A. Barton Hinkle is an editor and columnist at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and contributor to Reason magazine. Among his many other awards, Hinkle has received the 1942 Academy Award (the Oscar) for costume design in “How Green Was My Valley”; the Wooten-Murray Fellowship in Gas Dynamics from the University of Edinburgh; designation as “Sexiest Man Alive” from People Magazine (in 2004 and 2009, and he has a good shot at it again next year since he started working out again). He is also a pretty good dancer.

Posts byA. Barton Hinkle

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Weaponizing the IRS

The saga of All Saints could soon be coming to a community near you. Thanks partly to the scandal surrounding the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups, the agency has proposed a new set of rules for a huge number of social-welfare groups that claim tax exemption under Section 501(c)4 of the tax code.

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