Stopping a Lawless President
by George F. Will What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy’s abhorrence of arbitrary power — has been a perennial problem of…
IRS Knew Lerner Emails Were Missing For Months
by Patrick Howley The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) knew for months that Lois Lerner’s emails had been destroyed, even before the current IRS commissioner testified that his agency would produce…
Lost Lerner Emails Mirror Nixon’s 18 1/2 Minute Gap
The IRS descends into criminal enterprise, with word of a 26-month gap of lost emails from the very period it was illegally targeting Tea Party groups. Computer crash? Try obstruction…
Lois Lerner on IRS hard drive crash: ‘Sometimes stuff just happens’
by Stephen Dinan Lois G. Lerner, the employee at the center of the IRS tea party targeting scandal, wanted to recover files from her computer hard drive after it crashed…
IRS Has Lost More Emails
by Eliana Johnson It’s not just Lois Lerner’s e-mails. The Internal Revenue Service says it can’t produce e-mails from six more employees involved in the targeting of conservative groups, according…
IRS Claims It Has Lost Two Years Worth of Emails
The dog ate Lois Lerner’s homework (and emails). If the IRS say it, it must be true. by David Martosko The Internal Revenue Service has lost two years worth of…
What Obama’s Many Messes Really Mean
Dems blame . . . big government? by S.E. Cupp Another week, another scandal. From Fast and Furious at the ATF to the Pigford fraud at the Department of Agriculture,…
Harry Reid Abuses Power to Slander Private Citizens
What protections are there for the tax-paying American citizen from a tyrannical bully if that bully happens to be a member of Congress using his powerful position to slander, smear…
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…
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…
The Heavy Hand of the IRS
by George F. Will Earnest moralists lament Americans’ distrust of government. What really is regrettable is that government does much to earn distrust, as Terry Dehko, 70, and his daughter…
The IRS’s Behavior Taxes Credulity
by George F. Will What’s been said of confession — that it is good for one’s soul but bad for one’s reputation — can also be true of testifying to…
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…
Nevada Governor Blasts Feds’ ‘First Amendment Area’ in Bundy Dispute
by Paul Joseph Watson Nevada cattle rancher Cliven Bundy has called on Clark County Sheriff Douglas Gillespie to start arresting Bureau of Land Management agents on charges of trespassing and theft…