The First Amendment marks out three areas in which the federal
government is limited: no “prohibiting the free exercise” of
religion, no “abridging the freedom of speech or of press,” no
impeding the “right of the people peaceably to assemble, a...
Writing a column on the recent IRS abuses is a hazardous
undertaking. The scandal is expanding so quickly that it’s hard to
get a paragraph on paper without having to revise it with new,
shocking details. As I write this, an unctuous-looking former IRS...
The IRS scandal provides Republicans and conservatives with the
opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare now. The House
Republican majority should refuse to fund the expansion of the IRS
necessary to manage Obamacare. Without that funding, and hiring
t...
Few Americans dread anything more than receiving a letter from
the IRS. But imagine a full field audit, with intrusive questions
about your activities and spending habits. From suspicious agents
convinced that you’ve violated the law. That’s essential...
The United States Senate will likely soon consider ratification
the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (CRPD), which fell six votes short of the 67 needed
last December. The CPRD’s stated purpose is “to promote, prote...
Kermit Gosnell is not an outlier and his “house of horrors” is
not an isolated case. The abortion industry’s problems run much
deeper than that.
There is no need to dwell on the grotesque murders of the many
living babies by Philadelphia abortionist...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — E.W. Jackson played every card in
the deck to win Virginia’s Republican lieutenant governor
nomination Saturday night in Richmond — a rousing
speech, a dedicated base, and charismatic appeal to undecided
conservative...
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
went “birther” on Major Garrett of CBS News.
Garrett was asking Carney to elaborate on Obama Senior Advisor
Dan Pfeiffer’s comments over the weekend about Republicans going on
...
Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS’s tax-exempt-organizations
division, will plead the Fifth in a hearing before the House
Oversight Committee tomorrow.
Lerner, who has known of the targeting for two years, will not
answer questions before the committ...
I recently asked a wise friend of mine who lives in Virginia
what his take is on the upcoming election for governor between the
state’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, and former DNC chairman,
Clinton confidante and fund-raiser Terry McAuliffe.
My...
Let me put on my big surprise face:
Link
The House committee should not excuse her from showing up. They
should make her take the fifth, and get it all over the
Internet....
“There’s no shifting going on, that I see at all,” Apple CEO Tim
Cook explained to a Senate investigations subcommittee chaired by
Carl Levin (D-Mich.), referring to his company’s Irish subsidiary
AOI,
which has been
painted as a tax shelter. It...
