That has been the elephant in the room. The Judas story has been the basis for an enormous amount of anti-Semitism.

If we insist on a high road to morality that forbids us to have anything to do with dirty fingers, we won't get the stuff scholars need to understand the background of the Bible.

It raises the question: What does the Sunday school teacher tell her students?

There was an enormous amount of firepower,

For years, TRAC requested data on an annual basis from the IRS. The IRS voluntarily gave TRAC an enormous amount of data beyond what we routinely release to the public, outside of the FOIA process.

There'a a phrase, "the elephant in the living room", which purports to describe what it's like to live with a drug addict, an alcoholic, an abuser. People outside such relationships will sometimes ask, "How could you let such a business go on for so many years? Didn't you see the elephant in the living room?" And it's so hard for anyone living in a more normal situation to understand the answer that comes closest to the truth; "I'm sorry, but it was there when I moved in. I didn't know it was an elephant; I thought it was part of the furniture." There comes an aha-moment for some folks - the lucky ones - when they suddenly recognize the difference.