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Left, right radio fume at NSA report
By MACKENZIE WEINGER | 6/6/13 5:50 PM EDT Radio talkers who were gathered at an industry conference Thursday blasted the National Security Agency’s surveillance program collecting the records of phone calls made by millions of Americans [...]
House Ways and Means to Hold Hearing with IRS Victims Next Week
by Elizabeth Sheld | 29 May 2013, 3:21 PM PDT House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced the committee will hold a hearing featuring the victims of the IRS’s ideological profiling. The hearing will take place [...]
Obama refocuses terror threat to pre-9/11 level
By ROBERT BURNS | AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Some call it wishful thinking, but President Barack Obama has all but declared an end to the global war on terror. Obama is not claiming final [...]
IRS official Lerner speedily approved exemption for Obama brother’s ‘charity’
The Daily Caller | 5:06 PM 05/14/2013 Lois Lerner, the senior IRS official at the center of the decision to target tea party groups for burdensome tax scrutiny, signed paperwork granting tax-exempt status to the Barack [...]
Wider Problems Found at IRS
Probe Says Tax Agency Used Sweeping Criteria to Scrutinize Conservative Groups By JOHN D. MCKINNON and SIOBHAN HUGHES Wall Street Journal POLITICS | Updated May 12, 2013, 7:48 p.m. ET The Internal Revenue Service’s scrutiny of conservative groups went [...]
The Loneliness of the Black Republican
“Conservative black chick” blogger Crystal Wright on the GOP’s failed minority outreach. By Eric Benson | Published May 5, 2013 You were very critical of the Romney campaign’s minority-outreach efforts, or lack thereof. Why did it have [...]
Jim DeMint: Immigration Reform Will Cost U.S. Trillions (video)
May 5, 2013 10:52am Former South Carolina Republican senator and current Heritage Foundation president Jim DeMint argued that implementing immigration reform as proposed by the so-called “Gang of Eight” would “cost Americans trillions of dollars,” citing [...]
Obama’s Legacy: A Health Care Law That Hurts His Party
Like the Iraq war tarnished the Republican brand, ObamaCare could be a long-term political millstone for Democrats. By Josh Kraushaar | Updated: May 2, 2013 | 9:15 a.m. At Tuesday’s press conference, President Obama delivered an unfocused eight-minute [...]
NY Times editors make same arguments for immigration reform they did ahead of 1986 amnesty
By Jeff Poor | Media Reporter, The Daily Caller | 4/28/13 Back in the 1980s, the country faced a familiar dilemma to the one it faces today — the border was insecure and too many illegal [...]
Congress Prepares $100 Million Bipartisan Flu Tax
Weekly Standard | 7:32 AM, Apr 25, 2013• By JERYL BIER Congress is preparing to take action on a bipartisan proposal to raise taxes on flu vaccines. This is not a tax on the wealthy, but [...]
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