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		<title>IRS: Lerner gets 4 Pinocchios … and pleads a fifth.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, now we’re starting to make some progress. Lois Lerner is the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS. She’s the one who answered a planted post-speech question  &#8212; by “apologizing”  for the IRS targeting conservative groups. Her public statements regarding the IRS fiasco has earned her 4 Pinocchios from the left-leaning Washington [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>Kudos: Michelle’s commencement speech rocks …</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I haven’t been a big Michelle Obama fan. Never recovered from her “first time I’m proud to be an American” snit … and totally turned off by her hypocritical  lifestyle of the rich &#38; famous routine. Biggest deal: I’ve oft said that she and her husband have squandered an opportunity to talk frankly to black [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>Rx: How to start fixing the IRS …</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Homa</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[OK, here’s my diagnosis – the Dx &#8212; and my short-term prescription – the Rx. First, the Dx … Of course, the Tea Party and other conservative groups were targeted for political purposes. Any claim of “efficiency procedures” or “inadvertent error” are simply ridiculous. Of course,  folks high up the food chain were involved … [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>Nums: Scandals important, but O’s rating is up … say, what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 22:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Homa</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[The term “Teflon president” is being re-calibrated. Here’s a head-scratcher: Despite the Benghazi, IRS and AP scandals, CNN reports that Obama’s job approval ratings have bumped up. That’s despite the parallel findings that respondents think the 3 scandals are important, that they are indeed scandals, and that they think that the GOP-led Congress is handling [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>IRS: An “efficiency initiative” that resulted in horrible “customer service” … say, what?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Homa</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was in the car on Friday morning and tuned the radio to the Congressional testimony of the Treasury IG and Acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller. In a word: frightening. First, the IG seems like a straight arrow.  HIs answers were direct, structured and fact-based. He dished the bad news, but wouldn’t take the GOP [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>Nums: Will the scandal hurt the IRS’s image?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Homa</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Trick question since the public’s perception of the IRS is already pretty low According to A Pew survey, the Internal Revenue Service, now under intense scrutiny for singling out conservative groups,  is one of the least-popular federal agencies. Specifically. the IRS ranks 11th out of 14 agencies (the 13 listed below plus the Homeland Security [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>ABC: IRS Official in Charge Targeting Now Runs ObamaCare Division</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 01:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Homa</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Definitely from the ‘you can’t make this stuff up” file … ABC News is reporting &#8230; The Internal Revenue Service official in charge of the tax-exempt organizations at the time when the unit targeted tea party groups now runs the IRS office responsible for the health care legislation. Sarah Hall Ingram served as commissioner of [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>Stop right there, professor … proof of citizenship, please !</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ken Homa</dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[Unfortunately, this has become an annual event.  A summer initiation of sorts. Once again, I was detained for questioning by government officials. This year was unusually unnerving. No, it wasn’t by rogue IRS agents in Cincinnati targeting an alleged conservative blogger. I was suspected of crossing a border to illegally access government-provided services. Here’s the [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>Turning around the turnaround: JC Penney goes back to the future …</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 10:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[In one svelte move, JC Penney launched near-total, point-by-point repudiation of ex-CEO Ron Johnson’s attempt to turn the retailer into a chain of Apple stores.  &#160; Let’s dissect this one … First, the fair &#38; square JCP logo gets thrown on the scrap-heap. I guess there just weren’t a lot of hip kids racing over [&#8230;]<br/>
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		<title>What’s going at Business Insider?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[I understand that Henry Blodget is probably still hacked that he got nailed for pumping Internet stocks before the bubble burst … and got barred from ever working on Wall Street again. So, I assume, he’s probably just over-compensating to balance life’s scales an increase the odds of getting into heaven. But, gimme a break… [&#8230;]<br/>
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