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Time to Admit China Is a Military Competitor

The early-May release by the Defense Department of its annual report to Congress on China’s military developments is a prime opportunity to reevaluate how the United States frames the future of its security relationship with Beijing....Show More Summary

What Is a Conservative Doing with a Group Like Greenhouse Solutions?

I chatted with an old friend, Drew Ryun, after I saw his name in a story about the IRS. In his case, he couldn’t manage to get IRS nonprofit clearance for a research group called Mediatrackers in 2011, but he could for one called Greenhouse...Show More Summary

With Obama's Support, Reid Is Hoping to Exercise 'Nuclear Option' in July

On his blog at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent reports that Harry Reid is gearing up to exercise the “nuclear option” in July and that the president is right behind him: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is increasingly focused onShow More Summary

Who Should Vote? Everyone -- And More Than Once

There are four groups of people who are typically not allowed to vote in the United States: children, criminals, noncitizens, and the clinically insane. This week, the bohemian voters in Takoma Park, Md., decided to enfranchise 16-year-olds...Show More Summary

Another Obama Administration Scandal?

If you can manage to tear your attention away from Benghazi, IRS, etc., etc.,  I have a piece over on the home page t looking at another potential scandal brewing in the Obama administration: Kathleen Sebelius has been asking health- industry companies to donate to groups promoting Obamacare. Show More Summary

IRS Chief: Lerner May Have Planted Question That Sparked Scandal

Ousted IRS commissioner Steven Miller told the House Ways and Means Committee today that the revelation of the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups came from a planted question, and that Lois Lerner,  the IRS official who managed theShow More Summary

Farming Tax Dollars

The most recent version of the near $1 trillion farm bill is on the move again after being held up for a few months in the House at the end of last year. It has now passed out of the House and Senate agriculture committees. The Senate is supposed to take up the bill next week, and it could then be brought to the floor in June. Show More Summary

Correcting Cloning Confusion

There has been a great deal of confusion and obfuscation surrounding the news this week that scientists have cloned human embryos for the first time. Embryonic stem-cell research advocates have been distorting basic facts about cloning for well over a decade. Show More Summary

IRS Chief: ‘Absolutely Not Illegal’ for IRS to Target Groups

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller said that the agency’s actions in singling out tea-party and conservative groups were “ absolutely not illegal” a t the House Ways and Means Committee hearing today.  After giving that opinion in...Show More Summary

Christianity Facing 'Catastrophic Collapse' in Britain

The Telegraph reports: Christianity could be facing a catastrophic collapse in Britain according to official figures suggesting it is declining 50 per cent faster than previously thought. A new analysis of the 2011 census shows thatShow More Summary

No G-File Today

I woke up at dawn to write G-File. But in a solid 4 hours and … lost it. I’m not sure how I managed to do it. I thought I’d saved it but must have closed it without saving it. Anyway, I am very, very, very, very cross. Losing fun writing...Show More Summary

IRS Chief Admits Progressive Groups Weren't Targeted

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller told the House Ways and Means Committee that progressive groups were not targeted by the agency, though he said that the IRS was broadly concerned about political activities by non-profits.  “So,...Show More Summary

Piers Morgan: ‘This Is Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the American Government’

In light of the IRS targeting conservative groups and the Department of Justice’s seizure of reporters’ phone records,  Piers Morgan reversed course and sided with gun advocates who have expressed concerns about an expanding government. “I’ve...Show More Summary

Carney Dismisses Benghazi as ‘Fake Controversy’?

Jay Carney dismissed Republicans’ concerns over the 9/11 attacks on Benghazi and the administration’s handling of them last night. For the benefit of CNN’s multilingual viewers, he called it both a “fake” and ”faux controversy” in an...Show More Summary

IRS Head: Targeting Was ‘Horrible Customer Service’

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller said the agency ”provided horrible customer service” when it singled out conservative and tea-party groups’ applications for special review, delaying their process. Miller was also pressed aboutShow More Summary

A Modest Proposal for immigration

There is obviously, and properly, a rough-and-tumble debate going on about immigration reform. I am not a close student of the topic, but the arguments I see casually right now strike me as heavy on moral outrage and “studies” masquerading...Show More Summary

McCarthy Discusses Holder, AP Investigation on Fox News

IRS Head Doesn't Remember Who Was Responsible for Targeting

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller said did not know who was responsible for the targeting of conservative groups by IRS agents. “I don’t have that name, sir,” he told GOP congressman Dave Reichert.  Reichert persisted, “Did you ask...Show More Summary

IRS Head: Targeting a 'Loaded Term' and 'Didn't Exist Here'

Acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller took issue with the use of the word “targeting” as it relates to the IRS’s singling out of Tea Party and other conservative groups, calling it a “loaded term.”  In an exchange with Republican representative...Show More Summary

Scarborough Admits IRS Scandal Makes Gun Background Checks A Little Less Appealing

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough pointed out that the case for background checks is more problematic in light of the IRS scandals. The host had been, in recent months, an ardent supporter of expanded background checks for firearms purchases,...Show More Summary