The IRS Attack on Political Speech
by Bradley Smith The Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting of tea party and conservative groups refuses to die, as one by one the administration’s explanations prove untrue. We were told…
Obama’s Strikingly Nixonian Scandals
Denial, evasion, “Let me be perfectly clear” — is this 2013 or 1973? by Victor Davis Hanson The truth about Benghazi, the Associated Press/James Rosen monitoring, the IRS corruption, the NSA octopus,…
Congress’s ObamaCare Exemption: President intervenes to give Congress a break
To adapt H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the cynicism and self-dealing of the American political class. Witness their ad-libbed decision, at the 11th hour and on the basis…
The Obama Favor Factory
This is precisely why everyone hates Washington by Peter Roff At virtually the same time the House of Representatives was voting to defund the Internal Revenue Service’s piece of Obamacare,…
If Benghazi is a Phony Scandal, Why a Cover-Up?
by Jonathan S. Tobin President Obama has been a broken record lately claiming over and over again that Republicans are promoting “phony scandals,” the chief of which is the effort…
Another Federal Agency Goes IRS
One big question raised by IRS political targeting is whether Obama officials or their bureaucratic allies unleashed the power of the administrative state for partisan ends. Now evidence is emerging…
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…
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…
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…