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Mourdock raises $3 million during crucial campaign stretch
With the battle for Indiana’s open senate seat polling in the single digits, campaign officials for Richard Mourdock say they topped $3 million in campaign donations during the third fundraising quarter. According to a report in Politico,...
Tags: Richard Lugar, U.S. Senate, Richard Mourdock, Human Interest, Politics
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The open-and-shut administration
WASHINGTON -- "My administration," President Obama wrote on his first day in office, "is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government." Those were strong and hopeful words. Four years later, it is becoming more and more clear...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, Freedom of Information Act, The Washington Post
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A Look At Debate Fact-Checkers -- And Two Unchecked Claims By Romney And Obama
The Hartford CourantBy 1:30 a.m. Thursday, three hours after the presidential debate ended, the cottage industry of fact-checking was on all-hands overtime. Checkers said Obama overstated Romney's tax cut -- it's not exactly $5 trillion, though the president was right...Tags: George H.W. Bush, The New York Times, Mitt Romney, Bain Capital, LLC, The Wall Street Journal
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A GOP civil war simmers
A civil war is brewing within the Republican Party. It's a fight between two familiar factions: the party establishment versus the right-wingers. Think back to the Anybody-But-Mitt movement that threw a succession of conservative front-runners in front...
Tags: Christopher Stevens, Mitt Romney, Wars and Interventions, Politics, Bill Clinton
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Gun lobby fires up Obama fear
As with other mass shootings, Friday's killings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., trigger a familiar chain of reactions: horror, remorse, rage and a call for new restrictions on guns. And in the recent past, at least, that call for action has been...
Tags: Operation Fast and Furious, Justice and Rights, Gun Control, Crime, Law and Justice, Wildlife
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Words with negative power
In its never-ending effort to avoid misleading language in news coverage, The Associated Press Stylebook has decided to declare Islamophobia, homophobia and presumably other non-clinical uses of the word "phobia" to be a new taboo. What's the problem?...
Tags: Michigan Avenue, YMCA, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Religion and Belief, Islam
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Rep. Raul Ruiz, an Rx for D.C.
You'd almost think that someone had stapled several resumes together and put them in Raul Ruiz's file: magna cum laude at UCLA; three graduate degrees from Harvard (a medical degree and masters in public policy and in public health); doctoring to poor...
Tags: Mangos, Students, Healthcare Provider, Mary Bono, Immigration
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The scandal of loyalty
WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasn't even begun his second term, yet already he has been ensnared by scandal. Republicans have uncovered a shocking level of wrongdoing in the Oval Office, and I'm afraid what they say is true: The president is brazenly...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Democratic Party, White House, George W. Bush, U.S. Senate
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Pa. redistricting chatter
Pennsylvania Ave.Pennsylvania's 18 new congressional districts, drawn to shore up Republicans and in exchange turn the southeast into something resembling a child's messy doodling, has garnered some great analysis and reporting both statewide and nationally. So we here at... -
IRS, Benghazi, DOJ etc.
Change of SubjectIn an email, commenter Beth writes: I am perplexed as to why you have not addressed some of the major news of the past week or so. The last you had about any of the issues — and they're important...... -
Rubio for breakfast and Sunday brunch
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelThe immigration reform bill that a so-called “Gang of Eight” U.S. senators has been crafting for months is supposed to come out this week. And to promote it, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will make what may be a record number of TV... -
Family matters
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds According to POLITICO, Chief Justice John Roberts' lesbian cousin and her partner will be in attendance as the Supreme Court hears arguments on Prop 8 and DOMA this week. Here's the cousin's response when asked to predict......
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