A Select Committee Needed In IRS, Benghazi Scandals
Scandals: On both IRS and Benghazi, investigative bashfulness must end. We need select committees that are able to subpoena key figures, with counsels who know how to ask questions that get answers.…
Fort Hood attack was terrorism. The Army should call it that.
by Shawn Manning In November 2009, my Army Reserve Medical Detachment reported to Fort Hood, Tex., in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan. As we waited in line at the base’s processing…
More White Wash from the Media on Benghazi
CNN won’t challenge the White House with tough questions by Ken Allard CNN spent an hour of prime time Tuesday night to air a special anchored by Erin Burnett, “The…
IRS Agent: IRS is STILL braking the law and violating the First Amendment
by Paul Bedard In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals…
The IRS Attack on Political Speech
by Bradley Smith The Internal Revenue Service’s scandalous targeting of tea party and conservative groups refuses to die, as one by one the administration’s explanations prove untrue. We were told…
Obama’s Strikingly Nixonian Scandals
Denial, evasion, “Let me be perfectly clear” — is this 2013 or 1973? by Victor Davis Hanson The truth about Benghazi, the Associated Press/James Rosen monitoring, the IRS corruption, the NSA octopus,…
Congress’s ObamaCare Exemption: President intervenes to give Congress a break
To adapt H.L. Mencken, nobody ever went broke underestimating the cynicism and self-dealing of the American political class. Witness their ad-libbed decision, at the 11th hour and on the basis…
The Obama Favor Factory
This is precisely why everyone hates Washington by Peter Roff At virtually the same time the House of Representatives was voting to defund the Internal Revenue Service’s piece of Obamacare,…
If Benghazi is a Phony Scandal, Why a Cover-Up?
by Jonathan S. Tobin President Obama has been a broken record lately claiming over and over again that Republicans are promoting “phony scandals,” the chief of which is the effort…
GOP needs to have a serious debate about National Security
NEWT GINGRICH: The Republican Party needs a debate on national security. The strategy we’ve followed over the last 10 years did not work. In the end, Iraq is a disaster,…
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…
Data of Prosperity Past
The latest GDP revisions underscore how subpar the current recovery is. The good news is that the Commerce Department’s second-quarter GDP report shows that the U.S. is richer and the…
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…