The IRS scandal was launched on May 10 by Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, as she spoke to a meeting of the American Bar Association.  In her answer to an audience question that she had planted, she said that “our line people in Cincinnati,” had demanded answers to invasive, offensive questions and [...]

The decision by a high ranking IRS official to in invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify to a Congressional hearing grabbed most of the headlines.  But that wasn’t the only shocker. On May 10 Ms. Lois Lerner, Director of the IRS Exempt Organizations Division, gave an address to a meeting of the American Bar [...]

We live in the era stultifying, bureaucratic complexity, imposed by government.  The serpentine federal tax code is beyond human comprehension and is almost universally hated.  Then there’s federal election law.  The First Amendment to the US Constitution says, “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”  It’s simple and easily understood.  [...]

In Knox Vs The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) the Supreme Court rebuked the fiercely partisan union for violating the free speech rights of non-members.  The ruling diminished the political power of government employee unions, and the Justices appeared to be offering to further diminish that power whenever someone brings them a relevant case. As [...]

Today the voters of Wisconsin decide if their governor will be recalled as punishment for standing up to government unions.  The chart explains why the employees of the State of Wisconsin are so important to the national unions and the national Democratic Party.  Membership in unions, the Party’s number one source of financial and volunteer [...]

Washington Post columnist agrees the government union system is set up to benefit Democrats but doesn’t see corruption! By now most readers probably know that the citizens of Wisconsin must endure yet another recall election because Governor Walker and the GOP legislature enacted reforms to reduce the power of public employee unions.  The unions counter-attacked [...]

From the very beginning, the ObamaCare arguments before the Supreme Court were a lesson in the folly of ignoring the wisdom of our Constitution, a charter for a government with just a few, limited, enumerated powers.  Solicitor General Verrilli, whose unenviable assignment was to defend ObamaCare opened things up: “The Affordable Care Act addresses a [...]

Liberty Works reported the $529 million government loan guarantee granted by the Obama Energy Department to Fisker Automotive here and here in September, 2009.  Back then most of the establishment media were still enthralled with the new President they had so vigorously promoted into the White House and did not want to report anything that [...]

The picture was of me and I sent it. Congressman Anthony Weiner finally confessed.  His Twitter account was not “hacked” as he had been claiming for a week.  And, hoping to head off more damage from additional salacious photos waiting in the wings to be splashed over the Internet, he admitted to several on-line dalliances.  [...]

TV news continuous to regale us with video of Wisconsin’s Democratic State Representatives on the floor of the state Assembly screaming “shame! shame!” at their Republican colleagues after the state Assembly voted to pass Governor Walker’s finance bill.   For two weeks the establishment media has supported the protesters and their vitriolic denunciation of Walker [...]