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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...

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Don’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.

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ATF 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...

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NSA 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...

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Obama 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...

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The 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...

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Obama’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,...

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Laws 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.

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EPA 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...

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Alas, this is no surprise

The Obama administration is illegally using DOD communication systems for political communications.

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Obama 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”...

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Potemkin 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...

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Judge rejects Obama’s “secret law”

Yep, they tried to do that.

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Struck 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...

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Struck 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...

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NYT 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...

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Struck 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...

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Obama 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...

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Obama releases domestic terrorist

Lynne Stewart, the lawyer who facilitated terrorist communications with Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, has been released by the Obama administration.

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Fox 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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