Except that there in no proof that illegal immigrants compete for wages with the poor.

The Tea Party is an organization that thinks rich people shouldn't pay taxes.

The IRS collects taxes.

So looking for tax dodgers masquerading as charities -- no brainer.

I disagree that they are "independent" of the Republican party. It's an organization that pretends to be for a lot of things, in order to achieve Tea Party / and or Libertarian goals. The Tea Party is merely stripped bare of the pretense. The Koch brothers fund the Tea Party and it's closely aligned with ALEC.

The Republican party works for the Tea Party, and so do Blue Dog Democrats -- they all have the same benefactors. Follow the money. ALWAYS follow the money; http://www.theguardian.com/com...

It isn't so much as reducing the EXPENSE of government -- it's always, always about SHIFTING the costs so that it lands on everyone but the .1%.

You know, like INTELLIGENT people might assume that "Liberty" and "freedom" have been co-opted by crooks, so it might be a good place to start a search. They exactly caught a bunch of charlatans, and since those people are funded by powerful deep pockets, their sponsors complained, and then the media being owned by these same billionaires pretended any of this made sense.

The world is exactly as corrupt as we think it is, and what we saw was the natural result of a Kleptocracy in power. Then they penalized people doing the right thing -- as we can expect from a banana republic.

They are apologizing for CORRECTLY doing their jobs. There are a lot of politically active astro turf groups hiding out as 501C organizations.

How did dumb ass Tea Baggers take over the moderation system of Slash Dot? WTF is going on that their Kung Fu is better? What needs to be investigated is not only these fucking Tea Bag groups, but why asshole comments by douche bags thinking the IRS should not have shut down these Tea Bag astro turf playgrounds yesterday has any credibility.

Yes, I've been drinking. And I'm having a hard time restraining the truth and how pissed off I am, that these fuckers are even given the time of day. You are idiots, your whole concept of "let billionaires run everything -- whats the worst that can happen?" is fucking myopically ignorant on an epic scale. Railroads -- the Irish potato famine. The only thin that makes the USSR look like a Utopia is the unfettered capitalism of America.

I apologize for my outburst, and hope it doesn't affect my future employment. Somehow idiot Tea Baggers have all the great jobs and government kick backs.

This is insightful? Communism was originally planned to come from an advanced society; think Star Trek rather than bolshevik Russia.

Yes, there are corrupt people and that's a huge flaw in Communism. It's also a huge flaw in capitalism. The golden years everyone points to for the reason why Capitalism should reign supreme are between 1940 and 1980 -- the years when America was blessed by redistribution of wealth and a slightly Socialist form of government. Now we are getting well and truly screwed by Libertarianism.

Funny that while a lot of tea party groups actually do enjoy billionaire corporate benefactors, none of them have actually been harmed.

There's never been a louder group of whiney entitled people with more privileges in the history of the USA -- coupled with a really, really bad sense of history that they named themselves after a protest against tax subsidies.

If only this were a terminal case of being a tool, if only.

Can't wait for the letter; "sorry, you are going to go broke even though you researched this invention because we cannot define it very clearly. However, since ignorance of the law is no excuse (even our own), we are going to fine you $200,000 because we are a huge bag of dicks."

You are providing an extensive amount of wiggle room for things that SHOULD be defined. Billions of dollars and people going to jail rests on definitions by the supreme court.

In math, you can define a domain, or have an inkling of what would represent a correct answer. If The Supreme court were as vague as math -- then we'd be light years ahead of the bad homework that they turn in place of the legal opinions this country deserves.

The supreme court is obviously avoiding plain english to prevent people from realizing that they are functionally retarded.

Is this just a case where had "Mega Corporation X" patented "on a computer" it would stand, but since this is a person, "on a computer" doesn't mean squat?

The variable in this case that matters for our fascist supreme court may they rot in Hell, is that it's "by a person".

I'd like to see obvious implementations for "on a computer" or "on a phone" or "because it's in a browser" go away -- but my guess is that the Supreme Court will continue to arbitrarily make laws however they want as long as it's corporate friendly. May they rot in Hell.

No, the majority of corrupt astro-turfing industry groups pretending to be 501c charities are Conservative.

The number of investigations is pretty high in the Liberals -- but where there is smoke, there is fire.

Because Teachers will have to spend all their time dealing with parents, looking over their shoulder, and submitting resumes.

Musical chairs with teachers and the paranoia of the job market is not going to be good for education.

We can come up with a better way of getting rid of bad, lazy teachers -- but I think there needs to be MORE Tenure in other fields -- not less. It's just another "blame unions" garbage that goes around.

The NUMBER one determination of bad education is Zip Code and the economics of the families in that zip code. Families without good jobs and insecure finances end up having broken homes, and bad education results. My neighborhood has mostly one parent not working, and lots of parents in the PTA and it's a public school and one of the best schools in the nation -- bar none.

Bad Parent Situation = Bad Education.

Kind of like the mob;
1) illegal money comes in.
2) complex interaction with banks and insurance policies perhaps, perhaps gum drops and candy.
3) clean money comes out.

With the NSA we know about steps 1 and 3, and they are just waving their hands at step 2 and saying "trust us. We lied every step of the way and only admitted each and every thing after we were caught each and every time, but everything complicated is where we remove the bad and sprinkle sugar and gum drops."

Seriously? It's horrible how unprofessional you consider the NSA. They don't "dump" the data. The inspector calls two weeks ahead, and then they take them to the main office where there is a 486 computer with Windows 95 on it -- then they are allowed to search the entire FoxPro database with no strings attached.

Well the smart people were on Snowden's side because they suspected that the NSA was doing these things and they understand how it can ruin a Democracy.

And the dumb people were against Snowden because he popped their little bubble of plausible deniability.

The world used to be a lot of shades of gray for me, but it's thoughtful that all the morons, evil doers twiddling their mustaches and douche bags are lining up to get on the same team. I'm waiting for one of these guys to do a villain laugh on TV and scream; "Fools!"