“My question is who is going to jail?”—
House Speaker John Boehner on the IRS Scandal
The President couldn’t even bring himself to breathe a word of
the truth.
He could fire some hapless Acting Commissioner, but last night
Mr. Obama never came...
How culpable is Attorney General Eric Holder for his
department’s mining of phone calls made by Associated Press
journalists? That was the question on everyone’s mind on Capitol
Hill yesterday, where members of both parties grilled Holder duri...
WASHINGTON — How odd! There I was Saturday evening in the Windy
City at a fundraising event for the Chicago Rowing Foundation, and
who do I encounter but the mayor of Chicago, His Honor Rahm
Emanuel? You might recall that back in 2010 I was encourag...
It’s fascinating that David Axelrod suddenly appeared on MSNBC’s
Morning Joe yesterday to give his spin on the scandal
eruption emanating from the Obama administration right now. On the
Department of Justice and Associated Press, Axelrod maintained th...
Many Vatican-watchers interpreted the election of Pope Francis
as Rome’s counter-offensive against the rise of neo-Pentecostalism
in the global South. Pentecostalism is the fastest growing sect in
the Latin America, where a third of the world’s Cathol...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Virginia Republicans this weekend will
launch an experiment in politics, opting for a party convention
instead of an election to choose a slate of candidates for
statewide offices.
The move eliminates a long, drawn out and often expens...
In April of last year I was invited by the Alabama Policy
Institute to give a talk on the Founders’ concept of rights as
embodied in the Declaration of Independence. An abridged version of
the paper from which I spoke is set forth below.
This week’s h...
Deep in the bowels of Washington’s regulatory agencies, and
overshadowed by the raft of recent scandals, Obamacare is falling
apart. Key provisions of the health law have either been stalled in
implementation or tied up in the courts. Out of money, Heal...
“Our right hand doesn’t know what our far right hand is doing,”
Ronald Reagan once joked of his administration. Obama lacks the
humor, grace, or knowledge of Biblical allusions, to make a similar
joke about his White House. Plus, it wouldn...
There are faint signs of cognition in Maureen Dowd’s latest
column, which raises the remote possibility that the brain-dead
left is not completely dead, but only mostly dead — in terms of
its ability to hold a critical thought about the disastrou...
