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A White House Under Siege

Published in Wall Street Journal on May 23, 2013

Dan Pfeiffer, senior adviser to the president for strategy and communications, appeared on five news programs Sunday to discuss the controversies buffeting the administration. The spectacle revealed the mind-set of a White House under siege.

Mr. Pfeiffer invoked the word "irrelevant" like a wizard's incantation to dismiss questions about who edited the misleading Benghazi talking points, where the president was on the night of the assaults, and even if the law prevented the IRS from targeting groups for political reasons. On Mr. Pfeiffer's last point, ABC's George Stephanopoulos responded, "You don't really mean the law is irrelevant, do you?"

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The Senate Roots of the IRS Scandal

Published in Wall Street Journal on May 16, 2013

The Obama administration finds itself in perilous political waters amid three unfolding scandals.

First came last week's congressional testimony by three highly credible officials, plus some excellent reporting, which showed that the Obama administration consciously misled Americans after the Benghazi attacks that took the lives of four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. 

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FNS Panel Weighs in on Benghazi

Aired on Fox News Sunday Panel Plus on May 19, 2013

Did the releasing of 100 White House emails only raise more questions surrounding the Obama Administration's handling of the terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi?  Karl Rove discusses in the Fox News Sunday Panel Plus.

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Perfect storm of scandals drowning Obama agenda

Aired on On the Record with Greta Van Susteren on May 15, 2013

Karl discusses how the latest scandals threaten President Obama's ability to govern. Is the White House out of the woods after releasing emails and firing IRS acting director? Or did they just raise more questions on credibility? 

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By Jane Gleeson-White

A disappointment.  After an odd nine-page preface that opens with a Robert F. Kennedy 1968 speech about the notion of GDP, there are 121 herky-jerky pages on how an Italian monk and Venetian merchants used Arabic numerals and Greek math to construct the rudiments of modern accounting.  One hundred and twenty-two pages follow on how accounting has contributed to the decline of the planet and the growth of rapacious capitalism, while hiding the fact that the true cost of a Big Mac is $200.  No kidding.  I’ll look for a better volume on the same topic and report later.


By Adam Goodheart

This is a wonderful, brisk exploration by a talented historian of the Civil War’s first year.  Adam Goodheart tells the story of America’s descent into conflict through sketches of memorable characters who may be unfamiliar now, but who were very well known to the country then.  These include the commandant of Fort Sumner, the young military officer whose tragic death plunged President Abraham Lincoln into despair, and the three slaves whose escape to freedom helped alter public opinion in the North and seal the fate of the South’s “peculiar institution.”  This is a great read.    


By David Horowitz and Jacob Laskin

Horowitz and Laskin have penned a sharply worded, deeply informed expose of the powerful, very wealthy network of liberal foundations that's spending hundreds of millions to reshape America's politics, culture and economic structure.


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