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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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his vorpal sword, American Thinker and Weekly Standard
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IRS Official Whose Emails Were “Lost” Visited White House More Than 30 Times
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Weasel Zippers and Balloon Juice

The IRS Had a Contract With an Email Backup Company
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Weekly Standard, The Other McCain and Weasel Zippers

About Those Missing Emails
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Weasel Zippers and Power Line

We need comprehensive immigration reform now — This city is abuzz over the politics of immigration, with excited, occasionally valid speculation swirling about Eric Cantor, calendars, last-minute deals, and the like. — That's what Washington does. That's OK.


Stephanie Kwolek, Kevlar Inventor, Dies at 90 — DOVER, Del. (AP) — Police Lt. David Spicer took four .45-caliber slugs to the chest and arms at point-blank range and lived to tell about it. Like thousands of other police officers and soldiers shot in the line of duty …
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Outside the Beltway

Democrat-dominated Maryland not quite as liberal as its leaders — Candy and Walter Morrison have had it with the taxes and the politicians in Maryland who jack up spending while people can't find decent work. “We're driving jobs out of the state,” says Walter, a recently retired federal contractor.
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Washington Monthly


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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Washington Monthly


Embattled Gov. Chris Christie Defends Embattled Gov. Scott Walker — Gov. Chris Christie, who is fighting for his political life over his Bridgegate scandal came out defending Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who's knee deep in the John Doe corruption case.
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New Jersey Online
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Governor Scott Walker Releases Column in Response to Media Coverage of John Doe
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Weasel Zippers, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and Talking Points Memo


Lessons for Climate Change in the 2008 Recession — THERE is a time for weighing evidence and a time for acting. And if there's one thing I've learned throughout my work in finance, government and conservation, it is to act before problems become too big to manage.
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Power Line


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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The Huffington Post, Roger Ailes, Hinterland Gazette and Liberaland


How are Obama and the IRS getting away with a blatant coverup? — To understand the latest outrage in the IRS scandal, mull over what might happen if regulators found significant evidence to implicate Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in an insider trading scheme.
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Weasel Zippers


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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Guardian, The Raw Story, The Week, American Power, ABC News and RT


Ex-NSA Chief Pitches Banks Costly Advice on Cyber-Attacks — As the four-star general in charge of U.S. digital defenses, Keith Alexander warned repeatedly that the financial industry was among the likely targets of a major attack. Now he's selling the message directly to the banks.
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Outside the Beltway and Hullabaloo


S.D. Republican Party calls for Obama impeachment — The South Dakota Republican Party state convention passed a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Barack Obama Saturday. — The resolution says Obama has “violated his oath of office in numerous ways.”
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Talking Points Memo