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Talking Points Memo:
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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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.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
White House Pushes for Media Shield Law — WASHINGTON — Under fire over the Justice Department's use of a broad subpoena to obtain calling records of Associated Press reporters in connection with a leak investigation, the Obama administration sought on Wednesday to revive legislation …
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Jonathan Weisman / New York Times:
Acting Chief of I.R.S. Forced Out Over Tea Party Targeting
Acting Chief of I.R.S. Forced Out Over Tea Party Targeting
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The Hill, Politico, Yahoo! News, Weekly Standard and Hot Air
Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Obama: Acting IRS chief Steven Miller resigns
CBS News:
Acting IRS commissioner steps down, Obama announces
Acting IRS commissioner steps down, Obama announces
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American Spectator and AMERICAblog
Guy Benson / Townhall.com:
Reports: IRS Spared Liberal Groups as Tea Party Languished, More Conservative Orgs Targeted Than First Thought
Reports: IRS Spared Liberal Groups as Tea Party Languished, More Conservative Orgs Targeted Than First Thought
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The Fix, The Gateway Pundit, UrbanGrounds and National Review
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
IRS: Chief counsel didn't learn of Tea Party targeting until 2013
IRS: Chief counsel didn't learn of Tea Party targeting until 2013
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Reuters
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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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
The Benghazi Emails: What Do They Show? — This afternoon the White House released 100 pages of emails that trace the development of the talking points about Benghazi that Susan Rice eventually used on her notorious tour of the Sunday morning news shows, and that formed the basis …
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The Hugh Hewitt Show
Glenn Thrush / Reuters:
W.H. Benghazi documents point to CIA
W.H. Benghazi documents point to CIA
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Politico and Washington Free Beacon
Evan McMorris-Santoro / BuzzFeed:
Obama Tries To Tamp Down Three Controversies At Once
Obama Tries To Tamp Down Three Controversies At Once
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First Read and The PJ Tatler
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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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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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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The PJ Tatler, Patterico's Pontifications and Riehl World News
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
Ben Swann / WXIX-TV:
FOX19 EXCLUSIVE: Four local IRS workers allegedly connected to scandal — Posted by FOX19 Digital Media Staff - email — FOX19 has exclusively learned that as many as four people may be the first Cincinnati Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees to face disciplinary action …
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Patterico's Pontifications
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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Weasel Zippers, Sister Toldjah and The Spectacle Blog
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Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
The real IRS scandal
The real IRS scandal
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Daily Kos, The Political Carnival, Hit & Run, Overlawyered, 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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Politico, Washington Monthly, The Hinterland Gazette and WMUR
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Ruby Cramer / BuzzFeed:
Top Romney Strategist: Hillary Clinton Will Lose A Democratic Primary
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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Mother Jones, Taking Note, A plain blog about politics and The Impolitic
Pete Kasperowicz / Ballot Box:
Sanford thanks ‘god of second chances’ at House swearing-in ceremony — Newly-elected Rep. Mark Sanford (R-S.C.) was officially sworn into office Wednesday evening, and thanked the “god of second chances” for his re-election to Congress. — “I stand here before each one of you more appreciative …
Duane Patterson / The Greenroom:
Would You Believe The Administration Got Phone Records of The House Of Representatives? — That's the revelation made by California Congressman Devin Nunes, who sits on the House Ways And Means Committee on Hugh Hewitt's Show Wednesday night. Here's the key part of that transcript:
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Power Line, The Hugh Hewitt Show, The Gateway Pundit and Ed Driscoll
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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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
Poll: Majority in Michigan now support gay marriage
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Advocate, Freedom to Marry Blog, ThinkProgress and Talking Points Memo