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Scott Walker's Awful Answer on ISIS — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker received a lot of completely undeserved grief from the national news media in the past weeks. But he may have made a genuine unforced error in one of his remarks today. — Asked about ISIS, Walker responded …
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Walker: If I Can Take On Union Protesters, I Can Take On ISIL (VIDEO)
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Scott Walker denies comparing liberal protestors to terrorists
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Scott Walker Says He Can Take On ISIS Because He Took On Labor Unions
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House will vote Friday to prevent Homeland Security shutdown — The House will vote Friday on a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks in an attempt to avert a shutdown slated for Saturday at the massive agency. — If the bill is approved by the House …
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Uncompromising Reid still in command — ‘He is controlling the agenda,’ one Republican senator complains. — He only controls 46 seats, but Harry Reid is acting like he has 60. — Reid's uncompromising posture during the flap over homeland security funding and his emerging plans …
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House GOP floats three-week funding bill to stave off shutdown
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What Colors Are This Dress? — There's a lot of debate on Tumblr about this right now, and we need to settle it. This is important because I think I'm going insane. — Cates Holderness — 5 hours ago — 1671 responses
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The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress — The original image is in the middle. At left, white-balanced as if the dress is white-gold. At right, white-balanced to blue-black. swiked — Not since Monica Lewinsky was a White House intern has one blue dress been the source of so much consternation.

Does Hillary Clinton Have Anything to Say? — Everywhere Hillary Clinton goes, a thousand cameras follow. Then she opens her mouth, and nothing happens. — Clinton made a much-ballyhooed appearance in Iowa over the weekend, giving a speech widely noted for its substancelessness.
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Documents Obtained by Judicial Watch Reveal Top Hillary Clinton Advisers Knew Immediately …
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Hillary Clinton's Top Aides Knew from First Minutes that Benghazi Was a Terrorist Attack, E-mails Disclose
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This is net neutrality: — More than any other invention of our time, the Internet has unlocked possibilities we could just barely imagine a generation ago. And here's a big reason we've seen such incredible growth and innovation: Most Internet providers have treated Internet traffic equally.
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FCC Adopts Strong, Sustainable Rules to Protect the Open Internet
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Why Everyone Was Wrong About Net Neutrality
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How We Won Net Neutrality
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Sorry, Jeb, the Race Is Wide Open — Democrats may be ready for Hillary, but nothing is inevitable for the GOP. — Thoughts on the 2016 presidential primaries: — No one expects anything from the Democrats. They will back, accept or acquiesce in a coronation. This will not be called passive but disciplined.
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Inhofe hurls snowball on Senate floor — Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) threw a snowball on the Senate floor Thursday in an effort to disprove what he sees as alarmist conclusions about man-made climate change. — Inhofe, chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works …
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Watch Jim Inhofe Throw a Snowball on the Senate Floor
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Uninsured Ex-Sheriff Who Fought O-care Struggles To Pay Medical Bills — Former Arizona county sheriff Richard Mack, a fierce opponent of Obamacare and a leader in the “constitutional sheriff” movement, is struggling to pay his medical bills after he and his wife each faced serious illnesses.
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King v. Burwell isn't about Obamacare — It's all about states' rights—but the plaintiffs would rather you didn't know that. — King v. Burwell—the challenge to the Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court will hear on March 4th—is about more than health care.
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From voicemail to voicemail: The short political life and times of Tom Schweich — He was my BFF. — That's how my editorial board colleagues jokingly referred to my relationship with state auditor Tom Schweich, who on Thursday morning raised a gun to his head in his Clayton home and shot himself dead.
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Tom Schweich, Missouri auditor and candidate for governor, dies in apparent suicide
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Rep. Mia Love: Government Has Made it Impossible for Legal Immigrants to Start Their Own Lives — Rep. Mia Love's (R-Utah) parents came to America from Haiti with $10 in their pocket in the 1970s. After holding down several jobs, they eventually earned their own way to success.
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What Piketty Missed: The Banks — The explosion of finance, and its weak regulation, has exacerbated inequality. Stronger regulation could lead to higher middle-class wages. — Critics of Piketty's call for a global wealth tax have rightly noted that the infrastructure would be very difficult to build and maintain.