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Code Pink founder on heckling Obama: I could not let him continue to blame Congress

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:05:04 -0400

Sean Higgins Medea Benjamin, founder of the radical anti-war group Code Pink, has an article up at the liberal Nation’s website explaining why she heckled President Obama’s major speech this week on national security. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Teachers union vows to oust Chicago mayor

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:05:03 -0400

Sean Higgins Another epic showdown between a local government leader and a public-sector union? Looks like it will happen. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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White House renominates NLRB attorney Lafe Solomon

Fri, 24 May 2013 18:05:02 -0400

Sean Higgins President Obama made the nomination for a four-year term Thursday night. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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House Dems push for pre-conference deal on 2014 budget

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:15:04 -0400

David M. Drucker The House minority has minimal power, but it is using the few parliamentary tools it can wield to force Republicans to demand a budget agreement with Senate Democrats as a condition for proceeding to a conference committee. House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., acknowledged in an interview that his decision to seek a pre-conference agreement with Senate Budget Chairman Patty Murray, D-Wash., stems from his desire to block House Democrats from forcing unlimited, daily votes on fiscal matters, as would be their right under House rules if a conference committee failed to conclude within three weeks. Read more on...

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Heritage and its critics agree: Amnesty is a drain on taxpayers

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:45:03 -0400

Conn Carroll Shortly after the Heritage Foundation released its controversial cost-of-amnesty report, former National Economic Council Director Keith Hennessey wrote a highly critical response disputing Heritage’s final $6.3 trillion price tag. Thursday, Heritage’s Vice President, Domestic & Economic Policy Derrick Morgan issued a lengthy response to Hennessey, and Hennessey has since graciously acknowledged he made some mistakes in his original response, and has admitted that he and Heritage agree on many core facts. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Obama celebrates falling deficits, attacks spending cuts

Fri, 24 May 2013 15:05:05 -0400

Joel Gehrke President Obama called for Congress to end the “foolish” budget cuts required under sequestration, arguing that lawmakers should feel empowered because “deficits are falling at the fastest rate in decades.” “I’ll keep fighting to end those foolish across-the-board budget cuts known as the sequester, which is threatening our readiness,” Obama told the Naval Academy Class of 2013 during commencement today. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Jon Stewart ridicules Obama for persecuting the press

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:05:02 -0400

Charlie Spiering Last night on “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart ridiculed President Obama for persecuting the press in the name of national security. “You see, they believe in the freedom of the press — just not freedom of speech for people who might talk to the press,” Stewart said, highlighting the president’s remarks Thursday. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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With amendments, Senate immigration bill soars past 1,000 pages

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:08 -0400

Conn Carroll After two weeks of amendments, S. 744, the bipartisan immigration reform bill voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday night, is now more than 1,000 pages long, according to a committee aide. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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White House silent about Holder approving Fox News probe

Fri, 24 May 2013 14:00:05 -0400

Brian Hughes The White House on Friday didn’t respond to a report that Attorney General Eric Holder authorized the seizure a Fox News reporter’s phone and email records — and with no daily press briefing scheduled Friday that could mean silence from the administration through the Memorial Day weekend. NBC News reported Thursday that Holder approved the search of Fox News reporter James Rosen’s private emails and phone records in a probe of leaked government information. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Zogby's Obama report card: President loses his reelection mandate

Fri, 24 May 2013 13:00:04 -0400

Paul Bedard Pollster John Zogby reports in our weekly White House report card that President Obama has partially crawled out of his scandal-filled hole. "This would be a perfect week for your humble pollster from Utica, N.Y. to take a vacation, since my grade will clearly anger half of D.C. As I suggested last week, the president's polling numbers would take a small but significant hit. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Obama refuses to meet border agents, invites illegal immigrants to Oval Office

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:55:02 -0400

Conn Carroll President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with three illegal immigrants who have been granted deferred action legal status in the Oval Office Tuesday. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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20 ways the Internet criticizes Obama's drone program

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:59:54 -0400

Charlie Spiering The Internet has long been concerned with President Obama's drone program, frustrated that the president - a former war protestor - has escalated the use of flying death robots to target terrorists. Here are some of the top images circulating the Internet that either mock or criticize Obama's drone habit: 1. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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MSNBC hosts: Obama’s speech was historic and totally awesome

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:40:02 -0400

Charlie Spiering As expected, President Obama’s speech on foreign policy yesterday was a bit hit with the pundits on MSNBC. Watch the video above for their thoughts — see below for a sample of their praise: “Today was different. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Morning Examiner: Liberals turn on Holder

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:03 -0400

Conn Carroll Just one week ago, the Washington Post‘s Ezra Klein confidently assured his readers that “the scandals are falling apart.” Now, after another week of tough Congressional hearings and media reporting, it’s doubtful anybody believes that is true. Emerging from a White House meeting Tuesday, Klein himself wrote Wednesday that “heads should roll at the IRS.” But because Obama failed to appoint a head of the IRS before the scandal broke, there was no one readily fireable once the scope of the problem became known. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Obamacare poll is even worse than it looks

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:00:04 -0400

Philip Klein Guy Benson points to a new Fox poll with findings that he describes as “brutal” for President Obama’s health care law. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Tea party vs. old guard in GOP Senate rift

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:32:54 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — A long-simmering feud between establishment Republicans and tea partyers broke into full view, with Sen. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Text of President Obama speech on terrorism

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:46:46 -0400

Text of President Barack Obama's speech on the fight against terrorism at the National Defense University, as provided by the White House: ___ It's an honor to return to the National Defense University. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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4 Americans killed since 2009 in US drone strikes

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:46:28 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that four American citizens have been killed in drone strikes in Pakistan and Yemen since 2009. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Pentagon wants $450M for Guantanamo prison

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:18:18 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantanamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close. New details on the administration's budget request emerged on Tuesday and underscored the contradiction of the president waging a political fight to shutter the facility while the military calculates the financial requirements to keep the installation operating. The budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Senate panel approves immigration bill

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:21:49 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — Far-reaching legislation that grants a chance at citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on a solid bipartisan vote Tuesday night after supporters somberly sidestepped a controversy over the rights of gay spouses. The 13-5 vote cleared the way for an epic showdown on the Senate floor on legislation that is one of President Barack Obama's top domestic priorities — yet also gives the Republican Party a chance to recast itself as more appealing to minorities. The action sparked rejoicing from immigration activists who crowded into a Senate committee...

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AP Sources: Obama ok punting gay immigration idea

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:46:30 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two people familiar with the Senate immigration deliberations say the White House has suggested to Vermont Sen. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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More Obama aides knew of IRS audit; Obama not told

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:16:32 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April that an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier. But McDonough and the other advisers did not tell Obama, leaving him to learn about the politically perilous results of the internal investigation from news reports more than two weeks later, officials said. The Treasury Department also told the White House twice in the weeks leading up to the...

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A roundup of recent Michigan newspaper editorials

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:06:49 -0400

The Mining Journal (Marquette). May 13. Using kids in drug stings not a good idea A downstate lawmaker's plans to introduce legislation barring the use of minors in drug stings seems a lot like common sense to us. State Sen. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Money tangle: The IRS and its tea party tempest

Mon, 20 May 2013 05:32:53 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service is feeling the sort of heat that targeted taxpayers feel from the tax agency. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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White House insists Obama was not involved in IRS

Sun, 19 May 2013 12:31:26 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top White House adviser insisted Sunday that President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had targeted tea party groups only "when it came out in the news" while Republicans continued to press the administration for more answers. Trying to move past a challenging week that put the White House on the defensive, senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer was scheduled to appear on five Sunday news shows to repeat the administration's position that no senior officials were involved in the decision to give tea party groups extra scrutiny. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:35 -0400

Authorities: Hofstra University student killed in home invasion was fatally shot by police MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A Hofstra University student being held at gunpoint by an intruder was accidently shot and killed by a police officer who had responded to the home invasion at an off-campus home, police said Saturday. Junior public relations major Andrea Rebello was shot once in the head early Friday morning by an officer who opened fire after the masked intruder pointed a gun at the officer while holding the 21-year-old in a headlock, Nassau County homicide squad Lt. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Obama takes Cabinet secretaries out to play golf

Sat, 18 May 2013 17:16:12 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has taken two Cabinet secretaries out for a round of golf — in the rain. The White House said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius (seh-BEEL'-yuhs) and outgoing Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood joined the president Saturday at Andrews Air Force Base. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Subpoena of AP records revives media shield bill

Thu, 16 May 2013 19:02:27 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — The controversy over the government's secret subpoena of Associated Press telephone records has revived legislation that protect journalists from having to reveal their sources to federal investigators — and the White House is endorsing the idea. The proposal wouldn't provide blanket protection for a journalist from having to reveal who he or she spoke to confidentially. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Badgered: Obama acts, but Republicans unsatisfied

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:32:44 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to regain his footing amid controversies hammering the White House, named a temporary chief for the scandal-marred Internal Revenue Service Thursday and pressed Congress to approve new security money to prevent another Benghazi-style terrorist attack. The efforts did little to satisfy Republicans, who see the controversies as an opportunity to derail Obama's second-term agenda. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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Turkish PM talks Syria with Obama at White House

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:34:21 -0400

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but there's "no magic formula" to stop his violence. At a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House Rose Garden, Obama says the only way to resolve the crisis is for Assad to hand over power to a transitional government. "We're going to keep increasing the pressure on the Assad regime and working with the Syrian opposition," Obama said. Read more on WashingtonExaminer.com

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