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• A Washington ‘whodunit’: who fed bogus Benghazi ‘emails’ to the media?

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  The revelation this week that emails provided to key congressional committees by the White House in response to Benghazi-hysteria among Republicans, may have been altered before being leaked to the conservative Weekly Standard and to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl touched off speculation in at least some media quarters.

  At [...]

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• This week’s Herald column: Investigate the IRS? Sure! Let’s start with the Bush years

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  Cartoon by Jim Morin (see Jim’s work here)

  This week, I agree with those on the right who want to investigate the IRS for abuse of Americans when it comes to how it treats tax exempt status for organizations. So … can we start with what the Bush-era IRS [...]

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• Ladies and gentlemen, the totally non-partisan, apolitical tea party …

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  Gallup (ok, it’s Gallup… ) found in 2010 that 78 percent tea partiers self-identified as  Republicans (62 percent “conservative Republicans,” 16 percent “moderate/liberal Republicans…”

  Tea party support is 9 in 10 among Republicans … less than 50 percent among everybody else. From an ABC-commissioned poll in [...]

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• Yes, I called Republican Benghazi hunters ’9/11 truthers’

  … because they are, Blanche. They AHRE in that chair.

  Here’s the clip from Wednesday’s Politics Nation, in which I appeared with Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton and the Rev.

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  And by the way …

  The reason Mike [...]

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• Joy on ‘Meet the Press’ May 5, 2013

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  I was on with former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., former House speaker Newt Gingrich and the National Review‘s Rich Lowry. Fun, fun, fun!

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  Part two after the jump …

  In part two, we discussed gay rights, and [...]

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• This week’s Herald column: New America held hostage, by Old America

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  Photo from Z Magazine

  They aren’t going to secede …

  A clip from this week’s column:

  There have been so many essays written dissecting the state of conservatism, the notion that it is in decline has become cliché. But decline doesn’t mean disappearance.

  The political place where most conservatives live, the [...]

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• Who’s afraid of shutting down Gitmo?

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  President Obama reiterated in his press conference today that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a terrible idea, counterproductive to U.S. national security, and should be closed. He also said that he will continue to pursue doing so. That prompted the now familiar chorus of liberal Obama [...]

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• August Busch IV’s epic ‘I quit you’ letter to the NRA

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  August Busch IV

  Cheers to you, sir.

  I guess the disgust with the defeat of even modest gun reform in the Senate, where a background checks bill went down to defeat on Wednesday, has spread beyond the Twittersphere (and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and Newtown, and Gabby Giffords)… Adolphus “August” Busch, [...]

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• Senators who voted for and against gun safety: here’s when they’re up for re-election

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  Despite the real anger, disgust, really, with those 45 Senators who voted against gun safety legislation on Wednesday (contact info for them is here), the real fallout could come at re-election time, as both the president and Gabby Giffords have said. So here’s a handy-dandy guide to [...]

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• Baby bruh tweets: ‘FC [1Hunnid]‘ by the Foodchain (video)

  It’s never a bad time for quality hip-hop. This crew out of Denver is producing. So industry, what’s up…?

  BTW this one is my brother (@Ther_ill_est on Twitter)

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