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Relevance: 100% Posted on: June 4, 2013
Every day: more revelations, more questions. Was the IRS’s repressive targeting of Tea Party and similar groups seeking tax-exempt status “accidental”? Were only a few rogue or harried clerks responsible for the repressive targeting? Did anybody in the White House know about the repressive targeting as it happened? What does…
Relevance: 97% Posted on: July 22, 2013
The more we learn about the latest IRS scandal, the harder it is to evade what it is all about: the systematic thwarting— for years on end — of legitimate applications for tax-exempt status submitted by Tea Party and other conservative groups. It’s getting pretty thick and deep in the…
Relevance: 94% Posted on: November 13, 2014
We’re still unraveling the IRS’s prolific crimes. I mean, those pertaining to its ideological targeting of conservative applicants for non-profit status. I’m satisfied that the various individuals and organizations suing the IRS or publishing commentaries on this still-unfolding scandal (Day 552 now) will keep on keepin’ on. I’m a little…
Relevance: 88% Posted on: June 13, 2013
Democratic Congressman Elijah Cummings says it’s time to stop investigating the latest IRS shenanigans. According to him, closed-door interviews with IRS staffers prove that no White House or other Washington officials were involved in targeting the applications for tax-exempt status of conservative groups for special obstructionist attention. Whew! Crisis over.…
Relevance: 87% Posted on: February 8, 2014
Over at Townhall this weekend, the subject is one we have tracked closely here at Common Sense. The IRS appears to have been captured by the Democratic Party, and now serves not the citizenry but that wing of government. Click on over, but come back here for source material. And…
Relevance: 82% Posted on: March 26, 2014
In the better-late-than-never department, the Internal Revenue Service has granted tax-exempt status to Friends of Abe. Variety magazine calls the group “Hollywood’s largest fellowship of conservative and right-of-center independents” in an industry known for tilting 320 degrees or so to the left. The status comes three years after the Friends…
Relevance: 81% Posted on: December 24, 2017
We have the names of the bureaucrats responsible. But the scandal? Don't call it that! (Says the insider press.) Click over to Townhall for the precise words to describe this sad recent history. If you return here you can read more on the subject: Washington Post: Fallout from allegations of…
Relevance: 79% Posted on: November 22, 2013
We’re past Day 195 of the IRS scandal. I mean the one about how IRS agents processing applications for tax-exempt status gave an especially hard time to Tea Party and similar groups, asking endless intrusive questions and delaying legitimate tax-exempt status for years or never granting it at all. The…
Relevance: 79% Posted on: May 28, 2014
It’s like jumping from ice floe to ice floe while being shot at. Great if you can reach the next slab of ice while the shooters pause to reload. But then what? Having been caught targeting right-leaning applicants for tax-exempt status, the IRS decided to clear up the “ambiguity” in…
Relevance: 77% Posted on: May 12, 2013
This weekend's Common Sense column over at Townhall.com is about those awful Nixonian reactionaries who use government to suppress opposition and help establish fascist right-wing government here in America. Oops. No, it isn't. It's about those awful Obamanian “progressives” using government to suppress opposition and help establish etc. etc. Click…
Relevance: 75% Posted on: April 21, 2014
Inadvertent? Un-partisan? No direction from above? Such were many of the early claims in response to the scandal over IRS’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status. The characterization was not vindicated when Lois Lerner — who ran the agency’s division dealing with exempt organizations until…
Relevance: 74% Posted on: April 15, 2015
Is it time to spell out the IRS as the Internal Revenue Scandal? The IRS has so many scandals under its belt. But the biggest, from a broad, threat-to-the-republic point of view, surely remains the agency’s targeting of Tea Party and conservative organizations seeking 501c(3) and 501c(4) nonprofit status. Agents…
Relevance: 71% Posted on: May 14, 2013
We were initially told that the IRS had apologized to Tea Party and patriot groups for blocking them from non-profit tax status. But there has been no apology. Instead, last Friday, Lois Lerner, the head of the tax-exempt division of the Internal Revenue Service, confided to a group of tax…
Relevance: 70% Posted on: January 28, 2014
The Internal Revenue Service has proposed new regulations to restrict the eligibility of nonprofit organizations applying for tax-exempt status. Per the proposal, nonprofits tainted by certain kinds of political activity will be ineligible, since those kinds ipso facto don’t do anybody any good. Forget that “social welfare” and “political” issues…
Relevance: 69% Posted on: November 27, 2018
The old keywords were “Constitution,” “Patriot” and “Tea Party.” The new ones? “Marijuana,” “oxycodone,” and “legalization.” Paul Caron, the TaxProf blogger, calls attention to another IRS scandal — again about denying tax-exempt status to organizations because of their political views. He had barely finished blogging about the scandal that came…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: February 4, 2014
Should a spurious inalienable right to Employee Confidentiality protect IRS personnel from being held accountable when they commit crimes? In 2010, Christine O’Donnell, then running for U.S. Senate, had to fend off false accusations about tax liabilities on property she no longer owned — after her tax returns had been…
Relevance: 67% Posted on: December 26, 2017
“They’ve been burned. They’ve been hammered. They’ve been bludgeoned,” George Washington University law professor Miriam Galston explained to the Washington Post. “They’re trying to survive.” In this heartbreaking discussion at this special time of year, the “they” are the poor, long-suffering folks . . . at the Internal Revenue Service. According…
Relevance: 66% Posted on: June 19, 2014
It’s hard to keep track of things. It helps to make a list. I’m trying to follow all the IRS-scandal stonewalling, the latest example of which is how emails inculpating Lois Lerner and others have mysteriously disappeared; with, allegedly, no server backups (see my latest Townhall column, “The Dog Ate…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: July 7, 2015
Last week National Review reported that Republicans in the U.S. House have long been pondering impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen for stonewalling about whether Lois Lerner’s emails were lost and irretrievable. Lerner is the former IRS official who oversaw the obstructing of applications for non-profit status by right-leaning and…
Relevance: 65% Posted on: December 8, 2014
Sometimes those who wield power over us seem less than honest about whether they’re following their own professed rules, including rules mandated by law. The latest example comes to us courtesy of the watchdog group Cause of Action, which filed a Freedom of Information request for correspondence between the IRS…
Relevance: 63% Posted on: October 28, 2014
Outrageous. That’s the best word for the recent court decision letting the Internal Revenue Service off the hook for ideologically targeting organizations that apply for tax-exempt status. True the Vote, which combats voter fraud, sued the Internal Revenue Service because of the tax agency’s deliberate obstruction of applications from Tea…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: May 22, 2013
MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry says “no one was fundamentally harmed” by the IRS’s targeting of Obama-unapproved applicants for tax-exempt status. (Go to 4:00 of the video to skip the preceding lies.) Elsewhere, detestable Bill Maher inquires: “Is it unreasonable [for IRS] to target an anti-tax group?” Good lord. I’ve discussed the…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: April 3, 2014
I’m hesitating. But given the way many IRS honchos have too often behaved throughout the agency’s history, including today — yes, I’ll applaud Randolph Thrower for saying no to a President. Thrower died in March at the age of 100 as the “IRS Chief Who Resisted Nixon.” He had headed…
Relevance: 62% Posted on: August 28, 2014
I fib. We’re not really learning anything new about Lois Lerner’s modus operandi. It’s just the same old wiping of evidence — evidence that she and others at IRS knew was relevant to congressional inquiry into IRS misconduct. Lerner is the former IRS department head in charge of reviewing applications…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: June 25, 2013
Remember the IRS scandal? I mean the one about how the Internal Revenue Service has been monkey-wrenching the applications for tax-exempt status submitted by politically non-leftward organizations (Tax Prof Blog has the latest). But politically motivated clogging of an application process is just one way that the IRS abuses us.…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: April 10, 2015
As Tax Day approaches, you can bet the Internal Revenue Service has readied itself to help taxpayers file their returns. No? “It’s abysmal,” admits IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, discussing his agency’s help for Americans trying to decipher a byzantine, ever-changing tax code. It seems only four of ten citizens ever…
Relevance: 61% Posted on: August 8, 2013
The Federal Election Commission is now implicated in the Obama administration’s years-long hounding of groups ideologically hostile to it. Wall Street Journal Editorial Board member Kimberly Strassel details how, at the behest of a lawyer in the Obama administration, FEC staff “have been engaged in their own conservative targeting, with…
Relevance: 60% Posted on: August 19, 2013
While discussing the latest IRS scandal — the one about how the IRS has been (is still) stacking the deck against non-lefty nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status — the Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto mentions another kind of deck-stacking: campaign financial regulation. Seems that Hillary Clinton, still running for president, is…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: August 6, 2001
Even the IRS can make mistakes. Just look at the historical record. Sometimes the IRS confiscates property they really should not have confiscated. Sometimes the IRS deprives people of constitutional rights they really should not have deprived people of. Sometimes the IRS intimidates and terrifies people they really should not…
Relevance: 59% Posted on: February 18, 2014
You can’t get much more explicit about the desire to wield power against political opponents solely because they’re political opponents than Senator Chuck Schumer’s recent public demand, reported in The Hill (“Vulnerable Dems want IRS to step up”): The Tea Party elites gained extraordinary influence by being able to funnel…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: June 9, 2023
The IRS wants to do your tax returns. Should we let it? On this question, the agency has stacked the deck in its favor by commissioning an “independent” review by a left-wing think tank, New America, already on record in support of giving IRS officials authority to do this. Basically,…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: June 25, 2014
The IRS has a “Love Story” relationship with citizens. Being the IRS means never having to say you’re sorry. Actually, in real life, as opposed to cinematic catch phrases, people who care about each other do often feel a need to genuinely apologize about actual wrongs. But the IRS doesn’t…
Relevance: 58% Posted on: March 24, 2010
On the one hand, we’ve got trillion-dollar federal deficits and no sign of any austerity measure on the congressional horizon. On the other hand, we’ve got dark-suited IRS agents bullying small businessmen for allegedly being four cents behind in taxes. The letter that the two IRS suits hand-delivered to the…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 1, 2014
A year after the IRS seized their bank account, Terry Dehko and his daughter have gotten their money back, thanks to a lawsuit they undertook with the help of the valiant Institute for Justice. The IRS had looked at how the Dehkoses deposited revenues from their Fraser, Michigan store and…
Relevance: 55% Posted on: January 24, 2018
Blogger Paul Caron, dean of Pepperdine Law School, still counts the days since we learned that the IRS was blocking applications for nonprofit status from right-leaning groups at the behest of former IRS honcho Lois Lerner. Now years later, the agency can still arbitrarily victimize any one of us. Nor…
Relevance: 54% Posted on: January 28, 2013
The aptly named decision Loving v. IRS—it’s so true, you know—provides a modest victory in the war of tax-takers versus everybody else. The ruling, brought to our attention by the Institute for Justice, a party to the lawsuit, concerns IRS regulation of tax preparers. The IRS wants to force non-attorney,…
Relevance: 51% Posted on: March 6, 2014
I like the Fifth Amendment. I took it myself in 2007 when Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson was witch-hunting with his grand jury. My attorney advised that I had more to fear from innocently misstating something and being vindictively charged with perjury than from the ridiculous indictments the AG would…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: March 22, 2012
The taxman puts his hands in our pockets. But it’s one thing to reach into our bank accounts and take our money, it is quite another when governments engage in different kind of overreach, where they go beyond the rule of law and just start pushing people around. Take the…
Relevance: 50% Posted on: June 15, 2014
It just so happens that the email you requested is no longer available. Bad hard drive. Oh, amend that. Two whole years of emails are missing. Sorry to inconvenience you. Check Townhall this weekend for more on the IRS's hyper-convenient email scandal. Then click back here for more reading. Wall…
Relevance: 49% Posted on: February 6, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the GAO finds $120 million a year spent paying…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: February 12, 2014
“I promise you that we hold everybody up and down the line accountable,” President Barack Obama told Bill O’Reilly of Fox News during last Sunday’s Super Bowl interview . . . and with a straight face. When studies show one in 20 food stamp transactions to be fraudulent; when the…
Relevance: 48% Posted on: July 26, 2023
The Internal Revenue Service says it will end “most” surprise visits to homes, like the one an agent made to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi the day he was telling Congress about governmental use of social media to censor people. According to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel, the many surprise…
Relevance: 47% Posted on: November 2, 2014
Click on over to Townhall for what the next Congress — the country's 114th — really needs. Hint: it isn't cowardice. Then come back here for more reading. Breitbart: True The Vote's Lawsuit Against IRS Gets Tossed By Federal Judge NYTimes: Law Lets I.R.S. Seize Accounts on Suspicion, No Crime…
Relevance: 46% Posted on: August 28, 2013
We are indebted to a publisher of tax information called Tax Analysts for its efforts to make the Internal Revenue Service slightly more accountable. The IRS finds itself beleaguered, sort of, by scandal — the fallout from their practice of impeding applications for tax-exempt status of Tea Party and other…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 9, 2015
On Friday I lamented the picking up, by local police, of two children, 10 and 6, for walking home from a local park . . . and the subsequent two-month Montgomery County (Maryland) Child Protective Services investigation, which found the parents “responsible” for “unsubstantiated child neglect.” Left unanswered? Whether parents…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: March 22, 1999
The IRS estimates that the average taxpayer who itemizes will spend 22 hours this year completing tax returns. That's 3 hours more work than last year. The increase is due to the 1,260 changes Congress pushed into the tax code in the past two years. Mention the IRS and most…
Relevance: 45% Posted on: September 16, 2014
Is the Internal Revenue Service inevitable? I’ve often discussed the IRS’s ideologically motivated harassment of taxpayers as fostered by Lois “I Took the Fifth” Lerner (e.g., here and here and here and here). But typical nonpartisan forms of IRS harassment are also deplorable. Consider the so-called “practice” audit, to which…
Relevance: 44% Posted on: June 8, 2013
Oversight is worse in the national security bureaucracy than it is in the IRS: http://youtu.be/whwc6lVZzl4
Relevance: 43% Posted on: September 18, 2000
We were the first country in which a free people created the government. The Constitution that empowered our government also limited it. But Americans weren't satisfied that our rights were protected from tyranny until the Bill of Rights was passed, too. That's why I'm concerned about several stories that suggest…
Relevance: 43% Posted on: May 24, 2013
It was no fun to watch Acting IRS head Steve Miller testify before the House Ways and Means Committee last week. Miller simply had no real explanation for the troubling actions at IRS. Even his terminology induced cringes. Miller’s mea culpa was for “horrific customer service.” Customer service? That’s a…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2014
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2015
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2016
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2017
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: January 26, 2018
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 42% Posted on: September 8, 2009
If a doctor who is supposed to help you get better keeps stabbing you with a knife instead, it may seem beside the point to focus on any particular wound. The whole stabbing process is wrong. Democrats in Congress have found a way to duplicate this effect. Their evolving medical…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: May 18, 2015
Lyndon McLellan, a convenience store owner, was robbed. The marauders took $107,000 of his honestly earned money. We don’t need the police to find out who did it (and no, the police themselves are not the culprit, not this time). The IRS took the money, suspecting that he “structured” his…
Relevance: 42% Posted on: February 16, 2022
Backlash can be good. Against lousy ideas, for example. Sometimes, the response to the backlash is to relinquish the lousy idea, at least temporarily. We must hope for more than a moment of reprieve from the Internal Revenue Service’s plan to require facial ID recognition of persons who use certain…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: June 17, 2014
“If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government,” Thomas Jefferson once wrote, “I wouldn’t hesitate to choose the latter.” In his day, Mr. Jefferson was attuned to a hyper-partisan, mudslinging, muckraking, bulldog press corps, not our modern mainstream media lapdogs. Today, with our government taking…
Relevance: 41% Posted on: May 18, 2013
You don’t need an explanation. These aren’t the partisan political abuses you’re looking for. Move along. It was all a big mistake. An unfortunate, accidental error. And “what difference does it make?” anyway, since according to the New York Times headline, the “I.R.S. Apologizes to Tea Party Groups Over Audits…
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 26, 2019
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 26, 2020
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 26, 2021
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 26, 2022
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 26, 2023
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: January 26, 2024
On January 26, 1992, Boris Yeltsin announced that Russia would stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
Relevance: 40% Posted on: December 12, 2022
Maybe we can put a stop to the assault on the privacy of donors to political causes. By “we” I mean The Buckeye Institute and the Institute for Free Speech, who have teamed up to challenge “a decades-old law that forces the IRS to demand that nonprofit charities hand over…
Relevance: 39% Posted on: March 31, 2023
“No one thinks it’s a coincidence,” says Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. “Everyone thinks this was done for intimidation reasons.” The “this” was a visit by the Internal Revenue Service to the home of journalist Matt Taibbi while he was…
Relevance: 36% Posted on: July 2, 2001
class="medBr">Well, whoop-de-do. To show how benevolent they are about giving us back a few dollars of our own money, the IRS is sending a letter saying the check is on the way, and ain't it grand? They say they must send us this letter to explain how the amount was…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: April 11, 2017
What do you call those who prey upon the innocent, illegally snatching their money? Thieves? Muggers? The Mob? Government. Last month, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) issued a report on the Internal Revenue Service’s use of civil asset forfeiture against Americans accused — well, not accused .…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: January 10, 2023
Eighty-seven thousand new IRS agents! What could possibly go wrong? In a bill passed and signed last August, “$80 billion worth of new funding over the next decade” was shoveled at the Internal Revenue Service “so it could” — as a recent Reason article summarizes — “hire 87,000 new workers,…
Relevance: 35% Posted on: November 2, 2014
Two days from now, elections across the country will produce a “new” Congress, with all 435 seats in the so-called House of Representatives on the ballot and one-third of the U.S. Senate up for grabs. The state of play in Senate contests makes it appear increasingly likely there will be…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: April 9, 2017
The IRS doesn’t just seize money for reasons of taxation. The folks in that agency have another racket in their job description. Click on over to Townhall for the story, then come back here for background. Treasury.gov: “Criminal Investigation Enforced Structuring Laws Primarily Against Legal Source Funds and Compromised the…
Relevance: 34% Posted on: July 31, 2000
We get taxed so much while we're living, it seems kind of overkill to tax folks when they die. To me, dying is bad enough already. And now Terence Jeffrey, editor of Human Events , gives us another reason to oppose the death tax: it's murdering the First Amendment. Nearly…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: October 15, 2001
Deena Gilbey is a British woman living in New Jersey. Her husband had a work visa to be in the U.S. and she was a "dependent" on that visa. Mrs. Gilbey's husband was killed in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. Now somehow she has no legal status…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: October 24, 2001
Remember Deena Gilbey? She was the British woman at risk of being deported after her husband died in the recent attacks. Her residency status depended on her husband's work visa. So within days of the 9/11 tragedy, the Immigration and Naturalization Service was telling Mrs. Gilbey that with the end…
Relevance: 33% Posted on: August 12, 2015
Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s simple but true. And, as a corollary, let me add that using the power of the federal government to harass individuals or groups one happens to dislike or disagree with is wrong. You might recall that our Declaration of Independence rebuked King George…
Relevance: 32% Posted on: July 25, 2013
The temptation to cover up a bit of ugliness with the proverbial fig leaf will always be with us. According to Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), that is just what the U.S. House did when it squashed Justin Amash’s amendment to the 2014 defense bill, replacing it with a weaker measure…
Relevance: 31% Posted on: August 29, 2014
Former Clinton Treasury secretary Larry Summers proposes that we switch from an eight-year, two-term limit for the union’s presidency to a six-year, single-term limit. He contends that by chucking the president’s second term, we can maybe prevent such gridlock and scandal as tends to especially afflict those second terms. Six…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: December 21, 2021
Congressman Jared Golden, a Democrat in a Trump district, may be feeling heat. “First, Nancy Pelosi said she’d raise taxes. Now, she’s coming for what’s left,” warns an American Action Network television advertisement airing in Golden’s Maine district. “To help pay for trillions in new spending, Pelosi wants the government…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: July 19, 2015
New development in Wisconsin’s John Doe probes. Click on over to Townhall, then come back here for background: Watchdog.org: “Wisconsin’s Secret War” RightWisconsin: “Winners Now That the John Doe is Over” Wall Street Journal: “Wisconsin’s Friend at the IRS” Urban Milwaukee: “The Wrath of Eric O’Keefe” Townhall: “Who is Eric…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: March 16, 2014
The foundation of a free society? The rights of the people in that society. Chiefest of these? The right to self-defense. And that's under attack these days. For the latest example, check out the column this weekend at Townhall. And then come back here, for more reading. TheDC interviews Jordan…
Relevance: 30% Posted on: May 28, 2013
How did our founders manage to establish a republic committed to free speech and the rights of the individual without a Federal Election Commission? Not only did the Sons of Liberty and other patriots lack a functioning FEC to protect them from “big-money interests,” many of the political communications of…
Relevance: 29% Posted on: June 27, 2013
In disagreements between individuals and the IRS, I tend to side with individuals against the IRS. So Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling against the Defense of Marriage Act seems about right, on the face of it. Yes, the judicial review and nixing of DOMA regarded a tax case. The state of…
Relevance: 28% Posted on: June 26, 2020
I idly wonder who cooks up the initialisms for the big federal legislative packages (“laws”) — you know, like the recent “CARES Act” that distributed $2.3 trillion conjured out of thin air . . . and the faith and credit of a wobbly reputation. CARES stands for “Coronavirus Aid, Relief,…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: October 6, 2016
The story of the Wisconsin John Doe raids against conservatives, covered yesterday and the day before, is a big one. Huge. So I now continue. The rest of the story? Recently, materials that police seized from the subjects of those dawn raids were leaked, illegally, to the Guardian newspaper —…
Relevance: 27% Posted on: May 20, 2013
It’s no surprise to long-time observers of the Obama administration, the Internal Revenue Service, or government in general that the IRS has targeted non-lefty groups for reasons the agency laughably contends are non-ideological. The current brouhaha is only part of the story. Here’s another part. Frank VanderSloot is a businessman…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: March 8, 2015
Freedom is under assault, under siege. It's not just from terrorists. It's from the people we've assigned to protect our freedoms. And, worse yet, the tyranny comes not just from the Big Guys in the nation's imperial capital. Our local governments have picked up the tyranny bug. Welcome to Kafka's…
Relevance: 26% Posted on: October 14, 2011
A friend of mine shared something Desire Street Ministries had posted to Facebook: We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: January 10, 2014
Political donors often prefer to remain anonymous. It’s not just shyness. Anonymity can protect you from unscrupulous political opponents. The higher your profile — especially if you’re persuasive, or your story contradicts some treasured “narrative” — the higher your risk may be. At Breitbart.com, Mike Flynn writes that “non-disclosure of…
Relevance: 25% Posted on: June 29, 2014
No one likes shackles. Especially certain members of Congress (all Democrats) who yearn to be free . . . of constitutional constraints. Click on over to Townhall.com, for the latest attempt to increase the power of insiders at the expense of America's democratic-republican heritage. Then come back here for more…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: September 27, 2022
It does seem — because of the raids and surveillance and things targeting critics of the regime — that the Biden administration (“the Biden”) is out to get its political opponents. John Hinderaker of Powerline notes a few recent tip-of-the-iceberg actions by the Biden or its political allies. The Dilbert…
Relevance: 23% Posted on: December 9, 2008
A mooching relative borrows $500 from you, wastes it all in a drunken spending spree, never pays you back. Eventually, he loftily hands you a fiver. He says, “I don’t even know why I give you this money, but I’m a nice guy. Use this gift to create jobs or…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: April 15, 2010
It’s April 15, my eldest daughter’s birthday. I used to tell her she wouldn’t have to pay taxes like everyone else, because IRS folks wouldn’t dare make her file on her birthday, would they? Seriously, when it comes to family and taxes, I’m just glad that my wife does all…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: December 20, 2022
Using PayPal never guaranteed smooth sailing. But until recently, the problems users encountered mostly pertained to PayPal’s targeting of fraud — not with whether a user uttered wrong thoughts or pursued projects disfavored by corporate implementers of a Chinazi-style social credit system. More and more, though, PayPal is informing individuals…
Relevance: 22% Posted on: January 31, 2000
Remember the Lone Ranger? With the help of Tonto, he fought corruption and injustice in the old West. His trademark was a silver bullet. In his new book Completing the Revolution, columnist and TV commentator Robert Novak says, "Term limits is the silver bullet, because unless you have term limits…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: July 7, 2013
There's no doubt about it, in her MSNBC "Lean Forward" spots, Melissa Harris-Perry leans left. Very left. This weekend's Common Sense Townhall.com column explores the weird bias of one MSNBCer. Click on over, and come back here for more reading: Some of this may seem familiar. No surprise: “A Little…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: May 24, 2022
Last year, Attorney General Merrick Garland found himself under fire for putting parents under fire. That is, the Federal Bureau of Investigation was shown to be targeting for investigation parents upset at school boards for promoting Critical Race Theory. Garland tried to weasel out of the situation, but since then…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: March 24, 2009
What if you were profiled by the police as a terrorist simply because of your political beliefs? A new report entitled "The Modern Militia Movement," prepared for law enforcement agencies by the Missouri Information Analysis Center, threatens just that. The report doesn't detail any current criminal activity in Missouri. It…
Relevance: 21% Posted on: April 10, 2000
You may have seen the article in your local newspaper, unless of course you've been too busy to read the paper because you've been rummaging through old receipts and struggling with various tax equations in order to get your federal income taxes filed. Well, the message from Congress on paying…