| Commentary Magazine | | The Exploding IRS Scandal | | By: Peter Wehner | | Yesterday's congressional hearings turned out to be a disaster for the IRS and, more broadly, for the Obama administration. We're now hearing from real people (see here and here) who are telling real stories about real harassment. It's all quite chilling, from efforts to intimidate donors and illegally releasing tax returns, to pressuring pro-life groups not to protest outside of Planned Parenthood organizations, to demanding to know about the prayer activities of citizens.  | |
| The Wall Street Journal | | Obama's Inspector General Negligence | | By: Joseph Schmitz | | With so many scandals breaking in Washington, one may well ask: Where were all the inspectors general when these bad things—at the IRS, at Justice, and at State before, during and after Benghazi, for instance—were going on? Where were the presidential appointees who, since the Inspectors General Act of 1978, are meant to root out gross mismanagement, fraud and other abuses at their federal departments and agencies, or among those whom the agencies regulate? The sad truth is that in the Obama administration many of the most important IGs mandated by Congress simply are not in place. | | | Reason.com | | Unless We Change Some Things, America Will Eventually Go Broke | | By: John Stossel | | Europe's struggles prove that "austerity" fails! So say the Big Spenders. With a condescending sigh, they explain that Europe made deep cuts in government spending, and the result was today's high unemployment. "With erstwhile middle-class workers reduced to picking through garbage in search of food, austerity has already gone too far," writes Paul Krugman in The New York Times. One problem with this conclusion: European governments didn't cut! If workers pick through garbage, cuts can't be a reason, since they didn't happen. | |
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