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Rush Limbaugh Advertiser Sleep Train Pulls Commercials In Wake Of Sandra Fluke ‘Slut’ Firestorm … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke, Rush Limbaugh Sandra Fluke Slut, Rush Limbaugh Sleep Train, Sleep Train, Sleep Train Rush Limbaugh, Slidepollajax, Media News
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John Boehner: Rush Limbaugh ‘slut’ remark ‘inappropriate’ — Speaker John Boehner on Friday denounced radio host Rush Limbaugh's “slut” remarks aimed at Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke, but the Ohio Republican also jabbed at Democrats who have been fundraising off the fracas.


Carly Fiorina: Limbaugh ‘insulting’ — Carly Fiorina, National Republican Senatorial Committee Vice-Chairman, on Friday condemned Rush Limbaugh for calling college student Sandra Fluke a “slut.” — “That language is insulting, in my opinion. It's incendiary and most of all, it's a distraction.
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Left Freaks Out Over My Fluke Remarks — RUSH: Oh, yeah, I'm gonna deal with this. I'm gonna deal with it. I think this is hilarious. Absolutely hilarious. The left has been thrown into an outright conniption fit! This is “phony soldiers” times ten. Oh, ten times worse than phony soldiers.
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Georgetown Student Sandra Fluke Responds To Being Called ‘Slut,’ ‘Prostitute’ By Limbaugh — On Thursday, MSNBC's Ed Schultz conducted an exclusive interview with Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke, the woman whom Rush Limbaugh mocked on his radio show earlier that day.

President Obama calls Georgetown student Fluke — The Georgetown University law student reacts to Rush Limbaugh's comments and reveals that President Barack Obama called her offering encouragement, support and thanking her for speaking out for women's rights. — By Michael O'Brien, msnbc.com
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Device Sent To Rush Limbaugh ‘A Business Opportunity’
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TRENDING: First on CNN: Boehner hits Limbaugh's comments as ‘inappropriate’
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Sandra Fluke, Georgetown student called a ‘slut’ by Rush Limbaugh, speaks out
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Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff' — Dismissing a strategy of “containment” as unworkable, the president tells me it's “unacceptable” for the Islamic Republic of Iran to have a nuclear weapon. — At the White House on Monday …


Same sex, opposite impact — Marriage equality always seemed a losing issue for the left. That's all changed. Just ask Ken Mehlman — Rep. Anne Kaiser, D-Montgomery, an openly gay member of the Maryland General Assembly, holds Natalie Vincent, 10 months, the daughter of a member …
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Chris Christie: Marriage Equality Is Not About ‘Gay Rights’
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Dignity: Why I Signed Same-Sex Marriage into Maryland Law
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Ohio GOP Race Going Down To The Wire, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Santorum At 35% To Romney's 31% — The Republican presidential face-off in Ohio is too close to call as former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum has 35 percent of likely Republican primary voters to former Massachusetts …
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Santorum lumps McCain, Dole, H.W. Bush into losing clan of GOP moderates — Pasco, Washington (CNN) - Rick Santorum continued to cast himself as a scrappy fighter against a mighty Republican “establishment” late Thursday - even lumping together former presidents and former presidential hopefuls …
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Four Fiscal Phonies — Mitt Romney is very concerned about budget deficits. Or at least that's what he says; he likes to warn that President Obama's deficits are leading us toward a “Greece-style collapse.” — So why is Mr. Romney offering a budget proposal that would lead to much larger debt …
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Why Obama might raise taxes on the middle class if he's reelected
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Democrat: Letting Bush tax rates expire could stop sequestered cuts
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In Second Term, What Will Obama Do About Bush Tax Cuts?
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EXCLUSIVE: In '02 Romney Touted D.C. Connections, Federal Funds — In a long-forgotten tape from the 2002 Massachusetts governor's race obtained by ABC News, Mitt Romney is seen touting his Washington connections and his ability to get millions of taxpayer dollars from the federal government.
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Romney: ‘I am big believer in getting money’ from Washington
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Breitbart's Last Laugh — I woke up this morning to about ten emails from journalist friends asking if our mutual friend, Andrew Breitbart, was really dead. “Really” was the operative word. Some meant it in the traditional sense: Is it possible for the human inferno that Breitbart resembled …
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Andrew Breitbart Was Planning Huge New Web Project on Eve of Sudden Death
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George Will: Take Congress, not White House — Columnist George Will says the 2012 presidential race looks like it might be a lost cause for Republicans and believes that the primary goal of conservatives should be to retain control of the House and win the Senate so Congress …
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Gallup's Unadjusted Unemployment Data Suggest Increase in BLS Adjusted Figure — Gallup finds U.S. unemployment, as measured without seasonal adjustment, to be 9.1% in February, based on almost 30,000 interviews with a random sample of Americans. When Gallup applies the .5-percentage-point …
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Santorum Loses His Cool During Interview With Cincinnati Radio Station Conversation with host Scott Sloan becomes a shouting match about birth control, before his cell phone drops the call. — Share on Facebook More on BuzzFeed Politics — YOUR REACTION? — MORE GREAT STUFF
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Top Dem on House Approps committee announces retirement — Rep. Norm Dicks (D-Wash.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, will retire at the end of 2012, he announced Friday. — Dicks, who was in line to chair the powerful appropriations panel if Democrats won control of the House …

Why Can't the Obama Administration Make Its Case Without Disseminating Hate? — Have we ever had an administration like Barack Obama's? An administration that tries to benefit from pitting Americans against one another? An administration that uses its billion-dollar slush fund …
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James Q. Wilson, 80, co-author of ‘Broken Windows’ community policing strategy, died today — James Q. Wilson, a political scientist who coauthored the influential “Broken Windows” article in The Atlantic Monthly in 1982, which became a touchstone for the move toward community policing …
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