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Column: It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals — Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists — that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is as bad as Watergate. No it isn't, says Bob Woodward, whose reputation was made by doggedly pursuing...Tags: Richard Nixon, Charles Krauthammer, Gerald Ford, The Washington Post, Bob Woodward
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Former IRS commissioner 'dismayed' by inspector general's report
WASHINGTON -- The former top official of the Internal Revenue Service told senators Tuesday he was “dismayed and saddened” by an inspector general’s report detailing how, during his tenure as IRS commissioner, the agency...
Tags: Max Baucus, White House, Politics, U.S. Senate, Taxation
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RPT-IRS officials back on Capitol Hill hot seat over targeting
Reuters(Repeats with no changes to text) * Former IRS head Shulman to give first public testimony * Lawmakers seek specifics about who knew of practice, and when By John Whitesides WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate panel will try on Tuesday to pry...Tags: Max Baucus, Economy, Business and Finance, George W. Bush, Politics, U.S. House of Representatives
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Oklahoma's tornado and political cheap shots
It's as predictable as it is disheartening: A red state gets hit hard by a tornado outbreak -- in this case killing at least 24 people, many of them children attending school -- and the first batch of letters from readers (most of them from Southern...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Politics, Manhattan Beach (Brooklyn, New York), Career and Workplace, Mitt Romney
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IRS official will refuse to answer questions at U.S. House hearing
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official who revealed that the agency was giving extra scrutiny to conservative groups, will assert her constitutional right not to answer questions from a congressional committee on...Tags: Politics, International Monetary Fund, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Department of Justice, Crime, Law and Justice
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Building evacuated in Aberdeen after Congressional staffers find suspicious envelopes
Three envelopes without return addresses were sent to Aberdeen offices of South Dakota's congressional delegation, causing emergency officials to block off streets and a hazardous materials team to investigate Friday. About 20 people were evacuated...
Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Politics, Ricin Mail Attacks (2013), Kristi Noem, Dwayne Johnson
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Editorial: Conservatives should lead on immigration
If President Barack Obama delivers on his promise to sign meaningful immigration legislation in his second term, it could be because he wisely stayed out of the way while Sen. Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican with his eye on the White House, did the...
Tags: Immigration, Marco Rubio, National Security, George W. Bush, Politics
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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: Internal Revenue Service
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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: Philosophy, Benghazi, Politics, Central Intelligence Agency, Hillary Clinton
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National sales tax would hurt poor and middle class
Robert J. Fisher's Your View proposing a national sales tax and balanced budget amendment is a win-win for conservatives but an out-and-out loser for most Americans. A 5 percent sales tax, for example, would reduce the standard of living for the middle...Tags: Whitehall
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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: Politics, Richard Nixon, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Crime, Law and Justice, Internal Revenue Service
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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: Benghazi, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Internal Revenue Service, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida)
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May 18, 2013
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|Column| Chicago Tribune
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