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BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 10, 2011 -- It was just about this time last Sunday night when I tuned into WFLA 970-AM here in Tampa Bay to hear George Noory and got Bill Cunningham instead.

Wealth manager Kimberly Foss , whom we met in yesterday's column, says she had some wealth management challenges of her own when the recession set up camp in America.

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You don't have to believe in the tooth fairy or that the U.S. government has hidden the bodies of space aliens at Area 51 to think something is fishy in the way the news broke that the Internal Revenue Service had been singling out conservative political groups for special, even extraordinary, scrutiny.

Rush Limbaugh announced on Monday that President Obama won't be impeached over recent controversies and that "Benghazi is not going to touch" him.

The targeting of Tea Party and conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service was initially disclosed by Lois G. Lerner, the IRS director of the exempt organizations division.

After years of moaning about various "conspiracies" against them, conservative activists finally have a real piece of evidence to take before the court of public opinion.

If we've done anything successfully in the last nine years, C&L has proven without a shadow of a doubt the conservative projection phenomena.

On May 14 after news broke that President Obama had once again attacked talk radio host Rush Limbaugh by name, El Rusbo joked that he was "living rent-free in Obama's head." It's hard to fault Limbaugh's logic on this.

Rush Limbaugh's incendiary remark about a 30-year-old law graduate may be the beginning of the end for outspoken right-wing US broadcasters When Rush Limbaugh called Sandra Fluke a slut, he probably thought it was just another incendiary remark: the latest in a four-decade career full of - and, arguably, built on - incendiary remarks.

Some or all of the most vile of the lying, distorting, deceiving, extreme and dangerous talk-show hosts who populate conservative talk radio - Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Tom Leykis, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Todd Schnitt, Neal Boortz and Michael Savage - may have just lost their gravy train, Newsweek reports.

At the start of the 11th week that Obama has held the White House closed to tours by the general public, the president finds himself at the center of an avalanche of scandals involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder, and the IRS.

The commander in chief of the American armed forces today forced a violation of Marine Corps regulations, so he wouldn't get wet.

Eric Golub, 41, is on the road 300 days a year performing anyplace that will have him, whether tea party rallies or Republican women's groups, and he boasts on his website that he is "the country's preeminent politically conservative comedian." He says conservative comedians are "in the closet, so they're starting to come out." And he wants to ... (more)

On Thursday's broadcast of MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown," Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio praised the resignation of acting Internal Revenue Service head Steve Miller before laying in to what he called President Obama's "culture of intimidation." "First of all, I think the resignation is appropriate," Rubio said.

As news continues to emerge regarding the way the IRS targeted and intimidated groups and individuals who spoke out against Obama on political issues, it's important to remember that once Obamacare is fully implemented the IRS will be able to play the bully on an even larger scale.

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 10, 2011 -- It was just about this time last Sunday night when I tuned into WFLA 970-AM here in Tampa Bay to hear George Noory and got Bill Cunningham instead.

There are a lot of benefits to being a newspaper columnist that those of us in the biz don't like to talk about.

Without going over the edge to Rush Limbaugh territory, the internal spying on reporters and politicization of the IRS do raise the question.

It's unsettling to be on the same side as Rush Limbaugh. But Jason Richwine deserves a defense against the intellectual bullying that drove him from his job.