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LETTER: Tempest In A Teapot
The wing-nuts are in their glory. Between the IRS focusing on tea party groups and the Justice Department collecting some AP reporters' phone number records, it's enough to make this classy anti-government bunch whoop with glee. Instead of fantasizing...Tags: Greenpeace, NAACP
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Voice of the People, May. 19
Benghazi coverage This is in response to "The Benghazi decisions; Make uncovering the truth a bipartisan mission" (Editorial, May 13). I need to express my disappointment in your newspaper's coverage of Benghazi. Realizing four brave Americans were lost...Tags: Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Elections, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Politics
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GOP overplays its hand
WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter of days since two scandals — the IRS harassment of conservative groups and the...Tags: Republican Party, Rand Paul, Elections, Politics, POLITICO LLC
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How the IRS spun out of control
WASHINGTON — Steven Miller, the top enforcement official at the Internal Revenue Service, thought he might have trouble on his hands. Election season was well underway in March 2012 when tea party organizations started to complain angrily of IRS...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Pension and Welfare, Politics, Interior Policy
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The real IRS scandal
The real scandal is why the IRS approved for tax-exempt status organizations that were plainly political and not "social welfare" organizations, as section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code requires ("Taxing the tea party," May 14). The GOP's phony...
Tags: Tea Party Movement
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Harris links IRS scandal to Obamacare in address
Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland used a rare opportunity to speak on behalf of the Republican Party on Saturday to tie the unfolding IRS scandal to President Barack Obama's 2010 overhaul of the nation's health care system. Noting that the Internal...
Tags: Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, Taxation, Politics, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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The president's redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
WASHINGTON - Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn't meet...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Media Industry, Susan Rice, Police Investigations
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IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about The Chicago Way
The Internal Revenue Service scandal now devouring the Obama administration — the outrageous use of the federal taxing authority to target tea party and other conservatives — certainly makes for meaty partisan politics. But this scandal is...Tags: Wrigley Field, Rahm Emanuel, Elections, Politics, Chicago Mayor
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Cuccinelli acceptance speech for GOP nomination for governor
Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli gave the following remarks in accepting the Republican nomination for governor at the Republican Party of Virginia nominating convention in Richmond Saturday: "I think you now have a better sense of why I’m one of...Tags: Elections, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Mitt Romney, Politics, Laws
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The scandalously premature diagnosis of a cancer on the presidency
If it makes me a media lackey or a tail-wagging lap dog for President Barack Obama to hold out for, you know, actual evidence that he had anything to do with the various and glaring misbehavior, blundering and butt-covering in the governmental ranks...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Philosophy, Politics, Police Investigations, Benghazi
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The Nixon false equivalence
"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know," said Harry Truman, who made it his task to absorb a lot of it. Many people who have not followed his example are not averse to using what little they do know, with the inadvertent effect...
Tags: Richard Nixon, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Personal Income, Politics, Tea Party Movement
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After tough week, Obama tries to change the subject to jobs
ReutersBALTIMORE (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday sought to turn the spotlight from controversies threatening to swamp his agenda back to his top priority - the economy - and announced he will try to cut in half the time it takes to get federal...Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Keystone XL Pipeline, U.S. House of Representatives, Elections
May 18, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
May 19, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 19, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 18, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 18, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 18, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 19, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
May 19, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 18, 2013
| Daily Press
May 19, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 19, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 17, 2013
|Story| Reuters
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