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All the way to the top
The IRS claimed that its misconduct was limited to a few rank-and-file employees in Cincinnati. We’ve known that to be a lie almost from the beginning, but not how much until now: The chief counsel’s...
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Treasury improperly accessed confidential tax records
The saddest thing about this story might be that it’s not surprising any more: A government watchdog has found for the first time that confidential tax records of several political candidates and...
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IRS targeted candidate for audits
Another branch of the IRS scandal is opening: For the first time, [Inspector General Russell] George revealed claims that IRS officials targeted political candidates for audits. . . The story doesn’t...
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HHS mandate enjoined
A federal judge has issued an injunction in the Hobby Lobby case, barring enforcement of the HHS mandate to provide contraceptives and abortifacients. This seems right to me; under the Religious...
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Public enemy #1
No one who paid attention to the George Zimmerman trial could have been at all surprised by the verdict, given Zimmerman’s story and utter lack of any credible evidence to contradict it. The real...
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IRS scandal gets closer to Obama
IRS chief counsel William Wilkins, who oversaw the IRS’s misconduct, and who is one of only two political appointments in the IRS, met with President Obama just two days before authoring the agency’s...
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ACLU now okay with double jeopardy
The ACLU has changed its long-held position opposing double jeopardy and now approves of it, at least in George Zimmerman’s case. The ACLU saving grace was always its consistency. They didn’t care...
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Unlawful command influence
Barack Obama just isn’t a very good lawyer at all, is he? Two defendants in military sexual assault cases cannot be punitively discharged, if found guilty, because of “unlawful command influence”...
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Republicans barred from Obama speech
Barack Obama, 2004: There is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. Barack Obama, 2007: I don’t want to pit red America against blue America. I want...
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Open season on the innocent in New York
You can’t carry a gun in New York, and the police are under no obligation to help you. POSTSCRIPT: Yes, this is an old story, but I think it’s important to be reminded each step the sordid case takes...
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Obamacare corruption
One of the beneficiaries of Kathleen Sebelius’s shakedown of health care companies (she pressured them, under cover of authority, to contribute to organizations promoting Obamacare) is caught engaging...
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Illegal Obama policy permitted to stand
In a lawsuit over President Obama’s immigration policy (in which he announced that he would not enforce the law for certain categories of illegal immigrants), a federal judge has ruled that Obama’s...
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It’s important not to judge
When it comes to Edward Snowden, who has stolen US secrets and delivered them to our nation’s enemies, President Obama says: We don’t know exactly what he did, except what he said on the Internet and...
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FEC colluded with IRS to target conservatives
The IRS’s misconduct seems to have dragged in the FEC as well: Eliana Johnson finds that Lois Lerner appears to have colluded with an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s...
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Obama discloses sealed indictment
Our law-instructor president just doesn’t seem to be good at law at all (or perhaps he just doesn’t care): Speaking at a White House press conference about government surveillance, terrorism, and other...
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IRS against religion
The IRS says that you can’t be tax exempt and push your religion, or at least that is what IRS agents are telling pro-life tax-exempt applicants. The conversation doesn’t pullquote very easily, mainly...
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Holder to SCOTUS: drop dead
Despite the Supreme Court’s decision throwing out Section 4 of the Voting Right Act (which covered jurisdictions based on the statistics of 50 years ago, rather than today), Eric Holder says he’s going...
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Lois Lerner used personal email for IRS business
This, of course, is the standard ploy for keeping documents from turning up in Freedom of Information Act requests. (Previous post.)
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Clapper chosen to investigate Clapper
To investigate the NSA’s spying on Americans, President Obama appointed the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. Clapper, of course, is best known for heading the intelligence apparatus as...
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