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On July 10th, the IRS held a press conference to formally apologize for elements and/or individuals within the organization who they now admit were specifically targeting conservative organizations during the 2012 election season for additional scrutiny. Any organization using the title “tea” or “patriot” was flagged for a review of their tax returns. Of the 300 organizations flagged for scrutiny in Cincinnati, 75 of them were conservative organizations identifying with the tea party movement.

But this is not the worst part of the problem. There’s good evidence that, across multiple states, conservative organizations were targeted by the IRS in numerous ways. From unusually long questionnaires demanding membership rosters and donor lists, to warning letters sent out to donors suggesting that their contributions to 501(c) groups could be retroactively taxed. And all this right as the 2012 election season began to heat up.

Could this be seen by some as an attempt to chill political speech? Of course. Even liberal NY Time opinion columnist Maureen Dowd agrees with this!

How did the White House respond to this revelation? How do you think? They blamed Bush of course!
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Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford wins the special election yesterday for the 1st Congressional District, beating Elizabeth Colbert Busch 54-45. The seat was vacated by Tim Scott when he was appointed to the U.S. Senate by current Governor Nikki Haley after Jim Demint resigned to head the Heritage Foundation. Sanford′s victory could be seen as redemption for his silly Appalachian Trail story when he was visiting his girlfriend in South America. Democrats had pushed hard to win the seat and the Liberal Media did all they could to trash Sanford. Will Stephen Colbert hang his head in shame over his sister′s loss? Will Barack Obama now have to face the probability that the 2014 mid-term elections will keep the House in Republican hands?

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Houston, Texas is the scene for the NRA Convention 2013 as Second Amendment supporters celebrate the defeat of Barack Obama′s gun control attempt. The National Rifle Association event began on Thursday and ends Sunday with an impressive list of speakers. Texas Governor Rick Perry, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin and even talk radio stars like ′The Great One′, Mark Levin and our old pal Glenn Beck praised the NRA and real Americans for protecting our gun rights. Meanwhile, our nation′s first anti-president, Barack Hussein Obama, was in Mexico apologizing for that country being flooded with American-made firearms. Forgetting about the Obama administration′s own hand in providing weapons to drug cartels through ′Fast and Furious′, one could argue that most of the guns were made in China, such as semi-auto versions of the AK-47.

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Sarah Palin wowed the crowd at the CPAC 2013 convention. The former governor of Alaska still has it when it comes to delivering a rousing, populist speech. Palin even got a 2-minute standing ovation merely for sipping from a Big Gulp! Who else could get that? More importantly, she connected the many failures of Barack Obama to the misfortunes of Middle Class America. All of Washington, for that matter! Her advice to the Inside the Beltway gang is to ″get over yourself!″

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The eyes of some one billion-plus Catholics are on the Sistine Chapel as the papal election begins today with Conclave 2013 holding its first vote. Now that the 115 members of the College of Cardinals are gathered in Vatican City, the process for selecting a replacement for the now retired Pope Emeritus Benedict VXI will start. Cardinal Angelo Sodano is calling for unity for the Church, which has had some rough times over the recent decades. An early front runner, according to InTrade, is Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan. The Papal Conclave held their traditional mass this morning and we could have a new pope should one get the necessary 2/3rds plus 1 ballots in the first vote to be held this afternoon. Thousands of Catholics and the curious are watching the roof of the Sistine Chapel for the signal of either black smoke, meaning no one won, or white smoke announcing that a new pope has been elected.

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Jeb Bush says a 2016 run for the White House is not ruled out. This as the former Florida governor makes the rounds pushing his new book, Immigration Wars: Forging an American Solution. Bush told Matt Lauer of the Today Show that a decision to run for Republican Party nomination is still a long way off. Bush will be speaking at the CPAC 2013 convention in Baltimore along with Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney, as well as other GOP notables. There has been some ire in the Media about Chris Christie not being invited to be among the 22 speakers at CPAC, although they forget that he gave the keynote address last year, which usually means no invite the following convention. So, is America ready for another Bush presidency?

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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie might be invited to speak at the next Water Buffalo Lodge meeting, but not at this year′s CPAC convention. The Conservation Political Action Committee has decided that he is not their cup of cactus tea! Perhaps some people are still fuming over Gov. Christie giving Barack Obama a nice photo-op following Hurricane Sandy? Given that exit poll data does suggest that a significant number of undecided voters did opt for Obama following the super-storm, critics of Christie might be correct in that he helped reelect Obama. CPAC is extending speaker invitations to such notable figures as Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Gov. Bobby Jindal, Senators Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz and Representative Paul Ryan. Even Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum are invited to speak at CPAC.

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Every year, the National Journal rates the US Senate and the House members on ideology, and then tells us who are the most liberal and conservative in each body. Here, we’ll look at who were the most liberal senators last year and compare it to the most liberal senators in 2011.

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