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Commencement speakers: Conservatives need not apply
We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we'll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal Americans. It's becoming increasingly apparent that...
Tags: University of Richmond, Students, Southern Methodist University, Condoleezza Rice, Sam Graves
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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Internal Revenue Service, Al-Qaeda, White House, Christopher Stevens
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Letters: Back and forth over Benghazi
Re "Benghazi's smoking guns," Opinion, May 14 Two questions came to mind reading Jonah Goldberg's column. First, who cut the security funding of diplomatic missions a year before the Benghazi attack? (The Republican-controlled House.) And second,...Tags: Benghazi
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The GOP pivots on the IRS scandal
The scandal surrounding the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for tax-exempt status by "tea party" groups and other right-leaning organizations took a sharp turn at the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday. In addition to decrying...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, White House
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Defense official says U.S. has authority to target terrorists anywhere
WASHINGTON — A senior Pentagon official told a Senate committee Thursday that the U.S. would be at war with Al Qaeda for 15 to 20 more years and said the military could target terrorists anywhere under a law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist...
Tags: Somalia, John McCain, State of the Union Address, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System
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One Cabinet pick approved, two narrowly advance
WASHINGTON — President Obama's nominee to lead the Energy Department won unanimous confirmation by the Senate on Thursday while two other Cabinet choices narrowly advanced out of committee, amid complaints from Democrats over Republican delaying...
Tags: John McCain, U.S. Cabinet, Marco Rubio, White House, U.S. Senate
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House showdown set over IRS targeting of conservative groups
WASHINGTON -- The ousted top official of the Internal Revenue Service will appear before a House committee Friday morning, his first public appearance since controversy erupted last week over how the agency mishandled applications for tax-exempt status...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace, Jack Lew, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Labor Legislation
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JPL to appeal NLRB order rescinding discipline of 5 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday said it planned to appeal a National Labor Relations Board judge's order to rescind disciplinary actions against five engineers and scientists. "Caltech respectfully disagrees with the decision and intends...Tags: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Career and Workplace, Employees, NASA, Justice System
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Judge orders JPL to drop discipline over scientists' email
A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to rescind disciplinary actions against five scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security checks for JPL employees....Tags: Career and Workplace, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, NASA, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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GOP slams fundraising, other efforts to promote Obama health law
WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans have opened a new line of attack on President Obama's healthcare law, charging that the administration has improperly sought help from the healthcare industry and other outside groups to implement the...
Tags: Lawyers, White House, Laws, U.S. Senate, American Academy of Pediatrics
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An administrative law judge ruled that JPL unfairly disciplined scientists over emails sent at work
A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge to rescind disciplinary actions against five scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security...Tags: Career and Workplace, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, NASA, Judges
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Attorney general orders criminal review of IRS
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department began a criminal investigation Tuesday into overzealous scrutiny by the IRS of applications for tax exemptions by conservative groups, an improper targeting that an inspector general's report blamed on a...
Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Career and Workplace, IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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