In the wake of the explosion of scandals popping up around the Obama administration, Democrats have been devising ways to get ahead of the new information about the IRS, the AP, and Benghazi leaking out every day. Longevity may be what gives rise to “the second-term scandal plague.” This is the cause political scientist Brendan Nyhan cited …
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This past week has not been kind to President Obama and his administration, in what Daily Show host Jon Stewart has deemed “Hurricane Scandy, the tropical shit-storm.” First there was increased scrutiny over the attacks in Benghazi, then came the news that the IRS had been targeting conservative groups, and finally the worst of them all. …
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It took 34 days for the Barack H. Obama Foundation to get the tax exempt status they sought. Not only that, it was given that status retroactively: The 34 days the IRS’s Cincinnati office took to process the foundation’s application stands in contrast to the waits of several months — and sometimes longer than a …
In a series of tweets from US Senator Marco Rubio on Tuesday, the Florida politician decried the overreach of the IRS in its targeting of conservative groups. Remember the same #IRS that targeted conservative groups will be the one enforcing the #Obamacare disaster with fines. #IRSscandal — Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 14, 2013 #IRS Office …
2016 seems like a lifetime away. Yet the campaign for the 2016 election will begin in earnest in just a little over 2 years. In the summer of 2015, presidential candidates on both sides will start to stake out their ground. The 2016 field for the GOP is expected, at this point, to be pretty wide …
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More IRS trouble… It has been reported (also here) that the IRS is being sued by a California entity claiming that in March 2011, 15 IRS agents allegedly accessed and stole 60 million medical records from 10 million patients. The records included psych and GYN information, as well as other personal medical data. The medical records of …
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Currently Cato Unbound is running a series of essays on the state of conservative-libertarian Fusion, specifically evaluating whether these two philosophies can maintain their increasingly fractious alliance in this emerging era of Rand Paul. Since Pocket Full of Liberty is a blog that features the voices of libertarians and conservatives interested in winning and advancing …
This doesn’t sound good. As his Justice Department faces bipartisan outrage for searching phone records of Associated Press reporters and editors, Attorney Gen. Eric Holder says he is not sure how many times such information has been seized by government investigators in the four years he’s led Justice. Does anybody in that administration ever know …
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The Department of Justice has made new claims that Apple, when under the leadership of Steve Jobs, conspired to price-fix the e-book market to coincide with the 2010 launch of the iPad. Citing Apple as the “ringmaster” in a scheme to force Amazon to raise its e-book prices from across-the-board $9.99 to much higher prices, …
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On this morning’s Morning Joe, NBC’s Lisa Meyers discussed the Obama administration’s history of intimidating reporters: “[T]here is such a focus on keeping the storyline and the narrative the way the administration wants it and sometimes these efforts can become excessive. And it may be that what we’re seeing from the Justice Department is really the embodiment …
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