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  • Think Tank Takes: Did Lois Lerner incriminate herself?

    05/27/13 01:35 PM

    It is not clear that Lois Lerner, the embattled head of the IRS's tax-exempt organizations office, waived her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, as has been suggested by commentators ... when she briefly appeared before the House Oversight Committee investigating the targeting of...

  • As we thank those who died for our freedom, let's remember our living heroes, too

    By Harry Croft and sydney Savion | 05/27/13 09:15 AM

    On this Memorial Day, as we remember those who have died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, it is also a time to remember those who served and are still living. The military members and veterans with physical wounds are easy to spot, but those with the "invisible war wounds" of...

  • Op-Ed: Obama's civil liberties abuses expose liberal hypocrisy

    By Matt Patterson | 05/24/13 02:25 PM

    Washington's unfolding scandal concerning the IRS targeting of conservative groups has, if nothing else, laid bare the rank hypocrisy of too many among the liberal elite. How many times did we hear liberals bemoaning President George W. Bush's alleged invasions of privacy, his administration's...

  • Jed Babbin: Why Putin's anti-American gambits succeed

    By Jed Babbin | 05/23/13 02:30 PM

    Thanks to an assortment of White House spokesmen, we know that President Obama wasn't talking with then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta or then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the night of the Benghazi terrorist attack. It doesn't matter where he was, we are told, because he was...

  • Op-Ed: Free market has real solutions to obesity crisis

    By Jeff Stier and Henry I. Miller | 05/20/13 02:20 PM

    Obesity is a public health time bomb. But is curbing it primarily the responsibility of the government? The food police think so. Along the way, their extreme rhetoric demonizes industry and characterizes food marketers as little better than child molesters. Weighing in from the Left are...

  • Op-Ed: Benghazi is serious, but it's not Watergate

    By Douglas MacKinnon | 05/20/13 02:05 PM

    There are at the moment a number of exaggerated, even breathless comparisons between President Obama's Benghazi/IRS/Associated Press controversies and President Nixon's Watergate scandal in 1973. Part of that narrative is driven by the fact that the media like to associate controversies with...

  • Op-Ed: How much is your brain worth?

    By Jeffrey Cummings | 05/19/13 03:35 PM

    How much is your brain worth? It is the three-pound universe that comprises all you know of yourself and your world. It is the most valuable organ you have and is more sophisticated than any computer. Without it you are not yourself. Over five million Americans are not the same vibrant mothers...

  • Matthew Clark: Tea Party message to the IRS: See you in court

    By Matthew Clark | 05/17/13 04:50 PM

    Claims that the Internal Revenue Service's intentional targeting of conservative and Tea Party groups was not politically motivated are truly outrageous and should concern all Americans. Unbelievably, in his congressional testimony on Friday, the acting commissioner of the IRS, Steve Miller,...

  • Steven Miller: Barack Obama's Smoking Gun

    By Tom Fitton | 05/17/13 01:10 PM

    President Obama has now had his Nixonian "I'm not a crook" moment, taking to the airwaves to feign angry indignation about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his enemies while denying any knowledge whatsoever of what his administration had been up to. I am not surprised that Obama is...

  • Op-Ed: What is to be done: Reveal and replace Obamacare

    By Dave Camp and Fred Upton | 05/15/13 05:10 PM

    Millions of Americans now find themselves in the midst of a massive botched experiment called Obamacare. Nearly every poll-tested health care commitment is evaporating into thin air, leaving us with higher costs and headaches of uncertainty. Unfortunately, this was both predicted and...


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