First, let me just say this to Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division overseeing tax-exempt status:  it is impossible, not to mention dazzlingly mindblowing, to suggest in one breath that groups with “tea party” or “patriot” in their names were in fact singled out for increased scrutiny and unlawful requests for donor lists, then in the very next breath to maintain that the practice was not motivated by political

I realize we’re all supposed to pretend that we don’t recognize the enormous and surreal contradictions that are each and every day foisted on us by a cynical, self-serving government that drafts and forces upon us policy based on a rhetorical cocktail of emotional appeals and divisive identity politics, garnished with the tripartite tactic of shame, malign, and shun — everyone everyday is, at any given moment, either a racist,

On the off chance you happen to be one of those rah-rah political party guys or gals, I’d like to point something out to you. 1.  In the Senate, the 800+ page “comprehensive immigration reform bill” is going to make it out of committee thanks to the votes of two Republicans on the “Gang of 8,” Jeff Flake and Lindsey Graham — both of whom rejected every effort by conservatives

I have very little I wish to say today, so sick to my stomach am I from hearing yesterday’s testimony on Benghazi, wherein career civil servants were very obviously, and oftentimes visibly, working to restrain their anger, outrage, and outright disbelief at what their own government had done (and hadn’t done) to secure the lives of Americans. In short, the subtext of yesterday’s testimony was precisely this:  it does matter. 

So writes Michael Hirsch, who evidently missed the portion of the testimony where we learned that a State Department official emailed the Libyan government on September 12  that the consulate attack was in fact a terrorist operation — specifically identifying Ansar al-Sharia in the email. And as the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes, who broke the story on the Benghazi talking points, notes in today’s TWS podcast, this means that the

Turns out, most Americans, however, don’t know that gun crime has been halved over the past 30 years.  Because America’s mainstream news media is nothing more than a propaganda arm for progressive interests — and gun control is and will always be one of the holy grails of Utopian progressivism. Either that, or they simply misheard good, honest reporting from the objective and neutral press, or are reacting rather foolishly

RT: In an experimental bid to determine whether wider gun ownership could lead to a decline in crime, a University of Houston graduate student and the Armed Citizens Project is looking to give away shotguns to residents of fifteen cities. Kyle Coplen, 29, is the founder of the Armed Citizens Project, a group which announced that it will seek to expand its program into the Chicago Metropolitan Area at a