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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
IRS approved liberal groups while Tea Party in limbo — WASHINGTON — In February 2010, the Champaign Tea Party in Illinois received approval of its tax-exempt status from the IRS in 90 days, no questions asked. — That was the month before the Internal Revenue Service started singling out Tea Party groups for special treatment.
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James Bovard / Wall Street Journal:
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting — One survey found that 75% of IRS respondents felt entitled to deceive or lie to Congress. — Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and harassment.
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Gregory Korte / USA Today:
IRS gave liberals a pass; Tea Party groups put on hold — WASHINGTON — In the 27 months that the Internal Revenue Service put a hold on all Tea Party applications for non-profit status, it approved applications from similar liberal groups, a USA TODAY review of IRS data shows.
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
U.S. Report on I.R.S. Audits Cites Failures in Management — WASHINGTON — An inspector general's report on the investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's effort to single out conservative groups for special scrutiny blamed ineffective management at the agency for failing to rein …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Axelrod: ‘Impossible’ for Obama to have known about IRS targeting — Former Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod on Wednesday defended the president, saying it was “impossible” he could have known about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative groups because the government is too big.
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Charles C. Johnson / The Daily Caller:
IRS official Lerner speedily approved exemption for Obama brother's ‘charity’
IRS official Lerner speedily approved exemption for Obama brother's ‘charity’
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Jammie Wearing Fools, The Right Sphere, Weasel Zippers, Hot Air, The Huffington Post, The PJ Tatler and BREITBART.COM
Abby D. Phillip / ABCNEWS:
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution
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Weasel Zippers, The Jawa Report and The PJ Tatler
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Understanding the Politics of the IRS Scandal
Understanding the Politics of the IRS Scandal
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Jennifer Kabbany / The College Fix:
University to Bestow ‘Face of IRS Scandal’ with Honorary Tribute
University to Bestow ‘Face of IRS Scandal’ with Honorary Tribute
Politico:
D.C. turns on Obama — The town is turning on President Obama - and this is very bad news for this White House. — Republicans have waited five years for the moment to put the screws to Obama - and they have one-third of all congressional committees on the case now.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Obama, the uninterested president — President Passerby needs urgently to become a participant in his presidency. — Late Monday came the breathtaking news of a full-frontal assault on the First Amendment by his administration: word that the Justice Department had gone …
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NewsBusters, The PJ Tatler, The Hill, The Hill, The Daily Caller, USA Today, Poynter, The Fix, VodkaPundit, Right Turn, Conservatives4Palin and Hit & Run
Politico:
Obama's dangerous new narrative — No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative - invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation.
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New York Times:
Spying on The Associated Press — The Obama administration, which has a chilling zeal for investigating leaks and prosecuting leakers, has failed to offer a credible justification for secretly combing through the phone records of reporters and editors at The Associated Press in what looks …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Rangel: Obama hasn't fully explained DOJ phone records seizure
Rangel: Obama hasn't fully explained DOJ phone records seizure
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Mark Memmott / NPR:
Holder Isn't Sure How Often Reporters' Records Are Seized
Holder Isn't Sure How Often Reporters' Records Are Seized
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Yahoo! News, The Hill, The BLT, Hot Air and Politico
Washington Wire:
Transcript: Holder on IRS, AP, Civil Liberties, Boston
Transcript: Holder on IRS, AP, Civil Liberties, Boston
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Firedoglake, Online NewsHour, Wall Street Journal, Law Blog and The Volokh Conspiracy
David Yonkman / Associated Press:
Carl Bernstein: AP Phone Scandal a ‘Nuclear Event’
Carl Bernstein: AP Phone Scandal a ‘Nuclear Event’
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americanthinker.com, The PJ Tatler and Conservatives4Palin
Nancy A. Youssef / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Ambassador Stevens twice said no to military offers of more security, U.S. officials say — CAIRO — In the month before attackers stormed U.S. facilities in Benghazi and killed four Americans, U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens twice turned down offers of security assistance …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security
Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and Jammie Wearing Fools
David Seifman / New York Post:
Weiner to seek erection, will announce bid for mayor — Anthony Weiner's bid to rise from the political dead is ready to begin in earnest — the disgraced former congressman will announce he is running for mayor as early as next week, according to sources. — “He's definitely running,” one Weiner ally told The Post.
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Maggie Haberman / Reuters:
Anthony Weiner hires campaign manager
Anthony Weiner hires campaign manager
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Runnin' Scared and Politicker
Deanreddington / CBS Boston:
7 Caught Trespassing At Quabbin Reservoir; Patrols Stepped Up Across State — BELCHERTOWN (CBS) - Shortly after midnight Tuesday, seven people were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir. — State Police say the five men and two women are from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore …
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
House to Vote Yet Again on Health Care Repeal — WASHINGTON — The 37th time won't be the charm. But House Republicans are charging forward anyway this week on a vote to repeal President Obama's signature health care overhaul, which will put the number of times they have tried to eliminate …
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Matthew Boyle / BREITBART.COM:
CLAIM: OBAMA CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR ATTACKED ROMNEY WITH LEAKED IRS DOCS — One of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign co-chairmen used a leaked document from the IRS to attack GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney during the 2012 election, according to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).
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Tom Vanden Brook / USA Today:
Fort Hood assault prevention chief under investigation — WASHINGTON — A sergeant first class in charge of sexual assault prevention at Fort Hood is under investigation for sexual assault, the Pentagon announced Tuesday night. — The soldier, whose name has not been released …
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Jeremy Herb / The Hill:
New allegations against another sex assault prevention officer
New allegations against another sex assault prevention officer
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RealClearPolitics Video Log:
Krauthammer To GOP: Stop Calling Everything A Watergate, “Be Quiet And Present The Facts” — CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: There are three theres and they are extremely important issues and the administration is hugely on the defensive and hasn't really answered and it's the same three we've always had.
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The Hinterland Gazette
Politico:
Scandals could roil 2014 elections — As a trio of scandals threatens to engulf President Barack Obama, congressional Democrats facing election next year are talking tough about the administration and taking the first steps to detach themselves from the president.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Apparently Erroneous Reporting About Allegedly Erroneous Reporting — Jake Tapper, now of CNN but a bulldog for truth while at ABC News, is getting lots of love from the left for debunking a bit of the Benghazi talking points story. His gist - the summaries of the emails put forward …
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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
More Details on Benghazi Talking Points Emerge
More Details on Benghazi Talking Points Emerge
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IEA:
IEA's Medium-Term Oil Market Report sees companies overhauling global investment strategies; meanwhile, surge in non-OECD refining capacity shakes up product market — The supply shock created by a surge in North American oil production will be as transformative to the market over the next five years …
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