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No one knows Washington secrets like Paul Bedard. This longtime DC reporter joined The Washington Examiner in early 2012 after penning U.S. News & World Report's premiere political column, "Washington Whispers," for more than a decade. Be sure to follow Paul on Twitter at @SecretsBedard, subscribe to him on Facebook -- he's facebook.com/SecretsBedard -- and sign up for his email newsletter to get all of Paul's Washington Secrets delivered to your inbox every morning.

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  • PETA says IRS targeted it, too, during Bush years

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 20, 2013

    New charges from a liberal group that its tax-exempt status was questioned by the IRS are raising new questions that the tax agency is politically driven to please the party that controls the White House. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals told Secrets that it was "targeted" for three...

  • Zogby: Scandals cost Obama liberals, majority -- 'Are locusts next?'

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama's scandal-filled disaster week has cost him his majority support and sapped enthusiasm for his second term. "As Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth might have said, this was 'weekus horribilis' for President Obama....

  • Obama pick to replace Holder assails House GOP on Obamacare

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, reported to be President Obama's pick to replace Attorney General Eric Holder, has attacked House Republican foes of Obamacare, raising new questions about the politicization of the Justice Department. Patrick signed a Democratic National Committee letter...

  • Democrat Baucus warns: More to come out on IRS scandal

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Fri, May 17, 2013

    Senior Democratic Sen. Max Baucus, who recently slapped Obamacare as a "train wreck," believes that the IRS scandal is just beginning and that "a lot more" damaging information will be revealed, likely at congressional hearings. "I have a hunch that a lot more is going to come out, frankly,"...

  • GOP slams IRS pick to run Obamacare enforcement office

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    House and Senate Republican leaders are gagging on the administration's pick to run the IRS Obamacare enforcement office because she headed the unit that improperly probed into Tea Party groups, a scandal that has cut short the careers of two top officials--so far. "Stunning, just stunning,"...

  • Conservatives snag just 17% of top college commencement speeches

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    When President Obama gave his commencement address at Ohio State University last week and admonished Americans to stop listening to the voices of cynicism and criticism, the rest of the nation's top colleges must have been listening because only 17 of them have invited conservatives to speak,...

  • Rand Paul 2016 selling out venues, raising $12,500 a day

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    The unofficial Rand Paul presidential campaign is gaining steam, selling out speech venues through June as he nears a decision to act on his popularity and officially announce a 2016 bid for the White House. The Tea Party favorite and leader of the "liberty wing" of the Senate GOP is also...

  • Top Tea Party official: IRS tactics nearly bankrupt movement

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    Top representatives of the nation's Tea Party movement on Thursday lashed out at President Obama for using the IRS to shut down free speech and harass his enemies, claiming that the cost of fighting back hurt the movement. "The damage the IRS caused may be immeasurable. There are concrete...

  • Gallup: Scandal-sacked Obama sinks 9 points since post-election high

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    The thrill of President Obama's reelection is gone--and now so are his highest Gallup approval ratings since right after his first election in 2008. Obama, whose approval rating was 56 percent around Christmas, has sunk to 47 percent approve with an equal percentage disapproving of the...

  • Cruz: Obama pets like Solyndra evade IRS audits

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    It was meant to be funny, but Texas Sen. Ted Cruz's humorous opening line at a meeting of conservatives Wednesday night packed a punch in highlighting the reality that in the escalating IRS scandal, no Obama pet project or supporting group was audited by the tax agency--only critics. In...


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