Search Results for: inside the irs
May 26, 2014 — Scott Johnson
New York Times health care reporter Robert Pear brings the latest news of Obamacare, courtesy of the IRS. Obamacare was signed into law in March 2010, yet four years later this comes as something of a surprise: Many employers had thought they could shift health costs to the government by sending their employees to a health insurance exchange with a tax-free contribution of cash to help pay premiums, but the
»
February 28, 2014 — Paul Mirengoff
Scott and I have been writing about the IRS’s latest attempt to silence conservatives, this time through potentially crippling regulations on political advocacy groups (known as 501(c)(4) organizations). The period for commenting on the IRS’s proposed rules, which we discussed with some specificity here, is now closed. I understand that more than 120,000 comments have been filed. The proposed rules don’t just adversely affect conservative groups. Many liberal groups would
»
June 14, 2013 — Scott Johnson
FBI Director Robert Mueller appeared before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan had a few questions about the FBI’s investigation of the IRS scandal. With a few basic questions about the case, Jordan stumped Mueller. Language note: It’s always a bad sign — indeed, it echoes Watergate’s “at this point in time” — when the witness limits his answer to “this juncture.”
»
May 23, 2013 — Paul Mirengoff
The Daily Caller reports that White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler had three unprecedented one-on-one meetings last year with the Treasury Department’s chief lawyer, Chistopher Meade. The meetings were in September and December of 2012. Meade had known about the inspector general’s investigation of the IRS’s targeting of conservative nonprofits since at least June 2012. According to the Daily Caller, Ruemmler had never previous met with Meade one-on-one. Meade and Ruemmler
»
May 20, 2013 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday the Washington Post broke an explosive story: as part of a leak investigation, the Department of Justice obtained access to Fox News reporter James Rosen’s email account, without giving notice of such access to Rosen, Fox or anyone else: When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving
»
May 19, 2013 — Steven Hayward
CBS News reported yesterday that senior officials in the Treasury Department knew of the IRS targeting of conservative groups during the 2012 campaign. While this doesn’t yet place the matter inside the West Wing, it assures another leg to the scandal at least. To paraphrase an old Watergate-era slogan, “Follow the money-grubbers.” (CBS News) WASHINGTON – There were new questions Saturday night concerning if anyone in the White House was
»
November 30, 2012 — Paul Mirengoff
I doubt that many of our readers want to look back at the election; more likely they have gotten beyond that defeat, as November draws to a close. But a few may find it worthwhile to read this piece by Noam Scheiber about Romney’s internal polling numbers. The Romney campaign’s polls, taken during the final weekend of the campaign, showed him pulling away in North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida, and
»
October 11, 2012 — Scott Johnson
NRO’s Katrina Trinko amd Jennifer Rubin round up the leading revelations from yesterday’s congressional oversight committee hearing on Libya. It is more than enough to make your blood boil, but that has been true roughly since September 12 and the Commander in Chief’s fundraising jaunt to Las Vegas in the immediate aftermath of the assault in Benghazi. Perhaps the most damning moment came in the testimony of State Department security
»
December 29, 2011 — Steven Hayward
Ever since I appeared at a conference on climate change in the Midwest about four years ago with Professor Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois I’ve been on the good professor’s email distribution list, usually receiving several communications a day. They are usually links to news stories and journal articles about climate alarm, but occasionally copies of his own indignant missives. The good professor is a “goes-to-11” global warming
»
July 18, 2011 — John Hinderaker
Our effort in Afghanistan is complex and daunting. Our troops there have done great service, but Afghanistan itself is almost unimaginably primitive. I, along with many others, have had mixed feelings about a strategy that sometimes seems to mortgage the success of our often-heroic efforts to the ability of the Afghans to create a decent society. So, when our friend Pete Hegseth told us that he was assigned to go
»
May 19, 2010 — Scott Johnson
In his PJTV report on Walt Fricke, Bill Whittle invites viewers to take a ride with volunteers from the Veterans Airlift Command. Fricke founded the VAC; the VAC provides free air transportation to wounded warriors, veterans and their families for medical and other compassionate purposes through a national network of volunteer aircraft owners and pilots. Whittle is a brilliant reporter; he gets right to the heart of VAC’s mission in
»
September 5, 2009 — Scott Johnson
When Obama administration green jobs commissar Van Jones signed on to the Truther statement in 2004, he was concerned that 9/11 might have been an inside job perpetrated by the Bush administration. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, on September 13, 2001, however, Jones had a different explanation. On September 13, 2001, Jones said: “The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York
»
January 25, 2009 — John Hinderaker
I don’t normally do “in the mail” posts about books I haven’t read; since I have time to read very few of the books I get in the mail, reviews are sadly infrequent. So this is an exception: A couple of days ago I got a copy of Inside Gitmo by Lt. Col. Gordon Cucullu. The book, of course, could hardly be more timely, with closing the terrorist detention facility
»
December 12, 2007 — Scott Johnson
We previously took a look here at what went on inside the jury at the Holy Land Foundation trial. Now the Investigative Project on Terrorism has posted Michael Fechter’s fasinating report (and accompanying video) on the “bullying” that took place during deliberations. Fechter’s report is based on interviews with three jurors other than William Neal, the juror who apparently dominated the deliberations. The deliberations appear to have been compomised by
»
August 13, 2006 — Scott Johnson
Michael J. Totten writes from northern Israel that he has just filed his first lengthy dispatch from the front line of the Lebanon/Israel war, including lots of photos: “Inside Hezbollah’s free fire zone.” He adds that he’s set up in Israel and that “now that I’ve done that dispatches should roll in a bit more regularly.” Historian Michael Oren (author of the excellent Six Days of War) makes a cameo
»
February 8, 2006 — Scott Johnson
Now it can be told: “Terrorist weapons were seized in raid.” The Independent reports: Police risked offending delicate religious sensitivities by raiding the Finsbury Park mosque, but their actions were justified by the mini-arsenal of weapons, terrorist paraphernalia and forged passports they found inside. Operation Mermant, which began in the early hours of January 20 2003, involved scores of officers in body armour using battering rams to enter the building.
»
September 18, 2005 — Scott Johnson
The American Enterprise Institute has posted Mark Falcoff’s review of a new book by a UN insider, an American who served on the staff of the Secretary-General. Falcoff’s review is “A stagnant cesspool at Turtle Bay.” Falcoff deems it “a remarkable book” revealing the organization’s “principal characteristic” as its massive waste of resources. Falcoff describes the book’s account of the evolution of the Secretariat from the Cold War to the
»
