While the IRS was targeting the Tea Party and other domestically-focused conservatives, they were allegedly targeting foreign policy groups like Secure America Now (SAN) as well. At the time that they were “singled out for special scrutiny the [IRS],” SAN
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 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) demanded that limited government and tea party groups produce Facebook posts, donor lists, and even what books group members were reading, reports Politico. The IRS’s hardball political tactics were all part of a strategy to
It’s Deja Vu all over again. From the Inspector General’s report on IRS profiling: “We could not specifically determine who had been involved in creating the criteria.” And that morsel of information was relegated to a footnote. How is that even
Russia detained U.S. Embassy Diplomat Ryan C. Fogle on the night of May 13; they have since expelled him from the country over accusations that he is a CIA intelligence officer. According to The Wall Street Journal, Fogle was “released
…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,
On Sunday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has discovered that the IRS did not merely target groups containing the words “Tea Party” or “patriots” – the IRS gave heightened scrutiny for any
On Friday, President Barack Obama issued a memorandum to federal agency and department heads tasking them with devising a strategy to combat “unfair pay disparities” which “are a detriment to women, families, and our economy.” Obama added: “The Federal Government
United States officials claim Russian intelligence withheld valuable information about Boston Marathon bomber Tamerian Tsarnaev when the country reached out to the FBI. Russia alerted the FBI about text messages between Tsarnaev, his mother, and a Russian relative. However, the
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
Back in May 2009, Professor Glenn Reynolds, better known to his followers as Instapundit, penned an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal in which he discussed some odd rhetoric from President Obama. Obama had been refused an honorary doctorate by
Let’s hope Jon Stewart hasn’t checked in with the BBC this morning. The liberal host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show spend a portion of his nightly “newscast” Wednesday spinning madly on behalf of the Obama administration over the latest
On May 8, Israel warned the U.S. that Russia is prepared to sell “S-300 missile batteries to Syria.” Should that happen, Israel says it will “significantly boost the regime’s ability to stave off intervention in its civil war.” Israel said
Upon coming to office, President Obama began using the obscure National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to give big payoffs to unions at the expense of businesses and to the detriment of our economic recovery, but now it appears his abuse
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
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President Barack Obama told the Mexican people today that the United States is partly to blame for Mexico’s drug violence because of illegal drugs and gun smuggling. However, he did not mention the gun smuggling undertaken by his own administration
The Federal Reserve’s monthly buying of $85 billion in bonds (known as quantitative easing), combined with today’s upwardly revised February and March job gains, powered the Dow to a record 15,000. The Fed’s “massive quantitative easing is clearly driving up
Speaking at 10:45 AM EST on April 30, President Obama explained that the delay in responding to Syria’s alleged use of chemical weapons is due to the fact that no one possesses a clear “chain of custody” for the use
An American tourist, jailed by DPRK authorities last year, will face trial for “committing crimes” against North Korea. According to Reuters, 44 year old Kenneth Bae, a U.S. citizen of Korean descent, has been detained by police since arriving in the northeastern
Buried amid the generally gloomy news last week was a development that is a true cause for celebration. By July, the Twinkie, and other favorite Hostess brands will return to store shelves. Two investment companies bought assets of the bankrupt
Reports indicate Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was mirandized by Federal Judge Marianne Bowler against the wishes of investigators who wanted to continue questioning the suspect. As news has come out of Bowler’s actions on April 22, Republican lawmakers have pressed the DOJ to
On Wednesday, House Republican leaders pulled a bill that, according to the Wall St. Journal, was a “cornerstone of their effort to ‘repeal and replace’” ObamaCare, President Obama’s signature health care legislation. According to the WSJ, the bill was abruptly
On Thursday, the Boston Herald reported that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) refused to answer questions about whether Boston terror suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had a government-paid cellphone because of privacy laws. The Herald reported Wednesday that “Tamerlan Tsarnaev,
While reports on Wednesday night suggested that the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, planned to head to New York after their bombing in order to “party,” newer information suggests that their party may have involved bombing Times
In response to Tamerlan Tsarnaev Was on Terrorist Watch List: Liz, not only did DHS/FBI ignore terrorism warnings from Russia, it seems they actually tried to persuade Canada to delay arresting the alleged Al Qaeda plotters of a train attack.
In his April 21 column in the Wall Street Journal, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey said if we want a reason to relax a week after the Boston Marathon bombing we can take solace in the fact the two bombing
A clerical error thwarted the FBI from discovering that now-deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had traveled to Russia last year for six months. It underscores broader problems that have persisted in federal counter-terrorism databases since 9/11. Sen. Lindsey Graham,
Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), Walmart, Amazon, and some Republicans are fighting to ram through an Internet sales tax bill to raise revenues and crush smaller e-commerce competitors. The “Marketplace Fairness Act” (S. 743), a retread of a bill introduced in
With a few lucky breaks, last week’s Boston Marathon bombing could have had a dramatically different outcome. Had Tamerlan or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sought help building their bombs on jihadist web forums, FBI agents likely would have detected it. They would have
The criminal complaint against surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsanaev contains an affidavit from Special Agent Daniel R. Genck, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is assigned to one of the Boston Field Office’s Counterterrorism Squads, and is
President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Thomas Perez, is embroiled in a heated new controversy over a school board election in Texas in which the federal government is intervening to protect incumbent school board members from their own
For The New York Times, editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal penned an apologia for the progressive media’s disinterest in covering the abortion trial of Kermit Gosnell and essentially claimed that the trial is a meaningless incident when all things are
On Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Jason Reyes reported a wide disparity between the number of people known dead in West, Texas, and the number who remain missing. While only twelve deaths were confirmed by Reyes in the
At two different points during the tense weeks of the gun control debate, the Wall Street Journal missed the value of the gun control filibuster initiated by Sens. Rand Paul (R-KY), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Mike Lee (R-UT). For example,
Four senior U.S. intelligence officials say there are “increasing suspicions” the Assad regime has used “small amounts of chemical weapons” during recent fighting. Their suspicions are shared by British officials who say that “witness accounts and preliminary testing” show that
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama paid an effective tax rate of just 18.4% in 2012 federal income tax. The figures, released by the White House, come as Obama included in his recently released budget the so-called “Buffett
As tax day approaches and American’s struggle to pay their growing “total tax burden” the hard-earned taxpayer dollar is the currency of cronies. Taxpayer funded support of cronies in Washington DC is breaking America’s piggy bank. Now visas may also be
Though the proposed Toomey-Manchin gun control legislation states that it hopes to “protect Second Amendment rights” while it “prevents individuals who should be prohibited from buying a firearm” from doing so, the bill could actually deter mentally ill people from
In 2007, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California vetoed a measure that would have stocked the state’s prisons with condoms for inmate use. Now, the measure is back. A bill making its way through the Assembly would distribute condoms throughout the
