ObamaCare now even more unpopular … and with good reason
by Stephen F. Hayes It’s been one year since the Supreme Court decision that allowed Obama administration officials to begin implementing the Affordable Care Act, and the frequency and volume…
Obama’s Climate Plan: Emphasizing what doesn’t work, ignoring what does
by Marita Noon For months President Obama has been in the uncomfortable position of straddling a barbed-wire fence—does he appease his ardent environmental supporters or advocate for economic growth that…
Cover the IRS, Don’t Cover for it
Apologists in the media and elsewhere falsely claim the scandal was just a bungle. by Peggy Noonan “Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet,” read the New York Times headline. “Dem:…
Massive Data Mining: Are the programs justified?
According to the Obama administration and some members of Congress, the National Security Administration’s (NSA) data mining operations have been critical to the disruption of numerous terror plots. The publicly…
IRS targeting of conservatives was directed from D.C.
A D.C.-based supervisor in the IRS’s tax-exempt status division has indicated during interviews with congressional investigators that the targeting was deliberate and not run by rogue agents in Cincinnati. Holly…
More Evidence That ObamaCare Is Costing Jobs
‘It’s about jobs.” That was how then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi described ObamaCare shortly before President Obama signed it into law. Turns out she was right, although not in the way…
Why the IRS IG Stopped with an Audit
by Gerald Walpin Among all the unanswered questions about the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative organizations, one is most crucial: Who ordered this extreme scrutiny? Amazingly, IRS inspector general J. Russell…
Media Cut Obama Slack They Denied Bush on NSA
by Richard Benedetto In recent days, there has been discussion about how Democrats and liberals, once severe critics of anti-terror surveillance programs when Republican President George W. Bush was conducting…
Elbert Guillory: Why I switched parties …
by Elbert Guillory Hello, my name is Elbert Lee Guillory, and I’m the senator for the twenty-fourth district right here in beautiful Louisiana. Recently I made what many are referring…
What 157 IRS Visits to the White House Means
by George Landrith Official White House records show that the embattled former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, visited the Obama White House at least 157 times. Most of those visits, interestingly…
Ronald Reagan, “You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.”
Ronald Reagan said to conservatives, “You’re the troops. You’re out there on the frontier of freedom.” A young soldier stands guard in the cold, looking out over no-man’s-land through to…
Ronald Reagan on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, Omaha Beach
“We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.” by Scott L. Vanatter In one of his last public…
Ronald Reagan on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, Pointe du Hoc
“These are the Boys of Pointe du Hoc” by Scott L. Vanatter Forty years after the Allied forces landed at Normandy, President Reagan spoke commemorating those who stormed the beaches.…
Ronald Reagan on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, Omaha Beach
“They came not as Conquerors, but as Liberators” by Scott L. Vanatter After speaking at Pointe du Hoc earlier in the day (June 6, 1984), President Reagan also spoke at…
IRS Chief’s White House Visits Must Be Explained
Scandal: One IRS commissioner visited Obama’s White House 118 times in 2010 and 2011. His successor also dropped in often. But under George W. Bush, the tax chief visited once…