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Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison
Updated: 2 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on...
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White House, Politics
Democrats fret President Obama's scandals will hurt them in 2014
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
President Obama isn't the only one whose fortunes are on the line in the face of a trio of explosive political scandals that are consuming Washington. The Justice Department's monitoring of...
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White House, Beltway Confidential, Politics
Jay Carney: ‘It’s not about me’
Updated: 16 hr ago
Amid revelations that the Justice Department monitored both Associated Press journalists and Fox News’ James Rosen, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, a former reporter, was asked Tuesday...
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White House, Politics
AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea
Updated: 18 hr ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy that it would be best to put off a controversy...
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White House, Politics
More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told
Yesterday
WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted...
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Politics Digest, White House, Politics
White House helps fuel its own political controversies
Published: Mon, May 20, 2013
The White House on Monday acknowledged that top officials there knew a month ago that the IRS was being investigated for targeting conservative groups, but offered no apology for the Justice...
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Politics Digest, White House, Politics
After Obama's roughest week, White House points finger at GOP
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
White House officials on Sunday dismissed Republican attacks over three simmering scandals as a partisan witch hunt, hoping to put behind them President Obama's single worst week in office and to...
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From WeeklyStandard.com
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He’s No Nixon
By: William Kristol
The thoughtful Carl Cannon has written a piece, " Richard Milhous Obama ," concluding that our current president has more in common with our 37th than President Obama's partisans would like to...
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IRS's Lerner Had History of Harassment, Inappropriate Religious Inquiries at FEC
By: Mark Hemingway
Perhaps no other IRS official is more intimately associated with the tax agency's growing scandal than Lois Lerner, director of the IRS’s Exempt Organizations Division. Since admitting the IRS...
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Yet Another Obamacare Design Flaw
By: Jeffrey H. Anderson
The more the evidence emerges, the more one has to wonder: Could Obamacare have been designed any more poorly? Even those who don’t mind Obamacare’s striking consolidation of power and money...