The IRS Scandal Comes Into Focus
House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp lays out damning evidence of Lois Lerner’s targeting of conservative groups. by Kimberley Strassel Nearly a year into the IRS scandal, we…
Dallas IRS Office Plastered with Pro-Obama Stickers, Screensavers
Agency still under fire for Lois Lerner-tea party targeting scandal. by Stephen Dinan Even as the IRS faces growing heat over Lois G. Lerner and the tea party targeting scandal,…
White House Pay Gap Twice as Large as Pay Gap in the District of Columbia
by Caroline May While the White House has argued that the wage gap between men and women in the White House is better than the national average, it is far…
The Equal Pay Ruse: Deceptive Stats
Amid much fanfare, President Obama on Tuesday signs two executive orders designed to begin to narrow the wage gap between men and women. Never mind that the criteria generally used…
The ’77 Cents on the Dollar’ Myth About Women’s Pay
Once education, marital status and occupations are considered, the ‘gender wage gap’ all but disappears. by Mark J. Perry and Andrew G. Biggs April 8 is “Equal Pay Day,” an annual event…
US Sees Sharpest Health Insurance Premium Increases In Years
by Sarah Hurtubise Americans have recently been hit with some of the largest premium increases in years, according to a Morgan Stanley survey of insurance brokers. The investment bank’s April…
The Left’s “Billionaire Outsider” Hypocrisy
by Mark Pfeifle Who drafts the Democratic Party’s campaign strategy? Whoever it is, they should be fired. Their 2014 plan violates a basic rule of electoral public relations: Don’t build your…
The Left’s Hostility to Political Speech
by Thomas Sowell The recent Supreme Court decision over-ruling some Federal Election Commission restrictions on political campaign contributions has provoked angry reactions on the left. That is what often happens…
Second Climate Thoughts
The latest U.N. report tones down the alarmism but ramps up the bad economics. The U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published its latest mammoth report last week, and the…
The Liberal Gulag
Liberal fascism on display By Kevin D. Williamson The word “liberal” has taken a beating over the last few days: A Mozilla executive was hounded out of his position at…
Fast-Tracking the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
How far will the Obama Administration push Crony Capitalism? by Kerri Toloczko For several years, a large, modern and expensive building stood abandoned on Kato Road in Fremont, California; the…
Obama looks to close wage gap while paying female staffers less than men
by Caroline May President Barack Obama is planning to sign two new executive actions aimed at narrowing the wage gap between men and women Tuesday, even as the Obama White…
National Security Fairy Tales: US defense spending vs. the rest of the world
by Peter Huessy “The US spends more money on defense than all the countries in the rest of the world together.” Sound familiar? Years ago, Ben Cohen of Ben and…
Who is the real Party of the Rich?
Right after the Supreme Court’s decision to lift limits on campaign contributions, Democrats and their left-wing supporters assaulted the decision as a boon to Republicans, “the party of the rich.”…
The Agony of Iran’s Militant Mullahcracy
by Miklos K. Radvanyi On February 1, 1979, the Shi’a cleric, Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, flew from his exile in a Paris suburb to Tehran to fill the political vacuum created…