The Hill: IRS official Lerner to plead the Fifth before House Oversight panel
The Hill: IRS official Lerner to plead the Fifth before House Oversight panel:
The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the Tea Party targeting controversy will refuse to answer questions from lawmakers Wednesday.
Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, will exercise her rights under the Fifth Amendment when she appears before the House Oversight Committee as scheduled Wednesday.
Can’t say we’re shocked by this news, considering all those involved are likely to end up in court at some point in the future.
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joshsundquist: More graphs like these in my new video Arrested…
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More graphs like these in my new video Arrested Development for Math Nerds
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sarahlcomics: I had a nightmare that my baby grew up to become…
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I had a nightmare that my baby grew up to become a hippie who twirled fire sticks.
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inothernews: 40 minutes, 20 miles, at least 37 dead: the New…
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40 minutes, 20 miles, at least 37 dead: the New York Times maps out the path of the tornado that leveled Moore, Oklahoma
Note the varying count from the prior post.
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Re: Prison growth graph. It’s a little misleading to show raw count instead of per-capita. There’s been a marked increase in population in the past 80+ years. Not that growth in incarceration isn’t a huge problem!
True. However, the US population grew like this:
And the prison population grew like this:
Those lines are hella different.
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“…already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for…”
“…already Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., says he will insist that any federal disaster aid be paid for with cuts elsewhere.” Roll Call (via brooklynmutt) Not the time.
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pewresearch: Europeans Grow Dissatisfied with the Inequities…
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Europeans Grow Dissatisfied with the Inequities of the Economic System
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