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Conn Carroll
Marco Rubio’s immigration game plan
Updated : 6:55 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
After one full week of votes in the Senate Judiciary Committee, it is now clear that no major changes will be made to the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill before it reaches the Senate floor. The fix is in. The Republicans...
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Charlie Spiering
Obama in Baltimore: I’m looking forward to having a dredge named after me
Updated : 3:55 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
Speaking at Ellicott Dredges’ factory in Baltimore this afternoon, President Obama joked that he couldn’t wait to have a dredge named after him. After taking a tour of the factory, Obama explained that a customer of...
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Sean Higgins
Competitive Enterprise Institute to honor transgender woman at annual dinner
Updated : 3:45 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
Deirdre McCloskey, a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is set to be honored by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading Washington, D.C., free market/libertarian think tank,...
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Charlie Spiering
Congressman: IRS asked pro-life group about 'the content of their prayers'
Published : 2:30 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
During the House Ways and Means Committee hearing today, Rep. Aaron Schock R-Ill. grilled outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller about the IRS targeting a group in Iowa. “Their question, specifically asked from the...
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Michael Barone
The higher ed bubble is bursting (continued)
Updated : 1:20 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
Higher education enrollments this spring are down 2.3 percent from spring 2012, according to the National Student Clearinghouse. That’s more than the 1.8 percent decline between fall 2011 and fall 2012. One reason...
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Philip Klein
Four possible Obamacare futures
Updated : 1:20 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
On Thursday, House Republicans once again voted to repeal President Obama’s health care law. I don’t think it’ll be a major spoiler to predict that the repeal bill won’t go any further. But I do think the vote is...
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Charlie Spiering
Outgoing IRS commissioner to Congress: ‘Targeting’ is a loaded term
Updated : 12:35 PM, Fri, May 17, 2013
During the congressional hearing Friday morning with outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, asked why Miller couldn’t reveal who was responsible for targeting Tea Party groups. “I’m...
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Charlie Spiering
Acting IRS Commissioner Miller: 'I never said I didn't do anything wrong'
Updated : 9:53 AM, Fri, May 17, 2013
During a House Ways and Means Committee Hearing this morning, acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller explained that he never claimed to have done anything wrong. Miller made the comment during an exchange with Rep. Devin...
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Charlie Spiering
IRS to Congress: 'We provided horrible customer service'
Updated : 9:38 AM, Fri, May 17, 2013
During a congressional hearing with the House Ways and Means Committee, outgoing IRS commissioner Steven Miller admitted that the IRS provided "horrible customer service" by targeting Tea Party groups.
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Conn Carroll
Morning Examiner: Accountability, Obama style
Updated : 8:40 AM, Fri, May 17, 2013
“The government generally has to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust,” President Obama said from the East Room of the White House Wednesday. “That’s especially true for the IRS. “So,...
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Charlie Spiering
Jay Carney: I dismiss the idea that these are scandals
Updated : 8:30 AM, Fri, May 17, 2013
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney has come under heavy fire this week as journalists grilled him about the three scandals hitting President Obama’s administration at once. On CNN Thursday night, however, Carney...
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Charlie Spiering
Jon Stewart ridicules media for stupid Hillary 2016 speculation
Updated : 8:30 AM, Fri, May 17, 2013
Jon Stewart mocked the media Thursday night on “The Daily Show” for having “the attention span of a concussed goldfish,” suggesting that their distracted news coverage were Obama’s only hope for beating the...
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Michal Conger
DHS refuses FOIA request for Tsarnaev immigration records
Published : 6:25 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
Department of Homeland Security officials are refusing to release immigration documents for Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, citing the agency’s ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing allegedly...
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Michal Conger
EPA inspector general investigating claims agency used fees to block FOIA requests
Updated : 5:50 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
Acting Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Bob Perciasepe has asked the Inspector General for the EPA to investigate claims the agency hindered inquiries by conservative groups by charging fees routinely...
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Michael Barone
Michael Barone: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray
Updated : 5:30 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
My American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray came to the defense of our former colleague Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation amid protests about his Harvard Ph.D. thesis, on...
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Michal Conger
Terrorists on No-Fly List allowed to take commercial flights
Updated : 5:10 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
Several known terrorists in the Department of Justice witness protection program were allowed on commercial flights even though they were on the “no-fly” list intended to help track and restrict their activity, a...
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Charlie Spiering
White House to Obamacare critics on Twitter: ‘It’s. The. Law.’
Updated : 4:40 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
Critics of Obamacare took to Twitter Thursday to describe the burdensome health care law in just three words using the hashtag #ObamaCareInThreeWords. It wasn’t long before the Obama administration responded using the...
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Brian Hughes
Obama has ‘complete confidence’ in AG Eric Holder, no apologies for monitoring of reporters
Updated : 4:40 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
President Obama on Thursday expressed “complete confidence” in embattled Attorney General Eric Holder, making no apologies for the Justice Department secretly seizing reporters’ phone records. In a press...
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Brian Hughes
Obama appoints new IRS chief
Published : 3:45 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
President Obama on Thursday appointed Daniel Werfel, a senior Office of Management and Budget official, as the next acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. The announcement comes a day after Obama forced...
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Conn Carroll
Graham admits Schumer-Rubio visa exit system is 'just a piece of paper'
Updated : 2:15 PM, Thu, May 16, 2013
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., one of two Republican Gang of Eight members on the Senate Judiciary Committee, admitted today that the visa entry and exit system in the Schumer-Rubio immigration bill is just “a piece of...
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