RICHMOND — Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli formally accepted the Republican nomination to be Virginia's next governor Saturday before a crowd of more than 8,000 gathered at the Richmond Coliseum, pledging to focus on the economy, ed… - 19 hours ago, 18 May 13, 4:26pm -
WASHINGTON — Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, discl… - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:49pm -
RICHMOND, Va. — Virginia's conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation. At the GOP's statewide convention, thousands of conservatives and tea party followers who dominated the Richmond Colise… - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:13pm -
The Homeland Security Department has granted legal status to 99.2 percent of all illegal immigrants who have applied under President Obama's new non-deportation policy for young adults, according to the latest numbers released Friday. That's a slight… - 21 hours ago, 18 May 13, 2:44pm -
The chairman of the House oversight committee on Friday subpoenaed the senior diplomat who ran the State Department's investigation into the Benghazi attack, saying lawmakers deserve to be able to depose him before he testifies publicly. Rep. Darrell… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:55pm -
While much of Washington was riveted Friday on a Republican-led congressional hearing into abuse of power by the IRS, President Obama traveled to Baltimore to promote a jobs plan and decry lawmakers for "chasing every fleeting issue." Mr. Obama toure… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 6:40pm -
An exasperated Rep. Pat Tiberi on Friday asked the former acting chief of the IRS to explain to Congress why he would move the leader of the division that targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to a branch that is overseeing one of th… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:24pm -
Sen. Joe Manchin III, West Virginia Democrat, has remained hopeful that he can re-introduce legislation to expand gun-purchase background checks after one he crafted with Sen. Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania Republican, failed in the Senate a month ago. But… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:18pm -
States already have begun to tackle the sticky issue of drones and their effect on personal privacy. Eventually, courts will step in and have their say on the matter, determining how the unmanned aircraft fit into existing expectation of privacy stan… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:07pm -
The woman who ran the Internal Revenue Service's tax-exempt organizations division has been promoted, and now heads the agency's health care office, ABC news reported. Sarah Hall Ingram was commissioner of the embattled IRS office from 2009 to 2012,… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:32pm -
The ousted head of the IRS on Friday said he was sorry for his agency's targeting conservative and tea party groups for special scrutiny, while a Republican leader said blame could reach as high as the White House. Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Mill… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:21pm -
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday said the IRS scandal shows a "culture of cover-ups" and "political intimidation" within the Obama administration. Rep. Dave Camp, Michigan Republican, while speaking at a hearing his panel… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 1:38pm -
Mark Sanford is now a member of Congress two years after he stepped down as governor of South Carolina following a highly publicized extramarital affair. Anthony Weiner appears poised to run for New York City mayor not even two years after scandalous… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 12:22pm -
Add to the list of IRS targets: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA said it's been targeted, too. Politico reported that Jeffrey Kerr, the general counsel for the animal rights group, sent a letter on Thursday to the Treasury Department… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:28am -
ANALYSIS/OPINION: There's an immeasurably deep cleavage between left and right in America, illustrated vividly in the way Americans regard the Benghazi scandal and outrage. It's in the DNA. Democrats generally and liberals in particular can't underst… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:10am -
Two key senators said Thursday that Homeland Security officials should face discipline for their role earlier this year in releasing 622 criminal immigrants, including 32 with multiple felony convictions, in a move the Obama administration initially… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 3:12pm -
Two of President Obama's second-term personnel picks that have attracted conservative and business opposition moved a step closer to confirmation Thursday. Labor Secretary-nominee Thomas E. Perez and Gina McCarthy, Mr. Obama's choice to head the Envi… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:22pm -
Chris Christie's first foray into diplomacy has come at an unlikely place: the Jersey Shore boardwalk. The New Jersey governor and rumored 2016 presidential candidate doubled as a tour guide this week as he showed Britain's Prince Harry the damage do… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 1:33pm -
With journalists now justifiably fearful that the federal government could examine their telephone logs and dig up other information, support is growing in Congress for a measure to help reporters keep their sources confidential. Democratic Rep. Kare… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 12:23pm -
A top Democrat on Thursday said that as long as the unfolding Internal Revenue Service scandal doesn't implicate President Obama, there's no reason for the administration to panic. "As long as it doesn't get to the White House, it's not going to be a… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:37am -
Authorities: Hofstra University student killed in home invasion was fatally shot by policeMINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded… - 8 hours ago, 19 May 13, 4:00am -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain.The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ra… - 14 hours ago, 18 May 13, 9:16pm -
Michael BaroneNoemie Emery has an excellent article in the latest Weekly Standard on the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider who has been sentenced to life in prison on three counts of murder.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 18 hours ago, 18 May 13, 5:55pm -
Charlie SpieringDespite all the White House scandals this week, President Obama is more concerned about a Buzzfeed article listing things that will make you feel old.This spoof video was put together by Jimmy Fallon and the ‘Late Night’ show cre… - 22 hours ago, 18 May 13, 1:10pm -
Conn CarrollAfter one full week of votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is now clear that no major changes will be made to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill before it reaches the Senate floor.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:55pm -
Michael BaroneChilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech.There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days.The Obama adminis… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00pm -
Charlie SpieringSpeaking at Ellicott Dredges’ factory in Baltimore this afternoon, President Obama joked that he couldn’t wait to have a dredge named after him.After taking a tour of the factory, Obama explained that a customer of the factory on… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:55pm -
Sean Higgins Deirdre McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is set to be honored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading Washington, D.C., free market/libertarian think tank, with its annual Julian Simon Awa… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:45pm -
Charlie SpieringDuring a House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a pro-life group in Iowa.“Their question, specifically asked from the IRS to… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 6:30pm -
Paul BedardPollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama's scandal-filled disaster week has cost him his majority support and sapped enthusiasm for his second term."As Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth might have s… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:35pm -
Michael BaroneHigher education enrollments this spring are down 2.3 percent from spring 2012, according to the National Student Clearinghouse.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:20pm -
Philip KleinOn Thursday, House Republicans once again voted to repeal President Obama’s health care law. I don’t think it’ll be a major spoiler to predict that the repeal bill won’t go any furtherRead more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:20pm -
Charlie SpieringDuring the congressional hearing Friday morning with outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, Rep.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:35pm -
Paul BedardMassachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, reported to be President Obama's pick to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, has attacked House Republican foes of Obamacare, raising new questions about the politicization of the Justice Department.Pat… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:25pm -
Charlie SpieringDuring a House Ways and Means Committee Hearing this morning, acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller explained that he never claimed to have done anything wrong.Miller made the comment during an exchange with Rep.Read more on Washingt… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 1:53pm -
Paul BedardSenior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who recently slapped Obamacare as a "train wreck," believes that the IRS scandal is just beginning and that "a lot more" damaging information will be revealed, likely at congressional hearings."I have a… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 1:40pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is e… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:02pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security mone… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:32pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but there's "no magic formula" to stop his violence.At a news conference with Turkish P… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 8:34pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress was not told that conservative tea party groups were being inappropriately targeted by the U.S. tax agency, even after the Internal Revenue Service's acting chief had been briefed on the matter.The agency's failure to in… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 4:01pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama waded into British politics Monday, suggesting that the United Kingdom seek to reform its relationship with the European Union before it decides to simply break away from it.The stance put Obama squarely on… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 10:05pm -
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Republican Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, a 2012 presidential candidate, is helping launch a new monthly radio talk show on SiriusXM satellite radio aimed at promoting bipartisan politics.The former U.S. ambassador to China a… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 4:34pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior Internal Revenue Service officials knew agents were targeting tea party groups as early as 2011, according to a draft of an inspector general's report obtained by The Associated Press that seemingly contradicts public state… - 7 days ago, 12 May 13, 3:01am -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Steady drips of information about a horrific night in Libya are fueling Republican arguments and ads designed to fire up the conservative base and undercut the Democrats' early favorite for president in 2016.Strategists in both p… - 8 days ago, 11 May 13, 3:31pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House: IRS actions against groups 'inappropriate,' thorough investigation expected.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 9 days ago, 10 May 13, 8:47pm -
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Sen. Rand Paul says he's only "considering" running for president.Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com - 9 days ago, 10 May 13, 4:18pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama and military mothers had high tea like the British on Thursday.The afternoon White House affair, hosted by the first lady and Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, was to recognize the women for Mother's Da… - 10 days ago, 9 May 13, 11:06pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday he's determined to answer any questions related to the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, as the House Republican leader pushed for more information from t… - 10 days ago, 9 May 13, 10:02pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Israel's willingness to hit Syrian targets it sees as threats to its own existence has complicated the Obama administration's internal debate over arming President Bashar Assad's foes and may change the way U.S. approaches allies… - 12 days ago, 7 May 13, 12:32am -
Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. - 3 hours ago, 19 May 13, 8:45am -
Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons. - 3 hours ago, 19 May 13, 8:41am -
The growing use of unmanned surveillance "eyes in the sky" aircraft raises a thicket of privacy concerns, but Congress is getting mixed advice on what, if anything, to do about it. - 5 hours ago, 19 May 13, 6:59am -
Seeking to keep pace with changing technology, Illinois toughened penalties Saturday for those who use social media and text messaging to organize violent "flash mobs" like those that have occurred on Chicago's Michigan Avenue and in other tourist ar… - 8 hours ago, 19 May 13, 4:00am -
State Sen. Mark Obenshain has won the Republican nomination for attorney general in Virginia 35 years after his father won the party's U.S. Senate nomination. - 15 hours ago, 18 May 13, 8:53pm -
The first revelation that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups came in a planted question during a lawyers’ conference earlier this month, the attorney who asked the question confirmed Saturday with Fox News. - 17 hours ago, 18 May 13, 6:40pm -
Two top-tier Democratic prospects recently bypassed running for Senate seats in Georgia and South Dakota -- showing that Republicans aren't the only ones with internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections. - 18 hours ago, 18 May 13, 5:30pm -
The IRS targeting Tea Party groups and other conservative-leaning political organizations has reignited calls for reform and the argument among Capitol Hill Republicans that the federal government has become too big and out of control. - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 4:01pm -
Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation. - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:16pm -
Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along the less developed north coast where it's customary to ditch cars on the shoulder of Highway 1 to surf, swim or picnic. - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:14pm -
A group that supports gun control filed suit Thursday against a north Georgia town that recently passed a law requiring gun ownership that it said is mostly symbolic. - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 8:58am -
Colorado sheriffs upset with gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year's mass shootings filed a federal lawsuit Friday, challenging the regulations as unconstitutional. - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 8:43am -
Jay Devereaux hadn’t paid much attention to the daily drumbeat of partisan politics in D.C. He wasn’t a Washington nerd, didn’t know who said what during congressional hearings nor did he care. But when news broke that the government was using… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 7:45am -
Americans were in danger. That was the chief argument Attorney General Eric Holder tried to make this week for why Justice Department officials seized two months' worth of phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press. But the AP has… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 5:45am -
Questioning during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing revealed that a pro-life group applying for a 501(c)(3) may have been asked by the Internal Revenue Service to detail the content of their prayers. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:43pm -
Senate Republicans joined their House colleagues in calling on a government watchdog agency to investigate Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius soliciting donations from companies her agency might regulate -- part of an effort to sig… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:22pm -
An Internal Revenue Service watchdog on Friday said he informed Obama administration officials last June, in the heat of the 2012 election season, that a probe was under way over the agency's targeting of conservative groups. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:19pm -
President Barack Obama's budget would trim projected federal deficits by $1.1 trillion over the coming decade, using nearly $6 in higher revenues for every $1 in reduced spending to achieve it, Congress' nonpartisan budget analyst said Friday. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:19pm -
The Obama administration denounced Russia on Friday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war that Washington and Moscow have been promising to work together on stopping. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:59pm -
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify every person involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon's control. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:03pm -
Most Americans say that the issues being raised by congressional hearings into the Benghazi terrorist attacks and the revelations that the IRS unfairly targeted conservative groups "involve serious matters that need to be investigated." According to… - 22 hours ago, 18 May 13, 1:57pm -
LandovBy most accounts, Kermit Gosnell seemed stunned last week when a jury found him guilty of three counts of first-degree murder in what seemed to have been his routine killings of newborn babies at his abortion clinic in Philadelphia; he thou… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 4:01am -
No way to spin this: a drizzly Rose Garden news conference, May 16LandovThere is no curse on the second term of presidents. When presidents lose credibility, when trust vanishes and their word is no longer accepted, they have only themselves to b… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 4:01am -
Chinatown BusAs if we needed it, last week provided a fresh reminder about how the government behaves in the wild. And it has nothing to do with the IRS, Benghazi, or Eric Holder. - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 4:01am -
Gabriel GomezLandovGabriel Gomez is an ambitious guy. In January, with Massachusetts senator John Kerry all but certain to be confirmed as secretary of state, the 47-year-old Gomez wrote a letter to Governor Deval Patrick. Between Kerry’s resign… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 4:01am -
Some readers — reader-listeners — have asked about the music at the end of the latest Need to Know. It’s “Wedding Day at Troldhaugen,” by Grieg (Troldhaugen being his home outside Bergen). Mona Charen and I end our ’cast with a report fro… - 8 hours ago, 19 May 13, 3:13am -
I learned about the first successful human cloning last Monday, but couldn’t write about it until Wednesday because of a news embargo. The peer reviewed paper in Cell was rushed to print because is a huge deal. But, much to my surprise, it only mad… - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:46pm -
In my continuing effort to assist the dead-tree deprived, here’s a comparison of today’s New York Times and Washington Post on their handling of the IRS scandal. Keep in mind that print headlines and web headlines often differ.The Post has two… - 23 hours ago, 18 May 13, 1:04pm -
My Hillsdale colleague Steve Smith reads Dan Brown’s Inferno so you don’t have to. He recommends reading Dante’s Inferno instead. - 23 hours ago, 18 May 13, 12:29pm -
This weekend’s “Masterpiece” column in the WSJ is by me, on Gray’s Elegy.“Gray’s Elegy,” wrote Leslie Stephen (the father of Virginia Woolf), “includes more familiar phrases than any poem of equal length in the language.” Its 32… - 23 hours ago, 18 May 13, 12:25pm -
Charles Krauthammer was unimpressed with the testimony of IRS chief Steven Miller, arguing that it “falls under the category of ‘How stupid do you think we are?’”“Here’s a guy who says that the IRS openly discriminated against groups… - 1 day ago, 17 May 13, 11:53pm -
In the early days of this scandal, I opined in a Corner post that it was believable this might be just a few low-level employees. I would like to state this is now obviously untenable. I also mentioned NOM’s experience — its legally protected… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:31pm -
The House of Representatives’ own version of the Gang of Eight has announced agreement on an amnesty bill, though without revealing what they actually agreed to. It’s clear the bill legalizes (i.e., amnesties) illegal aliens, since one sticking p… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:04pm -
Charles C. W. Cooke drew attention earlier today to an astonishing new piece in the Telegraph estimating that Christians will be a minority of the British population even sooner than earlier projections had suggested — in fact, within a decade. … - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:43pm -
One of the many troubling features of Obamacare is that it dramatically expands the reach and scope of the IRS. Two provisions in particular — the individual mandate, requiring people to buy health insurance; and the employer mandate, requiring em… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:21pm -
This week on “Need to Know,” the perspicacious James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal joins Jay and me. He answers the question: Which of the Obama scandals is the worst? We wonder about trusting government and – who can resist? – ponder… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:01pm -
The IRS will be going to court, if Jay Sekulow, chief counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice, has anything to say about it. ACLJ currently represents 25 tea-party groups who believe they were targeted by the IRS because of their politi… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:28pm -
BuzzFeed’s Business section has a story that they apparently find appalling:How’s this for poor taste: millionaire hedge fund manager Mike Wilkins rented out AT&T Park, home of the World Series Champion San Francisco Giants, on Thursday aftern… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:13pm -
And the worst-kept secret in Washington is secret no more: Lois Lerner’s apology was part of a staged PR campaign. Celia Roady, tax lobbyist and former member of the IRS Advisory Council on Tax-Exempt Entities, who asked the question that spurred… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:05pm -
Representative Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania gave a resounding speech during the House Ways and Means Committee hearing, in which he chastised acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller’s inability to answer many of the committee’s questions today,… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:35pm -
When Secretary of State William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia in 1867, the media derided the deal as “Seward’s Folly.” Some congressmen accused Seward of overstepping his authority. Most Americans were just plain mystified: Why would the… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 6:20pm -
The early-May release by the Defense Department of its annual report to Congress on China’s military developments is a prime opportunity to reevaluate how the United States frames the future of its security relationship with Beijing. For too long,… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:56pm -
I chatted with an old friend, Drew Ryun, after I saw his name in a story about the IRS. In his case, he couldn’t manage to get IRS nonprofit clearance for a research group called Mediatrackers in 2011, but he could for one called Greenhouse Soluti… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:25pm -
On his blog at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent reports that Harry Reid is gearing up to exercise the “nuclear option” in July and that the president is right behind him:Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is increasingly focused on the month o… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:08pm -
There are four groups of people who are typically not allowed to vote in the United States: children, criminals, noncitizens, and the clinically insane. This week, the bohemian voters in Takoma Park, Md., decided to enfranchise 16-year-olds and fel… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:01pm -
If you can manage to tear your attention away from Benghazi, IRS, etc., etc., I have a piece over on the home paget looking at another potential scandal brewing in the Obama administration: Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health-industry companies… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:59pm -
Ousted IRS commissioner Steven Miller told the House Ways and Means Committee today that the revelation of the IRS’s targeting of tea-party groups came from a planted question, and that Lois Lerner, the IRS official who managed the exempt-organi… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:49pm -
The most recent version of the near $1 trillion farm bill is on the move again after being held up for a few months in the House at the end of last year. It has now passed out of the House and Senate agriculture committees. The Senate is supposed to… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:40pm -
The U.S. government will bump up against the federal borrowing limit this weekend, though a series of emergency steps will allow it to continue paying all of the nation's bills until after Labor Day, the Treasury secretary said. - 10 hours ago, 19 May 13, 1:16am -
An IRS watchdog said he informed Obama administration officials last June that a probe was under way over the agency's targeting of conservative groups. - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:41pm -
The Obama administration cleared the way for broader natural-gas exports by approving a $10 billion facility in Texas, a milestone in the U.S. transition into a major supplier of energy for world markets. - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 3:18pm -
The U.S. is seeing a spike in al Qaeda-related terror plots and threats against its embassies in Libya, Yemen and Egypt, say current and former U.S. officials citing domestic and foreign intelligence reports. - 22 hours ago, 18 May 13, 1:54pm -
Pentagon leaders appeal to Congress for more time to address the problem of sexual assaults in the armed services before lawmakers move ahead on plans to overhaul the military-justice system. - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 4:31am -
House lawmakers voted largely along party lines Friday to approve a bill that would require U.S. securities regulators to more extensively assess how much their rules cost the financial industry, part of a push to curtail what Republicans say is over… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 2:17am -
Illegal immigrants could become citizens in 15 years under legislation being drafted by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers, a timeline two years longer than under a similar Senate bill. - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 2:11am -
President Obama has narrowed his choice for the next Federal Bureau of Investigation director to two people: a top White House aide and a former Bush administration official. - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 12:12am -
Columnist David Wessel writes that while central banks' stimulative efforts have boosted economies and driven investment, the risks of overheating or a bubble are worth watching. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:05pm -
The epidemic of unfilled federal judicial seats may be the best illustration of how the Senate's dysfunction now affects all branches of the government, writes Gerald F. Seib. - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:25pm -
President Barack Obama is naming new people to fill key posts in his second term, as some top officials leave. Here is a look at his second-term lineup. - 75 days ago, 5 Mar 13, 7:06pm -
Republican lawmakers are launching an investigation into claims that the Environmental Protection Agency, while giving preferential treatment to environmental groups, made it harder for conservative groups to obtain government records. “According t… - 1 day ago, 18 May 13, 5:23am -
Steven Miller 'can't speak' about whether 'Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers' is appropriate question - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:05pm -
Contrary to the official version of events told by the IRS, the targeting of conservative groups did not begin in 2010, but started at least as early as 2009. The Coalition For Life, a pro-life group from Cedar Rapids, Iowa was questioned by an IRS a… - 1 hour ago, 19 May 13, 10:22am -
A different species of ants, called “crazy ants,” is taking the Southeastern United states by storm. They are called “crazy” by researchers because their movement is not consistent, but much more irregular than fire ants, whose presence has b… - 1 hour ago, 19 May 13, 10:16am -
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has some advice for high-school students who are mediocre students: skip college and become plumbers. Bloomberg said on Friday that teenagers who aren’t in the upper echelon should learn how to be plumbers rather th… - 1 hour ago, 19 May 13, 10:11am -
The new rule from the socialist government of France is: we’re not going to take most of the money you earn, we’re going to take all of it and your savings, too. The business newspaper Les Echos said more than 8,000 households in France paid more… - 2 hours ago, 19 May 13, 9:38am -
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com The former girlfriend of France's president Francois Hollande returns The IRS follows the banksters in the culture of fraud and extortion Banks return to synthetic securities backed by jun… - 2 hours ago, 19 May 13, 9:34am -
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal said IRS officials who targeted conservatives should go to jail during a surprise appearance at the Virginia Republican Party convention on Saturday. “Anyone who participated in this targeting of Americans for thei… - 10 hours ago, 19 May 13, 1:35am -
On Saturday, Louisiana's Republican Governor Bobby Jindal directly tied President Barack Obama's trifecta of scandals (IRS, AP, and Benghazi) to big-government liberalism. Speaking at the Virginia Republican Party convention, Jindal took a strategic… - 10 hours ago, 19 May 13, 1:29am -
This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia says, 'Of course we supply weapons to Syria!' Russian warships enter Mediterranean for first time in decades Idaho man charged with links to Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) Russ… - 11 hours ago, 19 May 13, 12:16am -
It began in earnest last Friday. A flash mob of latte drinking, tofu eating media that has done its best to quell, rather than fan the flames of truth, turned on one of their own. Jay Carney lay bludgeoned at the base of the podium, a victim of frien… - 12 hours ago, 18 May 13, 11:40pm -
President Barack Obama had to console an elementary school student in Baltimore on Friday after the student failed to come up with the correct answer to "2 minus 1" when Obama asked students basic arithmetic questions. Obama replied to the student, "… - 13 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:53pm -
There will not be a Triple Crown winner again this year as Oxbow defeated Orb, the Kentucky Derby winner, at the Preakness Stakes on Saturday in Baltimore, Maryland. Gary Stevens, the legendary 50-year-old jockey who came out of retirement, rode Ox… - 13 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:42pm -
Whenever Andrew Breitbart saw that somebody was being unfairly maligned by the institutional Left, he became that person's stalwart defender. Sarah Palin, perhaps more than any other person in recent history, endured the full weight of what Breitbart… - 13 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:37pm -
The New York Times, ever eager to leap to the defense of embattled Obama Administration officials, has a puff piece extolling the virtues of White House Spokesman Jay Carney amid the slings and arrows he must suffer. Noting that Carney started on t… - 13 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:29pm -
On Friday, former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, said that America’s tax system is “voluntary.” During the hearing, Rep. Devin Nunes (D-CA) said in passing that the U.S. tax code… - 14 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:06pm -
Bob Costas backtracked on his recent suggestions that CBS golf announcers should use airtime during their coverage of The Masters to talk more about the history of exclusion at Augusta National Golf Club, a private golf club. He made his remarks duri… - 14 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:00pm -
Showing his disdain for NRA members, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas mocked those who attended the NRA Convention in Houston earlier this month and said today's defenders of the Second Amendment were not people the country's founders had in mind when rat… - 14 hours ago, 18 May 13, 9:38pm -
Appearing on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" on May 17, NBC sportscaster Bob Costas asked for one example of an assault rifle with a high capacity magazine being used for a constructive purpose. His exact words: "Give me one example where a citizen used… - 14 hours ago, 18 May 13, 9:27pm -
“You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans, whether you disagree with them or not, and keep your own freedom” - 14 hours ago, 18 May 13, 9:44pm -
“…dedicated public servants got called names and then get threatened by a lady that doesn’t have a clue about who they are or what they do or the service they provide.” - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:43pm -
“It was an appalling speech that had the sole benefit of clarifying the last-ditch commitment of the present administration to the most open-ended abortion license possible.” - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:12pm -
Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel this week joined an increasingly crowded field of Republican candidates seeking the U.S. Senate seat of the retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss. - 10 hours ago, 19 May 13, 1:38am -
Virginia's activist conservative attorney general has won the Republican Party's gubernatorial nomination by acclamation. - 16 hours ago, 18 May 13, 7:58pm -
The former head of the San Antonio Tea Party in Texas says the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of his organization terrified so many members that nearly 50 percent quit the group. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:32pm -
Former Rep. Ben Jones has ripped his old friend Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., for keeping him out of a fundraiser for Markey's Senate campaign. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:01pm -
A strong majority of Americans aged 18 to 40 expect their health insurance premiums to rise under the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey of 801 people conducted by Public Opinion Strategies March 25 to April 9. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:48pm -
When she won one of the closest House races in the nation in 2010, Ann Marie Buerkle became a heroine to fellow conservatives and tea partiers nationwide. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:57pm -
With Georgia Republican Phil Gingrey running for the U.S. Senate next year, national pundits have long assumed that former congressman and 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr was the runaway favorite for the GOP nomination in Gingrey's op… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:53pm -
The result of the 37th vote to repeal Obamacare by the Republican-controlled House came as no surprise.The vote was 229 to 195 and the repeal came down on party lines - almost. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:50pm -
Republican House members are targeted the Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services department for 20 percent more in spending reductions in the coming year on top of sequester cuts made in March. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:13pm -
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has joined with Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer in co-sponsoring a bill granting legal protections to journalists following the disclosure that the Justice Department secretly seized phone records of Associated Press re… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:58pm -
The bipartisan group crafting the Senate's immigration reform legislation is working behind the scenes to secure the support of Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch with the hope he can influence fellow GOP lawmakers to back the bill. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:46pm -
Huma Abedin, a top aide to Hillary Clinton and wife of former New York Congressman and mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner, was permitted to work as a private consultant while also serving out the last few months of her job at the State Department. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:38pm -
Now that he has taken the oath of office for his second stint in the House of Representatives, Mark Sanford has revealed to Newsmax that the causes of lower spending and smaller government on which he first won election to Congress in 1994 are "more… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 2:35pm -
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says our best days lie ahead, but we must get back to what led us to greatness in the first place a focus on economic growth through a reliance on the free-enterprise system without government interference, and a strong… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:33am -
Senate Democrats, finding themselves caught between a rock and a hard place when it comes to addressing the issue of gay rights under immigration reform, are calling on President Obama for help, Politico reports.They re growing more and more uneasy… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:44am -
Rep. Kristi Noem, R-S.D., is considering a Senate run in 2014, in an effort to capture the seat being left vacant by Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, the Hill reports.Noem has made it clear she will take several months before making a decision on whet… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:38am -
Abuse of government power and a lack of transparency has people looking for a new face in the Senate, says Gabriel Gomez, who has captured the GOP nomination for the seat vacated by John Kerry when he was named Secretary of State. It's this total d… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 1:56am -
President Barack Obama is tapping former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords for the board that selects recipients for Fulbright scholarships.The Arizona Democrat resigned from Congress in 2012, a year after a gunman shot her at close range while she was greetin… - 2 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:58pm -
The current IRS scandal makes her wary of the tax-collecting agency which also will be entrusted to implement Obamacare, Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., says. - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:35pm -
The Daily Mail reported Thursday on a research study published in the Psychological Science journal that suggested there is a correlation between a man’s upper body strength and his political associations. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:45pm -
Language is twisted for political ends, with grimly amusing results.The post America’s “voluntary” tax system appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:22pm -
The monster under the bed learns to be afraid.The post Rep. Mike Kelly goes nuclear on the IRS appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 6:52pm -
The acting head of the agency thinks Americans are stupid.The post The IRS’s assault on common sense (Update: Treasury Department knew in 2012) appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:03pm -
The Administration claims it learns about itself by watching the news, but it's not watching the right network.The post The Obama media blackout appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:23pm -
The farce of Obama Administration "accountability" grows more absurd by the day.The post Official in charge of corrupt IRS department promoted – to top ObamaCare enforcer appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 12:23pm -
Justice delayed is justice denied.The post President Obama’s Emptiest Benghazi Talking Point appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00am -
The U.S.A. cannot be the "indispensable nation"The post What Should Americans Die For? appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00am -
Are we just seeing the tip of the iceberg?The post Barack Obama Not Outraged; He Adores the IRS appeared first on Human Events. - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00am -
"There's been a pattern of abuse of power in this Administration."The post Mitch McConnell: “It’s been a tough week for this Administration” appeared first on Human Events. - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 8:16pm -
The Heritage Foundation recently issued a comprehensive report showing that Sen. Marco Rubio's plan to instantly legalize 11.5 million illegal immigrants would add $6.3 trillion to budget deficits over the next 50 years. Heritage assumed there are 11… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 11:12pm -
Government Overreach: The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of tax-exempt organizations when the unit targeted Tea Party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for enforcing ObamaCare. As bad as the IRS scandal was, with the taxing body… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:51pm -
Statism: Pope Francis seemed to have an economic blind spot, to say the least, when he urged more "state control" to cut global poverty Thursday. On the contrary -- the biggest poverty-killer in history is free - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:51pm -
Economy: If "austerity" is such a disaster in Europe, why do most Europeans still back spending cuts? Maybe common sense isn't dead there, although the GDP is flat-lining. If you don't look too closely, stats from the past week seem to make a tidy ca… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:51pm -
IBD/TIPP Poll: What many thought to be impossible might be beginning to happen because of public awareness of abortionist Kermit Gosnell's crimes: a sizeable shift in opinion away from support of abortion. The latest IBD/TIPP Poll shows that 42% of r… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:51pm -
When you get right down to it, the political targeting and stalling of tax-exempt applications by the IRS was an effort to defund the Tea Party. Rick Santelli, a Tea Party founder and my colleague, made this point first. I've taken it a step further:… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:20pm -
'Small business" is the recipient of much official love (as well as heavy regulatory intrusion), but it receives its loudest applause as the supposed source of most employment growth. Alas, that conventional wisdom is incorrect: The modern scholarl… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:20pm -
Folks, deep breath time. This is not the end of the Obama presidency. It's a bad stretch with an unfortunate confluence of unfortunate events. None of which will make the first paragraph -- not even the first page -- of the account of the Obama admin… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:20pm -
Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those paranoid types who "incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity." Oddly enough, in recent days the m… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00pm -
Media Bias: The MSNBC talking head who was most "head over thighs" over Barack Obama is one of many news fixtures now coming down to earth. That thrill going up Chris Matthews' leg is gone. 'I felt this thrill going up my leg," Matthews infamously de… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:28pm -
Scandal In Libya: A new email dump shows that the White House, contrary to public statements, was heavily involved in editing the Benghazi talking points to remove all references to it being a terrorist attack. The limited, heavily redacted package o… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:28pm -
Democracy: The IRS targeting of Tea Party groups is mind-boggling not only for its abuse of government power. It's also disturbing for what it intended to do: destroy civil society, opening a door for tyranny. The formation in 2009 of hundreds of Tea… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:28pm -
Like everything else the IRS has said about the tax scandal, its explanation for why it ended up targeting conservative groups turns out to be completely false. Which raises the question: Why are IRS officials trying so desperately to hide what reall… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:24pm -
National Security: If a thorough investigation is conducted into the origins of the al-Qaida attacks on Benghazi, Republicans will regret not blocking John Brennan's confirmation as CIA director. Not only did Brennan, as White House counterterrorism… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:02pm -
Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet presidency-… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:37pm -
The false god of 'narrative' 'What if the government starts enforcing the espionage statute whenever there's a leak?" Steve Roberts, a former New York Times journalist who teaches at George Washington University, observed to the Baltimore Sun. "It's… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:14pm -
Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such go… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:14pm -
Union Groups Finger Trading Losses in Targeting JPMorgan (top) Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, when serving as President Obama's chief of staff, verbalized his view of the 2008 financial meltdown with the quip, "You never let a serious crisis go to waste… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:14pm -
Earlier this week, I introduced a bill that would reform the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (Fatca). Originally tacked on as the "pay-for" to a 2010 bill to incentivize hiring, Fatca was intended to crack down on overseas tax evasion. That's not… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:14pm -
Corruption: The inspector general's report on the IRS targeting of conservatives makes it seem like a case of bureaucratic bumbling. But the more we learn, the more it looks like a concerted effort to hobble Obama's political foes. 'Inappropriate cri… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:54pm -
Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS employee and Obama campaign donor. Using the Citizens United case as a pretext,… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:54pm -
Presidency: The president who claimed extraordinary powers to change Washington is now, we are to believe, unable to keep tabs on a "vast" federal government. He can't be both a mastermind and out to lunch. Which is it? President Obama's alibis are l… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:54pm -
Tyranny: Perhaps the most sinister aspect of the president's parade of scandals is that just days before they broke, he mocked as paranoid those concerned about government excesses. On May 5, while giving the commencement address at Ohio State Univer… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:49pm -
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was criticized last week for soliciting private contributions to Enroll America, a non-governmental organization run by former Obama campaign operatives. The real monkey business is what the se… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:25pm -
On Thursday, the House will vote to fully repeal ObamaCare. We are voting to repeal it because the law was unaffordable and unpopular when the Democrats rammed it through Congress without a single Republican vote more than three years ago, and each d… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:19pm -
Per capita personal disposable income, adjusted for inflation, remains over $1,000 below its prior peak. There are 2.5 million fewer people employed now than in early 2008 while at the same time the U.S. population has grown by 12 million. What happe… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:19pm -
Economic prospects for the nation remain dismal for the foreseeable future, especially in the context of historical trends. Following recessions, the economy usually comes roaring back -- and the longer and deeper the recession, the more robust econo… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:19pm -
President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone on a fishing expedit… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:19pm -
Today, the House of Representatives will continue its fight to stop President Obama's destructive health care law by voting on my legislation to repeal ObamaCare. Three developments in recent weeks shed light on how ObamaCare is beginning to collapse… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 10:19pm -
Accountability: Suddenly, President Obama is mired in multiple scandals. If his friends in the media had been doing their jobs, they would have realized who he was well before last year's election. The Washington Post's "Fact Checker" hands out cute… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 11:05pm -
Last Friday, after the Associated Press learned about the Justice Department's sweeping seizure of its phone records, AP CEO Gary Pruitt said "there can be no possible justification" for the action. No doubt that's true. But there also seems to be no… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 11:05pm -
Leadership: Bill Clinton governed by the permanent campaign. Barack Obama wants to govern by the permanent crisis. What most see as disasters Obama sees as opportunities to ram through his progressive agenda. With scandals and corruption breaking all… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:46pm -
Welfare Farming: As noisy scandals whirl about the Obama administration, Congress is quietly putting finishing touches on a $1 trillion farm bill that's yet another major expansion of big government in the U.S. economy. Given the magnitude of Preside… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:46pm -
Commerce: Big Labor worked hard to halt the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement, claiming it threatened our economy and our workers. But a year since its passage, the pact has surpassed all expectations. Where's the mea culpa? If there was ever a reas… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:46pm -
A hundred years ago, anyone who might have predicted in 1913 the monumental, man-made catastrophes that would occur in the rest of the 20th century would have been considered warped, if not completely mentally deranged. Who would have believed that t… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:25pm -
Venture capital investment in American life-sciences innovation is suffering an alarming decline. The number of new biotechnology and medical device companies receiving start-up financing has now fallen to the lowest levels in 18 years, according to… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:25pm -
Sputtering adjectives -- outrageous, appalling, intolerable -- can scarcely do justice to the fiasco involving the Internal Revenue Service's reported targeting of conservative groups. But the current scandal obscures -- and, ironically, threatens… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 10:25pm -
Beekeeping is big business, and everyone loves honey and foods made possible by pollination. But "colony collapse disorder" threatens bees and crop pollination in many areas. CCD and other bee die-offs are nothing new. What we now call colony collaps… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 10:51pm -
Energy: Wasn't Barack Obama supposed to be our first green president? After all, it was candidate Obama who promised his administration would create 5 million alternative energy jobs. Maybe he meant in-the-red jobs. During his acceptance speech in 20… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 10:51pm -
Tax Policy: Speaking with President Obama Monday, U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron talked up tax enforcement, no doubt to please his host. Left unsaid was that the real example Britain offers for feeble economies is tax cuts. Fact is, Britain has sl… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 10:51pm -
Benghazi: President Obama has chosen the high-risk strategy that when you lie, lie big and stick to it. Just how many new facts will it take to crack his poker face? In his Monday press conference, President Obama's damage control strategy became ...… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 10:51pm -
Tax Abuse: As nonconservative groups complain of politically motivated targeting by the IRS, we're reminded it's the IRS that's going to be enforcing one of the greatest expansions of government power in our history. In recent days we've come to know… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 10:51pm -
The American Psychiatric Association's latest handbook -- the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) -- is about to be published. It is the handbook of mental health, and if you're not in it you are among the fortunate few. Eve… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 9:36pm -
As a colonel I used to work with in the Pentagon was fond of saying: "Well, there's another blinding flash of the obvious never acknowledged or always denied." The recent admission from the IRS that they did in fact target conservative groups -- no s… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 9:36pm -
"He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to ... cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory… - 6 days ago, 13 May 13, 9:36pm -
On May 19, the United States hit its debt ceiling after adding $300 billion in more debt since lawmakers suspended the ceiling in February. But the cash won’t run dry until at least Labor Day, according to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, whose departm… - 2 hours ago, 19 May 13, 9:30am -
1. The Ugly Facts About the Internet Sales Tax 2. Obamacare Is About Power 3. The IRS Wants to Know If You’re a “Patriot” 4. Looming Student Loan Interest Rate Hike: Prudent Next Steps 5. Serving Justice to Gosnell Policy Picture Share on Fac… - 18 hours ago, 18 May 13, 6:00pm -
It has been over three years since Obamacare became law. This week, the House voted again to completely repeal it. There are plenty of reasons to repeal Obamacare, especially before its most egregious provisions begin next year, and just this week a… - 20 hours ago, 18 May 13, 4:00pm -
Over the past week, the Obama Administration has been hit with scandal after scandal. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) apologized for targeting conservative organizations, the State Department covered up its reaction to Benghazi, the Department of… - 24 hours ago, 18 May 13, 12:00pm -
On Wednesday the United Nations General Assembly voted on a resolution condemning the Syrian government’s forces while praising the opposition. Although the resolution passed, the non-binding text received less support than last year’s resolution… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:30pm -
The Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) official score of President Obama’s budget shows in numbers a vision for economic decline in America. The President imposes a tax increase totaling $1.1 trillion (and a net increase of about $1 trillion), s… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:35pm -
This week, the House Republican conference met to discuss what their priority will be in connection with any vote to increase the debt ceiling. This is timely since the current suspension of the debt limit expires tomorrow. According to reports of th… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 8:15pm -
The White House release of the e-mail chain regarding the Benghazi talking points on Wednesday has opened up a slew of new questions. Covering only two days—Friday, September 14 and Saturday, September 15—and focused only on the production of the… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 7:26pm -
A guilty plea in a Kansas City, Missouri, voter fraud case this week illustrates something the U.S. Supreme Court pointed out when it upheld Indiana’s voter ID law in 2008: [F]lagrant examples of [voter] fraud…have been documented throughout this… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 6:58pm -
Congress needs to drive down federal spending toward a balanced budget, including through entitlement reforms, while maintaining a strong national defense and without raising taxes. Neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate achieved that ob… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:21pm -
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — The Syrian military on Sunday launched an offensive to retake a strategic rebel-held town near the Lebanese border, a... - 1 hour ago, 19 May 13, 10:32am -
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan held a repeat election on Sunday in an upscale area of the southern city of Karachi that was plagued with... - 1 hour ago, 19 May 13, 10:18am -
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — In what police are describing as a crime of opportunity, a wanted man with a criminal history dating nearly 15 years entered... - 4 hours ago, 19 May 13, 7:07am -
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy... - 5 hours ago, 19 May 13, 6:10am -
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy... - 5 hours ago, 19 May 13, 6:09am -
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state radio says authorities have executed two men convicted of spying for Israel's Mossad and the American CIA spy... - 5 hours ago, 19 May 13, 6:09am -
MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Hofstra University student being held in a headlock at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police... - 8 hours ago, 19 May 13, 3:24am -
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities have released a dissident ex-general who was jailed on charges of inciting unrest after the... - 9 hours ago, 19 May 13, 2:20am -
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend... - 10 hours ago, 19 May 13, 2:04am -
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before... - 11 hours ago, 19 May 13, 12:24am -
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sunbathers flocking to Southern California beaches are used to feeding the meter or paying a parking attendant. Not so along... - 12 hours ago, 18 May 13, 11:11pm -
LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — Boston's police department and mayor's office will conduct twin reviews of the response to last month's bombing of the Boston... - 13 hours ago, 18 May 13, 10:16pm -
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down before elections and that the United States... - 15 hours ago, 18 May 13, 8:52pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain.The White House said Health and... - 15 hours ago, 18 May 13, 8:13pm -
ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans aren't the only ones roiled by internal jostling and recruiting hiccups ahead of next year's midterm elections.Two... - 16 hours ago, 18 May 13, 7:48pm -
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite Democratic fears, predictions of the demise of President Barack Obama's agenda appear exaggerated after a week of... - 16 hours ago, 18 May 13, 7:46pm -
MOSCOW (AP) — Wrestling's governing body hopes rule changes designed to make matches more exciting and easier to understand will get the sport... - 16 hours ago, 18 May 13, 7:25pm -
PARIS (AP) — France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing... - 16 hours ago, 18 May 13, 7:14pm -
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired three short-range guided missiles into its eastern waters on Saturday, a South Korean official said.... - 17 hours ago, 18 May 13, 6:35pm -
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled... - 17 hours ago, 18 May 13, 6:31pm -
Larry Kudlow, IBDWhen you get right down to it, the political targeting and stalling of tax-exempt applications by the IRS was an effort to defund the tea party. Rick Santelli, one of the tea party founders and my CNBC colleague, was the first to mak… - 23 hours ago, 18 May 13, 12:30pm -
While the scandal surrounding the government seizure of Associated Press records continues to percolate in Washington, such state intrusion on the press would seem positively mild inside Turkey where, today, most journalists assume they are being tap… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:00pm -
One of the strangest and weakest defenses of the IRS’s campaign targeting conservative and pro-Israel nonprofit applicants was that the blatant violation of the constitutional rights of Americans who disagreed with President Obama was the natural r… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:35pm -
Throughout a long week of scandal, the growing evidence of wrongdoing in the executive branch has buffeted Democrats. Like President Obama, who was slow to realize the danger to his presidency, his supporters were initially put back on their heels by… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 9:15pm -
Throughout the discussion about the crimes of Kermit Gosnell we were repeatedly assured that the atrocities that took place in his clinic were exceptional and should in no way be imputed to other providers of abortion services. This is a tenet of fai… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 6:05pm -
The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, America’s greatest living investigative reporter, was on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” and said this: “I would not dismiss Benghazi. It’s a very serious matter.” Mr. Woodward recounted his own memories of R… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 5:00pm -
There was a running joke in the fall of 2008 that John McCain should simply re-air Hillary Clinton’s “3 a.m. phone call” ad, which highlighted Barack Obama’s lack of experience and meager knowledge of world affairs, and just tack on “I’m… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:40pm -
Last January, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the president can only make recess appointments when the Senate has adjourned sine die, i.e. without setting a date for returning to session. Once it adjourns this way it is out of session un… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 4:20pm -
The testimony of Acting Internal Revenue Service Director Steven Miller before the House Ways and Means Committee didn’t provide much in the way of answers about the scandalous targeting of conservative groups by the agency. But it did give us a wi… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 3:55pm -
The report this morning on the front page of the New York Times that Russia is sending a new batch of advanced arms to Syria is very bad news for those who hoped international isolation would lead to the fall of Bashar Assad’s regime. Despite const… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 12:30pm -
David Axelrod was once Barack Obama’s closest chief political adviser. He now comments for MSNBC, where he trotted out the latest defense of President Obama, who is being buffeted by three unfolding scandals: misleading the public in the aftermath… - 2 days ago, 17 May 13, 11:30am -
Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, thankfully, do not have to face the kind of opprobrium that an earlier generation of Vietnam veterans encountered. But there is still a tendency to pathologize vets, to assume that they are victims of a s… - 2 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:45pm -
In response to the IRS scandal, voices are rising in defense of the Internal Revenue Service’s need to police the behavior of non-profit 501 (c) groups. Didn’t the IRS need to ensure that groups applying for non-profit status would conduct themse… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:03pm -
On Tuesday, I posted here about how Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was being two-faced in his dealings with Benjamin Netanyahu after the latter’s apology for the loss of life in the raid on the Mavi Marmara. The reason for the apol… - 3 days ago, 16 May 13, 11:28am -
People may recall that in Barack Obama’s June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo, the president promised a “new beginning” based on “mutual respect” with the Arab and Islamic world. Mr. Obama’s own background, his eagerness to apologize for America,… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 6:42pm -
At a fundraising event earlier this week in New York City, President Obama said this: What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008. My thinking was when we beat them in 2… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 2:00pm -
Nathan Heller’s new piece, “Laptop U: Has the Future of Higher Education Moved Online?” is a superb introduction to the debate concerning Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). For those of you who have been off the grid, here is some background.… - 4 days ago, 15 May 13, 12:00pm -
As the Obama administration seems to stagger under the weight of dealing with three scandals at the same time, Republicans who have been frustrated by the president’s seeming golden touch the last four and a half years are obviously gleeful. While… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 9:36pm -
Last spring, Washington was stunned by the way the Obama administration shamelessly leaked information about drone strikes and cyber-warfare tactics employed by the U.S. against Iran to leading media outlets. The leaks led to a number of flattering s… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 8:10pm -
Last week was one of the worst for Obama in his presidency. This week looks no better. Indeed, it may be a long, hot summer for the White House. As Jonathan has pointed out, the IRS scandal is growing bigger, seemingly by the minute. The Benghazi sca… - 5 days ago, 14 May 13, 7:45pm -
