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Friday, August 8, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe following is a guest post by Gabe Rottman, a legislative and policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union ‘s Washington Legislative Office. Read full article >>
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesNo more Coca-Cola. No more parmesan. No more spaghetti. Russians are mourning their favorite imported food products after President Vladimir Putin announced Wednesday one-year bans and limits on food and agricultural imports from the Eur...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostA Minnesota restaurant has added a 35 cent “minimum wage fee” to its bills after the state’s minimum wage was raised Friday. “We’re just doing what we have to do,” Craig Beemer, the owner of the Oasis Cafe in Stillwater, told the Star Tr...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesAn Israeli anti-terrorism unit arrested a Palestinian man who confessed to receiving funds from a Hamas wing within Gaza to help carry out the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in June, according to court documents made pub...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostPresident Obama has a problem with being late. This is pretty well-documented. A Google search for "obama always late" offers a multitude of articles . When he is late to an event, as he often is -- and was by more than an hour on Wednes...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesChinese authorities on Thursday issued new rules for messaging applications, adding that a move to ban popular foreign-messaging services like KakaoTalk and LINE in July was in the interest of national security and to block the unsavory ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThough Marc Lynch recently lamented that political scientists are having “the same arguments in the same terms” when it comes to Israel-Palestine, other discourses have evolved. We have spent the weeks since Israel launched Operation Pro...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostConsumers in New England spend more than their peers in seven other regions and have been doing so for 15 years, according to new government data. The prototype data, released on Thursday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis, show consum...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsRICHMOND Va. (Reuters) - The prosecution resumes its case on Thursday in the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Robert McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, after an ex-aide said she had complained to the governor about the first la...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsDemocrat Mary Burke is tied in the latest polling with Scott Walker.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsEdward J. Snowden, the American former intelligence technician who leaked thousands of classified files, was originally granted one year of residency.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsImagine if a female politician was unkempt, made silly jokes and slept around. Would she be considered Prime Minister material? Beverley Turner considers whether a 'Doris Johnson' would ever be loved by the British public
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Top StoriesBill Wolff, a longtime MSNBC producer, is expected to start at ABC in September.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostA majority of Americans disapprove of House Republicans' plan to sue President Obama, a new poll shows, illustrating the political risk their election year maneuver carries. Fifty-four percent disapprove, the CBS News poll shows. Just 37...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsInmates, likelier than the general population to have Hepatitis C, also have a constitutional right to medical care.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsEx-Trek Bicycle Exec Mary Burke talks Wisconsin creds, Scott Walker, and Brett Favre.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsThe First Minister unveils his new slogan as he seeks to overcome his damaging defeat in the first independence referendum TV debate.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Top StoriesHe will press them to end a bitter dispute over elections and form a new government by September.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Top StoriesMore than a dozen staffers will have to re-apply for newly created positions.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsWhen German and British politicians united in song
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Top StoriesMuch common advice about passwords is useless.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesA Ukrainian military strike intended to hit the headquarters of pro-Russia separatists Thursday instead hit a dental college, killing one patient. The attack was the second unsuccessful attempt at blowing up the rebel headquarters in Don...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsConservative Associations across the country are split. Should they welcome the Mayor of London as a candidate or will his celebrity be more trouble than it's worth?
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageEd Morrissey, Fiscal Times his week, America wraps up the fortieth anniversary of its most dangerous constitutional crises since the Civil War, with little celebration – and arguably no real insight into its lessons. Saturday ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJames Taranto, Wall Street Journal Before we settled on today's topic, we weighed the question: Is Jonathan Alter joking? The question arose not on the basis of Alter's character--we've met him, and he strikes us as very earnest, an unli...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJoel Stein, Bloomberg BusinessWeek
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostIn a newly published article , University of Massachusetts political scientist Jesse Rhodes investigates how state education reforms may affect parents’ engagement in their child’s school. I asked him some questions about his research a...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - Homepage
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostThe National Federation of Independent Business, an advocacy group in Washington, calls itself the voice of small business as well as a nonpartisan, nonprofit association. Liberal groups have long scoffed at both descriptions, citing the...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageHeather Wilhelm, RealClearPolitics If you’ve ever spent significant time in Africa—and I mean real, gritty Africa, not the gauzy, Abercrombie & Kent-guided, cocktails-on-the-Serengeti Africa that many moneyed Am...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsBy MICHAEL FALCONE (@michaelpfalcone) NOTABLES TODAY, IN TENNESSEE: The tea party has its last, best chance to beat an incumbent senator in a race that’s a marquee match-up with the GOP establishment. After millions of dollars, the t...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAllison Pearson, The Telegraph It’s as if the Brothers Grimm had risen from the grave to write a dark fairy tale for the 21st century. An Australian couple employs a poor Thai street-food seller as a surrogate mother for their biol...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageSteve Huntley, Chicago Sun-Times Hamas claims victory in its four-week war against Israel in the Gaza Strip. If the picture of collapsed buildings, demolished homes and rubble everywhere is victory, what would defeat look like?Hamas clai...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJoe Curl, Wash Times In the lead-up to the 2012 midterm elections, all the talk was about the GOP taking control of the Senate.Then, as often happens with the Grand Old Party, they figured out a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of vict...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMickey Kaus, The Daily Caller … or is it just his adviser who does? A day ago, Politico reported that incoming House GOP whip Rep. Steve Scalise uses the services of a Washington lobbyist, John Feehery, to help vet potential staff...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageOlivia Nuzzi, The Daily Beast The senator’s broad appeal threatens to weaken Democrats for 2016, and they are going on offense—sending out no less than 10 press releases on his latest trip to Iowa.Democrats fundraise and camp...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe tentative deal, which people briefed on the matter said would cost Bank of America more than $16 billion to settle investigations into its sale of mortgage securities, started to take shape last week. Then, a wild card entered the fray.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker Ted Cruz has outraged his critics—again. Working with his frequent allies in the Tea Party caucus of the House of Representatives, Cruz scuttled a compromise bill on immigration last week. The bill wo...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsKINGSTON New Hampshire (Reuters) - As President Barack Obama considers sidestepping Congress to loosen U.S. immigration policy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows Americans are deeply worried that illegal immigration is threatening the nation's ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCharles Blow, New York Times When Representative Mo Brooks, Republican of Alabama, claimed earlier this week that Democrats were waging a “war on whites,” he lifted the lid on a simmering resentment that is very real and very...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from International Business TimesIraq’s largest Christian town and surrounding areas fell to Sunni extremist militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, on Thursday, sending thousands of residents fleeing toward Kurdistan, officials and witnesses said, ac...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsHead of the Border Force releases photographs of sophisticated - and not so sophisticated - smuggling attempts
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRich Lowry, Politico Stop just hatin’ all the time.” If you haven’t been following the news, you might not know whether this bon mot was uttered by a character on the ABC Family show “Pretty Little Liars” or...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageWilliam Saletan, Slate Since the onset of this week’s cease-fire in Gaza, thousands of displaced Palestinians have returned to their homes to assess the damage. Many have been interviewed about their reflections on the war. The int...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageJohn Dickerson, Slate MILWAUKEE—Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker continues to take heat from fellow conservatives over his attacks on his Democratic opponent, Mary Burke. Two weeks ago, Walker launched a series of attacks charging that ...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageCharles Lane, Washington Post Not since Abraham Lincoln pondered his Emancipation Proclamation in 1862 has a president considered ordering a more sweeping adjustment to membership in the American community than the mass relief for illega...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMegan McArdle, Bloomberg On Sunday, Ross Douthat of the New York Times wrote an uncharacteristically blistering attack on the plan being floated by the Barack Obama administration to quasi-legalize the status of almost half the immigrant...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedA House Foreign Affairs subcommittee today holds a hearing on the U.S. response to the Ebola crisis. Roll Call will live stream the hearing session starting at 2:00 p.m.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedFormer solon turned Ambassador to China Max Baucus appears to have adopted a page from the administration's guest dining manual, whisking a Democratic operative visiting the Far East directly to a Western-style kitchen.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedState
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) are locked in a legal duel over the future of Common Core. Jindal, rightfully, opposes it. The BESE, seeing themselves as the actual go... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsStars and public figures write an open letter to the people of Scotland asking them to stay part of the UK.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateOn today's edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson is joined by Josh Zerkle to get a preview of the NFL season, discuss Jon Bon Jovi's bid for the Buffalo Bills, and why the next expansion team might be in London. The post Are You Re...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateIt’s hard to believe now, but Democrats once had a lock on all power in the state of Texas. From Reconstruction to the 1980s, Republicans might be competitive at the presidential level, but other than picking off a statewide election her...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsAn Asian jewellery tycoon will be one of around two dozen new peers to be announced on Friday, Sky News learns.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedState
In a decision that surprised absolutely no one, the Mississippi Republican Party refused to hear State Senator Chris McDaniel’s challenge to the outcome of the June 24 runoff. Perhaps it shouldn’t be a surprise either that th... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe Deputy Prime Minister urges Boris Johnson to "come clean" and confess he's no bumbler, just a "very conventional politician".
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsThe Deputy Prime Minister says the Government is considering suspending arms exports to Israel if the ceasefire doesn't hold.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedTime is running out for Tom Corbett, the Republican governor of Pennsylvania.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedRecently, news emerged that six vials of smallpox were discovered in an old storage room at the National Institutes of Health campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Fortunately, the vials were quickly isolated and secured, and the Centers for Dis...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedRobert McDonald's nomination to head the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs was unanimously approved by the Senate recently.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedRep. Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin recently unveiled a plan to address poverty and increase opportunity and upward mobility for low-income Americans. While many commentators may focus on the congressman's proposals to reform education and th...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateAs more and more Americans wise up to the fact that Wall Street values and Main Street values are not necessarily the same, the House Republican leadership’s new team is firmly planting its flag with big business against individual...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsDerya Dosdogru and her son are among thousands of homeless families who have waited for years for a permanent address.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedTennessee Republicans head to the polls Thursday to decide the fate of Sen. Lamar Alexander, marking the last chance for tea-party-aligned conservatives to oust an incumbent in a primary.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedStateI think a person may be forgiven if he or she thinks that a 'policy' that plans to "expand education opportunities, empower women in the workplace and promote domestic job creation" is actually a code phrase for "we're just going through...
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Thursday, August 7, 2014 from RedState
Image Credit Retraction Watch Blog The grant money must be drying up like California. Maybe someone on their 5th Post-Doc felt driven to succeed by any means available. I’d prefer to believe that the latest pathetic meme-push to blame Af... -
Thursday, August 7, 2014 from All News RSS FeedPresident Barack Obama on Wednesday pushed back on the idea that he's an imperial president, saying that while he is considering additional executive orders on immigration and in other areas, he is "bound by the Constitution."
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsAt a news conference Wednesday, the president said he would act when he can without Congress but said there are limits to his authority. He also spoke about a range of foreign policy issues.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedStateThe Washington Post is getting ever so slightly closer to acknowledging that the Obama Administration has cheated American small businesses out of hundreds of billions if not trillions of dollars in federal contracts. I have spoken to Wa...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedStateJuly 31, 2014, the House decided to stay in DC and work. The Senate had already left town for their August recess. The President held a press conference to let the world know that in his opinion, he found dealing with Congress untenable ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDelta Airlines CEO Richard Anderson said Wednesday his company would continue to fly to Liberia until the end of this month, but would look to U.S. and international health officials for guidance in the face of the Ebola virus pandemic w...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedStateI like Ann Coulter. There is no “but” after that. I like Ann Coulter, period. There are many people reacting with hostility and anger toward her over her latest column about the doctors in Atlanta who are infected with Ebola....
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedKansas Gov. Sam Brownback is vulnerable, but how close is he to losing re-election?
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedState
It is actually pretty humorous. Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, a presumed candidate for president in 2016, was hosting a fundraiser for Iowa Congressman Steve King. There is a lot to like about Steve King. He’s a solid conservative. B... -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedDemocrats commemorated the 48th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act last year with hopes that by today a fix for the landmark law would have reached President Barack Obama's desk.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedState
Via RCP comes this video (which, I understand, is but one segment in a longer speech, and I confess I haven’t yet seen the whole thing), of Justin Amash giving some remarks during his primary victory speech yesterday. I know there ... -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedStateIn a state that has overwhelmingly rejected Democrats on presidential level four times since 2000, West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant couldn't have asked for a worse day on Saturday. The post Tennant Can Run, She Can Hide, ...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMy last column, which argued President Barack Obama's situation going into his second midterm closely resembled President George W. Bush's standing going into his second midterm, is reinforced in a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedState
One of the worst mistakes you make in life is underestimating your opponent. Too often we allow our adversaries to succeed because we disdain them, their beliefs, or their methods and fail to give the Devil his due. A prime example of th... -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedStateA political campaign's failure to get off the ground doesn't prevent its crashing and burning, as Ohio Democrat Ed FitzGerald is proving this month. The post Ohio Dem Ed FitzGerald Implodes in Epic Fashion appeared first on RedState .
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedBeijing will ban the use of coal in its six main districts by the end of 2020, state media said Monday, in effort to curb air pollution, according to Reuters:
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMy alarm goes off at 3:30 a.m. to give me enough for a quick shower, a shot of caffeine and a ride via Uber to National Airport for my 6 a.m. flight to Las Vegas via Atlanta. I get to the airport and guess what? The TSA lanes aren't even...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS Feed"I stepped into a void and tried to move the issue forward. Next time we do this, it'll be a people-powered initiative."
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedState
To understand the mess that is Detroit’s public schools (DPS), one must begin in 1994. Facing aging schools in desperate need of repair, voters approved a $1.5 billion bond to fix the long-neglected problem. Unfortunately, the city... -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS Feed"Watergate," a novel by Thomas Mallon, is a hoot, a fictional interpretation of the political saga that ended the presidency of Richard M. Nixon and irrevocably altered the lives of those around him, not to mention the American political...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsA poll of viewers suggests Alistair Darling of the Better Together campaign edged the independence debate.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedAs pro-marijuana advocates had hoped, the D.C. Board of Elections voted unanimously Wednesday to put legalization on the November ballot.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIn the face of a challenging midterm environment, Democrats are relying on money and an expanding get-out-the-vote effort to avoid losing any more ground in the House. But what does that souped-up ground game look like?
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIt's back to the drawing board for Florida lawmakers, who must return to Tallahassee this week for a rushed redraw of the state's congressional map.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedStateNearly everyone with any interest in the Mississippi GOP Senate Primary and Runoff has seen or heard the racist radio ads, mailers which portrayed Sen. Thad Cochran’s primary opponent, Chris McDaniel as the second coming of Byron D...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedJust before Congress left for recess last week, it did something rare: It worked across the aisle to quickly clear legislation that filled what the Obama administration had declared an urgent need: authorization of 1,000 additional speci...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedTechnology experts and industry executives are almost evenly divided on whether advances in robotics and artificial intelligence will cause a net loss of jobs in the next decade, according to a report from the Pew Research Center and Elo...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMissouri voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected an increase in the state's sales tax to pay for highways, roads, and bridges.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedEnergy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz will visit a nuclear waste dump in New Mexico next week and take part in a town hall meeting, the department announced.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedState
If the Obama Administration’s IRS targeting of conservative groups wasn’t bizarre and draconian enough, the IRS is now planning to target, and far worse, monitor, churches. The new IRS targeting program has been instituted at the behest ... -
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from All News RSS FeedMichigan Republican Terri Lynn Land is launching a TV ad Wednesday accusing her Democratic opponent in the state's open Senate race of trying to have it both ways on immigration.
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from RedState
Over at Vox, Ezra Klein has set forth some… interesting theories of how Presidential authority works in the face of Congressional inaction: Douthat may, depending on the details of the policy, be right that Obama intends to push pr...
