Former Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Steven Miller, who only took over in November and resigned this week at President Barack Obama’s behest, will testify before the House Ways and Means Committee Friday on his role in targeting Tea
In the midst of the scandal over the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) unconstitutional and likely criminal targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups, the Wall Street Journal released some fascinating data about the comparative performance of the U.S. and European
The Inspector General of the U.S. Treasury has released its 54-page report on the targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Earlier Tuesday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Department of Justice would
John Yoo, the former Bush administration lawyer (and frequent media target) notes at Ricochet.com that the media’s reaction to the revelation that the Obama administration spied on the Associated Press is not just a feeling of outrage, but of betrayal.
…that he waited a full three days before saying anything about it, and then only in response to a question from a journalist. …that he joined Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in demanding the resignation of the head of the IRS,
Jackson Diehl, who writes about foreign affairs for the Washington Post, is no Obama administration shill. He has taken on the White House on several occasions, notably on the issue of human rights, where he has been willing–as few others
Two former governors of New York, Mario Cuomo (D) and George Pataki (R), published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal Monday arguing that the State of New York should drop its civil fraud case against former AIG CEO Hang
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, had to admit on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that Sen. John McCain had been partially correct in his outrage over the Benghazi cover-up when he jousted with host David Gregory in
When accusations first emerged in 2010 that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted conservative and Tea Party groups for additional scrutiny, it was unclear how widespread the problem was, or how to respond. Some groups sued the IRS. Some
Saturday’s edition of Saturday Night Live mocked the House Oversight Committee’s hearings last week on the Benghazi terror attacks, substituting convicted murderer Jodi Arias for the State Department whistleblowers who came forward to testify about the deaths of four American
Kurt Schlichter notes that conservatives have been vindicated quite often in the past several weeks: Things Conservatives Have Been Proven Right About Lately: ☒ Benghazi; ☒ Pigford;☒ Obamacare; ☒ IRS. Next up: The immigration reform scam. — Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter)
New revelations that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted Tea Party and conservative organizations for additional review and investigation–and that senior officials knew about the practice, despite earlier denials–have shed light on the IRS’s aggressive investigation of a new pro-Israel
ABC News has posted twelve different versions of the Obama administration’s talking points on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi on Sep. 11, 2012, showing that the White House and State Department did all they could to remove
President Barack Obama’s campaign-turned-pressure group, Organizing for Action (OFA), has sent out a number of emails recently attacking Republicans on global warming. One of their top targets on the issue, amusingly, is Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), whose support for immigration
Wednesday’s testimony on the Benghazi terror attacks by State Department whistleblowers before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform contradicted several statements by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in testimony before House and Senate committees in January. However, while
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not
1. Two “stand-down” orders were given while the Benghazi attacks were in progress. 2. The “protest” about a YouTube video was a complete fabrication by the Obama administration. 3. Cheryl Mills, Clinton’s lawyer at the State Department, told witnesses not to
Dick Morris, who famously predicted that Mitt Romney would defeat President Barack Obama in a “landslide,” has now joined the Beltway mob in blaming radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh for the Republican Party’s woes, the Daily Caller reports. Morris
Former Gov. Mark Sanford overcame the media and the National Republican Congressional Committee to pull off a stunning upset in South Carolina’s first congressional district Tuesday. He went from being down 9 points with two weeks left to pulling off
The Wall Street Journal highlights former Gov. Mark Sanford’s remarkable comeback with his come-from-behind landslide victory over Elizabeth Colbert Busch in South Carolina’s first congressional district: Mr. Sanford, 52 years old, has pulled off several unlikely feats in the revival of
That’s Ezekiel Emanuel, the doctor–not Rahm, current Chicago mayor and White House Chief of Staff when Obamacare was rammed through Congress. Suddenly, Dr. Emanuel has decided to draw attention to the major flaws in Obamacare–principally that it creates strong incentives for
The central question in the Benghazi scandal is quite simple: what did President Barack Obama do? Other issues, such as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s failure to provide adequate security to U.S. diplomats, and the administration’s lie about an anti-Islam
There is a growing sense that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was intimately involved in both the decision to deceive the American public about the nature of the Benghazi attack, and in the failure to help Americans as they
Our friend Chip Gerdes passed away suddenly this morning. He was a close friend of Andrew Breitbart’s and a good friend to Breitbart News and grassroots conservatives everywhere. If you’ve ever been to CPAC, or attended a Tea Party rally
Ahead of Wednesday’s long-awaited hearings at the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee about the Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012, Democrats have a clear agenda: protect Hillary Clinton at all costs. Clinton, the former Secretary of State and
