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Senate Judiciary Committee passes amnesty bill 13-5 Posted on May 21 2013 – 9:11 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter! Via the Washington Post: WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved far-reaching immigration legislation that gives a chance at citizenship to millions living in the country illegally. The 13-5 vote clears the bill for a Senate debate expected to begin early next month. Committee…

The Hill | Complaints of IRS targeting by religious groups on the rise Posted on May 21 2013 – 10:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter! The number of religious groups reporting they were improperly targeted by the  Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is increasing. At least a half-dozen conservative groups say they received an unusual degree of  scrutiny from the IRS, according  to the Religion…

    Getting former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to speak at the Republic High School graduation was an idea born in an English class discussion Tyler Weyer, senior class president said on the Palin Update with Kevin Scholla. Initially, the students considered other teachers or a prominent member of the community. When Gov. Palin was suggested, both English teacher Mike Lust and debate coach Liz Bremner advised Weyer to “start…

Read It and Weep Posted on May 21 2013 – 3:49 PM – Posted by: James V DeLong | Follow James on Twitter! The Competitive Enterprise Institute has just released the 2013 edition of 10,000 Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State. This is the 20th year for the publication, and it does not get any shorter. Highlights of the report: Total costs for Americans to comply with…

Matt Kibbe | Watergate 2.0: Why the IRS scandal is far worse Posted on May 21 2013 – 4:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter! In the wake of one of the worst abuses of government power in recent history,  many are rushing to frame the Internal Revenue Service scandal as simply an  attack on conservative activists. That view risks creating a partisan political  football…

Bernie Quigley is one of the few writers for an MSM publication who gets Governor Palin.  He has written extensively on her impact on culture and our current state of politics.  You can check out what he wrote about her last week here.   Today’s column on her was no exception.  He starts out by saying this: Why Sarah Palin? Because when I write a blog here on Jeb Bush or…

Commentary | Obama is the Ultimate Ad Hominem President Posted on May 20 2013 – 8:30 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter! At a fundraising event earlier this week in New York City, President Obama said this: What’s blocking us right now is a sort of hyper-partisanship in Washington that I was, frankly, hoping to overcome in 2008. My thinking was when we beat them…

Scott Conroy | AP Incident: What Will Press Advocate Clinton Say? Posted on May 20 2013 – 10:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter! But even as the Benghazi saga continues to unfold, a new controversy  confronting the Obama administration provides grounds for a separate review of  Clinton’s record at the State Department. When the Associated Press revealed  this week that the Justice Department had…

Obama Administration Spied on James Rosen of Fox News Posted on May 20 2013 – 3:35 PM – Posted by: Steve Flesher | Follow Steve on Twitter! While opinions vary on Fox News, it’s pretty hard to believe that the White House would actually spy on James Rosen.  Rosen is a great reporter, very serious, and doesn’t seem to often take the bait when it comes to writing narratives.  He…

John Fund | Strange Goings-On at the White House Posted on May 20 2013 – 4:00 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady | Follow Doug on Twitter! The recent spate of Washington scandals has some liberals finally confessing in public what many of them have said privately for a long time. The Obama administration is arrogant, insular, prone to intimidation of adversaries, and slovenly when it comes to seeing that…