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Stress-related condition ‘incapacitates’ Bachmann; heavy pill use alleged — In late July 2010, Rep. Michele Bachmann's then-communications director, Dave Dziok, told his boss that he planned to take a new job with the public relations firm Edelman. — Dziok had worked for Bachmann …
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Reporter Accosted After Bachmann Comments on Migraines — It's not easy to get to Michele Bachmann. Her appearance at a rally on Tuesday in Aiken, South Carolina, attended by perhaps 150 people, featured three uniformed police officers and two body guards in plain clothes.
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Michele Bachmann's handlers get rough with reporter — This morning, the Daily Caller published a story I was inclined to leave to others: Michele Bachmann suffers from severe migraines. — But now the Bachmann camp has suddenly invited a whole lot more scrutiny to the story.
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Bachmann continues to surge — Michele Bachmann's momentum continues to build and she's taken first place by the smallest of margins on PPP's newest national Presidential poll. 21% of Republican primary voters say she's their top choice to 20% for Mitt Romney, 12% for Rick Perry …
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Michele Bachmann: Migraines don't impact my abilities
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Bachmann “incapacitated” by migraines?
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The Note: Straw Poll Shake Up?: Bachmann Under Scrutiny, Rick Perry Backtracks
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Michele Bachmann's Migraines and the History of Presidential Ailments
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Coburn rejoins Gang of Six, backs $3.7T deficit-reduction plan — Democratic and Republican senators are rallying behind a $3.7 trillion deficit-reduction plan announced Tuesday morning by the five remaining members of the Gang of Six. — Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who pulled out of the Gang …
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Gang of Six back from the brink — The once moribund Senate “Gang of Six” gained new life Tuesday after Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn unexpectedly rejoined the group and President Barack Obama praised a new effort to cut the debt by as much as $3.7 trillion over the next decade.
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Obama praises ‘Gang of Six’ plan — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the proposal put forward earlier in the day by “Gang of Six,” a group of Republican and Democratic senators, is “a very significant step” that represents “the potential for bipartisan consensus” …
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BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL — Gang of six plan raises taxes by $3 trillion — The Gang of Six “Bipartisan Plan to Reduce Our Nation's Deficits” claims their tax reforms would be scored by the Congressional Budget Office as a $1.5 trillion net cut. But no details are provided on how they arrive …
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Obama Renews Push for a Bipartisan Deal on Debt
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‘Gang of Six’ Plan: Tax Increase or Tax Cut?
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When Would You Announce Support for the Gang of Six Plan? …
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DOCUMENT: Gang of Six Deficit Plan Executive Summary
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Gang Of Six Details
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New Senate Debt Plan Emerges
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The Gang of Six Is Back from the Dead: Contemplating the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in their Budget Plan
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Obama endorses Gang plan as ‘good news’
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Phone-hacking: Murdochs and Rebekah Brooks face MPs - live — • Rupert Murdoch attacked at select committee — • ‘This is the most humble day of my life,’ Murdoch tells MPs — • News Corp chair was ‘asked to enter No 10 by back door’ — • Rupert ‘had no knowledge at all of Taylor settlement’
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Man Attempts Attack on Murdoch During Hearing; Murdoch's Wife Lunges at Attacker
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1711: Iain Watson Political correspondent, BBC News
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Rupert Murdoch attacked: an eyewitness account
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Obama Endorses Feinstein's Bill To Repeal The Defense Of Marriage Act — A day before the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to hold hearing on the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the Obama administration has endorsed Sen. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) legislation to repeal it.
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Obama backs Respect For Marriage Act
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Obama backs bill to end DOMA
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ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Dissatisfaction With Washington Hits 19-Year High — Analysis by ABC News' Pollster Gary Langer (@LangerResearch): — Discontent with Washington's budget battles has spurred public dissatisfaction with the federal government to its highest level in nearly 20 years …
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Software Designer Reports Error in Anthony Trial — MIAMI — Assertions by the prosecution that Casey Anthony conducted extensive computer searches on the word “chloroform” were based on inaccurate data, a software designer who testified at the trial said Monday.

The Road Not Taken — Over the past months, Republicans enjoyed enormous advantages. Opinion polls showed that voters are eager to reduce the federal debt, and they want to do it mostly but not entirely through spending cuts. — There was a Democratic president eager to move to the center.


Internet Activist Charged in M.I.T. Data Theft — Updated Added links to documents and comment from United States Attorney's office in Boston. — Updated Changed headline and post to remove reference to Mr. Swartz being a co-founder of Reddit, as this is disputed. Added comment from Demand Progress.
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FAMiLY LEADER's Bob Vander Plaats Erupts In Laughter At Faggot Joke: 'That's Pretty Good' — The FAMiLY LEADER's 14-point marriage fidelity pledge has divided the GOP's 2012 presidential field and raised concerns among GOP operatives that the group and its president — three …
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Exclusive Bill Clinton Interview: I Would Use Constitutional Option To Raise Debt Ceiling And “Force The Courts To Stop Me” — Former President Bill Clinton says that he would invoke the so-called constitutional option to raise the nation's debt ceiling “without hesitation …

Wonkbook: The Cut, Cap and Balance distraction — We're four days away from July 22nd, the date that some believe should be our deadline for passing a debt-ceiling deal. We're less than two weeks away from August 2nd, which almost everyone believes is our deadline for passing a debt-ceiling deal.
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EXCLUSIVE: FBI Raids Homes of Suspected ‘Anonymous’ Hackers — The FBI executed search warrants at the New York homes of three suspected members of notorious hacking group Anonymous early Tuesday morning, FoxNews.com has learned. — More than 10 FBI agents arrived at the Baldwin, N.Y. …
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GOP Balancing Act — A balanced budget amendment is the wrong debt solution. — Republicans this week plan to force votes in the House and Senate on a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The last time Congress voted on a BBA was in 1997. It failed. The first unsuccessful BBA was proposed in 1936.
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