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The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republicans that the federal government has become too big and out of control.

It is the city's primary industry, the manufacture of outrage and the accompanying steady flow of cattle excrement that is its natural byproduct.

It was no coincidence that former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel chose the opening day of the Georgia Republican Party state convention in Athens to announce her candidacy for the U.S. Senate on Friday.

What? Charles Johnson reports for TheDC: "The Department of Homeland Security, which under Secretary Janet Napolitano has shown a keen interest in monitoring and warning about outspoken conservatives, takes a very different approach in monitoring political Islamists, according to a 2011 memo on protecting the free speech rights of pro-sharia Muslim ... (more)

Mike Collins announced Thursday that he wants to follow his father's footsteps to Congress by pursuing the seat Rep.

In the wake of Rand Paul's trip last week to Iowa , which seemed design to launch a 2016 presidential candidacy, certain elements of his potential nomination-campaign coalition are looking at each other with suspicion.

BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 22, 2012 Updated 7:30pm ET -- The stage is set tonight in Mesa, Ariz., for mistakes that make political history.

Rand Paul says ambassador to Libya killed for gun-running in Benghazi. Right-wing hones Republican Benghazi meme pointed at White House.

Tea Party leaders say the IRS scandal confirms their worst fears about a federal government they see as too big and too powerful.

NOTE: Posting will be light this week as the Institute for Southern Studies moves to its new offices at MDC in downtown Durham.

By now, images of Bostonians being forced from their homes by heavily armed police and federal agents who were searching for a lone terrorist bomber are well-known throughout the alternative media world.

BRADENTON, Fla., Sept. 7, 2011, 10:38pm ET -- Americans watching the MSNBC GOP presidential candidate debate tonight could not have been very encouraged about their future under any of the seven men and one woman seeking election to the White House in 2012.

LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 17, 2011, 11:05pm ET -- Rep. Ron Paul may have won the presidential straw poll at the California GOP 2011 Fall Convention pulling away, but at a party dinner Friday evening, where Rep.

As Congressman Dave Camp has observed, the tax code of the United States is now ten times as long as the Bible, with none of the good news.

Whatever comes of the investigations into the IRS's inappropriate targeting of conservative groups in the 2012 election cycle, this much appears certain: the scandal will unite conservatives, invigorate the tea party, and potentially affect the 2014 across the nation, it's an "I told you so" moment.

Republicans and much of the political press seem united in outrage over the recent revelations that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative "tea party" groups for additional tax status scrutiny during the 2012 election cycle, in what many are calling a deliberate act of political harassment.

Two Republicans who could top the 2016 ticket in Iowa offered similar messages on strategy during a party event Friday night in Cedar Rapids.

While looking for reports of Rand Paul's speech at the Iowa GOP "Lincoln Dinner" fundraiser late last week, I ran across this observation from The Iowa Republican 's Kevin Hall: It's called the "Lincoln Dinner" for a reason.

I am a libertarian. It is not the totality of my identity, but it is an overriding driver in my life.

A slew of candidates made their pitch at the monthly meeting of the Athens-Clarke County Republican Party, enough for county Chair Matt Brewster to joke those there heard from half the lineup of this weekend's state party convention.