Byron York

Updated: 9 hr ago

One of the defining features of the Senate Judiciary Committee meetings considering amendments to the Gang of Eight immigration reform bill is that the two Republican Gang members on the committee — Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jeff Flake — have often sided with unanimous Democrats to vote down...

Michael Barone

Updated: 9 hr ago

The excellent Anne Applebaum has a fine article in the New York Review of Books, reviewing Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In” and Hanna Rosin’s “The Rise of Women and the End of Men.” It makes several interesting points and is definitely worth reading in...

Philip Klein

Updated: 9 hr ago

On the heels of news that the Obama administration Department of Justice was spying on reporters at the Associated Press, Monday brought the startling disclosure by the Washington Post that the DOJ had also targeted Fox reporter James Rosen for surveillance in an effort to plug up leaks....

Brian Hughes

Updated: 11 hr ago

Senior White House officials knew for nearly a month that the Internal Revenue Service was under investigation for targeting conservative groups, but they decided not to tell President Obama about the incident, the White House said Monday. The admission shows the White House knew about...

Sean Higgins

Updated: 11 hr ago

On Monday, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) union announced it would formally oppose the White House’s pick of Penny Pritzker to be the new Commerce Secretary. The Chicago billionaire, a major Obama fundraiser, is set to have a Senate committee confirmation hearing on...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

The TV show “Nashville” did well enough in its first season to get renewed by ABC. Now producers are trying to get their subsidies renewed. The Tennessean reports.

Sean Higgins

Updated: 12 hr ago

Washington Post Fact Check columnist Glenn Kessler makes an important catch regarding Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the exempt organizations division who first revealed the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups.

Charlie Spiering

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

The Tea Party Patriots website has crashed, organizers say, due to the high volume of interest in the nationwide protests planned for over 100 Internal Revenue Offices across the nation. The website crashed after Rush Limbaugh highlighted the grassroots organization as a place to get...

Conn Carroll

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Many conservatives do not normally think of it this way, but Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota explained today that low-skill immigration is really just another government redistribution program. But this time, income is being redistributed from the poor to the...

Joel Gehrke

Updated: 13 hr ago

President Obama did not hear of the IRS scandal until the agency apologized for targeting conservatives because his White House counsel and other senior staff agreed he should not be informed, his spokesman said today, adding that Obama thought they made the right decision in not telling him....