White House Systematically Delaying FOIA Requests
by CJ Ciaramella • Free Beacon A government watchdog group announced Monday that it is suing a dozen federal agencies for improperly delaying Freedom of Information…
IRS Scandal: Not Phony
by the Editorial Board • Detroit News President Barack Obama continues to describe the growing evidence that the IRS intentionally targeted conservative groups as a phony…
Legalization by Edict
by Yuval Levin Many people in Washington seem to be talking about the prospect of the president unilaterally legalizing the status of several million people who entered the country illegally…
More “smidgens” of IRS corruption
by Ed Rogers Anyone paying attention to the Internal Revenue Service scandal has been waiting for the next smidgen to drop. Well, two more hit pretty hard this week. At…
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…
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…
Did The IRS Really Lose Lois Lerner’s Emails? Let a Special Prosecutor Find Them
Obama needs to address this ‘phony scandal’ and the public trust with real transparency. by Ron Fournier A sloppy mistake, the government calls it, but you couldn’t blame a person…
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…
Ten percent of tea party donors audited by IRS
by Stephen Dinan Despite assurances to the contrary, the IRS didn’t destroy all of the donor lists scooped up in its tea party targeting — and a check of those…
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…
Fast-Tracking the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
How far will the Obama Administration push Crony Capitalism? by Kerri Toloczko For several years, a large, modern and expensive building stood abandoned on Kato Road in Fremont, California; the…
IRS lawlessness continues: Claims it will take years to produce targeting emails
by Stephen Dinan The Internal Revenue Service’s tea party targeting program is still withholding approval of 19 organizations’ nonprofit status, nearly a year after the scandal was revealed, the agency’s…
What is Lois Lerner hiding?
Where Lois Lerner goes, drama follows. On Wednesday, the former IRS officer again invoked the Fifth before the House Oversight Committee. That precipitated a heated exchange between the committee’s Republican…
Obama blocking IRS probe and breaking promises to help
by Paul Bedard A House chairman probing the IRS scandal on Wednesday said that President Obama has reneged on a promise to have his aides cooperate with the investigation, forcing…
Lois Lerner pleads the fifth again, doesn’t testify on IRS targeting
If there isn’t a smidgen of corruption at the IRS, why plead the fifth? And why hasn’t Obama delivered on the promised cooperation? What is he hiding? by Rebecca Kaplan…