Alright, in summation of this week's big political scandal let's get this one straight.

An IRS auditor who processes 60,000+ 501(c)(4) applications per year (that's over 160 per day, 6 per hour) compares notes with the office and discovers an uptick in errors from one particular group.

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On this fine Saturday morning you cannot possibly pick up a newspaper real or virtual without reading an article about drones. Drones this; Drones that; Obama's drones; Europe's drones; Stealth drones; Iran's drones, drones, drones, drones.

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Hillary Clinton returned to the Senate today to answer questions about an incident that happened on 11 September 2012. At contention today was the State Department's initial determination that a video about the Prophet Mohammed posted on YouTube was largely responsible for the attack, some/… Read full post »

As the country finally stops reeling from the atrocities at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown Connecticut and at last sits down for a serious discussion on gun control the latest salvo from the NRA has taken its queue from the hysterical chain-letter emails now so characteristic of right-wing d… Read full post »

I find assault weapon logic interesting. For whatever reason there are a lot people out there who seem to have a lot of mixed up ideas on what exactly an assault weapon is and why they should somehow have them. So I will address their silly logic in… Read full post »

I have been waiting four long years to write this. My parents used to tell me about the “Silent Majority,” a quiet and well mannered group of conservatives who spoke with their votes. This silent majority watched over American democracy, ensuring that wholesome Christian values were th/… Read full post »

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
the gun powder treason and plot
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot.

Penny for the Guy? As a Catholic living in England and subject to the Anglican Church, Guy Fawkes witnessed irrevocable tyranny./… Read full post »

Today was a good day. I turned on your light, you woke up, I poured you a bowl of cereal, and you ate it wiping your eyes. You are beautiful, even with your hair rumpled up and your pouty cheeks bemoaning the start of another school day.

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Did I ever tell you about meeting a violin?

It begins with a phone call. Her voice is clear, feminine, and wholesome. She has a proposition: Play her grandfather's violin for the church I had just joined, but it needs work. She has/… Read full post »

  It is a sad state of affairs when the man who could possibly be responsible for the reprehensible attack on September 11^th, 2001 can claim moral superiority over his collective victim: The United States, but that is just what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed did on 17 October before a court/… Read full post »

While the President and First Lady marked their wedding anniversary at the University of Denver in Colorado, my wife and I marked our own watching the President hand his opponent one axe after another. It was unnerving. Between talking points I refrained from ruining the night with the/… Read full post »

Talking to me you might assume I was raised by Marxists, but as a liberal progressive and self-ascribed socialist I was actually raised in a chaste family of right-wing social conservatives.  Growing up I asked tough questions of my parents, who generally answered with some manner of Biblical p/… Read full post »