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IRS SCANDAL:: Higher-Ups Knew of IRS Case – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 19, 2013 | 3:45 am
By JOHN D. MCKINNON, SIOBHAN HUGHES and DAMIAN PALETTA The Internal Revenue Service's watchdog told top Treasury officials around June 2012 he was investigating allegations the tax agency had targeted conservative groups, for the first time indicating that Obama administration officials were aware of the explosive matter in the midst of the president's re-election ... Go To Article
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MARK STEYN:: The Autocrat Accountants | National Review Online
By MB Snow at May 19, 2013 | 3:37 am
Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those paranoid types who “incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity.” Oddly enough, in recent days the most compelling testimony for this view of government has come from the president himself, who insists with a straight ... Go To Article
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CBS NEWS: Benghazi Counterterrorism Response Team “Ruled Out From The Start” – Guy Benson
By MB Snow at May 18, 2013 | 5:26 pm
FEST, Guy Benson | May 17, 2013 CBS News' Sharyl Attkisson -- last heard from explaining that although her bosses have been supportive of her Benghazi reporting, her network's shows and producers don't seem interested -- has chased down another major scoop. This time, she quotes unnamed White House officials admitting that administration leaders determined they would ... Go To Article
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MICHAEL BARONE: Obama’s IRS and AP scandals cast Big Chill on free speech | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 18, 2013 | 5:12 pm
Michael Barone, May 18, 2013 | 9:00 pm Chilling effect. That's the term lawyers and judges use to describe the result of government actions that deter people from exercising their right of free speech. There have been plenty of examples in the past 10 days. The Obama administration's Justice Department issued a sweeping demand for two months of office, cellular ... Go To Article
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Merely a Tax Misunderstanding – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 18, 2013 | 4:56 pm
Taxpayers tuning in to Friday's House Ways and Means hearing on IRS targeting of conservative groups may have expected to hear some hangdog apologies from senior members of the agency. If so, they were disappointed. Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, who was fired by President Obama this week but is sticking around to help with the transition, was almost casual ... Go To Article
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STEPHEN F. HAYES: Responding to the Washington Post on Benghazi | The Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at May 18, 2013 | 4:33 pm
5:50 PM, MAY 17, 2013 • BY STEPHEN F. HAYES The Washington Post editorial board is quite upset with “Republicans and conservative media obsessed” with the “phony” issue of the administration’s misleading public explanation of the nature of the attacks in Benghazi. In a lengthy editorial, the Post makes a haughtier and more condescending version of a ... Go To Article
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JOHN NOLTE: Joe Scarborough, Piers Morgan: Obama Scandals Prove Gun Advocates Aren’t Crazy
By MB Snow at May 18, 2013 | 2:59 pm
by JOHN NOLTE 18 May 2013 How big of a wake-up call are the Obama scandals, especially the ones surrounding the seizing of phone records from the Associated Press and the IRS's targeting of conservatives? So big that two of the media's most shameful and shameless gun control advocates -- Joe Scarborough and Piers Morgan -- have finally conceded that arguments made by ... Go To Article
SPEAKER BOEHNER: Call a bipartisan Benghazi Select Committee | Washington Times Communities
By MB Snow at May 18, 2013 | 7:43 am
Friday, May 17, 2013 - Benghazi: Discussed and Disclosed by Christine Dolan WASHINGTON, May 17, 2013 - Recent developments in the Benghazi investigation now bring Speaker John Boehner front and center – making him and his whips the lead story. With a nod, the Speaker can elevate the Benghazi investigation to where it belongs – to a select committee – to hopefully ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL:: Obama’s tapped-out trust – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 5:05 pm
By George F. Will, Published: May 16 -- Leaving aside the seriousness of lawlessness, and the corruption of our civic culture by the professionally pious, this past week has been amusing. There was the spectacle of advocates of an ever-larger regulatory government expressing shock about such government’s large capacity for misbehavior. And, entertainingly, the ... Go To Article
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JOHN FUND:: Strange Goings-On at the White House | NRO
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 5:01 pm
John Fund -- The recent spate of Washington scandals has some liberals finally confessing in public what many of them have said privately for a long time. The Obama administration is arrogant, insular, prone to intimidation of adversaries, and slovenly when it comes to seeing that rules are followed. Indeed, the Obama White House is a strange place, and it’s good ... Go To Article
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