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Ted Cruz, Wendy Davis and media bias — Sen. Ted Cruz has been speaking on the Senate floor for almost 19 hours, as of this post. The talk is not technically a filibuster — he can't actually block the Senate from going about its business — but symbolically, it's more or less the same thing.
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After 21-Hour Cruz Speech, Senate Votes to Take Up Budget — WASHINGTON — Republican Senator Ted Cruz's 21-hour, 19-minute verbal assault on President Obama's signature health care law ended Wednesday when the Senate voted 100-to- to break off debate and move to consider House legislation …
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The Embarrassment of Senator Ted Cruz — Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, the public face of the aimless and self-destructive Tea Party strategy to stop health care reform, began an endless floor speech on Tuesday with the theme of “make D.C. listen.” But even his Republican colleagues …
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Experts: Seuss would be ‘offended’ — Dr. Seuss wouldn't have much of an appetite for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reading “Green Eggs and Ham” on the Senate floor, experts on the author said Wednesday. — “Not only would he be offended at the misuse of 'Green Eggs and Ham …
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What Ted Cruz Doesn't Understand About Green Eggs and Ham
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Ted Cruz's Fake Fight Against Obamacare Is Making Millions
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Ted Cruz's long-term strategy: Brilliant, but stupid
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Senate votes to advance House bill
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The Wendy Davis difference
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Video: McCain delivers the Democratic response to Cruz
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John McCain Rips Ted Cruz's Anti-Obamacare Speech, Criticizes Nazi Comparison (VIDEO)
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Texas senator is Cruz-ing for a bruising
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Washington (CNN) — He spent more than 21 straight hours railing …
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More Than 21 Hours Later, Ted Cruz Has Been Cut Off
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Wendy Davis was a media hero and Ted Cruz is a ‘grandstander’
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CSPAN Reminds Viewers That Cruz's Overnight Speech Is Not A Filibuster (PHOTO)
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Cruz derides Senate as full of theater and show votes
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Double Down: Obamacare Will Increase Avg. Individual-Market Insurance Premiums By 99% For Men, 62% For Women — For months now, we've been waiting to hear how much Obamacare will drive up the cost of health insurance for people who purchase coverage on their own.
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Tennessee: Obamacare will triple men's premiums, double women's
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HHS reveals Obamacare coverage prices for federal exchanges
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Prices Set for New Health-Care Exchanges
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Officials Detail Premium Costs of Health Plan
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How much will Obamacare premiums cost? Depends on where you live.
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Premiums on Obamacare marketplaces beat expectations, report shows
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The Democratic 2014 turnout machine, courtesy of Pat Hickey — This is not the last you wiil hear of this: Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey, sitting down with a friendly interviewer (Dan Mason) on conservative talk radio, got careless and talked about how great for the GOP that young people …
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Top Nevada GOPer Brags 2014 Will Be ‘A Great Year For Republicans’ Because Minorities Won't Vote — In an interview with a conservative radio host, Nevada Assembly Minority Leader Pat Hickey (R) predicted big GOP wins next year because people of color and younger voters will not turn out.
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Exclusive: CNN Fabricates Iranian President's Remarks about Holocaust — TEHRAN (FNA)- American news channel CNN fabricated the remarks made by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in response to the network's question about the Holocaust. — The CNN aired its interview with Rouhani on Tuesday …
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Law Enforcement Shares Findings of the Investigation into the Washington Navy Yard Shootings … WASHINGTON—Today, law enforcement officials shared findings to date of the investigation into the shootings that occurred at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, September 16, 2013.
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The Fall of the Heritage Foundation and the Death of Republican Ideas — How the Heritage Foundation went from the intellectual backbone of the conservative movement to the GOP's bane — and how it's hurting the party's hopes for a turnaround — During the 1980 election …


NSFW: Cory Booker's Interesting DMs With A Portland Stripper — “The East Coast loves you and by the East Coast I mean me.” Not safe for work, unless you work at Newark City Hall. — Twitter: @LynsieLee — Twitter: @LynsieLee — View Entire List ›
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'I'm 124 sandwiches away from an engagement ring' — Since last June, a young woman has attracted attention from culinary world icons such as Emeril Lagasse, Michael White and Ken Friedman with 300sandwiches.com, a beautifully photographed blog that documents her quest to woo her boyfriend with bread-and-meat creations.
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Hillary for President...of the Universe — Sure, Hillary Clinton could run for the White House. But where the world desperately needs a personality like hers is at the helm of a strong global governing body, says Sally Kohn. — In an interview this week with New York Magazine …
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How Bad Data Warped Everything We Thought We Knew About the Jobs Recovery — The real legacy of the Lehman collapse wasn't an economic meltdown. (That would have happened anyway.) It was three years of wrong information about the economy. — You know something is really boring when economists say it is.

Pelosi: Obama shouldn't have ruled out 14th Amendment option in debt fight — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said President Obama should not have renounced the option of raising the debt ceiling without Congress. — The California Democrat argues that the 14th Amendment empowers …
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