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The Internal Revenue Service’s actions are a political Rorschach test, with Republicans seeing an effort to intimidate their allies and Democrats citing a mismanaged agency’s interpretation of flawed laws.
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The Internal Revenue Service is headed for another public pounding today as multiple controversies are combining to besiege the U.S. tax agency.
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The patchwork quilt of U.S. state laws on same-sex marriage, which Washington is now poised to legalize, leaves gay and lesbian Americans with different rights depending on geography. To opponents, that’s just the way things work in a union of self-governing states.
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Governor Christine Gregoire signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage in Washington, making it the seventh in the patchwork of states granting the right to gay and lesbian couples.
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Chief Justice John Roberts, whose deciding vote upheld President Barack Obama’s health-care law, won’t have to wait long for a chance to reassert his conservative credentials.
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Harvard scientist Kevin Eggan started Friday in Bar Harbor, Maine, speaking at the Jackson Laboratory, the U.S.’s largest repository of mutant mice.
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As I struggled to navigate a roundabout at London’s Heathrow Airport recently, I wondered why the Brits don’t switch to driving on the right side of the road. The main obstacle, of course, is the difficulty of ensuring that all vehicles make the change at the same time. Just a few holdouts, particularly trucks, could cause major problems.
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Newt Gingrich never saw it ending this way. The former House speaker, who has long thought of himself as a historic figure, envisioned he would be the candidate of innovative “big ideas” and the agenda-setter for the 2012 U.S. election.
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At times of economic crisis, politicians like to blame investors, preferably foreign investors.
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It is painfully obvious that the 2008 financial crisis would have been a lot less severe had consumers been better educated about the debts they were taking on.
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