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David A. Graham / The Atlantic Online:
21 Emails From the Democratic Party About Impeachment — President Obama's supporters are using fringe threats as a potent fundraising tool. Here's what it looks like. — By almost every indication, President Obama is not going to be impeached. — Sure, there are rabble-rousers …
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Democrats Are Way More Obsessed With Impeachment Than Republicans — House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that Republicans have no plans to impeach President Obama, and that all the impeachment talk was driven by Democrats hoping to stir up their base. — Boehner's statement isn't literally true …
CNN:
Top House Democrat: 'You bet we're going to run' on impeachment
Top House Democrat: 'You bet we're going to run' on impeachment
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Alexandra Jaffe / The Hill:
Dems fear a debacle on turnout
Politico:
House GOP in border-crisis chaos — House Republicans will vote to rein in the Obama administration's power to halt deportation for undocumented immigrants — a surprise move that comes as they struggle to attract support for their bill to address the crisis at the border.
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House votes to sue Obama — The House voted Wednesday to rebuke President Obama by passing a resolution authorizing a lawsuit against his use of executive power. — The 225-201 vote fell along party lines, with five Republicans voting against the measure. No Democrats supported it.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama
House Republicans Vote To Sue Obama
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill
Cruz whipping tonight against Boehner border bill
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Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
In Gaza, 11 members of a Palestinian family are killed in a single strike — JABALYA, Gaza Strip — The Balatas, like many Palestinian families, disliked Israel but also sought to distance themselves from Hamas. — For more than three weeks, as the conflict has stretched on …
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Katherine Miller / BuzzFeed:
We Never Tried To Impeach Bush, Says Democratic Lawmaker Who Co-Sponsored Bush Impeachment Bill — “We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority.” — View Video › — Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee argued Wednesday …
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Nathan Schacht / Media Trackers:
Secretive Leftwing Network Discovered through WI Records Law — A low-profile Google Group used by over 1,000 state and national leftwing leaders and activists has been discovered thanks to Wisconsin's open records law. A Media Trackers inquiry into the actions of a University …
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Liz Goodwin / Yahoo! News:
Exclusive: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Hobby Lobby Dissent Yahoo News with Katie Couric 17 hrs ago — Katie Couric — Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, fresh off a bruising loss in the Hobby Lobby birth control case last month, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric in an exclusive interview …
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David Dayen / Salon:
Rick Perlstein: “Ronald Reagan absolved America almost in a priestly role not to have to contend with sin. The consequences are all around us today" — From climate change to foreign affairs, Reagan pushed America toward easy lies, just as reckoning seemed possible
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Arab Leaders, Viewing Hamas as Worse Than Israel, Stay Silent — CAIRO — Battling Palestinian militants in Gaza two years ago, Israel found itself pressed from all sides by unfriendly Arab neighbors to end the fighting. — Not this time. — After the military ouster of the Islamist government …
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Brent Budowsky / The Hill:
John Kerry is right — Robert Kennedy, speaking of John Kennedy, using words they would both probably use to praise John Kerry, said that JFK's favorite quote was this: “The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.”
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Immigration is now President Obama's worst issue — Immigration has emerged as perhaps President Obama's worst issue — definitely for today, and maybe of his entire presidency — when it comes to public perception. — A new poll from AP-GfK shows more than two-thirds of Americans …
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Paul Rolly / Salt Lake Tribune:
Blogger fired from language school over ‘homophonia’ — Homophones, as any English grammarian can tell you, are words that sound the same but have different meanings and often different spellings — such as be and bee, through and threw, which and witch, their and there.
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Roger Cohen / The Atlantic Online:
Yes, It Could Happen Again — Pessimism is a useful prism through which to view the affairs of states. Their ambition to gain, retain, and project power is never sated. Optimism, toward which Americans are generally inclined, leads to rash predictions of history's ending in global consensus and the banishment of war.
Bill Glauber / JSOnline:
Journal, Scripps deal announced — Newspaper firm to be based in Milwaukee; broadcast company in Cincinnati — By Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel — Two storied media firms, Journal Communications Inc. of Milwaukee and E.W. Scripps Co. of Cincinnati, announced Wednesday evening …
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Associated Press:
Bush 43 writing about Bush 41 — NEW YORK — His paintings made news worldwide, but it turns out that former President George W. Bush has been working on another, highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush.
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Associated Press:
POWELL MAYBE NOT TOLD EARLY ABOUT CIA TECHNIQUES — WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate report on the CIA's interrogation and detention practices after the 9/11 attacks concludes that the agency initially kept the secretary of state and some U.S. ambassadors in the dark about harsh techniques and secret prisons …
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Yaakov Lappin / Jerusalem Post:
IDF forces clash with Hamas in Gaza as operation continues — Several clashes between IDF and Hamas take place throughout strip; IDF kills terrorist in tunnel; Cabinet allows IDF to call up 16,000 additional reservists. — The IDF called up 16,000 reserves on Wednesday night …
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