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Holder To Issa: Your Conduct Is ‘Unacceptable’ And ‘Shameful’ (VIDEO) — At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Eric Holder and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) clashed as the Attorney General tore into the Republican oversight chairman's conduct as “unacceptable” and “shameful.”
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
White House Pushes for Media Shield Law — 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 to ask a federal judge …
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
Louie Gohmert Gets Heated With Eric Holder: “He Has Challenged My Character” — Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert got into a heated discussion with Eric Holder today over a bunch issues, most notably the FBI's interview with deceased Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in 2011.
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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Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Tries To Tamp Down Three Controversies At Once
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New York Times:
Spying on The Associated Press
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Wall Street Journal:
The ‘Independent’ Revenue Service
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The Lonely Conservative, FishbowlDC, Taking Note, National Review and Power Line
Jordy Yager / The Hill:
Republicans go on the offensive in seizure of journalists' records
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CNN
CNN:
Source: Two ‘rogue’ workers principally behind IRS targeting of conservatives — Washington (CNN) - The Internal Revenue Service has identified two “rogue” employees in the agency's Cincinnati office as being principally responsible for “overly aggressive” handling of requests by conservative groups …
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Politico, Los Angeles Times, The Lonely Conservative, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Weasel Zippers, ViralRead, msnbc.com and USA Today
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CNN:
‘Angry’ Obama announces IRS leader's ouster after conservatives targeted — Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama vowed Wednesday to hold accountable those at the Internal Revenue Service involved in the targeting of conservative groups applying for federal tax-exempt status …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Acting Chief of I.R.S. Forced Out Over Tea Party Targeting — WASHINGTON — President Obama announced Wednesday night that the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service had been fired, and he pledged that his administration would cooperate with Congressional investigations into the targeting of conservative groups.
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Talking Points Memo:
Obama Administration Sacks IRS Chief After Targeting Scandal — President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew requested and accepted the resignation of the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, Steven Miller, following the agency's admission …
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CNN, The Gateway Pundit, The Mahablog and Daily Kos
Jacob Lew / Daily Mail:
Obama fires acting IRS commissioner as pressure grows surrounding political targeting of conservative groups that sought tax-exempt status — Steven Miller is ousted but writes face-saving email announcing departure when his ‘assignment ends in early June.’
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James Bovard / Wall Street Journal:
A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting
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Jake Tapper / The Lead with Jake Tapper:
First on CNN: White House releases 100 pages of Benghazi e-mails — This story has been updated. — By Jake Tapper, CNN Chief Washington Correspondent — WASHINGTON (CNN) - The White House released more than 100 pages of e-mails on Wednesday in a bid to quell critics who say President Barack Obama …
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Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
W.H. Benghazi documents point to CIA
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Thomas More Society:
Broadening IRS Victims Include Pro-Life Advocates, As Congress Investigates — Thomas More Society Cases Demonstrate Conservative Bias Only “Tip of Iceberg” — Contact: Tom Ciesielka, 312-422-1333, tc@tcpr.net — The Thomas More Society is speaking out about blatant bias by the supposedly apolitical tax-collection agency.
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The real IRS scandal
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Daily Kos, TaxProf Blog, Hit & Run, The Political Carnival, CNN and Patterico's Pontifications
Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
4 way tie for Republicans, Clinton leads Dems — PPP's monthly look at the 2016 Republican field for President finds essentially a 4 way tie at the top- Marco Rubio has 16%, Jeb Bush and Chris Christie 15% each, and Rand Paul 14%. Paul Ryan at 9%, Ted Cruz at 7%, Rick Santorum at 5% …
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Washington Monthly, WMUR, Politico and The Hinterland Gazette
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Top Romney Strategist: Hillary Clinton Will Lose A Democratic Primary
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Shakesville
Brian Beutler / Talking Points Memo:
Reid: No ‘Precipitous’ Nuclear Option, But Consumer Watchdog Will Get Vote Next Week — If Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wants to change the Senate filibuster rules — either broadly, or more narrowly to fast track presidential nominees — he'll need a strong case.
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The Impolitic, Taking Note, Mother Jones and A plain blog about politics
Yahoo! News:
Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’ — In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service application to achieve nonprofit status for a new conservative watchdog group.
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Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and NewsBusters
Washington Post:
Virginian's changing views on gay marriage — A clear majority of Virginia voters now support legal same-sex marriage, a sharp reversal from a 2006 vote to amend the state constitution to define marriage as for a man and woman only. Attitudes on guns and immigration depart from positions of conservative leaders in the commonwealth.
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Gay Star News and Good As You
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Joel Kurth / detroitnews.com:
Poll: Majority in Michigan now support gay marriage
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Advocate, ThinkProgress, Freedom to Marry Blog and Talking Points Memo
Lindsay A. Powers / Washington Post:
Takoma Park grants 16-year-olds right to vote — When Takoma Park's next Election Day arrives in November, the lines of voters ready to cast their ballots for the City Council will include a new set of voters making history. — During its Monday meeting, the Takoma Park City Council passed …
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NPR, Outside the Beltway and A plain blog about politics
Tom Philpott / Mother Jones:
Mysterious Poop Foam Causes Explosions on Hog Farms — When you hear about foam in the context of food, you might think of molecular gastronomy, the culinary innovations of the Spanish chef Ferran Adrià, who's famous for dishes like apple caviar with banana foam.
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Raw Story
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Chris Matthews sours on Obama — President Obama “obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch,” Chris Matthews said tonight. — Yes, you read that right: The MSNBC host who in 2008 felt a “thrill going up my leg” after hearing Obama speak has grown disenchanted.
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