The IRS scandal involving the improper targeting of conservative groups first broke 20 days ago, on May 10th.   Attorney General Eric Holder announced he was starting a Justice Department criminal investigation of the IRS allegations on Tuesday May 14th.  On Thursday May 16th, President Obama announced unsurprisingly that he did not favor the appointment of a special counsel to investigate [Read More]

Imagine you are a 19-year-old Marine. You are riding in a Humvee with four other Marines — your friends — when an improvised explosive device (IED) explodes. Two of your friends die instantly, but you are “lucky.” Though bloodied and bruised, you survive to fight another day. You will fight many more days, too. With our military stretched thin at [Read More]

Independent’s Eye by Joe Gandelman There’s good news and bad news in the twin terrorist outrages of the horrific running over and hacking to death of a British soldier and the Boston Marathon bombings. The good: intelligence agencies had some of these young terrorists on their radar. The bad news: having them on the radar did little good since the [Read More]