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DNC GOES ALL IN BAIN ATTACKThe Democratic National Committee has launched a new attack on Mitt Romney over his work at Bain Capital. In a two-minute video titled "The Bane of Romney's Existence," the DNC chronicles media coverage of Bain Capital interspersed with clips of David Axelrod and Joe Biden criticizing...Date: 18 May 2012 10:20:36 ESTPLAYBOOK: 'BLOOD IN THE WATERWSJ: Dimon blessed the trades....Date: 18 May 2012 10:20:35 ESTCLINTON WON'T ENDORSE RANGELThe former president will sit out this year's primary....Date: 18 May 2012 10:20:35 ESTFIRST CLOONEY, NOW...SARAH JESSICA PARKERSex and the City star Sarah Jessica Parker is hosting President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and a few lucky raffle winners at a fundraiser in New York next month. Parker will be hosting the event at her home on Friday, June 14, according to a campaign email signed by Parker. "As...Date: 18 May 2012 10:20:35 ESTBIDEN'S BRIEF PENNSYLVANIA FORAYAfter his eastern Ohio swing Thursday, Joe Biden made a surprise visit across the state line to Washington, Pa., where he mingled with residents at Hogfather's BBQ, a local barbeque joint. The blue-collar southwestern Pennsylvania county isn’t exactly Barack Obama country: The president lo...Date: 18 May 2012 10:20:35 EST@DAVIDAXELRODDate: 18 May 2012 10:20:35 ESTA GIRLFRIEND FOR AL GORE(Photo Credit: Reuters) Former Vice President Al Gore has “a serious girlfriend,” the Washington Post reports. Almost two years since announcing that he and his wife, Tipper, were separating, Gore is dating a Democratic donor and activist named Elizabeth Keadle, the paper writes: Her...Date: 18 May 2012 10:20:35 ESTFACEBOOK GOES PUBLICIt's set to be the largest tech IPO in U.S. history....Date: 18 May 2012 10:10:31 ESTCASEY: EDUARDO SAVERIN 'SHOULD PAY'Senator defends plan to stop tax-skirting expats....Date: 18 May 2012 10:10:31 ESTOBAMA TO TOUT ANTI-HUNGER PLANPresident Obama Friday will announce a new initiative to fight hunger in Africa. The program, to be laid out in a speech to the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security, aims to combine investments from private companies existing government aid projects in order to strengthen Africa's...Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:32 ESTHOUSE SHOWDOWN ON DETAINEESThe amendment is expected to be voted on later Friday morning....Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 ESTSESSIONS THROWS 'DRINK' AT MCGOVERN"I wonder if people have been out drinking tonight," he says during a tense debate with the lawmaker....Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 EST38 LAWMAKERS OWN STOCK IN JP MORGAN CHASEThirty eight members of Congress own stock in embattled JP Morgan Chase, with two Senators and four House members owning at least $100,000. New Jersey Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg owns at least $1,000,001 in JP Morgan stock, according to data compiled Thursday by the Center for Responsive Politi...Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 ESTREPORT: BLACK, LATINO POLITICAL CLOUT GROWS IN FLORIDA AND NORTH CAROLINAIn states that are as closely contested as North Carolina and Florida, the exact composition of the electorate will matter a great deal in November. The Institute for Southern Studies, a progressive research center, reports that in both states the share of white voters has shrunk since the 2008 pres...Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 ESTFLORIDA GETS SWING STATE SCRUTINYThere was a time when the business of election administration barely warranted any attention from the media or even from voters. But not now, and not in a swing state. So when a state as crucial to the presidential outcome as Florida moves to purge its voting rolls of non-citizens – as many as...Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 ESTWALKER: I?LL BE MORE INCLUSIVE IN THE FUTUREWith polls showing him leading by single digits, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker promised Thursday that if he wins the June 5 recall election he’ll take a different approach. In an interview with the Associated Press, Walker said he want to avoid the bitter rancor that marked his first two years...Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 ESTNEWT SEES THE LIGHT ON BAIN CAPITALThe former House speaker -- last seen attacking Mitt Romney's private equity record on the campaign trail and benefiting from negative super PAC ads on the same subject -- takes a different line in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Gingrich did not exactly recant, but did ack...Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:31 ESTTHE RUSH IS ON FOR TV TIMEThe national party committees have already reserved more than $72 million in advertising....Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:30 ESTMORNING SCORE: KERREY UNDER FIRECrossroads GPS hits the air today with an attack....Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:30 EST38 LAWMAKERS OWN JPMORGAN STOCKSix members own at least $100,000....Date: 18 May 2012 08:20:30 EST
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NE-2012 PRESIDENT: 53% ROMNEY (R), 39% OBAMA (D) (RASMUSSEN 5/16)Rasmussen 5/16/12; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone Rasmussen Release Nebraska 2012 President 53% Romney (R), 39% Obama (D) (chart)...Date: 18 May 2012 11:20:26 ESTMITT ROMNEY TRIES TO CHARM REPORTERS WITH COOKIESMitt Romney is trying to win over reporters days after his campaign had a notably public scuffle with some of them. Journalists on the campaign trail started tweeting on Thursday that the presumptive GOP nominee, who is not known for his chumminess with the press, had appeared at the back...Date: 18 May 2012 10:40:48 ESTSUPREME COURT JUSTICE A VICTIM OF CRIME AGAINPeople apparently like to steal things from Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. The Washington Post reported Thursday that Breyer's Georgetown house was burglarized earlier this month. The thieves reportedly broke a pane of glass near the front door, entered the residence and made off wi...Date: 18 May 2012 10:40:48 ESTROBERT CREAMER: ROMNEY'S BAIN RECORD: PLAYING BY A DIFFERENT SET OF RULES THAN ORDINARY AMERICANSMitt Romney's history at the helm of Bain Capital tells us a lot about the kind of leader he would make as President. First, of course, it demonstrates conclusively that he has absolutely no experience "creating jobs." Bain Capital was not in business to "create jobs" - it was in bus...Date: 18 May 2012 10:40:48 ESTEARLY POLITICAL SPATS SUGGEST NOTHING OFF-LIMITS IN 2012By NANCY BENAC, ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — The early border skirmishes of Campaign 2012 are reviving questions about one candidate's former pastor and shining a spotlight on the other's high school hijinks. Can a fresh round of questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate...Date: 18 May 2012 10:40:48 ESTBILL TO END INDEFINITE DETENTION FAILS IN HOUSEWASHINGTON -- A judge may have found unconstitutional the law that allows people to be held indefinitely without trial by the military, but the House of Representatives voted Friday to keep it anyway. On Wednesday, Federal Judge Katherine Forrest found that the law violates rights to free...Date: 18 May 2012 10:40:48 ESTBANKING SECTOR PUTS ITS MONEY ON MITT ROMNEYWhen Jamie Dimon of JPMorgan Chase met with shareholders to answer for a trading loss of more than $2 billion Tuesday, it was against an evolving political backdrop: Donors from big banks are betting on Mitt Romney to defeat President Obama and repeal new restraints on risky, large-scale in...Date: 18 May 2012 10:40:48 ESTMARC LAFIA: EMPIRES: NATIONALIST EMPIRES IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATIONIn their 2000 bestseller Empire, Michael Hardt and Toni Negri announced a new international condition no longer built on the imperialist model of the superpowers of old but on the new condition of globalization. This new and emerging networked world held with it the opportunity for politic...Date: 18 May 2012 10:10:25 ESTBILL CLINTON SEVERS TIES WITH SCANDAL-PLAGUED DEMOCRATBill Clinton is abandoning his old ally Charles Rangel, who is fighting for his political life as he seeks re-election to a 22nd term, The Post has learned. Harlem Rep. Rangel won’t be getting an endorsement from the former president, who will sit out the primary, a Clinton source said....Date: 18 May 2012 10:10:25 ESTMURRAY HILL INC.: AMERICANS ELECT'S FAILURE IS OUR VICTORYWe told you so. The failure of Americans Elect, the online nominating process designed to bypass the two major political parties and field an independent candidate for president, proves what Murray Hill Inc. Campaign Manager William S. Klein and Designated Human Eric Hensal said in the ope...Date: 18 May 2012 10:10:25 ESTHANNITY RIPS ROMNEY: 'MADE A MISTAKE'Sean Hannity criticized Mitt Romney on Thursday, saying that he was wrong to disavow a proposal to attack President Obama's past association with Jeremiah Wright. The proposal, which was reported Thursday, was commissioned by billionaire Joe Ricketts. It would have featured hard-hitting co...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:05 ESTTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: FORMER U.S. NUCLEAR COMMANDER STARTLES WITH PROPOSAL TO CUT WEAPONS ARSENAL BY 80%By R. Jeffrey SmithiWatch NewsThe chairman of a House subcommittee that helps shape the nation's nuclear arsenal, Rep. Mike Turner (R-Ohio), has been scathing about the Obama administration's consideration of new cuts in the arsenal's size. A shift in U.S. targeting policy, now under Whit...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:05 ESTTEA PARTY, CONSERVATIVES CLASH IN KEY STATEBy Nick Carey NASHVILLE, May 17 - When conservative Tea Party activists helped Republicans extend their majority in Tennessee's legislature in 2010, they expected to get the legislation they wanted. Many of these middle-class insurgents are disappointed....Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:05 ESTBARBOUR PARDON CHALLENGE HITS HURDLEBy Emily Le Coz TUPELO, Miss, May 17 (Reuters) - Mississippi's high court on Thursday rejected a motion by its state attorney general to reconsider its approval of 10 pardons issued in January by then Governor Haley Barbour. The decision not to rehear the ca...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:05 ESTDEM REP ACCUSED OF DRINKING ON THE JOB BY GOP COLLEAGUEOne congressman accused another of drinking on the job in the midst of a tense exchange Wednesday night over whether the House would debate an amendment aimed at bringing the war in Afghanistan to a close....Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:05 ESTMARY KENNEDY LAID TO REST FRIDAYBEDFORD, N.Y. -- As someone who lived at the edge of the spotlight that shines on the Kennedys, Mary Richardson Kennedy had been there long enough to become a partner in their rituals of grief – she was there when the clan buried Michael Kennedy, killed in a New Year's Eve skiing acci...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:05 ESTCHRISTOPHER BRAUCHLI: MITT THE BARBER AND THE CHURCHA great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On. G.B. Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession I hope he remembers them. The explanations, that is. They could be handy if anyone ever asks him about his days as a missionary. Of course it's possible that no one will since everyone is reluctant to b...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:04 ESTANDREW BECKER: HOMELAND SECURITY WATCHDOG MAY CLOSE TROUBLED TEXAS OFFICEThe Homeland Security Department's beleaguered watchdog might close a troubled Texas office amid a federal probe into its agents' investigative practices, the Center for Investigative Reporting has learned. Acting Inspector General Charles K. Edwards last week placed on administrative leav...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:04 ESTRUSS FEINGOLD RAISING MONEY IN WISCONSIN RECALL RACEOn May 30, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett (D) will have two big fundraisers to help him raise money in his campaign to unseat Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in the June 5 recall election. Former Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold will be the special guest at a fundraiser that day from 5:30 to 7:0...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:04 ESTINDEFINITE DETENTION SHOWDOWN LOOMS IN THE HOUSEBy DONNA CASSATTA, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- A showdown looms in the House over whether to end the indefinite detention without trial of terrorist suspects, even U.S. citizens seized within the nation's borders. Democrats and tea party Republicans lobbied their colleagues furious...Date: 18 May 2012 10:01:04 EST -
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ALTER: OBAMA, BP, AND THEODORE ROOSEVELTNewsweekAnd renew the progressive tradition....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTBAIRD: A LETTER FROM THATCHER TO HER CHUM PALINNewsweekTo my brand-new chum, Sarah Palin....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTWILL: OBAMA, OIL, AND RHETORICAL EXCESSNewsweekOur Demosthenes is also Alibi Ike....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTWHY KAGAN WON'T CHANGE THE COURT ON WAR POWERSNewsweekKagan may be to the right of Stevens on war powers. Why that won't matter much....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTCRITICISM IN AN AGE OF DISPROPORTIONNewsweekIn case you missed it—which is unlikely if you are reading this—President Obama gave an Oval Office speech last Tuesday on the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Though the remarks were hardly the stuff of legend—Lincoln's ghost need not fear that the Address to the Nation of June 15, 2010, will rep...Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTISIKOFF: OBAMA CRACKS DOWN ON CLASSIFIED LEAKSNewsweekThe Obama administration is quietly ratcheting up its campaign against national-security leaks with a series of moves that are surprising intelligence-community veterans. One recent example: a memo, signed by National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair before his departure last month, that will requ...Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTPRESIDENTIAL PONY SHOWNewsweekObama needs to lead, not emote....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTROVE: IN DEFENSE OF ARIZONA'S IMMIGRATION LAWNewsweekWhy is Obama hyperventilating?...Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTHOW SARAH PALIN IS RESHAPING THE RELIGIOUS RIGHTNewsweekTo white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and family—while remaking the religious right in her own image....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTWOMEN NEED TO CRUSH WHITE HOUSE GENDER BARRIERNewsweekAs the father of two formidable daughters (one is 5, the other 2, but they already seem formidable to me), I loved the splendid evening female candidates had last Tuesday in primaries from South Carolina to Arkansas to California. Leaving aside the politics of the winners, the returns ratified the c...Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTHOW UNKNOWN CANDIDATES SOMETIMES WIN ELECTIONSNewsweekExperts say the odds sometimes favor political unknowns....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTPALIN VS. PELOSI AND OTHER 2010 MIDTERM THEMESNewsweekBig trends shaping up for the fall: Palin vs. Pelosi, GOP excitement, and Bill Clinton is back....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTOBAMA, THE OIL SPILL, AND THE CARTER COMPARISONSNewsweekThe president, consumed with cleaning up after his predecessors, can't just strip emotion from the public parts of his job....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTWILL: WYDEN-GREGG A GOOD START ON TAX REFORMNewsweekWhy the tax code is like daytime television....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTHOW OBAMA SHOULD RESPOND TO THE GULF CRISISNewsweekHow the White House should respond to the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTALTER: SESTAK ISN'T THE REAL TRANSPARENCY ISSUENewsweekThe tempest in a teapot over Bill Clinton sounding out Rep. Joe Sestak about a position on an advisory board misses the real issue of accountability in Washington: how the government regulates (or doesn't) powerful industries....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTIS RAND PAUL CRAZIER THAN ANYONE ELSE IN D.C.?NewsweekThe media mock libertarians and other candidates outside the mainstream. But are their ideas really any less valid than those of the 'centrists'?...Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTKAGAN BLASTED FOR PRAISING LIBERAL ISRAELI JUDGENewsweekA potential flashpoint in Supreme Court nomination hearings: the nominee's support of a liberal Israeli judge who wielded great judicial power....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTDEMOCRATS MAY HOLD HOUSE, NOT SENATENewsweekThe Democrats' ability to hold John Murtha's congressional seat shows they may be safer in the House of Representatives than in the Senate....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 ESTWHY RAND PAUL IS RIGHT AND WRONGNewsweekThe new GOP Senate candidate in Kentucky would be wrong to oppose the 1964 civil-rights law, but his underlying concern was legitimate....Date: 16 May 2012 17:00:57 EST
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SUNUNU TALKS UP GRANITE STATE TRADITIONHAMPTON FALLS, N.H. - The Granite State may be just a slight clip behind Iowa in launching momentum in the GOP presidential primary race, which is picking up this week, but it is poised to hold on to its traditions in the ever-evolving process. Former Gov. John Sununu, who just finished a stint chai...Date: 11 May 2012 01:30:33 ESTBARBOUR CRITICIZES OBAMA ON COLLECTIVE BARGAININGMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Wednesday defended his Republican colleague, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and suggested that President Obama had been hypocritical in boasting about freezing pay for federal employees while at the same time expressing support for the collective bargaining rights...Date: 10 May 2012 01:30:36 ESTGINGRICH COULD REAP REWARDS IF HE JUMPS IN FIRSTA statement released by Newt Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler late Tuesday night raised more questions than it answered when it denied widespread reports that the former House speaker would announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee on Thursday in Georgia. Still, even if there is no...Date: 10 May 2012 01:30:36 ESTPAWLENTY RELEASES TEA PARTY-THEMED VIDEOOn the heels of his speech at the Tea Party Patriots' policy summit in Phoenix over the weekend, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has released a new video designed to highlight his solidarity with the tea party movement's cause. Titled, "Tea Party: A New Birth Of Freedom," the online video opens w...Date: 10 May 2012 01:30:36 ESTO'MALLEY: DEM GOVERNORS FOCUSED ON ECONOMYRealClearPolitics caught up with Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley at the 2011 National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington. RCP: The 29 Republican governors are developing a group identity as vocal budget cutters, especially after the recent election. Can you describe the group ident...Date: 10 May 2012 01:30:36 ESTDECISION DAY LOOMS FOR GINGRICHFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich is preparing to announce in a matter of days whether he will form an exploratory committee for a presidential campaign. Earlier this month, Gingrich told Fox News that he would decide about a White House run by early March. A Gingrich adviser told the Atlanta Journ...Date: 10 May 2012 01:30:36 ESTPARNELL: PALIN IS QUALIFIED TO SERVEAlaska Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday cited state ethics laws in stopping short of endorsing a potential presidential campaign by his predecessor, former Gov. Sarah Palin. But Parnell had nothing but kind words for the woman under whom he served as lieutenant governor for two-and-a-half years. "You're...Date: 04 May 2012 01:30:33 ESTFLASHBACK GIVES GLIMPSE OF DANIELS' POLITICAL SKILLSAs Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels navigates what appears to be an increasingly treacherous political minefield as he contemplates a presidential run, it may be instructive to view how he's handled himself in past political situations. Right after the 1986 midterm elections, when the GOP lost eight Senat...Date: 04 May 2012 01:30:33 ESTPAWLENTY URGES SUPPORT FOR GOV. WALKERFormer Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has ramped up an aggressive campaign to come to the defense of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as the ongoing political standoff in Madison continues to make headlines nationally. On Wednesday, Pawlenty appeared on Fox News and chastised Wisconsin Democrats who have fl...Date: 04 May 2012 01:30:33 ESTVIRGINS FOR PUTINAnd you thought American campaign ads were obnoxious... From Russia (via Buzzfeed.com), here comes an incredibly tacky, and very revealing, Putin ad. Text: Fortune teller [0:01]: Now we'll see, my beauty, whom fate has intended for you. Young woman [0:06]: I'd like it to be for love. You see, it's...Date: 03 May 2012 17:00:55 ESTSUNUNU TALKS UP GRANITE STATE TRADITIONHAMPTON FALLS, N.H. - The Granite State may be just a slight clip behind Iowa in launching momentum in the GOP presidential primary race, which is picking up this week, but it is poised to hold on to its traditions in the ever-evolving process. Former Gov. John Sununu, who just finished a stint chai...Date: 10 Apr 2012 01:30:32 ESTGINGRICH COULD REAP REWARDS IF HE JUMPS IN FIRSTA statement released by Newt Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler late Tuesday night raised more questions than it answered when it denied widespread reports that the former House speaker would announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee on Thursday in Georgia. Still, even if there is no...Date: 09 Apr 2012 09:00:40 ESTPAWLENTY RELEASES TEA PARTY-THEMED VIDEOOn the heels of his speech at the Tea Party Patriots' policy summit in Phoenix over the weekend, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has released a new video designed to highlight his solidarity with the tea party movement's cause. Titled, "Tea Party: A New Birth Of Freedom," the online video opens w...Date: 09 Apr 2012 09:00:40 ESTO'MALLEY: DEM GOVERNORS FOCUSED ON ECONOMYRealClearPolitics caught up with Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley at the 2011 National Governors Association Winter Meeting in Washington. RCP: The 29 Republican governors are developing a group identity as vocal budget cutters, especially after the recent election. Can you describe the group ident...Date: 09 Apr 2012 09:00:40 ESTDECISION DAY LOOMS FOR GINGRICHFormer House Speaker Newt Gingrich is preparing to announce in a matter of days whether he will form an exploratory committee for a presidential campaign. Earlier this month, Gingrich told Fox News that he would decide about a White House run by early March. A Gingrich adviser told the Atlanta Journ...Date: 09 Apr 2012 09:00:40 ESTBARBOUR CRITICIZES OBAMA ON COLLECTIVE BARGAININGMississippi Gov. Haley Barbour on Wednesday defended his Republican colleague, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, and suggested that President Obama had been hypocritical in boasting about freezing pay for federal employees while at the same time expressing support for the collective bargaining rights...Date: 09 Apr 2012 09:00:40 ESTPARNELL: PALIN IS QUALIFIED TO SERVEAlaska Gov. Sean Parnell on Friday cited state ethics laws in stopping short of endorsing a potential presidential campaign by his predecessor, former Gov. Sarah Palin. But Parnell had nothing but kind words for the woman under whom he served as lieutenant governor for two-and-a-half years. "You're...Date: 03 Apr 2012 01:30:27 ESTFLASHBACK GIVES GLIMPSE OF DANIELS' POLITICAL SKILLSAs Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels navigates what appears to be an increasingly treacherous political minefield as he contemplates a presidential run, it may be instructive to view how he's handled himself in past political situations. Right after the 1986 midterm elections, when the GOP lost eight Senat...Date: 03 Apr 2012 01:30:27 ESTPAWLENTY URGES SUPPORT FOR GOV. WALKERFormer Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has ramped up an aggressive campaign to come to the defense of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker as the ongoing political standoff in Madison continues to make headlines nationally. On Wednesday, Pawlenty appeared on Fox News and chastised Wisconsin Democrats who have fl...Date: 03 Apr 2012 01:30:27 ESTVIRGINS FOR PUTINAnd you thought American campaign ads were obnoxious... From Russia (via Buzzfeed.com), here comes an incredibly tacky, and very revealing, Putin ad. Text: Fortune teller [0:01]: Now we'll see, my beauty, whom fate has intended for you. Young woman [0:06]: I'd like it to be for love. You see, it's...Date: 02 Apr 2012 01:30:34 EST -
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RAHM EMANUEL HAS BEEN LOCKED IN HIS BEDROOM, SOBBING, FOR 24 HOURSToday is the best day of Rahm Emanuel’s life. Okay, maybe a close second, behind that loooooong day he spent with Tim Shriver at the White House honing his sensitivity skills. But today, man, just look at how those media suckers are eating up his story about being so “livid” that h...Date: 18 May 2012 11:10:34 ESTYOU DON’T GOTTA TELL JOE ARPAIO ABOUT (DEBUNKED) LITERARY AGENT’S ‘KENYA’ BROCHURE, HE’S GOT THISGhost Andrew Breitbart must be spinning in hell. He told these idiots that the “birther” stuff was “not a winning issue,” and what did these fuckwads at his ghost web empire do? They ran a total birther story with a long embarrassed introduction explaining that they werenR...Date: 18 May 2012 10:30:39 ESTJOE THE PLUMBER EXPLAINS TO STUPID HIPPIE WHY PAYING TAXES IS COOL (VIDEO)Hey stupid Occupy hippie! Why don’t you love paying taxes, like “Joe” “the Plumber” does? Taxes are cool, they pay for parks and police! Also, it is your patriotic duty to pay your fair share and not, say, divert all your “bread” (that is “money”...Date: 18 May 2012 09:31:08 ESTLIBERAL NEW YORK TIMES SIMPLY DOES NOT CARE FOR OBAMA’S FACIAL EXPRESSION (UPDATE: NEVERMIND!)What is funnier than a typographical error on the front page of the N Y Times Dot Com, the Tumblr of Record? It’s great, because they’re like, “Hey, we’re the New York Times, we’re the best, feed me caviar,” and then they screw up and everyone chuckles for two sec...Date: 17 May 2012 18:50:30 ESTOBAMA JUST COLD TROLLING CONSERVATIVES WITH OBAMA-CENTRIC REAGAN BIOWe at Your Wonkette found it kind of tacky and ridiculous when we read everywhere that some tone-deaf deciderer on Obama’s communications staff had decidered to update each former president’s biography with references to Bamz himself. A little hubristic, fellows, no? But that was before...Date: 17 May 2012 17:30:38 ESTPRO-LIFE LADIES COMPARE OBAMA’S AMERICA TO TOTALITARIAN STATE (VIDEO)Well, someone did their 9th grade reading (but made sure to cover their eyes and ears during all of sex ed). The Susan B. Anthony List, the self-declared “nerve center” of the pro-life movement, has decided that the Obama administration is attempting to rule our minds “1984″...Date: 17 May 2012 16:40:40 ESTARMY OF MINORITY BABIES PREPARES CRUSHING ASSAULT ON ALL WHITESWe knew it, you knew it, they knew it, your crazy white great-uncle who forwards you paranoic chain letters in blue 30-point Comic Sans font with neon green background knew it, and now the U.S. Census knows it: The minorities, they’re popping out babies like the dickens, and the flaccid whites...Date: 17 May 2012 16:20:48 ESTBRISTOL PALIN’S BLOG GHOSTWRITER TRIUMPHS OVER BOOKSTORE’S ‘SEXUALITY’ SECTION DISPLAYING BOOKS ABOUT SEXDo you remember Nancy French? She is the lady who writes all single-teen-mom Bristol Palin’s blog posts yelling at President Obama for not giving children a mother and a father, because gays. (It is that weird sad Maggie Gallagher Syndrome, where her boyfriend or whatever ditched her so she ha...Date: 17 May 2012 15:10:29 ESTD.C. DISCUSSING HOW ABORTION CAUSES FETAL PAIN, NO ONE SMART INVITED EXCEPT GHOSTS OF THE FOUNDING FATHERSThursday, 4PM, is the time that four or so random people will gather in D.C. for a House Judiciary Committee hearing to determine whether there’s any validity to the claim that abortion after 20 weeks causes pain to the fetus. The hearing was orchestrated by a man in a very far away, very part...Date: 17 May 2012 14:40:39 ESTTHIS ‘PUNISH THAT COCKSURE LITTLE FACEBOOK TWERP’ LEGISLATION SOUNDS DELIGHTFULUh oh, Chuck Schumer saw something in the papers the other day and is already legislating. What dumb caffeine product is it today? Gross candy alcohol caffeine or inhalable powder caffeine? Well look at that, it’s not even a funny consumer product at all — he’s going after Eduardo...Date: 17 May 2012 14:20:36 ESTGEORGE W. BUSH WRITING ALTERNATE HISTORY SCI-FI BOOK WHERE HE KNOWS HOW TO RUN A COUNTRYWay back when your Comics Curmudgeon went to D.C. to make sure George W. Bush wasn’t going to pull off a coup at the last second, he would have never believed that he’d ever say anything nice about the dude, but here we are three years later and here’s something nice: George W. Bus...Date: 17 May 2012 13:30:52 ESTQUEEN OF ITALY MICHELLE OBAMA WILL RECEIVE FREE OLIVE OIL FOREVERSo we all know by now that our First Lady Michelle Obama hates Oprah and taunted her with pie, or whatever, who cares. Our FLOTUS really has no time for ridiculous accusations, because in case you haven’t noticed, we have an obesity crisis on our hands. Michelle Obama is hard at work trying to...Date: 17 May 2012 13:20:46 ESTTED PEOPLE NIX INCOME INEQUALITY CHAT IN FAVOR OF MORE PRISSY TOTEBAGGING SOCIAL MEDIA EFFICIENCY CRAPDo you kids like the TED talks? They’re a series of conferences where David Brooks pretends to explain scientific innovation or a “social media pioneer” babbles about how clicking a new computer button on a computer program will save Africa or… well, let’s just see what...Date: 17 May 2012 12:40:43 ESTARAB MEDIA CHOKES ON ‘HIS PENIS’As France’s new president, François Hollande (in his little suit), is busy making German Chancellor Angela Merkel believe in stimulation, he’s also been filling up his 34-person cabinet with women (17!), non-Parisians (18!), people under 40 (7!), and fierce anti-globalists (1!). His pick...Date: 17 May 2012 12:10:22 ESTHOW GAY IS CHARLIE CRIST’S EXTORTION SCANDAL, ON A SCALE FROM ONE TO VERY GAY?Sometimes when you’re watching reruns of not-so-old TV shows, you wonder about what ever happened to the bit players. I mean, sure, Joey from Friends will never have to work a day in his life again (which is good, because he probably won’t), but what if you’re one of the ladies who...Date: 17 May 2012 11:30:53 ESTBILLIONAIRE REPUBLICANS HAVE FOOL-PROOF SECRET WEAPON AGAINST OBAMA THAT WILL TOTALLY WORK THIS TIMEUh oh! It looks like some rightwing Chicago Cubs owner (?) has a secret plan to spend millions finally showing America the real Barack Hussein NOBAMA via his shadowy association with a man no one has ever heard of before and whose name you will not even recognize because of how this has never been [...Date: 17 May 2012 11:00:45 ESTJOE BIDEN HAS SOME THINGS TO YELL AT YOU, RICH PEOPLEWhat a busy few weeks it has been for VP Bitchen Camaro! There was Gentle Joe, singlehandedly making the world safe for gay love, and Scrappy Joe, singlehandedly making the world safe for little picked-on kids (with his fists!), and now there is Class War Joe, cold yellin’ at rich people like...Date: 17 May 2012 10:10:47 ESTDUMB AZ POLITICIAN EASILY FALLS FOR FBI’S FREE BASEBALL TICKET TRAPIt is time for another Arizona politics bedtime story! Undercover FBI agents running a fake real estate company bought former Tempe City Councilman and current state Representative Ben Arredondo a few thousand dollars’ worth of tickets to baseball and football games. He loved this gesture so v...Date: 16 May 2012 21:50:27 ESTMEN’S RIGHTS GROUP HAPPILY ENDORSES CRAPPY HOUSE GOP VERSION OF VAWAThe GOP-sponsored House version of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization has finally gotten the endorsement of the constituency it needed to bring out the richness of its full nut flavor: paranoid men’s rights activists. The National Coalition for Men, whose website features the delig...Date: 16 May 2012 18:20:42 ESTARIZONA GOVERNOR JAN BREWER OWNS YOUR VAG BUT PENISES MUST RUN FREEThank Jeebus that growing (medicinal) pot is legal in Arizona. Because if you have half a brain, you pretty much have to be stoned 24/7 in order to live there. Now, if you happen to be a woman with a brain AND an active libido, you might as well high-tail it right outa Dodge. Because [...]...Date: 16 May 2012 17:20:37 EST
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WASHINGTON POST
FRANKS IS D.C.’S NEW GUY; BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR BLOGS ON ; AND BARRY’S ISO FLACK (READ-THIS ROUNDUP)Here’s what the Loop is reading Friday morning: Trash talk — We hope Rep. Trent Franks is ready to solve some trash-delivery problems. After the Arizona Republican refused to allow Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton to speak at a hearing about abortion in the District, Washington residents have a plan: th...Date: 18 May 2012 10:30:03 ESTJENNIFER RUBIN: ORNSTEIN AND MANN’S NON-SOLUTIONS TO ENDING PARTISAN POLITICSAfter tossing the pose of nonpartisanship aside and casting the Republicans as the root of all that is wrong in American politics (has the American Enterprise Institute checked with its tax lawyers?) Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann received more attention than they have in their entire careers. (N...Date: 18 May 2012 10:10:11 ESTOBAMA HOSTS WORLD LEADERS AT CAMP DAVID, ROMNEY TO N.H. | SCHEDULES FOR MAY 18President Obama is gearing up for the G8 summit in Chicago this weekend by hosting world leaders at Camp David, while Mitt Romney heads to a campaign event in New Hampshire. Here’s your look at the candidates’ schedules for May 18, from the White House Press office and the PBS News Hour political...Date: 18 May 2012 10:00:07 ESTIRAN SANCTIONS BILL BLOCKED IN U.S. SENATEA Senate bill intended to tighten economic sanctions against Iran was blocked Thursday by Senate Republicans who said they were holding out for an even tougher measure that included an explicit threat of a U.S. military strike if Iran refuses to curb its nuclear ambitions. Read full article >&g...Date: 18 May 2012 09:20:12 ESTJENNIFER RUBIN: ROMNEY: NO DEVASTATING DEFENSE CUTS OR FAKE IRAN DEALSMitt Romney rolled out a robust, Reagan-esque foreign policy vision in October at the Citadel and a foreign policy white paper that was unflinching in its criticism of the administration’s approach to national security. But that seems eons ago, and with Romney focusing, correctly so in the view of...Date: 18 May 2012 09:10:06 ESTMITT ROMNEY MAKES DAY ONE PROMISES IN ADMitt Romney is out with his first ad of the general election campaign, “Day One,” in which he promises some major changes on his first day in office. While it’s a positive spot that introduces the candidate, as Romney himself said it would be, the ad also is filled with digs at the current White H...Date: 18 May 2012 08:50:00 ESTFRED DAVIS CAMPAIGNS FOR FRED DAVISFred Davis, the GOP advertising man and political strategist, is known for creating incendiary political ads that -- whether or not they get his clients elected -- usually get people talking. We’ve all seen his handiwork. Read full article >>...Date: 18 May 2012 08:00:04 ESTMITT ROMNEY’S CLAIM THAT 100,000 AUTO JOBS HAVE BEEN LOST UNDER OBAMA“We were able to help create over 100,000 jobs. On the president’s watch, about 100,000 jobs were lost in the auto industry and auto dealers and auto manufacturers, so he’s hardly one to point a finger.” Read full article >>...Date: 18 May 2012 08:00:00 ESTAMERICANS ELECT AND THE DEATH OF THE THIRD PARTY MOVEMENTIt ended with a whimper, not a bang. Late Thursday night, Americans Elect, a much-ballyhooed group dedicated to securing ballot access for a serious third-party presidential candidate in 2012, issued a statement acknowledging failure. Read full article >>...Date: 18 May 2012 06:50:00 ESTEXPORT-IMPORT BANK’S DAMAGE TO AMERICAN FIRMSGeorge F. WillSallie Jameswas born in Australia on July 4, 1976, which suggests that Providence planned what happened 30 years later: She moved to Washington. She studies trade policy at the libertarian Cato Institute, and her report “Time to X Out the Ex-Im Bank” illustrates how corporate welfare metastasizes...Date: 18 May 2012 01:30:09 ESTTRAYVON MARTIN DOCUMENTS REVEAL NEW DETAILS IN SHOOTINGNeighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin from a very close range, according to documents a Florida prosecutor released Thursday that indicate a hand-to-hand struggle occurred before the teenager was killed. Read full article >>...Date: 18 May 2012 01:30:01 ESTSECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION FACES HEAT FROM DEMOCRATS OVER SETTLEMENTSThe Securities and Exchange Commission, which polices corporations, can usually count on support from Democrats and a rougher reception from Republicans. But, on Thursday, the agency found an issue on which its traditional friends are its critics and its traditional critics are its friends. Read fu...Date: 17 May 2012 23:20:02 ESTHOUSE REPUBLICANS CALL FOR OVERHAUL OF TAX CODE IN 2013As part of a year-end budget deal, House Republicans are urging adoption of “fast-track procedures” to force lawmakers to complete a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 2013. House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) said Thursday that he has two goals with respect to the ta...Date: 17 May 2012 23:20:02 ESTAMERICA’S NOT PERFECT, BUT IT’S CERTAINLY NOT IN DECLINE“Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or that our influence has waned,” said President Obama in his 2012 State of the Union address, “doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” It was a “rah-rah America!” applause line for a president who needed to get the assembled Republicans out of the...Date: 17 May 2012 23:20:02 ESTTRAYVON MARTIN AUTOPSY INDICATES HAND-TO-HAND STRUGGLE WITH GEORGE ZIMMERMANNeighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin from very close range, according to documents a Florida prosecutor released Thursday that indicate a hand-to-hand struggle occurred before the teenager was killed. Read full article >>...Date: 17 May 2012 23:20:02 ESTFEDERAL DIARY: HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE LOOKS INTO HOMELAND SECURITY CORRUPTIONOn a gorgeous spring Thursday, kids on class trips were all over the Capitol grounds, many in matching T-shirts, posing for pictures on the granite steps. They were having a great time learning history and about how government works. If they had crossed Independence Avenue and squeezed into a Canno...Date: 17 May 2012 23:20:02 ESTAL GORE HAS A GIRLFRIEND: CALIFORNIA DONOR AND ACTIVIST ELIZABETH KEADLEIt’s never easy to re-enter the dating pool after years away — probably especially so if you’re one of the most famous men in the world. But things seem to have worked out for Al Gore. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former VP has a serious girlfriend, we’ve learned. Read full article >>...Date: 17 May 2012 23:20:01 ESTU.S. GRANTS VISA TO RAUL CASTRO’S DAUGHTER BUT DENIES VISIT BY CUBAN ACADEMICSThe Obama administration granted a visa this week to the daughter of Cuban President Raul Castro but rejected visas for nearly a dozen other Cubans to attend an academic conference in California, angering both conservative Cuban American leaders and American scholars seeking to improve U.S.-Cuban a...Date: 17 May 2012 22:50:00 ESTD.C. DELEGATE TO CONGRESS SILENCED AT HEARINGRep. Trent Franks’s district in suburban Phoenix is two time zones away from Washington, a fact not lost on D.C. leaders as the Arizona Republican presided Thursday over the latest in a long series of attempts to control social issues in the nation’s capital. Read full article >>...Date: 17 May 2012 22:20:03 ESTOBAMA HOPES SUMMIT MEETINGS CAN QUIET OVERSEAS QUESTIONSEager to avoid any setbacks that would distract the president’s attention from the U.S. economy in an election year, the Obama administration hopes to use a pair of summits with foreign leaders this weekend to develop some consensus around an international response to both the European debt crisis...Date: 17 May 2012 22:00:00 EST -
NEW YORK TIMES
ROMNEY UNVEILS FIRST AD OF GENERAL ELECTIONThe CaucusCalled "Day One," the ad focuses on a number of economic policies that Mr. Romney considers priorities....Date: 18 May 2012 11:20:29 ESTISSUES OF RACE AND RELIGION BUBBLE UP IN CAMPAIGNThe CaucusQuestions about President Obama's race, religion and the place of his birth diverted the conversation from the economy....Date: 18 May 2012 09:00:43 ESTTHE EARLY WORD: DEEP POCKETS, POLITICAL DREAMSThe CaucusA case study in political neophytes with big checkbooks, and ahead of the NATO Summit, a lowered standard of success in Afghanistan....Date: 18 May 2012 06:10:20 ESTPHONY MOMMY WARSMaureen DowdIt turns out Mitt and Ann have even more in common than we thought. Both can make unforced errors....Date: 18 May 2012 01:30:31 ESTTHE AGE OF INNOCENCEDavid BrooksIt’s no wonder Europe and the United States are facing debt crises and political dysfunction at the same time....Date: 17 May 2012 21:10:18 ESTROMNEY MUSES ON MOVING TO LOW-TAX FLORIDAThe CaucusOne reason to consider the state, Mitt Romney said, "It has the right tax rates." Florida has no state income tax....Date: 17 May 2012 18:00:49 ESTIN FLORIDA, ROMNEY PLAYS CROWD COORDINATOR AND CHECK COLLECTORThe CaucusMitt Romney's usual bullet-point-laden stump speech was punctuated by a series of playful, impromptu moments in Jacksonville, Fla....Date: 17 May 2012 17:20:26 ESTMASSACHUSETTS DEMOCRATIC PARTY REQUESTS INFORMATION ON BROWN AND JPMORGAN CHASEThe CaucusThe party said it had made the requests in hopes of learning whether Senator Scott P. Brown had helped JPMorgan Chase seek a loophole in a law meant to limit risky trading....Date: 17 May 2012 16:50:36 ESTRIVAL VIEWS OF THE FIGHT FOR THE HOUSEThe CaucusThe party chairmen of the Congressional campaign committees offer their views of the 2012 race for the House....Date: 17 May 2012 15:20:36 ESTMCCAIN REJECTS RACIALLY TINGED ATTACK ON OBAMAThe CaucusSenator John McCain of Arizona repudiated a proposal by Republican strategists to "do exactly what John McCain would not let us do," launch an incendiary, racially-tinged attack on the president....Date: 17 May 2012 13:50:21 ESTA MODESTLY STRONG BATCH OF NEW DATAThe CaucusOn the Economix blog, the Times's weekly tracker suggests that job growth this month may be slightly stronger than forecast a week ago....Date: 17 May 2012 13:10:19 ESTBILLIONAIRE REJECTS PROPOSAL TO REVIVE JEREMIAH WRIGHT CONTROVERSYThe CaucusJoe Ricketts, the billionaire behind the proposal to run ads highlighting President Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, has released a statement disavowing the politics it represents....Date: 17 May 2012 13:10:19 ESTBILLIONAIRE REJECTS PROPOSAL TO REVIVE JEREMIAH WRIGHT CONTROVERSYThe CaucusJoe Ricketts, the billionaire behind the proposal to do ads reviving President Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, released a statement disavowing the politics it represents....Date: 17 May 2012 13:00:38 ESTDEMOCRATIC SENATORS' PROPOSAL TARGETS FACEBOOK CO-FOUNDERThe CaucusAs Facebook goes public, handing Eduardo Saverin an unimaginable windfall, two Democratic senators, Charles E. Schumer of New York and Robert P. Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania, unveiled legislation to sic the Internal Revenue Service on him, wherever he may live....Date: 17 May 2012 13:00:37 ESTRICKETTS DISAVOWS SUPER PAC PROPOSALThe CaucusJoe Ricketts, the billionaire behind the proposal to run ads highlighting President Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, has released a statement disavowing the politics it represents....Date: 17 May 2012 12:50:20 ESTROMNEY REJECTS USING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT AGAINST OBAMAThe Caucus"I repudiate the effort by that PAC to promote an ad strategy of the nature they've described," said Mitt Romney...Date: 17 May 2012 12:40:34 ESTROMNEY CAMPAIGN REJECTS USING THE REV. JEREMIAH WRIGHT AGAINST OBAMAThe CaucusThe focus should be on the economy, says Matt Rhoades, the campaign manager for Mitt Romney....Date: 17 May 2012 10:20:26 ESTTHE EARLY WORD: GLOVES OFFThe CaucusPolitical news from today's Times, plus a look at what's happening in Washington....Date: 17 May 2012 06:10:20 ESTROMNEY RAISES $40.1 MILLION IN APRIL, NEARLY MATCHING OBAMAThe CaucusThe contributions on behalf of Mitt Romney represent a huge jump over the $12.6 million that his campaign raised in March, an increase partly attributed to donors coalescing around Mr. Romney as the nominee....Date: 17 May 2012 05:10:19 ESTTHE WHITE HOUSE ARGUMENTDavid BrooksPresident Obama’s budget has plenty of critics, but, in the end, he’s a pragmatic liberal who’s willing to compromise for the sake of fiscal sustainability....Date: 17 May 2012 01:30:27 EST -
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