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  • Mainstream Media Scream: CBS honcho calls Obama scandals 'little fires'

    By Paul Bedard | 06/17/13 05:00 PM

    There they go again, members of the mainstream media shrugging off the scandals swirling around President Obama. This week's Mainstream Media Scream features CBS News Political Director John Dickerson shrugging at the affairs. On Thursday's "CBS This Morning," he asserted that the White House...

  • Obama mortgage regulator hires current mortgage lobbyist

    By Timothy P. Carney | 06/17/13 04:45 PM

    The Federal Housing Finance Agency has hired Charles Landgraf, who appears to be a currently registered lobbyist, as an adviser to help form policy on a product involved in mortgage lending called “force-place insurance.” Landgraf lobbies for a major bank on that exact issue. This seems to...

  • Poll: Vast majority of Americans oppose arming Syrian rebels

    By Steve Contorno | 06/17/13 04:25 PM

    Public opposition to arming Syrian rebels has grown even as President Obama indicated last week the administration is planning military assistance to some groups fighting President Bashar Assad's government. A Pew Research Center poll released Monday showed that a whopping 70 percent of...

  • Hundreds of classified info leaks being investigated by Intelligence Community Inspector-General

    By Kelly Cohen | 06/17/13 04:25 PM

    A recently declassified June 2012 report shows that the Inspector General of the U.S. Intelligence Community is currently reviewing 375 of cases of classified information leaks. Though most of the cases were considered closed, the IG reopened them about a year ago in order to pinpoint who...

  • Syria not yet at war's end

    By James Jay Carafano | 06/17/13 04:25 PM

    "I have said this 38,000 times: ... This tragedy is not something that can be settled from the outside, and it's about damn well time that everybody understood that." — Lawrence Eagleburger, 1992 Then-Secretary of State Eagleburger spoke some hard truths about the Bosnian War. One year into...

  • Obama: US, Russia have different perspective on Syria, but share interest in stopping violence

    06/17/13 03:48 PM

    ENNISKILLEN, Northern Ireland (AP) — Obama: US, Russia have different perspective on Syria, but share interest in stopping violence.

  • House panel subpoenas HHS Obamacare co-op documents

    By Richard Pollock | 06/17/13 03:45 PM

    Leaders of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform have issued a rare subpoena to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding documents on the $2 billion Obamacare health care co-op program, the Washington Examiner has learned. The subpoena that was issued...

  • Bob Corker blocks Afghan spending bill over millions in payments to Karzai

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/17/13 03:40 PM

    Sen. Bob Corker, the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is demanding to know why the U.S. government allegedly has made tens of millions of dollars in cash payments to Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his relatives, despite continued complaints of corruption at all levels of the...

  • After House blocks Gitmo closure, Obama taps envoy

    By Susan Crabtree | 06/17/13 03:25 PM

    Under pressure to demonstrate a renewed commitment to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama has tapped a high-powered Washington attorney as one of two special envoys dedicated to brokering a deal to close the facility. Obama chose Clifford Sloan, an attorney with...

  • Red-state Senate Dem embraces ‘Rockefeller Republican’ label

    By Joel Gehrke | 06/17/13 03:20 PM

    Sen. Mark Begich, D-Alaska, who is up for reelection next year, likened himself to the Republicans of yesteryear rather than accept an association with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “Probably a Rockefeller Republican,” Begich replied when offered a choice between that label...


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