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Sean Higgins
Code Pink founder on heckling Obama: I could not let him continue to blame Congress
Updated : 6:05 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
Medea Benjamin, founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink, has an article up at the liberal Nation’s website explaining why she heckled President Obama’s major speech this week on national...
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Sean Higgins
Teachers union vows to oust Chicago mayor
Updated : 6:05 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
Another epic showdown between a local government leader and a public-sector union? Looks like it will happen. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has vowed to take down Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The Chicago Sun-Times...
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Sean Higgins
White House renominates NLRB attorney Lafe Solomon
Updated : 6:05 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
President Obama made the nomination for a four-year term Thursday night. Solomon has been serving as the National Labor Relations Board’s acting general counsel since June 2010, following a long career as attorney...
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David M. Drucker
GOP pushes for pre-conference agreement on 2014 budget
Published : 4:15 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
The House minority has minimal power, but it is using the few parliamentary tools it can wield to force Republicans to demand a budget agreement with Senate Democrats as a condition for proceeding to a conference...
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Conn Carroll
Heritage and its critics agree: Amnesty is a drain on taxpayers
Updated : 3:45 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
Shortly after the Heritage Foundation released its controversial cost-of-amnesty report, former National Economic Council Director Keith Hennessey wrote a highly critical response disputing Heritage’s final $6.3...
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Joel Gehrke
Obama celebrates falling deficits, attacks spending cuts
Published : 3:05 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
President Obama called for Congress to end the “foolish” budget cuts required under sequestration, arguing that lawmakers should feel empowered because “deficits are falling at the fastest rate in decades.”...
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Charlie Spiering
Jon Stewart ridicules Obama for persecuting the press
Updated : 2:05 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
Last night on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart ridiculed President Obama for persecuting the press in the name of national security. “You see, they believe in the freedom of the press — just not freedom of speech...
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Conn Carroll
With amendments, Senate immigration bill soars past 1,000 pages
Updated : 2:00 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
After two weeks of amendments, S. 744, the bipartisan immigration reform bill voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday night, is now more than 1,000 pages long, according to a committee aide. When the bill was...
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Conn Carroll
Obama refuses to meet border agents, invites illegal immigrants to Oval Office
Updated : 12:55 PM, Fri, May 24, 2013
President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three illegal immigrants who have been granted deferred action legal status in the Oval Office Tuesday. Meanwhile, Obama still refuses to meet with any border security...
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Charlie Spiering
20 ways the Internet criticizes Obama's drone program
Updated : 11:59 AM, Fri, May 24, 2013
The Internet has long been concerned with President Obama's drone program, frustrated that the president - a former war protestor - has escalated the use of flying death robots to target terrorists.
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Charlie Spiering
MSNBC hosts: Obama’s speech was historic and totally awesome
Published : 10:40 AM, Fri, May 24, 2013
As expected, President Obama’s speech on foreign policy yesterday was a bit hit with the pundits on MSNBC. Watch the video above for their thoughts – see below for a sample of their praise: “Today was different....
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Conn Carroll
Morning Examiner: Liberals turn on Holder
Updated : 10:30 AM, Fri, May 24, 2013
Just one week ago, the Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein confidently assured his readers that “the scandals are falling apart.” Now, after another week of tough Congressional hearings and media reporting, it’s doubtful...
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Philip Klein
Obamacare poll is even worse than it looks
Updated : 10:00 AM, Fri, May 24, 2013
Guy Benson points to a new Fox poll with findings that he describes as “brutal” for President Obama’s health care law. Specifically, Benson highlights this question: 22. Do you think it would be better to leave...
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Charlie Spiering
Huffington Post: Time for Eric Holder to go
Updated : 8:05 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
“We have a message for Attorney General Holder over at http://huffingtonpost.com,” read a message from the Huffington Post political Twitter account earlier this evening. The home page is one big splash calling for...
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David M. Drucker
Congressman: House on verge of immigration deal
Published : 6:55 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Rep. Raul Labrador said Thursday that he believes the House immigration working group has reached a tentative bipartisan agreement on a comprehensive reform package. The Idaho Republican suggested in a conversion with...
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David M. Drucker
House committee wants to hear from anyone targeted by the IRS
Published : 6:25 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Claims of political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service are flooding into the House Ways and Means Committee, bolstered by evidence that includes secretly recorded conversations with IRS officials. Ways and Means...
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Joel Gehrke
IRS official’s underlings have history of investigating prayers
Published : 5:20 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
IRS employees working under Lois Lerner allegedly asked a pro-life group about the “content of the members of your organization’s prayers” while considering their application for tax-exempt status — a charge that...
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Joel Gehrke
Rand Paul proposes ban on drone surveillance of Americans
Published : 4:55 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., unveiled two bills designed to limit government surveillance of Americans, including one that would effectively ban the use of drone technology in the United States. “The use of drone...
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Philip Klein
Don’t be fooled by California’s premium claims
Updated : 3:45 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
As I wrote earlier, California is going to be a major test case for the implementation of President Obama’s health care law. Though major insurers have decided to opt out of the state’s subsidized insurance exchange,...
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Charlie Spiering
Obama: Increase in domestic terrorism fueled by Internet
Published : 3:05 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
During his foreign policy speech this afternoon, President Obama warned that domestic terrorism would increase in the modern age of the Internet. “[T]his threat is not new,” Obama said. “But technology and the...
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