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WASHINGTON, DC – MAY 24: A sign stands outside the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building on May 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. The IRS is one of at least four federal agencies that is closed today due to the automatic sequestration cuts forced government agencies giving employee’s an unpaid furlough. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The IRS scandal house just keeps building additions atop their already shaky foundation. A new government report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found that 30% of IRS tax seizures of taxpayer property did not comply with the law.

Al Jazeera’s English channel newsroom in Doha, Qatar (File photo: Hamid Jalaudin/AP)

Maybe to U.S. journalists, such as Soledad O’Brien, the Arab news organization Al Jazeera is still the industry gold standard, but in the Middle East the network has experienced real damage to its credibility. The past week has been a rough one, including en masse staff resignations, a raid of one of its offices, its reporters kicked out of a news conference by fellow journalists, and the arrest of some of its staffers by Egyptian security forces.

Many municipalities set up checkpoints for law enforcement to cut down on drunk driving over the 4th of July holiday, and in this video one such DUI checkpoint is depicted. I have been hard on instances of overcriminalization by the federal government, but the truth is that state authorities have a greater impact on our day-today lives. As CATO has done, I have tried to keep an eye out for videos such as this one, in which police are caught behaving in questionable manners.

Texas SB1

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In response to the announcement from Governor Perry that Texas SB1, which bans abortions after 20 week – or 5 months – will pass in this special legislative session, the typical abortionists tactics and rhetoric have started back up. But the rhetoric regarding the impact of policy never matches the practice.

Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood shout slogans as they rally in support of deposed president Mohamed Morsi outside Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque late on July 7, 2013. Sixteen Islamist activists were shot dead during clashes with the police in the vicinity of the mosque early on July 8, a Muslim Brotherhood spokeman said. AFP PHOTO/MAHMOUD KHALED (Photo credit should read MAHMOUD KHALED/AFP/Getty Images)

At least 51 people were killed on Monday when demonstrators enraged by the military overthrow of Egypt’s elected Islamist president said the army opened fire during morning prayers outside the Cairo barracks where Mohamed Morsi is believed held.

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