By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 20th at 03:25 PM  | 

In the wake of the IRS scandal, it was discovered that the Leadership Institute was targeted with what is being described as a “yearlong harassing audit.”  The Leadership Institute trains conservative activists across the country.  The Washington Free Beacon’s CJ Ciaramella cited Morton Blackwell, LI’s founder and president, yesterday  saying, “the IRS’ indefensible behavior is worse than we first thought, as it targeted both new and existing conservative groups in | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 17th at 07:54 PM  | 

So, this past week Rep. Ed Markey held a fundraiser, which was co-hosted by lobbyist – and ex-Gore Chief of Staff – Ron Klain.  Klain is a former lobbyist of Fannie Mae, and Markey voted in favor of the Fannie and Freddie bailouts.  Hence, Ron’s invite was a top priority.  In all, it was a lobbyist-heavy, DC insider-packed event, which isn’t the crowd a man | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 15th at 08:13 PM  | 

With the conclusion of the trial involving Philly abortionist Kermit Gosnell, another may be in the works.  This time we’re in Texas.  Sordid details have been documented about  an abortionist, who twisted the heads off of babies.  Additionally, he allegedly ripped living babies apart during the procedure.  As Live Action’s investigation into the late-term abortion industry have exposed, Gosnell is not alone. Steven Ertelt at Life News reported | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 15th at 06:04 PM  | 

Today, the White House released their set of emails relating to the drafting of the Benghazi talking points, and all the revisions it went through. In all, it was about 100 pages. Also, Politico is reporting that the CIA “requested” that references to al-Qaeda be “scrubbed” from the talking points. The White House on Wednesday released what it calls a complete set of emails and documents totaling | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 13th at 09:05 PM  | 

Talk about pulling a Seymour Hersh, Hayes Brown at Think Progress is trying to discredit Gregory Hicks, a Benghazi whistleblower, by attacking his managerial style and professionalism. By the way, all the sources cited in the piece are unnamed. Hicks gave testimony to Congress last week about Benghazi, and highlighted how he knew from the beginning that this was a terrorist attack.  He said his “jaw dropped” when the Obama administration | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 13th at 05:41 AM  | 

The Massachusetts special election to fill John Kerry’s vacancy is a statistical dead heat.  Markey’s rather unimpressive record after nearly four decades in Congress seems to be keeping from jumping ahead in the polls, despite the Bay State being a Democratic stronghold.  Republicans have been hammering Markey on his 1992 ethics investigation, and the ninety-two bounced checks that contributed to the closure of the House | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 12th at 06:28 PM  | 

AWR Hawkins at Breitbart posted today that Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary, told reporters at the May 10 press briefing that they didn’t know al-Qaeda was involved prior to September 16, 2012.  Well, given what Stephen Hayes wrote this past week in the Weekly Standard , which was also mentioned by ABC News’ Jon Karl, it’s almost becoming shameless how the Obama administration continues to spin an event that is | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 12th at 01:51 PM  | 

On May 10, it was discovered that the IRS had improperly targeted seventy-five conservative tax-exempt groups that had the words “patriot” or “tea party” on their forms. In a statement, the IRS said, “mistakes were made initially, but they were in no way due to any political or partisan rationale.”  It also didn’t help when Lois Lerner, the IRS division head for tax-emept groups, said that she | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 11th at 05:59 PM  | 

Where’s Jodi Arias?  She’s an evil woman, who brutally murdered her boyfriend nearly five years ago.  It has gained national attention with its lurid details, but we “shouldn’t care,” according to Slate’s Josh Voorhees.  It’s a high-profile case, it has juicy details, it bled, and the media led.  Yet, it’s a woman,and women aren’t capable of vicious acts of violence.  It’s not possible.  It’s the | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 10th at 12:43 PM  | 

Today, Jillian Rayfield at Salon noted that Massachusetts Republican Senate candidate Gabriel Gomez has a tax problem, but omits that Democrat Ed Markey has one too – and it’s probably more severe given he’s been in Congress for almost forty years.

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 9th at 05:45 PM  | 

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee must be in a panic.  They’ve got nobody.  If anything, Rep. Gary Peters in Michigan and Rep. Bruce Braley in Iowa, who are third- tier at best, are the cream of the Democratic Senate crop in 2014 – and that’s not a good sign. It gets even worse with the latest development out of Georgia. They did have a chance | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 8th at 02:09 PM  | 

Is that Dr. LeRoy Carhart?  It seems Live Action ran into a familiar face during their six-month investigation into the late-term abortion industry, and Carhart is one of the many faces of this heinous business.  The Live Action investigator saw him in December of 2012, which was before Carhart claimed his latest victim in twenty-nine-year old Jennifer Morbelli, who died after suffering massive internal bleeding from a | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 6th at 01:22 AM  | 

So, feminist bloggers say there isn’t a media blackout.  Then, why are all these people just misinformed? I’ll side with media blackout.

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 3rd at 12:56 PM  | 

Well, half the country saw this coming. A cornerstone initiative within our new trillion dollar new health care entitlement program, which doesn’t address rising costs, is going broke.  Yet, another example of Obama’s failed domestic agenda.  We have another example of how liberalism fails – and another example why government should do things piecemeal.  According to the Associated Press today: State officials say thousands of people with medical | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 09:25 PM  | 

Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung, crashed Sen. Kelly Ayotte’s recent town hall meeting, with some media outlets celebrating it as an example of gun control advocates “pushing back.”  During the meeting, which occurred last Tuesday in Warren, Lafferty exploited her mother’s death to score quick political points against Ayotte.  It was shameless.  Lafferty asked: “You had mentioned that the burden | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 02:49 PM  | 

Live Action has released a new video exposing post-birth abortion (infanticide) in a new investigative video from a clinic in Arizona.  Dr. Laura Mercer, the abortionist featured in the footage, details how the baby is terminated within the womb.  From the digoxin injection through the belly that stops the baby’s heart to the removal of the child, which Mercer said is commonly done in pieces, the grotesque nature | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 2nd at 10:11 AM  | 

With Live Action pushing hard on the findings of their six-month investigation into America’s late-term abortion industry, the organization decided to hold a rally yesterday in front of the office of Dr. Cesare Santangelo, the abortionist featured in their D.C. investigation, at George Washington University. Besides Live Action President Lila Rose, the list of speakers included: Melissa Ohden, survivor of a failed saline infusion abortion who | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 1st at 05:49 PM  | 

OPEC and the dynamics of cartel economics were discussed last Thursday at the Cato Institute.  A new study releasedby Andrew P. Morriss & Roger E. Meiners of Securing America’s Future Energy shows that OPEC is sloppy, unstable, but – at times – successful in raising oil prices much to the chagrin of the rest of the world.  At the same time, OPEC been known to crash the market, | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  May 1st at 10:52 AM  | 

Democratic Congressman Ed Markey won his party’s primary to fill John Kerry’s vacant seat, but there’s a few things you should know about him.  First, he ran for congress in 1976 on a platform against the court-ordered busing of Boston’s schools.  At the time, the public schools in Boston were ordered to desegregate, and white and black students were forcibly bused to each others districts – which | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 30th at 06:51 PM  | 

The Korean War, which will have its 63rd anniversary this June, has been labeled a forgotten war.  At the same time, it was the first time the United Nations went to war.  Over 33,000 Americans died during the bloody three-year conflict that saw the virtual destruction of South Korea’s economy.  Yet, out of the carnage, the blood, and the mud, came heroes, like Father Emil | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 29th at 04:58 PM  | 

Dr. Cesare Santangelo, a leading DC area abortionist, has called Lila Rose and Live Action “terrorists” in a Washington Post story about the organization’s six-month investigation into the late-term abortion industry.  Santangelo, who is captured on video saying he would let a baby die if it were born alive during an abortion attempt, said that: [H]e was “tripped up” by a hypothetical at a moment when he was trying to reassure | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 29th at 12:37 PM  | 

Live Action has released its second video exposing infanticide in America.  This time we’re in the DC area. In the video, the Live Action investigator, who is 24 weeks pregnant, visited a clinic, and asked what would happen if her baby happened to be born alive – or survive – the procedure.  In the video, Dr. Cesare Santangelo says that he would let the child to die. | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 28th at 01:24 PM  | 

Gosnell is an outlier. Gosnell is the end result of anti-choice legislation.  More Gosnells will be created if abortions are outlawed, and pro-lifers hate women.  These were the many talking points pushed by the pro-abortion crowd when conservatives put Dr. Kermt Gosnell – and his Philadelphia abortion clinic – back into the limelight.  Now, Live Action has released a new video after a six-month investigation exposing how Gosnell isn’t alone when | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 26th at 03:30 AM  | 

In the wake of alleged ethics violations, most of the voters in the Garden State support the investigation into Sen. Menendez. Forty-eight percent in a Quinnipiac University Poll released Wednesday think the issue is worth investigating compared to 32 percent who believe it’s politically motivated. The Democrat’s job approval ratings continue to improve in the wake of the ethics probe, with 44 to 32 percent | Read More »

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  April 25th at 09:30 PM  | 

If you’re at an airport and waiting in a long line, you should probably blame Democrats – specifically the ones in the Senate.  The fight to keep air traffic controller from being furloughed due to the sequester has failed.  It seems that Kay Hagan (D-North Carolina, Mark Pryor (D-Arkansas), Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana), and Rep. Bruce Braley (Iowa) are to blame.  According to the Hill: Senate | Read More »