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Behind Closed Doors, Cheney Tells Republicans That Obama Supported Muslim Brotherhood — The former vice president tries to sell reluctant House Republicans on “comprehensive” action against ISIS by blaming the president, of course. — Dick Cheney spoke to House Republicans on Tuesday about the need for military action in Iraq.
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As Obama Makes Case, Congress Is Divided on Campaign Against Militants — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday will begin laying out his case for an expanded military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria when he faces congressional leaders who are averse to taking …

Poll: Public supports strikes in Iraq, Syria; Obama's ratings hover near his all-time lows — Americans overwhelmingly view Islamic State terrorists as a serious threat to vital U.S. interests and, in a significant shift, widely support airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.


Dick Cheney Tells GOP It's Time To Restart The Iraq War Machine — WASHINGTON — The United States needs to rev up the war in Iraq, former Vice President Dick Cheney told Republicans Tuesday on Capitol Hill — and most lawmakers seemed to agree with the man perhaps best known as a lead architect …
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A President Whose Assurances Have Come Back to Haunt Him
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Condi Rice: The one person who could save the NFL — Condoleezza Rice made a startling admission to the New York Times in 2002. The then-national security adviser to President George W. Bush said it was “absolutely right” that she wanted to be commissioner of the National Football League.
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Janay Rice breaks her silence, describes situation as ‘horrible nightmare’
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Ray Rice domestic violence case shows NFL, Roger Goodell's willful blindness and need to maintain plausible deniability

Ray Rice Video — NFL Commish in the Dark ... By Choice?
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Georgia GOPer Complains About Early Voting, Excessive Black Voting — A Republican state senator in Georgia has vowed to end Sunday balloting in DeKalb County due to the fact that the area is “dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches.”
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David Perdue is back on the air, jean-jacketed but baby-less — David Perdue is back on the air. Above is his first general election television effort, which hits Democrat Michelle Nunn on her campaign memo and attacks on the Republican before pulling back into the positives from Perdue's business career.
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House condemns Obama for Taliban swap — The House condemned President Barack Obama on Tuesday for swapping five Taliban commanders at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl without notifying Congress. — The House approved a resolution, 249-163 …
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Why White House and Congress don't want vote on military action
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Republicans Offer Obama ISIS War Authorization He Doesn't Want
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A majority of Americans say Obama's presidency is a ‘failure’ — A majority of Americans and even many Democrats consider President Obama's tenure to be a “failure,” according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News. — The poll shows Americans say 52-42 that Obama has been more of a failure than a success.
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NBC producer busted for posting secret sex tapes to porn site — An NBC News digital producer was busted Tuesday for secretly making a video of his girlfriend having sex with him on Valentines Day — and posting it on a porn web site, law enforcement sources told The Post.

Support for ObamaCare continues to fall — Public approval of ObamaCare continued to sink this summer, issuing the latest warning for vulnerable Democrats who will face voters this fall after backing the law. — Just 35 percent of voters now support the Affordable Care Act …
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Democrats Have Plenty of Reasons to Dread November
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Planned Parenthood Wants to Limit Women's Access to Birth Control to Save Obamacare — SHARES — We've officially reached a new and obscene level of hypocrisy, folks. — As I write about extensively in my latest book Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women …
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Don't Buy Republicans' Sudden Change of Heart on Birth Control
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Ted Cruz's Obamacare Nightmare Comes to Life — It's like a bad dream, if your bad dreams involve sick people getting to see a doctor. — Shares — In the summer of 2013, with the Affordable Care Act about to begin enrolling its first customers in the new health-care exchanges …
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America's new class system: Column — “Clerisy” class does the bidding of tech oligarchs to detriment of the middle class. — We've heard a lot of election-year class warfare talk, from makers vs. takers to the 1% vs. the 99%. But Joel Kotkin's important new book, The New Class Conflict …
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Senate advances constitutional amendment — Several Senate Republicans joined Democrats on Monday to advance a constitutional amendment that would give Congress and the states greater power to regulate campaign finance. — But the bipartisanship ends there.
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Monica Wehby backs gay marriage in TV ad
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Kansas Senate Nom Sues Kobach To Get Himself Taken Off Ballot — Chad Taylor, the Democratic Senate nominee in Kansas, has sued Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) to get his name removed from the ballot in November. — Kobach ruled last week that Taylor's name would not be removed …
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Cruz: Stop deferred deportations with CR — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said Tuesday that legislation to freeze President Obama's executive order deferring the deportations of illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age should be attached to a stopgap spending measure.
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Clay deputy's son, 2, accidentally fires father's gun inside Wendy's; bullet fragments strike boy, 3 others — The 2-year-old son of a Clay County sheriff's deputy was struck in the foot by a shattered bullet fragment and sustained minor injuries when his father's personal handgun accidentally discharged …
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