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Conservatives Hate All Legislation Now — Kill them all, actually. — One of the novel developments in conservative thought during the Obama years is a burgeoning hatred not merely for government but for lawmaking. Before the Obama era, the ends of crafting laws divided the parties, but the means did not.
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Immigration Reform Has No Pulse — Let's kick things off on a high note today: A body doesn't become a corpse until sometime after it loses its pulse. That might not be strictly correct biologically speaking. Biologists probably don't refer to dead bodies as corpses.
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Boehner warns House GOP will be weaker without immigration reform — Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing that the party would be …


North Carolina GOP Attaches Abortion Restrictions To Motorcycle Safety Bill With No Public Notice
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Bush urges ‘positive resolution’ for ‘broken’ immigration system
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Immigration reform heads for slow death
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Billionaire Koch Brother Says Eliminating The Minimum Wage Will Help The Poor — A conservative mogul worth $43 billion says he knows the secret to helping poor people. According to Charles Koch, the U.S. needs to get rid of the minimum wage, which he counts as a major obstacle to economic growth.
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‘Free Jahar’ Chant As Boston Bombing Suspect Heads To Court — BOSTON (CBS/AP) - A small group of demonstrators showed up at Moakley Federal Courthouse in South Boston on Wednesday to show support for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. — Tsarnaev appeared in court for his first public hearing.
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Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev arrives at Boston federal court for arraignment
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Adam Kokesh charged with possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms — Police searched the Northern Virginia home of activist Adam Kokesh Tuesday evening and took him into custody on a charge of being in possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms while also having a gun, authorities said.

House blocks enforcement of light bulb standards — The House on Wednesday voted to block the enforcement of light bulb standards that many say would effectively force people to buy more expensive compact fluorescent bulbs. — Just like last year, Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) …
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Talking Points Memo, ThinkProgress, The Impolitic and Daily Kos


Wal-Mart says it will pull out of D.C. plans should city mandate ‘living wage’ — The world's largest retailer delivered an ultimatum to District lawmakers Tuesday, telling them less than 24 hours before a decisive vote that at least three planned Wal-Marts will not open in the city if a super-minimum-wage proposal becomes law.
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Walmart Threatens To Shut Down Stores If DC Passes Living Wage Bill
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Newly Released Documents Detail the Department of Justice's Role in Organizing Trayvon Martin Protests — Judicial Watch announced today that it has obtained documents proving that the Department of Justice played a major behind-the-scenes role in organizing protests against George Zimmerman.
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Docs: Justice Department facilitated anti-Zimmerman protests
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Spitzer Leads Stringer in Comptroller Race: Poll — Former Governor Who Resigned After Scandal Is Frontrunner — Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer leads Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer by nine percentage points in the race for New York City comptroller, according to a Wall Street Journal-NBC 4 New York-Marist poll.
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Exclusive: US bankrolled anti-Morsi activists — Berkeley, United States - President Barack Obama recently stated the United States was not taking sides as Egypt's crisis came to a head with the military overthrow of the democratically elected president. — But a review of dozens …
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Egypt Is Arena for Influence of Arab Rivals
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The NSA slide you haven't seen — Recent debate over U.S. government surveillance has focused on the information that American technology companies secretly provide to the National Security Agency. But that is only one of the ways the NSA eavesdrops on international communications.
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CNN, Wake up America and Hot Air


HISTORIC: Senate panel advances trans-inclusive ENDA — A Senate committee made history on Wednesday by approving for the first time a trans-inclusive version of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act and picking up key Republican support from Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
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Take cameras out of the courtroom — As a courtroom junkie since my early reporting days, it is at great personal sacrifice that I suggest the following: It may be time to get television cameras out of the courtroom. — Or at least, judges might be encouraged to exclude electronic media from high-profile trials.
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Just in Case George Zimmerman Walks Free...
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Wage deflation charts of the day — NELP, the National Employment Law Project, has taken a detailed look at what happened to wages during the recovery — specifically, between 2009 and 2012. They looked at the annual Occupational and Employment Statistics for three years — 2007 …
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Texas House approves sweeping abortion restrictions — (Reuters) - The Texas House of Representatives approved sweeping abortion restrictions on Tuesday, including a ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and tougher standards for clinics that perform the procedure.
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Begich: Is Palin even a resident? — Sarah Palin “quit on Alaska” as governor and “ has lost touch” with her home state, Mark Begich told POLITICO. — The Democratic senator said Palin, who said Tuesday she's considering challenging him for his seat in 2014, might not even be a resident …


Justin Bieber Pisses Into Restaurant Mop Bucket — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ [VIDEO] — PISSES INTO RESTAURANT MOP BUCKET — ‘F*** Bill Clinton!’ — EXCLUSIVE — Justin Bieber is an oblivious, self-important little twit who goes out of his way to make the working man's life miserable …
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The Decline of North Carolina — Every Monday since April, thousands of North Carolina residents have gathered at the State Capitol to protest the grotesque damage that a new Republican majority has been doing to a tradition of caring for the least fortunate.
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Lois Lerner in 2011: Receiving a Thick Questionnaire from the IRS Is a “Behavior Changer” — A reader sends a very interesting tidbit buried in a November 17, 2011 Businessweek.com article about the IRS and not-for-profit universities. The article is about the IRS making inquiries into …
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Snowden: I never gave any information to Chinese or Russian governments l Glenn Greenwald — As a new poll shows widespread American approval for him, the NSA whistleblower vehemently denies media claims — NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, in an interview on Saturday and then again Tuesday afternoon …