Back in November, on the eve of Thanksgiving when they thought nobody would notice, the IRS surreptitiously announced its proposal of a new regulation that would severely limit the ability of tax exempt to groups to participate in the political process. The proposal was short on specifics, but the regulation would have given the IRS the power to narrowly define what constitutes “social welfare” and “political activity,” qualities it says organizations must exhibit in order to qualify for tax exempt status.

Democracy and Power 108: Obfuscation Wherever politics intrudes upon economic life, political success is readily attained by saying what people like to hear rather than what is demonstrably true. Instead of safeguarding truth and honesty, the state then tends to become a major source of insincerity and mendacity. —Hans F. Sennholz

The Internal Revenue Service is attempting to change the standards for tax exempt status for 501(c)(4) groups. Rather than sticking to enforcing the will of Congress, the IRS, with the full blessing of the political operation in the White House, wants to ensure they won't have to harass conservative and tea party groups about their tax exempt status applications, because those groups won't even bother to apply. They need to hear from America.

As you may have heard, the IRS has proposed new rules that would severely restrict grassroots advocacy groups. Under current IRS rules, the purpose of tax-exempt 501(c)(4) organizations is educate the public and promote "social welfare" causes, and they can't work primarily as political campaign organizations. Many 501(c)(4) entities are small grassroots organizations ran by local activists that want to participate in the political process.

On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, Andrew Campanella joins me to discuss National School Choice Week, some of the myths and misgivings about school choice and why every conversation about education reform should begin in the living room or at the kitchen table. 

On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, Jim Geraghty joins me to discuss the sudden abandonment of health care reform by Democrats running for reelection, security breaches and more delays for ObamaCare and why millennials are suddenly fleeing the president they helped elect twi

On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, Dean Clancy joins me to discuss the historical changes made in the filibuster rules of the Senate, how this may impact legislative fights going forward, and whether or not the Republicans can capitalize on the ObamaCare failures and the latest attempts by the Democrats to rig t

On today’s edition of the FreedomCast, Deneen Borelli joins me to discuss the backlash against Oprah Winfrey’s recent racial comments, the DOJ and their case against the Louisiana voucher program and how ObamaCare is destroying health care options for some historically black universities.