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Congress's Role in Repeal: Won and Done
President Obama could never undo his pro-abortion legacy — but this week, Congress is giving him an opportunity to try. In perhaps one of the single greatest accomplishments of the last seven years, Republicans managed their first-ever, dual-chamber rebuke of Planned Parenthood and ObamaCare. After more than 60 tries, Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) party celebrated the victory at a special signing ceremony of the Restoring Americans' Health Care Freedom Act this afternoon.
How Lawmakers Stopped Part of Obama's Assault on First Amendment
There is no question that the omnibus appropriations bill that Congress passed just before its holiday recess is full of wasteful spending. Even worse, it completely funds Obama's unilateral, above-the-law executive actions in almost every area, from his immigration amnesty program to his overregulation of power plants. However, there is one area where Congress acted through the omnibus (and tax extenders bill) to stop part of the administration's assault on the First Amendment.
Is the IRS Conspiring Against Conservatives Again?
A new rule appears suspiciously similar to past donor-stifling schemes.
Do You Fear What I Fear?
The IRS isn't exactly topping conservatives' nice list this Christmas — so the idea of handing over even more sensitive information to an agency caught leaking it doesn't exactly thrill most Americans. Unfortunately, that's exactly what the Obama administration is proposing under a little rule quietly announced this September. The IRS didn't make much noise about the idea, and considering the opposition — it's easy to see why.
Skip the Investigations, Win the Election
At a certain point, you have to realize you can't hit a fastball. House Republicans don't quite get that they are hopeless at oversight hearings. They keep losing — and now the chairman of the House Oversight Committee has just introduced articles of impeachment against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. I'm sympathetic to the GOP motive, given how the Obama IRS has consistently obstructed and misled Congress in the tax-exemption scandal. But impeachment is no ordinary move. No agency chief or Cabinet officer has been impeached since 1876. And even proponents admit that there is no chance of Koskinen being removed from office because the Senate will never convict.
Lois Lerner Won’t Be Facing Criminal Charges
Here Are the Problems With the 'Investigation' That Cleared Her
Generous to a Default?
If you thought your credit was a mess, you should see the government's! With daily payments as high as $60 billion, America has been testing the brakes at the brink of spending crisis after spending crisis. Now, days away from maxing out the government's virtual credit cards, the House and Senate are in a mad scramble to put another financial fire out: the prospect of defaulting on America's loans.
Impeach the IRS Director
"Look," wrote Lois Lerner, echoing Horace Greeley, "my view is that Lincoln was our worst president not our best. He should [have] let the [S]outh go. We really do seem to have 2 totally different mindsets." Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, was referring to Southern secessionist states when he urged President-elect Lincoln to "let the erring sisters go in peace." Greeley favored separating the nation from certain mindsets; Lerner favors suppressing certain mindsets.
Something Worse Than the IRS Awaits Greedy Televangelists
The fourth circle of Hell, as envisioned by Dante Alighieri in *The Divine Comedy*, is reserved for the avaricious and the profligate. It is where those whose lust for getting and spending knew no bounds in life are punished in the afterlife by being battered endlessly with heavy weights. Notable among the souls damned for their greed, Dante wrote, "were clergymen and popes and cardinals, within whom avarice works its excess." What disgusted the great poet in 14th-century Florence — money-grubbing hucksters masquerading as men of God — is just as disgusting in 21st-century America.
Hillary Clinton's Record of Malfeasance
From Little Rock to the White House, to Foggy Bottom and...
Either Lois Lerner's Dog Can Email, or She's More Corrupt
The former IRS agent's personal email account comes to light.
Read more Just Mismanagement at the IRS? Hardly.
Bipartisan Senate report haggles over the scandal.