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Political practices head rules against predecessor

By MATT VOLZ - Associated Press

Wage stagnation and rising income inequality — two features of the current recovery that have puzzled both policymakers and analysts — may reflect not economic factors, but a vast change over the decades in the structure of the American family, in particular the decline in the number of married-parent families, according to a new study. (Associated Press)

Government media board facing inquiry over hiring protocol

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this May 22, 2013, file photo, then Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner refuses to answer questions as the House Oversight Committee holds a hearing to investigate the extra scrutiny the IRS gave tea party and other conservative groups that applied for tax-exempt status, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

House schedules vote next week to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Rancher Cliven Bundy, middle, addresses his supporters along side Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, right, on April 12, 2014. Bundy informed the public that the BLM has agreed to cease the roundup of his family's cattle. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jason Bean)

Bundy aftermath: Utah lawmaker moves to disarm BLM, IRS, says ‘They’re not paramilitary units’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

With the Colorado state capitol building visible in the background, partygoers dance to live music and smoke pot on the first of two days at the annual 4/20 marijuana festival in Denver, Saturday April 19, 2014. The annual event is the first 420 marijuana celebration since retail marijuana stores began selling in January 2014. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Feds raid Denver pot shop suspected of cartel ties

By Kelly Riddell and Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Stafford Co. man pleads guilty in tax fraud case

Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: End IRS reign of intimidation

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on election pledges to control the IRS by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

RAHN: Making Congress accountable through candidate pledges

By Richard W. Rahn

Jury deliberating ex-Hialeah mayor’s tax case

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

** FILE ** This March 22, 2013, file photo shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: The IRS needs a good spanking

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on IRS scandal by M.R. Herron

HUMPHRIES: The Bully of the Week: The IRS

By Rusty Humphries

HUMPHRIES: The Liberal Bully of the Week is … The IRS

By Rusty Humphries - The Washington Times

150 doctors targeted for tax fraud in NH, Vt.

Associated Press

Illustration on IRS double standard by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BRUCE: A cultish clique of corruption and incompetence

By Tammy Bruce

Norquist

Bonuses given to IRS employes who owed back taxes

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Columnist Ernest Istook says Congress, on its own, has clear authority to arrest and jail former IRS official Lois Lerner until she testifies. (Associated Press)

ISTOOK: Congress on its own can arrest and jail Lois Lerner until she testifies on IRS scandal

By Ernest Istook

This April 13, 2014, file photo shows the headquarters of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in Washington. (AP Photo/J. David Ake, File)

IRS revokes conservative group’s tax-exempt status over anti-Clinton statements: report

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Burlington school district facing tax penalties

Associated Press

Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., ranking member of the House Oversight Committee, left, holds up a copy of the Constitution as Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. listens at right as the panel debates whether to find former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner in contempt of Congress for her previous refusal to answer questions at two hearings probing whether tea party and conservative political groups had been targeted for extra scrutiny when they applied for tax-exempt status, Thursday, April 10, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EDITORIAL: More Lerner smoking-gun emails at IRS

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

House Oversight Committee Republicans' new report accuses Lois G. Lerner of "reckless handling" of sensitive taxpayer information because she forwarded it from her government account to a private email. (Associated Press)

ISTOOK: IRS “wants to throw us in jail,” says tea party leader

By Ernest Istook