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If the IRS Had to Step In, Clearly the Boys at the FEC Were Asleep on the Job

Jesse Walker | 11.7.2005 8:34 PM

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The L.A. Times reports:

The Internal Revenue Service has warned one of Southern California's largest and most liberal churches that it is at risk of losing its tax-exempt status because of an antiwar sermon two days before the 2004 presidential election.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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