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blogs.usatoday.com - 7 hours ago
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Administration disrupts terroristsâ plots, takes fight to them
abroad. By John Brennan Politics should never get in...
the way of national security. But too many in Washington are now misrepresenting the facts to score political points, instead of ...
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Opposing view: 'We need no lectures'
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The Page by Mark Halperin
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blogs.abcnews.com - 7 hours ago
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In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan
-- Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security...
Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism -- responds to critics of the Obama administration's counterterrorism policies by saying "Politically motivated criticism and unfounded ...
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WH: Some Critics 'Serving the Goals of al Qaeda'
washingtonexaminer.com - 7 hours ago
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By: Byron York Chief Political Correspondent 02/09/10 8:44
AM EST In a brief op-ed in USA Today,...
White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan charges that critics who question the Obama administration's decision to grant Miranda rights to accused ...
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White House: People who criticize us are helping al Qaeda
hotair.com - 7 hours ago
npr.org - 16 hours ago
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Who paid for it? (Courtesy of Minnesota Public
Radio) By Mark Memmott Internet chatter had led to...
speculation that it might be an urban myth -- nothing more than clever digital trickery spreading via the Web. But our friend Bob Collins at ...
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'Miss Me Yet?' Billboard With Photo Of Bush Is Real; Not ...
minnesota.publicradio.org - 16 hours ago
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A billboard on I-35 in Wyoming, Minnesota is
becoming an Internet sensation....
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The mystery billboard
thehill.com - 4 hours ago
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Congressional Democrats are holding White House Chief of
Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the...
collapse of healthcare reform. Read more...
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Congressional Democrats point finger of blame at Rahm ...
americablog.com - 4 hours ago
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According to The Hill , Democrats on Capitol
Hill are focusing their ire on the Democrats in...
Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the collapse of healthcare reform. The emerging consensus among ...
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The Hill: 'Cracks are beginning to show in Emanuel’s ...
whitehouse.gov - 21 hours ago
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White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs just responded to
a letter sent today from House Republican Leader John...
Boehner and House Republican Whip Eric Cantor regarding the proposed bipartisan health care summit: The President is adamant that ...
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Gibbs Responds to Boehner, Cantor
corner.nationalreview.com - 20 hours ago
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House GOP Leader John Boehner (R., Ohio) and
Whip Eric Cantor (R., Va.) just sent White House...
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel a letter regarding the upcoming health-care summit: Mr. Emanuel: We welcome President Obama’s announcement of ...
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House GOP Responds to Summit Invite -- By: Robert Costa
colbertnation.com - 4 hours ago
publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com - 3 hours ago
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Could the Republican primary for Governor in Texas
end up in a runoff between Rick Perry...and Debra...
Medina? Medina is coming on strong and polls now at 24%, just four points behind Kay Bailey Hutchison's 28%. Perry continues to hold a double digit ...
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Medina coming on strong
voices.washingtonpost.com - 16 hours ago
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By Michael D. Shear Leading House Republicans raised
the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to...
participate in President Obama's proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over. In ...
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Top House Republicans throw cold water on health-care summit
washingtonmonthly.com - 5 hours ago
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WILLING TO TALK -- WITH PRECONDITIONS.... When President
Obama announced on Sunday that he would host bipartisan...
talks on health care reform in two weeks, he offered congressional Republicans something of an opportunity. If the GOP wanted a chance to...
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Willing to talk -- with preconditions
tnr.com - 13 hours ago
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I. “Trying to explain the doctrine of the
Trinity to readers of The New Republic is not...
easy.” On June 2, 1944, W.H. Auden penned that sentence in a letter to Ursula Niebuhr. On January 26, 2010, Andrew Sullivan posted it as the ...
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Something Much Darker
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Grasping Reality with a Ten-Foot-Long Flexible Trunk
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tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com - 4 hours ago
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Citing a column by Pat Buchanan that clearly
argues against conflict with Iran, Sarah Palin on Sunday...
suggested that a war with Iran would be good policy and a boon for President Obama's 2012 reelection hopes. Buchanan's column, "Will Obama... ...
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Palin Advocates War With Iran After Apparently ...
washingtontimes.com - 12 hours ago
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Sen. Christopher S. Bond regularly railed against President
Obama's economic stimulus plan as irresponsible spending that would...
drive up the national debt. But behind the scenes, the Missouri Republican quietly sought more than $50 million from a ...
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Stimulus foes see value in seeking cash
politico.com - 20 hours ago
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Dem says he'll support filibuster over Obama's nominee
for the National Labor Relations Board....
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Nelson will back GOP filibuster
huffingtonpost.com - 16 hours ago
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In a move that will further irritate his
Democratic critics, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced on Monday...
evening that he would not just oppose but also help filibuster President Barack Obama's nominee to a key labor relations agency In a ...
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Ben Nelson To Filibuster Key Obama Labor Nominee
bennelson.senate.gov - 17 hours ago
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Monday, February 8, 2010 February 8, 2010 Today,
Nebraska s Senator Ben Nelson announced that he will...
oppose a cloture motion to proceed to a vote and will vote no on the nomination of Craig Becker to be a board member of the National Labor Relations ...
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Ben Nelson, U.S. Senator for Nebraska: Senator Nelson ...
tampabay.com - 15 hours ago
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By Adam C. Smith and Beth Reinhard, Times/Herald
staff writers In Print: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 As...
a volatile election season gets under way, the Republican Party of Florida is facing its biggest crisis of confidence in decades. Donors and party ...
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Secret contract, lavish spending push Republican Party ...
blogs.wsj.com - 15 hours ago
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As D.C. continued to dig out from Snowmageddon
and is keeping an eye on another storm system,...
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement . NOAA, part of the Department of Commerce, is going to ...
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NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate Change Announcement
faustasblog.com - 6 hours ago
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From the irony department, NOAA: Blizzard Rearranges Climate
Change Announcement As D.C. continued to dig out from...
Snowmageddon and is keeping an eye on another storm system, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was busy making a climate change announcement. NOAA, part of ...
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Blizzard postpones Global Warming announcement
online.wsj.com - 6 hours ago
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This weekend, Americans were treated to something new:
Barack Obama defending his war policies by suggesting they...
merely continue his predecessor's practices. The defense is illuminating, not least for its implicit recognition that George W. Bush has ...
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William McGurn: Bush Was Right, Says Obama
voices.washingtonpost.com - 26 hours ago
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At this point, I don't think it's well
understood how many of the GOP's central health-care policy...
ideas have already been included as compromises in the health-care bill. But one good way is to look at the GOP's " Solutions for America " ...
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The six Republican ideas already in the health-care ...
news.yahoo.com - 3 hours ago
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AP - Could this turn into something more
than political theater? President Barack Obama's televised dialogue with...
Republican lawmakers on health care, promised for later this month, has the makings of an entertaining exchange. But the differences ...
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Obama's health care summit: Just for show?
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realclearpolitics.com - 28 hours ago
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Jay Cost, RealClearPolitics Recently, some analysts have suggested
that the lack of major policy breakthroughs in the...
last year is due to the fact that America has become ungovernable. Ezra Klein argued that it was time to reform the filibuster ...
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America is Not Ungovernable
fivethirtyeight.com - 6 hours ago
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One of the more commonplace assertions among pundits
on the center-right -- made rather carelessly by Victor...
Davis Hanson and more thoughtfully by Jay Cost, is that agenda put forward by Obama and the Democrats is overwhelmingly unpopular and that ...
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Republicans -- Not Obama -- More Often on Wrong Side of ...
