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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Government, Richard Nixon
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Performances worthy of an audit
WASHINGTON — They were the speak-no-evil and see-no-evil duo of the Internal Revenue Service. Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS office that targeted tea party and similar conservative groups for extra scrutiny, took the Fifth, when she appeared...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement, Prosecution
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Pickering agrees to be questioned over State Department's Benghazi probe
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The retired U.S. diplomat who co-chaired an internal State Department review of the 2012 terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on Wednesday ended his refusal to submit to a closed-door interview with a Republican-led House...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, Christopher Stevens, Central Intelligence Agency, U.S. Embassy
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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Public Officials, Culture, Planned Parenthood
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With Obama in the dark, administration planned how to stage-manage news of IRS scandal
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Weeks before the world and apparently President Barack Obama himself heard about the details of the Internal Revenue Service scandal, top people in his administration started planning how to stage-manage the release of the information....Tags: Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Planned Parenthood
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ATF agents conducting sting let man leave store with gun
Milwaukee Journal SentinelATF agents let a man armed with a gun and threatening to shoot someone walk out of their storefront sting operation in Milwaukee last summer, failing to arrest him or take the weapon, the Journal Sentinel has learned. The suspect, Bobby Ball -- a...Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Politics, Interior Policy, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Punishment
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OPINION: Worldview: Real scandal of Benghazi
The Philadelphia InquirerYes, Virginia, there is a Benghazi scandal. The scandal is that Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) and some Republican colleagues are dishonoring the memory of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans by making a political circus out of their...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Christopher Stevens, Central Intelligence Agency
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Ohio groups long ago sounded alarm on IRS
The BladeConservative Ohio groups more than a year ago raised the alarm that the Internal Revenue Service was holding up their applications for tax-exempt status, leading Ohio U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R., Urbana) to request the audit that led to the IRS's admission...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Politics, Rob Portman, Federal Election Commission, Bob Latta
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Taxing the tea party
Loyal readers of this page are likely aware that we have not been great supporters of the tea party movement. Too often, we have found those anti-tax crusaders who call themselves tea party patriots are simply rebranded John Birch Society members of an...
Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, United Nations, U.S. Congress, Susan Collins
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Brendon Ayanbadejo on 2 Sunday shows; Warren Buffett on 'This Week'
Staff writerThe Sunday morning topics and guests: Gay rights supporter Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens will be a guest on "Meet the Press" and "Face the Nation." He will discuss the meaning of NBA player Jason Collins' coming out. NBC's "Meet the...Tags: Warren Buffett, Rudy Giuliani, National Football League Players Association, Bill Richardson, John McCain
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Benghazi yet again
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The debate over the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya that briefly enlivened the 2012 presidential campaign will be revived today (Wednesday) in a hearing before a House committee exploring allegations that the...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Politics, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Interior Policy, Christopher Stevens
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Benghazi attack tops Sunday morning news menu
Staff writerThe Benghazi attack will be the main topic this weekend on Sunday morning chat programs. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., talk to NBC's "Meet the Press" at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. They will discuss whether there was...Tags: Maya Angelou, Susan Collins, John McCain, Dick Durbin, Jack Reed
May 24, 2013
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May 23, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
May 22, 2013
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May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 16, 2013
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May 13, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 3, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 10, 2013
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