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3:35 AM ET, May 22, 2013

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Los Angeles Times:
Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment  —  A sign for the Internal Revenue Service stands in front of it's headquarters in Washington.  (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg / May 15, 2013)  —  WASHINGTON - A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment …
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Shane Goldmacher / NationalJournal.com:
Top IRS Official to Invoke Fifth, Issa Subpoenas  —  Lois Lerner, the IRS official who headed the tax-exempt division when the targeting of tea-party groups took place, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right to refuse to answer questions before Congress on Wednesday.
Politico:
White House reveals new IRS details  —  The White House's explanation of what it knew about the investigation into the IRS's scrutiny of conservative political groups and how it planned for the eventual release of that information shifted once again Tuesday.
Discussion: National Review and Yahoo! News
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
White House, Treasury discussed how to handle disclosure of IRS story
Discussion: Politico and CNN
Politico:
IRS's Lois Lerner to take the Fifth
Juliet Eilperin / Post Politics:
Internal IRS probe cited same problems with approach to conservative groups in May 2012, House aide says
Ryan Lizza / News Desk:
The Justice Department and Fox News's Phone Records  —  The Obama Justice Department has seized the phone records of numbers that are associated with White House staffers and, apparently, with Fox News reporters, according to a document filed on October 13, 2011, in the case of Stephen Jin-Woo Kim …
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Fox News:
DOJ seized phone records of numbers tied to Fox News lines, documents show  —  Newly uncovered court documents show the Justice Department seized phone records associated with several Fox News lines as part of a leak investigation — a revelation that comes as the White House Correspondents' Association spoke …
Discussion: Hot Air and Gretawire
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
Dylan Byers / Politico:
Sharyl Attkisson's computers compromised
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Fast and Furious/Benghazi investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson: Something fishy's …
Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
Sen. Patrick Leahy Withdraws Amendment To Include Gay Couples In Immigration Reform Bill  —  “I don't want to be the senator who asks Americans to choose between the love of their life and the love of their country,” Leahy says.  Four Democrats on the committee said they would not support the amendment.
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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:
Kristol to Rubio: ‘Walk away’  —  The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol has some advice for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on the Senate's immigration reform bill: Walk away.  —  “He should walk away from it,” Kristol said Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.”  “He should say, I made a good faith effort …
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell won't block immigration bill from hitting Senate floor
Rachel Weiner / Post Politics:
Inhofe: Tornado aid ‘totally different’ from Hurricane Sandy aid  —  In the wake of the devastating tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb, Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) rejected comparisons between federal aid for this disaster and the Hurricane Sandy relief package he voted against.
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Joan Walsh / Salon:
Inhofe and Coburn: Red state hypocrites  —  Apparently, we have deserving and undeserving disasters, Oklahoma senators James Inhofe and Tom Coburn explain  —  Just a week ago, Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe suggested that President Obama might be impeached over the Benghazi non-scandal.
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Dems urge quick disaster aid for Oklahoma, offsets or none
Discussion: Politico and The Week
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Biden needles Obama on teleprompter  —  Vice President Joe Biden ribbed President Obama over his teleprompter use at a Jewish American Heritage Month reception in New York City on Tuesday.  —  Biden asked that the teleprompter in the room be taken down before his address, according to the pool report.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers and Politico
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Jennifer Epstein / Politico:
Biden: ‘Jewish heritage is American heritage’
Charlie Cook / NationalJournal.com:
Republicans' Hatred of Obama Blinds Them to Public Disinterest in Scandals  —  Republicans are so focused on their bitter battles against Obama, they can't see how little impact the “scandals” have had on public opinion.  —  Red-faced Republicans, circling and preparing to pounce …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
‘Obama Scandals’ Could Actually Hurt Republicans
Discussion: The Dish and First Read
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Virginia Lt. Gov. Candidate Fought Against Desegregation Efforts  —  E.W. Jackson, the Virginia GOP's nominee for lieutenant governor, began his career as a minister and attorney in Boston.  While there, he lent his support to a high-profile 1988 fight against a plan to desegregate public housing developments …
Discussion: Advocate and American Thinker
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Julie Pace / bigstory.ap.org:
AP SOURCES: OBAMA OK PUNTING GAY IMMIGRATION IDEA  —  You are here  —  Home » United States government » AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested …
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The DOMA Project:
Defeat of DOMA, More Critical Than Ever, as Key Senate Democrats Signal They Will Abandon LGBT …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Liberal Pundits Gather in West Wing  —  National Public Radio reporter Ari Shapiro reports that liberal pundits were seen entering the West Wing: … The pundits include Jonathan Capehart, Josh Marshall, and Ezra Klein.
Discussion: Gretawire
Michael Hastings / BuzzFeed:
Advisers Urged Obama Early On To Release Comprehensive Benghazi Timeline  —  How Obama got tripped up by his lawyers.  —  Via: Pool photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images via Abaca Press/MCT  —  WASHINGTON — The White House Counsel's office advised senior Obama officials to keep quiet …
Amy O'Leary / NYT Bits:
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF  —  Among the thousands of file formats that exist in modern computing, the GIF, or Graphics Interchange Format, has attained celebrity status in a sea of lesser-known BMPs, RIPs, FIGs and MIFFs.  It was honored as a “word of the year” in 2012 …
Discussion: Telegraph and Outside the Beltway
 
 
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nbcbayarea.com:
Berkeley Man Nearly Beaten to Death by CHP
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The Daily Beast:
Poverty and Growth: Retro-Urbanists Cling to the Myth of Suburban Decline
Discussion: National Review and The Week
David Ingram / Reuters:
Court rules bin Laden death photos can stay secret
Discussion: Politico
Bloomberg:
How to Humble a Wing Nut
Discussion: Washington Monthly
Andrew Kirell / Mediaite:
Oops! CNN's Cuomo Scolds ‘Congressman’ Over D.C. Disaster Politics, Finds Out He's Not Congressman
Discussion: New Republic
John Lichfield / The Independent:
Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam
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Paul Waldman / American Prospect:
Mr. Smith Is Vaporized in the Fire of a Thousand Suns