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Anti-Israel IRS
The Washington Free Beacon advances the story of the IRS’s targeting of pro-Israel groups. It seems that the targeting was not limited to stalling tax-exempt applications, it extended to audits as...
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That’s a lot of bad apples
House investigators have found 88 IRS employees with documents relevant to the IRS scandal. (Previous post. ”Please detail the content of the members of your organization’s prayers.”)
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Explain the prayers
When the IRS demanded to know the substance of tax-exempt applicants’ prayers, it was not a few isolated incidents. The IRS made a practice of inquiring into applicants prayers: Please explain in...
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157 meetings
Doug Shulman, the IRS commissioner when most of the known IRS misconduct took place, made at least 157 visits to the White House. If that seems like a lot, it really is. It’s nearly twice the number of...
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Free speech is dying
The nation that invented individual liberty has abandoned it: A 22-year-old man has been charged on suspicion of making malicious comments on Facebook following the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby....
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All your data are belong to Obama
I’m starting to think that the Obama administration’s plan to deal with the scandals is to have so many of them we can’t keep them straight any more. In the latest scandal, the NSA collected call data...
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Shulman’s wife was “fair” elections advocate
The wife of Douglas Shulman (commissioner of the IRS when its targeting of conservative, Christian, and pro-Israel groups began) works for Public Campaign, a left-wing organization working for “fair”...
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Another State Department scandal
I can’t even keep track of all the scandals any more. Here’s the latest: CBS News has uncovered documents that show the State Department may have covered up allegations of illegal and inappropriate...
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Organizing for Tax-Exempt Action
One of the defenses offered for the IRS’s targeting of conservative, Christian, and pro-Israel groups is that is that political organizations oughtn’t be tax exempt in the first place. For example,...
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IRS workers finger Washington
The IRS claims that all its misconduct was limited to a few front-line workers. We already knew that wasn’t true, but those front-line workers — tired of being scapegoated — are starting to give...
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State Department spikes child abuse investigation
The New York Post reports: A State Department whistleblower has accused high-ranking staff of a massive coverup — including keeping a lid on findings that members of then-Secretary Hillary Clinton’s...
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Clapper was warned of question, still lied
People have tried to defend Obama administration intelligence chief James Clapper for lying to Congress, saying that Ron Wyden’s question on classified operations in an unclassified setting put him in...
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Happy Birthday
No one can sing Happy Birthday in public without paying royalties to Warner/Chappell Music, who owns the copyright to the song, over a century after it was composed. But a lawsuit now claims that Happy...
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You can’t make this stuff up
The law is supposed to forbid the IRS from compromising the privacy of taxpayers’ information, but as we well know, it has failed to prevent it. Nevertheless, with astonishing chutzpah, the IRS now...
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The Zimmerman case
Last week a Florida jury found George Zimmerman not guilty in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Despite the collective freak-out of the media and the liberal establishment, no one who followed the...
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Chalking prosecution
I’m not much of a fan of chalking myself; I think it’s tacky in most circumstances. But it’s clearly a form of speech, isn’t it? Jeff Olson, the 40-year-old man who is being prosecuted for scrawling...
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Apple convicted of price fixing
Pro tip: when you conspire to fix prices, don’t brag about it to the press: When asked by a reporter later that day why people would pay $14.99 in the iBookstore to purchase an e-book that was selling...
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The Democratic strategy emerges
It took a while for the Democrats to find their footing in the astonishing and appalling IRS scandal, but they now seem to have settled on a strategy. Conducting a good-faith investigation and...
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“Behavior changers”
In a 2011 interview, Lois Lerner explains the IRS’s purpose behind sending massive, intrusive questionnaires: Receiving a thick questionnaire from the IRS, she says, is a “behavior changer.” She was...
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