“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to obtain from the Internal Revenue Service, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, confidential information contained in income tax returns for purposes not authorized by law, and to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other…
I read an interesting letter in the Wall Street Journal the other day. It came from George in Seattle and was critical to how the president is scaring everybody over supposed “cuts” in spending brought on by sequester. Here’s what George writes: “Can you imagine the private sector responding the way this administration is, with…
This is a story that’s the opposite of your typical coming of age in terms of racism. We often hear about stories of people who were born or raised as a racist, and come to learn that there is no reason to harbor such hate. These are sometimes rural people who did not have much…
Someone I’ve known for a while now — my wife, Nancy — has written a letter to some of her friends, the ones who voted for Barack Obama the last time around but may be having second thoughts now. She showed it to me and (with her blessings) I decided to share it with all…
Vice President Biden recently warned an audience in Virginia, many of them blacks,that if GOP candidate George Romney captures the White House,“he’s gonna put y’all back in chains.” I guess “y’all” is how they say it way down south in Scranton, PA, where Biden was born. This set me to thinking about the possible money-making…
Our presidential elections, pundits sometimes remind us, are not national contests, but rather contests in 50 states and the District of Columbia. And since most states lean heavily to one party or the other these days, the only real contests are in a dozen or so target states. Once upon a time, most states were…
Back in December 2010 I published a column in this space entitled, “Thank God for Rich People.” It touched off a brouhaha – without the ha ha, attracting more than 300 comments. When we talked about the column on the O’Reilly Factor it touched off another firestorm. This seems like a good time to run…
So I’m reading the op-eds in the Sunday New York Times and the headline catches my eye: “What’s Race Got to Do With It?” I roll my eyes and say to myself, Here we go again. The column is by Lee Siegel, an opinion writer of the liberal persuasion, whose main point is – and…