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Ted Cruz scrambles to salvage strategy — Ted Cruz and his allies are fighting a battle they will almost certainly lose in the Senate this week. — The freshman Republican from Texas, along with Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and some vocal House conservatives, pushed House Republican leaders …
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Graham: ObamaCare ‘sucks’ — Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Monday said a handful of Senate Democrats would join the fight to repeal President Obama's healthcare law because “the bill sucks” and will be an “albatross” for them in the coming election cycles. — “This bill sucks, the bill sucks.
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Tom DeLay to Newsmax: ‘I Never Lost My Good Name’
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The Path to Victory — Just a few weeks ago the Washington …
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Shutdown countdown: What the next eight days could bring
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Cruz announces plan B for defunding Obamacare: ‘Shut down the military’
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Shutdown threat reveals split in Republican Party
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Budget drama unfolds again, with Obamacare center stage
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‘TOP’ DC REPUBLICANS SENT OPPO RESEARCH TO ‘HAMMER’ CRUZ
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Ted Cruz: The Distinguished Wacko Bird from Texas — In less than a year, Texas Republican Ted Cruz has become the most despised man in the U.S. Senate. He's been likened to Joe McCarthy, accused of behaving like a schoolyard bully, and smeared by senior members of his own party.
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Lower Health Insurance Premiums to Come at Cost of Fewer Choices — WASHINGTON — Federal officials often say that health insurance will cost consumers less than expected under President Obama's health care law. But they rarely mention one big reason: many insurers are significantly limiting …
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Exclusive: Rand Paul wants Chief Justice Roberts, all federal workers, to enroll in Obamacare — Arguing federal workers should not get special treatment, Rand Paul says he does not want taxpayers subsidizing the personal health care plans of any federal employee — including Chief Justice John Roberts — anymore.
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Blame for Both Sides as Possible Government Shutdown Approaches — Tea Party Reps Say Stick to Principles, Even if Shutdown Results — If the federal government shuts down because Republicans and the Obama administration fail to agree on a budget, there will be plenty of blame to go around.
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Most Americans against defunding Obamacare: Survey — A solid majority of Americans oppose defunding the new health care law if it means shutting down the government and defaulting on debt. — The CNBC All-America Economic Survey of 800 people across the country conducted by Hart-McInturff …
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Opinion: Defunders are playing Russian roulette with GOP, writes ex-senator
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Al-Shabaab: Three Americans Among Gunmen in Kenya Mall — Al-Shabaab is claiming that there are American gunmen among those still holed up in the Westgate mall in a standoff with Kenyan and Israeli special forces. — The Somali al-Qaeda affiliate tweeted a series of names on its latest account …
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Smoke pours from Kenya mall as forces ‘close in’
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Scandal at Clinton Inc. — How Doug Band drove a wedge through a political dynasty — One Thursday evening last September, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Tony Blair met in New York to conduct what was supposed to be a high-minded discourse on terrorism, geopolitics, and the global economy.
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Egypt court bans all Muslim Brotherhood activities — (Reuters) - An Egyptian court on Monday banned the Muslim Brotherhood from carrying out any activities in the country and ordered the seizure of the group's funds, widening a campaign to debilitate the Islamist movement of deposed President Mohamed Mursi.
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EGYPT BANS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD GROUP
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Dick Cheney and The One Shot Antelope Hunt — msevren@k2tv.com, facebook.com/michaelsevren — Dick Cheney's hunt ended without a bang as the Remington team won. — “The Remington team where the only team that was successful with all three of their hunters,” said Terry Martin, President of the One Shot Hunt Club.
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Free to Be Hungry — The word “freedom” looms large in modern conservative rhetoric. Lobbying groups are given names like FreedomWorks; health reform is denounced not just for its cost but as an assault on, yes, freedom. Oh, and remember when we were supposed to refer to pommes frites as “freedom fries”?
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It's the Austerity, Stupid: How We Were Sold an Economy-Killing Lie — IT WAS THE EXCEL ERROR HEARD ROUND THE WORLD. — In January 2010, as the global economy was slowly beginning to claw its way out of the depths of the Great Recession, the Harvard economists Carmen Reinhart …
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Alan Colmes' Liberaland and BillMoyers.com


A Mayoral Hopeful Now, de Blasio Was Once a Young Leftist — The scruffy young man who arrived in Nicaragua in 1988 stood out. — He was tall and sometimes goofy, known for his ability to mimic a goose's honk. He spoke in long, meandering paragraphs, musing on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Karl Marx and Bob Marley.
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Atheism starts its megachurch: Is it a religion now? — The non-religious Assembly is perhaps the fastest growing church in the world — and it's coming to a mall near you — Organized Atheism is now a franchise. — Yesterday, The Sunday Assembly—the London-based “Atheist Church” …
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Why Barack Obama looks so exhausted — Barack Obama looks exhausted these days. He looks about as tired, in other words, as the nation feels. — He knows this. At a speech Saturday, he said that people are always telling him to “hang in there.” — “Don't worry about me!” Obama said.


Population Decline of Unauthorized Immigrants Stalls, May Have Reversed — 1. Overview — The sharp decline in the U.S. population of unauthorized immigrants that accompanied the 2007-2009 recession has bottomed out, and the number may be rising again. As of March 2012 …
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