The Pass-the-Buck Presidency
The president has a pattern of deflecting blame and denying responsibility. With military action against ISIS underway, that’s a dangerous habit. by Josh Kraushaar • National…
Holder’s Legacy as Presidential Protector
The attorney general is stepping down and leaving a trail of troubling questions behind. by Peter Roff • U.S. News & World Report Controversial figure U.S. Attorney General…
Covering for the IRS
New details on the Administration’s spin and stall strategy. Wall Street Journal The IRS targeting of conservative groups has now become a story about the cover-up. More than a year…
DOJ Working with Rep. Elijah Cummings to Protect the IRS
by Editorial Board • Investor’s Business Daily An aide to the attorney general accidentally calls the office of the House Oversight Committee chairman, asking for help in spinning…
Why was Lois Lerner’s Blackberry was wiped clean?
by T. Becket Adams • Washington Examiner As lawmakers return to Washington to continue the search for thousands of missing subpoenaed emails related to the Internal Revenue Service’s…
Coverup: More IRS & Administration Lies
New York Post Editorial Board Some 15 months after Americans learned about the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups, we still have no clue how such an abuse was allowed to…
Will IRS’s Strategy of Destroying Evidence Succeed?
by Seth Mandel • Commentary If the latest revelations about the IRS are correct, then its officials have approached the abuse-of-power scandal with a clear strategy,…
Judge Demands Answers after IRS Contradicts Sworn Testimony on Lerner’s Scratched Hard Drive
by Patrick Howley • Daily Caller U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan Thursday ordered the Internal Revenue Service to come up with new answers after IRS employees…
Congress Isn’t Alone in Struggling to Obtain Obamacare Records
by Jillian Kay Melchior • National Review Online As news breaks about the Department of Health and Human Services’ missing HealthCare.gov e-mails, it’s pertinent to note…
Congressman Issa: More Than 20 Obama Officials ‘Lost or Destroyed’ E-mails After House Launched Probes
by Joel Gehrke • National Review Online The revelation that Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services administrator Marilynn Tavenner did not retain her e-mails means that…
Empty Rhetoric is Fleeting and is Not Leadership
by Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi The inclination to uncontrollable urge for verbal diarrhea, motivated by narcissism and shallow intellectual abilities and not by wisdom and experience, is the ubiquitous attribute…
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…
IRS experts: Lois Lerner hard drive was just ‘scratched’ — not damaged beyond recovery
by Byron York Top IRS officials told congressional investigators that Lois Lerner’s hard drive — the one containing emails that could shed light on the IRS targeting scandal — was…
Obama aides were warned of brewing border crisis
by David Nakamura, Jerry Markon and Manuel Roig-Franzia Nearly a year before President Obama declared a humanitarian crisis on the border, a team of experts arrived at the Fort Brown…
Tea party groups’ suit against IRS moves forward
Tea party groups’ lawsuit against IRS over reported extra scrutiny moves forward by Amanda Lee Myers A federal judge has allowed a lawsuit by 10 tea party groups to move…