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• College students thank IRS for illicitly targeting conservative groups [VIDEO]
• Higher ed systems in 10 states turn to Coursera
• Obama taps Comey for FBI, Pryor on air, LePage has guns at the ready
• Chicago simmers over school closings. Is that bad for Mayor Emanuel?

College students thank IRS for illicitly targeting conservative groups [VIDEO] Posted: 30 May 2013 07:18 AM PDT Almost 50 students at the University of Colorado Boulder voluntarily — sometimes gleefully — signed a huge, fake thank-you card to the Internal Revenue Service on Tuesday. The card expressed gratitude to the IRS for its extensive efforts to target conservative and religious groups for audits and protracted nonprofit-status processing.

Higher ed systems in 10 states turn to Coursera Posted: 30 May 2013 04:36 AM PDT The movement of "Massive Open Online Courses," which began with elite universities making their courses available online to the masses, is rapidly moving into the trenches of public higher education. ...

Obama taps Comey for FBI, Pryor on air, LePage has guns at the ready Posted: 30 May 2013 01:57 AM PDT Wake-Up Call! is Hotline's daily morning briefing on campaigns and elections. Click here to subscribe.WHAT'S NEWSPres. Obama held 2 fundraisers for the DCCC in Chicago and stayed overnight at his home, telling donors "one of the best ways" to work around GOP obstruction "is to have a Democratic House of Representatives." DCCC chairman Steve Israel "got a birthday serenade" from Obama and the audience (Chicago Tribune). Obama plans to nominate James Comey, the ex-deputy AG under George W. Bush, to succeed Robert Mueller as FBI director, sources say. ...

Chicago simmers over school closings. Is that bad for Mayor Emanuel? Posted: 29 May 2013 05:37 PM PDT Chicago's controversial decision to close 50 public schools was challenged by a third lawsuit Wednesday, inflaming a public relations war between City Hall and the teachers union that polls say is being waged at a time that Mayor Rahm Emanuel is more vulnerable politically.

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