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After a week of revelations about government spying on reporters and the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservatives, most voters feel "like the federal government has gotten out of control and is threatening the basic civil liberties of Americans." At the same time, a new Fox News poll finds disapproval of President Obama's job performance is above 50 percent for the first time in a year, his honesty rating is at a new low and half of voters already think he's a lame-duck.More than two-thirds of voters -- 68 percent -- feel the government is out of control and threatening their civil liberties. About one quarter disagree (26 percent). Nearly half of Democrats (47 percent), as well as large numbers of independents (76 percent) and Republicans (87 percent) feel Uncle Sam is taking liberties with their liberties. Those who identify with the Tea Party movement, one of the groups targeted by the IRS, are among those most likely to say things are out of control and civil liberties...
Catherine Engelbrecht has been telling people for years she's been targeted and harassed by the federal government. Not many people listened. But her case is receivi...
There's an irony in the Internal Revenue Service's crackdown on conservative groups.The nation's tax agency has admitted to inappropriately scrutinizing smaller tea ...
Judge Andrew Napolitano on what a potential lawsuit could mean for the White House
American Center for Law & Justice Executive Director Jordan Sekulow on the lawsuit planned against the IRS for targeting conservative groups.
Over a dozen organizations fight back on tax scandal
A detailed fact-check published Monday tore into an IRS official's claim that the agency's scrutiny of conservative groups started in response to an influx of nonpro...
Come tomorrow, Nov. 3, what will the headlines across the country read, other than reporting on a Republican landslide election? If history is any guide, the headlin...
Tea Partiers had barely started their victory lap for propelling Rand Paul to triumph Tuesday in Kentucky's GOP Senate primary, when a controversy over the new nomin...
WASHINGTON -- Mitt Romney's early success in the Republican presidential race is challenging the tea party's clout. Will it continue to pull the GOP sharply right? W...
The IRS official who led the tax-exempt organizations unit when Tea Party groups were targeted is now in charge of the IRS office responsible for ObamaCare, two Capi...
After Tuesday's historic election, the Tea Party may be just getting started.More than 30 Tea Party-supported candidates seized victory on Tuesday as Republicans cap...
Has the Tea Party movement become the final casualty of the 2012 elections?Here are four signs that the end – or at least a diminished future --may be near for once ...
What started as a conservative protest klatch has evolved into a political force with enough muscle to potentially alter the course of the 2010 mid-term elections. T...
Taxpayer dollars were used to fund a study that painted the Tea Party movement as the spawn of the tobacco lobby -- a premise that Tea Party leaders say is absurd. T...
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either...
Eyeing the success of Moveon.org and other grassroots groups, the conservative-minded FreedomWorks , which has been at the frontline organizing tea partiers into a h...
Glenn Beck is catching heat from the Tea Party movement that he helped champion -- and helped champion him -- after suggesting Tea Partiers who support Newt Gingrich...
Eased out with an $8 million payout provided by an influential GOP fundraiser, former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey says he has left a conservative Tea...
True the Vote, a Texas-based Tea Party-related group, claims it was unfairly targeted by the Internal Revenue Service and wants the government to admit its mistake a...