by Matthew Boyle. The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum ... MOREDOJ Leaked Docs To Smear Fast & Furious Whistleblower
by Matthew Boyle. The Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General published a new report Monday that confirms former U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke leaked a document intended to smear Operation Fast and Furious scandal whistleblower John Dodson. The DOJ IG said it found “Burke’s conduct in disclosing the Dodson memorandum ... MOREIra Stoll: The IRS v. The First Amendment
Whatever happened to "Congress shall make no law"? Of all the discouraging news in the scandal involving President Obama’s Internal Revenue Service, the most illuminating is that one of the things that triggered additional scrutiny from the IRS for groups applying for tax-exempt status was any plan for “educating on the constitution ... MOREWalter E Williams: We Are The Idiots
Why do we listen to them? Dr. Henry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article "Rachel Carson's Deadly Fantasies" (9/5/2012), wrote that her 1962 book, "Silent Spring," led to a world ban on DDT use. The DDT ban was responsible for the loss ... MOREThomas Sowell: Wimps Versus Barbarians
Bet on the barbarians. An all too familiar scene was enacted on the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in companies that dealt in fossil fuels. As a speaker was beginning a presentation to show how many millions of dollars ... MORESheldon Richman: Abolish The IRS
(and the income tax with it) The Internal Revenue Service has been caught engaging in
political profiling while processing applications for tax-exempt
status. In this case it was against organizations with “tea-party”
or “patriot ” in their names and other right-wing groups. Next time
it could be libertarian or left-wing antiwar and
pro-civil-liberties ... MOREIRS And AP Scandals Cast A Big Chill On Free Speech
by Michael Barone. Chilling 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 administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of ... MORE
Steve Chapman: Obama Is Not Nixon
Are babies like snakes because some have rattles? "The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know,"
said Harry Truman, who made it his task to absorb a lot of it. Many
people who have not followed his example are not averse to using
what little they do know, with the inadvertent effect of exposing
how much they have to ... MOREObama's Scandals Reveal The True Face Of Government
by Steven Greenhut. The Obama administration has gotten itself into a fix between its contradictory stories about the Benghazi incident, reports of the IRS targeting conservative groups, and the Justice Department’s grabbing of phone records from AP reporters. There are few things more fun to watch than arrogant political leaders -- folks ... MOREDid IRS Illegally Seized 60 Million Health Records?
That is what a California lawsuit claims. A lawsuit filed in California accuses the Internal Revenue Service of illegal seizure of 60 million electronic health care records belonging to 10 million Americans. The suit filed in the Superior Court of San Diego by Robert Barnes, a Malibu lawyer representing a corporate client named John Doe ... MOREScott Holleran: A Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy
Based on what we know. Years ago, Hillary Clinton, speaking as the president’s wife, went on NBC’s Today Show and complained of what she called a “vast right-wing conspiracy” without citing evidence. She said there was a conspiracy to discredit her husband over the scandal of his having an affair with an intern. It turned out that there was a ... MOREStop The Imperialization Of America With Nullification
by Danny De Gracia, Washington Times. Some say that President Barack Obama has been having a tough month, rocked by the scandals of Benghazi whistleblowers, IRS harassment and the Associated Press records probe. I say baloney. No matter what egregious offense or incompetence by the federal government erupt into public ... MORE
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