WI conservatives say IRS scandal having chilling effect

By   /  May 22, 2013  /  Featured, Federal Government, IRS, News, Politics, Politics & Elections, Taxes, Wisconsin  /  No Comments

Pro-Walker tea party member rally in late winter 2011. Conservative groups in the Badger State say the IRS scandal has hit a nerve among the grassroots movement.

The weather may be warming up in Wisconsin, but there’s a political chill on the conservative grassroots ground in the Badger State.

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PA gov. pushes back on IFO Medicaid report

By   /  May 21, 2013  /  Affordable Care Act, Featured, Federal Government, Health Care, Issues, News, Pennsylvania, State Budgets, State Government, Uncategorized  /  No Comments

HIDDEN COSTS: As much as $515 million in costs and savings of Medicaid expansion were mis-estimated by the IFO, according to the Corbett Administration.

The administration of Gov. Tom Corbett says a report on Medicaid expansion by the state’s Independent Fiscal Office improperly claims as much as $515 million as savings, revenue or underestimated costs to the state.

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Hey, IRS, here’s prison camp survivor you asked about

By   /  May 20, 2013  /  Featured, Federal Government, National, New Mexico, News, Politics  /  11 Comments

Marianne Chiffelle was held in a Japanese prison camp in the Dutch East Indies. Now the IRS wants to know about her politics.

By Rob Nikolewski │ New Mexico Watchdog
ALBUQUERQUE – The Internal Revenue Service not only wanted a wide variety of information from the Albuquerque Tea Party‘s application for nonprofit status, it also wanted to know what contacts it had with people from other political organizations too.
That included an 83-year-old great-grandmother who was once held in a World War [...]

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Kansas town feels ‘duped’ by ethanol plant deal

By   /  May 20, 2013  /  Federal Government, Immigration, Kansas, News  /  No Comments

EB5-Kansas

By Travis Perry │ Kansas Watchdog
OSAWATOMIE — In 2007, the 6,000 residents of Ulysses, Kan., were given big promises and high hopes with the proposal of a second major ethanol processing plant in the southwest corner of the state.
The facility, to be built by Nexsun Ethanol LLC, brought with it a commitment to the economic [...]

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Activists accuse Obama of false narrative to reactivate ACORN voter registration tactics

By   /  May 18, 2013  /  2012 General Election, Elections, Federal Government, Florida, Fraud, National, U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Voter Fraud, Voter Registration  /  3 Comments

ACORN's voter registration tactics could be back in full force

By Kevin Mooney | Watchdog.org

If you’re 102 years old and need to wait in line for hours before voting, expect to have your story told in dramatic fashion by the president of the United States. That’s what happened to Desiline Victor, a resident of North Miami, Fla. Where some see a rationale for expanded early voting, same-day voter registration and even mandatory voter registration, others see a false narrative created to promote policy changes that would result in greater federal control over state elections.

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