During a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations in New
York City, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
called upon the Obama Administration to approve the Keystone XL
Pipeline. Harper said the pipeline “absolutely needs to go
ahead.”...
After IRS acting chief Steve Miller was forced to resign, it was
only a matter of time before there was another casualty. It turns
out it’s Joseph Grant, comissioner of the IRS’s tax exempt and
government entities division.
The AP is
rep...
Before the shock and stench of Kermit Gosnell’s horrors was even
allowed to dissipate, the lieutenant governor of Texas, David
Dewhurst, has announced he is asking Harris County officials to
investigate claims of abuse at a Houston abortion clinic.
As i...
Much has been said about the trouble with public-sector
pensions. Many state
and local plans are underfunded and, unless policy and
accounting changes are undertaken, some major plans will run out of
assets to pay benefits over the coming years. That mean...
As Matt
reported yesterday, Deputy Attorney General James Cole is
being set up as the fall guy for the Department of Justice’s
subpoena of AP journalists’ phone records.
In a press conference Thursday, Obama said he had “comple...
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) made headlines this morning when he
said in an interview that the Department of Justice “wiretapped”
the phones in the House of Representatives cloakroom, where members
and only the most trusted staffers socialize a...
At CFIF, my column today
details a very, very long list of examples of what columnist
Michael Barone first described as the “gangster government”
tendencies of Barack Obama and his minions.
I want to add to that list (please do read it), with...
Who would have guessed that the State of Delaware’s third
largest revenue source would essentially be a mafia-like
combination of extortion and theft?
That’s certainly how it sounds when you read Douglas Lindholm’s
article in Forbes mag...
Since January 1st, the Internal Revenue Service has
read our website 2,615 times, including 36 visits on February 6 and
34 visits on May 10.
After Watchdog.org
broke news that the IRS had viewed their page 456 times since
2009, the Spectator search...
