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Brian Hughes
Obama pushes new rules for drones, transfers for Gitmo prisoners
Published : 3:50 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
President Obama on Thursday announced new limitations on using drone strikes overseas and took fresh steps to remove inmates from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, declaring America at a “crossroads” in how it...
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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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Charlie Spiering
Obama lectures protestor for interrupting foreign policy speech
Published : 3:00 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
During his speech this afternoon, President Obama lectured a protestor for interrupting his foreign policy speech.
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Charlie Spiering
Obama promises to convene media group to address Justice Department spying
Updated : 2:50 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
President Obama indicated in his speech Thursday that he will review the Justice Department guidelines for spying on reporters and promised to “convene a group of media organizations” to hear their concerns. Obama...
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Charlie Spiering
Sen. Mike Lee: ‘The way Washington works stinks!’
Updated : 2:50 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on Thursday objected to the Senate Democrats’ attempt to move the budget bill to conference without assurance that the debt limit increase will not be included in the final report. Lee took the...
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Sean Higgins
Report: Texas leads nation in growth and job creation, Michigan dead last
Updated : 2:45 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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Timothy P. Carney
Sugar industry says if we let in too much sugar, we’ll run out of sugar
Published : 2:40 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Congressional Quarterly reports: the American Sugar Alliance, a trade group for the sugar industry, is taking no chances. In a statement, the group said it delivered replicas of 1940s, World War II-era sugar...
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Joel Gehrke
Cruz to McCain: ‘There may be more wacko birds in the Senate’ than you think
Updated : 2:40 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...
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Sean Higgins
IRS employees union slammed Tea Party as “extreme elements” in 2011
Published : 2:35 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
Over on his own site, Conservative Intel, Washington Examiner columnist David Freddoso points out a telling 2011 press release from the National Treasury Employees Union regarding the Tea Party. That would be the union...
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Timothy P. Carney
Realtors push for lower credit standards on taxpayer-backed loans
Published : 2:25 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
I’m not one for telling banks whom they can and cannot lend to — except for when those loans are guaranteed by U.S. taxpayers. So, when the chief economist of the National Association of Realtors suggests it is time...
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Joel Gehrke
Obama: We’re facing pre-Sept. 11 style terror threats
Published : 2:25 PM, Thu, May 23, 2013
President Obama explained today that the terrorist threats currently faced by the United States bear a closer resemblance to the attacks sustained at the end of the twentieth century than the September 11, 2001, attacks....
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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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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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