HAS HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings been colluding with the IRS?

True the Vote's attorney is on the case.

This could get interesting, but the MSM will do its best to provide cover for the Democrats.

WHAT'S HE GIVING AWAY NOW? Obama speaks with Putin on Ukraine.

UPDATE: Now we know.

IT'S NOT ABOUT JOBS OR THE ECONOMY, it's about control.

YES, LET'S EXPAND MEDICAID: make the poor poorer as we kill them off with 'death panels'.

Virginia's new governor and legislature are in the midst of a battle to expand (McAuliffe) or not (Legislature) Medicaid. I'm (slightly) hopeful that the legislature will prevail.

FOR PROGRESSIVES, it's a feature, not a bug.

JEFF JACOBY: Islam, 'honor' violence, and the silence of the progressives. They're silent about Islamic extremism because deep down, they're shallow, and their blood runs yellow.

ONCE AGAIN, Democrats prove their racist bona fides. Every time they look in a mirror, they see their worst enemy -- themselves.

UNEXPECTEDLY, to be sure: Survey shows ObamaCare sending premiums rising at fastest clip in decades.

SPRING LEAVES, Week Five: today's look at the onset of Spring 2014. It was gorgeous yesterday, but has turned cloudy and breezy today. Still, the trees are delighted and beginning to bud out.

You can see bits of green at the top left and in the tops of the white oaks at the top right of the picture.

The pear tree across the street from our house fully blossomed out on Friday; as you can see, the blossoms are beginning to fall as the leaves take command. Here's what it looked like just a few days ago.

Last week's picture is here. You can to continue to scroll back in time from there.

VOTER FRAUD: the Left's tool for 'social justice'.

NEWT GINGRICH on ObamaCare's latest casualty. Kathleen Sebelius's tenure at HHS was a disaster, certainly, but she deserves the strongest criticism for her failure to stand up to the buffoons in the White House.

IT'S NOT ABOUT HEALTH; it's about control (and taxes).

MONOTONY MOTORS: Why today’s cars all look alike.

You may thank your government safety nanny. You're welcome.

THE BEST THING for the environment is for the government to stop controlling it.

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES: Background check backlog to blame for gun sales to Maryland fugitives, felons:

A tough new gun-control law pushed by Gov. Martin O'Malley and passed by the legislature spurred gun sales leading up to Oct.1, when the law took effect.

By then, the wave of buyers, racing to get ahead of the state's new handgun licensing requirement and ban on the sale of assault weapons, had grown to a tsunami.

More gun purchase applications were received in September 2013 alone than the state often sees in a year, police said.

Ban guns to increase sales ... who'd have thunk it?