This airline pilot just gave his military son the best homecoming surprise ever

Washington, D.C.-based airline pilot Mario Lopes grabbed the opportunity to pilot a military flight to Norfolk, Virginia April 14 – the same day his son, 1st Lt. Mario Lopes, was scheduled to arrive home from Kuwait – on the off-chance his son was aboard and the pilot could surprise the military officer. ABC News has…

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Tea Party Patriots Encourages Congress to Support the ‘Prevent IRS Abuse and Protect Free Speech Act’

ATLANTA, Ga – Tea Party Patriots CEO Jenny Beth Martin released the following statement today in support of the ‘Preventing IRS Abuse and Protect Free Speech Act’ introduced by Congressman Roskam (R-IL). “The ‘Preventing IRS Abuse and Protect Free Speech Act’ introduced by Congressman Roskam (R-IL) is a good step in the right direction to…

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Tax expert: President Obama’s IRS commissioner awarded disgraced IRS exec Lois Lerner thousands in bonuses

Tax expert Robert W. Wood writing for Forbes says disgraced former high-level IRS executive Lois Lerner received thousands of dollars in bonuses in addition to her salary and that the bonuses began thanks to President Obama’s IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, who repeatedly has stonewalled congressional investigation into agency targeting of Americans for their political beliefs.…

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Tea Party Patriots Weekly Report from Washington for 4/24/1

  CALENDAR: The House will come back into session on Tuesday, and stay in session through Friday. The Senate will come back into session on Monday, and stay in session through Friday. LAST WEEK ON THE HOUSE FLOOR: The House came back into session last Monday and took up 15 bills on the Suspension Calendar.…

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House conservatives rip into Obama’s IRS commissioner over illegal immigrants’ questionable use of SSNs

  House conservatives during a hearing this week grilled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen over the agency washing its hands of illegal immigrants apparently stealing social security numbers to obtain jobs and then file taxes using an IRS-issued taxpayer ID. The Hill has the full story: “What I find absolutely outrageous is your suggestion that when…

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Editor: U.S. credit will max out when the world ‘loses confidence in the dollars we owe’

A financial historian who has been writing for decades about economics says it’s time to stop incurring debt otherwise we will soon find our proverbial credit card has been declined. TIME has the commentary: We owe more than we can easily repay. We spend too much and borrow too much. Worse, we promise too much.…

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