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Peter Nicholas / Wall Street Journal:
Obama's Counsel Told of IRS Audit Findings Weeks Ago — The White House's chief lawyer learned weeks ago that an audit of the Internal Revenue Service likely would show that agency employees inappropriately targeted conservative groups, a senior White House official said Sunday.
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Jeffrey Lord / American Spectator:
Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun? — “For me, it's about collaboration.” — National Treasury Employees Union President Colleen Kelley on the relationship between the anti-Tea Party IRS union and the Obama White House — Is President Obama directly implicated in the IRS scandal?
Discussion:
Politico and The Jawa Report
New York Times:
I.R.S. Inquiry Status Told to White House in April — WASHINGTON — The chief White House lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, learned last month that a Treasury inspector general had concluded an audit of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, weeks before the matter became public …
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Politico, First Read and msnbc.com
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters:
Schieffer to Obama Advisor: 'Why Are You Here? Why Isn't the White House Chief of Staff Here?'
Schieffer to Obama Advisor: 'Why Are You Here? Why Isn't the White House Chief of Staff Here?'
Discussion:
Conservatives4Palin, National Review, Hot Air, Right Turn, The Other McCain, The Lonely Conservative and NBC News
Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: Top Obama lawyer told of IRS targeting in April
Report: Top Obama lawyer told of IRS targeting in April
Discussion:
LifeNews.com
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
‘Hell week’ for the White House? Reaction from Dan Pfeiffer and Rep. Paul Ryan
‘Hell week’ for the White House? Reaction from Dan Pfeiffer and Rep. Paul Ryan
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Yahoo! News
Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
A rare peek into a Justice Department leak probe — When the Justice Department began investigating possible leaks of classified information about North Korea in 2009, investigators did more than obtain telephone records of a working journalist suspected of receiving the secret material.
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Peter Hart / FAIR:
A Right-Wing Mole at ABC News — Jonathan Karl and the success of the conservative media movement — Conservatives don't just complain loudly, endlessly and inaccurately about liberal media bias. They also train right-leaning journalists to make their way into the supposedly hostile terrain of Beltway media.
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Obama gets personal about race and manhood in Morehouse College speech — President Obama on Sunday summoned the graduates of historically black Morehouse College to “transform the way we think about manhood,” urging the young men to avoid the temptation to make excuses and to take responsibility …
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Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Columbia University Tries To Alter Scholarship Fund For Students ‘Of The Caucasian Race’ — Columbia University asked a Manhattan judge to allow them to change the requirements of a scholarship fund which limits recipients to members “of the Caucasian race.”
Andrew Kaczynski / BuzzFeed:
The 10 Most Anti-Gay Statements From The Republican Nominee For Lt. Governor Of Virginia — The Virginia Republican Party picked conservative minister E.W. Jackson as their nominee for lieutenant governor Saturday night. Jackson will run alongside Ken Cuccinelli.
Discussion:
American Prospect, ThinkProgress, Towleroad News #gay, Daily Kos and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
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Alexander Burns / Politico:
Va. pick bemoaned ‘slavish devotion’
Va. pick bemoaned ‘slavish devotion’
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Richmond Times-Dispatch, msnbc.com, National Review, americanthinker.com, First Read, CNN and The Raw Story
Ryan Grim / The Huffington Post:
Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul Push For Hemp Legalization In Senate Fight — WASHINGTON — Kentucky's two senators, Republicans Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, have been working to include a provision that would legalize industrial hemp into the farm bill, according to Senate and Kentucky sources …
Jason Horowitz / Washington Post:
Four key Hillary Clinton staffers from 2008 unlikely to sign on for 2016 bid — Howard Wolfson, the 2008 communications director for Hillary Rodham Clinton, has said he will not return for a 2016 presidential campaign. Neither, for that matter, will Neera Tanden, the campaign's policy director.
Discussion:
Washington Wire, Taylor Marsh, Balloon Juice and ABCNEWS
Salon:
Paul Krugman's right: Austerity kills — Austerity kills — radical cuts destroy economies and lives, and the honest numbers and economics keep proving it — Excerpted from “The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills” — “I will never forgive them,” wrote 13-year-old Kieran McArdle to the Daily Record …
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Washington Monthly
John Hinderaker / Power Line:
How Much Are Obama's Scandals Hurting Him? — Is Obama being hurt by the scandals that have engulfed his administration? That sounds like a silly question: of course the scandals have damaged his image, thrown his administration off message, weakened his ability to get anything through Congress.
Discussion:
Rasmussen Reports and CANNONFIRE
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
A bushel of Pinocchios for IRS's Lois Lerner — In the days since the Internal Revenue Service first disclosed that it had targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status, new information has emerged from both the Treasury Inspector General's report and congressional testimony Friday …
Discussion:
Weasel Zippers, Hot Air and LifeNews.com
Jodi Rudoren / New York Times:
Fresh Israeli Face Plays Down Dimming of Political Star — TEL AVIV — To say Yair Lapid has been on a roller coaster would be an understatement. One recent headline blared about his “meteoric rise and fall,” another said he had gone from “political darling to national whipping boy.”
Discussion:
Israpundit and The Times of Israel