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Tea Party Groups Want Congress to Investigate IRS for Targeting Them
Tweet Share on Facebook May 10, 2013 CommentTea Party groups were furious Friday to learn what many of them had expected all along: the Internal Revenue Service was targeting them.
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Some Gun Owners Aren’t Happy About the Open Carry March on Washington
Tweet Share on Facebook May 10, 2013 CommentIt's not just gun control advocates who are worried about libertarian talk show host Adam Kokesh's planned "Open Carry March" on Washington July 4, which is described on a Facebook event page as a march "with rifles loaded and slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated and cower in submission to tyranny."
Some gun owners aren't happy about the march either. And gun rights groups have so far declined to support it.
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Letter: Pressure Is Back on Boehner for Benghazi Select Committee
Tweet Share on Facebook May 9, 2013 CommentThe day after an emotional hearing on the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi – in which State Department officials accused senior members of the U.S. government of withholding crucial details – House Speaker John Boehner sought to pacify his rank-and-file members Thursday by demanding the White House release emails related to the Sept. 11 assaults.
But those who have been sounding the alarm on Benghazi for months say Boehner's words aren't enough.
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U.S. Could Face More Attacks Like Boston, Report on Digital Terror Suggests
Tweet Share on Facebook May 8, 2013 CommentA new report on digital terror and hate suggests the U.S. could face more attacks like the recent bombing in Boston.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Digital Terrorism and Hate Project report, released Wednesday on Capitol Hill, tracked more than 20,000 hate and terror sites, forums and social network pages, where it found an array of troubling communications.
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Bill Passes to Give Tiny Arizona Tribe Land for Golf Course Designed by Jack Nicklaus
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentOn Monday, the House quietly passed legislation that would give the tiny Pascua Yaqui Tribe in southern Arizona a tract of land with a specific purpose: to be the home of a brand new, par 72 championship, 18-hole golf course, designed in part by well-known golfer Jack Nicklaus.
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Romney's Campaign Staff Goes Private Sector - Or Just Returns To Old Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentIt's been six months since Election Day, and by now, most of Mitt Romney's former campaign staff has landed... somewhere.
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Bill Clinton Won't Dish on Hillary's 2016 Ambitions
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentWill she or won't she? Bill Clinton thinks it's silly to ask.
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Michele Bachmann May Face Lawsuit Over 'Religious Freedom in The Military' Campaign
Tweet Share on Facebook May 7, 2013 CommentA series of media reports that allege the Pentagon could start court-martialing soldiers for their Christian faith has been debunked by the fact-checking website PolitiFact and even the Pentagon itself.
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Bus Ads to FDA: Don’t Approve 'Diet Milk’ for Kids
Tweet Share on Facebook May 6, 2013 CommentStarting Monday, employees of the Food and Drug Administration who go to work by bus will see giant ads urging the public health agency not to allow aspartame in kids' milk without accompanying labels. Aspartame is already allowed in flavored milk but comes with a note that the milk is "reduced-calorie."
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NRCC Website Hacked A Day Before South Carolina Special Election
Tweet Share on Facebook May 6, 2013 CommentFor the last 24 hours, the website for the National Republican Congressional Committee was one big Viagra ad.
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