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Behind the Clinton ‘bromance,’
a stealth campaign
Washington Post, by Dana Milbank
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 10/28/2012 5:11:54 AM
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| How to explain this budding “bromance,” as first lady Michelle Obama puts it, between her husband and Bill Clinton? The 44th president and the 42nd president are indeed having a whirlwind affair in the closing days of the campaign. President Obama takes Clinton on three campaign stops next week, stopping in Orlando, Youngstown, Ohio, and Northern Virginia to kick off the last full week of the race. An ad Clinton cut, defending Obama against all “the stuff some folks are saying,” is set to run in those states and in Nevada, Colorado and Iowa.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
pineledger, 10/28/2012 5:36:17 AM (No. 8968730)
Michelle never fails us, does she.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
leopardtwo, 10/28/2012 5:55:09 AM (No. 8968742)
Millbank is already torpedoing the future Romney/Ryan Administration by claiming that, no matter what R/R do, the US economy will recover on auto-pilot. Millbank, then why don't we just keep your pal, the Choom Wagon Kid, in office? That is what your real game is.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
PoliticalJunky, 10/28/2012 6:18:23 AM (No. 8968750)
This article is not pro Obama nor pro Hillary. In fact, the author is describing his theory (which I share) that Bill is helping Obama get elected because Hillary wants to run in 2016.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
HerbVA, 10/28/2012 6:41:59 AM (No. 8968766)
Most schools of "learning" are now run by the government and don't need drugs to churn out pathetically stupid products.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam, 10/28/2012 7:18:02 AM (No. 8968814)
"If this country votes to give us four more years of Obama, and then eight years of Hillary Clinton," I'll become an anarchist.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mrduc, 10/28/2012 7:30:55 AM (No. 8968832)
and, don't forget that HillBill have future political aspirations for Chelsea.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Robinsolana, 10/28/2012 8:15:25 AM (No. 8968915)
The worlds two best liars on stage together.
Amazing.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mythman, 10/28/2012 8:18:05 AM (No. 8968922)
Obama and the two Clintons all want to be SecGen UN and Presidents of the NWO. Of course they're going to work together.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
nonsense, 10/28/2012 8:24:08 AM (No. 8968935)
The current radical Demonrat party has done decades of damage to the country. Why they think they can come roaring back in 2016 is beyond my imagination.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kayjaymac, 10/28/2012 8:26:39 AM (No. 8968942)
Considering Bubba's track record of campaigning vs. wins, I say this may not be a bad thing...for US!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
southernboy, 10/28/2012 9:15:34 AM (No. 8969024)
Obama should keep one thing in mind…what Bill does is guaranteed to be in the interest of Bill.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird, 10/28/2012 9:33:23 AM (No. 8969061)
Already smelling pretty bad after all their own - hers as well as his - scandals and misbehavior in office, they are now sealing the impossibility of her ever running for president.
Oh, she may try to run, but older and wiser Americans - especially those who were old enough to be present during the Clintons' too long era - will give 1,000 reasons why they should never again be anywhere near the White House.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
earlybird, 10/28/2012 9:34:42 AM (No. 8969065)
(hit submit too soon)
Hooking up with toxic Obie, who is headed toward becoming a political third rail, will finish the Clintons off for good.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
harleynyc, 10/28/2012 9:49:58 AM (No. 8969105)
Clinton socked away a tidy sum from the sleepovers, the chinese, favors, pardons, etc, but it pales in comparison to the outflow of trillion$ obama got away with, and the clintons are working for their cut.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
MickTurn, 10/28/2012 10:25:38 AM (No. 8969189)
The problem is Clintoon's plastic demeanor is so obvious you can paint it with a brush...no one believes his Obie inspired lies, he's just on autopilot driven by Obies Chicago thugs. Everyone knows he knows it's all BS and a sinking ship. Rest assured, he's above the fray and will walk on water getting away from Obie & thugs as the ship goes down Nov 6!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Stopstoreload, 10/28/2012 10:33:18 AM (No. 8969210)
There is no guarantee that the next President, whoever he may be, will benefit from a rising economy if he persists in standing astride the hiring process, threatening the people who hire people with higher income taxes, higher energy costs, higher medical plan costs, more EPA regulations, more union favoritism and more rule by executive orders of dubious legitimacy. Just sayin'.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 10/28/2012 11:01:14 AM (No. 8969288)
Ah, some more 'the economy is improving' claptrap from Diana Milquetoast. There must have been a promise to watch the bromance in exchange for this tripe.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
enemyofthestate, 10/28/2012 1:12:07 PM (No. 8969572)
Well, if it's being called a bromance, was a "Lewinsky" involved? Figuratively speaking, the answer to that is "probably."
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Maryland_Patriot, 10/28/2012 9:45:33 PM (No. 8970453)
Here's the HillBuzz site's thoughts on the coming Democrat civil war:
hillbuzz.org/doom-antidote-the-democrats-civil-war-between-the-factions-of-the-clinton-restoration-and-the-obama-remnant-begins-november-7th-2012#comments
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The Smoking Gun Can Tell
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Atlantic, by Philip Bump
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When, in 2006, the website The Smoking Gun released a secret CIA memo documenting prisoner organizing strategies at Guantanamo Bay, the FBI took notice. Now the site has posted details of the ensuing 44-month-long investigation, offering a timely glimpse into the black box of a Department of Justice leak prosecution. And The Smoking Gun got lucky. Over the course of the FBI´s hunt, code-named "Stubborn Ways," 43 different people were interviewed, in locations stretching from New Mexico to Boston to Saudi Arabia. After the investigation narrowed to one person who was then exonerated — a woman from Virginia
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There Was No Surge in IRS
Tax-Exempt Applications in 2010
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Atlantic, by Garance Franke-Ruta
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/18/2013 5:03:01 AM
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A number of people have sought to explain the IRS targeting of Tea Party, patriot, and 9/12 group applications -- as well as those from other conservative groups -- for "specialist team" treatment (mainly delays and excessive and inappropriate questions) in 2010 by pointing to the Citizens United decision that year allowing for unlimited, undisclosed fundraising by such groups. That´s the explanation IRS official Lois Lerner gave a week ago when she first revealed that the agency had improperly handled a slew of applications -- the political shorthand was a mistaken attempt to deal with a surge in applications.
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Obamacare and Chicago’s Unions
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American Spectator, by Eileen Norcross
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Much has been said about the trouble with public-sector pensions. Many state and local plans are underfunded and, unless policy and accounting changes are undertaken, some major plans will run out of assets to pay benefits over the coming years. That means these plans will have to operate on a pay-as-you-go-basis, forcing budgetary tradeoffs and tax hikes. Public-sector pensions often come with legal guarantees. For instance, Illinois and New York offer a constitutional guarantee of promised benefits. Many other states offer statutory protections. That’s why economists make the case that pension benefits
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The AP and the NRA
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Politico, by Rich Lowry
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Rarely has the White House briefing room so resembled the main ballroom at a meeting of Conservative Political Action Conference. When he woke up on Tuesday morning, White House press secretary Jay Carney probably thought that he would have to deal with querulous reporters pressing him on all fronts. Little did he know he’d really have to confront citizens bristling with anger over perceived encroachments on their rights by an overweening government. At times, Carney must have wondered whether he had wandered into a congressional town hall circa 2009 with himself in the role
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When it rains, it pours: Ten
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,
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House committee to
grill ousted IRS chief
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Associated Press, by Alan Fam & Stephen Ohlemacher
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/17/2013 4:42:52 AM
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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers are ready to question the ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service as Congress holds its first hearing on the tougher scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. With the scandal joining the parade of political headaches buffeting President Barack Obama, the Republican-run House Ways and Means Committee planned to question the agency´s ousted chief, Steven Miller, on Friday. Miller, acting director until he resigned Wednesday, seems sure to get a hostile reception from the committee. Members of both parties have spent the past week bitterly chastising
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IRS Ducks GOP Softballs
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Washington Free Beacon, by Alana Goodman
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/16/2013 2:10:33 PM
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The IRS softball team canceled its previously scheduled game against Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn’s (R., Texas) office on Friday, as tensions between the IRS and conservatives mount in the face of widening scandal. “Team Cornyn softball team was scheduled to play the IRS team on Friday, ‘the Cheetahs,’” Cornyn wrote on his Facebook page. “Game has been cancelled by IRS, without rescheduling.” A spokesperson for Cornyn confirmed the last-minute cancellation but was unsure of the reason. “We contacted them to confirm our game which was scheduled for tomorrow night, and they said they needed to reschedule,”
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The IRS wants YOU —
to share everything
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Politico, by David Nather*
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/15/2013 7:57:24 AM
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The Internal Revenue Service asked tea party groups to see donor rolls. It asked for printouts of Facebook posts. And it asked what books people were reading. A POLITICO review of documents from 11 tea party and conservative groups that the IRS scrutinized in 2012 shows the agency wanted to know everything — in some cases, it even seemed curious what members were thinking. The review included interviews with groups or their representatives from Hawaii, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas and elsewhere. The long-awaited report Treasury Department inspector general report released Tuesday says the agency itself decided
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Finally, the rest of
the world catches up
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Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher
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Dear MSM, You’ll have to excuse me if I don’t fall all over myself congratulating you for finally doing your jobs. Assuming you don’t find a way to help Obama weasel his way out of trouble again — Go, Media Matters! Go, JournoList 2.0! — it’s a little too late. The damage of this administration has been done. And he got away with it because you helped him. You covered for him. Most pathetically, some of you are only turning on him now because he’s been exposed going after the Associated Press. Going after the good guys: you. Gasp!
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Obama´s dangerous new narrative
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Politico, by Alexander Burns & John F. Harris
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/15/2013 6:19:59 AM
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No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative – invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation. So presumably no one understands more vividly than Obama and his close aides just how toxic and potentially paralyzing his situation has become this spring, as four distinct ethical and policy controversies have simultaneously converged. Obama’s critics now have a narrative – a way of connecting four discrete episodes to a larger point
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A Brief History of
IRS Political Targeting
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Wall Street Journal, by James Bovard
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Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and harassment. But of all the troubles now dogging the Obama administration—including the Benghazi fiasco and the Justice Department´s snooping on the Associated Press—the IRS episode, however alarming, is also the least surprising. As David Burnham noted in "A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power" (1990), "In almost every administration since the IRS´s inception the information and power of the tax agency have been mobilized
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The IRS and AP controversies spell
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Guardian [UK], by Harry J. Enten
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The Justice Department has "secretly obtained" two months of conversations between Associated Press (AP) officials in a move called "unprecedented". The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Cincinnati office singled out new conservative groups for extra scrutiny over the past couple of years. One of these controversies alone would have caused a headache for the Obama administration, but the two of them together could spell big trouble for the Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections. Historically speaking, trust in government has been tied very closely to how people view
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Obama administration officials who were in key positions on Sept. 11, 2012, acknowledge that a range of mistakes were made the night of the attacks on the U.S. missions in Benghazi, and in messaging to Congress and the public in the aftermath. The officials spoke to CBS News in a series of interviews and communications under the condition of anonymity so that they could be more frank in their assessments. They do not all agree on the list of mistakes and it's important to note that they universally claim that any errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect "incompetence rather than malice or cover up.
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Raindrops wash away
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Watching President Obama trying to dodge raindrops and responsibility yesterday reminded me of the moment when Dorothy pulls back the curtain and discovers that the Wizard of Oz is “just a man.” Stripped of his spell of mystery and power, the wizard is worse than mortal. He’s a fake. So it was with Obama in the Rose Garden. His performance was tired and trite, ordinary to the point of dull. His veneer of passion was so transparent that you could see him trying to summon his old-time magic by pushing the buttons
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Obama a new Nixon?
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Washington Post, by Editorial
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/16/2013 10:54:51 PM
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STANDING BEFORE reporters Thursday, President Obama declined an invitation to compare the recent scandals weighing down his administration with those that forced President Nixon to resign in 1974. So allow us to do the work for him: There is no comparison. Nixon, in a series of crimes that collectively came to be known as Watergate, directed from the White House and Justice Department a concerted campaign against those he perceived as political enemies, in the process subverting the FBI, the IRS, other government agencies and the electoral process to his nefarious purposes. Mr. Obama has done nothing of the kind.
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Weiner’s Wife Didn’t Disclose Consulting
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New York Times, by Raymond Hernandez
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 5:43:54 AM
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The State Department, under Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton, created an arrangement for her longtime aide and confidante Huma Abedin to work for private clients as a consultant while serving as a top adviser in the department. Ms. Abedin did not disclose the arrangement — or how much income she earned — on her financial report. It requires officials to make public any significant sources of income. An adviser to Mrs. Clinton, Philippe Reines, said that Ms. Abedin was not obligated to do so. The disclosure of the agreement that Ms. Abedin made with the State Department comes as her husband,
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Watergate 2.0 -- why the
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Fox News, by Matt Kibbe
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/18/2013 5:59:17 AM
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In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history, many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political football and misses a fundamentally scarier abuse that exceeds the scandals of Watergate or any other prior government abuse. The IRS has admitted that since May 2010 it targeted grassroots-conservative organizations that had applied for tax-exempt status, unfairly subjecting them to rigorous scrutiny due to their political leanings. Such groups were told they were required to comply with IRS requests,
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When it rains, it pours: Ten
press conference take aways
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Washington Post, by Jennifer Rubin
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Posted By: Pluperfect- 5/17/2013 4:52:42 AM
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President Obama’s press conference in the rain was not a success, if by success, his supporters would mean an event which convinces anyone who doesn’t work for him that he’s getting ahead of the scandal deluge. The sight of a Marine holding an umbrella over his head only added to the weirdness of the event. So what did we learn? 1. He has full confidence in Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who purportedly recused himself (whenever) without putting it in writing (whatever). When asked about the untrammeled snooping on Associated Press reporters and editors,
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Rep. Issa subpoenas Benghazi
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The Hill [Washington DC], by Julian Pecquet
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The lawmaker leading the charge to investigate the Benghazi terror attack on Friday subpoenaed the co-author of a report that slammed the State Department but didn´t interview Hillary Clinton. House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) formally demanded that retired ambassador Thomas Pickering submit to being deposed by the committee next Thursday. The subpoena comes in the wake of a series of acrimonious public exchanges this week between the two men. Issa didn´t issue a subpoena to former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Michael Mullen, who co-authored the Benghazi report with Pickering.
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IRS sued for seizing 60
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Washington Times [DC], by Cheryl K. Chumley
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Posted By: JoniTx- 5/17/2013 9:29:25 PM
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A healthcare provider has sued the Internal Revenue Service and 15 of its agents, charging they wrongfully seized 60 million medical records from 10 million Americans. The name of the provider is not yet known, United Press International said. But Courthouse News Service said the suit claims the agency violated the Fourth Amendment in 2011, when agents executed a search warrant for financial data on one employee – and that led to the seizure of information on 10 million, including state judges. The search warrant did not specify that the IRS could take medical information, UPI said.
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Fox’s Brit Hume: ‘Stupid’ For GOP
To Think Of Impeaching Obama Over
Recent Scandals
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/17/2013 5:05:46 PM
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Appearing on Laura Ingraham‘s radio show this afternoon, Fox News senior political analyst Brit Hume suggested some Republicans were “stupid” to consider impeachment of President Obama a viable response to the ongoing scandals regarding the Benghazi attacks, the IRS targeting of conservative groups, and the Justice Department secret seizure of AP phone records. Likely referring to some GOP lawmakers, including Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) who has put impeachment on the table as an option for handling the Benghazi fallout, Ingraham asked Hume to comment on how some Republican leaders have “ran to the microphone” to suggest removal
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Obama breaches
Marine umbrella protocol
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Daily Caller, by Mike Piccione
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Posted By: JoElla Bee- 5/16/2013 6:12:20 PM
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The commander in chief of the American armed forces today forced a violation of Marine Corps regulations, so he wouldn’t get wet. According to Marine Corps regulation MCO P1020.34F of the Marine Corps Uniform Regulations chapter 3, a male Marine is not allowed to carry an umbrella while in uniform. There is no provision in the Marine Corps uniform regulation guidelines that allows a male Marine to carrying an umbrella. Nevertheless, during a press conference under a light drizzle with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan this morning, President Obama allowed the First Head to be
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IRS official in charge during
Tea Party targeting now runs
agency’s Obamacare office
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Hot Air, by Mary Katharine Ham
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/16/2013 11:06:17 PM
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The second IRS guy who got the boot in this scandal? He’s been in his position for a week. Before that, it was Sarah Hall Ingram: The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of the office responsible for tax-exempt organizations between 2009 and 2012. But Ingram has since left that part of the IRS and is now the director of the IRS’ Affordable Care Act office
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Strange Goings-On
at the White House
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National Review Online, by John Fund
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/17/2013 6:09:00 AM
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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 that its operational model is now likely to be finally dissected by the media. Joe Klein of Time magazine laments Obama’s “unwillingness to concentrate.” Dana Milbank of the Washington Post tars him as a President Passerby who “seems to want no control
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