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Sep 04 2012
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Preview: List of DNC Speakers Looking Pretty Awful
- Greetings from Obamaworld, at least for the next three days. While others have observed how lame the Dems' lineup is this year, I figured I'd share the full list* now that the -- er -- "excitement" is mere hours away. I've taken the liberty of putting the names of people from whom I'm even the slightest bit interested in hearing, even if ironically, in bold. (Parenthetical notes are mine
TownhallJan 13 2015
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Divers retrieve cockpit voice recorder from AirAsia Flight 8501 wreckage
Divers have retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from the wreckage of AirAsia Flight 8501, the second of two so-called "black boxes" that are likely to provide crucial evidence of why the Airbus A320 crashed in the Java Sea with 162 people on board.
The recorder was freed early Tuesday from underneath the remains of one of the plane's wings at a depth of about 98 feet, a day after the
Fox News (Online News)May 29 2012
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Texas Senate primary sampler
A Texas Senate primary day sampler of facts, courtesy of Smart Politics:
¢ Nearly 40 percent of Lone Star State Democratic primaries for U.S. Senate have gone to a runoff since 1916 with the second place candidate winning in more than half of the runoff elections.
¢ A party record nine candidates are squaring off in the Republican primary with four candidates in the Democratic
PoliticoMay 17 2013
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At Cincinnati IRS office, surprise over claims of partisan villainy
The fog of scandal hangs over a boxy, modernist, 10-story building that looks like a monument to paperwork. Shrubs and chain smokers flank its front entrance here on Main Street, in the heart of downtown. Every day, 2,000 employees go to work at various federal agencies in this John F. Kennedy-era structure, whose chief tenant is the Internal Revenue Service  which is having just about
Washington PostMay 17 2013
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Republicans Altered Benghazi Emails, CBS News Report Claims
One day after The White House released 100 pages of Benghazi emails, a report has surfaced alleging that Republicans released a set with altered text.
CBS News reported Thursday that leaked versions sent out by the GOP last Friday had visible differences than Wednesday's official batch. Two correspondences that were singled out in the report came from National Security Adviser Ben
HuffPostOct 10 2013
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Republicans take stopgap debt-ceiling fix to Obama, partial shutdown unresolved
A delegation of 18 House Republicans is heading to the White House Thursday afternoon to propose a short-term increase in the debt ceiling, which the White House indicated President Obama could sign -- but the deal would not resolve the partial government shutdown which is now in its 10th day.
The goal of the proposal appeared to be to buy time, by removing the immediate threat of
Fox News (Online News)May 15 2013
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Obama White House Suffers 'Epidemic of Dishonesty'
Douglas E. Schoen’s Perspective: On Monday President Obama delivered a defense of his administration's response to the Benghazi attacks: he said that nothing new came out in last week's hearings, that he called the Benghazi attack what it was — a terror attack — the day after it happened, and furthermore, that the controversy over the edited talking points is a political sideshow, rooted in
Newsmax (News)Sep 13 2015
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Gloomy Republican Campaigns Leave Behind Reagan Cheer
To listen to the way some Republicans tell it, America is a pretty awful place these days.
“A hell hole,” as Donald J. Trump has put it. Our leaders are “babies” who are “so stupid” they can only watch helplessly as we become “a third-world country.”
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas sees evil menacing America not just from within, like the “tyranny” and “lawlessness” of jailing a county
New York Times (News)Jun 29 2015
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Sanders emerges as top Clinton challenger as liberal agenda resonates
The gruff, disheveled and unabashedly liberal Sen. Bernard Sanders has emerged as the top challenger to front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, gaining momentum in early-voting states as more Democratic voters flock to his call for a political revolution from the left.
Mrs. Clinton still enjoys big leads in most of the polls, but the surge by Mr. Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire polls
Washington Times