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Yale Alumni Magazine | Articles

The poet and editor Christian Wiman, who this fall joins the faculty of the Yale Divinity School and its affiliated Institute of Sacred Music, is a surprising hire. To begin, he is a poet who wants to teach at a divinity school. Although some of the greatest poets in English, like Milton and Donne, have been Christians, the relationship between poetics and piety—so obvious from biblical times through the Victorian era—now seems sundered; poets are a very secular bunch, and Wiman is that rare Christian writing good poetry.

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An interesting article about an interesting man. --ts

The big fat truth : Nature News & Comment

Late in the morning on 20 February, more than 200 people packed an auditorium at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. The purpose of the event, according to its organizers, was to explain why a new study about weight and death was absolutely wrong.

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More evidence that a few extra pounds won't hurt you. I hope that's right. --ts

Lois takes 5 Tom Smith

Lois protects herself from the WH perhaps? Not willing to fall on her sword for the White House. How disloyal! I hate it when employees won't go to prison for their betters. Why can't we just get back to governing! There's governing to be governed! Obamacares to implement! Let's just all be friends! "Deepening by the hour" --yeah, that's about right. Maybe I should come back in a week and see where it stands.

The Insiders: A special prosecutor in the IRS matter is inevitable

Out of all the news that has emerged regarding the Obama IRS scandal, this is the most curious whopper I’ve heard so far. I can’t wait to hear the real story.

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Yup, it's a doozy. It isn't the last, however. --ts

Best of the Web Today: Why Did Lois Lerner Take the Fifth? - WSJ.com

Now, who were these "people" with whom Marshall was "chatting" yesterday? Might they have had an interest in the case? The Weekly Standard takes note of a tweet from NPR's Ari Shapiro at 3:25 ET yesterday afternoon: "Spotted: @joshtpm @CapehartJ @ezraklein & other lefty columnists headed into the West Wing as a group. POTUS coffee? Carney meeting? Anyone?"

Those Twitter IDs belong, respectively, to Marshall, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and Journolist founder Ezra Klein, also of the Post. Marshall's post calling for Lerner's defenestration appeared at 10:15 this morning. Exactly half an hour, Klein had a post along similar lines: "Yes, Heads Should Roll at the IRS." Capehart is busy with another topic, "Gay Inclusion." But the similarity between Marshall's and Klein's posts suggests that they may be acting in the capacity of unofficial White House spokesmen.

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This promises to be a really good (or bad) scandal. I must really resolve not to spend the whole summer following it, like I did back when President Bill proved it was OK to get blowjobs from interns in the White House, that being, of course, just a matter of personal, highly personal, tastes, or whatever. I mean honestly. See also other posts on this subject. --ts

U.S. power: Down but still unrivaled | The Great Debate

To get a better understanding of the world’s “balance of economics,” we developed a new measure of economic power. What it shows is that U.S. power has declined from its peak in 2000 by roughly one-fourth, yet remains unrivaled.  China is surging, to be sure, but has just one-third of the economic power of the U.S. Europe is sluggish, while Japan, South America’s big three economies and India are not even close to their potential.

via blogs.reuters.com

IRS official Lois Lerner to take the Fifth

Lois Lerner, the IRS official who first disclosed the agency’s improper targeting of conservative groups two weeks ago, will invoke her right not to testify Wednesday for fear of self-incrimination, her lawyer has told the House Oversight Committee.

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We'll be seeing a lot of that. --ts

Best of the Web Today: A Crisis of Authority - WSJ.com

And the IRS scandal was a subversion of democracy on a massive scale. The most fearsome and coercive arm of the administrative state embarked on a systematic effort to suppress citizen dissent against the party in power. Thomas Friedman is famous for musing that he wishes America could be China for a day. It turns out we've been China for a while.

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China without the high growth. --ts

David Rivkin and Lee Casey: The IRS and the Drive to Stop Free Speech - WSJ.com

The proper lessons of the unfolding IRS scandal are twofold. First, any effort to have the IRS police advocacy activities of social-welfare organizations is bound to be clumsy and prone to degenerate into either selective or broad witch hunts. Second, the remedy is not to further limit political speech by nonprofit entities—which would certainly raise significant constitutional issues—but to encourage such speech by imposing fewer restrictions.

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Future's so bright we have to wear shades: Column

But as Bennett and Lotus note, the problems of America 2.0 are all soluble, and, in what they call America 3.0, they will be solved. The solutions will be as different from America 2.0 as America 2.0 was from America 1.0. We'll see a focus on smaller government, nimbler organization, and living within our means -- because, frankly, we'll have no choice. Something that can't go on forever, won't. If America 2.0 was a fit for the world of giant steel mills and monolithic corporations, America 3.0 will be fit for the world of consumer choice and Internet speed.

via www.usatoday.com

Glenn is such an optimist. Me, only sometimes. --ts

Peggy Noonan's Opinion Blog

It actually is shocking that the IRS appears to have become political and ideological in a way that is systemic. It is shocking that the president claimed he read about the targeting of conservatives just last Friday, in the newspapers, and today the New York Times reports the leadership of the Treasury Department was told the charges were being investigated a year ago.

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I hope Noonan is right about this. I vary between being shocked and just accepting it -- of course this administration is corrupt all the way down, and the IRS scandal is just where we are seeing it. A lot depends on what the media makes of it, sad as that is. --ts

Paul Ryan on scandals Tom Smith

The American Spectator : Obama and the IRS: The Smoking Gun?

In short: the very day after the president of the quite publicly anti-Tea Party labor union — the union for IRS employees — met with President Obama, the manager of the IRS “Determinations Unit Program agreed” to open a “Sensitive Case report on the Tea party cases.” As stated by the IG report.

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Hmmmm. --ts

IRS scandal a reminder of how I learned about the Chicago Way - chicagotribune.com

Because if you want to understand The Chicago Way of things in Washington these days, with the guys from Chicago in charge of the White House and the federal leviathan, there's one place you start:

You start in Chicago.

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IRS and AP Scandals Cast a Big Chill on Free Speech | RealClearPolitics

Anti-abortion groups were asked to pledge that they would never picket Planned Parenthood clinics. Organizers were asked numerous personal questions, including what they said in their prayers. If that's not chilling, I don't know what is.

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True Scandal | National Review Online

Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who specializes in representing conservative organizations, says that the Engelbrecht family’s experience is “just the tip of the iceberg. . . . I think there’s definitely a Chicago-politics-style enemies list in this administration, and I think it permeates this branch of the federal government.”

via www.nationalreview.com

Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views | Mail Online

Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.

Researchers discovered political motivations may have evolutionary links to physical strength.

Men's upper-body strength predicts their political opinions on economic redistribution, according to the research.

via www.dailymail.co.uk

Got to love those studies. --ts

Oxford grooming gang: We will regret ignoring Asian thugs who target white girls - Telegraph

Rochdale, Rotherham, Derby, Oxford. The towns change, but the pattern is always the same. Gangs of men, mainly of Pakistani Muslim heritage, lure white girls as young as 10 with gifts and displays of affection. Next, the girl is raped as a way of “breaking her in”. Once the child’s spirit is subdued, and her mind fogged with drugs, she is sold for sex to multiple men at £200 a time. If the girl tries to break away, a gang member might threaten to behead her or firebomb her home. Mohammed Karrar, who was found guilty in the Oxford sex-grooming case this week, took a scalding hairpin and branded an M on one girl’s bottom so she would know she was his property. Later, the gang gave the same girl a DIY abortion. She was 12 years old. And this, all this, is happening in Britain now.

via www.telegraph.co.uk

Althouse: Shouldn't there be a special prosecutor in the IRS case?

I still want a special prosecutor because I just don't trust them not to cover up. The minute I found out about it, then my main focus was making sure that we get the thing fixed. I don't think people believe that. I don't believe it. And when was "the minute [he] found out about it"? He keeps making statements about finding out things around about whenever we do... which is absurdly self-serving, as if the only problems are public relations problems. Apparently, nothing exists for him until we learn about it!

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There should be and I don't believe him either. You would be a fool to believe him. --ts

IRS to pro-life group: Send letter pledging not to protest Planned Parenthood to get your tax exemption « Hot Air

In this case, though, there wasn’t even a pretense of suspicion about electioneering.  If this is true, then the IRS was actively attempting to intimidate a pro-life group into curtailing its perfectly legal activism. In fact, protests against Planned Parenthood by this group would be exactly the kind of “social welfare” protected by an exemption.  This not only infringed on the group’s free-speech rights, but also its religious liberty, at least indirectly.

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WH: Golly, if we had a shield law, we wouldn’t have broken the other laws in AP records scandal, or something; Update: SPJ not buying it « Hot Air

In essence, the new position for the White House on the shield law is this: We’d respect that law even though we clearly didn’t respect existing law. Anyone in the media who falls for this argument is courteously invited to the football field, where Lucy Van Pelt will hold the football for reporters to kick through ever-moving goalposts.

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I mean, geez, really, duh. Rachel Maddow tried to explain the WH's position on this last night, and I honestly had a hard time following the argument. She really is the committed one, isn't she? Fortunately, the MSM doesn't seem to be buying it. --ts

Some question whether AP leak on al-Qaeda plot put U.S. at risk - The Washington Post

For five days, reporters at the Associated Press had been sitting on a big scoop about a foiled al-Qaeda plot at the request of CIA officials. Then, in a hastily scheduled Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by agency officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day.

The CIA officials, who had initially cited national security concerns in an attempt to delay publication, no longer had those worries, according to individuals familiar with the exchange. Instead, the Obama administration was planning to announce the successful counterterrorism operation that Tuesday.

AP balked and proceeded to publish that Monday afternoon. Its May 2012 report is now at the center of a controversial and broad seizure of phone records of AP reporters’ home, office and cellphone lines. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said the unauthorized disclosure about an intelligence operation to stop al-Qaeda from detonating explosives aboard a U.S. airliner was among the most serious leaks he could remember, and justified secretly obtaining records from a handful of reporters and editors over a span of two months.

via www.washingtonpost.com

Good grief. I thought the WH and DOJ went after the AP because there was some thought publishing the story on the terror plot really might imperil the national security. Now they're just saying the AP rained on the WH's PR parade? Doesn't the WH know you're only supposed to impinge on the Constitution for sort of a good reason? That you can't do it for just a purely political motive? Who *are* these people? --ts

Rubio on IRS Scandal Tom Smith

It is something of an understatement to say it will be interesting to see how this all works out. I would have said a couple of days ago that the rot goes much deeper than a couple of rogue employees in Cincinnati. But now the press is on that, coming up with stories of leaked documents, probably illegal audits and other abuses of power at the IRS. It seems unlikely that the WH would have been so sloppy as to leave their fingerprints on anything in the IRS, especially when the IRS knows what to do on their own. Rubio is surely correct that it's about a culture, and a culture of widespread illegality might as well be legal, especially if it's those who are supposed to enforcing the law who are abusing it. I wish I knew what is going to happen. It is encouraging that the press, or at least some of the MSM, seems to get it, at least partially, though it did take getting their ox gored to wake them up. So we know now what Chicago looks like on a nationwide scale.  How do you like it? Will we tolerate it? Do we have to? Maybe it is the next stage in our evolution toward wherever we are going. Or maybe we will throw off these impossibly tacky-seeming shackles. I don't know.

Watching ObamaCare Unravel | RealClearPolitics

On Friday, May 10, President Obama ventured into Ohio to give a Mother’s Day defense of the sagging fortunes of his signal achievement, the misnamed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The law, the President assures us, “is here to stay”—a comment that is best regarded as a threat and not a promise. His conclusion was not coincidental; support for the ACA has dropped from 42 percent to 35 percent between November 2012 and April 2013. 

This recent drop in popularity is not a function of some detailed analysis of the ACA’s key provisions. Rather, the public seems to feel that the sheer complexity of the program makes it highly unlikely that it will be able to take effect in any form by its ostensible January 1, 2014 start date. The most obvious difficulty in implementation stems from the unwillingness of many states to participate in its two gargantuan initiatives, even with heavy federal support: the private exchanges (now called “marketplaces”) for individuals, and the Medicaid extension to additional individuals.

via www.realclearpolitics.com

IRS Persecution Is A War On Women | RedState

Forget “binders full of women” — the IRS’s persecution of hundreds of tea party groups is the real war on women. I co-founded the movement in my hometown of St. Louis and have travelled the country with various tea party groups and I’ve seen it first hand: the tea party movement was predominately led by women. It isn’t a slight to our men; in speech after speech I mentioned how the nation’s men have been neutralized in this fight by the left’s ridiculous identity politics and bunk sexism claims. I’ve opined more than once “My husband can’t hit a girl, but I can.” It’s the truth — and it’s why women raised up from around the country to lead the charge.

That’s why this IRS scandal is all the more stunning. If the left can claim that Romney’s “binders full of women” remark is indicative of a festering female hatred on the right, if they can claim that the demand for grown women to pay for their own preventative pregnancy sexual recreation pills is a sign that conservatives hate women, then the IRS going all Spanish Inquisition on groups of a female-led movement is the war of all wars on women.

via www.redstate.com

via Instapundit. --ts

Obama Scandals Show Pattern Of Abuse, Justify Fears Of 'Tyranny' - Investors.com

As we have warned over and over again in the last four years, this is an exceedingly power-hungry president who has no respect for the Constitution or rule of law. He will continue to run roughshod over our individual rights and economic freedoms — if we continue to let him.

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Obama and overreach - chicagotribune.com

With each of these troubling disclosures, the Obama administration finds itself reacting to appearances of overreach, of arrogance, of determination to dodge its embarrassments rather than to take ownership of them.

We don't expect unanimity of agreement on this. On each of these controversies, though, even some of the president's most loyal supporters — from Capitol Hill to the liberal commentariat to Main Streets across the land — are questioning the government's conduct on his watch. That turnabout either angers or amuses opponents inclined to ask the supporters, "Where have you been?"

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James Bovard: A Brief History of IRS Political Targeting - WSJ.com

Many Republicans are enraged over revelations in recent days that the Internal Revenue Service targeted conservative nonprofit groups with a campaign of audits and harassment. But of all the troubles now dogging the Obama administration—including the Benghazi fiasco and the Justice Department's snooping on the Associated Press—the IRS episode, however alarming, is also the least surprising. As David Burnham noted in "A Law Unto Itself: The IRS and the Abuse of Power" (1990), "In almost every administration since the IRS's inception the information and power of the tax agency have been mobilized for explicitly political purposes."

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If powers exist they will be abused. --ts

Review & Outlook: The 'Independent' Revenue Service - WSJ.com

One notable aspect of the Internal Revenue Service scandal is President Obama's strange view of accountability within the executive branch. In his Monday remarks addressing the targeting of conservative groups for tax-exempt scrutiny, Mr. Obama declared that the IRS is "an independent agency."

In his press briefing after the story broke on Friday, White House press secretary Jay Carney hit the same note. "The IRS is an independent enforcement agency with only two political appointees," he said.

The IRS is many things, but "independent" isn't one of them. It is formally part of the Treasury Department and is headed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who is appointed by the President. The Commissioner is accountable to the President reporting through the Treasury Secretary.

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IRS leaked docs to ProPublica Tom Smith

Worse and worse.

Review & Outlook: Your Next IRS Political Audit - WSJ.com

Even as the politicized tax enforcement scandal expands, the Internal Revenue Service continues to expand its political powers thanks to the Affordable Care Act. A larger government always creates more openings for abuse, as Americans will learn when the IRS starts auditing their health care in addition to their 1040 next year.

Over the last decade or so the tax agency has stretched its portfolio and become an enforcer and decision-maker for government benefits and programs. Three years ago, National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson, who operates within the IRS, presciently noted that ObamaCare is "the most extensive social benefit program the IRS has been asked to implement in recent history."

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Oh goody. --ts

Insurers predict 100% to 400% Obamacare rate explosion | WashingtonExaminer.com

Internal cost estimates from 17 of the nation's largest insurance companies indicate that health insurance premiums will grow an average of 100 percent under Obamacare, and that some will soar more than 400 percent, crushing the administration's goal of affordability.

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A stench at the IRS - NYPOST.com

President Obama, who condemned the IRS scrutiny yesterday, loves to complain that politicians making arguments against him are engaging in “distraction.” Siccing the IRS on people who are pursuing ideas contrary to the interests of the sitting administration is the politics of distraction in its purest and most disturbing form.

via www.nypost.com

With new revelations, outrage spreads about IRS targeting - latimes.com

WASHINGTON — Top career officials in the Internal Revenue Service withheld information from Congress for months about the tax agency's targeting of conservative organizations for extra scrutiny, according to documents released Monday as a controversy involving alleged political bias in tax enforcement gathered strength.

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America’s New Oligarchs—Fwd.us and Silicon Valley’s Shady 1 Percenters - The Daily Beast

A new, and potentially dominant, ruling class is rising. Today’s tech moguls don’t employ many Americans, they don’t pay very much in taxes or tend to share much of their wealth, and they live in a separate world that few of us could ever hope to enter.

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More IRS stuff Tom Smith

Review & Outlook: Benghazi Disinformation Points - WSJ.com

Reuters; White House spokesman Jay Carney

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Love that pic. --ts

Obama Stands By Benghazi Response - WSJ.com

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Monday again defended his administration's response to an attack on a diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, and called a Republican-led investigation politically driven and a "sideshow."

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Huh. He seems a little behind the curve on this one. Maybe the MSM is like a pet shark: It makes a nice pet until it gets scent of blood in the water. OTOH at any moment they all could just clam up and start being nice again and leave Fox et al. out in the cold. We are seeing something new here. I think we just have to watch and learn. --ts

Obama calls controversy over Benghazi talking points a 'sideshow' - latimes.com

WASHINGTON — President Obama tried to dismiss a brewing controversy over the White House handling of the terrorist attack on Benghazi as a “sideshow” and accused critics of using an attack that killed four Americans for political gain.

“We dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus,” Obama said Monday at a brief news conference. “What happened was tragic. It was carried out by extremists inside of Libya. We are out there trying to hunt down the folks who carried this out, and we're trying to make sure that we fix the system so that it doesn't happen again.”

via www.latimes.com

Another case for George Will's "how stupid do you think we are." If we focus on the supposed public servants who caused this mess, the terrorists win, or something. I have given up trying predict events, but this really does seem a perfect storm: Benghazi, the IRS, and behind it all, the looming Obama trainwreck care. And now Sebilius is asking for *donations* ease implementation? That suggests she is really having some problems. Meanwhile, the market plunges upward. --ts

LIFE ON TWO WHEELS Page 1 of 2 | UTSanDiego.com

A: My husband convinced me to get a bike in 2005, so we could spend more time having fun together. In 2006, we joined a cycling group called Team in Training that ride bikes while raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. That’s when it really began. We had coaches and mentors helping us train for a 100-mile ride around Lake Tahoe over the course of six months. I got to see beautiful parts of San Diego on my bike that my local friends had never encountered. Have you ever been up Couser Canyon near Rainbow? Or down Lyons Valley Road near Jamul?

via www.utsandiego.com

I live off of Lyons Valley Road, sort of. This is just to let you all know it's scenic out where I live. Long drive, etc. but very scenic. That's all. --ts

Doctor found guilty of murder in Philadelphia abortion case - CNN.com

A jury has found Philadelphia abortion provider Dr. Kermit Gosnell guilty of three counts of first-degree murder.

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Revenge of the quasi-baby baby-like fetal entities (who are not really babies). --ts

Scandalous: Benghazi, the IRS and 2012 | New Hampshire OPINION01

Last week was stunningly bad for the Obama administration. Whistleblowers testified before Congress that the administration misled the American people about the terrorist attacks that killed four Americans in Benghazi on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks last year. Then the IRS admitted to having targeted right-leaning non-profit groups for additional scrutiny in 2012.

Were this a Republican President, demands for hearings and investigations (if not impeachment) would be on the lips of not only the far-left activists, but mainstream Democrats and many in the media. How these scandals affect President Obama will be a test of the value of the Democratic brand in deflecting well-deserved scrutiny.

via www.unionleader.com

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MANDATES UNCONSTITUTIONAL SPEECH CODES AT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES NATIONWIDE - The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education - FIRE

In a letter sent yesterday to the University of Montana that explicitly states that it is intended as "a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country," the Departments of Justice and Education have mandated a breathtakingly broad definition of sexual harassment that makes virtually every student in the United States a harasser while ignoring the First Amendment. The mandate applies to every college receiving federal funding—virtually every American institution of higher education nationwide, public or private. 

The letter states that "sexual harassment should be more broadly defined as 'any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature'" including "verbal conduct" (that is, speech). It then explicitly states that allegedly harassing expression need not even be offensive to an "objectively reasonable person of the same gender in the same situation"—if the listener takes offense to sexually related speech for any reason, no matter how irrationally or unreasonably, the speaker may be punished. 

via thefire.org

Well, I'm glad they didn't have this rule while I was in college or I'd probably still be a virgin. I especially like the part that makes it a subjective standard. Yo, it's on you dude to figure out in advance whether your intended will welcome your advance or whether your comment, remark, or even meaningful silence will be taken by her (or him! or them!) to be sexual in nature. In seeming response, modern hook-up culture seems to involve young persons milling around like random particles that interact briefly then move on, to their apparent and not surprising dissatisfaction, never exchanging anything more meaningful than a 'whatever'. I thought my college experience with, uh, persons of the opposite gender was a disaster. With these rules, it would have been a disaster with legal consequences. It's no wonder kids just stick to the internet. --ts

AP Exclusive: Calif. exchange granted secrecy Page 1 of 2 | UTSanDiego.com

LOS ANGELES — A California law that created an agency to oversee national health care reforms granted it broad authority to conceal spending on the contractors that will perform most of its functions, potentially shielding the public from seeing how hundreds of millions of dollars are spent.

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The Good News, The Bad News And What's Very Ugly - Seeking Alpha

I think that what's very ugly is that the bad news today is likely to get worse tomorrow at a point when the backdrop for the stock market does not look very healthy. Unfortunately, many investors are blinded by Chairman Bernanke's artificial insemination of newly created dollars into the stock and bond markets, using the banks that are supposed to be lending as his conduit.

via seekingalpha.com

IRS apologizes for targeting conservative groups

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service inappropriately flagged conservative political groups for additional reviews during the 2012 election to see if they were violating their tax-exempt status, a top IRS official said Friday.

via bigstory.ap.org

Martin Feldstein: The Federal Reserve's Policy Dead End - WSJ.com

The Federal Reserve recently announced that it will increase or decrease the size of its monthly bond-buying program in response to changing economic conditions. This amounts to a policy of fine-tuning its quantitative-easing program, a puzzling strategy since the evidence suggests that the program has done little to raise economic growth while saddling the Fed with an enormous balance sheet.

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Economics One

Paul Krugman commented early this morning on the Wall Street Journal oped by John Cogan and me.  Our oped is based on our research paper with Volker Wieland and Maik Wolters which shows that there are beneficial effects on the economy—in the long run and the short run—of a ten-year program to reduce the budget deficit, and eventually balance it, as proposed by the House Budget Committee.

Krugman’s claims about this research are wrong. 

via johnbtaylorsblog.blogspot.com

San Diego rates #23

Other law faculties in SSRN's Top 25 are George Washington (#2), Tilburg (#8), Pennsylvania (#10), Northwestern (#11), UCLA (#12), Illinois (#14), Vanderbilt (#15), Duke (#16), Michigan (#17), Minnesota (#18), George Mason (#20), USC (#21), Virginia (#22), San Diego (#23), and Fordham (#24).

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That's pretty good. --ts

Record Number of Americans (Including Hamid Karzai's Brother) Renounce Their Citizenship

Americans are ditching their U.S. passports in record numbers, a sign of growing frustration with a system that taxes U.S. citizens on their global wealth whether they live in Montana or Mongolia.

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