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IRS SCANDAL:: In wake of scandal, Obama ousts IRS chief — who was leaving anyway | Fox News
By MB Snow at May 16, 2013 | 9:46 am
Published May 16, 2013 -- President Obama announced Wednesday that acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller would resign in the wake of the agency scandal in which conservative groups were targeted -- though Miller was apparently set to step down anyway. An official close to Miller told Fox News, shortly after Obama's brief announcement, that the IRS chief was "set to ... Go To Article
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GUY BENSON:: IRS Scandal: Low-Level Cincinnati Workers Say They Simply Followed Bosses’ Orders
By MB Snow at May 16, 2013 | 9:21 am
Guy Benson | May 16, 2013 -- It's rigorous work keeping pace with all of these scandals, as House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer discovered earlier this week, but we're doing our best nonetheless. On the IRS targeting issue, we covered a lot of ground yesterday and earlier, but the "fun" never ceases. It will come as a surprise to no one that IRS employees lean ... Go To Article
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FOOD STAMPS:: Governor of “Food Stamp Town” Fights Back | Human Events
By MB Snow at May 16, 2013 | 9:13 am
By: John Bennett 5/16/2013 10:24 AM -- Many of you will remember the Washington Post story about the food stamp “boom-and-bust cycle” of the troubled town of Woonsocket, RI. How did this town become so dependent, and what that means for other communities around the country? One thing you’ll notice is that the mayor’s voice was completely absent from the ... Go To Article
PAT CADDELL: Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 6:47 pm
by PATRICK CADDELL 15 May 2013 In Part One of this series, published on Monday, I used the word “Watergate” seven times, openly comparing the scandalous Obama administration to the scandalous Nixon administration. I didn’t know the half of it. Just hours after Part One ran, we all learned the disturbing news of the rogue Justice Department wiretaps on the ... Go To Article
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK: Democrats and the IRS – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 5:40 pm
REVIEW & OUTLOOKMay 15, 2013, 7:24 p.m. ET Chuck Schumer wanted the agency to probe tax-exempt political groups. President Obama fired acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller on Wednesday, two days after claiming it was an "independent" agency. That was certainly a rapid re-education. But Mr. Miller shouldn't be the only fall guy, because the 54-page report ... Go To Article
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ERIC HOLDER: Know Nothing | Washington Free Beacon
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 5:38 pm
BY: Alana Goodman, May 15, 2013 - 6:15ET Attorney General Eric Holder used the phrase “I don’t know” or some variation, at least 57 times during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee today as House Republicans grilled him over controversies including the IRS’ targeting of Tea Partiers, the Justice Department’s seizure of journalist phone records, ... Go To Article
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IG REPORT Unloads on IRS – Carol Platt Liebau – Townhall
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 3:51 pm
Carol Platt Liebau | May 14, 2013 UPDATE: I have just viewed a copy of the report the Inspector General is releasing about the IRS. On page 18, it notes that more than half (58%) of the organizations that received letters from the IRS requesting more information sought information that was unnecessary. In addition, the report says that specialists in the unit ... Go To Article
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IRS EMPLOYEES Disproportionately Donate to Obama | National Review Online
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 3:40 pm
By Andrew Stiles, MAY 15, 2013 Statistics reveal an imbalance in a nominally nonpartisan agency. President Barack Obama received more than twice as much in campaign donations from IRS employees in 2012 as did his opponent, Mitt Romney, records show. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, which maintains an online database of political contributions, ... Go To Article
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ASSOCIATED PRESS left to fight alone by major media | Washington Times
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 11:01 am
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 - Middle Class Guy by Peter Bella -- CHICAGO, May 15, 2013 — Enough time has gone by in the news cycle for the country to know that the Department of Justice secretly collected and seized phone records from Associated Press and possibly its reporters. The news media should be outraged. Instead, they are silent. There are no screaming ... Go To Article
HURT: Washington — the town where nobody gets fired and everybody eats lunch – Washington Times
By MB Snow at May 15, 2013 | 10:54 am
By Charles Hurt Tuesday, May 14, 2013 -- So, what does somebody have to do to get fired around here? Unprepared, you are somehow surprised when your office in Benghazi gets torched and overrun by terrorists on the anniversary of 9/11. They kill your ambassador and three others. Yet, you are so clueless that you actually think it is a spontaneous protest of a ... Go To Article
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