IRS: The Internal Repression Service
The revenue agency has become a tool for suppressing speech. by Andrew C. McCarthy Through months of Obama administration stonewalling, the redoubtable Judicial Watch perseveres in a Freedom of Information…
Senator pressured IRS to investigate nonprofits he disliked
by Alana Goodman Sen. Carl Levin (D., Mich.) repeatedly pressed the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the tax-exempt status of specific conservative nonprofit organizations in letters to then-IRS commissioner Doug Shulman and…
The Emerging Junta
The IRS’s illegal actions — and its efforts at cover-up — undermine the foundations of our government. by Kevin D. Williamson I will confess to a little despair over the…
The Left’s Thought Police Force
Each week seems to bring another incident. Who will the thought police come for next? by Kirsten Powers Welcome to the Dark Ages, Part II. We have slipped into an…
No, The Benghazi Questions Aren’t All Answered
Why the House continues to investigate. by Jim Geraghty NBC News’s Chuck Todd, speaking on MSNBC Tuesday morning, contended that the newly formed House select committee investigating Benghazi was likely…
Federal Tax Revenues Set Record Through April
by Terence P. Jeffrey Federal tax revenues continue to run at a record pace in fiscal 2014, as the federal government’s total receipts for the fiscal year closed April at $1,735,030,000,000,…
The Left Mistakes 8 Million “Sign-Ups” as Happiness with Obamacare
Just because people have purchased something — in the case of Obamacare, under penalty of law — doesn’t mean they like it. by Byron York There’s been a dramatic turnaround…
The Media Ignore IRS Scandal
by Paul L. Caron The timeline of the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative groups reveals nothing less than a scandal. It is a scandal that blew into public view…
A Selfie-Taking, Hashtagging Teenage Administration
The Obama crowd too often responds to critics and to world affairs like self-absorbed adolescents. by Eliot A. Cohen As American foreign policy continues its long string of failures—not a…
The Left Has Become Benghazi Deniers
by Rich Lowry At last, we have a Benghazi scandal that Democrats are willing to acknowledge — House Speaker John Boehner’s decision to form a select committee to investigate the…
I Checked My Privilege, And It’s Doing Just Fine
by Kurt Schlichter Liberals have a new word for what normal people call “success.” They call it “privilege,” as if a happy, prosperous life is the result of some magic process…
Dubious climate dogma
The Obama administration is trying to scare us with totally unverifiable projections of a disastrous global warming. We trust that most people are not going to fall for this outrageous…
Trust, but don’t worry!
by Peter Huessy In the May-June issue of the National Interest, Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute calls for the withdrawal of American forces from the Republic of Korea, continuing a…
Five reasons voters don’t believe the White House about global warming
by Ed Rogers The White House released a third iteration of the “U.S. National Climate Assessment,”claiming it is “the most comprehensive scientific assessment ever generated of climate change and its impacts…