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The good wife? Oh, give us a break! — Our would-be Mayor Carlos Danger has done it again. — After sitting for lengthy, sympathetic profiles with The New York Times magazine, New York and People — where he declared, “I feel like a different person” — serial online sexter Anthony Weiner and his wife …
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7/25: Quinn Reclaims Lead from Weiner in Democratic Primary... Should Weiner Drop Out? Dems Divide — In light of new revelations that Anthony Weiner continued to engage in lewd online behavior after he resigned from Congress two years ago, Weiner now trails Christine Quinn in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor.
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Anthony Weiner's Lead in NYC Mayor's Race Evaporates After New Revelations of Online Affair: Poll — Weiner admitted Tuesday he had carried on explicit online relationships after he left Congress — Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has suffered a massive erosion of support among …
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Anthony Weiner admits to sexting three women after resigning from Congress — Anthony Weiner had illicit sext with at least 13 women - and three of the online liaisons came after he resigned from Congress in disgrace, the peter-Tweeting pol revealed today. — The married mayoral wannabe …
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Pelosi blasts Weiner, Filner: Do your therapy in private — Washington (CNN) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tore into Anthony Weiner and San Diego Mayor Bob Filner, saying Thursday the two former House Democrats should “get a clue” as they face backlash for their questionable behavior with women.
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Many New York Women Are Baffled at Loyalty Shown by Weiner's Wife — Sipping sparkling water by the bustling patios of Bryant Park on Wednesday afternoon, the young women touched on the usual topics of lunchtime gossip: men, work, relationships. — Then the discussion turned …
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Anthony Weiner: Up to 3 women since quitting — NEW YORK — Mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner said Thursday that he may have engaged in online sexual relationships with up to three women since resigning from Congress in 2011. — “I don't believe I had any more than three,” …
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Weiner Plummets In New Poll — A new poll released by NBC 4 New York, the Wall Street Journal, and Marist College Thursday showed Anthony Weiner's latest sexting scandal has cost him his lead in the Democratic primary for New York City mayor's race. Weiner dropped nine points …
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Limp XXXcuse: Weiner blames rocky marriage for sext relapse
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Huma Abedin steps into high-profile role as Anthony Weiner's chief defender
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Poll: New ‘Sexting’ revelations cost Weiner lead in mayor's race
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The Right Candidate for New York Mayor
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Admiration, Puzzlement Over Weiner's Loyal Wife
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Justice Department to challenge states' voting rights laws — The Justice Department is preparing to take fresh legal action in a string of voting rights cases across the nation, U.S. officials said, part of a new attempt to blunt the impact of a Supreme Court ruling that the Obama administration …
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Holder Wants Texas to Clear Voting Changes With the U.S. — WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state for the next decade.

Republicans vs. Democracy in North Carolina
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Attorney General Eric Holder Delivers Remarks at the National Urban League Annual Conference
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Will the GOP's North Carolina End Run Backfire?
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Holder Targets Texas in New Voting-Rights Push
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Justices on the Job — After Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. took …
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Holder seeks to reassert federal power over state voting laws
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McCain: $1 coin could lead to bigger tips for strippers — The Arizona Republican joined Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) in introducing the COINS Act last month. Advocates for the measure contend that saying sayonara to George Washingtons …
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The Unprecedented—and Contemptible—Attempts to Sabotage Obamacare — Doing everything possible to block the law's implementation is not treasonous—just sharply beneath any reasonable standards of elected officials. — When Mike Lee pledges to try to shut down the government unless …
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Obama: Reporters tell me my ideas are ‘great’ — President Obama said reporters praise his economic proposals as “great” and tell him they are “all good ideas.” — Obama made the remarks in a speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill. focused on the economy. — The address didn't include …
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Rand Paul caught in the middle in Kentucky — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign manager didn't hold back when he learned that his boss had a new GOP primary challenger. — “Matthew Griswold Bevin is not a Kentucky conservative, he is merely an East Coast con man,” …
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McCain, McConnell heading for spell of rocky relations
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WATCH: Terrifying video of Spain's deadly train derailment — Surveillance footage captures the moment when a high-speed train in Northern Spain veers off the rails, killing 78 — On Wednesday night, a high-speed train derailed near the northern Spanish town of Santiago de Compostela …
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Tea Partier Makes Absurd Civil Rights Comparison — Rep. Louise Gohmert (R-Texas) compared the civil liberties of minority groups to snail darters and prairie chickens at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. — The hearing was convened to discuss the Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees …
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America, it's not too late to stop ObamaCare … Too often, politicians forget how their decisions impact real people. They dig in to protect their political agenda at all costs, even if it hurts the very people they were elected to serve. And when that happens, no one gets hurt as much as working class Americans.


Thank you, Ray Kelly — President Obama shouldn't nominate Ray Kelly to be secretary of homeland security. He should give the New York City police chief a stern talking to. He should invite him to examine his conscience and consider the error of his ways. Failing that, he should hold him up to national obloquy.
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Paula Deen's Cook Tells of Slights, Steeped in History — SAVANNAH, Ga. — Dora Charles and Paula Deen were soul sisters. That's what Ms. Deen called the black cook from the start, even before the books and the television shows and the millions of dollars. — For 22 years, Mrs. Charles was the queen of the Deen kitchens.
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KTVU producers fired over Asiana pilots' fake names — KTVU-TV has dismissed at least three veteran producers over the on-air gaffe involving the fake names of those Asiana airline pilots that became an instant YouTube hit - and a major embarrassment to the station.
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