Be careful what you say …
“It is eerily ironic that only days after Obama told students to reject the voices that warn of government abuses and overreaching, it turns out that the Obama Administration has been systematically...
View ArticleAbridging freedom of the press
by Major Garrett Unconstitutional. Sweeping. Secretive. Abusive. Harassing. Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press, used those words on CBS’s Face the Nation to describe the Justice...
View ArticleA history of targeting conservatives …
Both President Barack Obama and IRS official Lois Lerner have a history of targeting conservatives … Kimberley Strassel, writing for the Wall Street Journal: In 2008, Obama began targeting...
View ArticleThe unconstitutional war on journalism
by Nick Gillespie The press-punishing, speech-chilling, and unabashedly overreaching actions by the Obama administration against the Associated Press and Fox News Channel’s James Rosen lay bare the...
View ArticleIRS Chief’s White House Visits Must Be Explained
Scandal: One IRS commissioner visited Obama’s White House 118 times in 2010 and 2011. His successor also dropped in often. But under George W. Bush, the tax chief visited once in four years. Time for...
View ArticleObamaCare now even more unpopular … and with good reason
by Stephen F. Hayes It’s been one year since the Supreme Court decision that allowed Obama administration officials to begin implementing the Affordable Care Act, and the frequency and volume of...
View ArticleScandals that once angered and concerned the President are now phony?
This week, President Barack Obama changed his tune on the numerous scandals besetting his administration. Speaking in Illinois, Obama said, “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing...
View ArticleThere’s nothing “phony” about these scandals
by Michael Graham “With an endless parade of distractions, political posturing and phony scandals, Washington has taken its eye off the ball.” — President Obama, Wednesday Question: How many Americans...
View ArticleMedia Can’t Ignore New Developments in IRS Scandal
IRS-Gate: From stonewalling Congress to Federal Election Commission collusion to harassment of already-tax-exempt conservative groups, the IRS scandal metastasizes. Someone high-up was clearly giving...
View ArticleEvidence 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...
View ArticleA 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 and harassed...
View ArticleAnother 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...
View ArticleIf 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 to keep asking...
View ArticleObama’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,...
View ArticleCoalition Letter Opposing Taxpayer Funded Loan Guarantee of Cape Wind Boondoogle
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View ArticleTop 13 Questions the Media Should be Asking
by Joel B. Pollak President Barack Obama rarely makes himself available to the mainstream media. They adore him anyway. At rare press conferences, such as the one scheduled for this past Friday at the...
View ArticleThe Surveillance Speech: A Low Point in Obama’s Presidency
by Conor Friedersdorf Last Friday, President Obama spoke to us about surveillance as though we were precocious children. He proceeded as if widespread objections to his policies can be dispatched like...
View ArticleThe ‘Great Divider’ likes political speech only when it likes him
It takes preternatural naivete to accept claims that nobody in the Obama White House knew about the illegal targeting conducted by the IRS during the 2010 and 2012 campaigns, namely the harassing...
View ArticleThe Obama Administration Has Been Using the IRS to Target Political Foes for...
by Peter Roff The alleged abuse by the Obama Administration of the United States Internal Revenue Service goes back much farther than the current inquiry into whether conservative political groups...
View ArticleBenghazi, One Year Later
What we know about the attack in Benghazi one year after the fact is that it is an example of the Obama administration’s incompetence and mendacity. More worrisome still is what we don’t know. We do...
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