At the the House Oversight Committee Hearing on excessive conference spending by the IRS, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) tells how, while some government employees were sucking it up in the tough times many Americans have experienced in recent years, the IRS was out spending millions on fun conferences, $3,500 a night hotel rooms, and spending more for stupid videos than some people make in a year.

I saw this earlier in the week courtesy of The Blaze and other outlets, but just now getting it onto my short range targeting system. How wonderful it is to see not only Americans striking back against the politically correct oppressors of Constitutional freedom, but especially young people doing it. I love it when the good guys win one!

In case you’re not familiar with her, Dana Loesch is one of the early Tea Party babes, female patriots who were there at the beginning of the Tea Party movement, have been its most ardent supporters, and continue to fight for a return to the traditional American values that made us the greatest nation on earth. I listen to her podcast every day, and you should, too. Dana was guest-hosting for Glenn Beck (yesterday, I think) and provided a great and characteristically gutsy rundown of the Obama scandals with her usual witty insight.

According to this year’s report, Social Security will be insolvent in 2033 — 20 years from now, when those now 47 years old will be eligible for their full promised benefits. Social Security is a tax-and-spend program, not an investment program. I believe we should rebirth the idea of changing Social Security into a real retirement investment program. Let’s get off this thing about “saving the system” and start thinking about making the lives of individual Americans better.

How can it be that America’s history was established by those who threw off tyranny, yet citizens today instead throw off their duty? Then, I ask, who is the enemy? It is those who through apathy tolerate these crimes against “We the People.” Albert Einstein rightly stated, “The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.”