May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER The Internal Revenue Service, charged with implementing the biggest change in tax laws in 20 years due to Obamacare, has created eight offices and special "teams" to handle the chore, way more than initially revealed. Besides the top office headed by the woman in the middle of the IRS-Tea Party scandal, there ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from DAILY MAIL Tempers flared in a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing Wednesday, with members on both sides of the aisle castigating the Internal Revenue Service for targeting conservative groups with special scrutiny, and then hiding the practice from Congress. Rep. Darrel Issa, the committee's chairman, said that the committee learned just yesterday that ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from WASHINGTON EXAMINER Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., scolded Tea Party Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, for acting like a “dictator” by demanding that Senate Democrats promise not to raise the debt limit during conference meetings with House Republicans. “We don’t have kings anymore,” Landrieu said in response to Lee on the Senate floor this afternoon. “We ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from POLITICO The New York Times editorial board has condemned the Obama administration for threatening press freedom in the wake of revelations that the Justice Dept. seized phone records belonging to Fox News reporter James Rosen. "With the decision to label a Fox News television reporter a possible 'co-conspirator' in a criminal investigation of a news ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from FREE BEACON Sens. John Cornyn (R., Texas) and Mark Kirk (R., Ill.) introduced legislation Wednesday that would impose sanctions upon the government of Iran, according to a press release. The Iran Export Embargo Act would expand existing U.S. sanctions law by prohibiting the purchase or transfer of goods and services from ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from COURANT The staffs of the state's top prosecutor and the governor's office have been working in secret with General Assembly leaders on legislation to withhold records related to the police investigation into the Dec. 14 Newtown elementary school massacre — including victims' photos, tapes of 911 calls, and possibly more. The behind-the-scenes legislative effort came ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from CNS NEWS - What did the White House know about the IRS targeting conservative groups and when did it know it? Crucial evidence needed to develop an accurate answer to that question would include the records of any communications that went back and forth between the IRS and the White House on the topic. In a ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT The US Attorney for the District of Columbia, Ronald C. Machen - the man responsible for the aggressive surveillance and phone record scrutiny at Fox News - is also a big donor to the Obama Campaigns. At the time of his appointment, the Washington Post wrote a profile on Machen including this ...
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May 22, 2013 No Comments ›› Jake Hammer
Excerpted from NBC NEWS A man with ties to the Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot and killed by an FBI agent while being questioned in Florida, law enforcement officials said on Wednesday. The man who was shot, Ibragim Todashev, 27, was not suspected of having played any role in the bombing that killed three ...
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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 ›› Spit Stixx
Excerpted from NY Post: Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service gave it the top-of-the-scale rating of EF-5 ...
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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 ›› 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 THE HILL Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare. Months after the president’s reelection, a variety of unions are publicly balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law. They warn that unless there are changes, the results could be catastrophic. The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) — a ...
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