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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
The Post Office Says What We All Wish We Could In a Jan. 22 letter sent to both the city of East Cleveland, Ohio, and the company that operates East…
The agency crisis could permanently harm Americans’ faith in government. by Peggy Noonan In all the day-to-day of the IRS scandals I don’t think it’s been fully noticed that the…
After a row over filibusters, the “nuclear option” and other procedural puzzles, the U.S. Senate recently found political compromise and approved seven of President Barack Obama’s political appointees. But behind…
by Mark Hendrickson This month, Federal District Judge Denise Cote ruled that Apple Inc. was guilty of collusion and of fixing the price of e-books. The gist of the case is…
A veteran IRS worker testified on Thursday that officials from a Washington office led by a political appointee intervened in the screening of Tea Party applications, saying publicly for the…
We’re starting to understand why Lois Lerner took the Fifth about her role in the IRS targeting of conservative groups. The testimony of at least three more employees in the…
Apologists in the media and elsewhere falsely claim the scandal was just a bungle. by Peggy Noonan “Documents Show Liberals in I.R.S. Dragnet,” read the New York Times headline. “Dem:…
A D.C.-based supervisor in the IRS’s tax-exempt status division has indicated during interviews with congressional investigators that the targeting was deliberate and not run by rogue agents in Cincinnati. Holly…
by Gerald Walpin Among all the unanswered questions about the IRS’s illegal targeting of conservative organizations, one is most crucial: Who ordered this extreme scrutiny? Amazingly, IRS inspector general J. Russell…
by George Landrith Official White House records show that the embattled former IRS Commissioner, Douglas Shulman, visited the Obama White House at least 157 times. Most of those visits, interestingly…