The Seven Questions That Got The IRS In Trouble  —  Tucked inside the the government report that found the IRS used inappropriate criteria to identify tax-exempt applications to review is a list of seven questions.  —  The questions appeared in letters sent in January and February of 2012 …

IRS gave liberals a pass; Tea Party groups put on hold  —  WASHINGTON — In the 27 months that the Internal Revenue Service put a hold on all Tea Party applications for non-profit status, it approved applications from similar liberal groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.

A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting  —  One survey found that 75% of IRS respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie to Congress.  —  Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and harassment.

Obama, the uninterested president  —  President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency.  —  Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone …

Obama's dangerous new narrative  —  No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama.  He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative - invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation.