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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/18/13 03:55 PM
Following a well-worn path to Germany's Brandenburg Gate, President Obama plans to invoke America's most important speakers at the Berlin landmark -- John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan -- as he seeks to revive his promise...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/18/13 11:30 AM
President Obama's nonstop fundraising for congressional Democrats is building a huge campaign war chest for next fall, but there is little hope that his party will win back control of the House and make Rep. Nancy Pelosi...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/18/13 07:37 AM
Children of baby boomers are not the lazy video-game playing sloths portrayed in the media but eager-to-work and civic-minded 19- to 34-year-olds who consider themselves “citizens of Planet Earth” more than any...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/17/13 05:20 PM
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who stumbled out of the GOP presidential primary gates in 2012, appears poised for a revival in the upcoming 2016 primaries, according to key congressional aides and members who are already sizing...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/17/13 05:00 PM
There they go again, members of the mainstream media shrugging off the scandals swirling around President Obama.
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features CBS News Political Director John Dickerson shrugging at the...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/17/13 08:10 AM
A new rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/16/13 07:45 PM
Anti-abortion female lawmakers and activists, long shouted down by pro-abortion Democrats, are stepping up their efforts to bring their "farm team" of state politicians to Washington and challenge House Minority Leader...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/15/13 06:50 AM
Just six months after he cut a fiscal cliff deal with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Vice President Joe Biden declared Friday night that the GOP has no adult leadership and he said it is being pushed around by...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 02:55 PM
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton says it's time for a woman in the Oval Office, music to her mom Hillary Clinton's ears.
In a wide-ranging interview on MSNBC's "NOW with Alex Wagner" Clinton was asked about getting...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 01:45 PM
By a majority of three to one, Americans oppose President Obama's plan to get involved in the Syrian civil war, a blow to the administration and the latest evidence of the nation's war fatigue.
A new YouGov poll...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 11:25 AM
The president's abrupt decision to arm Syrian rebels is a huge mistake, one driven by emotion and propaganda not they kind of strategic White House plan that has marked past successful interventions in civil wars,...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 10:30 AM
Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that the internet tapping scandal has stalled the president's agenda and hit his approval ratings.
"Summer is here and it is time for scandals in...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 09:35 AM
Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee that oversees the Internal Revenue Service, on Friday said the agency's involvement in the Tea Party snooping scandal proves it's so mismanaged that it needs...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 06:25 AM
Tired of waiting for President Obama to make good on his inaugural promise to tackle global warming, eco-activist Robert Redford has called on the public to press the president to act, questioning Obama's "courage of his...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/14/13 06:20 AM
Facing federal warnings that this summer's stink bug invasion will be the worst ever, House lawmakers have OK'd a bill demanding that the Agriculture Department make the bug Public Pest No. 1 and speed efforts to kill it....
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/13/13 01:20 PM
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul on Thursday slammed the administration's funding and arming of Israel's foes, including Egypt, and said it is likely that if Muslim nations attack Israel as feared, American taxpayers...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/13/13 11:25 AM
With the Reagan presidency slowly being squeezed out of grade school history classes by more topical subjects, fans of the Gipper are pushing the country to remember the 40th president for his rich life story and...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/13/13 10:20 AM
The latest investigative video from the anti-abortion group Live Action unveiled Thursday shows an Albuquerque, New Mexico abortion doctor comparing the injection used to kill a fetus to a flu shot.
The shocking video...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/13/13 10:10 AM
That was fast--but not unexpected. The media frenzy over the IRS scandal, which dominated the Big Three networks for two weeks, has practically disappeared from the news, according to a new report.
The dominant story in...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 03:20 PM
He hid it well as president, but as a retired chief executive looking for any way to get a laugh or brighten somebody's day, George H.W. Bush has revealed his secret craving: crazy-colored socks.
On Wednesday, his 89th...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 03:10 PM
Roger Ailes has won a $250,000 Bradley Foundation Prize for creating Fox News Channel, deemed by the group to be a thoroughly American institution.
Ailes and three others, including former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels,...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 02:10 PM
Two-term Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander has pulled off a surprise for Washington-based Tea Party groups eagerly looking for a more conservative alternative to make a primary challenge in 2014: He's already the movement's...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 01:15 PM
President Obama took a bachelor's road trip to Massachusetts Wednesday to help Democratic Senate candidate Rep. Edward Markey, taking advantage of being away from his fit wife to grab a cheesburger lunch.
Shortly before...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 12:45 PM
The White House on Wednesday stepped up its campaign for immigration reform with a video of West Wing staffers talking about their immigrant roots, but it was immediately slammed by YouTube viewers as a whitewash of the...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/12/13 11:55 AM
Two leading GOP voices on immigration reform on Wednesday said that the Republican Party has to accept immigration reform or die at the ballot box.
In different tones, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a member of the Senate...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/11/13 03:35 PM
Officials in Washington and around the world are bracing for the death of longtime civil rights leader and former South African President Nelson Mandela, who is hospitalized again in serious condition for a lung...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/11/13 11:40 AM
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Tuesday decried the spread of unaccountable federal agencies like the IRS and National Security Agency caught prying into American lives, charging that President Obama's promise that his...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/11/13 10:45 AM
A conservative-palooza featuring firebrand Sarah Palin, Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul and center-right populists Herman Cain and Donald Trump is crashing Washington Thursday to begin the right's bid to elect even more Tea...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/10/13 03:35 PM
This week's Mainstream Media Scream features MSNBC's Martin Bashir, in his "Clear the Air" segment ending his Wednesday show, calling criticism of President Obama over the IRS probe of Tea Party groups racist.
"The IRS...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/10/13 03:30 PM
The wave of scandals washing over President Obama's White House is starting to slam his team, notably Rep. Edward Markey, the Massachusetts Democratic Senate nominee who has seen his approval ratings drop since the...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/10/13 11:45 AM
The pro-life movement, long focused on the rights of the unborn, is shifting its focus to the health of mothers involved in the operation, believing the horrific Kermit Gosnell trial has opened the nation's eyes to the...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/10/13 09:30 AM
The public has lost faith in President Obama, his administration and Congress in the wake of the internet and phone snooping scandal, breaking a trust bond that is likely to undermine the rest of his second term
A new...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/10/13 08:20 AM
Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that the internet tapping scandal might build a new libertarian movement against the president.
"New polls just out show President Obama losing some of...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/08/13 07:05 AM
Mitt Romney, the losing 2012 GOP presidential candidate, said today that he won't run again and blamed his loss to President Obama on the improving employment rate.
"I got my chance. I took my message to the American...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/07/13 02:35 PM
Vice President Joe Biden is pushing aside the scandals plaguing his boss to renew his war on guns, an unusual doubling down on a key fight the administration was humiliated on just two months ago.
In an email to...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/07/13 12:50 PM
The No. 3 House Republican leader has urged President Obama to call Bill Clinton "every night" to figure out a path to working with the GOP to score some bipartisan victories as the former president did with his foe,...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/07/13 12:35 PM
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, the budding 2016 GOP presidential candidate, plans to put his support for charter schools on display next week when he delivers the commencement address at a Philadelphia charter school.
Paul on...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/07/13 12:30 PM
In the latest bid to save the threatened honey bee, Washington State University entomologists are building a sperm bank that they will draw on to produce a stronger bee resistant to the types of ailments that are playing...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/07/13 10:35 AM
You can take the senator out of the Senate, but you can't take the Senate out of the senator, it seems.
Consider Secretary of State John Kerry, for 28 years a Massachusetts senator, for example.
Sources tell Secrets...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/07/13 10:35 AM
Conservatives who believe there is a link between the White House, President Obama's campaign and the IRS probe of Tea Party groups opposed to the administration want a former special projects aide and campaign aide to...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/06/13 08:50 PM
First lady Michelle Obama went to bat for Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe Thursday afternoon, begging for money by claiming her husband needs the former Democratic Party chief to help her husband win his...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/06/13 03:30 PM
Have you heard much lately from major league reporter Jonathan Alter or about his new book on the president and his critics, "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies?"
Don't feel bad. Apparently not many others have...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/06/13 02:21 PM
First Lady Michelle Obama, criticized by some for bailing out of a weekend trip to California to join her husband in meeting the new Chinese president and his celebrity wife, will join Barack Obama on a weeklong tour...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/06/13 10:05 AM
Most of Planned Parenthood's 750 health and abortion clinics around the nation will be covered under Obamacare, imposing a new demand on insurers who want to participate in the health care exchanges that will provide...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/06/13 05:15 AM
Evangelical leaders who believe establishment Republicans forced unwinnable and unworthy presidential candidates on them in the past two elections are getting a jump on the 2016 process, and popular Tea Party Sens. Rand...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/05/13 03:00 PM
Republicans favor Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as their 2016 presidential nominees, according to a new poll that vaults the Bush-era diplomat to the top of the pack.
The weekly...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/05/13 01:50 PM
They're not supposed to sell them, but some military exchanges still offer Penthouse, Playboy and other explicit magazines, and those sales contribute to the sexual harassment problem plaguing the services, according to a...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/05/13 11:10 AM
A House Republican leader in the fight to repeal Obamacare said the House plans to "pull the emergency brake" on the president's health reform bill before it crashes when fully implemented in January.
Georgia Rep. Tom...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/04/13 05:25 PM
When President Obama announced Tuesday that his three new picks for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit "are no hacks," some GOP critics of his bid to pack three liberals on the court found themselves nodding...
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By PAUL BEDARD | 06/04/13 03:35 PM
The Treasury Department's audit of the Internal Revenue Service's 225 employee conferences that cost taxpayers nearly $50 million might not be accurate or include all of the IRS expenses because the agency that daily...
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