Obama loses Gunwalker document ruling
A federal judge has rejected the Obama administration’s efforts to withhold any documents it likes from Congressional scrutiny on nothing more than its say-so: In a ruling Monday night, U.S. District...
View ArticleDon’t believe any IRS pledge
The IRS has not yet destroyed lists of donors to non-profits that it compiled illegally and pledged to destroy.
View ArticleATF blocks Gunwalker book
Fox News reports: The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting “because it would have a negative...
View ArticleNSA round-up
The Obama administration’s “dense pack” of scandals, together with my busy schedule of late, has kept me from keeping up-to-date on the NSA scandal. I’ve been meaning to comment on all of these, but I...
View ArticleObama administration weakened NSA rules
The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration weakened the rules governing the NSA, greatly extending the NSA’s ability to spy on Americans: The Obama administration secretly won permission...
View ArticleThe Obama shutdown
Ace asks a really good question: I know the media doesn’t ask Obvious Questions but can the we see the Office of WH Council’s memorandum that this [shutdown theater] is legally required? If not, why...
View ArticleObama’s Gitmo
Yet another Bush-era War on Terror policy that Obama pretended to abhor before adopting himself: Instead of sending suspected terrorists to Guantanamo Bay or secret CIA “black” sites for interrogation,...
View ArticleLaws are for the little people
How Dianne Feinstein got a bunch of illegal weapons for her anti-gun press conference. Yes, there was a cover-up.
View ArticleEPA overreach
The EPA is extending its authority over streams and wetlands: Two Republican lawmakers on the House Science Committee are accusing the Environmental Protection Agency of pushing through a rule that...
View ArticleAlas, this is no surprise
The Obama administration is illegally using DOD communication systems for political communications.
View ArticleObama administration relents on speech codes
The Obama administration seems to be abandoning its effort to institute unconstitutional speech codes throughout higher education: The federal government is backing away from the nationwide “blueprint”...
View ArticlePotemkin investigation
Remember the how the FBI was going to investigate the IRS’s harassment of conservative groups? Attorney General Eric Holder said on Tuesday that he had ordered an FBI investigation to determine whether...
View ArticleStruck down
In one day, four injunctions (1, 2, 3, 4) against the HHS mandate in four separate cases. (Via Instapundit.) Cases like Hobby Lobby are difficult, since they raise the question of whether people have...
View ArticleStruck down
When New York State passed its execrable gun law, limiting the number of bullets that may be loaded into a magazine, I wrote: I defy anyone to name any constructive purpose served by such a rule. If...
View ArticleNYT on freedom of religion
The New York Times (writing on Justice Sotomayor’s “perplexing” decision that people are better equipped to judge what is a burden to their religion than the New York Times) also has this to say about...
View ArticleStruck down
In the same decision that struck down New York’s astonishingly stupid and pointless law banning more than seven rounds in a magazine, the federal judge also struck down three provisions as...
View ArticleObama to weaken mental-health privacy
The Obama administration has announced that it will weaken the HIPAA rules that protect the privacy of individuals’ health records. They wants government bureaucrats to have access to mental health...
View ArticleObama releases domestic terrorist
Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who facilitated terrorist communications with Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, has been released by the Obama administration.
View ArticleFox investigating chicken coop
So, they’re not even going to pretend to have a non-partisan investigation of the IRS scandal: The Justice Department selected an avowed political supporter of President Obama to lead the criminal...
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