U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT: The so-called “smoking gun” proving the Internal Revenue Service played politics with conservative groups seeking official non-profit, social welfare status over the last several years may finally have been found.

UPDATE: Today’s IRS Documents: What Do They Show? “My only other comment is that the emails are heavily redacted. Almost all of the redactions cite exemption b5, which is very general; it covers any document or portion of a document that would not have to be produced in a civil action. Actually, if documents fall within the scope of a Rule 34 request, the circumstances under which they do not need to be produced are quite narrow. While it is impossible to judge the appropriateness of a redaction without knowing what has been blacked out, there are a number of instances where it is hard to believe that any normally recognized privilege would apply.”

PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: Ashe Schow: Dry cleaners press Obama over ‘gender-gap’ rhetoric.

America’s dry cleaners aren’t happy that President Obama used them as an example in remarks last week about the economic gap between the sexes.

They say the disparity in dry cleaning bills is more complex than the systemized discrimination Obama hinted at in his April 8 remarks about the so-called “pay gap” between the sexes.

As an industry, dry cleaners do not charge more for a woman’s shirt than a man’s shirt, they charge more for a hand ironed shirt than they do a machine pressed shirt. If you check your own dry cleaning bill, you’ll find that YOU pay more for the laundering and finishing of your hand ironed tuxedo shirt, than you do for the automated processing of your everyday traditional dress shirt! The price is in the math as calculated by the labor required not the gender of the client!

Simple math. Hand ironing takes more time and requires more skill, and therefore costs the cleaner more to produce. Because it costs more to produce, he charges more for the work.

But I doubt this distinction would make it into Obama’s rhetoric, given his propensity to continue using the misleading figure that women only make 77 cents for every dollar paid to men.

Nope. If a lie works with gullible, low-information voters — which is clearly Obama’s perception of the women he’s targeting — then he’ll stick with it.

IN ROLL CALL: Maurice Stucke and Allen Grunes: Another ‘Too Big to Fail’ Merger From Comcast’s Playbook.

FOR THE AFL-CIO, YES. FOR AMERICA, NO. The Hill: AFL-CIO chief calls Elizabeth Warren ‘prototype’ of good president.

ROGER SIMON: College: The Sixty-Five Thousand Dollar Misunderstanding. Er, that’s $65,000 per year . . . .

There’s enough nonsense out there to fill a book.

TRAVESTY: Supreme Court (And Senate) Deny SCOTUSblog A Press Pass.

ELIZABETH WARREN: “I was hurt and I was angry.”

Flashback: Brown staffer heckled by Warren supporters for being gay.

THE ONION DISTILLS THE OBAMA ERA AS ONLY IT CAN: FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States.

Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has uncovered a plot by members of al-Qaeda to sit back and enjoy themselves while the United States collapses of its own accord.

Multiple intelligence agencies confirmed that the militant Islamist organization and its numerous affiliates intend to carry out a massive, coordinated plan to stand aside and watch America’s increasingly rapid decline, with terrorist operatives across the globe reportedly mobilizing to take it easy, relax, and savor the spectacle as it unfolds.

“We have intercepted electronic communication indicating that al-Qaeda members are actively plotting to stay out of the way while America as we know it gradually crumbles under the weight of its own self-inflicted debt and disrepair,” FBI Deputy Director Mark F. Giuliano told the assembled press corps. “If this plan succeeds, it will leave behind a nation with a completely dysfunctional economy, collapsing infrastructure, and a catastrophic health crisis afflicting millions across the nation. We want to emphasize that this danger is very real.”

“And unfortunately, based on information we have from intelligence assets on the ground, this plot is already well under way,” he added.

But then, in Obama’s America, the line between parody and news is almost invisible.

HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): The US is an oligarchy, study concludes; Report by researchers from Princeton and Northwestern universities suggests that US political system serves special interest organisations, instead of voters. The SEIU, AFSCME, and Goldman Sachs were unavailable for comment.

REMEMBER, MALE TEACHERS ARE RARE BECAUSE PEOPLE THINK THEY MIGHT BE SEX PREDATORS: Florida English teacher, 29, ‘had sex with 17-year-old student up to 30 times before having an abortion.’ “A 29-year-old English teacher who allegedly had a four-month affair with her underage student and aborted his child, has been charged. Jennifer Christine Fichter was arrested yesterday after allegedly confessing to the 17-year-old boy’s mother that she’d had sex with the teen up to 30 times, loved him and had no regrets.”

REMEMBER, ADMINISTRATORS LIKE THESE NOW OUTNUMBER TEACHING FACULTY: Bergen Administrators Fear ‘Game of Thrones’ Quote, Censor Professor. “Displaying a lack of both pop culture and First Amendment awareness, administrators at Bergen Community College in New Jersey placed Professor Francis Schmidt on leave this past January, requiring him to meet with a psychiatrist before returning to campus—just for posting a picture of his daughter in a T-shirt quoting the popular HBO television show Game of Thrones.” I’m sorry, I’d sue all of these people personally, and make their lives a living hell until they left or were fired. And they should have to go through a forced psychiatric evaluation, too, to look at their tendency to abuse power and trust.

#WARONWOMEN: Elizabeth Warren Reveals Obama Advisor’s Sexist Comments Toward Her.

ACCOUNTABILITY: Radley Balko: How do we fix the police ‘testilying’ problem? I would abolish official immunity.

I also favor the “Missing Video Presumption,” where failure to produce video that should have been available is construed, essentially, as an admission.

ED DRISCOLL: Conservatives In The Mist, Yet Again. “I’m glad that Kohn and Powers have granted those on the right are, as Kohn notes, ‘personable and kind and human. Just like me.’ But why did it take working among them to make the epoch-shattering discovery* that half the country are actual flesh-and-blood humans and not The Other? . . . What will it take for those spokespeople for an ideology that routinely tosses around buzzwords such as ‘tolerance’ and ‘diversity’ and ‘multiculturalism’ to allow themselves to view their fellow countrymen in an equally beneficent light?”

TEXAS WOMEN not so crazy about Wendy Davis.

BRYAN PRESTON: The Terrifying Implications of the IRS Abuse-DOJ Connection.

REMINDER: PRIDE IS A DEADLY SIN. Michael Bloomberg Is Sure That He’s Going To Heaven.

SO, A GOVERNMENT-PROTECTED SHOOTER OF SORTS: Report: Kansas City Shooter Glenn Miller Was In U.S. Witness Protection Program.

DON’T SKIMP ON THE BEANO, THOUGH: Beans And Peas Can Lower Cholesterol.

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SAY, DID I MENTION THAT Sarah Hoyt has a new novel out?

YOU KNOW, I MIGHT CONSIDER MOVING TO the new state of South California.

SO MAYBE EMPLOYERS SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO USE IQ TESTS: Yes, IQ Really Matters: Critics of the SAT and other standardized testing are disregarding the data.

SPYING: Obama: NSA Must Reveal Bugs Like Heartbleed, Unless They Help the NSA.