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Palin: "Obama's handeling of volcano helps terrorist"
When asked if Volcano's could form a threat to the united states she implied Obama's handling of the matter might just make things worse: "He hasn't come right out and threatened violence on Eyjafjallajokull. Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend."
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Obama mandates new same-sex partner benefit rights
President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients' choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of...
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Surprise! GOP To Block Senate Debate on Wall Street Reform
Mitch McConnell has rounded up the necessary votes to block Democrats from bringing Wall Street reform to the Senate floor, a spokesman for the Senate Minority Leader said on Friday afternoon.
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AP fact-checks Andrew Breitbart; Breitbart loses
Conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart used the wrong video to "prove" Democratic lawmakers were lying about being called "ni**er" and "fa**ot" at a Tea Party protest.
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UV or Not UV? Tan Tax has some Burning
Eydie McNeill was fuming about the newly passed healthcare bill, but her rage had nothing to do with socialism, death panels or the deficit. She just likes a good tan, and because of a provision in the bill that puts a 10% additional tax on tanning salon fees, her sessions are probably going to cost her more.
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Black Girls Are Still Enslaved
The sexual trafficking of our young females is happening at an alarming rate. Who will free them?
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Michele Bachmann is officially just making stuff up
She should have been a fiction writer: The GOP's other darling stopped by right-wing message outlet Fox News on Sunday with a claim that's so beyond wrong, anyone with the faintest idea of what is happening in US politics could see right through it.-=W/ VIDEO=-
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Obama leaves WH without press, breaking protocol
President Obama quietly breached years of protocol on Saturday morning by leaving the White House without the press with him. About 2 hours before reporters were supposed to be in position to leave with the president, Obama left the grounds of the White House. Members of the press were told he was attending one of his daughter's soccer games in
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The GOP Campaign Against Nonexistent IRS Health Gestapo
The new Death Panel scare. Newt Gingrich is urging Republicans to campaign on a new, equally absurd myth. Gingrich has been appearing on tv and radio alleging that health reform includes 16,000 IRS agents as health police. Noting that the 16,000 IRS agents claim is wildly inaccurate, FactCheck.org explained...
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Massey Energy CEO: Safety Rules are 'Nonsensical'
Don Blankenship, CEO of Massey Energy, complained last year that it is “very difficult” to obey “nonsensical” safety rules. On April 5th , 25 miners died in an explosion at his Upper Big Branch mine in Montcoal, WV, which had racked up thousands of safety violations.
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