By Rand Paul
Obama acts as though we no longer have a Constitution
Independent voices from the TWT Communities

Senior Treasury officials were made aware in June 2012 that investigators were looking into complaints from tea party groups that they were being harassed by the Internal Revenue Service, a Treasury inspector general said Friday, disclosing that Obama administration officials knew there was a probe during the heat of the presidential campaign.
"Thwarting global gun grabbers" (Commentary, Thursday) inaccurately claims the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) could infringe on Second Amendment rights if activist judges are appointed to the courts. The truth is that the ATT would provide a global solution to the rogue and irresponsible trade of weapons across borders, not deploy black helicopters to swoop in and take away your guns.

The United Nations is pushing gun control on a global scale, and President Obama is on board. Just a few hours after re-election was assured, the president's representative cast a vote for the Arms Trade Treaty at a U.N. committee meeting.

You know it's bad when the president deputizes Big Bird as his thuggish surrogate. Aside from Big Bird's checkered past as a well-to-do federal welfare recipient, wouldn't Joe Biden or Oscar the Grouch put up a better fight?

Partisan bickering overshadowed Wednesday's opening of a congressional hearing on last month's fatal attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.

Scholars at Amherst College in Massachusetts believe a collector may have what would be just the second known photo of poet Emily Dickinson.
Scholars at Amherst College in Massachusetts believe a collector may have what would be just the second known photo of Emily Dickinson.
The parents of two of three Arkansas boys who were murdered in 1993 said they're disappointed that a documentary about the killings and the three men convicted, known as the West Memphis Three, was nominated Tuesday for an Academy Award.

The apparent safety woes of the much-touted, all-electric Chevrolet Volt touched off a firestorm on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning, as House Republicans charged that the Obama administration conspired with General Motors Co. to conceal those risks from consumers while pushing the vehicle as part of the "green" future.
The Weather Channel has a new chief executive, and he's forecasting expansion overseas.
The Weather Channel has a new chief executive, and he's forecasting expansion overseas.

Wealthy liberals love nothing better than flaunting their enlightened attitudes. They see the selection of a trendy set of wheels as a great way to advertise their concern for the survival of polar bears. At the top of the must-have list for the self-enlightened is the Chevy Volt.

Congress passed three free-trade agreements Wednesday night with South Korea, Colombia and Panama in what is the nation's biggest trade deal since NAFTA and the first for the Obama administration, with the promise of boosting the economy through the creation of tens of thousands of jobs.

A long-simmering fight among Republicans will burst onto the public stage Tuesday when the Senate votes on eliminating government subsidies for ethanol producers — the first skirmish in what is expected to be a much bigger war over tax breaks, carve-outs and other taxpayer funding that boosts U.S. businesses and can fund American jobs.
"I don't know that I got any answers from you today," Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., told Miller. "I am more concerned today than I was before."
IZOD representative Mike Kelly noted that "AJ is an interesting cat" and Allmendinger interrupted: "I don't know how to take that."