Gene Healy

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

You may be appalled about IRS inquisitions for Tea Party groups and dragnet subpoenas for investigative reporters, but what's really outrageous, according to some commentators, is that a couple of Republicans recently dared to use the "I-word" -- "impeachment."

Cal Thomas

Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

Given last week's revelation that the IRS targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, it's worth recalling President Obama's Ohio State University commencement address. The president decried "voices" warning "that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner." It's no longer...

Timothy P. Carney

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Benghazi. The IRS targeting the Tea Party. Feds snooping on the Associated Press. These dizzying controversies around the Obama administration all carry the same lesson: Watch what you say. On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking...

Gregory Kane

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Here's a question young Malcolm Shabazz probably didn't ask himself the last night of his life: "What would my grandfather do?" The mourners -- hundreds of them, according to news accounts -- gathered Friday at the Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California in Oakland, Calif. They came...

James Carafano

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

In the 13 seconds between explosions at the Boston Marathon, dozens of the city's first responders were already on the move. Among them were Thomas Lee and David Carabin, veteran officers in the city's police force. Lee and Carabin had something in common beyond being two of "Boston's finest."...

Hugh Hewitt

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Far better to have an imperfect tax code fairly applied than a perfect tax code unfairly applied. It is far more important that the entire enforcement and regulatory philosophy of the executive branch be radically remade than any particular law be amended. The proponents of tax reform are...

Conn Carroll

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

"It's an interesting case study, right," former President Obama adviser David Axelrod told the crew of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Wednesday, "because if you look at the inspector general's report, apparently some folks down in the bureaucracy, ya know -- we have a large government -- took it upon...

Star Parker

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

With the convictions in the case against abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell -- three counts of murdering live babies and one count of involuntary manslaughter -- abortion is back in the national discussion. It's pretty clear from the grand jury report that, during Gosnell's 30-plus-year career, he...

Mark J. Fitzgibbons

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

No one should be surprised by the scandals at the Internal Revenue Service involving tax-exempt status of Tea Parties and the targeting of conservatives for audits. Such abuses of power within government, of course, are not confined to the IRS or even the federal government. They are not even...

Michael Barone

Published: Sat, May 18, 2013

Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand...