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Friday | TheStreet.com

Why the End of 'Craft' Beer Is Just a Tax Break Away

Garret Oliver has been brewmaster at The Brooklyn Brewery since 1994. He was the brewmaster at Manhattan Brewing before that and has served as editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer , written two other books on beer and continues to make a series of brews that gets all the beer geeks excited.

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Related Topix: Beer, Drink, Tom Latham, US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Ron Kind, Democrat, Iowa, US Senate

Friday | Wisconsin Gazette

Gays 'thrown under the bus' in immigration bill

The Senate Judiciary Committee is marking up the massive bill that leaders in both parties agree presents the best opportunity to reform immigration policy in decades.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, Gay/Lesbian, Transgender, US Politics, US News, Patrick Leahy, US Senate, Democrat, Republican

Thu May 16, 2013

SFGate

Senate confirms Orrick as federal judge

A divided U.S. Senate confirmed on Wednesday the nomination of William Orrick III , a former top immigration lawyer in President Obama's Justice Department , to the federal court in San Francisco.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, US Senate, Senator Jeff Flake, Republican, Lisa Murkowski

MSNBC

Gillibrand leads Senate charge for protocol changes in military sexual assault cases

A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Thursday proposed major changes to military laws for sexual assault cases, backing a bill to prevent military commanders from handling sexual assault cases that involve their subordinates.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Dan Benishek

Iol.co.za

Spotlight on US military sex assaults

The White House and U.S. lawmakers went on the offensive against sexual assault in the armed forces on Thursday after a rash of scandals discrediting the military's efforts to stamp it out.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Epidemic, Natural Disasters, US Senate, Republican, Democrat, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Kennebec Journal

Maine delegation criticizes IRS action

Maine's House and Senate members agreed that the Internal Revenue Service overstepped its bounds by subjecting conservative or tea party groups to more scrutiny.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Representative Chellie Pingree, US Senate, Republican, Senator Angus King, Non-Profit

Kennebec Journal

In DC, Maine lobster rolls a lunch truck favorite

The Red Hook Lobster Pound DC food truck welcomes hundreds of customers during lunch at Farragut Square, in Washington D.C., on Friday.

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Related Topix: Farragut Square (Washington, DC), Washington, DC, US News, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Life, Food, Seafood

Crooks and Liars

Conservatives Defend Obama in Wake of Wiretapping, IRS, and Benghazi Scandals

Wow. I admit I'm very surprised to read that none other than Michelle Malkin is defending Obama over the Associated Press wiretapping "scandal." The frenzy over AP is a stark reminder of basic party differences on the War on Terror.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, US Politics, Jo Ann Davis, Republican, US House of Representatives, Lamar Alexander, US Senate, Liberal Political News

Wed May 15, 2013

SeacoastOnline

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard workers exempt from federal furlough days

The U.S. Defense Department announced Tuesday that civilian shipyard workers, including those at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, will be exempt from furloughs imposed under sequestration.

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Related Topix: Portsmouth, NH, US Politics, US News, Senator Kelly Ayotte, US Senate, Republican, Democrat, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Senator Angus King, US Military, US Navy

New York Post

Bipartisan rage amid AP furor

Lawmakers from both parties unloaded on the Obama Justice Department yesterday for authorizing a sweeping info-grab of reporters' phone records as part of a national-security-leak investigation.

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Related Topix: Eric Holder, US Politics, Republican, Orrin Hatch

Journal Gazette

IRS' abuse of power justifies right's fears

Or the United Nations were to concede it has been running fleets of black helicopters over American cities, but only in the course of conducting extensive good will tours.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

Tue May 14, 2013

Crosscut.com

Meet the Washingtonians getting wrung out by the sequester

Guest Opinion: Air traffic controllers are back at work, but others are still squirming under the effects of the sequester.

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Related Topix: Spokane, WA, Family, Kids, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican

Daily Kos

Here's how the IRS scandal could cost Uncle Sam billions

Revelations that IRS civil servants used biased criteria to target conservative groups seeking tax exempt status is rightly drawing bipartisan outrage.

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Related Topix: Tax, US Politics, US News, Harry Reid, US Senate, Democrat, Max Baucus, Carl Levin, Republican

WHP-TV Harrisburg

Allegations against IRS has everyone wondering who was targeted

The allegations against the IRS have brought about suspicion and also have raised new questions, like how long could this have been going on? Also, who else was targeted? The list of who was targeted is getting longer and it's set off a political firestorm in Washington.

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Related Topix: US News, US Senate, Republican, US Politics

KTIV-TV Sioux City

IRS Investigation

There are calls Tuesday morning for an independent prosecutor to look into whether the IRS singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, US Politics, Senator Marco Rubio, US Senate, Republican, Tea Party, Barack Obama

US News & World Report

IRS and Benghazi Scandals Give Birther, Anti-Immigrant Impeach Obama Groups New Legs

This weekend, after back-to-back revelations about Benghazi and the IRS, the public sentiment to impeach President Obama began to drift toward the Republican mainstream, with Sens.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Representative Allen West, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Senate, John McCain, Thomas Allen, Democrat

Scared Monkeys

IRS Targeted Conservative Groups, Tea Party, Patriots & Non-Profit...

If it looks like an enemies list, walks like an enemies list and talks like an enemies list guess what America, IT'S AN ENEMIES LIST.

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Related Topix: Tax, US News, Tea Party, Non-Profit, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Rogers

Mon May 13, 2013

TheDay.Com

IRS targeted government critics

At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials singled out for scrutiny not only groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their name but also nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency's ... (more)

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Related Topix: Tax, Non-Profit, The Washington Post Company, Washington Post, Publishing, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, Maine

Bangor Daily News

Senator Collins' staff to hold local office hours in New Sweden on May 16

U.S. Senator Susan Collins today announced that staff from her Aroostook County office will hold local office hours in New Sweden on Thursday, May 16.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, US Senate, Republican, New Sweden, ME, Aroostook County, ME

US News & World Report

Bipartisanship Rings Out on Capitol Hill and the White House Over IRS Scandal

On Capitol Hill, a rare glimpse of bipartisanship has swept across the body as lawmakers respond to an IRS scandal where career employees in Cincinnati, Ohio, knowingly targeted 75 Tea Party groups who were seeking nonprofit status.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Senator Tim Kaine, US Senate, US Governors, Tim Kaine, Barack Obama, Republican, Dave Camp, US House of Representatives