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Walter Olson / Cato Institute:
Kim Strassel and the WSJ on the Lost IRS Emails — Earlier this week Wall Street Journal columnist Kim Strassel won a much deserved Bradley Award for her work in investigative journalism. It's at times like this, in which revelations about evidence destruction at the Internal Revenue Service …
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Kimberley A. Strassel / Wall Street Journal:
About Those Missing Emails — The fact that they are “lost” at all suggests Congress is looking in the right direction.
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Weasel Zippers and Power Line
Katie Pavlich / Townhall.com:
IRS Official Whose Emails Were “Lost” Visited White House More Than 30 Times — 1.1K — SHARES — Last night on The Kelly File Chief Counsel at the American Center for Law and Justice Jay Sekulo revealed that the former chief of staff to former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, Nikole Flax …
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Rachael Bade / Politico:
IRS chief defiant on Lois Lerner email loss
IRS chief defiant on Lois Lerner email loss
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Scared Monkeys, RedState and The Gateway Pundit
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air:
White House notified of missing IRS e-mail 6 weeks before Congress?
White House notified of missing IRS e-mail 6 weeks before Congress?
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Weasel Zippers, Ed Driscoll, CNSNews and protein wisdom
Klint Finley / Wired:
Supreme Court Deals Major Blow to Patent Trolls — The Supreme Court just dealt a major blow to patent trolls. — On Thursday, the court upheld the notion that an idea alone can't be patented, deciding unanimously that merely implementing an idea on a computer isn't enough to transform it into a patentable invention.
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Hit & Run
Chris Moody / Yahoo! News:
Ralph Reed: Those who oppose same-sex marriage can draw lessons from fight against slavery — Seeking to encourage social conservative activists to persevere in the fight against same-sex marriage, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder Ralph Reed drew parallels between the ongoing debate …
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ThinkProgress, The Mahablog, Mediaite and Washington Post
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Presbyterians Vote to Divest Holdings to Pressure Israel — DETROIT — After passionate debate over how best to help break the deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Friday at its general convention to divest from three companies …
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The PJ Tatler, RT and Prairie Weather
Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
Every Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated ‘Fully Successful’ or Better Over 4 Years — All of the 470 senior executives at the Department of Veterans Affairs received annual ratings over the last four years indicating that they were “fully successful” in their jobs or even better …
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Outside the Beltway
Friends of Scott Walker / Press Room:
Governor Scott Walker Releases Column in Response to Media Coverage of John Doe — Madison — Governor Scott Walker today released the following column in response to media coverage of the John Doe. It is submitted for your consideration to print. — Abraham Lincoln once said …
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Talking Points Memo and Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion
Congressman Steve Stockman:
Stockman bill allows taxpayers to use same lame excuses as IRS — WASHINGTON — Taxpayers who do not produce documents for the Internal Revenue Service will be able to offer a variety of dubious excuses under legislation introduced by Rep. Steve Stockman (R-TX 36) a week after the IRS offered …
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Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and Independent Journal Review
Bloomberg:
Oil Odyssey Offers Glimpse of Kurdish Independence in Iraq — A tanker containing a million barrels of crude oil is floating around the Mediterranean, and any buyer will be helping Iraq's Kurds to win greater independence. — The oil aboard is available at half-price …
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Washington Monthly, Israpundit, The Dish and Bloomberg View
Matthew Continetti / Washington Free Beacon:
Hillary's People — The facts are these. In 1975, before she married Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham defended a child rapist in Arkansas court. She was not a public defender. No one ordered her to take the case. An ambitious young lawyer, she was asked by a friend if she would represent the accused, and she agreed.
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress:
Rick Santorum Explains Why Ronald Reagan Would Be ‘Appalled’ By Today's GOP — “Rick Santorum Explains Why Ronald Reagan Would Be ‘Appalled’ By Today's GOP” Share: — Rick Santorum appeared to make the case for greater government involvement during a speech at the Faith & Freedom Coalition on Friday …
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Washington Monthly and Hullabaloo