By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times
With its “Live Free or Die” motto, New Hampshire would seem to be tailor-made for the libertarian-flavored presidential campaign that Sen. Rand Paul is taking for a trial run. But, as his father, former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, learned in 2012, translating the typical New Hampshire voter’s skepticism about big government into Republican primary votes is easier said than done. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Ralph Z. Hallow and - The Washington Times
Signs of waning evangelical power in the nation’s culture wars and in Republican policy — and some unexpected challenges for GOP candidates — loom as the 103-year-old Boy Scouts of America gears up for a definitive vote this week on whether to welcome openly gay youths into the organization’s ranks. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
A Texas group dedicated to combatting voter fraud applied for tax-exempt status in 2010 and has suffered three years of delays, been through four different IRS agents, undergone six FBI inquiries and submitted thousands of pages of documentation — and its still hasn’t been approved. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Monday to allow illegal immigrants who get legal status to begin collecting tax-welfare payments, as the panel spent a fourth day working through amendments to the massive immigration bill and party-line splits began to emerge. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
The White House admitted Monday that more officials — including top aides — knew about IRS abuses in targeting conservative groups than the administration had previously acknowledged. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times
Fishing expeditions, it turns out, are how the Justice Department does a lot of its investigative work in the post-9/11 world, and despite President Obama’s vows to protect press freedom here and push for it abroad, journalists are getting caught in the administration’s dragnet. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Former Rep. Ron Paul of Texas called the recent IRS fiasco troubling — but writes that the only way Congress can protect the freedoms of Americans from a long pattern of suspected IRS abuse is to “shutter the doors” of the agency “once and for all.” Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times
As the IRS scandal gains traction and a bipartisan chorus on Capitol Hill demands more answers, the man who headed the agency at the time it was targeting conservative groups will be on the hot seat twice this week. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The Senate’s immigration bill will raise national security risks and the Obama administration will do little more than “rubber-stamp” illegal immigrants into the program, endangering Americans, says the labor union representing the 12,000 employees who will have to approve the applications. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times
Delicious irony, perhaps: the tea party has been reinvigorated and reinvented following revelations that its groups’ nonprofit status had been singled out and investigated by the IRS. Though a critical news media has tried to purge the conservative, liberty-minded grass-roots movement from the public radar, the tea partyers still push back in huge numbers, and on their own terms. Rush Limbaugh now deems the tea party “fearless.” Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
The White House counsel’s office knew that a Treasury Department inspector general’s report about the IRS targeting conservative groups had been completed in April — weeks before the matter became public. Published May 20, 2013 Comments
By Luke Rosiak and Jeffrey Anderson - The Washington Times
Washington, D.C., has failed to remove from its voting rolls as many as 13,000 former residents who years ago moved to Prince George’s County and cast ballots there, making fraud by voting in two jurisdictions as easy as going to the polls in their old neighborhoods, The Washington Times found in a review of records. Published May 19, 2013 Comments
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
The Obama administration is trying to move beyond Benghazi, saying Monday that it has tightened security at diplomatic posts and created an official position to ensure "high-threat" missions are properly protected — but House Republicans are pressing on with investigations into the Sept. 11 attack. Published May 20, 2013
By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times
Critics of Internet sales tax say that rising resistance from newer GOP lawmakers could sink a bill now before the Republican-controlled House to require online retailers such as eBay to start collecting sales taxes for the states. Published May 20, 2013
By Kevin Freking - Associated Press
New government figures underscore the staggering long-term consequences of military sexual assaults: More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness linked to the abuse, and 4,000 sought disability benefits. Published May 20, 2013
By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times
Speaking at an historically black college, President Obama said Sunday he sometimes blamed his youthful failings on racism and urged the all-male class of graduates to look up to black male role models such a filmmaker Spike Lee. Published May 19, 2013
