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BY DON SORCHYCH | MAY 29, 2013

Racist inference

Bil Canfield has been our cartoonist for 18 years. Prior to that he was the cartoonist for Newark News until it folded in 1972, then the New Jersey Star Ledger until 1998.

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BY MATT BARBER  | MAY 29, 2013

R.I.P., Boy Scouts of America

t’s a sad day for both Scouting and for freedom. Indeed, it’s a sad day for America. The century-old Boy Scouts of America (BSA) – created in 1910 to “prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes” – has betrayed its own constituency, mission, oath and law.

BY SHELDON RICHMAN  | MAY 29, 2013

Abolish the IRS – and the Income Tax with it

The Internal Revenue Service has been caught engaging in political profiling while processing applications for tax-exempt status. In this case it was against organizations with “tea-party” or “patriot” in their names and other right-wing groups. Next time it could be libertarian or left-wing antiwar and pro-civil-liberties groups. No dissenter can ever rest assured he is safe from the arbitrary power of the IRS. 

BY ROBERT ROMANO  | MAY 29, 2013

Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth

Lois Lerner, director of exempt organizations at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is pleading her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself in the ongoing Congressional investigation over targeting by the agency of the tea party.

BY GLENN MOLLETTE  | MAY 29, 2013

America must keep a strong military

The recent assassination of a British soldier walking down a street in London was a despicable act. He proudly wore his country's uniform and for that he gave his life.