“For me, it’s about collaboration.” — National
Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley
on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union
and the Obama White House
Is President Obama directly implicated in
the IRS...
As gratifying as it was to see the “news” media actually do its
job last week when the IRS scandal broke, it was also odd that the
coverage focused exclusively on abuses of power relating to various
Tea Party and anti-abortion groups. A much scarier I...
(Revised and Updated)
Over a pleasant weekend here in The Nation’s Only Boom Town, the
avalanche of awful disclosures about the Internal Revenue Service
continued with no end in sight. These developments are revealing,
not only about the current adminis...
How much longer will we have to fight the war on terrorism? Last
week the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations,
Michael Sheehan, told a Senate hearing that “I think it’s at least
ten or twenty years.” Wow. What a relief. Well, not r...
Last Thursday, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) started a
Twitter prairie fire
with his call for people to describe
#ObamacareInThreeWords. (My contribution was “Sorry, Doctor
retired.”)
Other gems included “Max Baucus regrets,” “A massi...
ONLY ONE YEAR INTO his presidency, François Hollande, France’s
bland, indecisive, but stubbornly doctrinaire socialist leader, is
already setting records. Admittedly they are not the sort of
milestones that the French were hoping for when they voted hi...
A few words first about Downton Abbey. I’ll assume that
its upstairs/downstairs formula is familiar to readers. One of the
BBC show’s great merits is that its creator, Julian Fellowes, does
not indulge in class war. Lord Grantham is “probably the mo...
Reporter Elizabeth Flock of U.S. News and World Report,
over
here in the Washington Whispers column, has discovered the
announced purpose of the meeting that drew NTEU president Colleen
Kelley to the meeting discussed in today’s special report.
Writes...
Check out my recent
interview with Dan Mandis of 850 KOA in Denver, Colorado about
all things drone: Legal issues, national security implications, and
the robotic aircrafts’ future here at home. The link can be found
below. And remember folks, shari...
If you read one (non-Spectator) article this morning,
make it
Jillian Kay Melchior’s latest piece over at NRO. Melchior
interviews a Texas woman named Catherine Engelbrecht, who, after
filing with the IRS for tax-exempt status for two Tea Party gro...
A 74,000-page tax code that no American citizen can possibly
know or understand is the basis for our federal system of taxation.
The current IRS scandal is not a bug in the system. Rather, this
kind of behavior is a feature, long prized by the Ruling
Elit...
Singer-songwriter Alan O’Day
passed away on Friday of cancer. He was 72.
O’Day is best known for his number one hit “Undercover Angel”
which topped the charts in 1977.
Prior to that, O’Day had written songs for other artists...
