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Benghazi victim's mother wishes Hillary Clinton happy Mother's Day
Charlie Spiering
Updated: Sun, May 12, 2013
Pat Smith, the mother of one of the victims of the Benghazi consulate attacks, went on the Huckabee show yesterday to deliver a message to Hillary Clinton. "I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother's Day," she said. "She has her child. I don't have mine because of her." Huckabee...
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Tim Carney: Four Americans — and the truth — died in Benghazi
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
Facts emerging about Benghazi may not tell us anything new, but they remind us of two important truths: First, the upper levels of the Obama administration are peppered with partisans who play fast and loose with the truth for political gain. Second, regime change and military interventions,...
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Immigration reform backers struggling to build support in Senate
Susan Ferrechio
Published: Sun, May 12, 2013
The Senate will spend this week reshaping an immigration-reform bill in hopes of building bipartisan support for the measure. But that detailed scrutiny of the measure is scaring off the very lawmakers that its authors hoped to win over. By the time the Senate Judiciary Committee votes on the...
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Obama can't put Benghazi in rear view
Brian Hughes
Published: Sat, May 11, 2013
For months, President Obama and his top surrogates portrayed Republican attacks on their handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack in Libya as a political witch-hunt, a GOP obsession with little basis in fact. But newly released emails show that the White House struck any reference to...
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Michael Barone: Did Clinton and Obama believe their Benghazi baloney?
Michael Barone
Published: Sat, May 11, 2013
What were President Barack Obama and then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton thinking? Why did they keep pitching the line that the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans started as a spontaneous protest against an anti-Muslim video?...
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Byron York: Dems, Gang of Eight defeat tougher border security measures
Byron York
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
Sen. Marco Rubio, the leading Republican behind the bipartisan Gang of Eight immigration reform bill, has often said the legislation will require stronger border security measures if it is to become law. On Thursday, lawmakers got a glimpse of what that might mean. As the Senate Judiciary...
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Stephen Colbert: South Carolina betrayed me and my family
Charlie Spiering
Published: Thu, May 9, 2013
“I gotta tell you, tonight I am angry, and for once that doesn’t make me happy,” comedian Stephen Colbert said during his show’s opening. “And I think you know why. My sister lost!” Colbert’s sister, Elizabeth Colbert-Busch lost in Tuesday’s election to disgraced former South...
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Witnesses: Obama administration blocked military protection for Benghazi mission
Susan Ferrechio
Published: Wed, May 8, 2013
Eyewitnesses to September's deadly terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya told a congressional committee Wednesday that State Department officials had blocked efforts to aid Americans under fire and later tried to conceal al Qaeda's involvement. Mark Thompson, acting deputy assistant...
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Biden: I oppose Keystone pipeline, but I'm 'in the minority'
Sean Higgins
Updated: Wed, May 8, 2013
Vice President Joe Biden reportedly told and activist with the Sierra Club that he personally opposes the $7 billion US-Canada pipeline project, but also indicated that others in the White House do not share his view. In a blog post yesterday at the Sierra Club’s website, activist Elaine...
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Obama hopes day trips will leave lasting economic message
Brian Hughes
Published: Wed, May 8, 2013
Remember the economy? President Obama on Thursday will kick off a series of day trips devoted to job creation with a trek to Austin, Texas, where he will refocus on his proposals to increase the minimum wage and raise cigarette taxes to fund expanded preschool, among other economic initiatives...
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