Ex-IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012

A witch-hunt is underway within the Conservative party to identify the senior figure said to have described the party's rank-and-file membership as "mad, swivel-eyed loons". Share article Wild speculation has swirled around Westminster and the ...

IRS official Lois Lerner -- who first disclosed the agency scrutinized Tea Party and conservative groups with regard to their pursuit of tax-exempt status -- plans to plead the Fifth and answer no questions during the House Oversight Committee ...

Crises erupt when a party is ill at ease with itself. A tiny tremor can lead to an almighty eruption. Currently, the Conservative party has a leader wary of its activists, and is supported by members suspicious of the leadership. We have known this ...

The IRS and the entire Obama administration are under scrutiny after revelations last week that hundreds of conservative organizations suffered undue harassment and intrusion by the IRS after applying for tax-exempt status and now at least one ...

One of the Texas House's most conservative members figured his constituents would approve of his fight for drug-testing welfare recipients, but he said he was surprised Wednesday at the overwhelming level of passion for the issue. Rep. Van Taylor, ...

YOUNG, progressive Christians are being warned they risk voting for the ultra-conservative policies of the controversial Rev Fred Nile without realising at the coming Federal Election. A new political party called Australian Christians, which is ...

A surge in support for the UK Independence Party has pushed it to within just two points of the Conservatives in a poll of voting intentions. In a fresh headache for David Cameron, the survey by Survation showed a five-point slump for his party to a ...

David Cameron is losing control of his party over Europe, former Conservative cabinet minister Lord Howe has said. The Tory leadership is "running scared" of its backbenchers by offering to renegotiate the UK's relationship with Brussels, he said ...

About a third of the lawmakers in British Prime Minister David Cameron's ruling Conservative Party have voted against him in parliament to protest against his stance on Britain's membership of the European Union. In a blow for Mr Cameron, MPs ...