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Newton R. Russell dies at 85; veteran California legislator
Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La Cañada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85. A...
Tags: Politics, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Republican Party, Labor Legislation, Health and Safety at Work
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Politics, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Taxation, White House
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LETTER: IRS Problem Isn't Obama's
Regarding "IRS Boss: Policy Not Partisan" [May 18, news]: First, let's remember that the head of the IRS when the stepped-up examination of conservative groups' applicatiions for tax-exempt staus began was appointed by George Bush. So I have to question...Tags: Politics, Gerald Ford, Barack Obama, Taxation, Internal Revenue Service
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A 'Meet the Press' moment
Change of SubjectFrom the transcript: NBC'S MEET THE PRESS" HOST DAVID GREGORY: Peggy Noonan, you wrote something (in your Wall Street Journal column) this week that really struck me in your column on Friday. And I want to put it up on...... -
COLUMN-U.S. aquifers fall as farmers take too much: Kemp
Reuters(John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst. The views expressed are his own) By John Kemp LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - U.S. farmers are withdrawing unsustainable volumes of groundwater to irrigate their crops, resulting in an accelerating decline in...Tags: U.S. Geological Survey, Environmental Issues, Conservation, Petroleum Industry, Water Supply
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John Dean: Obama's scandals are more like Harding's than Nixon's
During President Barack Obama's May 16 news conference, reporter Jeff Mason asked as part of his question: "And, more broadly, how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the Nixon...
Tags: Politics, The Washington Post, MSNBC (tv network), Barack Obama, Susan Rice
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COLUMN - It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 21 (Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals - Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists - that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is...Tags: Politics, MSNBC (tv network), Republican Party, Barack Obama, Taxation
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Column: It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals — Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists — that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is as bad as Watergate. No it isn't, says Bob Woodward, whose reputation was made by doggedly pursuing...Tags: Politics, MSNBC (tv network), Barack Obama, Republican Party, Taxation
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Are critics wrong to blame the president for recent scandals?
No Accountability begins at the top. President Barack Obama may or may not have explicitly authorized the additional scrutiny of his political enemies in nonprofit groups. And he may or may not have been aware of the brazen seizure of Associated Press...Tags: Barack Obama, Internal Revenue Service, George W. Bush
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Idiots on the loose
Has the administration gone completely off the rails in Washington? I write here of the IRS taking aim for "extra scrutiny" of tax-exempt status requests from Tea Party and Patriot groups and the outrageous Justice Department subpoena of telephone...Tags: Politics, The Washington Post, Taxation, News Agency, The Wall Street Journal
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Taxation
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There Are Plenty of Scandals, Just Not These Ones
There’s a familiar template for the “scandals” that have so far “plagued” the Obama administration, in that they are all, for the most part, total bullshit and/or unfortunate events in the vast federal bureaucracy that have...
Tags: Politics, Media Industry, Republican Party, Taxation, Benghazi
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