Data of Prosperity Past
The latest GDP revisions underscore how subpar the current recovery is. The good news is that the Commerce Department’s second-quarter GDP report shows that the U.S. is richer and the…
A Slo-Mo IRS Cover-Up
When Obama condemns “phony scandals,” we can assume investigators are getting warm. by John Fund Back on May 13, President Obama reacted heatedly to news that the IRS had delayed…
Evidence Suggests Collusion Between IRS and FEC to Target Conservative Groups
by Eliana Johnson Embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office appear to have twice colluded to influence the record…
Creeping Authoritarianism
by Daniel Henninger If we learned anything about Barack Obama in his first term it is that when he starts repeating the same idea over and over, what’s on his mind…
Obama’s Keystone Job Claims is Phony
President Barack Obama falsely claims that the jobs created by the pipeline from Canada would be but a “blip relative to the need,” ignoring his own State Department and the…
Media Can’t Ignore New Developments in IRS Scandal
IRS-Gate: From stonewalling Congress to Federal Election Commission collusion to harassment of already-tax-exempt conservative groups, the IRS scandal metastasizes. Someone high-up was clearly giving orders. ‘Phony scandals,” to use President…
Nothing phony about the IRS scandal
One thing is clear about the current state of play on the IRS scandal — President Obama and his top appointees have now moved to a new phase of their…
Middle class left behind by Obamanomics
by Timothy P. Carney “Even though our businesses are creating new jobs and have broken record profits,” President Obama said in his economics address last week, “nearly all the income…
What has Obamanomics brought us?
by Bruce McQuain As much as the president would like to blame our economic ills on the other party, or George Bush or, well, just about anyone, the fact is…
The Case for Stopping ObamaCare Has Never Been Stronger
Health Overhaul: Republicans are fighting over a government shutdown when they should be telling a receptive public that if ObamaCare takes effect, the result will be massive taxpayer fraud and…
Ten Crazy Red-Light Camera Cases
The Post Office Says What We All Wish We Could In a Jan. 22 letter sent to both the city of East Cleveland, Ohio, and the company that operates East…
The Administration’s Stonewalling on the IRS Scandal
The agency crisis could permanently harm Americans’ faith in government. by Peggy Noonan In all the day-to-day of the IRS scandals I don’t think it’s been fully noticed that the…
The Internet Is Not the Wild West
by Peter Roff In late July, the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet held a hearing to examine the role played by copyright law…
NLRB is stacked against workers and job growth
After a row over filibusters, the “nuclear option” and other procedural puzzles, the U.S. Senate recently found political compromise and approved seven of President Barack Obama’s political appointees. But behind…
There’s nothing “phony” about these scandals
by Michael Graham “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.” — President Obama, Wednesday Question: How many Americans have…