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The Hill: Republicans sought to cast Democrats on Wednesday as the real "party of no," highlighting vulnerable Democratic incumbents who are now distancing themselves from their party's signature legislative accomplishments. The Republican National Committee turned the "party of no" label against Democrats in a new Web video, which clips together several Democrats' campaign ads showing different members ...
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Fox News: Nine years after the heroes of Flight 93 rebelled against the terrorists who hijacked their plane -- crashing it into a field in Shanksville, Pa., instead of allowing it to smash into an unknown, high-profile target in Washington, D.C. -- the design of a memorial to honor the 40 passengers and crew who died ...
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ABC News: Kelsey Grammer backs new network providing entertainment for political conservatives Actor Kelsey Grammer is an investor and public face supporting a new network that launched Wednesday with entertainment designed to appeal to political conservatives. RightNetwork, whose first series, "Running," follows the fortunes of a couple of Tea Party-backed candidates for public office, is also trying a ...
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USA Today: By Paul Wiseman and Richard Wolf, USA TODAY President Obama's proposal to jolt a listless recovery with $180 billion worth of tax breaks and transportation projects left economists largely unimpressed Tuesday. "I don't think they're game-changers," says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics. "I don't think they're going to add up to a lot of ...
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As Prepared for Delivery: Good afternoon, Ohio. It’s good to be back. In the fall of 2008, one of the last rallies of my presidential campaign was here in the Cleveland area. It was a hopeful time, just two days before the election. We knew that if we pulled it off, we’d have the chance to tackle ...
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Washington Times: The Pentagon is eyeing cuts in a war office thought to be untouchable: the organization that devises ways to foil the No. 1 killer of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Officials say the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO) has done good work in developing jammers and detection equipment to neutralize the enemy's use of ...
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Excerpted from Gawker: He explained that he was in France and needed a big favor from me, something he couldn't trust anyone else with. I was flattered and he knew it, so I was listening. At that time, he was in a real, grown up relationship with Paris Hilton. He said she was flying out to ...
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CNBC: U.S. House of Representatives Republican leader John Boehner called Wednesday for a two-year freeze on all current U.S. tax rates, including Bush-era tax cuts for the rich set to expire at the end of this year. Speaking ahead of an economic address set for later in the day by President Barack Obama, Boehner also proposed that ...
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Washington Post: BP released a long-awaited report Wednesday on an internal investigation into the causes of its Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout, blaming multiple failures by BP and other firms but absolving its much-criticized well design. The BP report stressed that "no single factor" caused the April 20 blowout that killed 11 workers, sank the Deepwater ...
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Arizona Republic: The federal government is investigating whether Arizona has discriminated against teachers who are not native English speakers, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne confirmed Tuesday. The state Department of Education for years has been monitoring English fluency of teachers who instruct English learners, but in April began instructing districts to fire teachers who weren't ...
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Washington Post: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Wednesday that "a new American moment" had arrived in international relations--"a moment when our global leadership is essential, even if we must often lead in new ways." In a wide-ranging speech at the Council on Foreign Relations defending the Obama administration's foreign policy approach, Clinton said, "This is ...
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The Hill: Democrats desperate to convince their base to show up at the polls in November have begun talking less about issues and more about the possibility of a “Tea Party Congress†next year. The passage of landmark bills such as healthcare and financial regulatory reform has not triggered as much grassroots enthusiasm as initially envisioned, Democratic ...
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Politico: Come Nov. 2, one of two big things will happen: Democrats will blow the most complete dominion a party has held over government since the advent of the Reagan revolution. Or Republicans will blow the biggest advantages an out-of-power party has enjoyed since Watergate.
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NBC Connecticut: In the wake of the battle over a mosque at Ground Zero, a move by the Hartford City Councilis sure to have its critics.
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