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Tal Kopan / Politico:
Bob Woodward criticizes IRS ‘fiction’ — The Washington Post's Bob Woodward says the Obama administration has explaining to do on the IRS scandal and needs to answer questions about who knew what, when. — “This fiction that somehow [The IRS is] totally an independent agency is absurd,” …
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No More Mister Nice Blog
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Accuse first and ask questions later — A third House committee joined the stampede to examine the IRS on Monday, and its chairman did exactly what you would expect somebody to do before launching a fair and impartial investigation: He went on Fox News Channel and implicated the White House.
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The Maddow Blog, Taylor Marsh, Right Wing News, Taegan Goddard's … and The Hill
Associated Press:
IRS victims testify as new agency scandal emerges — WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative groups who were targeted by the Internal Revenue Service are getting their say on Capitol Hill just as the details of another IRS controversy are being made public. — The leaders of six conservative groups …
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Wake up America and The Gateway Pundit
Sabrina Siddiqui / The Huffington Post:
Lindsey Graham: ‘No Evidence’ White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives
Lindsey Graham: ‘No Evidence’ White House Directed IRS To Target Conservatives
Daniel Strauss / The Hill:
Graham: ‘No evidence’ IRS targeting directed from White House
Graham: ‘No evidence’ IRS targeting directed from White House
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CNN, Politico and The Political Carnival
The Atlantic Wire:
The Latest Navy SEAL Book Could Impact the Military's Transgender Rules — In every Navy SEAL is a memoir, it seems lately. Retired SEAL Kristin Beck's new memoir, published on Tuesday and titled Warrior Princess, is a bit different, though. In it, Beck describes how …
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AMERICAblog, Towleroad News #gay, Outside the Beltway, Shakesville and Hullabaloo
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Catherine Thompson / Talking Points Memo:
SEAL Team 6 Vet Comes Out As Transgender In New Memoir — Retired Navy SEAL Kristin Beck published a memoir titled Warrior Princess on Tuesday describing her 20-year military career and and her experience coming out as transgender. — Beck was a member of SEAL Team 6 …
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ABCNEWS and The Raw Story
Brandon Webb / SOFREP:
Breaking: Meet The First Female Navy SEAL, Kristin Beck
Breaking: Meet The First Female Navy SEAL, Kristin Beck
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Business Insider and Alan Colmes' Liberaland
Noah Feldman / Bloomberg:
Court's DNA Ruling Brings U.S. a Step Closer to ‘Gattaca’ — The day that DNA cheek swabs officially became the new fingerprints deserves to be marked and remembered — and not just because of the inevitable march of technology. — No, the Supreme Court's 5-4 holding today in Maryland v. King …
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Althouse
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Orin Kerr / The Volokh Conspiracy:
Breyer and Scalia in Fourth Amendment Cases This Term
Breyer and Scalia in Fourth Amendment Cases This Term
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Althouse, U.S. News, msnbc.com, Law Blog and JustOneMinute
Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
Scalia Gets It Right
Scalia Gets It Right
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Hullabaloo, Lawyers, Guns & Money and The Hinterland Gazette
Peter Schroeder / The Hill:
Treasury IG official compares IRS scandal to Nixon — The Treasury Inspector General who uncovered the improper targeting of Tea Party groups by the Internal Revenue Service said Monday he was stunned by what his investigation uncovered. — Russell George, the Treasury Inspector General …
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Jammie Wearing Fools and Weasel Zippers
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Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Six conservative groups to appear before Ways and Means on Tuesday
Six conservative groups to appear before Ways and Means on Tuesday
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americanthinker.com and Towleroad News #gay
Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Democrats' 2014 strategy: Own Obamacare — Scarred by years of Republican attacks over Obamacare, with more in store next year, Democrats have settled on an unlikely strategy for the 2014 midterms: Bring it on. — Party strategists believe that embracing the polarizing law …
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americanthinker.com
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Immigration bill lacks the 60 Senate votes needed to pass
Immigration bill lacks the 60 Senate votes needed to pass
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The Plum Line and ABCNEWS
Dr. Keith Ablow / Fox News:
Is Obama waging psychological warfare on Americans? — I believe that the Obama administration is conducting psychological warfare on conservative Americans. Not only that but it is also waging this war on all Americans who previously viewed themselves, their country …
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Outside the Beltway
Jack Gillum / Associated Press:
Emails of top Obama appointees remain a mystery — WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of President Barack Obama's political appointees, including the Cabinet secretary for the Health and Human Services Department, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes …
Josh Barro / Business Insider:
Erick Erickson Shows Everything That's Wrong With The GOP — Conservative pundit Erick Erickson doesn't like me. This morning he wrote 900 words about why. — But the main thing his post reveals is what's wrong with Erickson - and with a Republican party that is built to appeal to people like Erickson.
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The Daily Caller and Brad DeLong
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
How Christie Can Maximize the G.O.P.'s Chances in New Jersey — The death of Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, creates a confusing electoral situation in the state. There are conflicting interpretations of exactly what New Jersey's law requires — whether a special election …
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Sheera Frenkel / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
U.S. publishes details of missile base Israel wanted kept secret — TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel's military fumed Monday over the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret Israeli military installation in published bid requests. — The Obama administration …
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Israel Matzav
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
House Republicans broken into fighting factions — On New Year's Day, in a cramped room in the Capitol basement, House Republican leaders faced an angry caucus. Democrats had negotiated them into a corner — virtually every American would be hit with a massive tax increase unless …
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Taegan Goddard's …, PostPartisan, Booman Tribune and msnbc.com
Nathaniel Popper / DealBook:
Behind the Rise in House Prices, Wall Street Buyers — The last time the housing market was this hot in Phoenix and Las Vegas, the buyers pushing up prices were mostly small time. Nowadays, they are big time — Wall Street big. — Large investment firms have spent billions of dollars …
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Calculated Risk
Martin Robinson / Daily Mail:
Hate preacher Anjem Choudary in fresh vile rant: ‘Lee Rigby will burn in hellfire because he was not a Muslim... but accused Adebolajo is a nice man’ — Murdered soldier Lee Rigby will ‘burn in hellfire’ and those who killed him should be considered martyrs, hate preacher Anjem Choudary has said in another poisonous rant on film.
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Weasel Zippers and Jihad Watch
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / USA Today:
Fighting education fanatics: Column — Schools treat 5-year-olds like hardened criminals. It smacks of fanaticism. — For a while, I've been wondering if it's parental malpractice to put your kids in public schools. More and more, it's gone beyond wondering.
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Ed Driscoll, Joanne Jacobs and Sense of Events
Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly:
Frum's Conservative Reform Checklist — As you may have heard, the conservative commentator David Frum (one of the “remormish conservative” writers profiled by Ryan Cooper in the May/June issue of the Washington Monthly) is shutting down his Daily Beast-hosted blog for a variety of family reasons.
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The Moderate Voice and PostPartisan
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David Frum / david-frum:
All Good Things... So it's been a rough month for my family and me.
All Good Things... So it's been a rough month for my family and me.
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Mediaite, The Week, The Other McCain, The Plum Line, PoliticusUSA, The Reality-Based Community and FishbowlDC