FIRSTHAND: The IRS Targeted My Organization.

THE NEW YORK TIMES’ NICK CONFESSORE ON IRS TEA PARTY HARASSMENT.

Moe Lane’s translation: “Essentially, the NYT is saying here that the way that those hussies were dressed, they were just ASKING for an audit.”

LAWMAKERS ZERO IN on IRS Meetings At White House.

ANOTHER ELECTRIC-BATTERY STARTUP FOLDS.

ASSOCIATED PRESS: Key senators tightly control immigration debate. “For all the soothing words she heard from fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii never had a chance to win a relatively modest change to far-reaching immigration legislation. Instead, the hidden hand of the Gang of Eight reached out and rejected her attempt to create an immigration preference for close relatives of citizens with an extreme hardship — the same force that had already derailed dozens of other proposals deemed to violate the delicate trade-offs made by the bill’s authors.”

THE HILL: Dems Prepare Benghazi Defensive Plan. “Democrats vow they won’t be caught flat-footed when the co-author of the State Department’s independent audit on Benghazi appears for a closed-door interview with congressional investigators next month.”

UPDATE: Peter Ingemi: “It would have been nice if this headline was from May 26th 2012 instead of May 26th 2013, perhaps they might have been ready on September 11th 2012.”

IS SENDING YOUR KIDS TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS PARENTAL MALPRACTICE? Fired for using the word “Negro” — in Spanish class. “A Bronx teacher has filed a lawsuit claiming she was fired for using the word ‘negro’ in class. ‘Negro’ is the Spanish word for the color black.”

Given how hard it is to get fired from NYC’s public schools this is particularly impressive in its idiocy.

MEDIA RACISM: Mother Jones: African Americans are more likely to be murderers, rapists, and pedophiles. “It’s the sort of statement that could get one fired from the Heritage Foundation.”

THOUGHTS ON ERIC HOLDER and the Agnew Rule.

SEX AT WORK: Survey Says: Everybody’s Doin’ It.

TIM BLAIR: Message Unheard.

You can’t help but feel a little bit sorry for your average Muslim terrorist. They go to all the trouble of blowing up children in Boston, killing US Army personnel in Texas, detonating bars in Bali, flying jets into New York skyscrapers and now basically removing a soldier’s head in a London street, all in the holy name of Islam.

But where’s the credit?

Where’s the respect?

Following yesterday’s murderous outrage, one of the alleged killers – easily identified by blood-covered hands and two dripping knives – stood in the street and declared to the world he’d slaughtered his victim as a direct consequence of Islamic beliefs.

There are “many, many ayat throughout the Koran,” the man said, citing the book’s ninth chapter, that encourage followers to “fight them as they fight us.”

That’s a fairly clear message. Also clear were the cries of “Allahu Akbar” as the two alleged murderers went about carving and hacking at the fallen soldier’s body, having already run him down with a car.

Then, as usual, the western media’s reflexive timidity kicked in. The default mode in any coverage of Islamic violence is a painfully cautious avoidance of Islam.

British television network ITV was among the first to broadcast the alleged killer’s speech, but neatly edited any mention of the Koran by talking over him. “In a south London street,” a voiceover intoned, “a man with bloodied hands carrying a knife and machete approaches a camera and tries to justify what just happened.”

Yeah, you’ve got to feel real sorry for them.