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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageBen Domenech, Federalist Yesterday’s narrow Hobby Lobby decision shows why the culture war isn’t over – it’s just getting started. The reality is that in the absence of the ability to compel employers to pay for t...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageGeorge Condon, National Jrnl If Republicans thought President Obama would be cowed by a run of Supreme Court defeats, the president sent a strong message Monday: Think again. Obama was more defiant than despondent, more challenging than ...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJonathan Bernstein, Bloomberg The most important news from the Supreme Court this month?Sure, we’ve had landmark rulings in Hobby Lobby, Canning and several other cases. But the non-retirements of the court's two senior liberal ass...
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsAndy Coulson did not know the phone hacking going while he was News of the World editor was illegal and this should mitigate the sentence he faces, his lawyer has told the Old Bailey.
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageChris Stirewalt, FOX So far, 2014 is shaping to be the worst year of President Obama’s tenure. The economy is bad, scotching a Democratic plan to hold the Senate majority by touting the long-awaited economic recovery. The Supreme C...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageDamon Root, Reason The U.S. Supreme Court went out with a bang on Monday, ending its 2013-2014 term with Justice Samuel Alito's majority opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., in which the Court held that the Patient Protection ...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMatt Lewis, The Week Immigration reform is effectively dead in Congress. And now that Speaker John Boehner has officially decided not to bring up the Senate's comprehensive immigration bill for a vote in the House, President Obama is sug...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageSandra Fluke, Washington Post Today, the Supreme Court ruled in the nationally followed Hobby Lobby case. The for-profit corporations that brought these cases to the Supreme Court—a craft store and a cabinet manufacturer—argu...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePaul Waldman, Am Prospect When Republicans made it impossible for the president to run the government, he found ways around their obstruction. And that made them really, really mad.
- News that the House Ethics Committee had quietly rescinded a rule about reporting congressional travel paid for by outside groups quickly rippled across Washington on Tuesday. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) declared that ...
- Low-wage workers in California get a raise. Drivers who text in New Mexico face new fines. Gun owners in Georgia can now carry weapons into bars, among other places. And the children of immigrants in the U.S. illegally will face much low...
- Former senator Scott Brown (R-Mass.) raised more than $2 million between April and June for his U.S. Senate campaign in New Hampshire, a campaign aide confirmed to Post Politics, a hefty sum for the underdog challenger. Read full article...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageBrendan Nyhan, NY Times
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July, 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsNEW YORK (Reuters) - Monica Lewinsky, the one-time White House intern whose affair with Bill Clinton in the 1990s nearly brought down his presidency, said she ended up feeling like "the most humiliated woman in the world."
- In the wake of Mitt Romney's stinging 2012 defeat, the Republican National Committee commissioned and released an autopsy of what was wrong with the party -- and how to fix it . That autopsy, which was released in the spring of 2013, con...
- A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against Kentucky’s same-sex marriage ban, though gay couples in the state won’t be able to be get marriage licenses, at least not for now. Judge John G. Heyburn II, of the United States District Court for...
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July, 1, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsCrystal Wright looks at how black voters in Mississippi were used to win the Senate primary.
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July, 1, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsThe annual list of who makes what at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue is out. It’s been a requirement since 1995 for the White House to alert congress of the salary of presidential staffers. So, let’s take a look what the 457-employees of Ob...
- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that the House Ethics Committee must restore the disclosure rule that required members of Congress to report privately-funded travel -- a requirement that the National Journal ...
- Back in 1990, Democrats controlled 60 percent of all state legislative seats in the United States, along with nearly three-quarters of the nation's state Houses and Senates. Today, they control less than half (47 percent) of all seats an...
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA Labour MP calls on ex home secretary Leon Brittan to say what he knew about an alleged Westminster paedophile ring.
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July, 1, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsAdm. Michelle Howard is now the Navy's second-highest ranking officer.
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July, 1, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsCall it a primary season plot twist for the reality-TV clan.
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsMPs have felt "bullied" into signing a petition demanding an inquiry into child sex abuse, MPs have heard.
- (Note: Changes in New York and West Virginia go into effect Dec. 31, the rest begin on the first of the given month.) California on Tuesday became the third state to mandate a minimum wage of at least $9, but several more plan to follow ...
- Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote a long dissent in the Supreme Court's birth control decision Monday, which both conveyed the objections that many reproductive rights activists had with the opinion and served as a muse for Jonathan Mann...
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsEurosceptic numbers swell in European Parliament
- Robert McDonald’s last big challenge was to push a proud, slow-moving and sometimes bureaucratic company to change. He resigned under pressure as chief executive of Procter & Gamble amid criticism from investors and former executives...
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July, 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsPANAMA CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday that Washington would work with Central American nations to address the root causes of an immigration crisis, but he kept up the Obama administration's tough mess...
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July, 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsSenior officer confirms anti-corruption officers are currently leading a number of inquiries into fellow Metropolitan Police officers
- When President Obama announced his no boots on the ground operation in Iraq (they’re “advisers”), a member of the armed forces suggested anonymously that the mission be called “Operation Shiite Storm.” So genius and inspired that we pose...
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July, 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama told his Cabinet on Tuesday to look for areas where he might be able to govern by executive action given gridlock in Congress that is hampering his agenda.
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July, 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsPlenty of A-list names were circulating in connection with Cameron's 'creative industries summit', but the final turnout what decidedly less star-studded
- "The way I see it, if you're going to build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?" Those are the famous lines of Doc Brown in the hit movie "Back to the Future." Long-shot congressional candidate Nick Troiano is tryin...
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July, 1, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. concerns over China's cyber spying on American companies will not impede progress on other fronts when top officials from Washington and Beijing meet next week, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said on Tuesday.
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July, 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Government's reforms to technical education can help young people from every background reach their potential, says Matthew Hancock
- A few items that caught our attention on Tuesday: Postal Service offers early retirements ahead of RIFs: The Postal Service is offering buyouts and early retirement options to more than 3,000 postmasters before it begins planning a reduc...
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July, 1, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsAn unlikely group helped Sen. Thad Cochran capture the Republican nomination in a hotly contested primary runoff, but the strategy that propelled him to victory is unlikely to make it into the GOP playbook.
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July, 1, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsTalking immigration reform is good business for both Democrats and Republicans -- which is why nothing ever gets done.
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July, 1, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsCall it a brief intermission: There's a three-week break in the action after a slew of primaries in May and June and a couple big headlines.
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July, 1, 2014 from CNN.com - PoliticsMonday's Supreme Court ruling giving certain companies a right to raise religious objections to providing some types of birth control insurance to their employees leaves a number of important questions in its wake.
- The new health insurance marketplaces run by the federal government and some states are not properly ensuring that Americans who apply for health plans qualify for the coverage and for federal subsidies to help pay for it, according to f...
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July, 1, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsEU dominated by German power play
- Who says the Supreme Court is boring? Here are excerpts of a few opinions and arguments -- combative, quizzical, or maybe even historic -- from the just-concluded Supreme Court session. 1. Justice Anthony Kennedy on pomegranates Read ful...
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July, 1, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsNo, the White House pastry chef isn't putting drugs in POTUS' pie.
- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) declined to offer an opinion Tuesday on the Supreme Court's ruling that some employers can opt out of covering certain contraceptives for employees if it violates their religious beliefs. His silence pu...
- On Monday, the Supreme Court justices announced their decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby , the case questioning whether corporations could deny employees contraception coverage because of religious beliefs. The court delivered a narrow ...
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July, 1, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMark Binelli, Rolling Stone
- New Jersey could become the only state in the country to prevent anyone under the age of 21 from purchasing tobacco products under a measure passed Monday by the state Senate. The bill, backed by a super majority of senators , would levy...
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July, 1, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe Prime Minister will back a Liberal Democrat bill which would enshrine in law a commitment to spend more than £12 billion every year on foreign aid
