Commentary
JOHN PODHORETZ:: Pin the fail on the donkey – NYPOST
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 11:20 am
By JOHN PODHORETZ -- The Obama administration’s sudden plunge into scandal territory has two aspects — the actual and the political. The first, and most important, has to do with what actually happened. Why did the administration promulgate a false account of the terror attack on Benghazi? Why did the Internal Revenue Service target conservative groups for ... Go To Article
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CURL: Benghazi is the only scandal that matters – Washington Times
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 11:16 am
By Joseph Curl Sunday, May 19, 2013 -- ANALYSIS/OPINION: “What difference, at this point, does it make?” SPECIAL COVERAGE: Benghazi Attack Under Microscope — Hillary Rodham Clinton, in House testimony on Benghazi “Well, I got a couple of thousand goddamn questions, you know. I want to speak to someone in charge.” — Roy Neary, “Close ... Go To Article
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CATHERINE ENGELBRECHT: True Scandal | NRO
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 9:51 am
By Jillian Kay Melchior -- Catherine Engelbrecht’s tale has all the markings of a classic conspiracy theory: She says she thinks that because of her peaceful political activity, she and her family was targeted for scrutiny by hostile federal agencies. Yet as news emerges that the Internal Revenue Service wielded its power to obstruct conservative groups, ... Go To Article
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ROBERT COSTA: The Impeachment Option | NRO
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 9:47 am
Robert Costa, MAY 20, 2013 4:00 AM -- Jason Chaffetz raises the prospect. Representative Jason Chaffetz, a Utah Republican, says President Barack Obama may face impeachment over his administration’s response to the Benghazi attack. “They purposefully and willfully misled the American people, and that’s unacceptable,” Chaffetz tells me. “It’s part of a ... Go To Article
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JUSTICE DEPARTMENT obtained records of Fox News journalist | Fox News
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 9:46 am
Published May 20, 2013FoxNews.com The Justice Department obtained a portfolio of information about a Fox News correspondent's conversations and visits as part of an investigation into a possible leak, The Washington Post reported Monday -- in the latest example of the government seizing records of journalists. The information follows the charge that the department ... Go To Article
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ROBERT SAMUELSON: Is health care’s slowdown for real? – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 12:55 am
By Robert J. Samuelson, Sunday, May 19, 5:22 PM “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” — Stein’s Law , after economist Herbert Stein (1916-1999) We all know that Stein’s Law will someday apply to health-care spending, which has risen from 5 percent of the economy (gross domestic product) in 1960 to almost 18 percent now. What we don’t ... Go To Article
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TIM CARNEY: For Barack Obama, speech isn’t free when it criticizes him | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 12:15 am
Tim Carney: May 19, 2013 | 9:00 pm On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking points, White House officials misleading the media, and congressional Republicans misrepresenting administration emails. Go back to what the administration was saying just after the deadly Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic ... Go To Article
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CULTURE: Loneliness and Suicide – NYTimes
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 12:10 am
By ROSS DOUTHAT, Published: May 18, 2013 OVER the last decade, the United States has become a less violent country in every way save one. As Americans commit fewer and fewer crimes against other people’s lives and property, they have become more likely to inflict fatal violence on themselves. In the 1990s, the suicide rate dipped with the crime rate. But since ... Go To Article
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FROM THE LEFT: How to Legalize Pot – NYTimes
By MB Snow at May 20, 2013 | 12:05 am
By BILL KELLER, Published: May 19, 2013 THE first time I talked to Mark Kleiman, a drug policy expert at U.C.L.A., was in 2002, and he explained why legalization of marijuana was a bad idea. Sure, he said, the government should remove penalties for possession, use and cultivation of small amounts. He did not favor making outlaws of people for enjoying a drug that is ... Go To Article
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CROVITZ: Big Government Loses Control – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 19, 2013 | 5:30 pm
By L. GORDON CROVITZ, INFORMATION AGE, May 19, 2013, 6:01 p.m. ET Tea party and other groups use social media to spread the news about IRS abuse world-wide. What to make of the political scandals that are dominating the headlines and forcing the Obama administration into Nixonian damage control? Technology is finally doing to big government what it has done to big ... Go To Article
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