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President Obama took more fire from the left Thursday over what critics say is a lack of diversity in his second-term Cabinet appointments. "It's embarrassing as hell," said Rep. Charles B. Rangel, New York Democrat, on MSNBC's "Jansing & Co." As the president gears up for his second term, Mr. Obama's first four appointments have been white men: Sen. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts to

Two stories that might seem to contradict each other ran in the New York Times this week. One declared the Tea Party movement “significantly weakened in the wake of Novembers elections and on its way to becoming “just another political faction. The other noted that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell might be concerned about a potential 2014 primary challenge – enough to filibuster

Republicans are seriously considering a Doomsday Plan if fiscal cliff talks collapse entirely. Its quite simple: House Republicans would allow a vote on extending the Bush middle class tax cuts (the bill passed in August by the Senate) and offer the President nothing more: no extension of the debt ceiling, nothing on unemployment, nothing on closing loopholes. Congress would recess for the