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54 min ago | Alabama Live

Tennessee congressman to AG Eric Holder: Free Don Siegelman

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., is calling on the Obama administration to free former Alabama Gov.

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Related Topix: Representative Steve Cohen, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Prison, Tennessee Government, Tennessee, George Bush

5 hrs ago | The Gillette News-Record

IRS chief knew tea party groups targeted in 2012

The former head of the Internal Revenue Service said he first learned in the spring of 2012 - in the heat of the presidential campaign - that agents had improperly targeted political groups that vehemently opposed President Barack Obama's policies.

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Related Topix: Tax, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, US Treasury, George Bush

13 hrs ago | TIME.com

Morning Must Reads: May 21

You must not be a very good researcher. No Nazareth, the Nazarene sect, probably what we now know as the Essenes.

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Related Topix: US News, Hillary Clinton, US Politics, Barack Obama

Tue May 21, 2013

The Hill

Baucus had 'concerns' about Treasury inspector general in 2004

Sen. Max Baucus said nine years ago that he had " concerns " about whether the inspector general who outlined the extra scrutiny that the IRS gave to conservative groups was independent enough for the job.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Max Baucus, George Bush, Orrin Hatch, Republican

Washington Examiner

Obama's latest NLRB gambit will fail

Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee are set to vote this morning on a full slate of five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat, George Bush

KUOW-FM Seattle

Duwamish Fight For Federal Status Inches Forward

Seattle's native people, the Duwamish, will learn today about their next step in a decades-old legal battle.

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Related Topix: George Bush

Townhall

Phyllis Schlafly: Gang of Eight Betrays Americans

The Gang of Eight immigration bill can be summed up as amnesty now, border closing never.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, George Bush, Opinion

Real Clear Politics

On Using Parents of Murdered Children

The president appeared at many rallies on behalf of additional gun control laws with parents of children murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

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Related Topix: George Bush, US News

Crescent-News.com

After a decade, global AIDS program looks ahead

The decade-old law that transformed the battle against HIV and AIDS in developing countries is at a crossroads.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, George Bush, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, US House of Representatives, Democrat

KFVS12

Former IRS commissioner heads to Hill amid scandal

Lawmakers are getting their first chance to question the former head of the Internal Revenue Service, the man who ran the agency when agents were improperly targeting tea party groups.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, George Bush, US Politics, Barack Obama, US Senate, Democrat, Max Baucus

Mon May 20, 2013

US News & World Report

The World Bank's Poverty Fighting Efforts Are at Risk

Andrew S. Natsios is an executive professor at the George H.W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and the author of Sudan, South Sudan and Darfur: What Everyone Needs to Know .

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Related Topix: Texas A&M University, Opinion

SFGate

W.Va. gets reprieve from No Child Left Behind law

West Virginia won limited freedom Monday from the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind, gaining approval of its own method for identifying struggling schools and then devoting resources to improve them.

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Related Topix: West Virginia, West Virginia Government, US Governors, Earl Ray Tomblin, George Bush, Standardized Testing, Education

The Orange County Register

Editorial: Plow under the farm bill

American farmers are the most productive in the world. So, why do they need $940 billion in new subsidies over the next five years? That's the number in the bill passed last week, by a bipartisan 36-10 vote, in the Agriculture Committee of the House of Representatives: H.R. 1947, the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013.

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Related Topix: Agriculture, Science, George Bush, Opinion

PolitiFact

Michele Bachmann: The IRS is 'going to be in charge of our health care.'

Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., warned viewers of looming problems with the Internal Revenue Service playing a role in implementing President Barack Obama's health care law.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, Representative Michele Bachmann, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Barack Obama, Health, Medicaid

Reuters

Conservatives versus the GOP

The hoopla over the new George W. Bush Library in Dallas, as well as some gauzy looks back penned by former aides, shows we are in the middle of "The Great Bush Revisionism." The former president is being lauded and congratulated .

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Related Topix: George Bush, US News, Tea Party, Frank Caliendo, Barbara Bush

Washington Examiner

PETA says IRS targeted it too, during Bush years

New charges from a liberal group that its tax-exempt status was questioned by the IRS are raising new questions that the tax agency is politically driven to please the party that controls the White House.

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Related Topix: Tax, Activism, George Bush

CNN

What happened to Obama's promise?

On "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart captured the frustration that many of President Obama's supporters have felt over the past week as one scandal after another cascaded into the White House.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, George Bush, Opinion

Sun May 19, 2013

Watersblogged

HC106.84 .A15 2012 - The 4% solution : unleashing the economic...

Foreword by President George W. Bush. With contributions from world renowned economists and Nobel prizewinners, The 4% Solution is a blueprint for restoring America's economic health.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Frank Caliendo

New York Daily News

Men making bold statements - with their socks

They're putting their best foot forward by kicking safe black socks to the curb in favor of bright colors and dashing prints.

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Sat May 18, 2013

UnionLeader.com

UNH Law School grads told to 'serve justice'

Two men who argued opposite sides in the U.S. Supreme Court case that decided the 2000 election offered life lessons - and their own example - to graduates of the University of New Hampshire School of Law on Saturday.

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Related Topix: US News, US Supreme Court, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire, George Bush, John Lynch, US Governors

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