Lois Lerner And Fellow IRS Official Announced Targeting At 2010 Conference Before Both Of Their Emails Went Missing
by Patrick Howley Ex-Internal Revenue Service (IRS) official Lois Lerner spoke at a 2010 government conference where Lerner’s underling Nikole Flax announced the new IRS program scrutinizing groups applying for…
5 Major Takeaways From The Hobby Lobby Decision
by Sean Davis The Supreme Court this morning issued its ruling in the Hobby Lobby case. At issue was whether closely held companies like Hobby Lobby could be forced by…
A Recovery Stymied by Redistribution
Public policy intended to make layoffs less painful actually made layoffs cheaper and more common. by Casey B. Mulligan Why has the labor market contracted so much and why does…
Obama is leaving America weaker on the world stage than Carter did
by James Kirchick It’s now official: On foreign policy, Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter. For decades, Carter’s presidency was synonymous with weakness on the world stage. The late…
Gas prices at six year high, yet the media barely notices
Editors Note: When George W. Bush was the president, when gas prices increased, the mainstream media howled about the price increases, price gouging, and windfall profits. The Democratically controlled Congress held hearings on…
Nigeria: Boko Haram, as bad as it is, is not the real problem
by Dr. Lawrence A. Franklin Despite its string of spectacular atrocities, Boko Haram is but a superficial byproduct of the deeply flawed Nigerian state. Nigeria is ridden with fatal fissures that…
Struggling to Show Anti-Koch Amendment Is “Reasonable”
A proposed Constitutional amendment would give Congress authority to regulate every dollar… by Byron York While much of Washington grapples with international crises, chronic economic troubles, and upcoming midterm elections,…
Liberals Champion Freedom of Speech — Except in Politics
by Michael Barone I’m old enough to remember when American liberals cherished the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. They celebrated especially the freedom accorded those with unpopular…
Missile Defense Agency Successfully Destroys Target in Flight with Ground-Based Midcourse Defense System
June 27, 2014, Washington, D.C. – On June 22nd, the Missile Defense Agency and a high tech industry team that designed and built the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system conducted a…
No One Believes the IRS’ Story
by James Taranto A new Fox News survey asks the following question: “The Internal Revenue Service says that two years of emails from IRS employees about targeting conservative and tea…
Russia Test Fires Six New Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
Putin orders military exercises amid new Ukraine tensions by Bill Gertz Russian strategic air forces fired six new, precision-strike cruise missiles in test launches Friday amid new tensions between Moscow…
Iraq: A Chaotic Irony of History
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The plight of Iraq is a true political disaster and a real human catastrophe. The fatal error of all parties involved in the the ongoing…
Obama Fiddles While Iraq Burns
The president is focused on leaving Iraq, no matter the cost to freedom and security. by Peter Roff While Iraq burns to the ground – a major international problem –…
Cronyism and Coercion
by Jeffrey H. Anderson After the upset of House majority leader Eric Cantor at the hands of GOP primary voters, many congressional Republicans may be looking for ways to show…
Why the Redskins Trademark Ruling Should Terrify You
Anyone deemed politically incorrect is now outside the protection of the law. by Robert Tracinski Like most people, I haven’t been all that interested in the controversy over whether the…