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The IRS & ObamaCare: Leviathan threatens
So the Internal Revenue Service is up to its pesky neck in reports of its own purely political harassment. And this befuddled agency is about to become the federal “enforcer” …The Thursday wrap
Lois Lerner, a figure central to the IRS’ targeting/harassing of conservative groups, turned out to be too clever by half on Wednesday. Her attorney previously had said she would invoke …Your government: More thuggery
So, what’s next from the Obama administration, revival of the Sedition Act of 1798? Perhaps it already has done so, given the long string of scandals coming to light. Not …Oklahoma’s sorrow
As chilling as the live television coverage was of the massive tornado that decimated Moore, Okla., on Monday, gut-wrenching are the still photos that recorded Mother Nature’s assault on the …ObamaCare lies: Shocking truths
A new House Energy & Commerce Committee report shows that when it comes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s effects on insurance premiums, an old saying is on …Pittsburgh Tuesday takes
Sominex Syndrome: That seems to be what hit the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third game of their Stanley Cup series with the Ottawa Senators. The Pens were ready to go …Letters to the Editor
Buck stops at top
President Obama on May 13 called the Benghazi hearings a “sideshow.” During her post-election testimony …How to send us a
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Undoing the brainwashing
By Thomas SowellAs college students return home for the summer, many parents may notice how many politically correct ideas they have acquired on campus. Some of those parents may wonder how they can undo the brainwashing that has become so common in …
Barack Obama, the spectator president
By Pat BuchananNo, this is not Watergate or Iran-Contra. Nor is it like the sex scandal that got Bill Clinton impeached. The AP, IRS and Benghazi matters represent a scandal not of presidential wrongdoing, but of presidential indolence, indifference and incompetence in …
We are the idiots
By Walter WilliamsHenry Miller, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Gregory Conko, senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, in their Forbes article “Rachel Carson’s Deadly Fantasies” (Sept. 5, 2012), wrote that her 1962 book, “Silent Spring,” led to a world …
The film tax credit farce
By Antony Davies & James R. HarriganEveryone loves a good movie, but with an average cost of more than $8, most Pennsylvanians have to choose carefully what they will spend their money on. Too bad we don’t have that same luxury with our tax dollars, which …
Paying for the new psychiatry
By Suzanne FieldsPsychiatry has always been the troubled child at the table of medical specialists. Psychiatric labels are based on deviations of “normal,” which change with trends in moral and intellectual attitudes. Mental health is back at the top of public attention …
Obama’s empty ‘justice’
By Michelle MalkinOn Sept. 12, 2012, President Obama vowed to “bring to justice” the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. On Oct. 26, 2012, Obama said his “biggest priority” was bringing those “folks” responsible for murdering four Americans to “justice.” …
Denigrating medicine: ObamaCare turns physicians into assembly line workers
By Jeffrey A. SingerI am a general surgeon with more than three decades in private clinical practice. I have watched my profession slowly evolve into the domain of …
American tyranny: Government run amok
By Andrew P. NapolitanoGovernment is bad for personal freedom. That argument is premised upon the truism that everything government does interferes with freedom because it either prohibits or …
Colin McNickle
Now comes Barack Obama, his Justice Department on the hook for a secret fishing expedition through the business and personal …
Salena Zito
In T.S. Eliot’s drama “Murder in the Cathedral,” kowtowing knights who overhear England’s Henry II vent frustration with Thomas Becket …
Brad Bumsted
HARRISBURG The stage is set in June for a potential deal: House Republicans pass a transportation funding bill most don’t …
Eric Heyl
Pittsburgh’s de facto mayor’s race contained enough serpentine curves to render even the hardiest NASCAR driver queasy. The checkered flag …
Nafari Vanaski
There is no better place than a suburban shopping mall to measure the grittiness of your child, or to compare …
Luis Fábregas
Rachel Golden believed it would be only a matter of time before doctors found cancer in her breasts. Not only …
Q and A
We’re getting the same old IRS spinDaniel J. Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is a former economist for former Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Oregon, …
Page of Books
The latest on the 20th centuryFigures and forces that shaped the 20th century — and whose influence endures in the 21st — are the subjects …
Joseph Sabino Mistick
The race for Pittsburgh mayor: Now comes the ground gameAs the 2013 race to become Pittsburgh’s next mayor draws to a close, it is almost time for voters to …
Tom Purcell
Advice from the masterBill Clinton, wearing a white toga and a crown of gold, sat in a garden while attractive women fed him …
Ralph R. Reiland
IRS’ assault on freedomLet’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and …
George F. Will
The NLRB’s school-door standWASHINGTON Early in an opinion issued recently by a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the …
Donald J. Boudreaux
Competitive regulationThe demand for government regulation springs from the lack of understanding that markets are amazingly proficient at regulating themselves through …
Whispers
State AG ‘beauty contest’ finalistPennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane probably would like being noticed more for her legal acumen than for her physical allure. …
