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While Beltway insiders think Hillary Clinton has the Democratic presidential nomination all squared away, some have tried to build a buzz arond former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley as a challenger. In Iowa, a college newspaper tried to sell O'Malley as a "new JFK." Don't they do that a lot with Democrats?
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From USA Today: WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz, the first major Republican candidate to declare his White House candidacy, raised $2 million during the first three days of his presidential campaign — as his team deployed a mix of complex
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A BBC presenter found herself in the middle of a Twitter storm after claiming a radio documentary on climate change was balanced because it did not feature any sceptic voice. (h/t Bishop Hill) Climate Change: The Inconvenient Facts, which is
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Fox News host Eric Bolling and Azealia Banks have engaged in a two week spat over the hip hop star’s admission in Playboy Magazine that she “hates America.” Things escalated late Friday night when Banks used her verified Twitter account
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In a little-noticed move this week, California State Assembly Minority Leader Kristin Olsen, completed a purge of “conservative” policy staffers. The dramatic reversal—in both function and ideology of the Assembly Republican Caucus—mirrors the California GOP's leftward shift, which has eschewed social conservatives as a “fringe” element.
#376306
Your toddler is racist! Or afraid of strangers. Either/or.
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Ted Cruz’s announcement this week that he’s running for president has officially kicked off the 2016 primary season and has put the pressure on other potential GOP candidates to declare. On the Democratic side of the scrum there is Elizabeth Warren, whom progressives hope is the candidate-in-waiting to lead their pitchfork brigade against the “1 percent.” While it’s still unclear whether Mrs. Warren will announce, it’s assured that her income inequality position will drive a major plank in the eventual Democratic nominee’s platform.
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The universities, under the banner of hollow diversity and the even more hollow and self-contradictory banner of tolerance, are mutating into thought-suppressing machines.
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Don't you wish that once --Â just once -- someone would actually stand up and say something that everybody knows to be true: that Harry Reid, who apparently has been talked into retirement by a couple of thugs -- excuse me! an exercise machine! -- is a no-account, corrupt, nasty, petty, lying scumbag who enabled Barry Hussein to impose his anti-constitutional agenda on a big-hearted but soft-headed American public? But no:The Senate majority leader had kind words for his Democratic counterpart, who announced Friday he would be retiring in 2016.
#376311
Ted Cruz and the perverse incentives created by the most energized members of the Republican base.
#376312
What if it's not injustice that has led so many blacks across America to feel disenfranchised? What if it's judgment?
#376313
All we're saying is we're not going to deport you," was the big lie President Barack Obama used when he announced his executive action on immigration. Despite being repeated time and again by politicians and the media during the DHS funding debate to describe the presidents action, its still a lie.
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It's no secret that the liberal MSNBC cable channel is in freefall in both ratings and the important demographic of viewers from 25 to 54 years old, and one of the hosts most likely to face the chopping block is the anchor of the All In With Chris Hayes program. Just when it seemed that things couldn't get any worse for Hayes, his series had its worst week since the show debuted in April 2013, averaging only 74,000 viewers in that demo during the week of March 16.
#376315
If you thought the tired, discredited "War on Women" meme was a thing of the past, think again. MSNBC.com is doing its best to keep it alive. Witness how they gave a platform today to Ilyse Hogue of the abortion-rights absolutist group NARAL Pro-Choice America.
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Sen. David Vitter gave a speech on the Senate floor calling on Congress to end the practice of birthright citizenship, arguingthat no sane country would allow it for the children of illegal immigrants.
Vitter ended the remarks Thursday by saying he was actually quoting an old speech by Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., who now opposes ending birthright citizenship. Reid had slammed Vitter over the issue the previous day.
This is not my statement. Let me clarify: This is Sen. Harry Reid's statement on the floor of the U.S. Senate, said the Louisiana Republican, who is sponsoring an anti-birthright amendment to a human trafficking bill currently before the Senate. Vitter ended by saying, Let me just thank Senator Reid for his prior words in strong support of what he yesterday called 'Vitter's stupid amendment.'
#376317
A deal on nukes won't be enough. America needs to change its geopolitical view of Iran.
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#TheRefinery crew discuss Scott Walker's Iowa debacle and those who seek to take advantage of this gaffe. Remember guys, it's only March 2015, nobody is done...
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President Obama snubs new NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg during his Washington visit as threat from Russian cruise missiles, bomber patrols, and submarines increase.
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In 2014, Harry Reid blocked a patent reform bill from coming to the Senate floor. His choice of successor, Chuck Schumer, was a big supporter of the legislation.
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The veterans' advocate beloved for his Lt. Dan role says the White House must...
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The Senate on Friday passed its first Republican budget in nearly a decade, in a vote infused with accelerating GOP presidential jockeying.
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#376325
Jeb has moved from far right toward the center. Walker’s done the opposite. Why can’t anyone just take a consistent position and defend it?