TheDC Morning: Giving the silent treatment
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Earlier this month footage emerged of Turkmenistan's dictator Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov -- whose name represents the A-bomb of Scrabble words -- violently falling off a horse during a rigged race on April 28. Now, much better footage has emerged.
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Many liberal reporters and commentators have dismissed or downplayed the emerging Benghazi and Internal Revenue Service scandals as non-scandals or trifling bureaucratic errors.
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Anyone who follows the news is rightly outraged about the recently revealed Internal Revenue Service scandal, in which conservative groups applying for tax-exempt nonprofit status were given extra scrutiny. But it's possible that this is the least troubling aspect of a much wider scandal.
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Billionaire businessman Frank VanderSloot, a major Mitt Romney super PAC donor who was subjected to three federal agency audits after being slimed by the Obama campaign, says he isn't the only one of his peers who was audited after donating to Romney.
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Back when leaders of tea party groups were just alleging their organizations were being targeted by the Internal Revenue Service, The New York Times defended the agency for applying extra scrutiny to the conservative groups.
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Just months after being slimed by President Barack Obama's re-election campaign, Mitt Romney supporter and businessman Frank VanderSloot was informed that he was going to be audited not only by the Internal Revenue Service, but by the Labor Department as well.
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Among the least important questions raised by the current immigration debate is this: Who is America's most famous illegal immigrant to have sneaked across the Mexican border? The answer may just be Fidel Castro.
Superstar Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao will be fighting outside the United States for the first time since 2006 this November, at least in part because of what the boxer views as America's high income tax. But in 2010, Pacquiao campaigned for Democratic tax hikers like Nevada Sen. Harry Reid and California Gov. Jerry Brown.
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LAS VEGAS --- Magician Penn Jillette, a vocal libertarian, admits his first reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks would not have been ideal had he been president.
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LAS VEGAS --- "My whole libertarian approach comes out of being just a nutty fucking peacenik," magician Penn Jillette confides backstage at his show, a few hours before he is set to perform.