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Pushing Back on Benghazi
Last week’s hearings on Benghazi by the House Oversight Committee must have hit a nerve, because President Obama blasted his critics at a joint White House news conference with British Prime Minister...
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IRS Scandal Is Outrageous, But It’s Not Watergate
In a week full of media outrage—from the semi-scandal, at best, of Benghazi, to the truly frightening and dangerous Justice Department investigation of the Associated Press (which I’ll write about...
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AP Scandal Shows Dangers of National Security State
So, now we have the third in what has become a perfect storm of scandals for the Obama Administration. After Benghazi and the IRS’s political profiling of conservative groups for special scrutiny of...
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Why President Obama Will Survive the Scandals
On Wednesday, President Obama struck back against a rising chorus of criticism in Congress and the media over his handling of a trio of scandals that have rocked Washington. He announced that Treasury...
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Worse Than Benghazi
Yes, the terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate (or CIA station) in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 was a disaster—and badly handled by the State Department beforehand and the Obama...
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Much, Much Worse Than Benghazi
The very worst disaster ever to befall U.S. diplomats and military in a foreign country did not occur in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, when four Americans, including Ambassador Chris...
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So Far, Obama Has a Pretty Clean Record
If you listen to Fox News and Republican congressmen, you’d think that the Obama administration is a cesspool of Chicago-style corruption. And indeed the confluence of Benghazi, the IRS’s political...
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A Century Later, Big Questions about the Income Tax and the Fed
This year we celebrate—if that’s the word for it—the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax and the founding of the Federal Reserve system. They were born in 1913 through the 16th Amendment to...
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What the Obama Presidency Really Means
President Obama is still in the first year of his second term and a lot will happen between now and 2016, but we already can glimpse what his legacy will be. As I’ve written, the trio of scandals that...
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Four Ways President Obama Can Cement His Legacy
President Obama is going through one of the periodic rough patches of his presidency. From the collapse of his campaign against the automatic spending cuts in the “sequester” to the failure to pass...
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