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Column: Obama accelerates loss of trust
WASHINGTON — 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...Tags: U.S. Senate, Kathleen Sebelius, Lamar Alexander, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Global Change
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Analysis: Shrinking deficit reduces pressure for budget deal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chances of a deal between Democratic and Republican lawmakers that would overhaul the tax system, trim government spending and reform safety net spending programs appear to be fading. A sudden improvement in the outlook for the...Tags: Public Finance, U.S. Senate, Paul Ryan, Government Debt, Social Security
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The buck stops short
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the pell-mell rush in some quarters to equate the IRS scandal with Watergate, a question that featured prominently in the latter is bubbling up. That would be then-Sen. Howard Baker's query about Richard Nixon: "What did the president...Tags: Barack Obama, Taxation, U.S. Congress, Jules Witcover, U.S. Department of Justice
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News media confidential sources are often what expose government wrongdoing
It took courage for more than a dozen Allentown police officers to divulge what they felt was wrongdoing by their chief, who they said threatened "retribution" on anyone who did so. It also took solid assurances that the chief would never find out who...
Tags: Eric Holder, Prisons, Pentagon Papers Release (2011), Media Industry, Bethlehem (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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Boston Herald Kimberly Atkins column
Boston HeraldA few weeks back, the Tea Party was little more than a relic of political history, and its former superstars such as Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann were lost in a sea of irrelevance. Now the Obama administration has gotten the Tea Party started again....Tags: U.S. Senate, Healthcare Laws, Max Baucus, U.S. Department of Justice, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Will Senate bid lure Rogers from his House seat?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Rep. Mike Rogers has pulled off a rare feat in a bitterly divided Congress — a working, productive relationship with Democrats in overseeing the nation's 16 spy agencies. The question now is whether the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Arab Spring, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Republican Party, North Korea
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...
Tags: John Cornyn, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Taxation, Darrell E Issa, Parties and Movements
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX may open higher ahead of Fed minutes, Bernanke
ReutersMay 22 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index looked set to open higher on Wednesday on hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve will continue with its monetary easing policy, ahead of the release of minutes of its May meeting and testimony from U.S. Federal...Tags: TransCanada Corporation, Lowe's Companies Inc., Ratings, The Home Depot, Google Inc.
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FACTBOX-Four key questions in the unfolding IRS scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Congressional and Justice Department investigators are examining the Internal Revenue Service over its inappropriate scrutiny of conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status. President Barack Obama, seeking...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Eric Holder, Taxation, U.S. Department of Justice, Republican Party
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McManus: Obama's IRS choice
Message to the president: Resistance is futile. There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Taxation, Max Baucus, George W. Bush, Charles B. Rangel
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Obama's 'idiot' defense
Jonah GoldbergAlthough there's still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama's bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, David Axelrod, John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Barack Obama
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Amid Oklahoma tornado devastation, hunt for survivors persists
MOORE, Okla. — The grueling recovery from a killer tornado began Tuesday as search-and-rescue operations continued, but authorities acknowledged that the likelihood of finding anyone alive grew dimmer by the moment. In a rare bit of good news, the...Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Briarwood, Human Interest, Tornadoes, Building Material
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