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Joel Gehrke
Top Republican: IRS shouldn’t implement Obamacare until scandal is resolved
Updated : 7:50 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., asked two members of President Obama’s cabinet to suspend IRS implementation of Obamacare, citing the fact that the head of the health reform section of the agency used to lead the IRS section...
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Joel Gehrke
Senate Democrats pull pro-LGBT proposal from immigration bill
Published : 7:35 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
Senate Democrats withdrew a pro-LGBT amendment to the Gang of Eight’s immigration bill due to fears that the legislation would prove fatal to the larger immigration package. “It is with a heavy heart,” Senate...
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Joel Gehrke
Senate Dem tells Tea Partier that he’s acting like a ‘dictator’
Published : 7:05 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., scolded Tea Party Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, for acting like a “dictator” by demanding that Senate Democrats promise not to raise the debt limit during conference meetings with House...
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Philip Klein
Five reasons why focus on scandals is unlikely to backfire on GOP as in 1998
Published : 6:20 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
As multiple scandals have simultaneously engulfed the Obama administration, a number of political observers have cautioned Republicans against overreaching. Liberal blogger Greg Sargent writes over at the Washington Post...
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Sean Higgins
AFL-CIO issues legislative alert on NLRB nominees
Published : 5:20 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
The nation’s largest labor coalition sent out the following “Dear Senator” letter out Tuesday afternoon. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is set to vote on five nominees to the National...
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Michael Barone
Will young people buy expensive Obamacare insurance?
Published : 5:15 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
One essential feature of the insurance policies encouraged by Obamacare is that they require the young and healthy to subsidize the old and healthy. Policies available to young people, especially for young men, will be...
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Joel Gehrke
Court: CIA doesn’t have to release photos of dead bin Laden
Updated : 4:25 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
CIA officials do not have to release images of Osama bin Laden taken after his death at the hands of Navy Seals, a federal court ruled today, citing the likelihood that the images would provoke a terrorist attack. “As...
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Conn Carroll
The leftist lynch mob out to get Tom Coburn might want to put down their pitchforks
Published : 4:05 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
There is no better steward of American taxpayer dollars than Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla. When Hurricane Sandy struck last year, he fought to eliminate non-emergency items from a supplemental disaster relief bill that...
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Gabriella Morrongiello
In Washington, D.C., Tea Party activists spend lunch hour protesting at the IRS
Published : 3:15 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
An estimated 75 Tea Partiers gave up lunch Tuesday afternoon to instead participate in a “flash rally” to protest the Internal Revenue Services’s targeting of conservatives and Tea Party groups seeking tax-exempt...
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Brian Hughes
Jay Carney: ‘It’s not about me’
Updated : 2:40 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
Amid revelations that the Justice Department monitored both Associated Press journalists and Fox News’ James Rosen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, a former reporter, was asked Tuesday if he had ever received...
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Charlie Spiering
Nine photos of Tea Party protests at IRS offices around the country
Published : 2:35 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
Tea Party groups from around the country gathered at IRS office buildings to protest the government for targeting their organizations. Photos below:
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Timothy P. Carney
Big Government strikes in NYC: Hotels win, consumers and small businesses lose
Published : 2:20 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
AirBnB is a service that allows you to rent out a spare room in your apartment or home. In other words, it’s a startup competitor to established hotels. So, naturally, the hotel industry has supported the government in...
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Conn Carroll
Why low-skill immigration is different than free trade
Updated : 2:10 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
McClatchy Newspapers has an excellent story on immigration Tuesday, reporting on how farmers are framing the debate to their representatives: Walk the aisles of any neighborhood grocery store today and you’re as...
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Joel Gehrke
White House to reporters: You didn’t ask!
Updated : 1:50 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
President Obama’s spokesman, to the irritation of the White House press corps, accounted for the shifting narrative about the White House team’s knowledge of the IRS scandal by pointing the finger back at the media...
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Joel Gehrke
White House mocks birthers to avoid questions about scandals
Published : 1:45 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
White House Press Secretary Jay Carney reminded reporters of the conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birth certificate in an attempt to dodge questions about the current scandals dominating the Washington news...
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David M. Drucker
No evidence 'yet' that IRS targeting was politically motivated
Published : 1:10 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
Throughout two congressional hearings, Internal Revenue Service officials and the Treasury Department inspector general have insisted that investigators found no evidence that the agency was motivated by politics when it...
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Conn Carroll
Rand Paul defends Apple
Published : 12:00 PM, Tue, May 21, 2013
This morning the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Subcommittee conducted a witchunt hearing into Apple’s tax bill. Republicans and Democrats alike took turns attacking the tech giant for not paying taxes on $74...
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Conn Carroll
Conservative leaders sign letter rejecting Schumer-Rubio
Updated : 11:30 AM, Tue, May 21, 2013
A broad coalition of more than 100 conservative leaders signed a letter Monday urging Senators to oppose S. 744, also known as the Gang of Eight immigration bill. “No matter how well-intentioned, the Schumer-Rubio bill...
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Philip Klein
Kudos to Tom Coburn
Published : 11:20 AM, Tue, May 21, 2013
As residents of his home state recover from the devastating tornado that ravaged Moore, Oklahoma, Sen. Tom Coburn deserves credit for sticking with his position that all emergency aid spending should be offset....
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Conn Carroll
Morning Examiner: Left wastes no time politicizing the Oklahoma tragedy
Updated : 11:15 AM, Tue, May 21, 2013
At least 51 people were killed Monday when a massive tornado destroyed a two-mile-wide swath of Moore, Okla., an Oklahoma City suburb. The state medical examiner’s office estimates that at least another 40 people may...
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