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PETHOKOUKIS: Scandals may shut the door on Obama’s progressive experiment | AEIdeas
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 7:03 am
James Pethokoukis | May 14, 2013, 9:37 am Democrats and left-wing pundits have long argued that Barack Obama would be their Ronald Reagan, a president who significantly shifted the nation’s political and economic landscape. With reelection and a second term, as Andrew Sullivan wrote last September, Obama would become ”an iconic figure who struggled through a ... Go To Article
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JONATHAN S. TOBIN:IRS Scandal Bigger Than We Thought « Commentary Magazine
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 6:54 am
Jonathan S. Tobin 05.14.2013 - 9:40 AM The initial revelations about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups were shocking enough. The federal government’s tax collectors had singled out groups with the words “Tea Party” or “Patriot” in their names and subjected them to special scrutiny about requests for nonprofit status. But it ... Go To Article
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GEORGE F. WILL: IRS scandal carries echoes of Watergate – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 6:37 am
By George F. Will, Monday, May 13, 2013 “He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be initiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” — Article II, Section 1, Articles of Impeachment against ... Go To Article
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GOLDBERG: Benghazi’s smoking guns – latimes
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 6:21 am
OP-ED - By Jonah Goldberg, May 14, 2013 There's an arsenal worth, from testimony at congressional hearings to the State Department's flawed internal review to the four dead Americans. President Obama was asked about the metastasizing Benghazi scandal in a joint news conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday. Referring to the Americans who died ... Go To Article
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SQUISHES STEP ASIDE: Ted Cruz and Chris Christie’s Old-School Manliness – The Daily Beast
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 6:12 am
by Michelle Cottle May 13, 2013 As the GOP becomes increasingly a guy’s party, the Texas senator and Jersey governor are bringing the unapologetic swagger, writes Michelle Cottle. Two Republican heavy hitters are bringing manly back to their machismo-starved party. In terms of public image, it’s hard to think of two Republican pols less alike than Ted Cruz ... Go To Article
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MARY KATHARINE HAM:What has the IRS been leaking on conservative groups? « Hot Air
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 12:15 am
POSTED AT 10:11 PM ON MAY 13, 2013 BY MARY KATHARINE HAM In the flood of stories popping up in the wake of the Obama administration’s IRS scandal, a couple suggest the IRS has been leaking information about conservatives and conservative groups in addition to putting them through the wringer for tax-exempt status. First a story from ProPublica, which in the course ... Go To Article
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DENNIS PRAGER: The Church of Scotland’s Scandal | National Review Online
By MB Snow at May 14, 2013 | 12:05 am
Dennis Prager, MAY 14, 2013 Its new report on Israel is a combination of medieval anti-Judaism and leftist anti-Zionism. Earlier this month, the Church of Scotland issued a report titled “The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land.’” The essence of the report is that, according to the Bible itself, Jews have no more attachment to the land ... Go To Article
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HUGH HEWITT: Hillary never called back | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 13, 2013 | 5:16 pm
Hugh Hewitt, May 12, 2013 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her senior staff conducted a conference call with Gregory Hicks, deputy chief of the U.S. mission in Libya, in the early morning hours of Sept. 12, 2012. Hicks was overseeing a chaotic scene in Tripoli, where his staff was busy destroying classified material with axes and whatever else was at hand and ... Go To Article
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BREAKING: Obama Justice Department Secretly Monitored AP Reporters’ Phone Records – Townhall
By MB Snow at May 13, 2013 | 2:53 pm
What the hell is going on within the Obama administration? Another huge scandal rears its head, and I'd bet the press won't take this one lying down: The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into ... Go To Article
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON:: Count Me Out on Syria
By MB Snow at May 13, 2013 | 2:50 pm
There are good reasons to go into Syria, but far better ones to stay out. Let us review a few of them. Syria is a humanitarian crisis with over one million refugees and 70,000 dead. But there are similar outrages in Mali, Somalia, and the Sudan. Why no calls to go there as well? Would U.S. troops, planes, or massive shipments of weapons stop the killing, or simply ... Go To Article
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