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2:10 PM ET, May 15, 2013

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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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Eric Lach / Talking Points Memo:
The Seven Questions That Got The IRS In Trouble  —  Tucked inside the the government report that found the IRS used inappropriate criteria to identify tax-exempt applications to review is a list of seven questions.  —  The questions appeared in letters sent in January and February of 2012 …
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.
Bloomberg:
IRS Sent Same Letter to Democrats That Fed Tea Party Row  —  The Internal Revenue Service, under pressure after admitting it targeted anti-tax Tea Party groups for scrutiny in recent years, also had its eye on at least three Democratic-leaning organizations seeking nonprofit status.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Axelrod: ‘Impossible’ for Obama to have known about IRS targeting
Rasmussen Reports:
57% Want IRS Offenders Jailed or Fired
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and TheBlaze.com
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Top Dem tax-writer calls for IRS officials to resign
Discussion: Politico
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Boehner on IRS: 'Who's going to jail over this?'
Discussion: The Maddow Blog
CNN:
Boehner on IRS Scandal: ‘Who is going to jail?’
Discussion: Hot Air and Politico
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 …
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.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Under Fire, White House Pushes to Revive ‘Media Shield’ Bill  —  WASHINGTON — The Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation that would provide greater protections to reporters from penalties for refusing to identify confidential sources, and that would enable journalists …
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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 …
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 …
Discussion: Politico
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Report: Officials say Stevens turned down extra Benghazi security
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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Joe Solmonese / The Huffington Post:
Joe Solmonese  —  Joe Solmonese is a Managing Director …
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and BREITBART.COM
Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Top Romney Strategist: Hillary Clinton Will Lose A Democratic Primary  —  “If I was a Democratic hot-shot politician, I would primary her so fast,” says Stu Stevens.  Hickenlooper 2016?  —  Via: AP  —  WASHINGTON — The top advisor to last year's Republican nominee predicted Wednesday …
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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WMUR:
Another 2016 NH Primary poll shows Hillary Clinton leading; GOP field crowded
Discussion: Taegan Goddard's …
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.
Discussion: The Hill and Outside the Beltway
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NY Daily News:
Anthony Weiner may enter mayoral race as soon as next week
Discussion: Yahoo! News and Reuters
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress:
Armed Forces Sexual Assault Crisis Reaches New Heights  —  Ahead of possible major actions from the Pentagon and Congress on sexual assault in the military, the U.S. Army is forced to confront yet another instance of a member of the armed forces involved in a shocking sexual assault scandal.
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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.
Andrew Johnson / National Review:
Axelrod: Government ‘So Vast,’ Obama Can't Know About Wrongdoing  —  The government is simply too big for President Obama to keep track of all the wrongdoing taking place on his watch, his former senior adviser, David Axelrod, told MSNBC.  “Part of being president is there's so much beneath …
 
 
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Georgia Tech and Udacity roll out massive new low-cost degree program
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Mike Ciandella / CNSNews:
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Josie Ensor / Telegraph:
Catholic school calls in Stonewall after boy calls pupil's shoes ‘gay’
Discussion: PinkNews.co.uk and Gay Star News
Daily Mail:
Document: IRS ordered conservative educational group to turn over a list of high school and college students it trained
Will Oremus / Slate:
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