Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS's tax-exempt organizations division, made a bizarre invocation of her Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify against herself in Congress on Tuesday — after she had already given an opening statement denying any wrong-doing.

In a letter published in the Washington Times today, Virginia State Senator Richard Black (who has sponsored the Glass-Steagall resolution in the Virginia legislature) called for the U.S. to end its intervention in Syria, or shift its support to President Bashir Assad.

The Washington Post, apparently stung by Obama's war on journalists into a number of surprisingly blunt accounts of the administration lately, reported May 21 that Obama is completely uninterested in doing anything to aid an economic recovery, and neither are Congressional leaders.

The Washington Post this morning runs a story on the targetting of FoxNews chief Washington correspondent James Rosen, already back in June 2009, in which the DOJ argued that the reporter himself was a "co-conspirator" in the release of classified information, thus criminalizing simple reporting of the news.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, at a press conference at the offices of RIA Novosti press service in Moscow May 19, said that with regard to convening an international conference to end the war in Syria,"As I've been asked by the parties to convene this conference under the auspices of the United Nations, I'm now actively engaging with all the parties: the U.S., Russia, the United Kingdom, Franc

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) blasted members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Tuesday, as the committee voted to arm elements of the Syrian opposition in a bill co-sponsored by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) and Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn). "This is an important moment," Paul said, addressing his Senate colleagues. "You will be funding, today, the allies of al Qaeda.

Eyes On Target Production posted a 10 minute long street-side interview with LaRouchePAC organizer, Bob Baker in Woodstock, VA. The video features the call to impeach Obama with the Youtube host, Philly Po Boy, pointing to a LaRouchePAC poster saying, "Impeach Obama.

In an article published Tuesday by the Daily Beast, entitled "CIA Honored Benghazi Chief in Secret Ceremony," author Eli Lake reveals that in February of this year, at CIA headquarters in Langley, VA, the chief of the CIA's annex in Benghazi was awarded one of the agency's highest intelligence medals.

Despite messages apparently delivered by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week that Israel might attack Syria again, and a general hype in the media about that possibility, leading retired military figures are speaking out against such action.

Although Obama's "senior advisor" Dan Pfeiffer, making the rounds of the Sunday talk shows, was evasive on all of the scandals surrounding the White House, his refusal to discuss where the President was, or what he was doing, for five or six hours while the Benghazi attack was ongoing, was particularly egregious.