Sean Higgins

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

A story in the Washington Post yesterday about the Internal Revenue Service’s Cincinnati office, which does most of the agency’s nonprofit auditing, clearly contradicted earlier reports that the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups was the result of rogue agents. The Post story...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for more answers. Trying to move past a...

Sean Higgins

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Over at the Nation, Jeremy Pikser, who co-wrote the Warren Beatty film Bulworth offers his reaction to the report that President Obama has considered “going Bulworth” according to the New York Times. Pikser’s article is titled: “I knew J. Billington Bulworth, and you, Mr. President, are...

Sean Higgins

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

Terry Eastland focuses on Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez’s unusual quid pro quo with the city of St. Paul in the latest edition of the Weekly Standard, a story we have devoted more than a few pixels to here. Perez’s deal involved getting the city to drop a case bound for the Supreme...

Sean Higgins

Published: Sun, May 19, 2013

In its Saturday edition the Washington Post featured two separate front-page stories about the controversy engulfing the Internal Revenue Service for its targeting of Tea Party groups seeking nonprofit status. Both stories featured completely different figures for the number of auditors the IRS...

Dave Philipps/The Colorado Springs Gazette

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

At the end of the longest period of war in American history, the number of soldiers being discharged from the Army for misconduct has risen steadily to its highest rate in recent times. Among the discharged are wounded combat troops, who, as a result of their other-than-honorable discharges,...

Updated: Sun, May 19, 2013

Authorities: Hofstra University student killed in home invasion was fatally shot by police MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home,...

Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at...

Michael Barone

Updated: Sat, May 18, 2013

Noemie Emery has an excellent article in the latest Weekly Standard on the case of Kermit Gosnell, the abortion provider who has been sentenced to life in prison on three counts of murder. She raises the issue of whether the spotlight on this late-term abortionist–a spotlight shined only...

Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

WASHINGTON (AP) — The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal wouldn't...