Media matters.

Dear colleagues, The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect a free press in the United States. We reject the government’s efforts to criminalize the pursuit of [...]

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Coming up short

That Gang of 8 thing may not have been such a shoe-in after all. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has come back to report that, despite having sailed through the Judiciary Committee and garnering the support of at least four Republicans, they may still be coming up short.. “We don’t currently have 60 votes identified in the [...]

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Bootleg

While we pause this weekend to recognize the Honored Dead, many of you may be considering heading out with friends to hoist a few cold ones in their memory. But if you’re heading to your favorite watering hole and plan on having some mixed drinks or a shot of hard liquor, you may want to [...]

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Incriminating

We’ve been covering the Lois Lerner saga for you wall to wall this month, up to and including the paid vacation she received in exchange for collectively flipping us all the bird, so there’s no need for much of a recap to bring you up to date. But the fact that she chose to invoke [...]

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Hostility.

There has been plenty of focus on the amped-up levels of cyber-intrusion coming from China’s part of the globe lately, on which the Pentagon finally and officially called them out earlier this month, although they will deny, deny, deny in tones of shocked indignation ’til the cows come home. Not only do the Chinese have [...]

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Market contrasts.

Most readers will probably have already heard about the horrible set of choices that Angelina Jolie faced after finding out that her DNA contained a genetic marker that almost guarantees that she will face breast cancer in her future.  Thanks to the genetic test, Jolie had an opportunity to make an informed choice about her [...]

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Love and Law

In case you somehow missed it, Kaitlyn Hunt is a Florida high school student who finds herself in a sizable amount of hot water this month, as well as being at the center of a controversial national story. The senior class cheerleader was charged with felony level sex crimes after police investigated a report that [...]

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Plus, Forbes on what a real executive would do.

In this blizzard of scandals, one thread connects all of them — the AP/Rosen scandal, political corruption at the IRS, and Benghazi, at least on the changes made to the talking points.  Barack Obama knew nothing of all them, at least according to the White House’s own defenses.  He had no idea what was happening [...]

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Doom

After two full election cycles where Americans debated the need to reign in spending, debt and the dubious future of entitlement programs and our nation’s fiscal viability, has the bloom started to come off the rose? A new poll from Gallup has some potentially worrying portents in the top lines. Forty-one percent of Americans now [...]

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Change.

Gov. Rick Perry today issued the following statement regarding the vote to admit openly gay Boy Scouts: The Boys Scouts of America has been built upon the values of faith and family for more than 100 years and today’s decision contradicts generations of tradition in the name of political correctness. While I will always cherish [...]

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Weighing in.

As Ed argued earlier this week, all of the scandalous details — ranging from the eyebrow-raising to the downright frightening — leaking out of the White House recently are kind of an enormous crimp in the progressive argument for a larger and still more activist government. President Obama might want young people to take his [...]

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Nannied to death.

Imagine a Memorial Day weekend during which outdoor grills and pool noodles had been banned. (And, please don’t tell me it’s already happened somewhere, as I’d rather live in ignorant bliss for a few more days.) I imagine that’s kind of what Europe will be like without olive oil dipping bowls and a speed limit [...]

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Oh my.

The pope starts talking like this and suddenly you’ve got atheists saying prayers. Let the healing begin. I like him, and not just because he’s handing me easy content on a Friday afternoon when I’ve got nothin’. As other nonbelievers have noted, he’s a man who admirably emphasizes deeds over words. But did he really [...]

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Fishing expedition.

It’s 4 p.m. ET as I’m writing this. If you had that time plus “deeper complicity for Holder in the Rosen investigation” in the pool, congrats. We already knew that he signed the warrant for Rosen’s e-mails. Now we know for sure that it wasn’t pro forma. President Good Government announced yesterday that he’s ordered [...]

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Fourth scandal?

A day after insurers complained that Kathleen Sebelius and the Obama administration had pressured them to fund Enroll America, a House committee sent them a request for more information on the matter.  The Energy and Commerce Committee had already begun looking into whether Sebelius had broken any laws by attempting to get donations from an industry [...]

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Obligatory.

Well, obviously. “If the president wants to come back here and see the progress himself, I never worry about that stuff,” Christie said Friday morning on NBC’s “Today.” “I worry about doing my job.” … “The bottom line is you can’t experience the way you’re experiencing it right now unless you’re here and you see [...]

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Feelings.

Via Matt Welch, behold the ne plus ultra of Obama counterterror apologetics courtesy of “New Yorker” contributor Jane Mayer. The next time The One launches a war that even his own lawyers think is illegal or drops a bomb on someone in Yemen because their movements are suspicious or detains someone indefinitely without trial, know [...]

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Tick tock.

Reporters are knocking off early, readers are firing up their grills, and there are not one, not two, but three scandals swirling around the executive branch. We have, in other words, the makings of a five-alarm news fire. All O has to do is light the match. Here’s your thread to guess; name the story [...]

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3 ET!

Today, on the Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we’ll take a look at the past week with Duane “Generalissimo” Patterson of the Hugh Hewitt Show. Duane and I will update everyone on the latest in Scandalpalooza, especially on the Holder lie exposed over the last 24 hours. All of this and more — and [...]

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"These procedures are brutal, by their nature."

Via Greg Hengler, this testimony to the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice may be even more chilling than some of the testimony at Kermit Gosnell’s trial.  In part, that’s because former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levantino describes the “normal” process of later-term abortions, and not just the supposedly outlier practices of Gosnell and his co-defendants. [...]

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Wut.

In case you missed it, Allahpundit had President Obama’s number on the recycled rehash that was his ‘big speech’ yesterday — which was epic only in the sense that it was an egregious nothingburger of bromides about what we’re told are President Foreign Policy’s miraculous yet still oddly unmaterialized abilities to move us drastically closer [...]

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Dinner cruises, and other essentials.

A year ago, this would have qualified as a scandal.  This month, it’s more of a palate cleanser.  Baltimore schools got millions in federal stimulus money to improve education, as the local CBS affiliate reports, but is that where the money went?  Only if we’re preparing Baltimore schoolkids for beauty school and the Love Boat: [...]

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"One thing is clear: this correspondence shows [Lerner’s] direct involvement in the scheme."

Via Andrew Stiles, no wonder the IRS wants her out. Now that she’s gone quiet, we can’t know what her defense would be to the ACLJ’s charges. But I can guess. We now know through her own testimony and from the Inspector General’s report that Lerner was briefed about this unlawful targeting scheme in June [...]

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Kabuki.

All right, it appears that Moscow has finally convinced Bashar al-Assad to attend peace talks in Geneva to resolve the two-year civil war in Syria.  Now what? It’s not clear that the rebels want to attend either, or who would even represent them in a conference: The Syrian government has agreed to participate in an [...]

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Uh oh.

That’s the question asked by Katie Pavlich and Jim Hoft after the revelation that Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved the application for a warrant on Fox News’ James Rosen as a potential co-conspirator in espionage.  Last week, under relatively friendly questioning from Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) about the Department of Justice seizure of Associated Press [...]

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