Perjury In Holder's Future? 

Attorney General Eric Holder may be in hot water. The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Holder committed perjury during his testimony on the Associated Press phone records scandal two weeks ago. 

During an exchange with Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) on whether the Justice Department could use the 1917 Espionage Act to prosecute reporters, Holder said: 
 

Patriot Graves 

Of all the dangers facing our country, perhaps the greatest danger of all is the one that still doesn't make many headlines -- our collective national amnesia.  Our history textbooks are sanitized to be politically correct and give our children little sense of the greatness of the nation they live in.  The Founders are seldom mentioned unless it is part of a controversy about slavery or some other scandal. 

Lerner Pleads The Fifth 

Lois Lerner, the IRS official directly in charge of the office that targeted Tea Party, conservative and Christian groups, refused to testify today before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Lerner made a brief opening statement in which she denied any wrongdoing and then told the committee, "I will not answer any questions or testify about the subject matter of this committee's meeting." 

A Stunning Development 

For the past week the Obama Administration has been embroiled in a growing IRS scandal. The tax agency was involved in a massive effort to target the tax-exempt status of conservative organizations, including well-known Christian ministries like Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.