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Obama Did It For the Money
The love fest between Barack Obama and his top fundraiser Penny Pritzker that has led to her being nominated as Commerce secretary would not be so unseemly if they both just confessed that they did it for the money. Her money, not his, financed hi Continue Reading
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Obama, lawmakers denounce IRS targeting of conservative groups
WASHINGTON _ President Barack Obama on Monday condemned the targeting of conservative groups by the Internal Revenue Service and vowed to punish anyone who may have taken part in it, as senators called for top IRS officials t Continue Reading
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tony Norman column
May 10–Two months before President Barack Obama won re-election, Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele embarked on a damage control tour to assure Pennsylvania voters that the Republican-controlled Legislature rea Continue Reading
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After bombings, terror politics in Massachusetts
Weeks after the Boston bombings, terrorism politics have taken center stage in the Massachusetts Senate race to replace John Kerry. Instead of jobs and the economy, Democrat Ed Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have been trading shots ove Continue Reading
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Sanford wins vacant South Carolina House seat
WASHINGTON–_Two years after Mark Sanford left the South Carolina governor’s office tarred by an adultery scandal, he completed an unlikely political comeback to win a special congressional election Tuesday, holdi Continue Reading
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Mistaken Benghazi claim came from CIA, e-mails show
WASHINGTON _ Career CIA officers were responsible for administration claims that the armed attack in Benghazi, Libya, that left four Americans dead last fall grew out of a protest of an anti-Islamic video, an incorrect assert Continue Reading
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Can Democrats repeat Obama’s winning formula?
Everyone knows that Barack Obama can put together a winning coalition in a national presidential election. He did it ? twice. What’s less clear is whether the Democratic Party and its 2016 presidential nominee will be able to build a coal Continue Reading