Source: Des Moines Register
Missing from recent coverage of the Internal Revenue Service controversy is a bit of history. In recent years, Republican Congresses have cut funding for IRS enforcement. I discovered this when I asked the IRS ...
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More like this 13 hours ago
Source: Albuquerque Journal
We have once again entered the college commencement season, which means we’ll soon be reading about uplifting graduation speeches delivered by prominent Americans. Or at least by prominent liberal Americans. It’s becoming increasingly ap ...
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Source: The Huffington Post
Il pourrait paraître anachronique voire cynique d'aborder les questions de stratégies électorales alors que la France sort à peine de l'élection présidentielle de 2012 et que le pays vit une situation économique particulièrement diff ...
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Source: Muscatine Journal
It’s not an easy task, defending President Barack Obama from his enemies. The “scandals” keep popping up like dandelions — all of them explainable, after a fashion. Taken together, the explanations begin to sound like “the dog ate my homework.” For exam ...
Full article at: Muscatine Journal
More like this 17 hours ago
Source: Power Line
The emerging conservative line on the Obama administration’s aggressive investigations of journalists is that national security leaks should be dealt with by going after the leaker, not the reporter. I’ve heard this line from a n ...
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More like this 17 hours ago
Source: National Journal
First, let me be clear: There has been political intimidation of the Internal Revenue Service and other government agencies for partisan purposes. Now that I have your attention, and before I get to the specifics of the opening sentence, ...
Full article at: National Journal
More like this 18 hours ago
Source: NewMatilda.com
The Opposition Leader’s reply to the Budget gave some hints about Coalition fiscal policy. Cuts, more cuts, and a few extravagances. Ben Eltham on the debt and deficit myths that held it all together Foot people, boat people, plane peop ...
Full article at: NewMatilda.com
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Source: NewsMax
While Hillary Clinton could easily win the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, “my head says she runs; my gut says she doesn’t,” Karl Rove, the Republican strategist, tells Newsmax TV. “I'm not certain we know all of the facts about ...
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More like this 22 hours ago, 6:58pm CDT
Source: Bloomberg.com
Put aside the politics, and the question of who-knew-what-when. There are two policy problems highlighted by the controversies at the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Justice. The first is the growth of 501(c)(4) groups into vehicles for ...
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More like this 1 day ago, 4:53pm CDT
Source: ProPublica
1. Social welfare nonprofits are supposed to have social welfare, and not politics, as their “primary” purpose. A century ago, Congress created a tax exemption for social welfare nonprofits. The statute defining the groups says they are supp ...
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