AN ANTI-ISLAMIC backlash could break out in London tonight as notorious protest group the English Defence League (EDL) are planning to take to the streets of Woolwich. An English Defence League protest in Luton in 2011 EDL leader Tommy Robinson has called for “feet on the streets” after the death of a serving soldier in [...]

Issa said Lerner ‘waived’ her rights when she made her opening statement. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa said embattled IRS official Lois Lerner waived her Fifth Amendment rights and will be hauled back to appear before his panel again. The California Republican said Lerner’s Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination was [...]

 Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency’s growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS harassed hundreds of conservative and Tea Party groups for over two years, Lerner has been criticized for a number of untruths—including the revelation that she apparently lied [...]

There’s a very real chance the next “American Idol” will be judged by a panel of former “American Idols.” As Fox and the production companies behind the struggling (yet still high-rated) singing show ponder changes for the 2014 edition, two people with knowledge of the situation tell Vulture that serious consideration is being given to [...]

(CBS/AP) — After launching deliberations Tuesday afternoon, a jury weighing whether or not Jodi Arias will be sentenced to death has announced they are unable to reach a unanimous decision. After briefly entering the courtroom just before noon on Wednesday, a judge ordered them to continue deliberating.

Activists put up tents during a protest outside the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. A two-day long housing protest outside the Department of Justice this week has resulted in nearly 30 arrests and several instances of law enforcement unnecessarily using tasers on activists, according to eye-witnesses. The action – which was organized by a [...]

  See for yourself. Issa’s committee was told last year that the report would be ready in September, two months before the election. Eight months later, the bomb finally dropped. Why? Did the IG initially underestimate the volume of malfeasance and how long it would take to dig it up? Or are there other, more cynical [...]

A federal appeals court on Tuesday unanimously ruled that the U.S. government does not have to release more than fifty images and a video of Osama Bin Laden, taken after his death. “It is undisputed that the government is withholding the images not to shield wrongdoing or avoid embarrassment, but rather to prevent the killing [...]

If you blinked Wednesday morning, you missed IRS director of tax-exempt organizations Lois Lerner testify, sort of, before the House Oversight Committee. Chairman Darrell Issa knew that Lerner planned to invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify, but Lerner was allowed to give an opening statement. She firmly stated, with somewhat of an angry attitude, that [...]

An influential Pentagon official who also served as a presidential consultant and Navy Secretary persuaded the U.S. government to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on a useless anthrax drug manufactured by his biotech firm. Can you say the fleecing of America? This would be unfathomable if it weren’t laid out in a lengthy articlepublished this [...]

As the House Ways and Means Committee investigates the Internal Revenue Service for targeting of conservative organizations, the committee has asked for help from the American people — by sharing their personal stories of IRS discrimination. The committee, which began investigating the IRS in 2011, has created a form for anyone affected by the IRS scandal to fill [...]

Her husband’s increasingly scandalous political woes appear to have not dampened First Lady Michelle Obama’s penchant for multi-million dollar vacationing. Reports just out indicate the First Lady is planning an “extended” stay in Martha’s Vineyard this summer – with or without her hapless husband…

The weather’s (mostly) hot. School’s almost out. And what better way to celebrate summer being almost here than being arrested and charged with a misdemeanor for throwing water balloons. Hail academia, forever teaching our youth that anything and everything will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, even childhood hijinks our parents would have [...]

J. Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, is known today as the man who helped unearth the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups. But to one Virginia congressman, George is also notable for having once “dated” First Lady Michelle Obama. No, really.

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 22, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – To many, Dr. Kermit Gosnell and his “house of horrors” represent the most repugnant aspects of the abortion industry, the embodiment of some of the worst maladies afflicting society in general. But defense attorney Jack McMahon has a different assessment. “Dr. Gosnell was a dream client,” McMahon said [...]

Video This woman REALLY has overstayed her welcome! She has no clue how stupid she sounds! House Minority Leader Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi at her weekly press briefing..

Editor’s note: For TheBlaze Magazine‘s June cover story, Assistant Editor Sharon Ambrose dug into the history and success of — and Progressive attacks on — home-schooling. What she found was, despite a history of proven great accomplishment in the home-education movement, the Left continues to wage war on home-schoolers. And these attacks aren’t new. Progressives first [...]

On May 31, 2013 asteroid 1998-QE2 will be passing earth at a distance of approximately 3.6 million miles. The asteroid, believed to be a remnant of a comet, is about 1.7 miles, making it big enough to be a “global killer” should it ever strike earth. But because its trajectory puts it at about 15 [...]

Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, says he needs to know who has been ordering the Internal Revenue Service attacks on conservative organizations. “The main point here is this: Someone is giving out marching orders for these agencies and these employees to do these things. The question is, who is giving out the marching orders?’ Poe said in [...]

Tragedy in Oklahoma: tornadoes devastate a community, an elementary school is leveled and the death toll stands at 24 dead. Does the idea of the existence of a loving God get swept away in the wake of such storms like a tin building or mobile home?  

There’s no way to make someone taking the Fifth Amendment look good. But you can at least make the other side look bad. That’s what a top New York Times editor tried to do Wednesday afternoon when he explained IRS official Lois Lerner’s invoking the right to remain silent before a House committee. Lerner declined [...]

(NEWSER) – So-called “scandals” like Benghazi, the IRS, and AP phone record seizures have dominated political discourse in recent weeks. And yet, polls find Obama’s approval rating hasn’t wavered. Maybe these issues will eventually gain traction with voters, says Charlie Cook in the National Journal—but maybe regular people just don’t care. “Republicans and conservatives who [...]

United States Attorney General Eric Holder has informed Congress that four American citizens have been killed in Yemen and Pakistan by US drones since 2009.

H/T The Gateway Pundit: (KMOV) — We regret to announce that Larry Conners is no longer a KMOV news reporter. Larry was a valued member of KMOV for a long time, and we will miss him.

Jose Canseco has confirmed he’s being investigated for the rape of a woman, RadarOnline.com has learned. The former Major League Baseball slugger took to Twitter on Wednesday to tell fans of the news, writing: “This is a first folks. Las Vegas police was just at my house and I have been charged with rape by a [redacted] [...]

A little help may be on the way for victims of the Oklahoma tornadoes: Blake Shelton says he is putting together a benefit. Shelton said after Tuesday night’s “Voice” taping that he and NBC are organizing the event, though NBC could not confirm that for TheWrap on Wednesday.

James Goodale, the lawyer for The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case against the Nixon administration, declared in the Times on Tuesday that Obama is going to be worse than Nixon. “It is a further example of how President Obama will surely pass President Richard Nixon as the worst president ever on issues of national [...]

In what British officials are determining to be an act of terror, two suspected terrorists beheaded a soldier in Woolwich, London Thursday afternoon. Video shows the suspects, who were identified as black males, shouting “Allahu Akbar” — the Arabic phrase for “God is Great” — as they continuously hack at the victim’s lifeless body with [...]

The 3,000-member NorthWood Church of Keller, T.X. is holding a “Global Faith Forum” in November. In yet another Islamist-attended interfaith event, Christians will hear from a former Saudi intelligence chief, a former director-general of Al-Jazeera, officials from U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities and the non-Muslims who embrace them.

This Bible was found in the debris of the Oklahoma tornado, which left many dead. It was opened to ‘Isaiah’ 32:2. A Bible was found among the Oklahoma tornado debris and returned to its owner. Ironically, the Bible was opened to Isaiah, chapter 32, which reads, “A man will be as a hiding place from [...]

 And you wonder why they’re arrogant. Senators investigating the IRS practice of targeting conservative groups for heightened scrutiny have wondered aloud why those responsible haven’t been fired. Fired? They probably haven’t even gotten a stern talking to. According to a Politco report, not only has no one been fired, there haven’t been any formal reprimands in the case. [...]