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Donald Trump delivers several F-bombs during his speech in Las Vegas … Also on KTNV.com Local News Headlines — Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) - Real estate mogul Donald Trump may, or may not run for president. But Thursday in Las Vegas, he was sure sounding like a someone who's ready to jump into the race with both feet.
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Donald Trump drops F-bombs on Las Vegas crowd — Donald Trump on Thursday dropped a barrage of F-bombs at a massive Las Vegas rally where he blasted the president repeatedly and slammed politicians as “blood suckers.” — “Our leaders are stupid, they are stupid people,” …
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Trump On China: ‘Listen You Mother F***ers’ (VIDEO) — Donald Trump has found a new way to separate himself from the crowd of would-be Republican presidential candidates. During a Las Vegas stump speech last night, Trump fired off several hearty f-bombs to a group of adoring fans.
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Flim Flammed — Last year, when I described Paul Ryan as a flim flam man, many Beltway types were deeply annoyed. They had decided that he was serious and sincere — worthy of receiving fiscal responsibility awards — and did not want to hear any negatives.
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A plain blog about politics, Washington Monthly and The New Republic
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Video: Paul Ryan Gets Standing Ovation at Town Hall Meeting — Greenfield, Wisc. — Paul Ryan received a standing ovation Thursday afternoon during the Q&A part of his meeting with constituents at a high school auditorium in a suburb of Milwaukee. — Ryan faced a larger number of hecklers …
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Paul Ryan Catches Lefty Astroturfer Changing Clothes Then Coming Back For Second Town Hall...
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Washington Examiner and Pajamas Media

Ryan draws national attention at town halls
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Michelle Malkin, RedState, GayPatriot and National Review


Debt ceiling: More Democrats threaten to vote against raising borrowing limit — A growing number of Democrats are threatening to defy the White House over the national debt, joining Republican calls for deficit cuts as a requirement for consenting to lift the country's borrowing limit.
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New Democratic money group to take on Republicans — Democrats with ties to the Obama White House on Friday are launching a two-pronged fundraising effort aimed at countering deep-pocketed GOP groups in 2012 — and adopting some of the same policies on unlimited, secret donations …
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New independent group has got Obama's back
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Breitbarted Again? BigGovernment Uses Deceptively Edited Video To Smear University Professors - UPDATED — In yet another installment of the Breitbart sagas, a bit of controversy has erupted over the veracity of two videos posted on BigGovernment's site under the careful editorial eye of Dana Loesch, et al.
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Little Green Footballs, Dana Busted, Big Government and Media Matters for America
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Turning ‘Non-Violence’ Into ‘Violence’: The Quote That Wasn't — We-at Insurgent Visuals-obtained and edited the videos of the course that Judy Ancel co-taught with Don Giljum at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL) and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC).
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Wake up America, St. Louis Activist Hub, Labor Notes, USA Today, Midwest Voices and American Power

In U.S., Negative Views of the Tea Party Rise to New High — Republicans and conservatives are the most positive — PRINCETON, NJ — About half of Americans, 47%, now have an unfavorable image of the Tea Party movement, the highest since it emerged on the national scene.
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Tea Partier Puts GOP-Friendly NY District Into Play For Dems
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How the journalist prom got out of control — On Thursday, the Washington Post editorializes that Donald Trump has been campaigning on “bogus” issues and that he should “cease and desist.” An article in the news pages the same day reports that the great orange charlatan's “simply wild speculation” has “almost no basis in fact.”
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Deferments Helped Trump Dodge Vietnam — How the presidential aspirant avoided fighting for his country … Despite Donald Trump's claim this week that he avoided serving in the Vietnam War solely due to a high draft number, Selective Service records show that the purported presidential …

Google Exposes Senator (Sloppily) Trying to Delete History for Birthers — Just when you think you've seen the ultimate in hypocrisy, that perhaps it's impossible to become further depressed by politicians and their duplicitous antics, out pops another example that digs the pit ever deeper into the muck.
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Governor says Obama leaving Texas in the dust — SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry criticized the Obama administration on Thursday for not responding to a request for a disaster aid for the parched state, where wildfires have scorched nearly 2 million acres.
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Titles announced for Prince William and Catherine Middleton — THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY THE PRESS SECRETARY TO THE QUEEN — The Queen has today been pleased to confer a Dukedom on Prince William of Wales. His titles will be Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Strathearn and Baron Carrickfergus.
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Appeals Court Overturns Ban on Federal Funding for Stem Cell Research — A U.S. appeals court ruled Friday that the Obama administration can use federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, a decision that overturns a judge's order last year and hands the White House a major victory.
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Appeals court lifts ban on federal funding for stem cell research
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ABCNEWS and The Politico


Rep. Bachmann Expresses “Caution” About GOP Medicare Scheme: “We Must Keep Our Promises” — 2 hours and 46 minutes ago — Matt Finkelstein — All over the country, voters are speaking out against the budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), which would turn Medicare …
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Washington Monthly, ThinkProgress, Daily Kos, TPMDC, USA Today and Bloomberg
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You Can Spend Your Own Income Better Than Washington
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The Facts — Republicans say they would preserve the current Medicare system for people who are currently age 55 and older; the changes would only affect people who are younger. The current system, in place since the mid-1960s, is essentially a government-run health care program …
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The New Republic, The Reality-Based Community, Washington Monthly and TPMDC


How the Law Accepted Gays — THE prestigious law firm King & Spalding has not fully explained its decision this week to stop assisting Congress in defending the law that forbids federal recognition of same-sex marriage. But its reversal suggests the extent to which gay men and lesbians …
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National Review, The Volokh Conspiracy and ACS Blog