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Patterico: L.A. Times Repeats False and Discredited “Surge of Applications” Excuse for IRS’s Political Targeting
On Thursday, the L.A. Times published this attempt to exculpate the IRS by Matea Gold:
IRS problem started with vague tax exemption rules
IRS was ill-equipped to handle the deluge of tax-exempt applications from ‘social welfare’ organizations ...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 10:15am -07:00T (516 words)
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Patterico: Ted Rall Dodges My Questions
After I criticized the pointless cartoon by Ted Rall attacking anti-SWATting legislation, Rall showed up in comments to vaguely threaten a lawsuit against me — and to explain his cartoon as motivated by the fact that there are already several laws o...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 7:45am -07:00T (213 words)
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Patterico: Lois Lerner’s Seemingly Spontaneous and Honest Admission of IRS Wrongdoing Was Planned; Questioner Was a Plant
But Lois Lerner couldn’t have planned the admission because it was in response to a question!
Um.
TPM:
The veteran tax lawyer whose pre-arranged question to an IRS official at a panel last week prompted the admission that the agency had targeted con...
Dateline: 2013-05-18 7:45am -07:00T (176 words)
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Patterico: IRS Asked Pro-Life Group About the Content of Its Members’ Prayers
And the IRS official immediately denounced that question and said it was outrageous.
Oh, wait — no, he didn’t.
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Dateline: 2013-05-17 6:15pm -07:00T (18 words)
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Patterico: Lanny Davis: White House Counsel Knew?
Lanny Davis:
I’ve been told today by several reporters that President Obama’s White House counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, knew for several days — perhaps weeks —that some Internal Revenue Service officials were engaging in political targeting of conser...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 8:45am -07:00T (125 words)
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Patterico: Triathlon
[guest post by JD]
I am off to the most challenging triathlon I have ever attempted – 3 days, 4 triathlons. Tonight is a sprint distance, Sat AM Olympic distance, Sat PM Olympic distance, and Sunday half Ironman.
Hopefully I will survive.
—J...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:30am -07:00T (42 words)
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Patterico: Ted Rall Appears in Comments to Explain His Pointless Anti-SWATting Bill Cartoon
Ted Rall is in the comments of this post, where he tries to explain his recent cartoon opposing an anti-SWATting bill.
Commenter #21 is correct. This cartoon is conservative libertarian in orientation. Why do we need a new law here? Anyone who pulls such ...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 7:30am -07:00T (369 words)
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Patterico: Compare and Contrast
Obama:
Bush:
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Dateline: 2013-05-16 8:15pm -07:00T (1 words)
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Patterico: Obama Has Marine Hold Umbrella Over His Head
Hold your own umbrella there, cowboy:
UPDATE: Allahpundit:
Via Greg Hengler, I’m sure this has been done before by other presidents, simply because the optics are sufficiently bad that Team O wouldn’t have tried it without precedent to cite in its de...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 7:15pm -07:00T (45 words)
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Patterico: Obama Goes from Bad to Worse to WAAAAAY Worse on Terrorism
Bad: we have terrorists in the witness protection program.
Worse: they fly on commercial airlines and are not on watchlists:
The Justice Department failed to provide the names of some terrorists in the witness protection program to the center that maintai...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 7:15pm -07:00T (377 words)
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Patterico: ABC News Headline: IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office
Let me repeat that, now that you have stopped rubbing your eyes:
IRS Official in Charge During Tea Party Targeting Now Runs Health Care Office
The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit target...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 6:00pm -07:00T (100 words)
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Patterico: Ted Rall’s Cartoon in Opposition (I Guess) to anti-SWATting Legislation
Ted Rall compared U.S. soldiers to suicide bombers; mocked widows of terror victims; profited from Pat Tillman’s death; assumed the voice of Iraqi soldiers talking about killing American soldiers; made leftist political hay out of the Nick Berg behe...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 8:30am -07:00T (132 words)
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Patterico: Everything Wrong with Jurassic Park in 3 Minutes
This is pretty funny.
The proofreader in me is most amused at the fact that the makers of the movie spelled Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus wrong....
Dateline: 2013-05-16 8:30am -07:00T (24 words)
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Patterico: More Fun IRS Scandal Stories: Low-Level Employees Just Doing Bosses’ Bidding, Plus, The Curious Case of the Conservative Name Change
STORY ONE: Those low-level employees apparently say they were doing what their bosses asked them to do:
Prior to his resignation, Steven Miller called the two Cincinnati employees ‘rogue’ and ‘off the reservation’, adding that they...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 11:00pm -07:00T (349 words)
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Patterico: The Transparency Continues: Obama Demands Resignation of IRS Official … Who Was Quitting Anyway
Daily Mail:
President Barack Obama has thrown his acting IRS commissioner overboard, making Steven Miller the highest-ranking political casualty thus far in a series of scandals that have swept his administration in recent weeks.
In a hastily called press...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 7:15pm -07:00T (259 words)
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