Yesterday I
asked in this space, among other questions about the IRS
scandal, this:
What was the subject of the Obama-Kelley March 31, 2010
meeting?
I received the following response to my question from the
National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU)...
During Friday morning’s House Ways and Means Committee hearing
on the IRS targeting scandal, Liberal Congressman Jim McDermott
(D-WA) at least had the honesty to say “I don’t like the
right.”
Each committee member had his own axe t...
I am certain that a majority of conservatives would agree with
the statement, “I don’t believe a word President Obama says.”
Alas, I am not amongst that majority.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe a great deal of what Obama
tells us. But there...
The Balkans Wars may be over, but the European Union continues
its biased attempt at geopolitical social engineering. As always,
the principal victims are ethnic Serbs.
Serbia and Kosovo last month announced an agreement for
Belgrade’s de facto recognit...
Despite my well-deserved international reputation as a coward, I
occasionally get into arguments with people, mostly on Facebook
where no one can punch you. It was during such an argument recently
that someone actually implied that I was a liar, one vice...
As a long-time admirer—even an enthusiast—of Ford Madox Ford’s
tetralogy of novels (Some Do Not, No More
Parades, A Man Could Stand Up, and The Last
Post) that go under the collective title of Parade’s
End, I expected not to care for Tom Stoppard...
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 beg...
“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...
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...
