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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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KRAUTHAMMER:: Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage – WaPo
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 4:58 pm
By Charles Krauthammer, Published: May 16 E-mail the writer -- Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political ... Go To Article
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STRASSEL:: The IRS Scandal Started at the Top – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 4:53 pm
Was the White House involved in the IRS's targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was. President Obama and Co. are in full deniability mode, noting that the IRS is an "independent" agency and that they knew nothing about its abuse. The media and Congress are sleuthing for some hint that Mr. Obama picked up the phone and ... Go To Article
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BARONE:: In defense of Jason Richwine and Charles Murray | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 4:50 pm
Michael Barone -- My American Enterprise Institute colleague Charles Murray came to the defense of our former colleague Jason Richwine, who resigned from the Heritage Foundation amid protests about his Harvard Ph.D. thesis, on nationalreview.com. Charles was entirely accurate in stating that Richwine’s conclusion that Hispanics have lower-than-average IQs is accurate ... Go To Article
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BOB WOODWARD:: ‘I Would Not Dismiss Benghazi,’ Similar to Watergate | The Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 4:49 pm
BY DANIEL HALPER -- On TV this morning, Bob Woodward made the case for not dismissing Benghazi and compared the scandal to Watergate: "You were talking earlier about kind of dismissing the Benghazi issue as one that's just political and the president recently said it's a sideshow," said Woodward. "But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in ... Go To Article
VIDEO:: ANDREW McCARTHY on MEGYN KELLY Regarding IRS Scandal & Obama Administration – Fox News
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 2:22 pm
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IRS SCANDAL:: GOP Files Bills Limiting IRS Oversight of ObamaCare
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 2:17 pm
by MIKE FLYNN 16 May 2013 -- In the wake of IRS admission that it targeted tea party and conservative organizations, Republican lawmakers have introduced legislation to block the agency from implementing ObamaCare. Under current law, the IRS is tasked with collecting billions in new taxes, designing rules for subsidies and tax credits and enforcing the individual ... Go To Article
CAROLINE GLICK :: Obama and the “Official Truth”
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 2:14 pm
May 17, 2013, 3:22 AM -- Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has been sitting in a US federal prison in Texas since his photographed midnight arrest by half a dozen deputy sheriffs at his home in California for violating the terms of his parole. As many reporters have noted, the parole violation in question would not generally lead to anything more than a court hearing. But in ... Go To Article
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PEGGY NOONAN: This Is No Ordinary Scandal – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 12:34 am
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONS Updated May 16, 2013 Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government. We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what ... Go To Article
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