The Zealots Win Again
by Charles Krauthammer The debate over campaign contributions is never-ending for a simple reason: Both sides of the argument have merit. On the one hand, of course money is speech.…
What Obama Isn’t Telling You About the ‘All-of-the-Above’ Energy Strategy
by Fred Lucas The White House held a “Solar Summit” Thursday, continuing to promote subsidies for solar panels just days after a new nonpartisan government report showed restrictions of drilling…
More Obfuscation on Benghazi
Testimony by the former acting head of the CIA makes clear that Congress’s current approach isn’t sufficient. by Michael B. Mukasey Last week’s encounter between former acting CIA Director Michael…
Labor’s Lackeys Stack the Deck But Workers Keep Leaving Unions
Private sector union membership peaked at nearly 36 percent of the workforce in the mid-1950s. It’s been downhill ever since. An unprecedented trend is reshaping the contemporary American workplace: U.S.…
President Obama’s Bogus Voting Rights Claims
by Hans von Spakovsky and Peter McGinley Last Friday, in a speech at Al Sharpton’s National Action Network conference, President Obama proudly announced that the Justice Department had taken on more…
The Kansas Killings: Will Every Crime Be A Hate Crime Someday?
Hate-crime laws may have the paradoxical effect of privileging some victims of violence over others. by Michael McGough Frazier Glenn Cross (a.k.a. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr.), the 73-year-old extremist accused…
The Emerging Law of the Gun
by Peter Huessy Russian President Vladimir Putin annexes the Crimea in gross violation of international law. What should America do, if anything? There are many different ideas. Some suggest doing…
Progressives are wrong about the essence of the Constitution
by George F. Will In a 2006 interview, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said the Constitution is “basically about” one word — “democracy” — that appears in neither that document…
Those ‘rogue’ agents
Remember when Lois Lerner, in answering a planted question at an American Bar Association conference, admitted the IRS had targeted conservative groups but tried to pass it off as the…
IRS Partisan Activity – Workers Accused of Soliciting Obama Votes
IRS workers in several offices have been openly supporting President Obama, including by donning pro-Obama paraphernalia and urging callers to reelect the president in 2012, according to allegations contained in…
The Left’s Fake Problems
by Jim Geraghty Ask voters what their top priority is, and the most frequent answer is “the economy,” although that’s a catch-all term for a wide variety of concerns and…
Erasing the Race Card
by Kathleen Parker One approaches the race fray with trepidation, but here we go, tippy-toe. The race cards have been flying so fast and furious lately, one can hardly tell…
The IRS Scandal’s Smoking Gun
A suspicious email could confirm Lois Lerner’s culpability in recent IRS abuses. by Peter Roff The so-called “smoking gun” proving the Internal Revenue Service played politics with conservative groups seeking…
Donald Rumsfeld’s Annual Letter to the IRS
“That I and most Americans have no idea whether our tax returns are accurate ought to tell us something.” – Donald Rumsfeld
The Case Against Higher Taxes
While the 2000s may have been a lost decade for the American dream, a revival of our model’s advantages is still a real, worth-desiring possibility. by Ross Douthat Because…