Speaking at Ohio State University earlier this month, Barack Obama urged students to pay no attention to those paranoid types who “incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity.” Oddly enough, in recent days the most compelling testimony for this view of government has come from the president himself, who insists with a straight face that he had no idea that the Internal Revenue Service had spent two years targeting his political enemies until he “learned about it from the same news reports that I think most people learned about this.” Like you, all he knows is what he reads in the papers. Which is odd, because his Justice Department is bugging those same papers, so you’d think he’d at least get a bit of a heads-up.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A Chechen rebel-turned-refugee — whose meetings with marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev drew FBI agents to search his home this week — wrapped himself in the American flag yesterday, saying he loves his adopted country and the deadly attacks left him with “shame and fear.”

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Scientists from Baylor University are scheduled to exhume the remains of undocumented and unidentified immigrants buried in the Falfurrias city cemetery Sunday. Falfurrias is the county seat of Brooks County, located deep in south Texas. It is also located a few miles north from a Border Patrol checkpoint located on Highway 281.

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In what former Republican executive and activist Dylan Nonaka is calling a massive invasion of privacy that suggests a broad, coordinated federal effort to target conservative groups, two IRS offices in 2012 independently conducted costly audits and sought tea party-related training materials that they apparently believed could be tied to Nonaka.

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Less than a year after the Obama administration’s own lawyers determined Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius could be fired for violating federal law, she’s embroiled in another scandal for unscrupulously soliciting money from healthcare companies to fund Obamacare.

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The 2-year-old girl had a bad rash and kept crying for her mother, who was out of town.

The babysitter, Gabriela Gonzales, apparently could not stand it anymore. Richmond prosecutor Edward Nickel said that Gonzales shook the girl so hard that her “neck had to be snapping back and forth” and also smashed the girl’s head several times onto a bathtub or toilet.

She died three days later.

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And: Maricopa County detectives arrest illegals, but ICE will let them go. No doubt.

DENVER—Colorado sheriffs upset with new state gun restrictions adopted in the aftermath of last year’s mass shootings are trying to invalidate the regulations with a federal lawsuit filed Friday that argues the measures violate the Second Amendment.

At issue are two laws passed this spring that are set to take effect July 1, limiting the size of the of ammunition magazines to 15 rounds and expanding background checks to private and online firearm sales.

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File this under: Can’t Make This Shit Up.

FYI: IVAN MORENO (Associated Press), is a Mexican illegal alien working out of Denver.

Where’s the money?

Federal authorities Thursday scrambled to find millions of dollars in profits a smuggling ring that sold cheap cigarettes to bodegas across New York may have used to fund terrorism in the Middle East.

Three of those charged in the sophisticated conspiracy were linked to known terrorists, including Hamas, the group that controls the Gaza Strip and has vowed to wipe Israel off the map, officials said.

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All 16 of those charged are Palestinian and all but two were living illegally in the U.S. One managed to flee to Jordan before the arrests late Wednesday.

Long before the Internal Revenue Service revealed it had improperly targeted conservative 501(c)(4) groups, a group of Democratic senators led by New York Sen. Chuck Schumer urged the IRS to do just that.

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