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…
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…
Detroit: The insanity cannot go on forever
by Charles Krauthammer If there’s an iron rule in economics, it is Stein’s Law (named after Herb, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers): “If something cannot go on…
Is the President out of ideas?
In the aftermath of President Obama’s tenth pivot to jobs and economic growth in less than five years, liberal Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank suggests that Obama is out of…
Scandals that once angered and concerned the President are now phony?
This week, President Barack Obama changed his tune on the numerous scandals besetting his administration. Speaking in Illinois, Obama said, “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony…
Buyer’s Remorse from ObamaCare Backers?
by Seth Mandel One of the key selling points for ObamaCare was President Obama’s repeated promise that if you like your current health insurance plan, you can keep it. This…