Category Archives: Corruption

Headlines continue to highlight the recent scandal involving IRS efforts to target conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny. Dallas Woodhouse of Americans for Prosperity’s North Carolina chapter discusses the political implications of the scandal during the next edition of Carolina Journal Radio. Speaking of taxes, you’ll hear chief state Senate tax reformer Bob Rucho, R-Mecklenburg,Continue Reading

The Wall Street Journal opines on the “truth” du jour of a president supposedly learning about scandals in his government from the media: While the White House continues to peddle the story of a driverless train wreck, taxpayers are being treated to a demonstration of the dangers of an unwieldy and unaccountable administrative state. Look,Continue Reading

Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column at National Review Online examines some of the disturbing themes emerging from recent Obama administration scandals. We have just learned that the Internal Revenue Service before the 2012 election predicated its tax-exemption policies on politics. It inordinately denied tax exemption to groups considered conservative or otherwise antagonistic to the president’sContinue Reading

As pundits and scribes continue to look for “root causes” of the IRS scandal, Jonathan Tobin of Commentary points to an important fact: Liberals run the federal government. The details provided by the Times investigation are interesting in that they give us a sense of the timeline of the targeting and the inadequate nature ofContinue Reading

Jonah Goldberg‘s latest column at National Review Online explores the degree to which President Obama deserves blame for the growing IRS scandal. Yes, it’s extremely unlikely he ordered the IRS to discriminate against tea-party, pro-life, or Jewish groups opposed to his agenda (though why anyone should take his word for it is beyond me). AndContinue Reading

As the Obama administration scrambles to address scandals surrounding the Sept. 11 Benghazi terrorist attacks and the recently revealed IRS assault on conservative groups, Michael Barone probes similarities between the two sets of events. What do the Benghazi cover-up and the IRS scandal have in common? They were both about winning elections under false pretenses.Continue Reading

Kevin D. Williamson sets out for National Review Online readers a series of lies related to Lois Lerner’s recent apology for the IRS attacks on conservative groups. Lie No. 1: The apology was a spontaneous reaction to an unexpected question. On the contrary, Williamson explains, the question almost certainly was planted. Lie No. 2: LernerContinue Reading

Former presidential advisor David Axelrod — about whom the chief mystery is whether he actually believes what he says — was on MSNBC trying to excuse away the explosion of scandals in the Obama administration: the Benghazi coverup, the IRS being sicced on political opponents, the Justice Dept.’s wiretapping the Associated Press, the HHS SecretaryContinue Reading