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James Clapper Clarifies Remarks Over NSA Snooping

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday that he stood by what he told Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., in March when he said that the National Security Agency does not “wittingly” collect data on millions of Americans.

Do you think the House GOP could take a break from votes on Acorn, ObamaCare and Benghazi to investigate this instead? How about a discussion on repealing the Patriot act?

Boehner Declines To Explain Why NSA Phone Tracking Is Necessary

If only he was in some position to draft legislation stripping this power from the president so it can never happen again. Sadly, he is powerless to do anything about it.

Colbert Mocks Tea Partiers For Whining About Tax-Exempt Status They Didn’t Have to Ask For

“How is that possible, that I didn’t apply?” Colbert asked. “Am I breaking the law?” Potter took that opportunity to remind the Colbert Report host that he was not legally obligated to apply for tax-exempt status in the first place.

Amazing. The IRS blocked them from something that they were not obligated to do in the first place.

Five 501(c)(4) Groups That Might Have Broken the Law

The GOP is upset the IRS is unfairly targeting fraud they approve of

The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives

All that happened here is that groups applying to the IRS for special tax status were checked to see if they were engaged in political activity. They were checked, not targeted. Only one-third of the groups checked were conservative groups.

Organizations of all walks and all persuasions were pulled in. That’s shown by the fact that only 70 of the 300 organizations were tea party organizations, of the ones that were looked at

Yet another trumped up nonsense scandal diverting from actual problems like the AP scandal and the Gitmo hunger strike.

Krugman: Where Are The Deficit Celebrations?

For three years and more Beltway politics has been all about the deficit. Urgent action was needed to avert crisis. A Grand Bargain absolutely had to be reached. Fix the Debt, now now now!

So where are the celebrations now that the debt issue looks, if not solved, at least greatly mitigated? And it’s not just recovering revenues: health costs, the biggest driver of long-run spending, have slowed dramatically

Maybe they didn’t actually care about debt and deficit? Maybe the people who said nothing while W grew the debt don’t care about fiscal issues at all. They care about cutting the parts of the state that provide services for the bottom 99% and transferring that wealth to the top 1%

Martin Bashir Reminds Viewers of Darrell Issa’s Criminal Past

Tunneling KFC to Gazans Craving the World Outside

The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt.

The situation in Gaza is absurd. The smuggling of fried chicken via tunnel is both tragic and comic.

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Do you want to know where all that education money is going? Looks like it isn’t going to education. School sports, the original edu-tainment industry. motherjones: foulmouthedliberty: poptech: And the highest paid public employee in your state is… Just be you, Vermont.