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  • Audit: IRS lacks receipts for lavish conference expenses

    By Paul Bedard | 06/04/13 03:35 PM

    The Treasury Department's audit of the Internal Revenue Service's 225 employee conferences that cost taxpayers nearly $50 million might not be accurate or include all of the IRS expenses because the agency that daily demands records from taxpayers didn't supply all the receipts sought by the...

  • Twitter presidency: Obama sentences written in 140 characters or less

    By Paul Bedard | 06/04/13 12:10 PM

    Social media, especially 140-character-limited Twitter, hasn't just taken over Washington communications, it has also rewritten the way President Obama's major addresses are crafted. While short and impactful sentences have always been preferred by modern presidents — JFK's "Ask not," or...

  • Ways and Means chairman: IRS intimidated, discriminated, abused groups 'based on their beliefs'

    By Paul Bedard | 06/04/13 11:15 AM

    The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, opening the latest hearing on IRS abuse of conservative groups, said the tax collectors practiced a "culture of political intimidation and discrimination" to "abuse individuals based on their beliefs." Rep. Dave Camp wasted no time in...

  • Study: Earnings of two-year tech grads top four-year students

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 04:05 PM

    Sorry all you graduates of prestigious four-years colleges, but there is a new study that shows students with a two-year technical certificate often earn more, sometimes nearly double those with a bachelor's degree, in their first year in the labor market. A comprehensive study of Texas...

  • Mainstream Media Scream: Maher blasts W's bike ride with troops

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 02:05 PM

    This week's Mainstream Media Scream features HBO's Bill Maher calling former President George W. Bush's bike ride with wounded warriors "nauseating." On his Friday night show, Maher said, "George Bush, over the Memorial Day weekend, held the Wounded Warrior 100K, which was a kind of a...

  • Ford truck sales roar back, highest in six years

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 01:35 PM

    In the latest sign that Americans are feeling better about the economy, Ford Motor Co. on Monday reported significantly higher sales in May led by the strongest market for F-150 pickup trucks in six years. "Ford sales are a bellwether for the U.S. economy," an industry spokesman told Secrets....

  • Sebelius: Obamacare opens door wider to gays, AIDS victims

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 11:50 AM

    Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Monday said that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community will be a special focus of Obamacare because "for too long...[they] were pushed to the side." To honor Lesbian, Gay, Bixexual and Transgender Pride Month...

  • Michelle Obama joins Terry McAuliffe campaign, will raise money

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 10:55 AM

    The latest proof that Democrats are going all-in to help former party boss Terry McAuliffe win the Virginia gubernatorial election is first lady Michelle Obama's decision to hold a fundraiser for McAuliffe. In email to supporters Monday, the candidate announced the A-lister supporter who joins...

  • Zogby report card: Obama buoyed by GOP

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 09:45 AM

    Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama is getting a little boost from Republicans. "Not only has President Obama's overall job rating gone up three points to 53 percent in our Zogby Analytics poll hot off the press (May 29-30), but his numbers...

  • Right frets: Was Ted Cruz the last of the disruptive candidates?

    By Paul Bedard | 06/03/13 09:30 AM

    Conservative activists who helped bring Sens. Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Mike Lee to Washington and helped foster rabble rousers on the state level like Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley fear the well has gone dry. As the right prepares for the upcoming...


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