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15 May 2013, 11:56 am
Election Law Blog has posted a copy of the report here. The report is fairly limited in scope compared to the revelations that have been made in the press this week. The report, however, is worth a read since it raises new questions that the Congress and Department of Justice will need to sort out.
Listed below are some of the articles discussing the IG Report and other developments:
USA Today, IRS approved liberal groups while Tea party in limbo
Washington Post, IG Report:… [read post]
15 May 2013, 11:42 am
How can this be?
Most people are now familiar with President’s Obama’s proposal to cut Social Security by reducing the annual cost of living adjustment. While the final formula is somewhat convoluted, the net effect is to reduce benefits by an average of roughly 3.0 percent.
Since Social Security benefits account for more than 70 percent of the income of a typical retiree, this cut is more than a 2.0 percent reduction in income. By comparison, a wealthy couple earning $500,000 a year… [read post]
15 May 2013, 8:20 am
Logo of the Internal Revenue Service (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The headlines were filled this morning with accusations, defenses and more about the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s increased, targeted scrutiny of the applications of specific tax exempt organizations.
Details about what actually happened – and who knew what and when – are still murky. An investigation into the timeline and the players in the scandal is ongoing. The U.S. Treasury Inspector General… [read post]
15 May 2013, 6:15 am
Jane and I are in Arlington, Virginia, for a conference on Competition Policy in Search and Social Media at George Mason University. Jane, Neil Richards, Dawn Nunziato, and Stuart Benjamin will discuss the interplay of the First Amendment, regulation, and search / social media. I expect an entertaining fight over whether search results are speech, not speech, or something in between. [read post]
15 May 2013, 1:29 am
The BC Liberals win, despite the polls showing the contrary. After similar bad predictions in Alberta, does this spell the end of polling as we knew it? [read post]
14 May 2013, 10:28 pm
After a 40-year absence, enemies lists are making a comeback in Washington D.C. The ordinarily mild-mannered Center for Food Safety (CFS) Tuesday put out a list of what it called “food industry front groups” that it charged with being guilty of deceptive practices.
“Front groups like these have long served as an industry tool to delude and deceive the public, and to avoid much-needed government regulation,” said CFS Executive Director Andrew Kimbrell. He said the list… [read post]
14 May 2013, 10:04 pm
In its most important land use decision since 2011, the California Supreme Court has upheld local governments’ power to ban marijuana dispensaries within their jurisdictions. Last week the court unanimously rejected marijuana advocates’ claim that such local bans are preempted by California state law. The Supreme Court’s opinion in City of Riverside v. Inland Empire Patients Health and Wellness Center, Inc. can be found here.
The seeds of this dispute can be found in… [read post]
14 May 2013, 7:56 pm
This past weekend, The New York Times set out to rehabilitate in the minds of community bankers the image of a woman whose performance in a congressional hearing was once described by The Atlantic's Megan McArdle as "like watching your crazy aunt challenge your boyfriend to prove that fairies aren't real." That's right, you guessed it: Maxine Waters.
The reporter describes a meeting between Mad Max(ine) and community bankers in her district in which Rep. Waters was feeling the pain of the bankers… [read post]
14 May 2013, 1:46 pm
The New York Times report on the criminal investigation into the IRS scandal. [read post]
14 May 2013, 1:34 pm
US Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at a press conference at the Justice Department in Washington on April 4, 2011. (Image credit: AFP/Getty Images via @daylife)
Just days after the news surfaced that the Internal Revenue Service improperly targeted certain applications for tax-exempt status based on keywords and politically charged language, Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that he has ordered an FBI investigation into the matter. Specifically, the criminal inquiry will focus on… [read post]
14 May 2013, 1:32 pm
The Wall Street Journal just published an article discussing Attorney General Eric Holder’s disclosure that the Department of Justice has launched a criminal probe into the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups. [read post]
14 May 2013, 12:38 pm
The mounting problems facing the IRS continued to expand on Monday. News outlets disclosed that IRS employees and officials outside of the Cincinnati office sent inappropriate requests for information to conservative nonprofit groups and that high-level IRS officials were apparently briefed on the program or aware of its existence earlier than previously disclosed. ABC News also published a timeline of events that appears to come from the Inspector General’s report that is… [read post]
14 May 2013, 12:33 pm
The Washington Post is reporting that Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed during a press conference today that he has ordered the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to probe the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups. This represents a major escalation in this matter and may complicate the congressional hearings scheduled for this Friday involving IRS officials. [read post]
14 May 2013, 11:25 am
“I want seven hearings a week, times 40 weeks," he said in 2010. I suspect he hasn't achieved quite those numbers. But I'd say that Darrell ("our gremlins are different") Issa, has done a spectacular job of establishing himself not merely as the richest member of the House but the one who gets the most, then perhaps the most visible and memorable, TV time. Poor John Boehner, orange-faced and weepy, surely racks up more hours in his role as the most ineffectual House leader… [read post]
14 May 2013, 10:56 am
"Sure, one is a twangy Texan with that shit-kicking, boot-wearing thing going on (despite being a double-ivied, cosmopolitan kind of guy). The other is a Jersey bruiser, with a (much-discussed) physique reminiscent of Tony Soprano after a doughnut bender. But both are delivering a booster shot of testosterone to the GOP in a way few have managed to pull off of late...."Writes Michelle Cottle in The Daily Beast (erasing Cruz's Hispanicity and Christie's stomach surgery).
Despite the centrality of… [read post]
14 May 2013, 9:54 am
Sometimes it really is more important to ask the question than to find "the" answer; after all, those answers are often fixed in time and avoidance.
There is — at long last — increasing controversy about the "right way" to treat mental health issues. There's an incredibly simple and obvious answer, but it's not one that the various constituencies are going to like: There is no one [read post]
14 May 2013, 7:07 am
That's what reality-show maestro Mark Burnett thought, but Sarah said no.
Burnett has insisted that Palin do the show from either New York or Los Angeles, which would require her to move for a significant portion of the year from her residence in Alaska where she lives with husband Todd.
Whether that was really the basis for the no or not, it's great PR. She's devoted to Alaska and her husband Todd. That's the kind of thing that gives women — some women — chills of feeling, I say… [read post]
13 May 2013, 10:03 pm
The veto by Tennessee Republican Gov. Bill Haslam of a bill requiring anyone taking pictures or shooting video of animal abuse to turn the evidence over to law enforcement within 48 hours may have national impact.
Haslam’s veto, coming on the heels of an opinion by his democratic Attorney General that the so-called “ag-gag” measures are “constitutionally suspect,” could be a turning point. Tennessee Attorney General Bob Cooper said SB 1248/HB 1191 possibly… [read post]
13 May 2013, 10:02 pm
Levels of inorganic arsenic found in samples of chicken may be responsible for a very slight increase in cancer risk to consumers over their lifetimes, according to a study by researchers at John Hopkins University published this week.
That research comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration two weeks ago by the Center for Food Safety and eight other government watchdog organizations which demands that the FDA respond to a three-year-old petition to disallow… [read post]
13 May 2013, 7:26 pm
WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 26: Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee January 26, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
“IRS Issues Apology for Targeting Tea Party Group”
I’ll admit that headline caught my attention – but probably not for the reasons you think. The targeting bit didn’t give me pause at all – but the apology did. The Internal… [read post]