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  • In Washington, D.C., Tea Party activists spend lunch hour protesting at the IRS

    Gabriella Morrongiello

    Published: 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 status during the 2010 and 2012 election campaigns. “We called it a flash...

  • Jay Carney: ‘It’s not about me’

    Brian Hughes

    Updated: 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 classified information when writing about the inner workings of government.

  • Big Government strikes in NYC: Hotels win, consumers and small businesses lose

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: 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 cracking down on AirBnB. And industry has won.

  • Why low-skill immigration is different than free trade

    Conn Carroll

    Updated: 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 likely to find tomatoes picked in Sinaloa, Mexico, as Central California or...

  • White House to reporters: You didn’t ask!

    Joel Gehrke

    Updated: 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 for failing ask the right questions to get more information.

  • White House mocks birthers to avoid questions about scandals

    Joel Gehrke

    Published: 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 cycle.

  • No evidence 'yet' that IRS targeting was politically motivated

    David M. Drucker

    Published: 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 subjected conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to extra scrutiny....

  • Judo-practicing 'Iron Lady' Takes over EU, boosts U.S. trade

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Tue, May 21, 2013

    Get ready to hear more about the Judo-loving president of Lithuania dubbed the "Iron Lady" for her harsh austerity measures used to yank the Baltic state out of economic disaster without any outside help. That's because not only does Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite's country take over...