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Louisiana Sen. Vitter hosts $5,000-a-head alligator hunt
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter is no fan of swamp alligators, and now he's proving it with a $5,000-per-person alligator hunt fundraiser complete with Cajun food, an airboat swamp tour and...
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Reverse immigration: Americans urged to go to China
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Even as the Senate wraps up work on a new immigration bill that some say doesn't go far enough in easing rules for foreign high-tech workers, China is changing its regulations to make it easier...
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Team Obama cites Justin Bieber in targeting Fox reporter
Updated: 1 hr ago
The Obama administration has dragged singing bad boy Justin Bieber into its defense of secretly looking into who reporters like Fox News' James Rosen talk to inside the federal government to get...
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IRS boss visited White House 118 times during Tea Party probe
Updated: 2 hr ago
Douglas Shulman, who led the IRS during the politically-charged targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups, visited the White House 118 times after that probe began, raising new questions...
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Lanny Davis: IRS scandal threatens to kill Hillary's 2016 bid
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
The growing IRS-Tea Party scandal, which has robbed Democrats of the so-called "trust edge" they held over Republicans, is now jeopardizing the Democratic majority in the Senate and even hopes...
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House IRS watchdog asks targeted groups to help blow the whistle
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
The House Ways and Means Committee, which has been probing the IRS-Tea Party scandal that's reached well into the White House, is calling on targeted groups to help blow the whistle on the tax...
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Big Labor sells its only college — to a church
Updated: 5 hr ago
After a year on the market, the AFL-CIO has finally sold its National Labor College campus in Silver Spring, Md., another sign that the nation's once enormous labor movement has fallen on hard...
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Giant octopus: IRS has 8 offices to enforce Obamacare
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
The Internal Revenue Service, charged with implementing the biggest change in tax laws in 20 years due to Obamacare, has created eight offices and special "teams" to handle the chore, way more...
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He’s No Nixon
By: William Kristol
The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, " Richard Milhous Obama ," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to...
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IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC
By: Mark Hemingway
Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS...
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Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson
The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don’t mind Obamacare’s striking consolidation of power and money...