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First reported 6 mins ago - Updated 6 mins ago - 1 reports

European Union

Cruet Cronyism: How Big Olive Oil and Big Government collude in restraint of dining

Timothy P. CarneyYou may have heard that the European Union is effectively banning olive-oil cruets and dipping bowls at restaurants.This is a delightful emblem of the absurd technocratic regulatory meddling mindset that pervades the EU.But look closer ... [Published Washington Examiner - 6 mins ago]

Entities: Olive Oil, Cronyism, European Union

First reported 2 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

IRS Internal Revenue Service

Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s Cincinnati office

Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . (Photo by Bill ... [Published Ezra Klein - 2 hours ago]

Entities: IRS Internal Revenue Service, Aquifer, Barack Obama, The New York Times Company

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

McHenry fire petition

In his letter to the editor, Edward Guettler questions the facts in Emily Coleman?s story on the McHenry Fire District?s Routes 120-31 building fiasco.The facts are correct. After six months of work, multiple FOIA requests, plans and specifications and ... [Published Northwest Herald - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Donald Allen, Emily Coleman, Ignorance, Cronyism, Taxes

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Worst Political Scandal Ever

Previous government scandals have all been narrowly focused acts of cronyism, garden variety political chicanery or personal failings. The IRS scandal is a direct assault on citizens to stifle dissent. ... [Published U-T San Diego - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Cronyism, Assault

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 2 reports

Jacob Zuma

S African officials used Zumas name in wedding jet

PRETORIA: South African officials used President Jacob Zuma’s name to secure landing rights at a military air base to fly in guests for a lavish wedding hosted by a well-connected Indian family, a probe found on Sunday.The name-dropping was “very bad” ... [Published The News International - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Jacob Zuma, Jeff Radebe, Pretoria

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

GST cat out of the bag

Location: KUALA LUMPUR BARISAN Nasional (BN) is finally letting the goods and services tax (GST) cat out of the bag, says a DAP leader.DAP political education director Liew Chin Tong said Minister in Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Idris Jala had ... [Published Malay Mail - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, Cronyism, Idris Jala, Ahmad Maslan, Nurul Izzah Anwar

First reported 9 hours ago - Updated 9 hours ago - 1 reports

United National Congress

Square pegs in State boards

In decisively replacing the Caribbean Airlines (CAL) board, Finance Minister Larry Howai is demonstrating a no-nonsense approach that most citizens would surely approve of. Such approval may not be echoed by his Cabinet colleagues, however, given that ... [Published Trinidad Express - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Cronyism, Appointment, Winston Dookeran, United National Congress, Caribbean Airlines

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 2 reports

Ryan: IRS Targeting 'Big Government Cronyism'

:53 PM PDT19 May 2013, 2:44 PM PDT19 May 2013, 1:19 PM PDT19 May 2013, 1:10 PM PDT ... [Published Breitbart.com - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Cronyism

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 1 reports

No room for cronyism and corruption in PJ, says MP

PETALING JAYA Utara MP Tony Pua has asked Petaling Jaya Mayor Datin Paduka Alinah Ahmad to look out for anyone practising cronyism and corruption in the Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ).Pua said elected representatives for Petaling Jaya had a closed-door ... [Published thestar.com.my - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Cronyism, Petaling Jaya, Tony Pua, Derek Fernandez, Corruption

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Paul Ryan: IRS targeting scandal reveals ‘big government cronyism’

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday called the Internal Revenue Service scandal a defining example of “big-government cronyism.”“This is rotten to the core. This is arrogance. This is big-government cronyism,” said Ryan on “Fox News Sunday.”The 2012 GOP ... [Published The Hill - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Ryan, Cronyism, IRS Internal Revenue Service

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

Ryan on IRS: ‘This is Big-Government Cronyism’

Representative Paul Ryan described the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups as another example of the federal government’s ”arrogance of power, abuse of power to the nth degree.” “This is big-government cronyism,” Ryan said on Fox News Sunday .“To claim ... [Published National Review - May 19 2013]

Entities: Paul Ryan, Cronyism, Chris Wallace, Abuse of Power, Arrogance

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

The golden goose

It has long been argued that the is a true reflection of the various problems of Indian capitalism in the 21st century: cronyism, mis-set prices and an emphasis on the spectacular at the expense of the substantive and on the short term at the expense ... [Published Sify - May 18 2013]

Entities: DLF Indian Premier League, Cricket, Black Money, Match-Fixing

Quotes

...and President Obama wanted it to go, between the two mega coastal cities, environmentalists and the politicians connected with environmentalists "would lie down on the tracks to stop the trains. Instead, California gets federal taxpayer dollars and Brown and Obama look like heroes."

Be Glad You're With Rick Scott, Not Moonbeam Brown [Published Sunshine State News - 6 hours ago]

..." Liew added: "With Idris's latest revelation, the BN government is finally letting the ." BN first expressed its wish to introduce the GST in 2005 when then Prime Minister Tun Abdullah Badawi gave his 2006 federal government budget speech...

GST cat out of the bag [Published Malay Mail - 9 hours ago]

Here's David Moberg of In These Times, in a post, "3 Troubling Things To Know About Billionaire Penny Pritzker, that was circulated on the left-wing Democratic Underground message board:"

Penny Pritzker: Obama's Worst Insult to His Left-Wing Base [Published Breitbart.com - 14 hours ago]

Ryan, however, insisted that the IRS had targeted conservative groups based on their political beliefs and "to suggest that this is some bureaucratic snafu, that's already been disproven."

Paul Ryan: IRS Connection to Obamacare Is 'Rotten to the Core' [Published Crooks and Liars - 14 hours ago]

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Cruet Cronyism: How Big Olive Oil and Big Gover... [Published Washington Examiner - 6 mins ago]
Collusion, manipulation in Guptagate scandal [Published Defence Web - 24 mins ago]
Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s C... [Published Ezra Klein - 2 hours ago]
For Lawmakers, Ethics Reform is Complicated [Published The Texas Tribune - 3 hours ago]
McHenry fire petition [Published Northwest Herald - 4 hours ago]
Be Glad You're With Rick Scott, Not Moonbeam Brown [Published Sunshine State News - 6 hours ago]
‘Politicized’ Tech Plants Firm Roots in Europe... [Published IDG Connect - 7 hours ago]
Worst Political Scandal Ever [Published U-T San Diego - 7 hours ago]
Khalid no ‘lame duck MB’ [Published Malay Mail - 7 hours ago]
S African officials used Zumas name in wedding jet [Published The News International - 8 hours ago]
Lisa McInerney: Neil Prendeville blamed the wro... [Published TheJournal.ie - 8 hours ago]
Umno Baru’s hidden agenda [Published Anwar Ibrahim - 8 hours ago]
GST cat out of the bag [Published Malay Mail - 9 hours ago]
Politics \| Is the Obligation Legitimate and Sho... [Published GoLocalProv - 9 hours ago]
Square pegs in State boards [Published Trinidad Express - 9 hours ago]
Paul Ryan: Obama’s Second Term Marred by ‘Arrog... [Published Gnom.es - 10 hours ago]
Meet The ‘Inflatable Car’ Inventor Suing The U.... [Published Gizmodo Australia - 11 hours ago]
How the IRS seeded theclouds in 2010 for a poli... [Published Lucianne.com - 11 hours ago]
Penny Pritzker: Obama's Worst Insult to His Lef... [Published Breitbart.com - 14 hours ago]
Ryan: IRS Targeting 'Big Government Cronyism' [Published Breitbart.com - 14 hours ago]
A pressing issue [Published Marianas Variety - 14 hours ago]
Paul Ryan: IRS Connection to Obamacare Is 'Rott... [Published Crooks and Liars - 14 hours ago]
No room for cronyism and corruption in PJ, says MP [Published thestar.com.my - 15 hours ago]
Penny Pritzker: ObamaÂ´s WorstInsult to His Lef... [Published Lucianne.com - 15 hours ago]
Walters has never faltered [Published USA Today - 15 hours ago]
Penny Pritzker: Obama's Worst Insult to His Lef... [Published Breitbart Feed - 17 hours ago]
Republicans Pressing Link Between Obamacare And... [Published Kaiser Health News - 17 hours ago]
Dan Pfeiffer Explains the IRS Scandal [Published The Atlantic Wire - 19 hours ago]
Monarchical madness [Published WA Today - 20 hours ago]
The 'deliverologist' [Published GARP - 20 hours ago]

Blogs

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Wonkbook: What we’re learning about the IRS’s C... [Published Ezra Klein - 2 hours ago] Welcome to Wonkbook, Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas’s morning policy news primer. To subscribe by e-mail, click here . Send comments, criticism, or ideas to Wonkbook at Gmail dot com. To read more by Ezra and his team, go to Wonkblog . (Photo by Bill ...
Umno Baru’s hidden agenda [Published Anwar Ibrahim - 8 hours ago] Malaysiakini When Ahmad Zahid Hamidi – the new home minister – told disgruntled opposition supporters that they should migrate if they were unhappy with the results of GE13, he had unwittingly confessed that Umno Baru has a hidden agenda. This little-known ...
Paul Ryan: IRS Connection to Obamacare Is 'Rott... [Published Crooks and Liars - 14 hours ago] Click here to view this media Former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Sunday used the news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had scrutinized tea party groups to slam the agency's connection to President Barack Obama's ...
Penny Pritzker: Obama's Worst Insult to His Lef... [Published Breitbart Feed - 17 hours ago] In a crowded field, Chicago billionaire, bundler, sub-prime banker and union buster Penny Pritzker is clearly the worst nominee that President Barack Obama has chosen for his second term cabinet. Though the position for which she has been nominated, ...
Meet VA GOP Atty. Gen. Nom. Mark Obenshain: Oba... [Published Breitbart Feed - 20 hours ago] Virginia Republicans nominated Mark Obenshain, a state senator and respected lawyer, for Attorney General on Saturday in the same Richmond building where his late father, Richard Obenshain, received the Party's U.S. Senate nomination 35 years ago ...

Audio/Video

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Bank Cronies Cash In with SEC [Published The Young Turks - YouTube - Feb 16 2013]