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'Daily Show' hits Obama on Fox News, the right on racial profiling
Jon Stewart has long been one of Fox News’ most outspoken critics but this week he's found himself in the unusual position of defending the right-leaning cable network – or, to be more precise, standing up for its Washington, D.C.,...
Tags: Turkey, Fox News Channel (tv network), Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Freedom of the Press
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IRS replaces head of division that targeted conservative groups
WASHINGTON -- Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, was replaced by the agency's acting commissioner on Thursday, a day after she insisted she had done nothing wrong and refused to answer...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Danny Werfel, Taxation
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IRS puts head of problem office on leave
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has replaced the head of the office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions before a congressional committee. Lois...
Tags: Civil and Public Service, Taxation, Parties and Movements, Chuck Grassley, John McCain
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Forget gay Scouts, the real threat is clueless dads
The Boy Scouts of America is voting on whether to allow gay boys to be Scouts. Which is, of course, really stupid, because gay boys are already Scouts, and have been for many years, even if Scouting chooses to think otherwise. Still, this is a serious...
Tags: Social Organizations, Youth Organizations, Boy Scouts of America
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Apple slips billions through loopholes of U.S. tax laws
Apple, America’s richest, most innovative consumer technology company, is also the most creative in hiding billions of dollars in profits from the taxman, according to congressional investigators. But on Tuesday in testimony before the Senate...
Tags: Rand Paul, Science and Technology, U.S. Congress, John McCain, Tim Cook
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Key IRS official refuses to testify
WASHINGTON — In a contentious climax Wednesday to a series of congressional hearings, Lois Lerner, a key IRS manager, invoked her right to not testify about the agency's targeting of conservative groups, igniting howls from Republicans and...
Tags: Jay Carney, Prosecution, Taxation, Parties and Movements, New Products
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Top IRS official pleads the 5th Amendment at testy House hearing
WASHINGTON — A top Internal Revenue Service official invoked the 5th Amendment and declined to testify Wednesday before a House committee investigating the agency’s mishandling of applications by some conservative groups for tax-exempt status....
Tags: Elijah E. Cummings, Taxation, Parties and Movements, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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McManus: Obama's IRS choice
Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats...
Tags: Jay Carney, Orrin Hatch, Prosecution, Central Intelligence Agency, Taxation
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White House fights back on IRS as GOP keeps up pressure
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.WASHINGTON — A senior White House aide insisted Sunday that President Obama learned only from news reports that an IRS office had singled out dozens of tea party organizations and other conservative groups for questionable scrutiny, while...Tags: Rand Paul, Television Industry, Elections, Prosecution, Taxation
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...
Tags: IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Jay Carney, Orrin Hatch, Federal Election Commission, Taxation
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IRS officials still don't have full explanation of targeting
WASHINGTON – The outgoing head of the IRS said the agency still doesn’t know which staff members were responsible for using politically loaded language to screen out nonprofit groups, as senators pressed them to explain how certain...
Tags: White House, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Sherrod Brown, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama
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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: White House, Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Orrin Hatch, U.S. Congress
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