This is a huge embarrassment for the IRS and likely to make it more difficult for the agency to police groups that have stepped over the political line.
Following his first failed leadership bid Mr Clarke headed to the backbenches, where he largely vanished from the front line of the national political scene, with some company directorships and other pursuits helping to occupy his time.
The bottom line is that the two political parties are deeply polarized.
The hard-line Islamist political parties that backed putting Islamic law into the constitution and championed local Shariah laws are slipping in popularity, too.
The inescapable bottom line is that the many political miscalculations of Scott Walker are now coming home to roost and even Koch Brothers money is unlikely to be enough to bail the governor and the state GOP out of the huge hole they have dug for themselves.
Indeed, the upper house fancied itself more dignified, more expert and more independent than the lower one, which due to the inconvenience of having to be elected contains a surfeit of boring political hacks toeing the party line.
His shadow cabinet is scattered around the country, and they know that disloyalty to the central line is political death.
By turning a blind eye towards the excesses of Salafism in a society marked by more than six decades of state-inspired secularism, Ennahda seems to be worryingly blurring the line between political Islam and Islamist violence.
So the bottom line is we have to get everybody on the same sheet of music, from senior civilian leadership, political appointees, line leadership and then the support.
She has to keep the Americans convinced of the need to work with and support the political government without drawing too clear a line between the army and the civilian leadership when it comes to tricky questions regarding the country's policy towards the Taliban.
For anyone seeking to understand the origins of Gore's political personality, routinely characterized as stiff and oddly formal, there are clues to be found in the direct line that traces back through the family to their political hero, Cordell Hull.
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And for some of them, they put their political lives on the line.
"There's a thin line along the political spectrum of ideologies when you look at communism, Marxism, socialism, progressivism, " he continued.
From a US domestic political perspective, the third line of attack against Gingrich's factual statement has been the most significant.
When that crosses the line into purely political activity isn't clear.
If the law passed, we were warned, Israel's democracy would be rent asunder as judicial nominees would be forced to toe the line of nefarious political forces yanking at their newly nailed on strings.
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Let me say of myself and almost everyone I know in the press, all the chattering classes and political strategists and inside dopesters of the Amtrak Acela Line: We live in a bubble and have around us bubble people.
The European system of approving such foods for sale on the shelves or for planting in the fields is a mishmash of national and supranational authorities that ends up blurring the line between scientific concerns and political interest.
Stern is the latest in a line of critics led by the political scientist Rob Reich at Stanford to use the giving patterns of the rich as grist for calling into question the appropriateness of the charitable tax deduction.
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If development programs are curtailed their absence will not be noticed on the battlefield because the weapons they would have yielded are not yet there, and the programs usually have a small domestic political footprint due to the absence of a production line and articulated supplier base.
Both candidates put their business reputations and millions of their own dollars on the line to secure their political perches.
Unionists remain wary of the IRA offer and fear republicans are simply storing their guns for use if the political process does not develop in line with their wishes.
Which brings us back to the introduction: are the TUC pushing an economic or political line with a careful presentation of statistics or are they intentionally misleading with a presentation of incorrect statistics?
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They are creating a new political fault line that is ripping through both political parties with the force of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
The "bottom line" must be that, at present, the political and economic situation in China is simply too fluid and, potentially, too hostile to Western business interests to warrant an immediate return of those enterprises who pared down their operations in the aftermath of the massacre.
The truth is that the line-item veto does not end the business of political give-and-take.
The president could be hit with political fallout if his office crossed a line by leaking information that threatened the nation's security, Brinkley said.
Shirley was helping to coordinate publicity for the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual meeting of hard-line activists that had started the day before at Washington's Omni Shoreham Hotel.
Bottom line: Obama has the political opportunity, but does he have the political will?
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This may prove to be the first of a long line of political concessions with economic consequences.
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