IRS Fights Tea Party on the Beaches, in the Hills

This seems pretty thuggish:  Apparently in recent years the IRS has targeted Tea Party groups for additional “scrutiny”.

This has been covered everywhere, from local Tea Party groups to National Review Online:

• Cincinnati East Tea Party, “IRS Apologizes for Unfair Tea Party Scrutiny”

• NRO, Kevin Williamson, “The IRS’s Tea-Party Targeting: An apology, but no explanation”

. . . groups with the words “tea party” or “patriot” in their names were improperly targeted for additional levels of tax-status review by the agency. Those actions, she said, were “wrong” and “inappropriate,” but she denied that they were the result of political bias against tea-party groups. When asked how the IRS determined that the actions were not the result of political bias, Ms. Lerner could only say, “That is not how we do things.”

Everybody Blog about Brett Kimberlin Day

Today is Everybody Blog about Brett Kimberlin Day.

Who is Brett Kimberlin?  You might begin with this review of his history from Breitbart.com.

Even if They Fail to Silence You, Leftist Intimidation Tactics Can Ruin Your Life: Brett Kimberlin Is on the Loose

So apparently this guy Brett Kimberlin has quite a criminal record, and when people publicly report on it, he gets them fired, or worse:

Postscript on Civility

Two months ago, someone shot a lot of people at an event in Tucson, Arizona, including Congressman Gabrielle Giffords.  Six of those people died; many others were injured.  Liberals argued that conservatives (e.g., radio-talk-show hosts) participate in the great national debate a little bit too boisterously, and that eruptions of such violence are a natural result of that debate (i.e., a natural result of what I think Mark Steyn has called the rough and tumble of a free society).  Liberals talked about the need for “civility” in the national discourse, ambiguously attempting to deligitimize debate.