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Washington Secrets, Politics
Zogby's Obama report card: President loses his reelection mandate
Updated: 10 hr ago
Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has partially crawled out of his scandal-filled hole. "This would be a perfect week for your humble...
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Rand Paul raps Obama's 'flash cards and PowerPoint' drone defense
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
Sen. Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican who led the filibuster decrying President Obama's policy of using drones to strike American terrorists, still has doubts about the president's drone policy...
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Washington Secrets, Politics
Harvard's Nye: On world stage, Obama no match for George H.W. Bush
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
President Obama has failed to live up to his "transformational" image crafted in the 2008 campaign, winning a lukewarm "meh" from influential scholar Joseph S. Nye Jr., former dean of the John F....
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Health Care, Washington Secrets, Politics
John Kerry's $3.5 billion Obamacare 'boondoggle' faces repeal
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
An Obamacare earmark championed by former Sen. John Kerry that raised wage payments to Massachusetts hospitals at the expense of those in the other 49 states is coming under fire in Congress and...
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Washington Secrets, Politics
Chicago No. 1 in drugged-out men cuffed by cops
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
Nearly nine in 10 men arrested in Chicago last year tested positive for at least one drug, tops in a new federal report. The report from President Obama's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, showed that...
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Energy, Washington Secrets, Politics
Americans say Fed's losing inflation war as food, gas prices jump
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
Americans have a response to Federal Reserve officials worried that inflation is too low: Try gassing up your limo or take a stroll through a Safeway. As the nation's financial Brahmans fret...
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Washington Secrets, Politics
Lanny Davis: If White House was involved, IRS scandal threatens Democrats’ election chances
Yesterday
If investigators show that the White House was involved in the growing IRS-Tea Party scandal, which has robbed Democrats of the so-called "trust edge" they held over Republicans, it could...
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Washington Secrets, Politics
IG: Afghanistan caught in $1 billion tax ripoff of U.S. firms
Published: Thu, May 23, 2013
The corrupt Afghan government has hit American contractors trying to rebuild their war-torn nation with nearly $1 billion in business taxes despite agreements that the work should be free from...
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