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Americans should remember: Politicizing the IRS is a bipartisan tradition
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee said last week that it did. So did a host of other GOP critics, who linked the recent targeting of conservative groups by the IRS to Nixon’s use of the agency as a weapon against his “enemies list.” Liberals quickly 11:12 AM from Christian Science Monitor Read more »
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There Was a Time When Ending Hunger Was a National Goal for Republicans and Democrats
“That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable.” So declared Richard Nixon in May 1969 in his now widely forgotten “Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Program to End Hunger in America.” In 5/20/13 from The New York Times Read more »
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Obama and Nixon: A Historical Perspective
For once with good reason, the GOP is exorcised with the scandals involving the IRS targeting political groups and the FBI's spying on A.P. reporters. The broader public is legitimately concerned. However, in its classic overblown breathlessness at all t from The Huffington Post Read more »
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Obamagate: The Focus Is Barack Obama
by Patrick Caddell 15 May 2013, 9:56 AM PDT post a comment I didn’t know the half of it. Just hours after Part One ran, we all learned the disturbing news of the rogue Justice Department wiretaps on the Associated Press . Now, even the liberals in the MS from Big Government Read more »
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Henry Payne: A Michigan chapter in Obama's Nixonian politics
Pat Caddell, the youngest Democrat on Richard Nixon's Enemies List thanks to his staff position on George McGovern's 1972 Democratic presidential campaign, knows dirty politics when he sees it. "We have not had a White House where the incumbent tried to from Detroit News Online Read more »
