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After the city council passed a bill that would require a large retailers to pay workers at least $12.50 higher 50% than d.c.'s current minimum wage. last week's vote was the latest development in an ongoing development over walmart's expansion into urban areas. encountered fierce resistance in new york, los angeles, chicago and other big cities. we are back with jason riley, collin levy and steve moore. steve, what's it again -- what does the city council have against walmart? >> you want to understand, paul, why major cities like detroit are going bankruptcy. just look at what's happening in...

Evidence suggesting that the targeting went beyond tea party groups and involved more than a few rogue employees in the tax agency's cincinnati office. collin levy has been following the story for us. he joins me, along with dna henninger and washington columnist kim stossel. collin, you wrote this week about a case of a pro-israel group that seemed to have been targeted after -- right around the time that the administration was pursuing some policies that that group opposed. >> right, paul. we really saw coalescing stories of targeting from other groups this week. this group you're referring ...

Power that it has and the reach that it has in all of our lives. >> welcome to the journal editorial report. i'm paul gigot. that was president obama this week reacting to just one of the controversies swirling around his administration. news that the internal revenue service targeted conservative groups for special scrutiny in the 2012 election season. the latest scandal has revived partisan behavior and reinforced many people's fears about government who run amuck. joining the panel this week issues columnist and deputy editor, dan henninger, washington columnist, kim stossel, and senior edi...

Lifted limits on spending by corporations, unions and nonprofit groups in political campaigns. at the time, the n.r.a.'s wayne lappiere call it a defeat that wanted to carve out free speech for themselves and deny it to the rest of us. how times have changed. senior editorial page writer collin levy joins us with more. what does this act do? >> it's geared at tamping back the free speech that businesses and corporations got with the citizens united decision in january. and, you know, it targets particular sorts of government contractors and businesses that have received tarp funds and those th...

They'll be an opportunity for the democrats to invoke closure, we will see where that ends. it'll be really up to them how the process to confirm judge gorsuch goes forward. paul: joining the panel this week wall street journal panelist and deputy editor dan, washington columnist kim and editorial board member collin levy. only two democratic senators say they'll vote for gorsuch, and most of the rest of the democrats not all declared but the vote count against him is mounting. what's the democratic strategy here to defeat judge gorsuch? >> well, the democratic strategy here is to somehow port...