Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is no fan of swamp alligators, and now he's proving it with a $5,000-per-person alligator hunt fundraiser complete with Cajun food, an airboat swamp tour and a "tag" to hunt the toothy reptiles. Secrets received a copy of the invitation to the Sept. 5...

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

Even as the Senate wraps up work on a new immigration bill that some say doesn't go far enough in easing rules for foreign high-tech workers, China is changing its regulations to make it easier for U.S. firms to ship employees there and a law firm with ties to Washington is helping to spread the...

Paul Bedard

Updated: 6 hr ago

The Obama administration has dragged singing bad boy Justin Bieber into its defense of secretly looking into who reporters like Fox News' James Rosen talk to inside the federal government to get top secret leaks. An anonymous national security official penned a column on the Brookings...

Paul Bedard

Updated: 7 hr ago

Douglas Shulman, who led the IRS during the politically-charged targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups, visited the White House 118 times after that probe began, raising new questions about his claim he never revealed details of the probe to the president's staff. During today's...

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The growing IRS-Tea Party scandal, which has robbed Democrats of the so-called "trust edge" they held over Republicans, is now jeopardizing the Democratic majority in the Senate and even hopes that Hillary Clinton will replace President Obama in 2016. "This hurts the Democratic Party and will...

Paul Bedard

Published: Wed, May 22, 2013

The House Ways and Means Committee, which has been probing the IRS-Tea Party scandal that's reached well into the White House, is calling on targeted groups to help blow the whistle on the tax agency's political witch hunt during President Obama's reelection campaign. Chairman Dave Camp has...

Paul Bedard

Updated: 10 hr ago

After a year on the market, the AFL-CIO has finally sold its National Labor College campus in Silver Spring, Md., another sign that the nation's once enormous labor movement has fallen on hard times. The sprawling 46-acre facility adjacent to the Capital Beltway will be taken over by a church...

Paul Bedard

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

The Internal Revenue Service, charged with implementing the biggest change in tax laws in 20 years due to Obamacare, has created eight offices and special "teams" to handle the chore, way more than initially revealed. Besides the top office headed by the woman in the middle of the IRS-Tea...

Paul Bedard

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

Get ready to hear more about the Judo-loving president of Lithuania dubbed the "Iron Lady" for her harsh austerity measures used to yank the Baltic state out of economic disaster without any outside help. That's because not only does Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite's country take over...

Paul Bedard

Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

The Democratic Party's edge over the GOP on who the public trusts more on ethics and corruption issues has flipped in the wake of the IRS and Benghazi scandals, according to Rasmussen Reports.