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Posted by Anne Segal on June 10, 2013 18 Comments
Today we learned that it only took Hillary Clinton less than an hour to become Twitter-verified. Twitter verification is the blue checkmark in the corner of a twitter profile. This speedy event was unrelated to the alacrity with which a charity of Barack Obama’s brother...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on June 07, 2013 20 Comments
Misfired 2010 email alerted more IRS officials to Tea Party scrutiny A misfired email from a U.S. Internal Revenue Service employee in Cincinnati in July 2010 alerted a broad group of Washington IRS officials to the heightened scrutiny being given conservative groups, according to an...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 25, 2013 19 Comments
Newer readers may not know about the Tip Line.  It’s not just a Tip Line, it just is named Tip Line.  It’s a place, um, to leave tips, but it’s also a place where readers can have a conversation on topics not really covered by...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 22, 2013 6 Comments
Recently, there has been an interesting string of editorials in the Washington Post. (I’ll limit this to the discussion of unsigned editorials, not op-eds.) .@ejdionne has it exactly backward. This is not a crisis of democracy, it’s a crisis of authority. washingtonpost.com/opinions/ej-di… — James Taranto...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 18, 2013 10 Comments
At congressional hearings yesterday, it was revealed that the IRS planted a question at an ABA meeting in order to give Lois Lerner of the IRS the opportunity to get ahead of the pending Inspector General Report and make it seem as if the IRS had voluntarily...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2013 11 Comments
At congressional hearings today, it was revealed that IRS planted question at ABA mtg disclosing targeting of conservatives via communications between Celia Roady, a tax lawyer who asked the question, and Lois Lerner of the IRS who was on an ABA panel.  Roady has a deep...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on May 17, 2013 10 Comments
[Hearing now adjourned.] Start at 9 a.m. Eastern. You can view it on CSPAN-2. [live video and Twitter fees removed] Congressman Roskam (IL-06) did a particularly good job: IRS IG George: #IRS targeting of conservative groups began in early 2010, DC officials became aware in...

Posted by David Gerstman on May 12, 2013 24 Comments
This morning Prof Jacobson observed IRS reaped hatred of Tea Party sown by Democrats and the media. A Tweeter responded: @leginsurrection Douthat makes the same point, in a NYer’s version of the argument nytimes.com/2013/05/12/opi… — Tampa (@S1CT) May 12, 2013 Indeed. Douthat laid out the...

Posted by David Gerstman on April 15, 2013 2 Comments
1) Bursting the balloon When I saw the following headline at the Baltimore Jewish Times I was worried, ” J Street Carved Out A Place In The U.S.-Israel Advocacy.” The article, written by managing editor, Maayan Jaffe starts by faithfully recounting all of J-Streets claims....
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