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Wall Street Journal: by John Fund Democratic House members are so worried about the fall elections they're leaving Washington on July 30, a full week earlier than normal—and they won't return until mid-September. Members gulped when National Journal's Charlie Cook, the Beltway's leading political handicapper, predicted last month "the House is gone," meaning a GOP takeover. He ...
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The Hill: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is launching a newsletter Friday to keep an eye on a little-known but powerful federal board that has a big impact on labor law. NLRB Insight is the name of the publication that will scrutinize the rulings of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The five-member board adjudicates labor law ...
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Washington Times: President Obama's moratorium on deep-water drilling could have the unintended effect of increasing U.S. dependence on oil imports -- thus raising the risk of a more common type of oil spill from tankers, energy analysts say. The six-month moratorium already has thrown thousands of oil workers in the Gulf region out of work and ...
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By John Fund In The Wall Street Journal: J. Christian Adams,, a former career Justice Department lawyer who resigned recently to protest political interference in cases he worked on, made some news yesterday in testimony before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. As expected, he claimed that Associate Attorney General Thomas Perrelli, an Obama appointee, overruled a ...
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Press TV: Former Colorado Congressman and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo says US President Barack Obama is the greatest danger for the United States. At a fundraiser event organized by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint on Thursday to stump support for Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck, Tancredo appeared to be too critical of Obama, describing him as a ...
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Politico: KANSAS CITY, Mo. — President Barack Obama has a new campaign slogan. “Yes, we did.†And it doesn’t stop there. Republicans, an animated Obama argued Thursday, wouldn’t have. They wouldn’t have set the economy back on track, he said during a fundraiser for Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, or passed a health care overhaul or financial regulatory reform. Giving ...
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ABC News: LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of Justice will conduct an independent review of the Johannes Mehserle case in order to determine whether or not the shooting merits federal prosecution, according the department. "The Justice Department has been closely monitoring the state's investigation and prosecution," the department said in a statement. "The Civil Rights Division, ...
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The Hopeful Wetback Times: Reporting from Washington —Arizona's law giving local police immigration enforcement powers is likely to be struck down, most legal experts predict, now that the Obama administration has gone to court asserting that it conflicts with federal law. They cite the longstanding principle that the federal government has exclusive control over immigration and that ...
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The Daily Caller: In March, when The Daily Caller reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had spent $1,946 at Voyeur West Hollywood, a bondage-themed nightclub, RNC spokesman Doug Heye vowed on national television that the RNC would get its money back. “The RNC has not only requested that that money that was sent out as a ...
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(AFP) The Obama administration lost its court bid to maintain a six-month moratorium on offshore deepwater drilling which a federal judge ordered lifted last month. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the government's emergency request to stay that judge's order pending appeal. The motion was denied because the government failed to show "a likelihood of irreparable ...
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The Hill: Chicago-area Democrats are urging the Treasury Department to help a troubled community bank with money from the $700 billion financial bailout fund. Four House members pushed the department in mid-June to provide federal money to ShoreBank, a prominent Illinois-based bank that serves low- and middle-income customers. High-profile Democrats, including President Bill Clinton, have praised the ...
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Boston.com: A federal district court judge in Boston today struck down the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as a union exclusively between a man and a woman. Judge Joseph L. Tauro ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage law violates the Constitutional right of married same-sex couples to equal protection under the law and upends the ...
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The Wall Street Journal: Some banks have a special technique for dealing with business borrowers who can't repay loans coming due: Give them more time, hoping things improve and they can repay later. Banks call it a wise strategy. Skeptics call it "extend and pretend." Banks are applying it, in particular, to commercial real-estate lending, where, during the ...
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A white former transit officer was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the shooting death of an unarmed black man on an Oakland train platform in a 2009 encounter that set off days of rioting in the city. The jury deliberated more than six hours over two days to convict Johannes ...
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