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  The White House released 100 pages worth of e-mails related to the Benghazi! attack.

  The Obama administration released 100 pages of e-mails Wednesday that reveal differences between intelligence analysts and State Department officials over how to initially describe the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, [...]

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• Honey, They Shrunk the Deficit

  The federal budget deficit — what had once been the portent of the Apocalypse and the destroyer of worlds — at least according to the Republicans who created it — has been tamed and caged, according to Ezra Klein and the Congressional Budget Office.

  Here’s the short version: Washington’s most [...]

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• Unacceptable and Shameful

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  Attorney General Eric Holder doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and he proved it yesterday with a smackdown of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) who was getting all in his face.

  Issa aggressively questioned Holder about the Obama administration’s discussions with Labor Secretary nominee Tom Perez, and suggested that there was a violation [...]

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• Revolt From the Village

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  According to Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei at Politico, the biggest scandal in Washington isn’t Benghazi!, the IRS, or the AP.  It’s President Obama not playing nice with the people of the Village.

  The town is turning on President Obama — and this is very bad news for this White [...]

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• Short Takes

  President Obama sacked Steven Miller, the acting head of the IRS.

  Deadly tornadoes hit Texas.

  The White House released hundreds of e-mails related to the Benghazi! talking points.

  Iraq — Bomb attacks in Baghdad killed more than 35 people.

  Syria — The U.N. condemned the government for attacking civilians.

  Yet [...]

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• A Little Night Music

  I can read a little music and play a little less on the piano, but one look at this sheet music and… whoever said ragtime music doesn’t require pure talent and musicianship had no idea what they’re talking about.

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• Question of the Day

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  Shamelessly nicked from Melissa:

  What is the last book you tried to read but just couldn’t finish?

  For me, it was The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.  I could barely make it through the movie version, either.

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• Assume the Worst

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  Question for you: When the news broke about the Justice Department going after the phone records of journalists at the AP, how many of you immediately thought that the government was up to no good and that we were once again on the road to a Watergate-style scandal of [...]

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• Ineffective Management

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  The Inspector General’s report on the IRS is out.

  Ineffective management at the Internal Revenue Service allowed agents to improperly target tea party groups for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax exempt status, an internal Treasury Department report said Tuesday.

  Lax managers allowed the practice to go on for more [...]

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• E-mail Recall

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  It looks like those e-mails that set off a lot of wingers on the Benghazi! “scandal” were edited to make the administration look like they were hiding things.

  CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack [...]

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