“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...
Over a pleasant weekend here in The Nation’s Only Boom Town, the
avalanche of awful disclosures about the Internal Revenue Service
continues with no end in sight. Meanwhile, below I raise a simple
question, suggest the obvious answer and the conclusion...
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...
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...
As I
describe at CFIF,
Artur Davis has identified some of the important meanings of
the triple-scandals engulfing the Obama administration. He blitzes
what he calls “Obama’s Weak ‘I’m No Nixon’ Defense.” He correctly...
I would not, could not pretend to do an unbiased job of a full,
official review of a new novel by a close cousin. I do, however,
feel comfortable doing at least this blog post
recommending Precipice,
a thriller by my first cousin Leland Davis, who is...
