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Taylor Morrison Announces David George as President of Monarch Corporation in Canada

Taylor Morrison Announces David George as President of Monarch Corporation in Canada SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Taylor Morrison Home Corporation ( NYS: TMHC ) announced today that David George will assume the role of President of Monarch Corporation in Canada, effective immediately. Show More Summary

NR on Watergate

(Scott Johnson) Writing from memory yesterday morning, I recalled the role George Will had played as National Review’s Washington columnist during Watergate. I was faithfully reading the magazine in 1973 and 1974, and I think I was remembering...Show More Summary

In search of an honest liberal journalist

(Scott Johnson) Having lived through the Watergate scandal and the impeachment of President Nixon, I recall that one conservative journalist stood out from the pack. As the Washington columnist for National Review, George Will regularly exposed the Nixon administration’s lines of defense as the lies that they were. Show More Summary

Morning Must Reads: May 17

George Will: Obama’s tapped out trust Peggy Noonan: Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius: What’s at stake if Obamacare is repealed Syria begins...Show More Summary

Hoist Eleanor Jackson!

The Somerset Guardian reports that: The flag of St George will not be flying over Radstock any time soon after town councillors decided it was inappropriate. Why, pray? It is the English national flag, after all. Among the concerns expressed...Show More Summary

Scandals Keep Eroding Our Faith in Benevolent Government

David Boaz George Will, Michael Gerson, and our own Gene Healy are among the columnists who reminded us – in the wake of the IRS and AP snooping scandals – of President Obama’s stirring words just two days before the IRS story broke: Unfortunately,...Show More Summary

George Will: If IRS Under Bush Admin Targeted Progressives 'We Would Have All Hell Breaking Loose'

Conservative columnist George Will is now calling out the Obama Administration after the IRS admitted Friday that they targeted conservative...

PostScript: Will and Watergates

Good lord do we love a Watergate in the PostScript Bunker. President Obama and the executive branch of the government have spent the past few days sliding into Nixonian oblivion, writes George Will today, with the IRS and Justice Department … Continue reading ?

The real scandal of Benghazi is the plodding caution of U.S. military leaders

By Bing West Best Defense guest commenter Re Benghazi and the military (a matter of much lesser import than the deceptive talking points): On ABC on 12 May, George Will and retired General Cartwright excused the military by saying 10 hours was not enough time to react. Show More Summary

George Will: Obama Could Be Impeached Over IRS Attacks On Tea Party

George Will could be much better described as respected member of the Republican establishment in DC than a bomb thrower, so when he starts hinting that Barack Obama could be impeached over the IRS persecution of Tea Party groups, it’s significant. “The Tea Party people have known about this and were working on this,” Will continued. Show More Summary

George Will: If Bush Had IRS Going After Progressives 'We Would Have All Hell Breaking Loose'

Friday's revelation that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative groups prior to last year's elections was certainly reported but not with nearly the outrage as if a Republican administration went after liberals this way. Driving...Show More Summary

George Will Floats Impeachment After IRS Targets Tea Party Groups

Click here to view this media Conservative columnist George Will on Sunday suggested that President Barack Obama could be impeached after it was revealed that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) targeted tea party groups. The Associated...Show More Summary

George Will: Jay Carney's 'Usefulness to This Administration is Diminishing Rapidly'

White House press secretary Jay Carney had a tough week last week concluding with an absolutely deplorable press conference wherein he continued to spin totally unbelievable yarns about the administration's talking points regarding Benghazi. This...Show More Summary

George Will: American Public 'Systematically Misled' On Benghazi

George Will floats impeachment after IRS targets tea party groups

George Will: White House Painted Benghazi As 'a Movie Review Conducted with Rocket Propelled Grenades'

George Will offered a characteristically neat summary of the questions surrounding the before, during, and after of Benghazi.  Was the U.S. installation adequately protected? Could forces have been brought to bear to relieve the Americans...Show More Summary

How the Government Keeps Airline Taxes Hidden from Customers

Writing at The Washington Post, George Will highlights a legal challenge filed by Spirit Airlines and several other low-cost carriers against a government rule forbidding them from prominently listing the amount of federal taxes that comprise total airplane ticket costs. Show More Summary

In Praise of Pessimism

Yes, I know this time last week I was admonishing you gloom-and-doom types out there not to take counsel of your fears. Mine is not a universal view. Washington Post pundit George Will jokes that it's good to be a pessimist: you're either right in assuming the worst, or you're pleasantly surprised. Show More Summary

The way we live now

(Scott Johnson) Visiting the site of the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to watch Professor Donald Kagan’s farewell lecture, I found the video below — the first of four, the rest following automatically — of George Will’s lecture to the group this past January. Show More Summary

Syrian Intervention

Two great pieces arguing against intervention in Syria but with slightly different takes on how President Obama has performed in the midst of it all: George Will thinks Obama is right on Syria – but right in the sense of not ultimately being willing to back up the red line talk. Damon Linker argues that Syria may be [...]