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  • newObama Resets War on Terror
    Obama outlined the next phase of counterterrorism efforts, detailing tighter standards for the use of unmanned drone strikes and making the case for closing Guantanamo Bay.
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 9:51am -
  • newStates' Rift on Taxes Widens
    Minnesota's move to raise $2.1 billion in new taxes, largely from the wealthy, to fund government programs puts it among a handful of states controlled by Democrats that are adopting more liberal fiscal policies.
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 7:38am -
  • newIn Bid for Clarity, Fed Delivers Opacity
    Fed chief Ben Bernanke knows clear communication is key to managing market expectations for the central bank's bond-buying program, but discordant voices make clarity easier said than done.
    - 7 hours ago, 24 May 13, 4:57am -
  • newIRS Official Placed on Administrative Leave
    Lois Lerner, the IRS official at the center of a controversy over targeting of conservative groups, was placed on administrative leave, according to lawmakers.
    - 8 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:12am -
  • newEx-Senate Aide Weighed to Lead CFTC
    The White House is considering Amanda Renteria to succeed Gary Gensler as chairman.
    - 9 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:03am -
  • newHouse Immigration Effort Hits Bump in the Road
    Eight House lawmakers were forced to backtrack from an "agreement in principle" on overhauling immigration after Democratic leaders objected to a provision dealing with health-care coverage for illegal immigrants.
    - 9 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:58am -
  • newDetails Released on California Health Exchange
    Average premiums in California's new online health-insurance marketplace won't be as high as predicted by actuaries, though they will vary widely, according to the agency setting up the exchange.
    - 9 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:54am -
  • newSenate Clears Obama Pick for D.C. Circuit Court
    For the first time, Obama has succeeded in placing a judge on a key Washington appeals court. The Senate unanimously confirmed Justice Department lawyer Sri Srinivasan for a seat on the court.
    - 9 hours ago, 24 May 13, 2:27am -
  • newBoy Scouts to Allow Gay Youth
    The Boy Scouts of America have decided to allow gay youth to openly join its ranks, reversing a longtime ban.
    - 10 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:51am -
  • newLatest Ricin Suspect Served a Prison Term
    A man whom prosecutors charged Wednesday with sending a ricin-laced letter to a federal judge had spent 18 months behind bars for a sex crime more than a decade ago.
    - 10 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:24am -
  • U.S. to Review Leak-Investigation Guidelines
    President Obama said the Justice Department is reviewing its guidelines for overseeing leak investigations, in the wake of probes that included the government's seizure of Associated Press phone records.
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:09pm -
  • Pritzker Nomination Appears on Track
    Commerce-secretary nominee Penny Pritzker appeared on track toward Senate confirmation after a mostly breezy hearing Thursday.
    - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:54pm -
  • Defining Moments in 'Currency War'
    Columnist David Wessel explains the fine line between monetary policy and currency manipulation, and why the former is OK but the latter is not.
    - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:23pm -
  • House Passes Bill to Speed Keystone Approval
    House Republicans attempted to push through approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, passing a bill that would circumvent the need for a special permit from President Obama.
    - 17 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:41pm -
  • Why the IRS Flap Matters Most for Obama
    The IRS flap eats away at the underpinnings of what Obama promised in 2008: a revival of confidence that government is capable of solving problems, writes Gerald F. Seib.
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 5:49pm -
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  • newCan Obama End the War on Terror?

    Can Obama End the War on Terror?

    In his broad address on drone strikes, al Qaeda terrorists, and the prison at Guantanamo Bay Thursday, Barack Obama wrestled with some of the hardest moral questions that have defined national security policy since September 11: Who is the enemy? Who…
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 9:45am -
  • Obama Sees Narrower Terror Threat, Defends Drones

    Obama Sees Narrower Terror Threat, Defends Drones

    (WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror threat from smaller networks and homegrown extremists rather than the grandiose plots of…
    - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:29pm -
  • Obama Heckled During Counterterrorism Speech

    Obama Heckled During Counterterrorism Speech

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama was interrupted three times by a woman who shouted about drones and detainees in Cuba as he delivered a speech on national security. The woman was identified as Medea Benjamin from the anti-war group Code…
    - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 7:21pm -
  • ‘Loser’ No More: Tesla Repays $465 Million U.S. Loan

    ‘Loser’ No More: Tesla Repays $465 Million U.S. Loan

    - 18 hours ago, 23 May 13, 5:42pm -
  • Peeping Sergeant 1st Class (First Class, Indeed)

    Peeping Sergeant 1st Class (First Class, Indeed)

    - 18 hours ago, 23 May 13, 5:21pm -
  • Boy Scouts Vote to Allow Gay Youth

    Boy Scouts Vote to Allow Gay Youth

    You can now be gay and a Boy Scout. The Boy Scouts of America voted Thursday afternoon to allow openly gay youth into their ranks, overturning a ban that had stood for more than 100 years. The group’s 1400-member National Council was closely divide…
    - 20 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:25pm -
  • Moore Picks Up the Pieces With the Help of FEMA and Friendly Neighbors

    Moore Picks Up the Pieces With the Help of FEMA and Friendly Neighbors

    - 24 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:53am -
  • Morning Must Reads: May 23

    Morning Must Reads: May 23

    Attorney General Eric Holder admits that the US had killed four American citizens in drone strikes outside the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq. Obama will hold his first major counterterroism speech of his second term today. He will announce th…
    - 24 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:47am -
  • TIME Exclusive: President Obama’s 1979 Prom Photos

    TIME Exclusive: President Obama’s 1979 Prom Photos

    This article appears in this week’s magazine underneath the title, “Obama’s Grand Old Party.” To subscribe to TIME, click here. Tucked away in someone else’s shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish cloth…
    - 1 day ago, 23 May 13, 10:45am -
  • Obama to Address Drones, Gitmo in Security Speech

    Obama to Address Drones, Gitmo in Security Speech

    (WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama on Thursday is expected to address some of the thornier aspects of national security policy, including drone strikes, the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the dire threats Americans continue to face — even from f…
    - 1 day ago, 23 May 13, 8:40am -
  • House Passes Bill to Speed Keystone Pipeline Approval

    House Passes Bill to Speed Keystone Pipeline Approval

    (WASHINGTON) — House Republicans pushed through a bill Wednesday to bypass the president to speed approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. Democrats criticized the legislation as a blatant attempt to allow a foreign company to…
    - 1 day ago, 23 May 13, 1:11am -
  • Eric Garcetti Survives Nasty Race for L.A. Mayor

    Eric Garcetti Survives Nasty Race for L.A. Mayor

    This article appears in this week’s magazine. Labor unions spent millions. The two candidates dragged each other down in a vicious negative campaign. And comedian Will Ferrell promised free waffles for everyone. Yet in the end, the mayoral election…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 10:39pm -
  • Holder: Obama’s New Drone-Strike ‘Playbook’ Has Arrived

    Holder: Obama’s New Drone-Strike ‘Playbook’ Has Arrived

    The big story this afternoon is the formal admission by the Obama Administration, via a letter to Congress from Attorney General Eric Holder, that it has killed four American citizens in drone strikes. That’s an interesting sign of the pressure Oba…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:46pm -
  • Four Americans Killed Since 2009 in Drone Strikes

    Four Americans Killed Since 2009 in Drone Strikes

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009. The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 8:56pm -
  • Attorney General: 4 Americans Killed Since 2009 in Drone Strikes

    Attorney General: 4 Americans Killed Since 2009 in Drone Strikes

    (WASHINGTON) — Attorney General Eric Holder says four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes since 2009. The attorney general said that in conducting U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qaida and its associated forces, the gove…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 8:48pm -
  • Jay Newton-Small on the Oklahoma Tragedy

    Jay Newton-Small on the Oklahoma Tragedy

    On Morning Joe, TIME’s Jay Newton-Small reports from Oklahoma on the tornado tragedy. She discusses the 16 minutes parents had to get their children to safety, from when sirens first alerted Moore residents to when the tornado touched down.
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 4:10pm -
  • TIME Remembers Harvey Milk

    TIME Remembers Harvey Milk

    To commemorate Harvey Milk Day, TIME republishes a snippet of its coverage on the remembrance of his death. Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians in the United States. This article was originally published in the December 11, 1978 issue…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 3:54pm -
  • Kerry: US, Allies, Ready to Step Up Aid Rebels

    Kerry: US, Allies, Ready to Step Up Aid Rebels

    (AMMAN, Jordan) — The United States and its Arab and European allies will step up their support for Syria’s opposition to help them “fight for the freedom of their country” if President Bashar Assad’s regime doesn’t engage in peace talks…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 3:08pm -
  • IRS Official Lerner: I Did Nothing Wrong

    IRS Official Lerner: I Did Nothing Wrong

    (WASHINGTON) — The Internal Revenue Service official at the center of the storm over the agency’s targeting of conservative groups told Congress on Wednesday that she had done nothing wrong in the episode, and then invoked her constitutional righ…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 2:56pm -
  • Wrenching Decisions as Tornado Flattens School

    Wrenching Decisions as Tornado Flattens School

    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 2:10pm -
  • Intellectual property: Fighting China’s hackers
    IT SOUNDS like an airport thriller: a near-future in which American firms wage private cyber-combat against Chinese rivals. But precisely that scenario is being considered by former senior American officials, who report that intellectual property (IP…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • Los Angeles’s mayoral election: Who?
    Now do something about the congestionLOS ANGELES has a new mayor-elect. The question is whether anyone noticed. In a run-off on May 21st Eric Garcetti (pictured), a longtime city councilman, defeated his opponent, Wendy Greuel, by 54%-46%. The ele…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • New York state politics: Riotous assembly
    CALLED “Gropez” by a tabloid, Vito Lopez, a Brooklyn assemblyman, groped or harassed at least eight young female staffers, according to a new report by New York state’s Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE). It paints an unflattering pictur…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • Crime and punishment: Cell phones
    Hurry up, mum; this call has already cost me my shirtMOST of the roughly 2.2m incarcerated Americans will eventually be freed. Those who remain in contact with loved ones on the outside are less likely, studies show, to return to a life of crime a…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • A tornado in Oklahoma: A mile wide and howling
    The pity of MooreKIRA BORDWINE saw the tornado charging in from the day-care centre where she minded seven one-year-olds, including her daughter. “It was the most unreal thing ever,” she says. “As soon as I saw the debris flying like you do…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • The IRS scandal: Who will tame the taxman?
    WHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month, he doubtless hoped to quell the hullabaloo about its seemingly partial treatment of applications for tax-exempt status from conservative groups. He f…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • Lexington: Rand Paul’s dream
    WHEN pondering a run for national office, it must be bittersweet to hear fans gush that your strong suit is being less of a crank than your dad. But that is the view of many Republicans who admire Rand Paul, a senator from Kentucky and star of the…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 3:05pm -
  • Democrats in Texas: The waiting is the hardest part
    And a brave stand in favour of baseballOFFICIALLY, the mayoralty of San Antonio—like many other municipal offices in Texas—is nonpartisan. But last year San Antonio’s mayor, Julián Castro, displayed his colours on the nation’s big politic…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • Lexington: Notes on three scandals
    JUST a few days ago Barack Obama’s administration was being followed around by one substantial scandal, involving the September 2012 terrorist attacks in the Libyan town of Benghazi, which left America’s ambassador and three aides dead. The al…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • Nevada’s economy: Silver dollars
    TIM DYHR scrambles atop a mound of land in the lonely Nevada desert. “That’s where the pit mine will be,” he says, pointing towards a bland expanse of scrub. Turning his gaze to an area of desert indistinguishable from the first, he identifi…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • Cage-fighting in New York: No holds, barred
    FIGHTING out of the octagon’s red corner: the reigning light-heavyweight champion. In the blue corner: a cunning veteran with a penchant for wrestling. After a whirl of limbs, the challenger is pinned to the floor, elbowed and punched. With 27 seco…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • Debt and the deficit: Priority report
    AUSTERITY may be weighing on America’s economy, but it has its consolations. On May 14th, the Congressional Budget Office sharply revised down its estimate of the budget deficit this fiscal year, to $642 billion or just 4% of GDP, from 5.3% in Febr…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • Barack Obama and the presidency: W’s apprentice
    “WHEN Congress refuses to act…I have an obligation as president to do what I can without them,” Barack Obama said last year. It is a duty he has discharged with vigour and creativity. Since the Republicans won control of the House of Represe…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • The Justice Department and the Associated Press: Look who’s talking
    WHEN the authorities want to obtain journalists’ phone records as part of an investigation into a crime, the Department of Justice’s guidelines state that their request should be “as narrowly drawn as possible”. What is more, they should try…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 2:59pm -
  • Lexington: Brigadoon politics
    IN THE 1947 Broadway hit “Brigadoon”, an American traveller is haunted by a brief encounter with a Scottish village that comes to life for a day every 100 years, before vanishing once more into the mists. It is a hokey Highlands tale, crammed…
    - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 3:00pm -
  • South Carolina’s special election: He’s back!
    Sanford, surprisedON ELECTION day Elizabeth Colbert Busch, the Democratic candidate vying to succeed Tim Scott in South Carolina’s first congressional district, appeared at her local precinct to vote at 11am, threw a few platitudes to reporters…
    - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 3:00pm -
  • Economic growth: The health paradox
    LOUISVILLE, Kentucky is known for bourbon and horse races. Its economy increasingly relies on a less glamorous industry: “lifelong wellness and ageing care”, the term used by local business leaders, or what everyone else calls health care for…
    - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 3:00pm -
  • Measuring inflation: Counting the cost of living
    IN RECENT years inflation has been one of the few economic indices that has not caused much trouble to Americans. Contrary to repeated warnings, it has neither rocketed higher nor turned into deflation. But policymakers now face a different sort of i…
    - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 3:00pm -
  • Immigration reform: Not so fast
    THE immigration bill taken up this week by the Senate judiciary committee, says Jeff Sessions, one of its members, is like a “mackerel in the sunshine—the longer it’s out there, the worse it smells”. To lengthen its spell in the sun, he an…
    - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 3:00pm -
  • Policing: Starting from scratch
    BRYAN MORTON runs a Little League for about 400 baseball-mad children in Camden, New Jersey. When he asked someone driving an all-terrain vehicle on the baseball field to leave, the driver threatened him with a gun. Like so many of Camden’s 77,000…
    - 15 days ago, 9 May 13, 3:00pm -
  • newHow the IRS scandal helped immigration reform
    On Wednesday the Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill that would comprehensively overhaul the country's immigration system. It was a major step for a Congress that has shown an inability to do just about anything over the past few years. You pr…
    - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 10:31am -
  • newPost-ABC poll: Most Americans still disapprove of sequester
    The government-wide spending cuts known as the sequester remain unpopular for most Americans, with little difference in opinion across party lines, according to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Friday. Read full article >>    
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:02am -
  • newBachmann’s absurd claim of a vast IRS health database of ‘sensitive, intimate’ information
    “So now we find out these people are making decisions based on our politics and beliefs, and they’re going to be in charge of our health care. There’s a huge national database that’s being created right now. Your health care, my health care…
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:00am -
  • newE.W. Jackson a wild card in Va. GOP campaign
    As midnight approached on the eve of the Republican convention in Virginia, party loyalists were tipping beers and listening to country music at a rollicking fete hosted by Pete Snyder, a front-runner for the nomination for lieutenant governor. Read…
    - 10 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:50am -
  • newFederal worker has 61 years of federal service and no plans to retire
    It takes a special kind of person to really appreciate the Consumer Price Index. The CPI measures inflation, and lots of folks pay attention to it when the number (a 0.4 percent decrease in April) is released each month. Read full article >>    
    - 10 hours ago, 24 May 13, 1:45am -
  • newObama nominates former campaign aide to head OPM
    President Obama has nominated Katherine Archuleta, a top official in his 2012 campaign, to head the Office of Personnel Management. Archuleta, the second Hispanic nominee for a political appointment during Obama’s second term, served as national po…
    - 11 hours ago, 24 May 13, 12:33am -
  • newAnalysis: Obama expresses regrets but seeks to retain anti-terror powers
    President Obama declared an end to a fearful chapter in American history on Thursday and demanded more from the country and himself as it enters the next. Obama’s speech at the National Defense University reflected an unusual ambivalence from a com…
    - 11 hours ago, 24 May 13, 12:32am -
  • newThree big federal agencies to close Friday
    Three of the largest federal agencies will close to the public on Friday, the first time since the government shutdowns of the 1990s that large corners of the government have ceased operations on a weekday. Read full article >>    
    - 11 hours ago, 24 May 13, 12:25am -
  • newWhat is it about Penny Pritzker?
    And here we thought Senate Republicans were sharpening their knives for Penny Pritzker , the billionaire hotel and real estate magnate nominated by President Obama to be commerce secretary. But during her first Capitol Hill hearing Thursday, the GOP…
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:56pm -
  • newIRS names replacement for Lerner
    The Internal Revenue Service on Thursday announced that it had replaced Lois Lerner, a top official who oversaw the agency's "determinations" division during the scandal that involved targeting of conservative groups. Read full article >>    
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:39pm -
  • Obama, Christie to tour Sandy recovery on Jersey Shore
    President Obama and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, whose embrace in the wake of Hurricane Sandy was a memorable show of bipartisanship on the eve of last fall's election, will reunite on the Jersey Shore next week. Read full article >>    
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:30pm -
  • Gallup poll: 42 percent say the IRS is doing a poor job
    EARLIER ON THE FIX: Gun control vs. gun rights, in one interactive graphic Generic ballot tilts toward Democrats Why hasn't Lois Lerner been fired? Read full article >>    
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:24pm -
  • Sri Srinivasan confirmed to serve on influential U.S. appeals court for D.C. Circuit
    The Senate unanimously confirmed Sri Srinivasan on Thursday to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, one of the nation’s most influential courts. The 97 to zero vote in favor of Srinivasan, the principal deputy so…
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:24pm -
  • 'Lucky Guy,' and lucky newspaper readers
    On the front row in the Broadhurst Theatre for the Wednesday matinee of 'Lucky Guy,' we were so close to the action up on stage that my husband forgot for a minute he wasn't actually in a newsroom as a bunch of fellow reporters gathered around to he…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:44pm -
  • Obama interrupted repeatedly by antiwar activist during speech on drone policy
    President Obama had a run-in with a heckler Thursday, when a founder of the antiwar group Code Pink interrupted a speech on drone policy and other national security issues. Near the end of Obama’s address at the National Defense University, a woman…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:24pm -
  • Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay scouts, maintain ban on gay adult leaders
    The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its ban on openly gay youth but maintained one on adult leaders, a decision framed as a compromise but one experts said may eventually lead to litigation and thousands of defections from one of America’s…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:11pm -
  • IRS official Lois Lerner placed on leave amid scandal
    The Internal Revenue Service official responsible for the office that targeted certain organizations seeking tax-exempt status was placed on paid administrative leave Thursday, making her the second senior official to be disciplined in the wake of th…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:11pm -
  • Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay youths, maintain ban on gay adult leaders
    The Boy Scouts of America on Thursday ended its ban on openly gay youths but maintained a prohibition on gay adult leaders, a decision framed as a compromise but one that could lead to litigation and thousands of defections from one of America’s la…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:11pm -
  • Obama raises concerns with DOJ over press leaks
    In a lengthy speech at the National Defense University in Washington, President Obama outlined the future of his counterterrorism polices and addressed a controversy over the Justice Department seizure of Associated Press phone records. Read full art…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:10pm -
  • Shorthand
    * Lois Lerner got put on leave (with pay) * Obama got heckled * Rep. Jo Bonner (R-Ala.) got a new job * Sri Srinivasan got a vote Read full article >>    
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:07pm -
  • Lois Lerner put on administrative leave by IRS
    Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizations division at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed on administrative leave, sources in Congress and the administration confirm. Federal workers are given pay and benefits when put on…
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:29pm -
  • Obama's toughest GOP foreign policy critics weigh in
    Some of President Obama's most vocal Republican foreign policy critics said Thursday that they're willing to work with him to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- but only if he comes up with a clear plan to do so. Read full article >>    
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:13pm -
  • House approves Republican student loan bill
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:02pm -
  • Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin heckles Obama repeatedly
    President Obama had a run-in with a heckler on Thursday, when a founder of the anti-war group Code Pink interrupted his speech on drone policy and other national security issues. Toward the end of Obama's address, a woman identified in the White Ho…
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:38pm -
  • Obama: U.S. at ‘crossroads’ in fight against terrorism
    President Obama said Thursday that the United States has reached a “crossroads” in its fight against terrorism and that it is time to redefine and recalibrate a war that eventually will end. Far from repudiating the controversial use of drones ag…
    - 16 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:03pm -
  • We Don’t Need Another Hero
    The roll-out of Anthony Weiner’s midlife crisis-cum-mayoral campaign has gone about as well as the candidate could have hoped. He announced it via video, beating the tabloids’ print deadlines, evading eponymous puns for one precious day. When he…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:45pm -
  • For the People, by the People
    We tend to ignore local government until something goes wrong—municipal bankruptcy, perhaps, or unplowed streets after a mishandled blizzard. Turnout in local elections is notoriously low, and attendance at city-council and school-board meetings is…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 6:17pm -
  • The White House To-Do List
    When White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told his colleagues last week to spend no more than 10 percent of their time responding to scandals, he didn’t know a tornado would devastate entire stretches of Oklahoma. He knew something like it wo…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 11:30am -
  • Fear Itself
    At noon on Tuesday, at the urging of the local Washington, D.C. Tea Party, nearly 100 activists gathered on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the IRS building. Down the road to their left was Capitol Hill; up the road to their right was the White House…
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:15am -
  • Profiling Is Great ... Except When You Do It to Me
    Pretend you work at the Internal Revenue Service. Actually, let’s make this exercise even more terrible. Pretend you’re an underpaid, low-level clerk working in the understaffed IRS backwater of Cincinnati. Every day, a big stack of files lands o…
    - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 11:04pm -
  • The YouTube Preacher
    On Sunday afternoon, standing outside the Virginia GOP’s headquarters in vote-rich Fairfax County, Bishop E.W. Jackson finally became a real politician. He’d just won his party’s nomination for lieutenant governor. Democrats and the press, dazz…
    - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 8:57pm -
  • Letter to a Young Scandalmonger
    My Dear Protégé: 
    - 4 days ago, 20 May 13, 5:44pm -
  • A Den of Liberals
    Maybe it wasn’t the best idea for acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller to resign before talking to Congress. He appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday as a sort of human sacrifice; the first bureaucrat to resign in the scanda…
    - 7 days ago, 17 May 13, 10:29pm -
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  • Tax-Free Like You and Me
    A little more than a year ago, around the time nascent Tea Party organizations started getting Proust-length questionnaires from the IRS, there emerged a scandal about political groups winning tax-exempt status. Left-wing groups. The Daily Caller sha…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 10:35pm -
  • I Was Promised a Cover-Up
    I was told there was going to be a cover-up. After reading the 100 pages of emails related to the Benghazi media talking points, I’m hard-pressed to find evidence for the most damning accusations against the president and his staff. If they were in…
    - 8 days ago, 16 May 13, 4:54pm -
  • newTea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

    Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

    Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate riftAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:33 am, Friday, May 24,…
    - 3 hours ago, 24 May 13, 8:10am -
  • newObama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time

    Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd time

    Obama addressing Naval Academy graduates 2nd timeAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 1:28 am, Friday, M…
    - 3 hours ago, 24 May 13, 8:08am -
  • newMilestones for Guantanamo Bay detention center

    Milestones for Guantanamo Bay detention center

    Milestones for Guantanamo Bay detention centerAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:33 am, Friday, May…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 8:07am -
  • newText of President Obama speech on terrorism

    Text of President Obama speech on terrorism

    Text of President Obama speech on terrorismAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:32 am, Friday, May 24,…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 8:06am -
  • newObama's drone policy at a glance

    Obama's drone policy at a glance

    Obama's drone policy at a glanceAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:32 am, Friday, May 24, 2013…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 8:05am -
  • newCounting US drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen

    Counting US drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen

    Counting US drone strikes in Pakistan, YemenAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:23 am, Friday, May 24…
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  • newWhat's a drone? How is US drone policy changing?

    What's a drone? How is US drone policy changing?

    What's a drone? How is US drone policy changing?Associated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:58 am, Friday, M…
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  • newObama sketches more targeted anti-terror plan

    Obama sketches more targeted anti-terror plan

    Obama sketches more targeted anti-terror planAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:58 am, Friday, May…
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  • newSome unions now angry about health care overhaul

    Some unions now angry about health care overhaul

    Some unions now angry about health care overhaulAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 12:58 am, Friday, M…
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  • newObama balances threats against Americans' rights

    Obama balances threats against Americans' rights

    Obama balances threats against Americans' rightsAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 2:19 am, Friday, Ma…
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  • newAP NewsAlert

    AP NewsAlert

    AP NewsAlertMOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — Washington state authorities say no fatalities in Interstate 5 bridge collapse.
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  • newGOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa

    GOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to Iowa

    GOP's Walker touts state ties during trip to IowaAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 8:54 pm, Thursday,…
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  • newRep. Jo Bonner resigning to take Ala. college post

    Rep. Jo Bonner resigning to take Ala. college post

    Rep. Jo Bonner resigning to take Ala. college postAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 7:42 pm, Thursday…
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  • newObama to tour Jersey Shore with Gov. Christie

    Obama to tour Jersey Shore with Gov. Christie

    Obama to tour Jersey Shore with Gov. ChristieWASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to give the Jersey Shore a boost with a post-Memorial Day visit to showcase recovery efforts in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.The White House says…
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  • newNY senator: Assaults let military culture continue

    NY senator: Assaults let military culture continue

    NY senator: Assaults let military culture continueAssociated PressCopyright 2013 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 5:55 pm, Thursday…
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  • Villaraigosa, Garcetti pledge smooth transition in mayor's office

    Villaraigosa, Garcetti pledge smooth transition in mayor's office

    L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti meet over breakfast and promise an orderly transition of power.Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa began the formal transition of power to his successor on Thursday, hosting Mayor-elect…
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  • Democrats win California Assembly seat as GOP gains in Senate

    Democrats win California Assembly seat as GOP gains in Senate

    Lorena Gonzalez wins a special election for the 80th Assembly District in the San Diego area, while GOP farmer Andy Vidak wins a Central Valley Senate seat.SACRAMENTO — Democrats took another seat in the state Assembly this week, but a conservative…
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  • Two veteran Sacramento lawmakers win L.A. City Council seats

    Two veteran Sacramento lawmakers win L.A. City Council seats

    State Sen. Curren Price and ex-Assemblyman Gil Cedillo both defeated foes with more local experience as council aides. A third council race is up in the air.Two newly elected members of the Los Angeles City Council are veteran Sacramento lawmakers wh…
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  • New L.A. law on medical marijuana shops faces hazy future

    New L.A. law on medical marijuana shops faces hazy future

    Voters approved a measure that would keep only 135 dispensaries — those operating before a failed moratorium in 2007 — open. But challenges await the law.Los Angeles voters took regulation of the city's medical marijuana shops into their own hand…
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  • The road to Eric Garcetti's election romp

    The road to Eric Garcetti's election romp

    Eric Garcetti's winning strategy in the mayor's race robbed Wendy Greuel of key strongholds in L.A.Eric Garcetti defeated Wendy Greuel in the Los Angeles mayor's race by running up huge margins across a vast stretch of the central city, from the East…
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  • Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor

    Eric Garcetti faces tough tests when he takes office as mayor

    L.A.'s mayor-elect offered voters lofty visions. But he faces battles over employee salaries, police overtime pay and how to reverse cuts in numerous city services.In the campaign for mayor, Eric Garcetti spoke grandly about a city with plentiful sum…
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  • The bottom line: It's time to restore dental care for the poor

    The bottom line: It's time to restore dental care for the poor

    Whoever's budget projection is right, state politicians should bring back the coverage cut from Medi-Cal in 2009. It would be unconscionable not to.SACRAMENTO — State Capitol politicians may have an extra $3.2 billion to play with. Or they may not.
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  • Price, Cedillo leading in council races

    Price, Cedillo leading in council races

    Ex-Assemblywoman Cindy Montañez opens a wide margin over Nury Martinez while Mitch O'Farrell is ahead of John Choi.Three veterans from Sacramento were making strong showings Tuesday in the Los Angeles City Council election, with two pulling ahead of…
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  • Measure to limit medicinal pot shops in L.A. is leading

    Measure to limit medicinal pot shops in L.A. is leading

    Voters faced three competing measures that featured similar language but would have benefited different groups of pot businesses. Proposition D took the early lead.After years of futile attempts by lawmakers to regulate the medical marijuana industry…
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  • Garcetti, Greuel locked in tight battle for L.A. mayor's post

    Garcetti, Greuel locked in tight battle for L.A. mayor's post

    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 7:23am -
  • newGov. Cuomo: 'Shame on us' if we elect Weiner mayor
    ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo took a bite out of Anthony Weiner — declaring “shame on us” if city voters elect him mayor.Cuomo flamed Weiner during an interview Wednesday with The Syracuse Post-Standard editorial board, it was revealed yesterday. “…
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  • newAG gave the OK on Fox snoop
    WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder himself authorized the government’s snooping on Fox News reporter James Rosen, according to an explosive new report.The feds got a court to approve a warrant to go after Rosen’s personal e-mails, along…
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  • newBank of Bloomberg
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  • newWire pol’s bid to run bugs Dems
    ALBANY — Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro was mocked by fellow Democrats yesterday for mulling a run at the very seat he was forced to vacate in a perjury plea deal.“What would he run for, New York’s best informant?” New York state Dem…
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  • newKeep this iPic above the waist!
    Welcome to Weiner World — a land of chaos, lies and mass confusion.After a day spent hiding in his plush apartment, ex-congressman and brand-new mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner poked out his face at a Harlem subway station yesterday morning — i…
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  • newGOP Downplays Reform for Scandal
    Alex Roarty, National JournalSince last year's election, the Republican Party's political leaders offered a blueprint of how they can rebuild the party after disappointing across-the-board 2012 losses, proposing a retooled platform that wou…
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  • newObama's Recipe for More Benghazis
    Michelle Malkin, TownhallGird your loins, America. President Obama intends to empty out Guantanamo Bay and send scores of suspected Muslim terror operatives back to their jihadist-coddling native countries. Goaded by anti-war activists and soft-on-te…
    - 8 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:44am -
  • newBritain in Denial About Its Islamist Threat
    Douglas Murray, WSJHow many ignored warnings does it take? That is one question that should hang over Britain after the horror of the daytime murder of a British soldier on the streets of south London. On Wednesday afternoon, Drummer Lee Rigby was ki…
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  • newThe Ad Hominem Presidency
    Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post“Horrible customer service.” That’s what the newly fired IRS commissioner averred was the agency’s only sin in singling out conservative political groups for discriminatory treatment.In such…
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  • newJapan's Recovery Model
    Paul Krugman, New York TimesThese days we are, in economic terms, all Japanese — which is why the ongoing economic experiment in the country that started it all is so important, not just for Japan, but for the world.In a sense, the really remar…
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  • Climate-Change Wars Begin This Summer

    Climate-Change Wars Begin This Summer

    Jonathan Chait, NY MagazineThe biggest piece of President Obama’s second-term agenda is his widely expected plan for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new carbon regulations for power plants, a move that could bring the United States…
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  • Blood on the Streets of Woolwich

    Blood on the Streets of Woolwich

    Anthony Lane, The New YorkerIf you came across this footage as you were browsing the Web, you would not immediately know what you were watching. You might mistake it for a stunt, or a setup, or even a promotional clip for an upcoming film. Even when…
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  • Few Answers on How IRS Targeting Started

    Few Answers on How IRS Targeting Started

    Dixon & Temple-West, ReutersLois Lerner, who heads the IRS tax-exempt unit, angered lawmakers by reading a statement before refusing to testify, but she was dismissed from the hearing with a warning that she could be called back for another appearanc…
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  • Urgent Advice for Graduates

    Urgent Advice for Graduates

    Jon Lovett, The AtlanticI recently turned thirty, which I know seems like a generation away to those of you graduating this morning. But it's more than just the worst. Thirty is a year where you're left straddling two worlds. One foot stand…
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  • The Crony in Charge of Your Medical Records

    The Crony in Charge of Your Medical Records

    Michelle Malkin, TownhallWho is Judy Faulkner? Chances are, you don't know her -- but her politically connected, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company may very well know you. Top Obama donor and billionaire Faulkner is founder a…
    - 17 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:28pm -
  • World Still Needs American Hard Power

    World Still Needs American Hard Power

    Robert Kaplan, StratforHard power has not been in vogue since the Iraq War turned badly in about 2004. In foreign policy journals and at elite conferences, the talk for years has been about "soft power," "the power of persuasion" and the need to revi…
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  • Military's Culture of Sexual Violence

    Military's Culture of Sexual Violence

    Margaret Carlson, BloombergI have a suggestion about how to help instantly reduce sexual assaults in the military. Round up those in charge of handling sexual-assault cases.What fertile ground. In the space of two weeks this month, two of the top off…
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  • Apple a Target of the Beltway Shakedown

    Apple a Target of the Beltway Shakedown

    Timothy Carney, DC ExaminerSenators are angry that tech giant Apple isn't paying its fair share.I'm not talking about taxes. This is about campaign contributions and lobbying fees.An investigation by Sen. Carl Levin and a grilling of Apple…
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  • Kathleen Sebelius, Meet Oliver North

    Kathleen Sebelius, Meet Oliver North

    Sen. Lamar Alexander, WSJMajor news outlets in recent days have reported that U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is raising money from the private sector—including from health-care executives—for use…
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  • Jobs Jobs Jobs

    Jobs Jobs Jobs

    Walter Russell Mead, The American InterestAs the latest round of scandals swirls around the White House, there is the usual empty chatter from various spokesmen about the President’s intention to “pivot toward the economy” (again!)…
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  • British Mother to Terrorist: You're Going to Lose

    British Mother to Terrorist: You're Going to Lose

    Claire Duffin, TelegraphA mother-of-two described tonight how she put her own life on the line by trying to persuade the soldier’s murderers to hand over their weapons.Cub scout leader Ingrid Loyau-Kennett selflessly engaged the terrorists in c…
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  • We Need to Find Out When Obama Knew

    We Need to Find Out When Obama Knew

    Ron Fournier, Morning JoeRON FOURNIER: I'm really not as interested in what the president knew two weeks ago. I'm more interested in whether or not the president or anybody working on his behalf in the White House or at the campaign had kno…
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  • Hunger Games at the IRS

    Hunger Games at the IRS

    Noam Scheiber, The New RepublicThe more we learn about the IRS vetting of conservative groups, the less it looks like an abuse of power than something much more mundane—a beleaguered agency with too few resources to handle its work-load. A…
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  • Stop Lavishing Money on Rich Farmers Who Don't Need It

    Stop Lavishing Money on Rich Farmers Who Don't Need It

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  • Feds Don't Look Good Draped in the Fifth

    Feds Don't Look Good Draped in the Fifth

    Joe Davidson, Washington PostLike plaids with stripes, federal employees wrapped in the Fifth Amendment don’t look good. We all have the right to wear clothes that clash, and all in this country have the right not to provide testimony that coul…
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  • newRoger Ailes' letter to Fox employees
    Dear colleagues, The recent news about the FBI’s seizure of the phone and email records of Fox News employees, including James Rosen, calls into question whether the federal government is meeting its constitutional obligation to preserve and protect…
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  • newSatellite Images Show Five New Stealth F-22s On US Base Near Iran
    Even if we have often reported the presence of the F-22 Raptors at Al Dhafra, satellite imagery showing five radar evading planes parked at the main airbase in the UAE has been made publicly available for the first time recently. The aircraft, parked…
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  • newFirst Amendment Clause-Trophobia
    "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a…
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  • newHolder OK'd search warrant for Fox News reporter's private emails, official says
    Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcemen…
    - 57 mins ago, 24 May 13, 10:40am -
  • newBulletin: We Are Still at War
    “By Allah, by the almighty Allah, we swear we will never stop fighting you.” With those words Wednesday, the South London attacker with blood-soaked hands did us the favor of reminding us what we are up against. Having just killed British soldier L…
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  • newWoolwich Terror Suspect Revealed As Muslim Convert Known To MI5
    A MAN seen ranting at a video camera moments after a soldier was beheaded in the street is Muslim convert Michael Adebolajo - who was known to MI5. Michael Adebolaj, 28, had reportedly been looked at during probes into extremism in recent years - and…
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  • newKillers who butchered soldiers are condemned by Muslim groups
    'The killers who executed a soldier on a London street were yesterday condemned by Muslim groups for their 'truly barbaric act'. The Muslim Council of Britain said the killers’ use of 'Islamic slogans' indicated they were motivated by their faith. A…
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  • newBrave mother and daughter stood alongside Cub Scout leader against Islamic fanatics
    'A mother and daughter were the 'Angels of Woolwich' who bravely risked their own lives to comfort the soldier left dying in the street. Gemini Donnelly-Martin, 20, and her mother Amanda, stepped forward and asked the attackers if they could be by Dr…
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  • newQuinn, Emanuel lash out at Madigan gun bill
    SPRINGFIELD— — Gov. Pat Quinn, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Senate President John Cullerton decried a bill to legalize concealed firearms that is backed by powerful House Speaker Michael Madigan, contending it would invalidate strict local gun laws like…
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  • newIslamic fanatic was best friend of war hero killed in Iraq
    'The man suspected of hacking a soldier to death on a London street was best friends at school with a war hero who died in Iraq. Friends said Michael Adebolajo, who was filmed holding a knife in blood-covered hands after Drummer Lee Rigby was brutall…
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  • newCameron slaps down Ministry of Defence and ends ban on uniforms in public places
    'David Cameron yesterday tore up an order banning troops from wearing their uniforms in public that was issued in the wake of the Woolwich attack. He is understood to have told Defence Secretary Philip Hammond he was ‘seriously dismayed’ at officia…
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  • newQuinn & Rose - America’s Morning Show - May 24, 2013
    Listen to the Quinn & Rose Morning Show from 6:00 to 9:00 Eastern on: www.wpgb.com (104.7 Pittsburgh, Pa) http://wysl1040.com/ (Rochester, NY) http://www.talkradio560.com/ (Frostburg, MD) http://wicofm.com/ (Salisbury/Ocean City, MD) http://www.wobx.…
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  • newMedia Fail: Obama Approval Dips Below 50 In Four Polls
    Coming out of the weekend, after a brutal week for their president, the media held tight to a little lifeboat in an ocean of bad news: Polls from CNN and The Washington Post had Obama's approval rating at 53% and 50%, respectively. But Monday was a l…
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  • newThe sad truth about today’s modern Germany and Jews
    Three years ago I was contacted by an editor of Rowohlt, one of the biggest book publishers in Germany. She said she loved my articles in the Zeit, the prestigious German newspaper I’ve been writing for, and would like me to come to Germany for a fe…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 7:51am -
  • newDA will not prosecute man arrested under SAFE Act
    COLUMBIA COUNTY - The Columbia County District Attorney is making good on a promise not to prosecute a man arrested under the SAFE Act.
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  • newNoonan: A Battering Ram Becomes a Stonewall
    The IRS's leaders refuse to account for the agency's corruption and abuse. "I don't know." "I don't remember." "I'm not familiar with that detail." "It's not my precise area." "I'm not familiar with that letter." These are quotes from the Internal Re…
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  • newGun show background check law to be enforced, Pinellas sheriff says
    CLEARWATER — Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri on Tuesday announced plans to strictly enforce a county law mandating background checks for all customers at gun shows, asserting local control in an area that has stubbornly resisted state and fede…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 7:34am -
  • newArt Imitating Life: Benghazi, Obama, and Kirk Douglas
    Kirk Douglas played a down-on-his-luck news reporter... a man named Leo was trapped in a collapsed cave...Keeping Leo trapped for at least seven days could revive Douglas's career. He had exclusive access to Leo. Writing daily updates could produce t…
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  • newState’s stand-your-ground law intact
    CONCORD — The Senate Thursday refused to act on a bill to repeal the state’s new stand-your-ground bill, effectively killing the effort. The Senate voted 19-5 to table House Bill 135, which would have repealed the provision that extends the Castle…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 7:20am -
  • newI-5 bridge collapses over Skagit River, sending vehicles, people into water
    MOUNT VERNON, Wash. — A portion of an Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River, about 60 miles north of Seattle, collapsed Thursday, sending three vehicles and people plunging into the cold water at least 50 feet below. Amazingly, there were no f…
    - 4 hours ago, 24 May 13, 7:18am -
  • newObama’s Speech: Hamlet as Wartime Leader
    In seventy lugubrious paragraphs, President Obama today asked America whether as commander-in-chief he should bomb terrorists. He concluded that sometimes he should, and sometimes he shouldn't. He couldn't quite make up his mind. Therefore, he would…
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  • newCorporations Are Storing Cash Offshore — Across The Bronx River
    After Congress called in Apple to testify about its offshore subsidiaries and why it paid only $6 billion in corporate income taxes last year, the Times published this interesting story, clearing up one misconception about how companies defer the p…
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  • newPrincipals: Common Core Tests Don’t Match Up With Standards
    The Washington Post has published a letter from a group of New York school principals explaining that in their view the Common Core Assessment Tests were not in fact aligned with the Common Core Standards:In both their technical and task design, t…
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  • Krauthammer’s Take: Obama’s Notion of War ‘Naive and Utopian’
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  • Obama’s Speech: No More Drone Strikes?
    Readers and listeners to President Obama's speech today at the National Defense University, billed as a major address on terrorism policy, could be forgiven for thinking the speech just a re-hash of old policies. Believe me, Obama seemed to repeat, I…
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  • Gitmo, Politics, and Ending the War
    Given my administration’s relentless pursuit of al Qaeda’s leadership, there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened.That's the presidential trademark -- the bl…
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  • Lois Lerner Directly Involved in IRS Targeting, Letters Show
    A series of letters suggests that senior IRS official Lois Lerner was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups as recently as April 2012, more than nine months after she first learned of the activity.Lerner, the director…
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  • Paul Responds to Obama’s Drone-Policy Speech
    Shortly after the president outlined in a speech today that drones should not be used on American citizens without "due process," Rand Paul offered some backhanded praise for the president's new stance on the matter:I'm glad the President finally…
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  • ‘And I’ve Taken an Oath to Defend the Constitution of the United States’
    Did he really just say that?
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:43pm -
  • Orrin Hatch: Please Disregard Anything I Might Have Told Utah Voters During an Election Year
    You’ve got to hand it to Orrin Hatch. Having been in the Senate since 1977, he knows how the game is played. Here he is in a debate last year when he was fighting for his political life against conservative challenger Dan Liljenquist:Well, I don…
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  • newJust Wow
    There's a massive (70 meters wide), man-made circular structure, between 2,000 and 12,000 years old, at the bottom of the Sea of Galilee . And nautical archeologists are trying to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars it will take...    
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  • newPhotos of Bridge Collapse in Wash State
    Photo of Skagit River Bridge Collapse- @dustystarling twitter.com/NewsBreaker/st...— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 24, 2013 North end of I-5 bridge over #Skagit River collapsed twitter.com/Gina_SVH/statu...— Gina Cole (@Gina_SVH) May 24, 2013 More…
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  • newBREAKING: Bridge Collapse in Wash State
    King5.com: "Washington State Patrol confirms an I-5 bridge over the Skagit River has collapsed and at least two cars with people inside are in the water." More ... Here's the twitter feed of a local reporter covering the story. 10:34...    
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  • This Is Important. Give It a Read
    As you know, TPM has aggressively covered the 'voter fraud' and vote suppression beat for years. Actually, the first time I dedicated a big part of the site to one such story was in 2002 - as part of Tim...    
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  • Who Could Have Imagined
    Who could have imagined that a Senator who came into office on a commercial morphing his opponent into Osama bin Laden would declare Obama speech a victory for terrorists....    
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  • He's No Water Carrier!
    TPM reporter tags along on subway ride with Anthony Weiner, helpfully spills water on voter Weiner is trying to court....    
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  • The Scandal Bar Speaks
    A friends who's a member in good standing of the DC scandal bar chimes in on his take on the IRS scandal ... Here's how I see the IRS scandal at present. The biggest problem is that no one really...    
    - 17 hours ago, 23 May 13, 6:33pm -
  • Obama's Terrorism/Drone Speech
    Click here for the full 'as prepared for delivery' text of Obama's terrorism/drone speech. Watch it live here....    
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  • This Is Actually Happening
    Maine's Tea Party Gov. is moving out of the State House over an argument about a flat screen TV....    
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  • Not Endorsing, I Guess
    NY Gov. Cuomo: "Shame on us," if New Yorkers elect Anthony Weiner Mayor....    
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  • Ummm ... Someone Needs a Constitution Refresher Course
    RNC Chair Priebus: You don't plead the fifth if you're innocent. Watch....    
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  • Keep An Eye On This Today
    A TPM reader checks in from the Boy Scouts of America's national meeting in Texas, where the national council will vote today on whether to lift the ban on gay scouts:...    
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  • Did You See This?
    With so much other stuff going on with tornados and the FBI shooting in Florida and all the scandal talk that I suspect most of you have still heard about this. But in case not, in England yesterday two men,...    
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  • A Clinton Endorsement?
    We asked newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner whether he'd asked the Clintons for their endorsement. Here's what he told us....    
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  • At Least He Wasn't In Charge of Anti-Harassment Efforts?
    Army Sergeant charged with secretly videotaping and photographing nude female cadets in the bathrooms at West Point....    
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  • This is Getting Really Weird
    Earlier we heard that very weird story of a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev who had allegedly confessed to some involvement with that 2011 triple murder before being shot by an FBI agent during questioning. The latest report says "it was...    
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  • Mystery Solved
    So why did Anthony Weiner announce his mayoral campaign at midnight? Here's the answer....    
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  • Still Work to Do on Over 80 Demo
    Don Rumsfeld suggests gay marriage may lead to polygamy. Late Update: You learn something new every day. While I was checking some information about Rumsfeld I stumbled across the fact that Rumsfeld was one of the lead sponsors of the...    
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  • Getting More Interesting
    Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) is now saying that he believes Lois Lerner has waived her right to take the fifth by giving a general statement asserting her innocence....    
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:27pm -
  • The Day In 100 Seconds
    Cable news can't quit cracking jokes as Anthony Weiner makes his return to the stage with a run for New York City mayor. Full-size version....    
    - 2 days ago, 22 May 13, 9:04pm -
  • newFriendly Fire: Parties Slam Some of Their Own
    The National Republican Congressional Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee each blasted the other side after a near party-line vote on the Smarter Solutions for Students Act, which passed the House on Thursday, 221-198.
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  • newEx-Rep. Joe Baca Touts 30 Endorsements From House Democrats #CA31
    Former Rep. Joe Baca, a Democrat attempting a comeback bid in California's 31st District, boasted support from 30 House Democrats on Thursday. The list runs the gamut from members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus to Assistant Minority Leader Jame…
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  • newPartisans Ignore the Facts on America's National Debt | Commentary
    Since 2010, conservatives have used a 2010 paper in the American Economic Review by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff to claim spending cuts should be made to preserve the economic and fiscal futures of America. The argument claims that debt levels…
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:00am -
  • newDemocrats Pan House Student Loan Bill, Prep For Action
    Senate Democrats hate it. The White House said it would veto it. And yet, the House passed a student loan bill Thursday, increasing the pressure on Democrats to move their own bill.
    - 11 hours ago, 24 May 13, 12:37am -
  • newFour More Stock Transaction Filings From House Members Disclosed Today
    Rep. Doug Lamborn's (CO-05), Rep. Alan Lowenthal's (CA-47), Rep. Tom Price's (GA-06), and Rep. Louise Slaughter's (NY-25) recent filings were made available by the Clerk earlier today.
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:44pm -
  • D.C. Log Cabin Republicans Fete Ex-Rep. Jim Kolbe
    The Washington, D.C. chapter of organized gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Republicans hosted former Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., and his husband at a small mixer Wednesday night.
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:23pm -
  • Frosty GOP Reception for Obama's Terrorism Policy Shifts
    President Barack Obama tried to use a wide-ranging speech Thursday to reset the narrative on a counterterrorism record that has been a political thorn in the White House's side in recent months. But the immediate reaction from adversaries in Congress…
    - 12 hours ago, 23 May 13, 11:08pm -
  • House Immigration Bill Back on Track, Say Bipartisan Negotiators
    Bipartisan House negotiators emerged from a critical meeting Thursday signaling that they again have come to a tentative agreement on a comprehensive overhaul of the nation's immigration system.
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  • The U.S.S. Daniel Inouye
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  • DesJarlais Will Pay State Fines for Medical Misconduct
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  • Boxed In | Capitol Lens
    Capitol fixture Rick Hohensee gives a school group the peace sign on the East Front of the Capitol on Thursday. He also played some music at an event where Virginia Indian tribes pressed for federal recognition, also on the East Front.
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:40pm -
  • Swalwell Fans the Flames of Bipartisanship
    Freshman Rep. Eric Swalwell rolled out the welcome mat in the Cannon House Office Building on Wednesday night, inviting fellow occupants of the fifth floor to what turned out to be a widely attended cookout.
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:39pm -
  • Did Jon Stewart Inspire Democratic Veterans Bill?
    Does a late-night comedy show affect Washington policymakers?
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:19pm -
  • IRS' Lois Lerner Suspended After Hill Complaints
    Updated 7:00 p.m. | IRS official Lois Lerner has been placed on administrative leave as two senior senators requested, one day after she invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and refused to testify before a House committee.
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:14pm -
  • What's in a D.C. Song?
    What's in a D.C. song?
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:13pm -
  • GOP Leaders Vow House Will 'Work Its Will' on Immigration
    House Republican leaders on Thursday made it clear that their chamber will proceed with an immigration overhaul on its own terms.
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:10pm -
  • Cancer Survivor's Softball Duties Are Extra Resonant
    Kate Yglesias Houghton, a staffer at the Democratic National Committee, has been helping organize the Congressional Women's Softball Game since its inception five years ago.
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:07pm -
  • 'Arrested Development' Takes Over D.C.
    Everyone's favorite dysfunctional family is coming to Netflix on May 26 (Squee!) and binge TV watchers everywhere are rejoicing at the return of "Arrested Development."
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:07pm -
  • Hellbender Brewing Has Hill Roots
    Six hours before the start of the new year, the Senate was about to reach a deal on the fiscal cliff and longtime staffer Patrick Mullane was getting ready to leave the Hill for beer. It's just that it's taken a few months to get the kegs tapped.
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:56pm -
  • Teens Road-Tripping to Watch Gillibrand Play in Softball Game
    The Congressional Women's Softball Game has a bit of a fanatic following this year beyond the dedicated members of Congress, female journalists of the Capitol press corps and their long-suffering families and friends.
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:41pm -
  • newReal Immigration Reform Requires Free Markets
    Only in the United States Congress could a legislative provisionentitled “Market-Based H-1B Visa Limits” actually mean that “thenumber of visas calculated under subparagraph (A) for any fiscalyear shall not be less than 110,000 or more than…
    - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 10:15am -
  • newEnough With the Bipartisanship
    In 1987, on the evening of her third general election victory asleader of the Conservative Party, the late and great MargaretThatcher gave a speechbefore her constituents in the district of Finchley. It was mostlyboilerplate stuff—thanking th…
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  • newThe United States of El Norte
    Rookie Florida Senator Marco Rubio continues to work tirelesslyto get the United States to annex Mexico, though an exhaustive (andexhausting) search of his 2010 election campaign reveals nopromises to do, nor even a mention that he might consider…
    - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 10:10am -
  • newVodka = Vodka = Vodka
    New Jersey alcohol enforcement officials raided bars up and downthe Garden State Wednesday on suspicion that mixologists werepouring generic rail-drinks from high-end liquor bottles. Earliersamples of 150 liquors ordered by name yielded a 20 perce…
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  • newWe Will Remember
    Why should we remember places with strange names, inhabited bytribes whose languages and religions and customs are unfamiliar,most of whom hate us? Why should we remember valleys called theGowardesh or the Khien Phuong, towns and hamlets with name…
    - 1 hour ago, 24 May 13, 10:08am -
  • newThe Chinese Waltz
    Beijing’s leadership expertly follows a tricky path ofmaintaining close financial and commercial relations withWashington while simultaneously strutting about militarily.American businessmen and visiting politicians are wined and dinedby well-c…
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:07am -
  • newTornado Chasers
    Republicans’ capacity for destruction seems to rank up therewith Mother Nature’s in the eyes of some Senate liberals. Andrarely has that been more evident than after Monday’s terribleevents in Oklahoma.In the aftermath of the tornado that d…
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  • newThe Devils Koch
    If the Tribune Company were Biblical Egypt, the Koch brothersbuying its papers would be the 11th plague. They are probablybehind billions of red, bulgy-eyed cicadas poised to swarm the EastCoast this year, too. Or so think many liberals.So bad i…
    - 2 hours ago, 24 May 13, 10:01am -
  • newWilling Executioners: Nov. 2005
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  • newMuslim, Er, Youth Riots in Sweden
    As London reels from the beheading of a British soldier, 1,200miles away in Stockholm, Muslims, er, youths have been rioting in the streets of Stockholm andelsewhere in Sweden for the past four nights. News outlets such as Reuters are focusing…
    - 7 hours ago, 24 May 13, 4:41am -
  • newGood Luck Quin
    So Quin Hillyer is throwinghis hat into the ring and is running for Congress.I have enjoyed Quin’s contributions to The AmericanSpectator whether the subject be politics or sport. Quinand I have had a couple of spirited disagreements, but we h…
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  • newLaying Down My Pen
    When an opportunity comes to do something good, one must grabit.At 2 p.m. central time Thursday afternoon in Mobile, word spreadthat U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, a six-term Republican from a dark reddistrict, would announce that he is resigning mid-term…
    - 8 hours ago, 24 May 13, 3:18am -
  • One of The London Soldier Beheading Suspects British Born
    In my initial reaction to the terrorist attack yesterday in Londonwas not to be surprised if the perpetrators were British born. Oneof the two men responsible for murdering British soldier Lee Rigbyyesterday has been identified as Michael Abdebo…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:42pm -
  • Lois Lerner Now on Administrative Leave
    Lois Lerner, the official at the center of the IRS scandal, hasbeen put on administrative leave.The Washington Post is reporting:Lois Lerner, the director of the tax-exempt organizationsdivision at the Internal Revenue Service, has been placed…
    - 13 hours ago, 23 May 13, 10:13pm -
  • Crisis Looms, and Kevin Williamson Can Hardly Wait
    That was the takeaway from a discussion of his new book TheEnd Is Near, and It’s Going to Be Awesome. In it, theNational Review ace noted at Thursday’s event hosted bythe Cato Institute that fiscal crisis is inevitable as a matter ofsimple ar…
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  • Dismantling Networks, Preventing Footholds
    Let’s see if you have the same reaction as I did to this sectionof President Obama’s speech on drones today:We will never erase the evil that lies in the hearts of somehuman beings, nor stamp out every danger to our open society. Whatwe can…
    - 14 hours ago, 23 May 13, 9:30pm -
  • Bill Would Ban All Abortions After 20 Weeks
    The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on H.R. 1797, the“District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act,”which aims to ban abortions after 20 weeks – the accepted time whenpain is felt by the baby.The bill, which was sp…
    - 15 hours ago, 23 May 13, 8:15pm -
  • Harry Reid Pushes for the Nuclear Option
    Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is making moves to advance hisfilibuster reform plan for executive branch nominees, despite hisJanuary promise to leave the filibuster alone during thisCongress.On Wednesday, Reid refused to pledge not to exercis…
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  • Weiner: More Photos of My Junk Might Surface
    OK, so that’s a paraphrase. Here’s what the New York mayoralcandidate actually said, on WNYC this morning: “It is what itis.…People may decide they want to come forward and say, here’sanother email that I got or another photo. But I’m…
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  • #FreeKate? Movement to Normalize Pedophilia Finds Its Poster Girl
    In January, Rush Limbaugh warned that there was “an effort under way tonormalize pedophilia,” and was ridiculed by liberals (includingCNN’s SoledadO’Brien) for saying so. But now liberals have joined a crusadethat, if successful, would e…
    - 21 hours ago, 23 May 13, 2:09pm -