Making a List, Checking It Twice

Fmr. IRS head does not think targeting tea party groups was ‘illegal’
Steven Miller / AP

Steven Miller, previously the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, told Congress he did not believe it was illegal for the agency to create targeted lists of individual citizens and groups who would be singled out for special scrutiny, during a Friday hearing.

Calls for Benghazi Select Committee Mount

Law enforcement officers call for special investigation
Libya consulate / AP

More than 26,000 members of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association (FLEOA) have come out in favor of creating a Watergate-style investigatory committee that would be tasked with determining the truth behind the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

An Unethical Solicitation

Sebelius under fire for asking health care execs for Obamacare advertising money
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius / AP

The former chief ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush said that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius appears to have violated federal ethics rules when she asked health care executives to contribute to the campaign to implement Obamacare.

The Unbalancing

Column: The week Obama’s luck finally vanished
AP

Since the presidential election we have been told, repeatedly and gleefully, that the Republican Party is doomed, that demographics and history are on the side of President Barack Obama and the progressive movement, that the GOP base is unhinged, and that Tea Party radicalism threatens to upend conservative hopes not only in 2014 but also in 2016. But in the space of one week that story, true or not, has been eclipsed by another one: Washington finally has turned on Obama.