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Charlie Spiering
Sen. Mike Lee: ‘The way Washington works stinks!’
Published : 1:55 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, today objected to the Senate Democrats’ attempt to move the budget bill to conference without assurance that the debit limit increase will not be included in the final report. Lee took the...
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Conn Carroll
More than 100 conservative economists sign letter not endorsing Schumer-Rubio
Updated : 1:55 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Pro-amnesty Republicans are pushing a letter Thursday signed by “more than 100 influential conservative economists” that endorses “broad-based immigration reform.” It has been tweeted out by Sen. Jeff Flake,...
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Joel Gehrke
Treasury secretary: ‘We are overachieving on deficit reduction’
Updated : 1:15 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told Congress that President Obama’s administration is “overachieving on deficit reduction,” as he defended the president for submitting a budget that never balances. “If anything, we...
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Timothy P. Carney
Liberal think tanks, the Obama campaign and foreign money
Updated : 1:15 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
You may recall the run-up to the 2010 elections, when President Obama turned to a strange conspiracy theory for his primary campaign point: that foreign companies were bankrolling the GOP through the Chamber of Commerce....
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Charlie Spiering
Shorter Anthony Weiner: I was lying to my wife, not to the public
Updated : 1:05 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
On WNYC radio this morning, host Brian Lehrer asked probably the most prevalent question to former Congressman Anthony Weiner about his Twitter scandal and its effect on his run for mayor. “For some people, the worst...
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Michal Conger
Most wanted deadbeat dad gets prison for evading $1 million in child support
Published : 12:40 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
America’s most wanted deadbeat dad is going to jail after fleeing the country to escape $903,789 in child support payments. Robert Sand had evaded payments for a decade, first moving from New York to Florida and then...
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Charlie Spiering
Pelosi: IRS scandal is ‘wrong’ but ‘not illegal’
Updated : 12:35 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
During her press conference Thursday morning, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was asked by a reporter whether the Internal Revenue Service scandal would affect Democrats’ election prospects in 2014....
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Sean Higgins
Report: Texas leads nation in growth and job creation, Michigan dead last
Updated : 12:20 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
John Merline of Investor’s Business Daily highlights the latest news from the American Legislative Exchange Council on which of the 50 states are thriving and which ones are sinking. With Texas far and away leading the...
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Joel Gehrke
Cruz to McCain: ‘There may be more wacko birds in the Senate’ than you think
Published : 12:15 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Freshman Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, suggested to Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that he no longer represents the majority of Senate Republicans on the issue of increasing the debt ceiling — and he offered a bet to prove it....
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Philip Klein
Obamacare’s California test
Published : 12:05 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
If you want to know how the implementation of President Obama’s health care law will go next year, California is a good place to watch. Anticipating problems with the national implementation of the law, some liberals...
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Charlie Spiering
NY governor: ‘Shame on us’ if we elect Anthony Weiner
Updated : 12:05 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
In an editorial board meeting with New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the governor was asked by the chairman of Syracuse Media Group, Stephen Rogers, about term limits for legislative leaders. During the conversation, however,...
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David M. Drucker
Issa: Special committee not needed for Benghazi investigation
Published : 10:25 AM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Setting up a special House committee to investigate Benghazi would do more harm than good, Rep. Darrell Issa indicated Wednesday in explaining his preference to continue with the joint inquiry divided between five...
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Conn Carroll
Nation’s largest health insurer ops out of California’s Obamacare exchange
Updated : 10:00 AM, Thu, May 23, 2013
UnitedHealth, the nation’s largest private insurer, will not participate in California’s Obamacare health exchange, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. Health insurance giants Aetna and Cigna will also opt out of...
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Charlie Spiering
VIDEO: Gangster government: Taking the Fifth
Updated : 10:00 AM, Thu, May 23, 2013
In 2009, Washington Examiner columnist Michael Barone coined the term “gangster government” to describe President Obama’s Chicago-style method of government. Back then Barone focused on the administration’s...
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Conn Carroll
Morning Examiner: Obama has droned more Americans than Bush waterboarded terrorists
Updated : 9:55 AM, Thu, May 23, 2013
President Obama will announce a new phase in his administration’s counter-terrorism operations Thursday, one day after Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to Congress admitting that Obama’s drone program has...
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Charlie Spiering
Jon Stewart mocks IRS officials testifying before Congress
Updated : 9:40 AM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Wednesday night on “The Daily Show,” comedian Jon Stewart mocked IRS officials Lois Lerner, Steven Miller and Douglas Shulman for their lack of forthcoming information about the tax agency targeting conservative...
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David M. Drucker
Immigration proposal running out of time in House
Published : 9:30 AM, Thu, May 23, 2013
House negotiations toward a bipartisan deal on immigration reform could dissolve if an agreement isn't consummated by Friday, when Congress is scheduled to depart Washington for the Memorial Day recess, a key Republican...
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Byron York
Key House chairman: Senate immigration bill repeats mistakes of 1986
Published : 11:35 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Republican Rep. Bob Goodlatte, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, will be one of the most important men on Capitol Hill in the fight to pass comprehensive immigration reform. With the Gang of Eight bill looking...
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Byron York
Rubio: ‘I do not have trust in Washington DC’
Published : 10:20 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, whose immigration reform proposal would grant far-reaching powers to the Secretary of Homeland Security and other top administration officials, says he does not trust Washington DC to make...
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Joel Gehrke
DOD ignores judge, cuts physical therapy for soldiers’ disabled children
Published : 6:35 PM, Wed, May 22, 2013
Defense Department (DOD) officials decided to stop covering a certain form of physical therapy for the disable children of military members, despite an administrative judge’s ruling that the treatment is covered under...
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