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TRENDING: Republicans request investigation of Obama travel — (CNN) - President Barack Obama isn't just playing politics - he may be committing fraud on the taxpayer's dime, the Republican National Committee charged on Wednesday. — In a letter to the Government Accountability Office …
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Washington Free Beacon:
Liberal Media Mock Obama for Faux Campaign — Members of the media are questioning the Obama administration's numerous “official business” trips to swing states, during which he has been giving stump speeches and raising campaign funds. — High-profile Washington reporters engaged in a line …
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Olivier Knox / ABCNEWS:
RNC calls for investigation into Obama's travel costs for ambiguously political trips
Brendan Sasso / The Hill:
OVERNIGHT TECH: House weighs changes to cybersecurity bill after veto threat
OVERNIGHT TECH: House weighs changes to cybersecurity bill after veto threat
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Mary Milliken / Reuters:
Kimmel to “feast on stupid comments” at White House dinner
Kimmel to “feast on stupid comments” at White House dinner
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
A Bad Day In Court for the Obama Administration — Some years ago, I worked on a big case in Alaska and spent a lot of time there. At that time, the local bar was buzzing about a lawyer who had a really bad day in court: he was kicked to death by a moose in the parking lot of the federal courthouse in Anchorage.
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David Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Supreme Court skeptical of striking down Arizona immigration law
Supreme Court skeptical of striking down Arizona immigration law
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KIRO-TV:
EXCLUSIVE: New Secret Service scandal centers on strippers, prostitutes in El Salvador — U.S. Secret Service agents brag they routinely use third-world prostitutes while conducting out-of-country security detail for Presidential visits — Sponsored Links — SEATTLE —
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Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Romney fundraiser: Donors ‘coming out of the woodwork’ — Mitt Romney's fundraising has skyrocketed since he became the de facto nominee, a top Romney fundraiser told The Hill Wednesday evening. — “People are coming out of the woodwork,” said the fundraiser, who requested not to be named.
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Molly Ball / The Atlantic Online:
Mitt Romney's Debt to Newt Gingrich
Mitt Romney's Debt to Newt Gingrich
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Newt Gingrich / CNN:
Texas governor switches endorsement from Gingrich to Romney
Chris Francescani / Reuters:
George Zimmerman: Prelude to a shooting — (Reuters) - A pit bull named Big Boi began menacing George and Shellie Zimmerman in the fall of 2009. — The first time the dog ran free and cornered Shellie in their gated community in Sanford, Florida, George called the owner to complain.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The Morning Plum: GOP backed into corner on student loans? — Is the battle over student loans shaping up as a rerun of the payroll tax cut fight, which by all accounts badly damaged the GOP? — Consider the parallels. Just as in the payroll tax cut battle, there's a looming deadline …
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Cameron Joseph / The Hill:
Centrist lawmakers find themselves on losing end of 2012 races
Centrist lawmakers find themselves on losing end of 2012 races
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Amanda Terkel / The Huffington Post:
Pennsylvania Primary: Blue Dog Democrats Lose Seats
Pennsylvania Primary: Blue Dog Democrats Lose Seats
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Ben Shapiro / BREITBART.COM:
OBAMA'S FALLON APPEARANCE VIOLATED CAMPAIGN LAW — Last night, President Obama appeared on Jimmy Fallon's unwatchable show to “slow-jam the news.” By this, Fallon meant that Obama would read a campaign speech about student loans, Fallon would utter a few lines to back him up every so often …
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Lachlan Markay / The Heritage Foundation:
VIDEO: EPA Official Compares Agency Enforcement to Roman Crucifixions — A video surfaced on Wednesday showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency's philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and gas companies to brutal tactics employed …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
News, And Not News — The Times poses a puzzle on its front page today - in the world that brought us Trayvon Martin, what is news, and what is not news? In the course of asking they continue their non-coverage of Summer Moody and Matthew Owens, two stories with Trayvon Martin resonance that don't fit any comfortable Times template.
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Jamie Burch / www2.wkrg.com:
Career Criminal Arrested In Matthew Owens Beating
Career Criminal Arrested In Matthew Owens Beating
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Romney's principled, radical view for America — It turns out that there is at least one question on which Mitt Romney is not a flip-flopper: He has a utopian view of what an unfettered, lightly taxed market economy can achieve. — He would never put it this way, of course …
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Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Senate approves changes to the U.S. Postal Service — Congress moved one step closer Wednesday to overhauling the cash-strapped U.S. Postal Service by approving sweeping reforms to rebalance the mail agency's finances and help cut the size of its delivery network.
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Noreen O'Donnell / The Daily:
Family misses flight after TSA screeners target disabled 7-year-old — Dina Frank, who is developmentally disabled, wound up on the TSA's radar at John F. Kennedy Airport — Dr. Joshua Frank, a pediatrician, and his 7-year-old daughter Dina, who has cerebral palsy.
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Chris Johnson / Washington Blade:
Will Log Cabin endorse Romney? — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Blade file photo by Michael Key) — Mitt Romney swept a series of GOP presidential primaries this week as news surfaced that Newt Gingrich will suspend his campaign on Tuesday.
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Towleroad News #gay and Gay Politics
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
Crossroads ad attacks Obama's ‘celebrity’ presidency — A new ad released Thursday by the conservative super-PAC American Crossroads seeks to use President Obama's “cool” status against him, appealing to the youth vote by asking how America's “biggest celebrity” has helped them find jobs.
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Stephen Hilger / ABCNEWS:
Mitt Romney's Appointment of Gay Aide Richard Grenell Signals New Attitude — Last week, Mitt Romney hired Richard Grenell as his new foreign policy spokesman. Grenell was President Bush's communications director at the United Nations for eight years, and has been a spokesman for a handful …
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
White House approves broader Yemen drone campaign — The United States has begun launching drone strikes against suspected al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen under new authority approved by President Obama that allows the CIA and the military to fire even when the identity of those who could be killed is not known, U.S. officials said.
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