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WATCH: Ted Cruz's Dad Calls US a “Christian Nation,” Says Obama Should Go “Back to Kenya” — Want to understand where the tea party champion's hardcore views come from? Meet his father, Rafael. — In April, Rafael Cruz, the father of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), spoke to the tea party of Hood County …
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Reid: Cruz nomination would destroy GOP — Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) says if Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) won the Republican nomination for president, it would destroy the GOP. — In an interview on MSNBC's “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night, Reid discussed fallout from the 16 …
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David Denby / Comment:
TED CRUZ: THE MASK OF SINCERITY — When Ted Cruz lies, he appears to be praying. His lips narrow, almost disappearing into his face, and his eyebrows shift abruptly, rising like a drawbridge on his forehead into matching acute angles. He attains an appearance of supplication …
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Manu Raju / Politico:
Cruz extends olive branch to GOP senators
Cruz extends olive branch to GOP senators
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Obama Officials In 2010: 93 Million Americans Will Be Unable To Keep Their Health Plans Under Obamacare — On Wednesday, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius testified before Congress about the continuing issues with the rollout of Obamacare's health insurance exchanges.
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Obama blames ‘bad apple insurers’ for canceled insurance plans — President Obama tried a new tack Wednesday as he fought back against criticism of his Obamacare claims. — Fact-checkers and journalists have ruled that Obama wasn't being truthful when he claimed that people who liked their insurance could keep it.
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The Uproar Over Insurance ‘Cancellation’ Letters — Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services secretary, took a lot of grief Wednesday from Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee who were outraged that some people's individual insurance policies had been “cancelled” because of health care reform.
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Pelosi pushes back hard on dropped plans
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Katie McHugh / The Daily Caller:
Report: White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies to keep quiet
Report: White House exerting ‘massive pressure’ on insurance companies to keep quiet
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Book: Obama asked Hillary Clinton to stay — President Barack Obama asked Hillary Clinton several times to stay on as his secretary of state during a Nov. 2012 ride aboard Air Force One, but she told him it was time for her to move on, a new book reveals. — “Would you reconsider, perhaps stay another year?
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President asked Hillary to stay — President Obama asked Hillary Clinton to stay on for an extra year as secretary of State after he won reelection. — Obama was worried at the time about losing both Clinton and Leon Panetta, his outgoing Defense secretary, according to an excerpt released Thursday …
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Peter Nicholas / Washington Wire:
Hillary Clinton's Ratings Slip in New WSJ/NBC Poll
Hillary Clinton's Ratings Slip in New WSJ/NBC Poll
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NBC/WSJ poll: Obama approval sinks to new low — President Barack Obama's approval rating has declined to an all-time low as public frustration with Washington and pessimism about the nation's direction continue to grow, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics:
Obama leadership style raises question of ‘who is in control?’
Obama leadership style raises question of ‘who is in control?’
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The Biggest Lie? ‘Keep Your Plan’ — Deception: In the face of millions of cancellation notices, Democrats want to downplay the president's “keep your health plan” pledge as standard political hyperbole. It was, in fact, a calculated lie that got ObamaCare enacted.
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Byron York / Washington Examiner:
In health care mess, Obama reaps what he sowed
In health care mess, Obama reaps what he sowed
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Joe Biden / CNN:
Biden apologizes, says Obama tried to log on to health site — (CNN) - President Barack Obama tried to log onto the Obamacare website, according to Vice President Joe Biden, who added his name to those apologizing for the online snafu that has rocked the introduction of the administration's sweeping health care initiative.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Joe Biden: President Obama and I not tech ‘geeks’
Joe Biden: President Obama and I not tech ‘geeks’
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Obama Has Presided Over 5 of 6 Largest Deficits in U.S. History — (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama has now presided over five of the six largest annual budget deficits the U.S. government has ever run, according to data released yesterday by the U.S. Treasury.
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MASSIVE OIL DISCOVERY IN AUSTRALIA IS DEATHBLOW FOR SAUDIS — It is 6 times larger than the Bakken, 17 times the size of the Marcellus formation, and 80 times larger than the Eagle Ford shale. — All told the recent discovery outside a sleepy Australian town contains more black gold than in all of Iran, Iraq, Canada, or Venezuela.
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The Obamacare whiners — Henry Waxman made a plea at the end of Wednesday's House hearing grilling of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. The California Democrat and liberal lion asked Republicans to reach across the aisle to work with Democrats to improve Obamacare.
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
White House on Sebelius hearing: GOP ‘did us a favor up there’
White House on Sebelius hearing: GOP ‘did us a favor up there’
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Timothy H. Lee / The Hill:
Proposed bills fail to fix Fannie and Freddie — Remember the Detroit auto bailout, when the federal government improperly rewarded favored constituencies like labor unions in violation of secured creditors' contractual rights? — The Obama Administration's conduct flatly violated …
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Pelosi: No revenue, no deal — New revenue must be part of any bipartisan agreement to eliminate the sequester, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday. — Although President Obama has reportedly signaled an openness to tackle the across-the-board cuts without hiking taxes …
Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Obamacare Navigator Hasn't Signed Up Anyone Because It's Too Expensive — Al Jazeera finds an Obamacare navigator in Colorado who hasn't signed up anybody for the new program because it's too expensive: — “So far, no one,” says the Obamacare navigator. “Thus far everybody has taken …
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U.S. commandos fought in Benghazi — Two out of eight in Tripoli sent to rescue, honored for valor — Masked from public view, two of the U.S. military's elite special operations commandos have been awarded medals for bravery for a mission that further undercuts the Obama administration's original story about the Benghazi tragedy.
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Daniel Henninger / Wall Street Journal:
Henninger: Progressive Government Fails — Obama's ideology is the politics of the personal cram down.
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The Right to Vote — It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, is leading to a new era of voter suppression that parallels the pre-1960s era—this time affecting not just African-Americans …
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Facebook Tests Software to Track Your Cursor on Screen — Facebook Inc. is testing technology that would greatly expand the scope of data that it collects about its users, the head of the company's analytics group said Tuesday. — The social network may start collecting data …
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