And the “common sense” affront by government on rights upon which the government supposedly cannot infringe, continues apace: The California Senate on Wednesday approved a package of seven gun control bills, including background checks for people who buy ammunition, introduced in response to the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. […] The measures include a requirement that Californians who want to buy ammunition, and the vendors who

Uh, ok:   You’re queer enough, you’re fabulous enough, and gosh darn it, people accept your same-sex gropings and penetrations. Todd Starnes: The Department of Justice has been accused of religious intolerance and viewpoint discrimination after workers were sent an email directing them to verbally affirm homosexuality, according to a law firm specializing in religious liberty and now representing a DOJ whistleblower. Liberty Counsel said DOJ employees were emailed a

When the government controls your health care — in fact, when they have the compassion to give it to you for free — they can (and have to, in fact.  For the compassion!) dictate what it is you need to do to earn it. And now we have a bipartisan push for just such a thing. To which I say this:  I told you so.  Though I’ll admit, in my

I don’t usually weigh in on terrestrial politics, but the truth is, if  I’d been arrested every time I got a hand job from some underage kid who wanted me to sign his Lost Boys t-shirt, there would be no Dream a Little Dream, much less its (in my opinion) criminally underrated sequel. Sometimes the law is just stupid — especially when it threatens to get in the way of

Sure. But these were just a pair of rogue, low-level, oft-chastised higher-ups.  With ties to Cincinnati.  So honestly, there’s nothing to see here — and every time you provocateurs in the media write about it you’re just proving to the American people that you are more interested in going after an historic black historic president and capitalizing politically on a small flaw in an otherwise wonderful agency than you are

Uh oh.  Somebody’s about to get audited! [REPRISE!].  Stuart Stevens, the Daily Beast: What would you think of a president under whom the IRS targeted his harshest political opponents, during his reelection campaign? What would you think of a president whose obsession with leaks and secrecy was so great that he used the Justice Department to obtain phone records of reporters, in violation of Justice’s established procedure? What would you

Uh oh.  Somebody’s about to get audited!  TRS: NBC News has an article out this morning that is mostly a rehash of information we already know. But there was something else in the article that caught my eye: Cleta Mitchell, another attorney representing conservative groups that allege they were targeted, said an IRS agent in Cincinnati told her a “task force” IRS office in Washington, D.C., was making the decisions

The Atlantic Wire, with what I can only assume to be a rhetorical question: On Thursday, NBC News reported on Holder’s involvement in another prominent investigation of a media outlet. Following a 2009 leak of classified information, the Justice Department acquired a search warrant for emails from Fox News reporter James Rosen. In the warrant, the Department indicates that there is “probable cause to believe that the reporter has committed

So opines the Washington Examiner’s editorial board: Previously in this space, The Washington Examiner described an important new report compiled by an 11-person research team from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce entitled “Sue and Settle: Regulating Behind Closed Doors.” The chamber’s report identified at least 71 federal court cases since 2009 in which federal agencies — most often, the Environmental Protection Agency — made back-room deals with Big Green environmental