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Mitch McConnell on 'Meet the Press'; Paul Ryan on 'Fox News Sunday'
Staff writerThe Sunday morning talk shows will find a lot to talk about in the Washington controversies over the IRS, the Department of Justice and the Benghazi attack. White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer will talk to NBC's "Meet the Press," CNN's "State of the...Tags: State of the Union Address, USA Today, Bob Menendez, The Wall Street Journal, Jason Chaffetz
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Federal deficit shrinks at surprising rate
WASHINGTON — The federal deficit is shrinking more quickly than expected, and the government's long-term debt has largely stabilized for the next decade, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday in a report that could strengthen the Obama...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Congress, Debt Market
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Obama's budget puts the onus on Ryan
WASHINGTON — When it comes to deficit reduction, President Barack Obama may have correctly taken the measure of Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and U.S. corporate leaders; that's a reason why any deficit deal is more remote than ever. Two and a...Tags: White House, Fiscal Cliff, Federal Reserve, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting
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IRS targeted conservative groups, official says
WASHINGTON — The Internal Revenue Service improperly singled out conservative groups for extra scrutiny of their applications for nonprofit status, a top agency official said Friday, setting off calls for investigations into an organization...
Tags: Mark Begich, White House, Jim Jordan, Politics, Barack Obama
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McManus: Mother knows best
There are two things you can do for your mother on Mother's Day. One is to say "thank you." (Over lunch, with flowers.) The other is to ask her for advice — even if she's not convinced you really want it. "I don't think kids take any advice from...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Safeway Inc., U.S. Congress, Hillary Clinton, Ronald Reagan
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Scholar's Bias Against Hispanics Dangerous
The Hartford CourantJason Richwine is a type in American politics. He holds a doctorate from Harvard. He writes studies, appears at conservative conferences in suit and tie, and expounds the same old nonsense about immigrants that we've been hearing since the Know Nothings...Tags: Migration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics, Social Issues, Government
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Pall Ryan
Change of SubjectFrom Why Paul Ryan's star has dimmed by Howard Kurtz, Daily Beast: The House Budget Committee chairman has made no one happy with his latest fiscal blueprint.... For one thing, the Ryan budget pockets the Obama Medicare savings and the...... -
Keeping Student Loan Rates Low Benefits All
If it is spring, it is the time of flowers, showers and congressional bloodletting over federal student loan interest rates, set to rise in July. Again. Last year, the federal act expired that had kept federally subsidized Stafford student loan rates...Tags: Students, Money and Monetary Policy, Joe Courtney, Politics, Colleges and Universities
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No debt agreement, no break
With no deal in sight to curb our growing national debt, America is going broke. So what do our representatives in Congress plan to do about it? Take a two-week break. Are they trying to see whether their abysmal 13% approval rating can sink any lower?...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Public Finance, Budget Control Act of 2011
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Open thread: The Weeks in Review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of...... -
Barack Obama, Conan O'Brien skewer media skillfully
Staff writerCould it be that Washington does comedy better than the Hollywood movie studios? Conan O'Brien and Barack Obama provided more laughter Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner than you're likely to find this weekend at the...Tags: PBS (tv network), C-SPAN (tv network), George Stephanopoulos, Tracy Morgan, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: State of the Union Address, Oklahoma City Bombing (1995), Ayn Rand, Protest, Mitt Romney
May 17, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
May 14, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
May 10, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 12, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
May 10, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Mar 21, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
May 3, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Mar 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Apr 28, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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