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AP boss: Our sources now ‘fear they will be monitored by the government’
I mentioned the other day that the Justice Department’s secretive snooping on AP reporters was not just a personal violation of privacy, but in fact a threat to their ability to do their jobs and…
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Citizens United: The great red herring of the IRS scandal
At this morning’s IRS targeting scandal hearings, House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., questioned the ability of IRS officials to tell the truth. He forced Acting IRS Commissioner Stephen Miller to swear in…
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Another federal circuit court hacks away at recess appointments
The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals struck a huge blow against a much-abused presidential power yesterday in invalidating Craig Becker’s 2010 appointment to the National Labor Relations Board. I think it’s great news —…
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Conservative immigration debate is healthy, necessary
The conventional post-election wisdom of the political talking heads is that the GOP is broken, fractured from within. Clearly, there are disputes within the party and within conservative circles about how best to address the…
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Journos send scathing letter to Holder on AP spying
The Reporters’ Committee for Freedom of the Press — a body that includes a number of prominent journalists — has sent a scathing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Deputy AG James Cole regarding…
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Suddenly, the press forgets Obama isn’t a Republican
My latest book “Spin Masters” discussed the problem of liberal media bias. I wrote that journalistic curiosity tends to wane or even disappear when there’s a Democratic president — that in fact, fans of journalism…
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SEAL Team Six is the only agency Obama controls; the ones that get things wrong are ‘independent’
If you’ve been watching President Obama react to this week’s government scandals, you’ve probably noticed something. Whenever things go south, it always seems to happen in some agency that President Obama doesn’t actually control —…
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22 years later, House banking scandal haunts MA-SEN race
So here’s a blast from the past. Remember this photo? That’s then-Rep. Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, placing a bag over his head on the floor of the U.S. House in 1991 to express shame over the…
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Forget Benghazi: Think Progress has the skinny on ‘Cargo Pants-gate’
The attack on the whistleblowers begins: Staff who served in Libya with Gregory Hicks, the GOP’s primary “whistleblower” in this week’s hearing on the Benghazi terror attacks, undercut his story that State Department officials demoted…
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Benghazi story slowly getting traction in the mainstream media
It’s only about 8 months late, but the mainstream media is finally coming around to see the Benghazi attacks and their subsequent political “scrubbing” as a real story. Recall that at the time, the big…