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June, 27, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsDavid Cameron has told European Union leaders at a tense lunch that they may "live to regret" the appointment of Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the European Commission
- Politicians love their yogurt. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo holds yogurt summits. New York Chuck Schumer once got into a word war with Asia over yogurt. And this week, Marion Barry swore to protect D.C. from an invisible yogurt tax he love...
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June, 27, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsPresident Obama spoke exclusively to ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsPresident Obama returns to the White House from his “day in the life” trip to Minnesota with his executive powers slightly diminished following the Supreme Court’s decision to curb the ability of presidents to make recess appointments.
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June, 27, 2014 from The Sydney Morning Herald articlesDavid Leyonhjelm, the NSW Senator-elect who takes his place in the nation’s upper house from next week, says he is still so angry with former Liberal Prime Minister John Howard over the tightening of the nation’s gun la...
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMembers of the GMB union will join a day of action in July that could see more than one million workers on strike in total.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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June, 27, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsBy MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES OBAMA CALLS BOEHNER LAWSUIT THREAT A ‘STUNT’: Despite Republican House Speaker John Boehner’s threat this week to sue President Obama over his use of executive orders, the presiden...
- Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), chairman of the Senate federal workforce subcommittee, has introduced legislation that would allow federal agencies to share information about job candidates. Currently, agencies with similar hiring needs are p...
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe president visited with a woman who had written to him about her struggles as part of a White House effort to reach ordinary Americans.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageNancy Andreasen, The Atlantic A leading neuroscientist who has spent decades studying creativity shares her research on where genius comes from, whether it is dependent on high IQ—and why it is so often accompanied by mental illness.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageSteven Erlanger, New York Times ZONNEBEKE, Belgium — To walk the orderly rows of headstones in the elegant graveyards that hold the dead of World War I is to feel both awe and distance. With the death of the last veterans, World Wa...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageNeal Katyal, New York Times WASHINGTON — FOR years, particularly after the 2000 election, talk about the Supreme Court has centered on its bitter 5-to-4 divisions. Yet it is worth reflecting on a remarkable achievement: The court h...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJohn Judis, New Republic The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) publishes a weekly webzine, The Islamic State Report. The latest issue is headlined “Smashing the Borders of the Tawaghit.” (“Tawaghit” are non-M...
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMPs' watchdog considers a complaint about Labour's Jon Cruddas and Rachel Reeves over links to IPPR think tank.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageFareed Zakaria, Washington Post Hillary Clinton’s problem is not her money. Despite the media flurry over a couple of awkward remarks she made, most people will understand her situation pretty quickly — she wasn’t born ...
- For years now, we have seen the divides within the Republican Party playing out in full view in GOP primaries, leadership races and even on the floor of Congress. It almost makes us forget that their opponents were once the party of fact...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCarl Cannon, RealClearPolitics Irritating phrases and words are not confined to political circles, or solely to Washington, although here in the nationÂ’s capital they burrow in and proliferate like obsolete, but entrenched, go...
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsAn EU summit is poised to confirm Jean-Claude Juncker as next European Commission president, despite strong UK opposition.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePeggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal News is surprise. The news out of Hillary Clinton's book tour is that it hasn't gone well. It was supposed to establish her iconic position in American political life while solidifying her inevitability....
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June, 27, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - Ukraine signed a free-trade and political cooperation agreement with the European Union on Friday that has been at the heart of the country's political crisis, drawing an immediate threat of "grave consequences" from Russi...
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June, 27, 2014 from International Business TimesA contrarian conservative group is saying no to “ Yes All Women .”
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June, 27, 2014 from International Business TimesThere is more land devoted to opium production that ever before, in large part because more acres are being used as poppy fields in Afghanistan, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.
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June, 27, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - US Secretary of State John Kerry, after meeting with France's foreign minister, said on Thursday Russia should call on separatists in Ukraine to disarm within "the next hours."
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsAlan Johnson has "no desire whatsoever" to go back to front line politics, despite a call from a Labour colleague.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageGeorge Condon, National Journal Howard Baker had his own measure of greatness in public service, one that would be recognized by few of the politicians who followed him into the Senate and even fewer of those who, as he did, run for pres...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMargaret Carlson, Bloomberg These days, Chris Christie will go just about anywhere. He no longer wants to be seen as the in-your-face governor of New Jersey, but as the genial ambassador from the Republican Governors Association who just...
- RICHMOND — The head of the state tobacco commission warned that the panel would create the appearance of “manipulating” power in the Virginia Senate if it announced that it was hiring Sen. Phillip P. Puckett on the same day he gave up hi...
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe Export-Import Bank is the latest battle emerging within the Republican Party, once again pitting the Chamber of Commerce faction of the party against the conservative, tea-party aligned one.
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June, 27, 2014 from The Sydney Morning Herald articlesState and federal ministers will reinstate a healthy food star rating system that was controversially pulled by federal assistant Health Minister Fiona Nash and her junk food lobbyist chief of staff.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJay Cost, Weekly Standard On balance the Republican “establishment” has done fairly well this primary season. Its favored candidate in the Nebraska Senate race lost, and of course Eric Cantor went down to defeat, but Thad Coc...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePhilip Klein, DC Examiner A unanimous ruling by the Supreme Court on Thursday invalidating three of President Obama's recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board bolsters House Speaker John Boehner's effort to sue Obama ove...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageSimon Maloy, Salon The Wall Street Journal editorial board, long known for its unwavering defense of the president’s authority to spy on Americans without warrants and “the Bush Administration’s alleged ‘torture&r...
- And we're back. Big thanks to @FixSean for holding down the fort this week. Sign up for Read In here and get all the political news you need in your inbox first thing every morning. A1: The stories you need to read before your first conf...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMichael Barone, Washington Examiner I'm old enough to remember when American liberals cherished the freedom of speech guaranteed by the First Amendment.They celebrated especially the freedom accorded those with unpopular beliefs and prot...
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePaul Krugman, New York Times Have you been following the news about Obamacare? The Affordable Care Act has receded from the front page, but information about how it’s going keeps coming in — and almost all the news ...
- Conservative favorite Chris McDaniel's ( apparently ) failed bid for the Republican Senate nomination in Mississippi was groundbreaking in one regard, as we noted earlier this week: It was funded mostly by outside groups . Read full arti...
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsDavid Cameron admits the odds are against him in his fight to block Jean-Claude Juncker getting the EU's top job, as Labour leader Ed Miliband says he faces "utter humiliation".
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsForeign Secretary William Hague discusses the insurgency in Iraq with Kurdish leaders in the north of the country.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCharles Krauthammer, Washington Post This administration does not learn constitutional lessons. It continues marching until it meets resistance. And it hasnÂ’t met nearly enough.
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsFormer U.S. Sen. Howard Baker, a one-time towering political figure in Washington who also served as a chief of staff to President Ronald Reagan, has died, his former spokesman said.
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsGlastonbury organiser Michael Eavis pays tribute to the late politician Tony Benn as a tower at the festival is renamed in his honour.
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June, 27, 2014 from Top StoriesLukman Faily emphasizes that the United States is his country's partner of choice.
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June, 27, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageDimitri Simes, Natl Interest PRESIDENT BARACK Obama likes to say that America and the world have progressed beyond the unpleasantness of the nineteenth century and, for that matter, much of the rest of human history. He could not be more...
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsLabour leader Ed Miliband urges people in Scotland to change the UK for the better by rejecting independence.
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThere is no rigorous scientific evidence that marijuana effectively treats the symptoms of many of the illnesses for which states have authorized its use.
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsNick Robinson says David Cameron is trying to "snatch some form of moral victory" in the Jean-Claude Juncker vote.
