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- The tea party had waged wars against President Obama’s health-care plan and government spending. But in early 2012, it was beginning to sound its next battle cry, one that is now deepening the split within the Republican Party: “crony ca...
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageGlenn Thrush, Politico
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June, 28, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsDavid Cameron comes under fire after his defeat in a row over the new European Commission president, but a cabinet minister says he was "brave".
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRobert Reich, Huffington Post
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageErin Cunningham, The Daily Beast
- There are two arguments that advocates of Chris McDaniel are using to suggest that the results of Tuesday's Republican Senate run-off election in Mississippi should be overturned. First, they argue that voters who voted in the Democratic...
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageBill McKibben, NY Review of Books
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageBari Weiss, Wall Street Journal
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageLarry Kudlow, Investor's Business Daily Why in the world would Congress want to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank? Known as "Bank of Boeing," Ex-Im is the perfect example of corporate welfare, crony capitalism, fraud and corruption...
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJoe Nocera, New York Times
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageGail Collins, New York Times
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageHoward Kurtz, Fox News
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageFrancis Wilkinson, Bloomberg
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageWesley Pruden, Washington Times
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePeter Berkowitz, RCP Dear Members of the Board:I read with a mixture of anticipation and trepidation the unexpected announcement earlier this month that President Rebecca Chopp is departing Swarthmore to become the chancellor of the Univ...
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June, 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK Politics
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageKimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAnn Coulter, AnnCoulter.com
- KANSAS CITY, Mo. — It’s obvious from their tweets just how much Duchess Sophie and Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria loved each other . “I wish I could relive every single day again,” the duchess tweeted to the husband she called “Fran...
- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s triggering of the “nuclear option” on Nov. 21 — which reduced the number of votes needed to end filibusters on most nominees — has resulted in a sharp increase in the number of Obama-picked judges on t...
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June, 28, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe United States may have many of the best elite colleges, but over all, our higher-education system has many of the same problems found in K-12.
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageBrian Willett, The Federalist
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMegan McArdle, Bloomberg Lois Lerner may have lost a lot of e-mails. But she didnÂ’t lose all her e-mails; the House Ways and Means Committee is grinding through them, and the ones it has released do not shine a flattering ligh...
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June, 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageKevin Williamson, National Review
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June, 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsLord Young, who sat in Baroness Thatcher's cabinet, says Scotland is a women-hating country.
- U.S. diplomatic facilities abroad may be at risk because of problems with their security standards and practices, according to a report this week from federal auditors. The Government Accountability Office, a nonpartisan investigative wi...
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June, 27, 2014 from Top StoriesPOLITICO Pro Report: Georgia and Moldova sign similar deals, alarming Moscow.
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June, 27, 2014 from Top StoriesThe Justice Department drops its prosecution of a man who pleaded guilty to aiding a terrorist group.
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June, 27, 2014 from Top StoriesIt shares a scathing view of a corrupt agency keen to protect itself over the care of veterans.
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsPulitzer Prize-winner Jose Antonio Vargas talks about life as an undocumented immigrant in new CNN film "Undocumented."
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe Veterans Affairs health system has been plagued by leadership that lacks responsiveness overall and the ability to effectively run things and communicate to employees or veterans, a report submitted to President Barack Obama on Frida...
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsAfter being charged in an ugly campaign smear, a Mississippi tea party leader was found dead in an apparent suicide.
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsMississippi tea party leader and attorney Mark Mayfield has died, according to his attorney, Merrida Coxwell.
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe GOP establishment, incumbent and mainstream candidates scored big wins.
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsAlex Salmond will formally appoint Scotland's first Veteran's Commissioner at celebrations in Stirling to mark Armed Forces Day.
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June, 27, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsBritain's "neglectful society" will need help from volunteers to cope with the rising number of elderly people, a government minister says.
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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 NYT > PoliticsA report to President Obama from a top adviser points to a multitude of problems, just as demand for services is increasing.
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June, 27, 2014 from Top StoriesThe founder of the DrudgeReport.com gives a rare interview. to Washington radio station WTOP.
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe administration confronts a hard choice: demand the testimony of a reporter and risk sending him to jail, or back off from its aggressive pursuit of leaks.
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsPresident Obama portrayed congressional Republicans as cowed by activists who refuse any bipartisan compromise.
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June, 27, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsWashington announced that the military would no longer produce or acquire antipersonnel land mines, or replace old ones that expire.
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsSen. Marco Rubio is worried about the growing threat of ISIS in Iraq and says ISIS poses a real threat not just to Iraq's stability but also to U.S. security
- ARIZONA Mexico denies firing at U.S. border agents Mexican law enforcement on Thursday crossed into Arizona by helicopter and fired two shots at U.S. border agents, a border patrol union leader said. The helicopter crossed about 100 yard...
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe former Tennessee senator asked during the Watergate scandal what Richard Nixon knew and "when did he know it?"
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June, 27, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsThe Export-Import Bank is the latest battle emerging within the GOP, once again pitting the business faction of the party against the conservative, tea-party aligned one.
