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5/23/2013
True the Vote, a Houston-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting voter fraud, has filed suit in federal court against the IRS, asking the court to grant its tax-exempt status (three years after applying) and seeking damages for unlawful actions taken by the IRS against the organization.
Catherine Engelbrecht, a member of the Harris County, Texas, tea-party organization King Street Patriots, founded True the Vote after serving as a poll worker during the 2008 elections. Observing how understaffed polling places seemed to encourage voter fraud, she established True the Vote to train poll workers to “true” the vote: “to research the voter rolls in their home districts and to report inaccuracies to their County and State, to identify instances of vote fraud, and to be able to serve as observers at the polls to assure the integrity of the vote.”
Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/348961/true-vote-files-suit-against-irs-ian-tuttle
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5/23/2013
Gay rights activists and members of conservative groups gathered in the Texas town of Grapevine on Wednesday where Boy Scouts of America delegates were expected to vote at a national meeting to lift its ban on gay youth membership. More than 1,400 delegates are expected to pass a resolution on Thursday to lift the ban, according to Boy Scouts officials. The vote comes about three months after members of the executive board delayed a decision on loosening the ban.
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-boyscouts-demonstrationsbre94m040-20130522,0,5416388.story
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5/23/2013
Depending on what happens at the Boy Scouts' national meeting this month, gay Scouts might soon be accepted into the venerable organization. Even then, there will remain a large and growing group of Americans still barred by the Boy Scouts.
When will the Boy Scouts accept the non-religious?
The Boy Scouts of America recognizes an impressive range of religious affiliations that qualify one as "reverent" and, thus, eligible to participate. Two dozen varieties of Christianity get the nod, plus Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Bahai'ism and more. However, the non-religious are not welcome, and that poses a problem the Boy Scouts should address in addition to the sexual orientation question drawing so much attention.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-krattenmaker/when-will-boy-scouts-accept-the-non-religious_b_3294197.html
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5/23/2013
A remarkably expensive meeting of a key legislative committee took place this week: a $22,000-plus affair at an upscale downtown Austin steakhouse for the 15-member House Calendars Committee.
That panel, which sets the daily lineup of bills for consideration in the House and thus holds life-or-death power over legislation, held its end-of-session dinner at Austin’s III Forks restaurant this past Sunday.
It cost $22,241.03 and required the use of 34 American Express cards, 11 MasterCards and 20 Visa cards. The committee chairman, state Rep. Todd Hunter, R-Corpus Christi, said there were about 140 people there, and most of them stayed for dinner.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/politics/article/An-expensive-celebration-courtesy-of-the-Lobby-4540289.php
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5/23/2013
A Texas legislator has had an Austin police warrant out for his arrest for nearly a year for an unresolved speeding ticket, but paid his fine this afternoon within minutes of an American-Statesman inquiry.
“It was an oversight on my part,” said State Rep. James White, a Republican from Hillister. “I’ve just taken care of it.”
White paid $300 — his fine for speeding 40 miles per hour in a 30 mile per hour zone in the 1100 block of Winstead Drive near Mopac (Loop 1) and Enfield Road, plus court costs.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/crime-law/texas-lawmaker-had-warrant-out-for-arrest-nearly-a/nXzTc/
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5/23/2013
As soon as White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler heard about an upcoming inspector general’s report on the Internal Revenue Service, she knew she had a problem.
The notice Ruemmler saw on April 24 gave her a thumbnail sketch of a disturbing finding: that the IRS had improperly targeted tea party and other conservative groups. She shared the news with White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and other senior White House aides, who all recognized the danger of the findings.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-irs-issue-senior-white-house-aides-were-focused-on-shielding-obama/2013/05/22/9183902c-c228-11e2-914f-a7aba60512a7_story.html
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5/23/2013
Lois Lerner might win the legal battle but she’s prolonging the political war.
Instead of simply taking the scorn of lawmakers for a day, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment to avoid self-incrimination, and then moving on, she chose defiance.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/05/darrell-issa-irs-lois-lerner-91755.html#ixzz2U7cz6qMx
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5/22/2013
In a surprising reversal, the Texas House allowed the clock to run out Tuesday night on Senate Bill 11, an initiative that would have created a drug testing regimen for some welfare benefits.
After a marathon debate and a night of procedural and delay tactics, just hours after it voted to require drug testing for unemployment applicants, the House failed to reach a vote on SB 11 before time ran out on a midnight deadline to approve the bill.
Senate Bill 11, by Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, would have required adults receiving benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to submit to a drug test if their responses to a screening questionnaire indicate possible drug use.
Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2013/05/22/house-gives-early-ok-drug-testing-unemployment/
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5/22/2013
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service official who revealed IRS conservative-group targeting will decline to answer lawmaker questions Wednesday, her attorney said.
Lois Lerner, who heads the IRS division on tax-exempt organizations, will plead her Fifth Amendment constitutional right against compulsory self-incrimination and decline to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, attorney William Taylor told the committee in a letter.
The committee's Republican leaders accuse Lerner of lying to them.
Read more: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/05/22/IRS-official-Lois-Lerner-to-plead-the-Fifth/UPI-75031369204200/#ixzz2U1qFqw2O
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5/22/2013
Voters are concerned about the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative political groups for unfair treatment, and over half think the White House either knew it was happening or -- worse yet -- was actually behind the operation.
That’s according to a Fox News poll released Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/05/21/fox-news-poll-majority-thinks-white-house-knew-about-irs-actions/#ixzz2U1ps5CUn
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