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White House: 'Entirely appropriate' that senior staff didn't tell Obama about IRS probe
Brian Hughes
Yesterday
Senior White House officials knew for nearly a month that the Internal Revenue Service was under investigation for targeting conservative groups, but they decided not to tell President Obama about the incident, the White House said Monday. The admission shows the White House knew about...
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Union announces opposition to Commerce Secretary pick Pritzker
Sean Higgins
Yesterday
On Monday, the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees (HERE) union announced it would formally oppose the White House’s pick of Penny Pritzker to be the new Commerce Secretary. The Chicago billionaire, a major Obama fundraiser, is set to have a Senate committee confirmation hearing on...
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Businesses already boosting employee premiums, co-pays for Obamacare
Paul Bedard
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
Already hit with cost increases to cover minor Obamacare demands, businesses are boosting employee payments through higher insurance premiums and doctor visit co-pays in advance of the bulk of the health reform law's rules taking effect Jan. 1. A sweeping survey of several hundred U.S....
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Report: Nonprofit applications had not spiked before IRS targeted Tea Partiers
Sean Higgins
Yesterday
Washington Post Fact Check columnist Glenn Kessler makes an important catch regarding Lois Lerner, the Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the exempt organizations division who first revealed the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups.
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Tea Party Patriots website crashes due to high volume of interest in IRS protests
Charlie Spiering
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
The Tea Party Patriots website has crashed, organizers say, due to the high volume of interest in the nationwide protests planned for over 100 Internal Revenue Offices across the nation. The website crashed after Rush Limbaugh highlighted the grassroots organization as a place to get...
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Low-skill immigration is just another government redistribution program
Conn Carroll
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
Many conservatives do not normally think of it this way, but Center for Immigration Studies Director of Research Steven Camarota explained today that low-skill immigration is really just another government redistribution program. But this time, income is being redistributed from the poor to the...
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White House: Obama is glad he wasn’t told about IRS scandal
Joel Gehrke
Yesterday
President Obama did not hear of the IRS scandal until the agency apologized for targeting conservatives because his White House counsel and other senior staff agreed he should not be informed, his spokesman said today, adding that Obama thought they made the right decision in not telling him....
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Megyn Kelly: Three Fox News reporters targeted by Justice Department
Charlie Spiering
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
Calling it “a stunning twist,” FOX News host Megyn Kelly announced this afternoon that three FOX News staffers were caught up in the Department of Justice investigation of reporters. “New information just in to FOX News and on FOX News, now finding ourselves in the middle of what is now...
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OAS: Legalization might reduce North America's $140b drug problem
Paul Bedard
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
A highly anticipated report on the international drug trade unveiled in Washington on Monday revealed that the industry in North America is worth $140 billion of the annual worldwide $330 billion illegal drug trade. The analysis by the Organization of American States, a year in the making,...
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Mainstream Media Scream: 'Today's' Savannah Guthrie questions GOP 'overreach'
Paul Bedard
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features "Today Show" co-host Savannah Guthrie and NBC chief political correspondent Chuck Todd discussing GOP "overreach" in probing White House scandals.
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