http://www.realclearpolitics.com/ en Copyright 2008 Wed, 22 May 2013 14:55:07 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 22 May 2013 13:33:32 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Never lacking chutzpah, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., the Chief Obstructionist of the Party of No, turned up on Meet the Press Sunday to denounce the Obama administration for creating "a culture of intimidation" that led the IRS to target conservative, non-profit groups for special scrutiny.His suggestion, that the president was behind the tax agency's alleged misbehavior, was strong; his evidence to support this insinuation was weak. McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, claims the Obama administration has created a "nanny state" that tells Americans what to do --...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/21/republicans_relish_role_as_party_of_no_308190.htmlhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/21/republicans-gop-obstructionism-dewayne-wickham/2346683/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/21/republicans-gop-obstructionism-dewayne-wickham/2346683/ 100308190 PM Update DeWayne Wickham, USA Today Republicans Relish Role as Party of No Wed, 22 May 2013 14:13:01 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 As multiple scandals have simultaneously engulfed the Obama administration, a number of political observers have cautioned Republicans against overreaching. Liberal blogger Greg Sargent writes over at the Washington Post that, “the current scandal-mania gripping the GOP risks bringing about a rerun of 1998, when the frenzy amid the Monica Lewinsky revelations led the GOP to overreach, resulting in backlash.” Charlie Cook reaches a similar conclusion:]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/scandals_unlikely_to_backfire_on_republicans_308229.htmlhttp://washingtonexaminer.com/five-reasons-why-focus-on-scandals-is-unlikely-to-backfire-on-gop-as-in-1998/article/2530215?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2005/22/2013&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Ophttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://washingtonexaminer.com/five-reasons-why-focus-on-scandals-is-unlikely-to-backfire-on-gop-as-in-1998/article/2530215?utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20-%2005/22/2013&utm_medium=email&utm_campai 100308229 PM Update Philip Klein, DC Examiner Scandals Unlikely to Backfire on Republicans Wed, 22 May 2013 14:34:24 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Unconstitutional. Sweeping. Secretive. Abusive. Harassing.Gary Pruitt, the president and CEO of the Associated Press, used those words on CBS's Face the Nation to describe the Justice Department's seizure of two months of AP reporters' phone records in New York, Washington, and Hartford, Conn. As Attorney General Eric Holder said in an entirely different context, that's not hyperbole.Original reports on the subpoena indicated it called for the capture of phone logs of reporters' office phones, cell phones, and home phones. The subpoena did not allow the Justice...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/questions_about_obama_amp_the_first_amendment_308228.htmlhttp://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/obama-pushes-to-accommodate-not-protect-freedom-of-the-press-20130521http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/all-powers/obama-pushes-to-accommodate-not-protect-freedom-of-the-press-20130521 100308228 PM Update Major Garrett, Natl Jrnl Questions About Obama & the First Amendment Wed, 22 May 2013 14:26:10 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 One of my favorite cartoon strips in The Post, Mallard Fillmore, had a beauty yesterday. "In retrospect, I knew we handled Benghazi all wrong," a jug-eared President Obama says. "We should have called in an air strike . . . on those whistleblowers."There is much truth in the jest by artist Bruce Tinsley. The punch line captures Obama's attitude toward disagreement. He confuses dissenters with enemies, and tries to silence them.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/obama_confuses_dissenters_with_enemies_308238.htmlhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/loony_toon_snoop_policy_BHO77vEqVJUKJZlkgsH7JMhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/loony_toon_snoop_policy_BHO77vEqVJUKJZlkgsH7JM 100308238 PM Update Michael Goodwin, NY Post Obama Confuses Dissenters With Enemies Wed, 22 May 2013 13:37:34 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Much to my surprise, I find myself sympathizing with the Internal Revenue Service. Tenderness toward that agency isn't my default position. I'm a British expat living in the U.S., with retirement savings locked up in the U.K. and other cross-border entanglements -- these small complications have sometimes caused my dealings with tax professionals to displace landscape photography as my main and most expensive pastime. Say "IRS" to me and watch my teeth grind.On the other hand, I used to be a civil servant, so I also understand how stupid laws can create...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/why_i_have_sympathy_for_the_irs_308241.htmlhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/irs-foul-up-shows-how-bad-laws-breed-good-scandals.html 100308241 PM Update Clive Crook, Bloomberg Why I Have Sympathy for the IRS Wed, 22 May 2013 14:17:15 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 While national polls haven’t shown a shift in the public’s opinion of President Barack Obama’s performance, recent controversies have, in my view, significantly changed the political landscape.And changes in the landscape have led the Rothenberg Political Report to change its Senate ratings.For the past few years, the public’s focus has been on Republicans’ opposition to the president’s agenda, their desire to shrink (even cripple) government and their conservatism. But the IRS scandal, along with controversies involving the attack...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_political_environment_turns_on_dems_308254.htmlhttp://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/senate-ratings-changes-the-political-environment-turns-on-democrats/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://blogs.rollcall.com/rothenblog/senate-ratings-changes-the-political-environment-turns-on-democrats/ 100308254 PM Update Stuart Rothenberg, Roll Call The Political Environment Turns On Dems Wed, 22 May 2013 12:27:52 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 There's been a lot of speculation lately as to why President Obama hasn't had more success rallying the American people and Congress around his agenda, accompanied by criticism of him for failing to do so. Most of this has come from those who either have or have had a favorable impression of the president. Some of these protestations have been direct and from more liberal quarters, such as Maureen Dowd's recent assertion that it was Obama's job to get Republicans "to behave," or the Washington Post editorial board's complaint in February that the...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/obama_as_the_green_lantern_118517.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/obama_as_the_green_lantern_118517.htmlhttp://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/obama_as_the_green_lantern_118517.html 200308239 PM Update Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics President Obama as the Green Lantern Wed, 22 May 2013 13:10:04 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 "When you grow government this big, these kinds of scandals are inevitable, and (President Obama) bears the responsibility for that," Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal told a group of Virginia Republicans over the weekend. Other conservatives are echoing this view -- that the scandals embroiling the administration undermine Obama's push for an activist "big government."I guess when you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail. For the GOP, anything that goes wrong in the government is instant proof that the government is too big and that the dark tyranny of liberalism is...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/liberalism_not_at_fault_for_recent_scandals_308226.htmlhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/21/liberalism-scandals-kirsten-powers-column/2347251/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/05/21/liberalism-scandals-kirsten-powers-column/2347251/ 100308226 PM Update Kirsten Powers, USA Today Liberalism Not at Fault for Recent Scandals Wed, 22 May 2013 14:19:08 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 You know you are a serious societal pestilence when even politicians can kick you around. Which is why the Senate Finance Committee called Steven Miller, former acting IRS commissioner, to testify about the agency’s scheme targeting conservatives for tax punishment.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/what_if_americans_don039t_pay_their_taxes_next_april_308204.htmlhttp://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/21/hurt-irs-figures-find-grilling-before-congress-tax/http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/21/hurt-irs-figures-find-grilling-before-congress-tax/?page=all#pagebreak 100308204 PM Update Charles Hurt, WT What If Americans Don't Pay Their Taxes Next April? Wed, 22 May 2013 13:41:02 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Republicans are howling for President Obama to name a special prosecutor to investigate the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of Tea Party groups. The president should call their bluff.The president should announce that he has told the Justice Department to appoint an independent investigator with bulldog instincts and bipartisan credibility. The list of candidates could start with Kenneth Starr, who chased down the scandals, real and imagined, of the Clinton presidency. It might include Patrick Fitzgerald, who was special counsel in the Valerie Plame affair, winning the...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/obama_should_call_for_special_counsel_on_irs_308244.htmlhttp://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/21/bring-back-ken-starr/ 100308244 PM Update Bill Keller, New York Times Obama Should Call for Special Counsel on IRS Wed, 22 May 2013 14:25:54 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Compromise is often an unhappily revealing art. “Ideals may tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are,” the philosopher Avishai Margalit writes. In finding compromises with Republicans on the federal budget, Democrats need to remember not only who they are but who the voters depend on them to be.From that standpoint, the start of the budget battle in early April did not go well. Acceding to Republican demands for cuts in Social Security and Medicare, the president’s budget left his party open to a cynical but...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/bad_faith_and_budget_politics_308246.htmlhttp://prospect.org/article/bad-faith-and-budget-politicshttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://prospect.org/article/bad-faith-and-budget-politics 100308246 PM Update Paul Starr, American Prospect Bad Faith and Budget Politics Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:32 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 The ongoing IRS scandal has struck such a nerve with the public because it is a clear example of a prying, ever-present government abusing its revenue-raising power and succumbing to the temptation of easy corruption. There are few things more outrageous with regard to the government’s ability to fund its own corrupt practices–but the latest scandal out of Florida may be one of those cases.Media Trackers points to this investigation by Florida’s WTSP-St. Petersburg 10 News, which notes that the Florida Department of Transportation instituted a particularly...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_corruption_of_traffic_light_cameras_308249.htmlhttp://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/21/the-danger-and-rampant-corruption-of-traffic-light-cameras/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/21/the-danger-and-rampant-corruption-of-traffic-light-cameras/ 100308249 PM Update Seth Mandel, Commentary The Corruption of Traffic Light Cameras Wed, 22 May 2013 14:07:11 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 ]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_big_fat_truth_overweight_can_be_healthy_308255.htmlhttp://www.realclearscience.com/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearscience.com/ 100308255 PM Update Virginia Hughes, Nature Wed, 22 May 2013 06:22:54 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Message to the president: Resistance is futile.There are plenty of juicy targets for investigators in the IRS scrutiny of conservative organizations that applied for tax-exempt status, but the most dangerous for President Obama is this: Did bureaucrats in Cincinnati create this mess on their own? Or did someone in the White House give the marching orders to target the president's enemies?The Treasury Department's inspector general asked that latter question of the IRS brass, and they said no — but he didn't demand their emails and phone records.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/message_to_obama_come_clean_on_irs_308205.htmlhttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-obama-irs-20130522,0,838129.columnhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcmanus-column-obama-irs-20130522,0,838129.column 100308205 AM Update Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times Message to Obama: Come Clean on IRS Wed, 22 May 2013 07:58:30 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 It is never good for an administration when a front-page newspaper article about an ongoing controversy begins as follows: "The White House offered a new account Monday of how and when it learned ."‰."‰. " That's what readers of The Post awoke to on Tuesday. In trying to contain the controversy and protect President Obama, White House officials have only added to questions about what happened.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/on_irs_targeting_white_house_adds_to_confusion_308191.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-more-clarity-white-house-adds-to-confusion-on-irs/2013/05/21/a40c54f2-c24d-11e2-8c3b-0b5e9247e8ca_story.html 100308191 AM Update Dan Balz, Wash Post On IRS Targeting, White House Adds to Confusion Wed, 22 May 2013 06:10:31 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 The figure in the Internal Revenue Service controversy whom lawmakers most want to hear from will continue to keep quiet.Lois Lerner, an IRS official who led the agency's tax exemption division, will invoke her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at a scheduled House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing Wednesday. Chairman Darrell Issa has issued a subpoena for Lerner to testify, but it is not clear whether she will make her plea in person.Lerner's refusal to speak raises questions about whether her testimony would have implicated the White House, or exposed criminal...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/irs_official_to_plead_the_fifth_lawmakers_irked_118506.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/irs_official_to_plead_the_fifth_lawmakers_irked_118506.htmlhttp://dyn.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/irs_official_to_plead_the_fifth_lawmakers_irked_118506.html 200308194 AM Update Caitlin Huey-Burns, RealClearPolitics IRS Official to Plead the Fifth Wed, 22 May 2013 06:43:12 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 What’s the difference between keeping President Obama “updated throughout the night” on a deadly terrorist attack in Benghazi and keeping him “updated throughout the night” on a deadly tornado in Oklahoma?The president could have actually done something about Benghazi.Have you been watching the president the past 36 hours or so? Lots of photos of him calling officials in Oklahoma, offering federal help. Speeches in front of the camera expressing his condolences to the tornado victims and pledging to rebuild.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/obama_in_charge_on_tornado_awol_on_benghazi_308209.htmlhttp://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/05/president_obama_twisted_up_over_benghazihttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2013/05/president_obama_twisted_up_over_benghazi 100308209 AM Update Michael Graham, BH Obama in Charge on Tornado, AWOL on Benghazi Wed, 22 May 2013 06:50:42 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce on a second-term Democratic president they loathe, do not respect, and certainly do not fear. Sound familiar? Perhaps reminiscent of Bill Clinton’s second term, after the Monica Lewinsky story broke? During that time, Republicans became so consumed by their hatred of Clinton and their conviction that this event would bring him down that they convinced themselves the rest of the country was just as outraged by his behavior as they were. By the way, what was Clinton’s lowest Gallup job-approval rating in his second...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/gop_blind_to_public_disinterest_in_scandals_308164.htmlhttp://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/off-to-the-races/republicans-hatred-of-obama-blinds-them-to-public-disinterest-in-scandals-20130520http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/off-to-the-races/republicans-hatred-of-obama-blinds-them-to-public-disinterest-in-scandals-20130520 100308164 AM Update Charlie Cook, National Jrnl GOP Blind to Public Disinterest in Scandals Wed, 22 May 2013 07:26:39 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Revelations concerning Benghazi, the IRS, and government probing of the Associated Press make it increasingly clear that Barack Obama was led astray by his friends in the media. They intended no harm to the president, needless to say. But by withholding the criticism that prods public officials into doing a better job, by choosing not to print negative stories and commentaries about the Obama administration, the press corps tempted the president and his staff with visions of invincibility. The pro-Obama news crew"”with a boost from the Nobel Peace Prize...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/obama_led_astray_by_his_friends_in_the_media_308220.htmlhttp://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon0521cw.htmlhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.city-journal.org/2013/eon0521cw.html 100308220 AM Update Clark Whelton, City Jrnl Obama Led Astray by His Friends in the Media Wed, 22 May 2013 06:58:37 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 There are various reasons you might not care about the Obama administration’s spying on journalist James Rosen and labeling him a “co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor” in an espionage case. Liberals may not be particularly bothered because the targeted journalist works for Fox News. Conservatives may not be concerned because of their antipathy toward the news media generally. And the general public certainly doesn’t have much patience for journalists’ whining.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/wh_investigates_reporters_for_doing_their_jobs_308202.htmlhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-in-ap-rosen-investigations-government-makes-criminals-of-reporters/2013/05/21/377af392-c24e-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html 100308202 AM Update Dana Milbank, Wash Post WH Investigates Reporters for Doing Their Jobs Wed, 22 May 2013 08:42:43 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Although there’s still a great deal to be learned about the scandals and controversies swirling around the White House like so many ominous dorsal fins in the surf, the nature of President Obama’s bind is becoming clear. The best defenses of his administration require undermining the rationale for his presidency.“We’re portrayed by Republicans as either being lying or idiots. It’s actually closer to us being idiots.” So far, this is the administration’s best defense.It was offered to CBS News’ Sharyl Attkisson by...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/obamas_idiot_defense_118507.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/05/22/obamas_idiot_defense_118507.html 200308223 AM Update Jonah Goldberg, National Review Obama's "Idiot" Defense Wed, 22 May 2013 07:15:51 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved a broad overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws on a bipartisan vote, sending the most significant immigration policy changes in decades to the full Senate, where the debate is expected to begin next month.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/immigration_bill_clears_senate_panel_308206.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/us/politics/leahy-voices-optimism-as-panel-continues-work-on-immigration-bill.html?hphttp://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/us/politics/leahy-voices-optimism-as-panel-continues-work-on-immigration-bill.xml?hp 100308206 AM Update Parker & Preston, New York Times Immigration Bill Clears Senate Panel Wed, 22 May 2013 07:18:03 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Republican senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have arrived at the contentious issue of immigration from very similar places. Both came from immigrant families. Both have Cuban roots. Both rose to the Senate with help from the Tea Party and still speak in glowing terms about how the U.S. remains the greatest nation for downtrodden immigrants to lift themselves up.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/ted_cruz_versus_marco_rubio_on_immigration_308197.htmlhttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/21/rubio-cruz-immigration-citizenship/2162423/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/21/rubio-cruz-immigration-citizenship/2162423/ 100308197 AM Update Alan Gomez, USA Today Ted Cruz Versus Marco Rubio on Immigration Wed, 22 May 2013 06:15:12 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 In a recent announcement, Westinghouse Nuclear and the China's State Nuclear Power Technology Corp. declared a joint venture to develop small modular reactors -- submarine-size nuclear boilers that many people believe are the future of nuclear technology.It is not the first time Westinghouse and China have agreed to work together. The Chinese are putting the finishing touches on the world's first Westinghouse AP1000, a "passive" design that incorporates many of the safety lessons learned at Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. The first unit is just coming on line at...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/us_forfeits_lead_in_nuclear_technology_308201.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/topic/in_the_news/fuelingus/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/topic/in_the_news/fuelingus/ 100308201 AM Update William Tucker, RealClearEnergy US Forfeits Lead in Nuclear Technology Wed, 22 May 2013 09:30:01 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 With his estimated wealth exceeding $200 million, Albert Arnold Gore has come a long way from the time he began a career in government politics. But it hasn’t all been a green path. He can thank some earlier events for paving over muddy ground, a time when his father, Al Gore Sr. met Occidental Petroleum’s CEO Armand Hammer at a cattle auction in the 1940s.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_greening_of_al_gore039s_bank_account_308224.htmlhttp://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/05/21/the-greening-of-gores-bank-account/ 100308224 AM Update Larry Bell, Forbes The Greening Of Al Gore's Bank Account Wed, 22 May 2013 04:53:54 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Have nursing homes, fast-food restaurants, and other low-wage industries found a way to wriggle out of some Obamacare requirements? Maybe.Today many (and possibly most) of these employers either don’t provide insurance or provide barebones coverage that doesn’t really cover much. Obamacare is supposed to change that. When its big coverage provisions take effect in January, employers with more than 50 employees are supposed to provide real insurance—or pay a stiff penalty. But some employers and insurers may find a way to avoid facing that choice: They’d...]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/21/weaseling_out_of_obamacare_308161.htmlhttp://www.newrepublic.com/article/113257/low-wage-employers-try-avoid-obamacare-mandatehttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113257/low-wage-employers-try-avoid-obamacare-mandate 100308161 AM Update Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic Weaseling Out of ObamaCare Wed, 22 May 2013 07:19:55 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 IRS Illegally Usurps Congress with New Law in ObamacareAs an internist, I have dedicated my 30-year career to advancing the long-term health of all of my patients, one patient at a time.Unfortunately, the greatest barrier to this goal is government intervention into my professional judgment, my office management and my patient care. This has been increasingly true long before enactment of the onerous Affordable Care Act (ACA), but it's especially true now.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/obamacare_irs_creating_chaos_for_docs_patients_308211.htmlhttp://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/052113-657028-obamacare-give-irs-say-in-patient-care.htmhttp://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/052113-657028-obamacare-give-irs-say-in-patient-care.htm 100308211 AM Update Charles Willey, IBD ObamaCare, IRS Creating Chaos for Docs, Patients Wed, 22 May 2013 04:53:25 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 Most Americans believe that the job market has grown more turbulent, with people changing employers ever more often. In reality, the opposite is happening.This, in turn, largely explains why fewer Americans than ever are moving across state lines. And as intergenerational income mobility also declines, U.S. families may be in for a new era of restricted opportunity.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/21/as_job_flow_slows_americans_get_stuck_in_place_308195.htmlhttp://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-21/as-job-flow-slows-americans-get-stuck-in-place.html 100308195 AM Update Peter Orszag, Bloomberg As Job Flow Slows, Americans Get Stuck in Place Wed, 22 May 2013 06:47:16 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 President Obama has raised the national debt by nearly $6.2 trillion, the equivalent of $78,385 per family of four. It is true that projected deficits recently have been reduced. April tax filings increased 28% from 2012, but much of this was thanks to a one-time rush at the end of 2012 to report income before rates rose in January. The second largest reduction in the deficit came from Fannie Mae FNMA +11.04% taking a one-time accounting adjustment.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_debt_problem_hasn039t_vanished_308189.htmlhttp://www.realclearpolicy.com/ 100308189 AM Update Gramm & McMillin, Wall St. Journal The Debt Problem Hasn't Vanished Wed, 22 May 2013 07:21:07 -0500 05/22/2013/00/00/00 It’s boom time in Washington DC. While the rest of the nation suffers through the worst recession since the 1930s, D.C. has boomed under the influx of stimulus funds and the lobbying to direct the stimulus’ destination. An unseen effect of this wealth has been the generosity of D.C.’s residents to the homeless population.TheDC spoke to several homeless people, and the money they make will likely cause many an impoverished intern and Hill staffer do a jealous double take.]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/begging_k-street_style_308214.htmlhttp://dailycaller.com/2013/05/22/begging-k-street-style-video/http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/22/begging-k-street-style-video/ 100308214 AM Update Grae Stafford, The Daily Caller Begging, K-Street Style http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/the_apple_tax_diversion_308199.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324102604578497263976945032.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop http://mobile2.wsj.com/device/article.php?mid=1&CALL_URL=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324102604578497263976945032.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop 100308199 Editorials Wed, 22 May 2013 09:32:36 -0500 Wall Street Journal The Apple Tax Diversion http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/another_chilling_leak_investigation_308200.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/opinion/another-chilling-leak-investigation.html?ref=todayspaper http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/05/22/opinion/another-chilling-leak-investigation.xml?ref=todayspaper 100308200 Editorials Wed, 22 May 2013 09:33:02 -0500 New York Times Another Chilling Leak Investigation http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/apple_makes_case_for_corporate_tax_reform_308203.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/apple-is-shifting-its-tax-burden/2013/05/21/a3a81404-c24f-11e2-9fe2-6ee52d0eb7c1_story.html?tid=pm_opinions_pop 100308203 Editorials Wed, 22 May 2013 09:33:39 -0500 Washington Post Apple Makes Case for Corporate Tax Reform http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/05/22/dem_senator_blames_tornado_on_climate_change_gop_308210.html http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/052113-657025-senator-blames-oklahoma-tornado-on-climate-change.htm http://www.google.com/gwt/n?u=http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/052113-657025-senator-blames-oklahoma-tornado-on-climate-change.htm 100308210 Editorials Wed, 22 May 2013 09:34:19 -0500 Investor's Biz Dly Dem Senator Blames Tornado on Climate Change, GOP