Karl Rove

Letter to the editor: Congress needs to restore IRS funding

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 ...
Full article at: Des Moines Register  More like this  13 hours ago

American colleges have become polarizing institutions

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 ...
Full article at: Albuquerque Journal  More like this  15 hours ago

Stratégie électorale: It's the people, stupid!

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 ...
Full article at: The Huffington Post  More like this  15 hours ago

Scandal Season at the Obama White House

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

Investigate reporters, but only when there’s something to investigate

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 ...
Full article at: Power Line  More like this  17 hours ago

GOP’s Switch on Financial Disclosure Wins Gold Medal in Hypocrisy Olympics

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

Can You Trust The Facts?

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  More like this  21 hours ago

Rove on Clinton: 'My Head Says She Runs; My Gut Says She Doesn't'

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 ...
Full article at: NewsMax  More like this  22 hours ago, 6:58pm CDT

Why Obama’s Scandals Won’t Lead to Reform

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 ...
Full article at: Bloomberg.com  More like this  1 day ago, 4:53pm CDT

Six Facts Lost in the IRS Scandal

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 ...
Full article at: ProPublica  More like this  1 day ago, 1:20pm CDT



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