May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Excerpted from The Hill: House defense panel members are pushing to get the U.S. special operations team ordered to stand down in Libya to testify before the committee's oversight and investigations subpanel. "We are working with the Defense Department to see if that can happen," a staffer with the House Armed Services oversight and investigations ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from The Hill: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted with a strong bipartisan majority Tuesday evening to advance comprehensive immigration legislation that would put 11 million illegal immigrants on a path to citizenship. The legislation raises caps on high-skilled workers and creates a new visa program for low-skilled workers. It would allocate billions of dollars to securing ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jack Flash
WASHINGTON — The former top federal prosecutor in Arizona retaliated against the lead whistle-blower in the Fast and Furious gun-smuggling scandal by leaking an internal report that suggested the whistle-blower once favored allowing illegal gun sales as a way to track weapons to drug cartels in Mexico, the Justice Department's inspector general's office said Monday. Dennis ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: In response to an announcement that the head of the Internal Revenue Service’s tax-exempt organizations division will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to testify at Wednesday’s hearing before the House Oversight Committee, a spokesman for the committee noted that, whether or not she plans to speak, she is still ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Excerpted from NBC NEWS A former manager at the IRS Cincinnati office at the center of the controversy over the targeting of conservative political organizations seeking tax-exempt status tells NBC News she doesn’t think low-level employees acted on their own in flagging them for further ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO Vice President Joe Biden asked that the teleprompter machine be taken down ahead of his remarks at a Jewish heritage event Tuesday night, and used it as a chance to crack a joke about President Obama's dependence on prepared text. “You can’t tell Barack that the teleprompter’s down," he said. "The standing joke ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: In a post on her Twitter account, Buzzfeed Director of Partnership Development Aswini Anburajan took a swipe at Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s ethnicity, calling him a “LINO,” or a “latino in name only.” Anburajan, is also a contributor to WNYC’s “It’s a Free Country” blog, the website for the New ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted fron E2 Wire: The White House on Tuesday threatened to veto a House bill that would expedite construction of the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. “Because H.R. 3 seeks to circumvent longstanding and proven processes for determining whether cross-border pipelines are in the national interest by removing the Presidential Permitting requirement for the Keystone XL ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NATIONAL REVIEW Senator John Cornyn’s office has launched an online “hotline” for Texans who believe they were unfairly targeted by the IRS to share their stories. Cornyn has already highlighted three separate cases of constituents in a video — including True the Vote, which has filed suit against the IRS — and encourages ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Darby Crash
Excerpted from The Daily Caller: Outgoing Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Steven Miller said he was aware that IRS employees were using a list of terms that included the phrase “tea party” when he sent a letter to several senators last year denying that the IRS was in any way targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny. Testifying ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BUZZFEED A top liberal super PAC in the 2012 election had undisclosed financial ties to the private equity firm Bain Capital — something that some people close to the group say interfered with its core mission of attacking Bain veteran Mitt Romney’s business record. American Bridge 21st Century PAC was launched in 2012 as part ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER White House press secretary Jay Carney once said that the George W. Bush administration’s “open contempt for the press” backfired and hurt Bush’s standing with the public and also his ability to govern, records reveal. Carney, who is now the spokesman for a Barack H. Obama administration under fire for secretly obtaining ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from HUFFINGTON POST WASHINGTON -- Christmas may be seven months away, but Texas is ready for it. State lawmakers there waged their own battle against the so-called War on Christmas on Friday, passing legislation, House Bill 308, that allows public school teachers to say "Merry Christmas" or "Happy Hanukkah" and display Christmas trees, nativity scenes or ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE NEW YORKER The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, on October 13, 2011. Kim is a former State Department contractor accused of violating the ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday attempted to shift some blame for the Internal Revenue Service’s alleged targeting of conservative organizations on the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which held that the government cannot limit political spending by corporations, unions, and other groups. Democrats alleged during a hearing on the ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Via WEEKLY STANDARD National Public Radio reporter Ari Shapiro reports that liberal pundits were seen entering the West Wing: Spotted: @joshtpm @capehartj @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone?— Ari Shapiro (@arishapiro) May 21, 2013 The pundits include Jonathan Capehart, Josh Marshall, and Ezra Klein.
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON A liberal think tank with close ties to the Obama administration took money from General Motors and other businesses it did not disclose while campaigning for policies benefitting those companies, according to The Nation magazine. Members of the “Business Alliance” of the Center for American Progress (CAP) include bailed out car company GM, ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer blamed the tornado that devastated Oklahoma on global warming during a Senate floor speech Tuesday, using the opportunity to push her own plan to tax carbon dioxide emissions. “This is climate change,” Boxer said. “This is climate change. We were warned about extreme weather: Not just hot ...
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May 21, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday, the first lawsuit in the wake of revelations the agency singled out conservative groups for scrutiny, according to a report. The NorCal Tea Party Patriots filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Cincinnati, according to Reuters, arguing its constitutional rights were violated ...
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