All Blog Posts Tagged 'Sobieski' (200)

IRS Scandal: The inexplicable raid nearly two years ago on a  guitar maker for using allegedly illegal wood that its competitors also used was  another targeting by this administration of its political enemies.

On Aug. 24, 2011, federal agents executed four search warrants on Gibson …

Scandal: The rest of us must answer IRS questions under  threat of perjury, but the agency's execs can take the Fifth. A Tea Party  targeted by the IRS — and the FBI and OSHA and the ATF — thinks that's unfair.  We do too.

Lois Lerner, chief of the IRS' exempt organizations division…

Power: Given the president's end-runs around Congress, his shredding of the Constitution and his assault on the authority of the courts, a second term free of electoral restraints may be a frightening prospect.…

Benghazigate: The lack of a timeline for what the commander-in-chief  was doing the night terrorists murdered our ambassador to Libya and three others  is an "irrelevant fact," according to a key White House aide.

Playing the role Sunday of former U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, who last Sept. …

Government Overreach: The Internal Revenue Service official  in charge of tax-exempt organizations when the unit targeted Tea Party groups  now runs the IRS office responsible for enforcing ObamaCare.

As bad as the IRS scandal was, with the taxing body of government using its …

Scandal: More than six hours after terrorists attacked our consulate, former Navy SEALs manned a blood-soaked machine gun to defend U.S. territory. Meanwhile Apache helicopters sat on the ground in Italy.…

Scandal In Libya: A new email dump shows that the White  House, contrary to public statements, was heavily involved in editing the  Benghazi talking points to remove all references to it being a terrorist  attack.

The limited, heavily redacted package of emails released by the …

Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the  Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a  taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS employee and Obama campaign  donor.

Using the Citizens United case as a pretext, retiring Sen. Carl Levin, …

Tax Abuse: As nonconservative groups complain of politically motivated  targeting by the IRS, we're reminded it's the IRS that's going to be enforcing  one of the greatest expansions of government power in our history.…

Libya: At least a dozen rewrites of the Benghazi talking  points were made, with all references to al-Qaida and prior attacks removed at  the direction of the secretary of state's office.

The astonishing thing about the administration's Benghazi cover-up is that it  actually…

Scandal In Libya: The secretary of state in the most  transparent administration in history has her chief of staff warn a Benghazi  whistle-blower to not spill the beans on Benghazi to a U.S. congressman.

In the course of the career of Hillary Clinton's husband, William…

The Scandal In Libya: Testimony by the Benghazi  whistle-blowers presents clear evidence of shameful political manipulation of  the truth seven weeks before an election and a willingness to let four Americans  die to maintain a

campaign narrative.

What difference at this…

Benghazi: Congressional Democrats will go all-out to protect  their likely 2016 presidential nominee. They won't ask why a 10-man SWAT team  was sent to arrest a filmmaker while pleas for help in Benghazi were  ignored.

On Sept. 14, 2012, three days after the terrorist attack on…

The Scandal In Libya: On the night Bengazi burned and four  Americans died, forces ready to deploy were told to stand down and our secretary  of state cut out of the loop her department's counter-terrorism bureau.

Few people know who Gregory Hicks and Mark Thompson are, but then…

Guns To Mexico: Once again blaming his own country for  Mexico's gun violence without mentioning Fast and Furious, the gun runner in  chief pledges to find and jail gun smugglers. Perhaps he should start with his  own administration.

'We recognize that most of the guns used to commit…

War On Terror: Eight months after the Benghazi attack, the  FBI begs for help by releasing photos of three suspects, reports surface about  an al-Qaida link and the State Department's review panel is under  investigation.

Ahead of highly anticipated hearings set for Wednesday…

PC Amok: Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, responding  to pressure to change his team's name, tweeted: "In a land of freedom we are  held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness." Washington Redtails,  anyone?

The problems of poverty, unemployment, crime and failing schools…

PC Amok: A congressman asks why emails describe supporters  of traditional marriage as members of hate groups while the Pentagon vets a  religious tolerance guide with a group that compares Christian evangelism to  "rape."

When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently appeared…

Federal Power: Homeland Security's procurement officer is  grilled in Congress on why federal agents who rarely fire weapons need several  times more bullets annually than an Army officer. Who or what are they shooting  at?

Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Thursday asked Nick…

Social Injustice: Turns out conservative crusader Andrew  Breitbart was correct when he exposed a multibillion-dollar redistribution  scheme to African-American farmers based on largely dubious claims of  discrimination.

If there's a patron saint for government watchdogs, it's…