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  • Report: Lautenberg’s death may have cost Dems chance to change filibuster

    By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 02:40 PM

    Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent, who is well-connected with Senate Democrats, reports that they now fear the death of 89-year-old New Jersey Democrat Frank Lautenberg earlier this month has undermined their plans to change the Senate’s filibuster rule. The rule requires the assent of 60...

  • Edward Snowden has a pet phoenix (and other interesting Internet memes)

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/17/13 02:20 PM

    NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden may have sounded a little too edgy for reporters during his online Q&A at the Guardian, but the internet is already reveling over his latest statements. We’ve highlighted the top Edward Snowden memes spread that are now trending online. 1.

  • It’s Cato scholar vs. Cato scholar on NSA surveillance

    By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 01:45 PM

    Roger Pilon, the libertarian Cato Institute’s vice president for legal affairs and director of its Center for Constitutional Studies, has angered many over the years in the intellectual world of free minds and free markets by endorsing the war on terror’s intelligence gathering policies....

  • Scott Walker, 2016′s stealth GOP candidate?

    By Sean Higgins | 06/17/13 01:05 PM

    That’s argument made by the National Journal’s Beth Reinhard. She argues that while the Wisconsin Republican governor scores below several other top contenders in pols now, he is well-positioned to rise in the top. This is thanks in large part to Walker beating back a union-led recall vote...

  • Pro-Obamacare ad’s fuzzy sources

    By Ashe Schow | 06/17/13 12:30 PM

    In a new ad purporting to show the benefits of Obamacare, Organizing for Action (formerly Obama’s re-election campaign) fails to provide adequate sources for its claims. The ad does not include quotes from the articles, the author of the article cited, or even the title of the article. A Lexis...

  • Edward Snowden: 'Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can give an American'

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/17/13 12:30 PM

    National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden thumped his chest today in response to being branded a traitor by former Vice President Dick Cheney. “I think he’s a traitor,” Cheney said flatly on ‘FOX News Sunday‘ yesterday. “[I]t’s important to bear in mind I’m being called...

  • Edward Snowden: Google and Facebook 'misleading' their users

    By Charlie Spiering | 06/17/13 12:10 PM

    During a online Q&A on the Guardian this morning, National Security Agency whistle-blower Edward Snowden explained that he believed Facebook and Google were misleading their users about the amount of personal data that they allowed the federal government to access. “Their denials went...

  • In live chat, NSA leaker Edward Snowden says 'truth is coming and cannot be stopped'

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/17/13 11:55 AM

    National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Monday declared that he is determined to continue disseminating the truth about sweeping U.S. surveillance programs and said U.S. authorities will not be able to “cover this up” by jailing or “murdering” him. In a live online chat on...

  • A libertarian turn on social issues

    By Michael Barone | 06/17/13 11:25 AM

    Are Americans becoming more libertarian on cultural issues? I see evidence that they are, in poll findings and election results on three unrelated issues — marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage and gun rights. Start with pot. Last November voters in the states of Colorado and Washington...

  • Supreme Court rejects Arizona voter ID law

    By Cathy Gainor | 06/17/13 11:25 AM

    The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can’t demand would-be voters prove they are citizens before casting ballots in federal elections.The justices voted 7-2 to reject an Arizona law approved by voters in 2004 that requires residents to show “satisfactory evidence” of...


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