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IRS not enforcing partisan rules

Source: Monterey County Herald, Nov 10 2012, 2:07am CST

of the Center for Religion and Public Affairs at Wake Forest University Divinity School in North Carolina. "When there's an impression the IRS is not enforcing the restriction — that seems to embolden some to ...

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23 hours ago

Bordering On a Big Lie

Source: Washington Monthly  |   May 20 2013, 1:27pm CDT

May 20, 2013 1:45 PM House Republicans last week proposed legislation that would suspend the ability of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to conduct audits until the IRS itself is audited by Congress. The bill, from Rep. John Fleming (R-La.), ...

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1 day ago

Repeal the Johnson Amendment

Source: Washington Times  |   May 20 2013, 6:20am CDT

The Vietnam War and the “war on poverty” are probably the best-remembered elements of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s legacy, but that’s only part of it. His maneuvering to use the law to stack the deck in his 1954 Senate re-election campai ...

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27 weeks ago


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"I think people are misled to think the IRS wakes up every morning wanting to knock on the door of a church or synagogue"


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3 days ago

Martyrs to the cause

Source: Hullabaloo  |   May 17 2013, 3:37pm CDT

by digby The IRS scandal is an official free-for-all. I'm hard-pressed to find any right wing group that isn't wailing about its persecution. Here's just one example of the religious right's horning in on the action: Friends of the famil ...

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4 days ago

Ousted IRS chief: Errors not caused by politics

Source: Madison.com  |   May 17 2013, 8:07am CDT

Two suspects accused of being part of a burglary ring that hit numerous homes and businesses in 12 Wisconsin counties, including Dane County, … A 28-year-old Camp Douglas woman was hospitalized Wednesday night following a bar fi ...

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4 days ago

Baptist Newspaper Said IRS Targeted Them

Source: NewsMax  |   May 16 2013, 6:25pm CDT

A 180-year-old Baptist newspaper said on Thursday that it was targeted by the Internal Revenue Service for extra scrutiny. The Biblical Recorder, published by the North Carolina Baptist State Convention, said it was singled ...

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4 days ago

Catholic professor says IRS audit deterred her criticisms of Obama

Source: Catholic News Agency  |   May 16 2013, 6:18pm CDT

New York City, N.Y., May 16, 2013 / 05:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A Catholic professor says that an IRS audit that may have been politically motivated made her much less likely to criticize President Barack Obama in her ...

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4 days ago

The Other I.R.S. Scandal

Source: Patheos Blogs  |   May 16 2013, 4:47pm CDT

Yesterday, President Obama rightly disciplined two IRS employees for unfairly targeting conservative groups and the I.R.S.' acting director Steven Miller resigned. Wonderful. I'm glad someone's taking the fall.However, there's another scandal t ...

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4 days ago

Fighting the IRS Will Make a Hero Out of You

Source: The Atlantic  |   May 16 2013, 4:07pm CDT

A long time ago — last week, basically — if you were a political person, it was definitely a bad thing to get in a fight with the IRS. But the scandal over the IRS targeting Tea Party groups has had an interesting side-effect in the last se ...

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4 days ago

'IRS Scandal' A Taste Of Things To Come Under Obamacare

Source: Big Government  |   May 16 2013, 1:50pm CDT

by AWR Hawkins 16 May 2013, 10:42 AM PDT post a comment The difference is, the kind of intimidation shown toward AP sources in the dark will be legal conduct for the IRS to carry out in broad daylight ag ...

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