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Daniel Klaidman / The Daily Beast:
Holder's Regrets and Repairs — How the attorney general feels about his own role in the Fox News case—and how he plans to prevent it from happening again. By Daniel Klaidman. — It was Friday, May 17, and officials at the Department of Justice had gotten word that The Washington Post …
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Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Axelrod: DOJ's Fox probe ‘disturbing’ — The Justice Department's surveillance of a Fox News reporter is “disturbing,” David Axelrod said Tuesday. — The former Obama campaign adviser specially said he found it disturbing that the Department of Justice decided to label chief Fox Washington …
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Peter Ferrara / Forbes:
To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here — Around 1250 A.D., historical records show, ice packs began showing up farther south in the North Atlantic. Glaciers also began expanding on Greenland, soon to threaten Norse settlements on the island.
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Politico:
John Boehner's shrinking power — House Speaker John Boehner, who by title and position should be the second most powerful person in Washington, sure doesn't seem or sound like it. — He has little ability to work his will with fellow House Republicans. He has quit for good his solo efforts …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Senate GOP feels jilted after being wined and dined by Obama — Senate Republicans who shared laughs with President Obama over dinner at the Jefferson Hotel in March are grumbling there has since been little follow-through from him on deficit talks. — They say the White House has not set …
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Hot Air, Prairie Weather, The Lonely Conservative and Jammie Wearing Fools
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Confidential report lists U.S. weapons system designs compromised by Chinese cyberspies — Designs for many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers, according to a report prepared for the Pentagon and to officials from government and the defense industry.
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Report: US weapons systems compromised by Chinese hackers
Report: US weapons systems compromised by Chinese hackers
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Michael Shear / New York Times:
Obama Plans 3 Nominations for Key Court — WASHINGTON — President Obama will soon accelerate his efforts to put a lasting imprint on the country's judiciary by simultaneously nominating three judges to an important federal court, a move that is certain to unleash fierce Republican opposition …
Rich Calder / New York Post:
Labor big a real heavy sleeper — Just another doze at the office for union's ‘scarf-&-snore’ prez — Union fat cat Mark Rosenthal spends more time sleeping at his desk than organizing labor, a series of damning photos reveals. — The 400-pound president of Local 983 of District Council 37 …
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Meghashyam Mali / The Hill:
Priebus: Issa going to have ‘quite a summer’ investigating Obama — Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Tuesday predicted more damaging disclosures about the scandal over the IRS targeting of conservative groups and said GOP lawmakers would press the investigation all summer.
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John Steele Gordon / Commentary Magazine:
A Frequent Visitor to the White House
A Frequent Visitor to the White House
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Politico:
After 2008, who would Hillary Clinton hire? — Back in 2008, Hillary Clinton committed so many management sins it was hard to keep track of them all — yet none was worse than failing to establish a coherent, functional chain of command. — Loyalists often clashed with the best and brightest …
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World News:
McCain slips into Syria to meet with rebel leaders — John McCain crossed into Syria from Turkey to meet with Salim Idris, the general commander of the Free Syrian Army. McCain wants the U.S. to support the Free Syrian Army with arms and a no-fly zone. NBC's Richard Engel reports and NBC's David Gregory discusses the visit.
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Josh Rogin / The Daily Beast:
Exclusive: John McCain Slips Across Border Into Syria, Meets With Rebels
Exclusive: John McCain Slips Across Border Into Syria, Meets With Rebels
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David Martosko / Daily Mail:
Rand Paul claims Obamacare will include diagnostic codes for injuries sustained from a turtle, walking into a lamppost and burning water skis — In a little-noticed speech to the Iowa Republican Party this month, Kentucky Republican Senator Rand Paul mocked President Obama's signature health care overhaul …
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Dean Chambers / Examiner:
Was President Obama high on coke while Benghazi burned? (Video) — Bob Woodward Says Benghazi Is Like WatergateBob Woodward Says Benghazi Is Like Watergate — While our consulate in Benghazi was attacked during the night of September 11 of last year, our fearless leader …
Ron Fournier / NationalJournal.com:
What If the Next President Is Even Worse? — Partisanship shouldn't blind Americans to Bush-Obama civil liberty threats. — George W. Bush in 2001 declared war on a tactic (terrorism), and empowered Big Brother to tap phones, launch drones and indefinitely imprison people without due process.
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Lisa De Pasquale / Townhall.com:
DePasquale's Dozen With Author Dr. Helen Smith — Nearly every TV commercial seems to show the husband or father as bumbling, emasculated basement-dwellers. One commercial that sticks in my mind is a laundry detergent commercial that shows a husband and wife folding their triplets' clothes.
Paul Roderick Gregory / Forbes:
‘Austerity’ To Blame? But Where's The Austerity? — Die-hard Keynesians bemoan that, with a few exceptions, the world's economies are drowning in the quicksand of austerity. They preach we need more government spending and stimulus, not less. Northern Europe should bail …
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Cathy Young / Newsday:
More government overreach — on campus sexual harassment — A joint letter from the U.S. Department of Justice and the Department of Education to the University of Montana earlier this month signals a stepped-up federal initiative to combat sexual assault and harassment on college campuses.
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