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McCain: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Include Path To Citizenship — Senator John McCain (R-AZ) confirmed on Sunday morning that he that he and a bipartisan group of senators will roll out a comprehensive immigration reform effort in Congress. Speaking on ABC's “This Week,” McCain …
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Durbin: Senate immigration plan will be comprehensive, include citizenship path
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President Obama names Fox? And what does President Obama think happens when Democrat works with Republicans? What happens to that Democrat in the left leaning press? — While I disagree with what the President says below ( I don't attack - his word - politicians on either side …
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Facebook Co-Founder Scolds Chris Christie Over Gay Marriage Stance
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Obama discusses media influence
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From Welfare Queens to Disabled Deadbeats — If you want to understand the trouble Republicans are in, one good place to start is with the obsession the right has lately developed with the rising disability rolls. The growing number of Americans receiving disability payments has …
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Scores Dead as Fire Sweeps Through Nightclub in Brazil — RIO DE JANEIRO — A fire ignited by a flare from a live band's pyrotechnic spectacle swept through a nightclub filled with hundreds of university students early Sunday morning in Santa Maria, a city in southern Brazil, leaving at least 245 people dead, police officials said.
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Fire at Brazil club kills more than 230 as partiers stampede toward exit, choke on toxic smoke — View Photo Gallery — Brazil nightclub fire leaves hundreds dead: A blaze swept through a crowded club in southern Brazil early Sunday, killing at least 232 people and leaving at least 200 injured, police say.
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Bitter clinger! Obama claims that he totally goes secret skeet shooting all the time, guys — Some of his best friends are skeets, guys! We are finding out a lot from New Republic's interview with President Obama. First we found out he is Media Matters material, and now we find out he totally goes skeet shooting all the time.
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Obama says he goes skeet shooting ‘all the time’ at Camp David
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Sen. Feinstein: Passing gun-control legislation is ‘hardest’ challenge
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Jerry Boykin Feels Humiliated ‘as a Man’ With Women in Combat Because of ‘Personal Hygiene’ … An anti-Muslim retired lieutenant general says that he would not want to serve in a combat role with women because “personal hygiene and the other normal functions” are already “degrading and humiliating enough” …


Fox Made Limited Effort to Keep Sarah Palin — Financial Offer Far Less Than Previous Deal — Fox News offered Sarah Palin a new contract before she decided to part ways with the network where she has held forth as a commentator for the last three years. — However, it would be hard to describe it as a generous contract.


Sunday Times blood libel cartoon, on Holocaust Memorial Day no less — Why can't cartoonists seem to criticise Israel without the use of big noses and blood libels? And why do the mainstream papers still publish this stuff? — Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Selling a New Generation on Guns — Threatened by long-term declining participation in shooting sports, the firearms industry has poured millions of dollars into a broad campaign to ensure its future by getting guns into the hands of more, and younger, children.

Divided by Abortion, United by Feminism — IN 1942, 71 years before last week's Pentagon decision allowing women on the front lines of combat, the United States government established the Women's Army Corps, with Athena as its insignia, and welcomed our country's first female military recruits.
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Secret Donors Finance Fight Against Hagel — A brand new conservative group calling itself Americans for a Strong Defense and financed by anonymous donors is running advertisements urging Democratic senators in five states to vote against Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee to be secretary of defense …
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Man With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest — A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
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McChrystal: Women will serve in, improve special-forces units — Retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal predicted Sunday that women will eventually become part of special operations units like the Navy SEALs and Army Rangers, saying that including female servicemembers could improve the elite groups' operations.


Egypt unrest: Morsi declares emergency in three cities — Unrest continued in Port Said on Sunday — Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has declared a state of emergency in the cities of Port Said, Suez and Ismalia after days of deadly unrest. — A daily curfew from 21:00 to 06:00 …