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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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Donald Trump / NY Daily News:
Central Park Five settlement is a ‘disgrace’ — An unacceptable amount of time and money has been spent on the infamous case, and it's ridiculous for it to be settled at a cost of $40 million to taxpayers, Trump says. — My opinion on the settlement of the Central Park Jogger case is that it's a disgrace.
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Mark Collette / Corpus Christi Caller-Times:
Mass graves of migrants found in Falfurrias (+ Video) — FALFURRIAS - Unidentified migrants who died entering the United States were buried in mass graves in a South Texas cemetery, with remains found in trash bags, shopping bags, body bags, or no containers at all, researchers discovered.
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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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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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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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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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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Stopping a lawless president — What philosopher Harvey Mansfield calls “taming the prince” — making executive power compatible with democracy's abhorrence of arbitrary power — has been a perennial problem of modern politics. It is now more urgent in the United States than at any time since the Founders …
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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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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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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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