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Obama picks budget official to run troubled IRS

By: Associated Press 05/16/13 6:33 PM
President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups. Read More

IRS commissioner ousted over tea party targeting

By: Associated Press 05/15/13 8:24 PM
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Hurrying to check a growing controversy, President Barack Obama ousted the acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service late Wednesday amid an outcry over revelations that the agency had improperly targeted tea party groups for scrutiny when they filed for tax-exempt status. Read More

Gitmo closure elusive, Obama looks at other steps

By: Associated Press 05/01/13 10:40 PM
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Despite President Barack Obama's new vow, closing the Guantanamo Bay prison is still a tough sell in Congress. So the White House may look instead toward smaller steps like transferring some terror suspects back overseas. Read More

Obama vows again to close prison at Guantanamo Bay

By: Associated Press 04/30/13 10:58 PM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday renewed his pledge to close the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the impediments that have thwarted him thus far remain. Read More

Mississippi man accused of sending letters with ricin to Obama, senator

By: The Associated Press 04/17/13 4:27 PM
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OXFORD, Miss. — A Mississippi man was arrested Wednesday, accused of sending letters to President Barack Obama and a senator that tested positive for the poisonous ricin and set the nation's capital on edge a day after the Boston Marathon bombings. Read More

President Obama urges court to overturn gay marriage ban

By: The Associated Press 02/28/13 5:19 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a historic argument for gay rights, President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's same-sex marriage ban and turn a skeptical eye on similar prohibitions across the country. Read More

Catnip from the progressive egotists

By: Emmett Tyrrell 01/05/12 9:05 PM
An underlying theme of our times that has gone unperceived by the high and mighty in media, government and other locales where the politically alive come to roost is the thumping failure of an increasing number of counter-productive, old progressive reforms. Read More

The choice in 2012 in pictures

By: Conn Carroll 08/03/11 7:43 AM
The Washington Post reported yesterday: “In 2012, the contrast between the two parties seems certain to be drawn in sharp relief. The Republican vision is of a dramatically smaller government and of a budget that is balanced without raising taxes. Read More

How many of President Obama's Twitter followers are fake?

By: Charlie Spiering 08/03/11 4:29 AM
It's complicated, but after an ex-staffer suggested to Gawker that many of Newt Gingrich's Twitter followers were fake, PeekYou, a New York search company has run their complicated algorithm to determine that only 8% of Newt Gingrich 1.3 million followers are "verifiable humans." Read More

Top 10 horrible consequences if they hadn't reached a debt-ceiling deal

By: Mark Tapscott 08/02/11 3:34 PM
With everybody in Washington breathing deep signs of relief that earlier today the Senate passed the debt-ceiling deal approved yesterday by the House, and President Obama quickly signed the measure into law, it behooves us all to contemplate what would have been had this happpy day not come around. Read More
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