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9 min ago | Stars and Stripes

Pentagon said to seek $80 billion for war amid withdrawal

The Pentagon reportedly will ask Congress to approve about $79.5 billion for combat operations, the least since 2005, as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan.

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4 hrs ago | NorthJersey.com

Former top cop of TARP calls for break-up of banks

Neil Barofsky, the feisty former prosecutor of Colombian drug lords who was tapped by President George W. Bush in 2008 to oversee the $700 billion TARP bank bailout, did not like a lot of what he saw during his 27-month stint in the nation's capital.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Franklin Lakes, NJ

Fri May 17, 2013

Southwest News-Herald

Right Wing Groups Go Off Deep End, Again

Sure it's not right that the IRS targets anyone, but the truth is the federal agency scrutinizes a lot of people for a lot of reasons.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Tea Party, US News, George Bush, Dick Cheney

The Stranger

Morning News: Car Chases, Fecal Pools, and Kitchen Nightmares

No Touching : Another Army sexual harassment officer has been arrested, this time for allegedly violating his wife's protective order .

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, George Bush

Marco Eagle

Business Class: Celebrate what we have in common

A very small number of Americans will ever have private access to a former or current president of the United States.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Southern Methodist University

WIBW-TV Topeka

Acting IRS Commissioner Steps Down, Obama Announces

President Obama on Wednesday announced that acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller is stepping down amid investigations into political discrimination carried out by the IRS against conservative groups.

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Related Topix: George Bush, Frank Caliendo

Amy Ridenour

NAACP Leader's Double-Standard on Alleged IRS Abuse

If there is anyone in the world who should have some sympathy for what the Tea Party movement and like-minded conservative organizations are going through right now with the IRS, it should be NAACP chairman emeritus Julian Bond.

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Related Topix: African-American, US News, Tea Party, George Bush, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics

Thu May 16, 2013

KCBD-TV Lubbock

Second court invalidates Obama recess appointment

A second federal appeals court has found that President Barack Obama exceeded his power when he bypassed the Senate to install a member to the National Labor Relations Board.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Capitol Hill (Washington, DC), George Bush

Boston.com

Ouster of IRS official isn't ending investigations

President Barack Obama picked a senior White House budget official to become the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the same day another top official announced plans to leave the agency amid the controversy over agents targeting tea party groups.

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

Star Tribune

Pentagon leaders say US still in armed conflict with al-Qaida, defends military force law

The United States remains in armed conflict with al-Qaida and its affiliates, a fight likely to last a decade or two, senior Pentagon officials told Congress on Thursday in arguing against changes to the 2001 military force law used in the war on terror.

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Related Topix: US News, Terrorism, US Politics, George Bush, US Senate, Republican, Senator Rand Paul

The Strata-Sphere

Obama/Holder Bit By The Bush-FISA Fiasco

I have to laugh that Obama & Holder both just got nailed for snooping on the News Media by the very same conspiracy crap the liberal left tried to nail President George W Bush on! Back in Bush's first term, the NY Times tried to concoct a scandal for George W Bush on the FISA court and how its process had been changed after the attacks on 9-11. I ... (more)

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Related Topix: George Bush, Frank Caliendo, US News, US Federal Bureau of Investigation

WHDH

Today in History - May 16, 2013

On May 16, 1943, the nearly month-long Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the Great Synagogue.

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Philadelphia Weekly

Q&A: "Dirty Wars" Author Jeremy Scahill

Author Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, told Philadelphia Weekly that he thinks the Obama administration's foreign policy is actually worse than that of his predecessor, President George W. Bush.

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Related Topix: Dirty Wars, George Bush, Opinion

Wed May 15, 2013

Detroit Free Press

IRS chief resigns amid controversy over scrutiny for conservative groups

'I'm one of those guys that believes we have an obligation or a responsibility when we can to have... President Barack Obama will hold a news conference today about news that the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Home Listing, Home, George Bush

D Magazine

Lawrence Wright Was at the Bush Library While SMU Had an 'Active Shooter'

Lawrence Wright is a staff writer at the New Yorker and author of the books The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 and Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief .

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Related Topix: Going Clear, Books, Terrorism, George Bush, Killeen, TX

CNN

12 presidential scandals, controversies and distractions

Officials in the Obama administration's Internal Revenue Service came under fire after revelations that workers in its Cincinnati office targeted for extra scrutiny tea party and conservative groups applying for 501 tax-exempt status.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, George Bush, Bill Clinton, History in the News

Mediaite.com

MSNBC Contributor Claims He Was Audited 5 Years In A Row By IRS For Criticizing Bush

Georgetown University professor and MSNBC contributor Michael Eric Dyson revealed on MSNBC's Now on Wednesday that he has been the target of political intimidation by the Internal Revenue Service during the administration of President George W. Bush .

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Related Topix: Tax, Georgetown University, George Bush, Television

OttawaHerald.com

Scrutiny of IRS, conservative groups

The White House dislikes tea party groups so much it directed the Internal Revenue Service to harass them.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives, George Bush, Barack Obama, Opinion

The Miami Herald

Senate votes to extend federal water projects law

The Senate on Wednesday put aside its partisan differences to extend the federal government's main water resources law, which promotes investment in port improvements, flood protection, dam and levee projects and environmental restoration.

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Related Topix: Natural Disasters, Flood, US News, George Bush, Barbara Boxer, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Mary Landrieu

Patch.com

Who's to Blame for the IRS Singling out Conservative Groups Seeking Tax-Exempt Status?

President Obama this week said efforts by IRS employees to target new conservative groups for extra scrutiny were "outrageous," echoing many administration critics who charged that the measures were politically motivated.

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Related Topix: George Bush, US News, US Politics, Republican, US House of Representatives, Darrell Issa

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