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Law and Government
IRS: You can’t sue us unless we say you can
Department of Justice lawyers claimed Wednesday the IRS cannot be sued for damages by the estimated 330,000 taxpayers victimized by…
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Law and Government
In case you thought there weren’t already enough crooks in government…
President Barack Obama announced an initiative Monday to help criminals get federal jobs. Obama told the Office of Personnel Management not to ask if…
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Foreign Affairs
Loretta Lynch’s ‘global police force’ an end run around Constitution, Senate
Following a recent United Nations Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that the…
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Education
How do teachers feel about Obama’s effort to regulate suspensions of minority students? New poll has the answers
American teachers show significant opposition to an Obama administration effort that pressures schools to suspend and expel fewer black and Hispanic students.…
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Media
Ferguson police chief’s call for ‘patience’ interrupted by gun shots on live TV
Video captured Sunday night shows acting Ferguson Police Chief Andre Anderson telling reporters that police “just want to be as…
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Politics
GOP debate night: Few big winners, two big losers, and one cool ‘street brawl’
What a night! Three hours, 17 candidates, two debates — all you needed was some food and drink and it…
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Email Featured
Black Lives Matter co-founder threatens to shut down GOP convention
While appearing on MSNBC Saturday, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors told hosts filling in for Melissa Harris-Perry that her…
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Email Featured
Inspectors general ask DOJ to conduct criminal inquiry into Hillary’s emails
All is not good in Hillary Land. The New York Times is reporting that two inspectors general have called on the…
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Law and Government
Justice Department ‘undermines’ gov’t watchdogs by blocking access to documents
Department of Justice officials gave official approval Thursday to the FBI’s practice of blocking access to data and documents in…
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Law and Government
‘Doping the vote’ in South Texas triggers federal indictments
Shady ballot brokers are “doping the vote” in the Rio Grande Valley, an election-watch group says. Now the FBI is…
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Law and Government
New docs show DOJ, IRS, FBI sought criminal charges against Obama opponents
Today, the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch today released new Department of Justice (DOJ) and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) documents…
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Law and Government
V.A. whistleblower meets Obama, tells him pick a permanent inspector general
Ryan Honl, a former V.A. employee and major whistleblower of the opioid overprescription scandal at Tomah, told President Barack Obama Thursday to choose a permanent inspector general for the…
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Foreign Affairs
Report: Some ‘idiot’ at State Dept. to blame for sweeping new hostage policy that will harm Americans
The federal government will stop threatening criminal prosecution for families attempting to pay ransom for loved ones taken hostage by terrorist groups,…
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Education
Prosecutors and colleges call dissent a ‘threat’ on campus and at Reason.com
The Supreme Court has said that “true threats” can be banned without violating the First Amendment, but that doesn’t mean…
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Law and Government
Federal court issues ruling compelling IRS to provide answers on Lerner emails
The watchdog group Judicial Watch announced today that Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of…
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Law and Government
Government agencies’ response to backlog of FOIA requests? Dog ate my homework
Apologists for the Obama administration appeared on Capitol Hill Wednesday to answer charges that they were failing to respond to Freedom of Information…
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Education
More trade secret theft: Temple U. prof funnels superconductivity device to China
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged the chair of Temple University’s physics department with four counts of wire fraud…
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Media
BREAKING: Obama comes out in enthusiastic support of medical marijuana
In a CNN special to be aired on Sunday, not only will President Barack Obama state his full support of medical marijuana,…
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Law and Government
Criminal investigation sought in McAuliffe-Mayorkas dealings
A government accountability group says “unanswered questions” warrant a criminal investigation into actions by Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe and others…
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Law and Government
On ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ show, Obama demonstrates his skill at mob manipulation (Video)
On “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” in typical fashion, President Obama played it both ways regarding the social unrest in Ferguson, Mo. Commenting…
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Social Issues
NAACP president calls developments in Ferguson a ‘validation’ (Video)
To seek to establish a causal relationship between the shooting of two police officer in Ferguson, Mo., early this morning and…
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Law and Government
Hillary Clinton could be prosecuted for sending classified information through her private email
The State Department could not definitively say that the personal email account used by Hillary Clinton to conduct state department…
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Education
Pelosi gives House Intelligence Committee its first Muslim member (Video)
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) appointed the first Muslim member to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Tuesday,…
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Education
Harvard Law School bends to will of Obama administration on sexual assaults
Harvard Law School finally threw in the towel Tuesday after a four-year fight with the Obama administration over Title IX. The…
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Politics
NYC protesters chant: ‘Shoot back! What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? now’ (Video)
What’s that? You say you missed yesterday’s Day of Anger in New York in which millions (make that tens) of…
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Social Issues
Shooting death of black 12-year-old in Cleveland ruled homicide
The shooting death of a black Cleveland preadolescent by a white cop has been formally ruled a homicide, Reuters reports via…
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Unyielding
BREAKING: Newly released docs show Lois Lerner met with DOJ officials just before 2010 elections
Watchdog group Judicial Watch today released internal Department of Justice documents revealing that former IRS official Lois Lerner had been in…
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Law and Government
‘Not a smidgen of corruption’: IRS shared 1,000s of taxpayer docs with WH
Information gleaned from a federal lawsuit filed against the U.S. Treasury Department’s inspector general suggests that the Internal Revenue Service…
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Law and Government
Jonathan Gruber (aka ‘some adviser who was never on our staff’) got almost $10M of ‘stupid’ taxpayers’ money
Making speeches in which you deride the American people as stupid and helping a dishonest administration deceitfully force an unpopular law down…
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Economy
Billions of taxpayer dollars are spent … collecting taxes
If Americans understood how much it costs the IRS to collect taxes, and how much it costs for taxpayers to…
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Unyielding
McDonalds and Starbucks should filter their wi-fi to make it porn-free
Matt Bai’s new book, “All the Truth Is Out,” chronicles how a sex scandal destroyed the 1988 presidential prospects of…
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Law and Government
Uncle Sam’s auditors carry guns … but why and by whose authority?
If you were to check the manifest of recent acquisitions made by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s internal audit division,…
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Unyielding
Are illegal immigrants enrolling in public schools actually adults?
Judith Flanagan Kennedy, former attorney and current Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts, claims that illegal immigrants enrolling in her public schools…
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Law and Government
Shocker: Lerner emails intact but feds refuse to retrieve them (Video)
Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton announced Monday that a Department of Justice lawyer made a stunning admission. Former IRS official…
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