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- Garcetti, Greuel Face Off In L.A. Mayoral Election
- IRS Went After Small Fish, But Let The Big Ones Get Away
- The Tea Party, The IRS ‘Scandal’ — And The Actual Facts Of The Case
- 5 Most Outrageous Statements By Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate E.W. Jackson
- Very Bad News From ABC, NBC And CBS
- Elizabeth Warren Inspires Serious Debate About Student Loan Debt
IRS Went After Small Fish, But Let The Big Ones Get Away
Carl Hiaasen“Please provide copies of all your current web pages, including your blog posts. Please provide copies of all your newsletters, bulletins, flyers or any other media or literature you have disseminated to your members or others. Please provide copies of stories and articles that have been published about you.”
That’s the Internal Revenue Service calling.
The Tea Party, The IRS ‘Scandal’ — And The Actual Facts Of The Case
Devin BurghartWhile it is well known that the so-called IRS scandal has been used by Tea Partiers to bash the IRS, less well known are the actual facts of the case.
Specifically, while the IRS delayed confirming the tax-exempt status of some groups, and some also faced additional scrutiny, not a single Tea Party organization was denied tax-exempt status.
Elizabeth Warren Inspires Serious Debate About Student Loan Debt
Jason SattlerWhy does the government give the big banks a better deal than it gives students?
It’s question so perfect that people can’t stop talking about it.
The first standalone bill from Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) would not only prevent student loan rates from doubling, it would cut them down to the same rate the Fed charges banks to borrow money overnight for the next 12 months.
Is Democracy In Trouble?
E. J. DionneWASHINGTON — We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation’s capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about — jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education — it’s worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy.
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Evangelical Groups Claim IRS Practicing ‘Viewpoint Discrimination’
Sarah PosnerEven before the ink was dry on the Treasury Department Inspector General’s report on the IRS, Franklin Graham, son of evangelical icon Billy Graham, wrote a letter to President Obama, demanding that the president “take some immediate action to reassure Americans we are not in a new chapter of America’s history—repressive government rule.
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Watch The Documentary That Made David Koch Cancel His Planned Donation To PBS
Watch Park Avenue: Money, Power & the American Dream on PBS. See more from Why Poverty?.
You may not know that David Koch of the infamous Koch Brothers is a major philanthropist… when he isn’t busy trying to pry Social Security away from the takers. Among his favorite causes is (or was) public broadcasting.
Poll: Graves Narrowly Leads Bachmann In 2014 House Race
Michele Bachmann could be in big trouble in 2014.
A new Public Policy Polling survey finds businessman Jim Graves, the likely Democratic nominee for the U.S. House in Minnesota’s 6th congressional district, leading Bachmann by a 47 to 45 percent margin. Graves’ narrow advantage, which is well within the poll’s +/- 4.
In Florida, Timely Injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing.
Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges.
Is Democracy In Trouble?
WASHINGTON — We know American politics are dysfunctional. But after a week of scandal obsession during which the nation’s capital and the media virtually ignored the problems most voters care about — jobs, incomes, growth, opportunity, education — it’s worth asking if there is something especially flawed about our democracy.
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Evangelical Groups Claim IRS Practicing ‘Viewpoint Discrimination’
Even before the ink was dry on the Treasury Department Inspector General’s report on the IRS, Franklin Graham, son of evangelical icon Billy Graham, wrote a letter to President Obama, demanding that the president “take some immediate action to reassure Americans we are not in a new chapter of America’s history—repressive government rule.
Read more...Benghazi Interview: Pickering Dissects Congressional Follies, Media Coverage, And ‘Cover-Up’ Charges
No doubt the degraded quality of congressional oversight astonishes Thomas Pickering, the distinguished American diplomat who oversaw the State Department’s Benghazi review board — although he tries not to say so too directly.
Read more...WATCH: Karl Rove Equates His Dark-Money ‘Social Welfare’ PAC With The NAACP
That well-known bastion of integrity, Karl Rove, braved the searing inquisition of Fox News Sunday this weekend to explain that his Crossroads GPS dark-money group is a legitimate tax-exempt 501(c)4 organization that promotes social welfare. Just like the NAACP.
Read more...Virginia GOP Nominates Candidate For Lt. Governor Who Says ‘The Idea That Barack Obama Is a Christian Is Laughable’
Republicans in Virginia have responded to President Obama winning their state twice by nominating a trio of the nation’s most extreme right-wingers for statewide office. Joining their nominee for governor, state attorney general Ken Cuccinelli, is state senator Mark Obenshain, nominee for attorney general, and E.W. Jackson, nominee for lieutenant governor.
Read more...LOL Of The Week: Reince Tells Republicans Not To ‘Cry Wolf’ As Obama’s Approval Rises
In Aesop’s fable, “Boy Who Cried Wolf,” the boy gets a few free cries before all his credibility is gone and his flock becomes wolf snacks.
Read more...Right-Wing Radio Host Wants To Shoot Hillary Clinton, Watch Her Die
When you’re so unhinged that even RightWingWatch considers you too crazy to cover, perhaps you should think about getting professional help. But that’s the thing about conservatives in this country… there’s no such thing as “too crazy” anymore.
Read more...Obama: ‘The Middle Class Will Always Be My Number One Focus’
President Barack Obama promoted his economic agenda during a Friday afternoon speech in Baltimore, Maryland, on the latest stop of his “Middle Class Jobs and Opportunity Tour.”
Obama, whose second term has been dominated by gun and immigration reform efforts, has recently begun to re-emphasize the economic priorities that he laid out in his State of the Union address.
