agency employees as the reason thousands of emails from former IRS official Lois Lerner were lost, and the agency’s watchdog said today their actions were a mistake.

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) J. Russell George testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and told lawmakers IRS employees erased 422 backup tapes that housed 24,000 emails sent to and from Lerner.

Employees erased the contents of the tapes just a month after IRS officials were told that thousands of Lerner’s emails were missing because of a hard drive crash.

In his testimony, George said he “did not uncover evidence that the erasure was done in furtherance of an effort to destroy evidence or conceal information from Congress and...

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Meet the 11 Republicans Punished by House GOP Leadership

Over the last few years, 11 Republicans have been punished by for bucking party leadership. Here’s who they are:

Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, removed from Budget Committee
Rep. Rod Blum of Iowa, denied a spot on the National Republican Congressional Committee’s fundraising initiative for vulnerable House members
Rep. Trent Franks of Arizona, removed from the GOP whip team
Rep. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, removed from Budget and Agriculture Committees
Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina, removed from Financial Services Committee
Rep. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, removed from the GOP whip team
Rep. Mark Meadows, lost his chairmanship of House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee
Rep. Richard Nugent of Florida, removed from Rules Committee
Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico, removed from the GOP whip team
Rep. David Schweikert of Arizona, removed from Financial Services Committee
Rep. Daniel Webster of Florida, removed from Rules Committee