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 * NEW! * IRS Politics

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 * NEW! * Tax Probe

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IRS Targets Conservatives

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Tea Paranoid

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How the IRS’ Nonprofit Division Got So Dysfunctional

The IRS division responsible for flagging tea party groups has long been an agency afterthought, beset by mismanagement, financial constraints and an unwillingness to spell out just what it expects from social welfare nonprofits, former officials and experts say.

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IRS Outrage

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Profiling

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IRS Scandal

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Tea on Me

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Bachmann Fundraiser

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Bachmann Ethics

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GOP Can’t Go Forward

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Rembrandt Republican Autopsy

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Tea Party Activists Absurdly Boycott Fox News for Being ‘Too Liberal’

A number of tea partyers are under the delusion that Fox News, the right-wing’s treasured network for all things skewed and biased toward conservatives, is making a hard turn to the left.

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Bachmann Pop-Up

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Republican Rebranding

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Paul Ryan Budget

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Repeal Repeater

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Creating PACs and Then Spending Their Money

Although many watchdog organizations track how political committees raise money, few look at how the money is ultimately disbursed. PACs can spend their money as they want and often devote some of it to fundraising, but most spend the bulk of contributions on efforts clearly aimed at electing specific candidates.

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Tea Bag

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Ryan’s Tin Ear

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The Sequester and the Tea Party Plot

Sequestration is only the start. What the tea party set out to do was not simply change Washington but eviscerate the U.S. government—“drown it in the bathtub,” in the words of their guru Grover Norquist.

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GOP Tourette’s

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A Good Day to Sequester

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Smelly Ships

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Tea Party Austerity

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The Tea Party’s Ghost

The deficit that should concern us most right now has to do with time, not money. Money can be recouped. Time just disappears.

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Junk in the Trunk

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Water Break

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Republicans Block Hagel, Stewart Ridicules Rubio, and More

A look at the day’s political happenings, including the retirement announcement of a longtime U.S. senator and a tea party group comes under fire after details of a Hillary Clinton “sex tape” emerge.

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Thirsty Rubio

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Anchor

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Rove Takes on the Tea Party, Maher Rips ‘Con Men’ Limbaugh and Beck, and More

A look at the day’s political happenings, including Paul Krugman calls out “insane” NRA and Rick Perry weighs in on the news that the Boy Scouts may be ending its policy of banning gay members.

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Fading Palin

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Tea Party

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Pity the Bamboozled and Confused

“Every problem that the editorialists fret about today will get worse,” Harper’s Magazine columnist and author Thomas Frank told an audience in November. “Inequality, global warming, financial bubbles, one after another. But it won’t matter. On America will go, chasing the only ideology that our country has left, down into the seething Arcadia of all against all.”

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Hit the Brakes

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Wag the Dogma

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Fiscal Clown Car

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The Time Dick Armey Attempted an Armed Coup of Tea Party Group

New reports are surfacing that Dick Armey, a former House majority leader, attempted a power grab of the tea party organization FreedomWorks before eventually leaving the group.

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Who Is South Carolina’s New Senator?

Gov. Nikki Haley’s appointment is a tea party-backed congressman who wants to kick entire families off of food stamps for supporting unions, give billions in subsidies to the major oil companies and spend taxpayer dollars to display the Ten Commandments on government property.

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How OWS Toppled Itself

Postmodern confusion about how populist movements take hold and flourish caused Occupy Wall Street to “deconstruct” itself in a frenzied obsession with nonhierarchical structures, a disdain for demands, and other trappings of “lazy, reflexive libertarianism,” author and columnist Thomas Frank writes in The Baffler.

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Right to Work Pee

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Tea Party Favorite Jim DeMint to Quit Senate

The conservative South Carolina senator announced Thursday that he would step down next month to run a conservative think tank.

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