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Sarah Palin Parts Ways With FOX News — After a three-year run as a paid contributor to the nation's highest-rated cable news channel, Sarah Palin and FOX News have cut ties, according to a source close to the former Alaska governor. — “It's my understanding that Gov. Palin was offered a contract by FOX …
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Fox Says Its 3-Year Relationship With Palin Is Over — “Sarah, where are you?” one of Sarah Palin's 3.4 million Facebook fans wrote on her wall last week. “Has your contract with Fox ended?” another fan asked the day before. — Fox News has indeed parted ways with Ms. Palin …
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COURT: OBAMA APPOINTMENTS ARE UNCONSTITUTIONAL — WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on a labor relations panel, a federal appeals court panel ruled Friday. — A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals …
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Neoconfederate Judges Rule NLRB Recess Appointments Unconstitutional — Oh, great. The opinion is an atrocity, classic “hack originalism for dummies,” relying heavily on the fact that recess appointments during nominal sessions of the Senate are a relatively recent phenomenon …
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Court Challenges Obama's ‘Recess’ Appointments
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Statement by Chairman Pearce on recess appointment ruling
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Federal Appeals Court Invalidates Obama's Recess Appointments to NLRB
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DC Circuit Strikes Down President Obama's Recess Appointments
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Appeals court rules Obama recess appointments unconstitutional
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GOP senators will oppose VA electoral change — RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The prospects appear doomed in Virginia this year for Republican-backed legislation that would replace the state's winner-take-all method of apportioning presidential electoral votes with one that awards one vote to the winner of each congressional district.
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Michigan legislators weigh changes to Electoral College rules
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The GOP Plan to Take the Electoral-Vote-Rigging Scheme National
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This is a Big, Big Deal — A week ago I noted a new Republican push …
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We Must Do Something About The Media — It's important. — I already mentioned the media's Hillary Tributes, but there's even more of it. — And I've mentioned this before, but I'm truly alarmed about it: What we are witnessing is the full and seamless fusion of media power with government power.
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Who had the worst week in Washington? Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.). — Wednesday didn't start out badly for Sen. Ronald H. Johnson. — Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin who was elected in 2010, drew national headlines — and praise from conservatives — for pushing Secretary …
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CNN Anchor Tricks Opponent Of Women In Combat To Endorse Racial Segregation — Conservatives are outraged over Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's decision to lift the ban on women in combat, which opens up more than 200,000 frontline positions to women. Opponents of the move have called it “humiliating” and dangerous to unit cohesion.
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Rubio shows opposition to immigration reform is an inch deep — I've certainly been pleasantly surprised by the popularity of Sen. Marco Rubio's immigration policy among tough conservatives. From Grover Norquist to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) to Sean Hannity, Rubio has gotten favorable …
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Booker helps freezing dog after Eyewitness News tweet … new jersey, newark, cory booker, dog, cold, cold weather, new jersey news, toni yates — More: Bio, Facebook, Twitter, Stories by Toni Yates, News Team — NEWARK, N.J. (WABC) — Eyewitness News reporter Toni Yates and her crew spotted …
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N.J. Mayor Cory Booker Helps Rescue Freezing Dog
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IS OBAMA BIBLICAL ‘LORD OF THE FLIES’? — Prophecy sites have field day with president's insect moments — Aaron Klein is WND's senior staff reporter and Jerusalem bureau chief. He also hosts “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” on New York's WABC Radio. Follow Aaron on Twitter and Facebook.
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Barack Obama provides landing pad for fly
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Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm† — The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so. By David Mamet. Get the full issue of Newsweek today on your iPad and other editions. — † A city in eastern Poland.
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Mitt Romney: 'I'm not going away' — Mitt Romney's campaign ended, but he's not getting out of politics. — Romney told top Washington bundlers, donors and senior campaign leadership in a meeting Friday morning that he would help out GOP candidates for governor in 2013 …
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U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss: Frustration with Washington drove him out — U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, the leader of a bipartisan effort to address the federal deficit, this morning pointed to gridlock in Washington for his decision not to seek a third term in 2014. — A statement just released by his office includes this:
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Noonan: Lessons Conservatives Need to Learn — Obama is a formidable foe. He means to change the country and crush the GOP. — Two lessons on how conservatives and Republicans might approach the future, and a look at the meaning of Obama. — Lesson one: Golf star Phil Mickelson …
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Five Reasons Bobby Jindal Is Responsible For Transforming The GOP Into ‘The Stupid Party’ — Days after Mitt Romney lost his bid for the presidency, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) kicked off a publicity campaign for his 2016 run, casting himself as a different kind of Republican.
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Google Earth exposes North Korea's secret prison camps — Human rights activists are turning to Google Earth to identify the vast network of prison camps that dot the North Korean countryside and hold as many as 200,000 people deemed hostile to the regime. — A number of structures have been identifed at camp 22.
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Obama Off To A Slow Start In Capitol Hill Gun Campaign — The campaign emails its massive list demanding calls to Congress. Bad timing — and nobody seems to have noticed. — Image by Charles Rex Arbogast / AP — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's campaign operation appeared …