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Letters to the Editor - May 24
Let us do more than just change gun laws To the editor: A look at the world through gun ownership will confirm that a higher percentage of gun availability increases the murder rate. For example, I traveled to Morocco and was told that gun ownership...Tags: Parties and Movements, Memorial Day, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Internal Revenue Service, Politics
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IRS puts head of problem office on leave
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service has replaced the head of the office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, a day after she invoked the 5th Amendment and refused to answer questions before a congressional committee. Lois...
Tags: Lawyers, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, FBI, Politics
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Does the IRS scandal give the tea party a boost?
The tea party must be loving this IRS scandal. I mean, the tea party hates everything the IRS represents — taxes, big government, you name it. And now, with the IRS stonewalling over the tax exempt status scandal, the tea party must be...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Taxation
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Scandal creates questions about IRS' role in enforcing health care law
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON The blossoming IRS scandal over the targeting of conservative groups is provoking new scrutiny and terse questions about the agency's role in shaping and implementing the controversial national health care law, with the biggest changes set to...Tags: Employment, Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Labor Legislation, Insurance
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LETTER: IRS Flap Much Ado About Nothing
The current IRS scandal is a textbook example of the oldest political trick in the book. The Inspector General's report states that tea party organizations constitute fewer than one-third of the applications for tax-exempt status that were flagged as...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Politics, Taxation
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IRS replaces head of division that targeted conservative groups
WASHINGTON -- Lois Lerner, the head of the IRS office under fire for improperly targeting conservative groups, was replaced by the agency's acting commissioner on Thursday, a day after she insisted she had done nothing wrong and refused to answer...
Tags: FBI, Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, U.S. Congress, Politics
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IRS official at center of scandal put on leave
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lois Lerner, an Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the scandal over the agency's extra scrutiny of conservative groups, was put on administrative leave on Thursday after she refused to resign, a senator said....Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Carl Levin, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Politics, U.S. Congress
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Arrogance, Intolerance Filters Down From Dear Leader
The Hartford Courant"Horrible customer service." That's what the newly fired IRS commissioner averred was the agency's only sin in singling out conservative political groups for discriminatory treatment. In such grim proceedings one should be grateful for unintended humor....Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Max Baucus, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Taxation
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John Morgan talks Casey Anthony, Tim Tebow
Staff writerIn local public-affairs programming this weekend: Prominent Orlando attorney John Morgan and his wife, Ultima, are Lauren Rowe's guests on "Flashpoint" at 8 a.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6. They discuss everything from politics and Casey Anthony to...Tags: Health Treatments, U.S. Senate, Altamonte Springs, Medicaid, Government Health Care
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Pro-choice groups protest Jackson fundraiser
RICHMOND – Planned Parenthood activists protested outside a fundraiser for GOP nominee for lieutenant governor E.W. Jackson Thursday to highlight what they said were a series of divisive comments he has made over the years. Jackson, a Chesapeake-...Tags: Republican Party, Ku Klux Klan, Politics, Elections, Executive Branch
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ANALYSIS-In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
Reuters(Repeats from earlier May 23 for wider distribution) By Joan Biskupic and Kim Dixon WASHINGTON, D.C., May 23 (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared...Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Laws, Richard Nixon, Eric Holder
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Analysis: In any scandal, lying to Congress is tough to prove
ReutersWASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) - When embattled Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner was called before a congressional committee Wednesday, she declared that she had done nothing wrong - but said she did not intend to testify. Her defiance only...Tags: Politics, U.S. Congress, Laws, Richard Nixon, Eric Holder
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