Did Citizens United Critics Push the IRS to Misbehave?
John Samples Last Friday, a spokeswoman for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) admitted the agency had targeted various Tea Party and related groups ...
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Congressional Outrage Over AP Phone Records
To steal a line from Rep. Virginia Foxx, the gentlewoman from North Carolina: This is our shocked face. Far be it for us to complain about Congress ...
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Rubio Calls for IRS Commissioner Who Already Left Department to Resign
Click here to view this media Sen. Marco Rubio sent out a letter this Monday, calling for the IRS commissioner to resign in the wake of the latest ...
The IRS’s assault on common sense (Update: Treasury Department knew in 2012)
UPDATE: The New York Times is reporting that the Treasury Department’s inspector general told Treasury officials back in June 2012 that he was ...
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Is panhandling free speech?
Worcester city leaders say that their panhandling regulations protect public safety, but one group is suing the city for violating their first ...
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free speech
Radio Host Says He "Wants To Shoot Hillary Clinton In The Vagina"
Ordinarily I wouldn't give this kind of a story attention, but the radio host who said that disgusting thing has somehow gotten enough traction in ...
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free speech
The Obama Administration Has a Long Record of Prosecuting Leakers
The Associated Press announced on Monday that federal agents had secretly seized two months of its phone records in what the organization called a ...
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Editorial: Editorial: Proposed initiatives misguided, risky for city - Wed, 15 May 2013 PST
Spokane City Council members are expected to vote Monday on resolutions that would put two proposed initiatives on the ballot, and resolutions that ...