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  • Deja vu: IRS boss of Tea Party probes targeted anti-Clinton group in 1990s

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Tue, May 14, 2013

    Steven T. Miller, the acting IRS commissioner who managed the division that has admitted targeting anti-Obama Tea Party groups, was one of several agents who investigated anti-Clinton organizations including Judicial Watch during that Democrat's administration, according to court documents and...

  • Mainstream Media Scream: MSNBC's Chris Hayes belittles 'Benghazi day'

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC host Chris Hayes on "All In" delighting in how the Cleveland kidnappings and the Jodi Arias murder conviction overshadowed the Benghazi hearings: "Today was set up to be a big day, a very big day for Roger Ailes, the Fox Network, Drudge Report...

  • Rumsfeld: IRS also retaliates against outspoken business leaders

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Tea Party and conservative constitutional groups may be the new targets of the Internal Revenue Service, but former Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld reveals in his new book out this week that outspoken businesses critical of the federal government are also singled out by the IRS and Securities and...

  • Obama report card: Just muddling along

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama is taking fire but holding on in approval ratings. "The president drew a line in the sand on chemical weapons in Syria but the line keeps moving further back and it is not clear which side used them. Israel...

  • Obama group belittles Boehner as 'tin foil hat' believer in unicorns

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Mon, May 13, 2013

    President Obama's grassroots campaign group has opened a campaign to belittle House Speaker John Boehner and GOP global warming critics, describing the climate change "deniers" as crazy, tin foil hat wearing believers in unicorns. In three successive emails to supporters, Jim Messina, Obama's...

  • Fully recovered Cheney says 'Hot damn' to surviving heart disease

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

    Former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose lifelong fight with heart disease hobbled his movements before his 2012 transplant, has fully recovered and is back on the speaking and social circuit with a robustness friends haven't seen since he was in the White House. "He's in great shape, I can...

  • Gallup shock: Just 7% following Kermit Gosnell abortion trial 'very closely'

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Fri, May 10, 2013

    The public is ignoring the sensational Philadelphia murder trial of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, despite increased coverage by the mainstream media prompted by criticism from conservative groups, making it one of the least followed stories in Gallup poll history. What's more, even among those...

  • Report: Women, marriage face Obamacare 'train wreck'

    Paul Bedard

    Updated: Thu, May 9, 2013

    Women, especially those with low incomes or planning to marry, face a financial "train wreck" from Obamacare when it kicks in Jan. 1, according to a new pre-Mother's Day report from Senate Republicans. In advance of the president's plan on Friday to highlight the benefits of the program for...

  • Team Obama calls global warming doubters 'crazy'

    Paul Bedard

    Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

    The president's recently formed grass-roots campaign operation revealed Thursday that it plans to attack Republicans who question radical global warming hype, dubbing them "crazy" purveyors of "far-fetched conspiracy theories." In a fundraising memo from President Obama's re-election campaign...