Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/19/2013
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President Obama will deliver a speech Thursday at the National Defense University in which he will address how he intends to bring his counterterrorism policies, including the drone program and the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in line with the legal framework he promised after taking office. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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FAIRFIELD, Conn. ??? Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it???s fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren???t even more injuries. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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President Obama???s professed ignorance of the targeting of conservatives by one government agency and his support of tracking journalists??? sources by another highlight one of the great paradoxes of his presidency: Sometimes he uses his office as aggressively as anyone who???s held it; other times he seems unacquainted with the work of his own administration. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. ??? A simple test could have alerted officials that the drinking water at Camp Lejeune was contaminated, long before authorities determined that as many as a million Marines and their families were exposed to a witch???s brew of cancer-causing chemicals. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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SPOKANE, Wash. ??? Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane apartment Saturday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person who sent the letters, which were postmarked Tuesday in Spokane. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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Over the past week, the media have been afire with a surprising, unwarranted and unfair "controversy" over Angelina Jolie's announcement of her preventive double mastectomy, undertaken because without it she had an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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Whatever else happens as a result of the multiple controversies that have engulfed the administration, one thing is clear: President Obama has failed to meet one of the most important goals he set out when he was first elected, which was to demonstrate that activist government could also be smart government. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/18/2013
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) wants to know "who's going to jail" over the IRS scandal. But ousted acting IRS commissioner Steven Miller says no laws were violated when the agency targeted conservative groups. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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The firestorm buffeting the Internal Revenue Service intensified Friday as lawmakers began what they promised would be an extensive effort to learn whether there was any political motivation or White House involvement in the agency???s recently acknowledged misdeeds. Read full article >>
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Five separate House committees are investigating facets of the attack and its aftermath, and the five chairmen compared notes on Thursday at a meeting organized by House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev won???t be indicted within the 30-day period prescribed under the Federal Speedy Trial Act but prosecutors said Friday they would ask for more time. Sunday marks 30 days since Tsarnaev was arrested following the April 15 twin bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260. Tsarnaev, 19, is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the April 15 bombings. He could face the death penalty if convicted. Read full article >>
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Roger Colinvaux says the IRS scandal is fundamentally about disclosure of donors, not tax-exempt status.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Members of the House Ways and Means Committee will take their turn Friday questioning Internal Revenue Service officials over the targeting of conservative groups by the agency.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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The General Services Administration doled out cash awards to senior executives based on votes of confidence by colleagues who recognized their efforts at grooming talent and running ???terrific and productive meetings,??? a new report reveals. Read full article >>
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Tea party groups describe an arduous IRS application process for tax-exempt status with probing questions and long delays.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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The Internal Revenue Service has admitted that it targeted groups with "tea party" or "patriot" in their names. We've since learned that a wider array of groups concerned about spending, debt, high taxes, government growth, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights -- basically any conservative or libertarian issue you can name -- was targeted.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Sens. Al Franken and Roger Wicker say we need a strong SEC to make sure credit ratings fraud doesn't bring down the economy again.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Five separate House committees are investigating facets of the attack and its aftermath, and the five chairmen compared notes on Thursday at a meeting organized by House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Dogged by crises, President Obama is doing his best to change the subject. CNN's Jessica Yellin reports.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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CNN's Barbara Starr examines what's being done in Washington to eliminate sexual assault in the military.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin says IRS is not giving Congress straight answers, said religious groups also targeted by IRS.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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An outgoing IRS official said the agency made "foolish mistakes" but not out of political bias. CNN's Dana Bash reports.
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama took a break to ask for some rain protection. ???I am going to go ahead and ask folks, why don???t we get a couple of Marines ??? they???re going to look good next to us ??? just because I???ve got a change of suits but I don???t know about our prime minister,??? he said as two Marines appeared at the lecterns with umbrellas. ???There we go. That???s good.??? He gestured to the soggy press corps, adding, ???You guys I???m sorry about.??? Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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EARLIER ON THE FIX: The worst week of Obama's presidency? Close, but no. The IRS scandal: 'horrible customer service' or political malfeasance? The impossibly complex world of campaign finance ??? in 1 chart Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee narrowly outraised the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the month of April, hauling in $3.56 million to the DSCC's $3.54 million. It's the first month the NRSC has won this cycle, though the difference was small. The NRSC said it ended the period with about $7 million in the bank, while the DSCC ended with $8.6 million in the bank. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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* Karen Handel is running for Senate. * House Ways and Means heard from the IRS. * Conservatives were irked by Obama's umbrella. * Flake got hit for his gun vote. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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It doesn't take a political genius to grasp that President Obama has just weathered one of the worst weeks of his time in office. But, sometimes a picture tells the story better than all the words we've written on it this week. Below is a chart produced by TargetPoint, a Republican consulting firm, using their National Dialogue Monitor to track national conversation on May 15 and 16. ("The National Dialogue Monitor tracks every time a politician, celebrity, organization, issue or corporation is mentioned across all media channels -- television, radio, newspapers, magazines, blogs, websites, and social networks," according to an explanation on the firm's website.) Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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This item has been updated. Former Nevada Republican senator John Ensign has agreed to pay a $32,000 civil penalty to the Federal Election Commission to settle allegations that he took an illegal campaign contribution from his parents. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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It turns out the question that led Lois Lerner to disclose the IRS's wrongdoing was planted by none other than Lerner herself. Celia Roady, the lawyer whose question led Lerner to disclose the committee's wrongful targeting of conservative groups, said Friday that Lerner asked her to ask the question. Read full article >>
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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With guest Rep. Keith Ellison, John Avlon. Margaret Hoover and Dean Obeidallah discuss the president's scandal trifecta, hope for immigration and what Jolie's revelation mean for women
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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President Obama opened up a bit about growing up without a father Friday, telling some troubled young dads that they can salvage their relationships with their children. During a visit to Baltimore's Center for Urban Families, Obama listened to stories from a father who struggled to find work to support his family and another who served time in jail. Read full article >>
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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The national battle over guns is headed to the states in a major way.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Donna Brazile says lack of transparency and due process at GOP-led hearings shows their true intent: To damage Clinton's presidential prospects, and Obama's credibility
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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For the sixth time in his presidency, Barack Obama "won" our "Worst Week in Washington" award this week. "For a president who wanted to spend the week, and the weeks to come, talking immigration and budget, the events of the past seven days virtually ensure he won't be doing that anytime soon," we wrote in describing Obama's scandal-plagued week. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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The Internal Revenue Service has said that the extra scrutiny given to conservative groups was an attempt to deal with an influx of applications. But as the Chronicle of Philanthropy and Atlantic have said ??? and as Rep. Todd Young (R-Ind.) pointed out during today's hearing ??? that surge didn't happen until well after the targeting began. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee again outraised its GOP counterpart in April, pulling in $5.4 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee's $5.1 million, according to a DCCC aide. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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Did the Internal Revenue Service "target" conservative groups for extra scrutiny? Or was it more a case of "horrible customer service"? Depends on who you ask. Friday's House Ways and Means Committee hearing into the scandal that erupted into public view one week ago was something of a semantics battle, with outgoing IRS head Steven T. Miller objecting to the term "targeting," a move Republican lawmakers weren't buying. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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Stop the presses! First lady Michelle Obama's bangs are history. The Hill reports that Obama sported a new look during her commencement address at Bowie State University Friday: Her bangs were grown out and parted to the side with her hair slightly longer, touching her shoulders. Read full article >>
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Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington Post
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5/17/2013
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The White House announced Thursday that President Obama ???appointed??? Natalie Wyeth Earnest to be assistant secretary for public affairs at the Treasury Department and Gregory L. Parham as assistant secretary for administration at the Department of Agriculture. Read full article >>
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Members of the House Ways and Means Committee will take their turn Friday questioning Internal Revenue Service officials over the targeting of conservative groups by the agency.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Alex Castellanos says Chris Matthews is wrong; Washington controversies stem from a govt that is too big to control
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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In light of two new cases this month involving sexual assault in the military -- allegedly by the service members tasked to prevent such crimes -- legislation was introduced Thursday that could ease victims' quest for justice.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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Friday's hearing before the House Ways and Means Committee caps a week of damaging revelations for the Internal Revenue Service and, ultimately, for President Obama. By the numbers, here's a look at the IRS.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/17/2013
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The president is counter-punching furiously in the midst of a series of controversies.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/16/2013
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Gloria Borger says after the IRS scandal, it's open season for political nonprofits.
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/15/2013
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Ruben Navarrette says the administration isn't delivering the transparency it promised and is obstructing journalists' work
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CNN.com - Politics
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5/14/2013
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The Heritage report on the costs of immigration holds reprehensible views, but reform will be very costly Frum says.
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