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Report: Foreign Automakers Got Raw Deal in New Fuel-Economy Rules
KickingTiresNext Wednesday, expect the federal government to unveil final corporate average fuel economy rules for 2017 through 2025. The latest CAFE requirements took more than a year to finalize and will require combined EPA city/highway mileage in the high 30s.......Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Auto Trends, Democratic Party, Manufacturing and Engineering
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More money down the government black hole
Among the training sessions offered to IRS employees at a conference a few years ago in sunny California was one titled, "Political Savvy: How Not to Shoot Yourself in the Foot." IRS management should have taken that course before planning that...Tags: Darrell E Issa, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Matt Cartwright, Allentown
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Performances worthy of an audit
WASHINGTON — They were the speak-no-evil and see-no-evil duo of the Internal Revenue Service. Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS office that targeted tea party and similar conservative groups for extra scrutiny, took the Fifth, when she appeared...Tags: Stephen F. Lynch, Internal Revenue Service, Justice System, Barack Obama, Witnesses
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Richard Nixon, Internal Revenue Service, Lindsey O. Graham, Barack Obama, John Ashcroft
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Benghazi hearing give GOP another chance to target Hillary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- If former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped she could segue quietly into private life as she pondered a presidential bid in 2016, that fantasy has been abruptly harpooned in the resurrection of the political squabble over the...Tags: Jules Witcover, Joe Biden, Martin O'Malley, Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton
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Whistle-blower's yarn fails to tie Benghazi lapses to politics
WASHINGTON -- They summoned a whistle-blower to Capitol Hill, but instead they got a virtuoso storyteller. Gregory Hicks, the No. 2 U.S. diplomat in Libya the night Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed, was to be the star...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington, DC, Justice System, U.S. Department of State
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More fishy government spending
If you're like me and wrote a healthy check last week to pay your dues to Uncle Sam, you probably don't want to hear more about the government wasting your hard-earned dough. But I'm going to stoke your ire anyway, because our president and Congress...Tags: Finance, Health Insurance, Accounting and Auditing, Media Industry, Medicaid
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Valley homeowners to cash in on foreclosure deal
About 23,000 homeowners in the Lehigh Valley and surrounding counties could get a piece of the $8.5 billion settlement announced this week to settle allegations that banks didn't play fair when foreclosing on homes. The settlement is the result of...Tags: JPMorgan Chase & Co., Mortgages, Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Incorporated, Financial and Business Services
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Life Out Here: Witches leading the witch hunt
Many are saying it’s a witch hunt, but Attorney General Eric Holder actually might turn out to be a witch. Here’s the ironic thing, though: the people accusing Holder of witchcraft are practitioners of sorcery exponentially more deadly....
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Parties and Movements, Weaponry, Laws, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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Not so Secret Service
Cal ThomasIn the 1962 Howard Lindsay-Russel Crouse-Irving Berlin Broadway musical, "Mr. President," one of the songs in the production is titled "The Secret Service," which begins, "the Secret Service makes me nervous..." If allegations are true that at least 11...Tags: Sex Crimes, Ethics, Wars and Interventions, Prostitution, U.S. Secret Service
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'Fast and Furious' defendant gets prison for buying guns
L.A. NOWThe first of 20 individuals indicted in 2011 on charges of buying high-powered firearms in Arizona to be used by Mexican drug gangs was sentenced Monday in San Diego federal court to 57 months in prison. Danny Cruz Morones, 24,...... -
Year in Review: Congress' 10 biggest enemies of the Earth
Opinion L.A.Republicans launched an unprecedented frontal assault against environmental protections and regulations this year, prompting Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to call his chamber "the most anti-environment House in history." Here are the 10 most powerful and...
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