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Michele Bachmann: The IRS targeting of tea party groups is tied to Obama’s political agenda
As the chair of the Tea Party Caucus, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R – Minn.) is railing against the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups, saying: “clearly, this had political implications…that would benefit President Obama.” More »Michele Bachmann: The IRS targeting of tea party groups is tied to Obama’s political agenda
Report: Obama Admin. spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen
The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of the State … More »Report: Obama Admin. spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen
Obama delivers historic Morehouse commencement speech
President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Benghazi, Dept. of Justice—swirling around the White House on Sunday to deliver the commencement … More »Obama delivers historic Morehouse commencement speech
Fox News: Govt spying on reporter ‘downright chilling’
Fox News on Monday angrily denounced the Justice Department’s “downright chilling” decision to target of one of its reporters, James Rosen, in a national More »
The Ticket - 54 mins agoUSCIS union president fights immigration reform bill
The president of a union that represents 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform More »
The Ticket - 4 hrs agoObama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen: Report
The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of More »
The Ticket - 5 hrs agoMcConnell: ‘There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration’
Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal More »
The Ticket - Sun, May 19, 2013Obama delivers Morehouse commencement
President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Department of Justice, Benghazi—swirling around the White House on Sunday to More »
The Ticket - Sun, May 19, 2013IRS asked anti-abortion group about content of public prayers
While applying with the Internal Revenue Service for tax-exempt status in 2009, an Iowa-based anti-abortion group was asked to provide information about More »
The Ticket - Fri, May 17, 2013Obama: His tiger’s not grrreat!
Following a rough, scandal-filled week in Washington, President Barack Obama got dressed down by a bunch of kids. During a visit to Moravia Park More »
The Ticket - Fri, May 17, 2013The IRS targeted tea party groups. Did liberal groups get better treatment?
Today marks the one-week anniversary of the Internal Revenue Service's disclosure that it improperly scrutinized certain conservative groups applying for More »
The Ticket - Fri, May 17, 2013Obama gets break from scandals to push jobs and economy in Baltimore
After a week filled with controversy and criticism, President Barack Obama left town Friday for Baltimore, the second stop on his "Middle Class Jobs & More »
The Ticket - Fri, May 17, 2013IRS commissioner says agency practices were ‘absolutely not illegal’
Outgoing IRS Commissioner Steven Miller apologized Friday on behalf of the federal tax collection agency for unfairly targeting conservative groups More »
The Ticket - Fri, May 17, 2013Re: the Benghazi messages: Browse administration emails like an inbox
The 100 pages of emails that the White House released on Wednesday, which cover the administration's crafting of its talking points about the Sept. 11, More »
The Ticket - Fri, May 17, 2013House Republicans make repealing Obamacare an annual tradition
In what has become an annual tradition, the Republican-led House of Representatives on Thursday voted again to fully repeal the federal health care law More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013Anthony Weiner spotted filming a campaign ad amid rumors of NYC mayoral run
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner is apparently close to making his run for New York City mayor official. According to WNBC-TV, the former congressman was More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013Obama: ‘No magic formula’ to end Syria’s civil war
President Barack Obama said on Thursday he reserves the right to step up American military and diplomatic efforts to push out Syria’s Bashar Assad, but More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013Obama appoints OMB official Danny Werfel to head up IRS
President Barack Obama on Thursday appointed Danny Werfel, an official with the Office of Management and Budget, as acting commissioner of the Internal More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013Pelosi: GOP using IRS, Benghazi and DOJ issues as ‘evasion’ tactic
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi accused Republicans of using the alleged scandals involving the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Justice and the More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013IRS scraps softball game against GOP Sen. Cornyn’s team
Playing hardball? Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas announced on Thursday that the IRS softball team (“The Cheetahs”—no, really) had canceled a planned More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013Obama: ‘No apologies’ for seizing journalists’ phone records
President Barack Obama at a press conference on Thursday strongly defended the Department of Justice's controversial secret seizure of journalists' phone More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013Obama dreams of ‘going Bulworth,’ New York Times reports
President Barack Obama—exasperated by scandals, a seemingly stalled domestic agenda and armchair chiefs of staff in the media—wants to tell you what he More »
The Ticket - Thu, May 16, 2013‘Angry’ Obama says acting IRS chief fired over conservative targeting
Bluntly declaring "I am angry" about the IRS scandal, President Barack Obama said late Wednesday that Treasury Secretary Jack Lew had forced out Steven More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 15, 2013Under fire, White House releases Benghazi talking-points emails
Under heavy political pressure, the White House on Wednesday released 100 pages of internal Obama administration emails in which senior officials debated More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 15, 2013Conservative group says IRS approved nonprofit status after applying with ‘liberal-sounding name’
In May 2011, Drew Ryun, a conservative activist and former Republican National Committee staffer, began filling out the Internal Revenue Service More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 15, 2013What’s in a name? Obama to welcome leader of ‘Myanmar,’ not ‘Burma’
Straight up: This will only be of interest to foreign policy nerds and people interested in the fate of U.S. relations with this particular Asian country More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 15, 2013Holder promises ‘nationwide’ investigation into IRS targeting
Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday that the Justice Department investigation into IRS employees singling out conservative nonprofits for extra More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 15, 2013Obama honors officer who died in motorcade, other fallen police
Speaking at the 32nd annual National Peace Officers Memorial Service on Wednesday, President Barack Obama publicly honored, among others, officer Bruce More »
The Ticket - Wed, May 15, 2013
Michele Bachmann: The IRS targeting of Tea Party groups tied to Obama’s political agenda
The Fine Print As the chair of the Tea Party Caucus, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R – Minn.) is railing against the IRS’s targeting of Tea Party groups, saying: More »
Power Players - 8 hrs agoLeader of targeted Tea Party group ‘pissed off’ by IRS’s questioning, calls it a ‘fishing expedition’
Top Line Susan McLaughlin knows first-hand what it’s like to be targeted by the IRS. Her Tea Party group in Liberty Township, Ohio was among those More »
Power Players - Fri, May 17, 2013Sorting through the scandals: What’s at stake for the IRS, DOJ and the White House
BOTTOM LINE Controversy has been the word this week Washington as the White House has grappled with the fallout from Benghazi, the IRS scandal and the More »
Power Players - Thu, May 16, 2013Chairman leading Friday showdown on Hill: There’s a ‘culture of rot’ at IRS
The Fine Print One of the lawmakers leading the search for answers in the IRS investigation into how Tea Party groups were treated is Rep. Charles More »
Power Players - Thu, May 16, 2013Iran hostages locked in struggle for compensation, tell their story of “colossal injustice”
Politics Confidential Hollywood portrays the Iran hostage crisis as a thriller story with a triumphant ending in the film “Argo.” But the real story of More »
Power Players - Wed, May 15, 2013Fmr. Sen. Jim DeMint: $6.3 trillion immigration price tag ‘irrefutable’
The Fine Print Former Sen. Jim DeMint (R – S.C.) is standing by the controversial Heritage Foundation study that put a $6.3 trillion price tag on the More »
Power Players - Tue, May 14, 2013Bringing beauty to a cause, Charlize Theron lobbies for an AIDS-free generation
Top Line When Charlize Theron came to Capitol Hill recently, she undoubtedly turned a few heads. But the Academy Award-winning actress didn’t come to be More »
Power Players - Mon, May 13, 2013Like mother like son: Prince Harry carries on legacy of Princess Diana to rid world of landmines
Power Players Prince Harry made a visit to Capitol Hill yesterday to tour an exhibit on landmines, a cause dear to the heart of his late mother Princess More »
Power Players - Fri, May 10, 2013Politicians weighing in: Do pounds matter?
Bottom Line This week New Jersey Governor Chris Christie revealed that he underwent Lap-Band surgery in February. Christie says his decision to have the More »
Power Players - Thu, May 9, 2013Tea Party leader: Lindsey Graham “begging for a primary” challenge
Top Line FreedomWorks president Matt Kibbe has a warning for Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and other GOP incumbents up for reelection in the 2014: don’t More »
Power Players - Wed, May 8, 2013Gen. Dempsey: China takes no ownership of cyber attack on U.S.
On the Radar The Pentagon officially blamed China of cyber attacks against the United States in a new report, but America's top military official Gen. More »
Power Players - Tue, May 7, 2013What a waste: Four easy cuts to save us $27.5 billion
Power Players Government buildings sitting empty and unused, many flights to rural airports that carry practically no passengers, and minimum milk prices More »
Power Players - Mon, May 6, 2013Out there: Former Sen. Mike Gravel says White House suppressing evidence of ETs
Top Line Even as most Americans wonder what planet politicians are from, is it possible that the government is squelching evidence of extraterrestrials More »
Power Players - Fri, May 3, 2013Red line crossed in Syria: What would intervention look like?
Last week intelligence officials assessed “with varying degrees of confidence” that chemical weapons had been used in the country—a possible game changer More »
Power Players - Thu, May 2, 2013Young minds with big ideas: Meet the whiz kids of the White House Science Fair
Politics Confidential 10-year-old Evan Jackson had just made a touchdown in his football game, but he had to be pulled off to the sideline because he had More »
Power Players - Wed, May 1, 2013A trippy idea or fiscal genius? Two pols idea to smoke away the deficit
Top Line What if the United States could shrink the federal deficit and get high at the same time? Two congressmen calling for the legalization of More »
Power Players - Tue, Apr 30, 2013Game changer: Maj. Gen. Abrams on the “homegrown” rejection of Taliban in Afghanistan
On the Radar Maj. Gen. Robert B. Abrams, the top U.S. and NATO commander in southern Afghanistan, is confident the country won’t fall back into the grips More »
Power Players - Mon, Apr 29, 2013Karl Rove on Bush legacy: “He got the big things right”
Politics Confidential Karl Rove, who has been described by former President George W. Bush as “the architect” of his 2000 and 2004 election victories, More »
Power Players - Fri, Apr 26, 2013Laura Bush: The 9/11 exhibit at new Bush museum brings her, George W. Bush to tears
Top Line Talking to ABC’s Diane Sawyer during a special tour of the newly opened George W. Bush Library, former First Lady Laura Bush says she and her More »
Power Players - Thu, Apr 25, 2013Boston Marathon bombings unlikely to affect gun control, immigration reform going forward
BOTTOM LINE New information is coming to light every day in the on-going investigation into the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15th. But there More »
Power Players - Thu, Apr 25, 2013Former Obama Staffer Leads White House Protests Against Pipeline
Power Players Environmental activists are turning up the heat on President Obama as he faces what could be the trickiest decision of his second term: More »
Power Players - Wed, Apr 24, 2013Robert Redford: We need more Woodwards & Bernsteins
Top Line It’s been more than 40 years since Watergate, but the old story—and its characters—made news once again with the Washington premiere of Robert More »
Power Players - Tue, Apr 23, 2013Gov. Brewer: Federal government not doing enough to secure Arizona’s border
Power Players As the Senate moves to consider the “Gang of 8” immigration reform bill, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is calling on the federal government to More »
Power Players - Mon, Apr 22, 2013Hanging up 42: Yankees Mariano Rivera and Robinson Cano talk Jackie Robinson’s enduring legacy
Politics Confidential The life and legend of Jackie Robinson has been recently chronicled in the movie "42," but the first African American major league More »
Power Players - Fri, Apr 19, 2013The gun lobby that senators and congressmen are really afraid of (hint: it’s not the NRA)
Power Players As the Senate moves to vote on expanding background checks for gun purchases, the Gun Owners of America lobby group has a warning for More »
Power Players - Wed, Apr 17, 2013
Fox News: Govt spying on reporter ‘downright chilling’
Fox News on Monday angrily denounced the Justice Department’s “downright chilling” decision to target of one of its reporters, James Rosen, in a national More »
The Ticket - 54 mins agoUSCIS union president fights immigration reform bill
The president of a union that represents 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees announced his opposition to the immigration reform More »
The Ticket - 4 hrs agoObama administration spied on Fox News reporter James Rosen: Report
The Justice Department spied extensively on Fox News reporter James Rosen in 2010, collecting his telephone records, tracking his movements in and out of More »
The Ticket - 5 hrs agoMcConnell: ‘There is a culture of intimidation throughout the administration’
Republican Senators Rand Paul, Mitch McConnell and Rob Portman continued Sunday to press the Obama administration on the Internal Revenue Service scandal More »
The Ticket - Sun, May 19, 2013Obama delivers Morehouse commencement
President Barack Obama took a break from the trifecta of controversies—IRS, Department of Justice, Benghazi—swirling around the White House on Sunday to More »
The Ticket - Sun, May 19, 2013Republicans Informed of IRS Investigation Last Year
Much has been made of the fact that senior Treasury Department officials were told about the investigation into the treatment of tea party groups in June More »
ABC News - Sun, May 19, 2013Obama Pivots to Jobs Tour at End of Scandal Filled Week
After a week filled with political scandals, President Obama turned to promoting his jobs tour in his weekly address Saturday. “That’s why I like getting More »
ABC News - Sat, May 18, 2013IRS Planted Question About Tax Exempt Groups
The Internal Revenue Service planted a question at an American Bar Association conference in order to reveal that it had inappropriately targeted More »
ABC News - Fri, May 17, 2013Speier Calls Congress 'Enablers of Sexual Assault'
Lawmakers Wednesday came down hard on military leaders, the morning after allegations emerged of another head of a military sexual assault prevention More »
ABC News - Wed, May 15, 2013IRS IG Report: Targeting Conservatives Began In 2010
The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS inspector More »
ABC News - Mon, May 13, 2013Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore More »
AP - 11 mins agoNYPD messages to Muslim informant: 'Get pictures'
NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is defending itself in a federal civil rights lawsuit over its surveillance of Muslims. It says in a new More »
AP - 23 mins agoCarney: Senior White House staff knew of IRS probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler was first informed about an audit of the IRS' inappropriate targeting of More »
AP - 31 mins agoSchweitzer elected chairman of Stillwater board
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer said Monday that he is "focused like a laser" on improving the Stillwater Mining Co. after being More »
AP - 39 mins agoUS urges Egypt gov't to defend political speech
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is calling on the Egyptian government to rein in prosecutions of political expression amid what it called a More »
AP - 1 hr 0 mins agoHuman Rights Groups Criticize Obama's Meeting With Burmese Leader
After months of praising Burma for its political reforms, President Obama welcomed the country's president to the White House for the first time in nearly More »
National Journal - 4 hrs agoIRS Scandal: The Eight Names to Know This Week
The controversy surrounding the IRS’ targeting of tea party groups will consume Capitol Hill for a second straight week. These are the key names to know More »
National Journal - 4 hrs agoYahoo Buys Tumblr: Yawn
It’s official: Yahoo has reached a deal to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion. Understandably, a chunk of Tumblr’s 117 million users are outraged over the More »
National Journal - 7 hrs agoPlay of the Day: Rounding Up a Tough Week for the White House
With three scandals dogging Barack Obama, the president and government functions continue to be a focal point on late-night television. David Letterman More »
National Journal - 7 hrs agoReady to Testify on Financial Stability, Lew Is Likely To Be Grilled on IRS Scandal
Pity the Financial Stability Oversight Council. It's likely this will be the second year in a row where testimony about the council, established after the More »
National Journal - 7 hrs agoThe Koch Brothers' Foray into Media Has Already Been a Success
Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are quite entrepreneurial in their attempts to influence public policy in their favor. They don't just donate More »
The Atlantic Wire - 39 mins agoSupreme Court to hear at least one religious case
The Supreme Court will hear at least one of two potentially wide ranging cases involving the separation of church and state in its next term, which starts More »
National Constitution Center - 1 hr 27 mins agoRepublicans See Trickle-Down Liberalism at Work at the IRS
So far the facts of the three scandals facing the Obama administration do not tie President Obama himself to the scandalous acts. Since Republicans can't More »
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