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Los Angeles Times:
Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment — A sign for the Internal Revenue Service stands in front of it's headquarters in Washington. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / May 15, 2013) — WASHINGTON - A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment …
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Politico:
Heads won't roll at the IRS — Lawmakers pressing for more heads to roll at the Internal Revenue Service are going to be disappointed. — “Why weren't more people fired?” Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) demanded at a hearing Tuesday on the IRS's targeting of conservative groups …
Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth, Issa Subpoenas
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Scared Monkeys, National Review, Hot Air, Reuters, Doug Ross and The Volokh Conspiracy
Politico:
White House reveals new IRS details
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National Review, CNN, Patterico's Pontifications, Yahoo! News and Jammie Wearing Fools
Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The Justice Department and Fox News's Phone Records — The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim …
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New York Times:
Another Chilling Leak Investigation
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The Huffington Post, The Caucus, msnbc.com, The PJ Tatler and JustOneMinute
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Fox's Bret Baier Reveals That DOJ Also Seized Phone Records For James Rosen's Parents
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Twitchy, The PJ Tatler and Michelle Malkin
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Fast and Furious/Benghazi investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Something fishy's …
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CBS Philly, Patterico's Pontifications, Michelle Malkin, The Huffington Post and The PJ Tatler
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Patrick Leahy Withdraws Amendment To Include Gay Couples In Immigration Reform Bill — “I don't want to be the senator who asks Americans to choose between the love of their life and the love of their country,” Leahy says. Four Democrats on the committee said they would not support the amendment.
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New York Times:
Immigration Overhaul Wins Panel's Backing in the Senate
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Associated Press:
IMMIGRATION BILL HEADS TO FULL SENATE
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The Heritage Foundation and The Daily Caller
Tarini Parti / Politico:
Mitch McConnell won't block immigration bill
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell won't block immigration bill from hitting Senate floor
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The Maddow Blog, Ballot Box, The World's Greatest …, Politico, The Fix and Booman Tribune
WESH-TV:
Orlando man killed by FBI agent was questioned in Boston Marathon bombings, friend says — Man knew Boston bombing suspect, friend says — An FBI agent was involved in a deadly shooting overnight that could have ties to the Boston Marathon bombings. — Officials said the special agent …
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Michelle Malkin:
Who is Ibragim Todashev? Chechen friend of Boston bomber, planning to fly back to Chechnya, killed by FBI agent — Via WESH this morning, check out the story of a fatal shooting involving an FBI agent and a man who knew Boston marathon jihad bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. … Here's video of Todashev on YouTube:
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Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Inhofe: Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid — In the wake of the devastating tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) rejected comparisons between federal aid for this disaster and the Hurricane Sandy relief package he voted against.
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Inhofe and Coburn: Red state hypocrites
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NY Daily News:
Oklahoma Senator who voted “no” on Sandy aid calls home-state tornado “totally different”
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AMERICAblog and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden needles Obama on teleprompter — Vice President Joe Biden ribbed President Obama over his teleprompter use at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception in New York City on Tuesday. — Biden asked that the teleprompter in the room be taken down before his address, according to the pool report.
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Weasel Zippers and Politico
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’ — Vice President Joe Biden spoke at length Tuesday night about the influence of Judaism on the United States, dating back to the country's founding and to the present day as Jews helped shape views on gay rights.
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The Times of Israel and Weasel Zippers
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate Fought Against Desegregation Efforts — E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor, began his career as a minister and attorney in Boston. While there, he lent his support to a high-profile 1988 fight against a plan to desegregate public housing developments …
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Advocate and American Thinker
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Amy O'Leary / NYT Bits:
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF — Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs. It was honored as a “word of the year” in 2012 …
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Mother Jones, Telegraph, The Verge, Outside the Beltway and TechCrunch
Emily Smith / New York Post:
Mike unleashes a ‘hail’ storm — Mayor Bloomberg went on a spitting-mad rant against a city cab-fleet boss who won a court victory over Hizzoner's planned “Taxi of Tomorrow” — vowing to “destroy your f—king industry” when he leaves office, The Post has learned.
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Jammie Wearing Fools
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
Anthony Weiner announces N.Y.C. mayoral run — Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career in public life came to an abrupt end when he sent lewd pictures to a college student on Twitter, jumped back into politics on Wednesday by announcing a bid for mayor of New York City.
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Yahoo! News and Riehl World News
James Taranto / Wall Street Journal:
The Dog Whistler — An Obama supporter's Pavlovian reaction to one of her own pet phrases. — Salon's Joan Walsh is spoiling for a catfight with our colleagues Kim Strassel and Peggy Noonan. What has Walsh's back up is their observation that whether or not President Obama directly ordered …
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Betsy's Page, Salon and Daily Kos
Peter Orszag / Bloomberg:
As Job Flow Slows, Americans Get Stuck in Place — Most Americans believe that the job market has grown more turbulent, with people changing employers ever more often. In reality, the opposite is happening. — This, in turn, largely explains why fewer Americans than ever are moving across state lines.
Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
Advisers Urged Obama Early On To Release Comprehensive Benghazi Timeline — How Obama got tripped up by his lawyers. — Via: Pool photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images via Abaca Press/MCT — WASHINGTON — The White House Counsel's office advised senior Obama officials to keep quiet …
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