IRS

The corruption, if not outright lawlessness, at the IRS continues to astound, with the revelation of thousands of additional documents relating to the organization's targeting of

The IRS never ceases to amaze us. Not only has the venerable tax collection agency become a weapon employed against political opponents of the Obama administration, it has also managed to keep its place as one of the most corrupt dens of bureaucratic sleaze in Washington:

The IRS still hasn't fixed all the holes in its taxpayer data files, which means sensitive information is still ripe for hackers to plunder. In response to this rolling bureaucratic blunder, Virginia Rep.

No one wants to face an IRS audit. But the chances of you finding yourself answering the taxman's questions rise substantially if the agency considers you to be wealthy. Why? Because auditing those who earn more provides greater return on investment for the IRS:

Tucked into the highway bill congress">Congress recently passed was a provision that, on the surface, looks like a sensible way to prevent tax cheats from skipping the country.

We've written a great deal about the federal government's abuse of our Fourth Amendment rights through its repeated use of warrantless searches. Now we learn the abuses reach beyond the usual suspects -- the NSA, FBI, and CIA -- and include the IRS:

In the spring, we learned the hackers broke into the IRS computer system and obtained access to around 100,000 taxpayers accounts. That number has soared to more than 300,000. And it may get much worse:

Remember the Lois Lerner scandal at the IRS? You remember: the one where the tax agency swore it looked high and low for her "missing" emails relating to targeting of liberty and tea party groups...and couldn't find a thing (until it did)?

President Obama is doubling -- or maybe it's trippling -- down on his global warming bets, promising even more taxpayer money for so-called "green energy" projects...and enlis