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- Immigration: Republicans Need to Choose Sides
E.J. Dionne, Wash PostWASHINGTON -- The future of immigration reform is, for now at least, not up to House Speaker ... - Gang of Eight Bill a Disaster That Must Be Defeated
Sen. Ted Cruz - Why Can't Republicans Learn?
Robert Reich, Huffington Post
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- The immigration bill goes local
A quieter campaign is underway, targeting senators with more parochial concerns. - House: Senate immigration bill DOA
House conservatives pose a major roadblock to the Senate bill's passage. - McConnell sits this one out
The top Senate Republican is low-profile during the most significant policy fight this year.
[Courtesy of POLITICO - Congress]
- Weldon waiting on Qadhafi meeting
He says he'll give the Libyan leader until Friday to indicate whether he'll agree to a sit-down. - Gingrich courts K Street
Gingrich's unconventional 2012 campaign is turning its sights to traditional funding sources. - Raising the stakes
Meet the masters of money who will bankroll the debate in 2012.
[Courtesy of POLITICO.com: Lobbyists ]
- On Soccer: Altidore's Scoring Spree Energizes U.S. Team
Jozy Altidore finally seems to be fulfilling his potential for the national soccer team, scoring four goals in the ... - Jury Selection Reaches Final Stages in Trayvon Martin Murder Case
After eight days in which 40 potential jurors have been culled from a sea of hundreds, a jury of six people is clos ... - James Gandolfini Is Dead at 51; a Complex Mob Boss in 'Sopranos'
The Emmy Award-winning actor shot to fame on the HBO drama 'The Sopranos' as a New Jersey mob kingpin. &nb ...
[Courtesy of NYT > Home Page]
- Ancient primate may be missing link
Achilles' heel was his weak spot in the Greek myth, but the heel of a newly discovered primate provides a strong co ... - What U.S. learned from surveillance
Peter Bergen says Americans will have to decide if the yield of NSA-monitored calls justifies the invasion of priva ... - Tusks fund terror
Mark Quarterman says the slaughter of elephants for their tusks is at its worst in decades. As demand for ivory soa ...
[Courtesy of CNN.com - U.S.]
- Mississippi Learning: Why the State's Students Start Behind -- and Stay Behind
The first in a series in which The Hechinger Report is teaming up with TIME to examine what's behind the woeful per ... - Texas Crash: Undocumented Victims Confined like Hostages
A truck overpacked with undocumented workers smashed into trees in the Texas countryside. Now the hard work of iden ... - Anaheim's Long, Hot Summer: The Police vs. the Latino Community
A dramatic video of cops suppressing a local protest against an earlier shooting has spiraled into controversy and ...
[Courtesy of TIME.com: Top Nation and US stories]
- How Ted Cruz's Father Shaped His Views On Immigration
The Texas senator says giving a path to citizenship to immigrants in the U.S. illegally would be unfair to immigran ... - Translated Into Navajo, Star Wars Will Be
The Navajo Nation and Lucasfilm have teamed up to translate the original Star Wars movie into Navajo, entertaining ... - In More Cities, A Camera On Every Corner, Park And Sidewalk
A growing number of cities are using surveillance cameras in the hope of fighting crime, but all that video is almo ...
[Courtesy of U.S.]
- Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries
A USA TODAY study found that tens of thousands of times each year, patients undergo surgery that isn't necessary. - In Jersey, Gandolfini remembered as regular guy
The actor was a Westwood, N.J., native and Rutgers graduate. - Latest search for Hoffa ends, but FBI not quitting
FBI agents using bulldozer, backhoe began digging Monday about 30 miles north of Detroit.
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- Report: 700 doctors wrote possibly harmful Medicare prescriptions
More than 700 doctors nationwide wrote prescriptions for elderly and disabled patients in highly questionable and p ... - Big Apple's big battle: Democrats vie to succeed Michael Bloomberg as mayor
Anthony Weiner paused from his campaign spiel about 'being a middle-class kid from New York' when he saw somet ... - Senators say NSA phone records played little role in stopping terror plots
The National Security Agency's massive collection of Americans' phone records has 'played little or no role' ...
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- In Jersey, Gandolfini remembered as regular guy
The actor was a Westwood, N.J., native and Rutgers graduate. - Doctors perform thousands of unnecessary surgeries
A USA TODAY study found that tens of thousands of times each year, patients undergo surgery that isn't necessary. ... - 1959 IRS rule is at the center of Tea Party scandal
IRS rule says non-profits can engage in politics, but it doesn't say how much.
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- Obama's nuke deal won't make us safe
On Wednesday, President Obama took a meaningful step toward reshaping our nuclear arsenal in line with the reality ... - More elephants slaughtered for tusks
The accelerating pace of the slaughter of elephants for their tusks has put African elephants at catastrophic risk ... - Feds: Men hoped to turn ray gun on foes
Two men have been charged in the Albany, New York, area in a bizarre plan to use a device loosely described as a ra ...
[Courtesy of CNN.com - Top Stories]
- Daily Press Briefing - January 30
View Video 11:17 a.m. EST MR. WOOD: Happy Friday, everyone. QUESTION: You bet. QUESTION: Happy Friday. MR. WOOD: Oh ... - Daily Press Briefing - January 29
View Video 11:02 a.m. EST MR. WOOD: Good morning, everyone. Welcome. I don't have anything for you. QUESTION: Can I ... - Daily Press Briefing - January 28
View Video 11:10 a.m. EST MR. WOOD: Good morning, everyone. Welcome. I don't have anything, so why don't we go righ ...
[Courtesy of U.S. Department of State - Daily Press Briefings]
- Romney, Obama camps clash over Middle East
The violence in Libya and Egypt is now an issue in the United States presidential campaign. - Clinton: Attack 'should shock the conscience'
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton hailed Ambassador Christopher Stevens as a hero of diplomacy. - Obama: No excuse for 'senseless violence'
President Obama is condemning the "outrageous attack" on the diplomatic mission in Libya.
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- Texas Auction House to Sell John Brown Leg Irons
Texas auction house to sell leg irons that held abolitionist John Brown before trial, hanging &nbs ... - Developer: Kan. Caverns Could Preserve Human Race
Developer says future of human race could rely on massive RV park in eastern Kansas hillside   ... - Youth Leagues Try to Rein in 'Bad News Parents'
'Bad news parents': Youth sports officials try to control over-the-top parent behavior
[Courtesy of ABC News: U.S.]
- Documentary Alleges TWA Flight 800 Cover-Up
In a new documentary, former government investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which ... - Watch: Question of Command: How U.S., Allies Handle Military Sexual Assaults
UK, Canada, Australia among countries removing chain of command from reporting, prosecution process. &nb ... - Franco Uses Crowd-Funding for Film
Crowd funding started with independent artists but now stars have joined ranks too.
[Courtesy of ABC News: GMA]
- Pride at State: LGBT Policy and Personnel Issues
Secretary Kerry (June 19): "It is with a belief in our common humanity, in the fundamental worth of every human bei ... - UN Human Rights Council 23rd Session
June 19: The 23rd Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) underscored the importance of U.S. leadership to kee ... - 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report
Secretary Kerry (June 19): "There are countless voiceless people, countless nameless people except to their familie ...
[Courtesy of U.S. Department of State - Highlights]
- Consumer group says student loan 'debt relief' firms misleading borrowers
Struggling student loan debtors are being tricked into paying up to $1,600 in fees to private firms offering "debt ... - North Carolina governor signs law aimed at restarting executions
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina ' North Carolina's governor, hoping to resume executions in his state, on Wednesday ... - Body found near Patriot's home was homicide victim
A prosecutor says a Boston man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aa ...
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Fresh Commentaries
- Cars are arguably one of the softest targets when it comes to assassinations and kidnappings
CIA Assassin's Manual: "For secret assassination, either simple or chase, the contrived accident is the most effe ... - Walker Tells the Truth, the ADL Avoids It
Alice Walker's new book, The Cushion in the Road, spends over eighty pages on the Israeli state and its treatment ... - Web goes wild after NSA, CIA reporter killed in crash
RAW FOOTAGE Journalist Michael Hastings Dies in Fiery Crash / Hollywood nydailynews Less than a day after the Bu ...
[Courtesy of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED]
- Obama and the Middle East
- Master of Ambiguity:Obama's Non-Plan for Ending the War in Iraq
- No NATO Membership for Georgia
[Courtesy of CounterPunch]
- Officials cite thwarted plots in defending surveillance
Bomb plots targeting the New York Stock Exchange and the city's subway were among more than 50 terrorist acts world ... - Pentagon says women in all combat units by 2016
The Pentagon unveiled plans Tuesday for fully integrating women into front-line and special combat roles, including ... - Senate negotiators seek new compromise on immigration
A bipartisan group of senators is scrambling to reach a fresh compromise they hope can propel a proposal to overhau ...
[Courtesy of CNN.com - Politics]
- Syria intervention still lacks strategy: Our view
Bosnia offers imperfect model. - Syria needs 'no move zone': Other views
A roundup of opinion online about what Obama should do. - Khaled Hosseini: Afghanistan gains must not be lost
Country's advances must not be used as bargaining chips during peace talks with Taliban.
[Courtesy of USATODAY.com Feed]
- The Citizens Agenda in Campaign Coverage
- The Afghanistan War Logs Released by Wikileaks, the World's First Stateless News Organization
- Objectivity as a Form of Persuasion: A Few Notes for Marcus Brauchli
[Courtesy of PressThink]
- Immigration: Time to Choose Sides
WASHINGTON -- The future of immigration reform is, for now at least, not up to House Speaker John Boehner. It is i ... - The Media's Shameful Coverage of the Abortion Debate
Here's what we know about the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban most abortions after ... - Obama Debates Himself
When a man has been in the Oval Office for a few years, does he start to buy his own balderdash? In an interview w ...
[Courtesy of RealClearPolitics - Articles]
- James Taranto: The WSJ 's "War On Men" Crusader
Wall Street Journal editorial board member James Taranto defended his recent column that dismissed the epidemi ... - CNN Distorts Debate Over Proposed New York Racial Profiling Law
CNN distorted the goal of a proposed law to strengthen the ban on illegal racial profiling in New York, erroneously ... - Betsy McCaughey Claims Obamacare Outreach A Plot To Create "Beholden" Democratic Majority
Serial health care misinformer and right-wing media figure Betsy McCaughey pushed the conspiracy theory that health ...
[Courtesy of Media Matters for America - Latest Items]
- Prop. 8 and the Will of the Voters: A Modest Proposal
If voters should be allowed to decide if gays can marry, then maybe some other nuptial scenarios should be on the b ... - "Get Low" and "Countdown to Zero": Indie-Gestion
Two overrated recent independent films demonstrate that just because it plays at the art house doesn't mean it's ar ... - "Inception": What Cinematic Dreams May Come
With Inception, director Christopher Nolan proves without question that he is one of Hollywood's most captivating f ...
[Courtesy of The Simon]
- Conditional Engagement Strategy
A report from the Center for a New American Security offers an exit strategy reminiscent of what the Bush administr ... - Defenders of the Big Oil Agenda
Opponents of a bill to release oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve have received more oil money on average tha ... - Reversing Pump Prices
A look at history shows that releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has helped prices before, and could ...
[Courtesy of American Progress Action Fund]
- On Being Taxed for Owning Stuff, and Why That's OK
The Walton children (Jim, Alice and Robson who, thanks to the beneficence of their dad, Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton ... - If the US goes over the "fiscal cliff", who's primarily to blame?
President Obama 63% (217 votes) The Republican-controlled House of Representatives 23% (77 vo ... - Willard Mitt Romney's 47 Percent Self-Immolation Video: Complete
Here's the full Mitt Romney video, courtesy of Mother Jones, from the now infamous fundraiser in which Romney e ...
[Courtesy of All American Patriots: Politics, economy, health, ...]
- Obama making plans to tackle global warming
WASHINGTON (AP) ' President Barack Obama is planning a major push using executive powers to tackle the pollution ... - New Colorado wildfire breaks out
A new wildfire near Denver forces evacuations. - James Gandolfini: He let his characters star
NEW YORK (AP) ' James Gandolfini would have hated all this fuss.
[Courtesy of Yahoo! News - Latest News & Headlines]
- Taking the Windex to the Robot
We just gave Addictomatic a complete overhaul. The hot topics and news pages are a lot more clear and easy to brows ... - Paris Does Politics
Paris Hilton responds: See Paris Hilton Responds to McCain Ad and more funny videos on FunnyOrDie.com Furth ... - You Know, Before
Every now and then, usually when I come across some old letters, I get the outline of a memory of what it was like ...
[Courtesy of electablog]
- Wednesday's Mini-Report
- The need for partisan cover
- House rebuffs Boehner, scraps F-35 Jet Engine Program
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