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Barney Frank: Obama Made 'Mistake' With Health Care Push - Jonathan Miller - NationalJournal.com
Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 8:06 PM EDT ()
Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said he advised President Obama against taking up health care reform following a special election in 2010 that changed Democrats' fortunes in the Senate, saying that he should have instead turned his focus to financial reform. From National Journal:PI …
Romney, Obama in Tight Race as Gallup Daily Tracking Begins
Seeded on Mon Apr 16, 2012 5:43 PM EDT (gallup.com)
Romney, Obama in Tight Race as Gallup Daily Tracking Begins Romney voters slightly more certain they will vote by Frank Newport
Judge challenges review of his rulings - Boston.com
Seeded on Fri Apr 13, 2012 2:41 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)
Judge Raymond G. Dougan, under investigation after being accused of bias in favor of defendants during 21 years on the bench, is asking the state’s highest court to prevent investigators from questioning him about how he reached individual decisions, asserting that judges s …
Nation needs an Atticus Finch now - BostonHerald.com
Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2012 8:10 PM EDT (The Boston Herald)
For fans of ironic film comedy, there could be no hotter ticket than the recent White House screening of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the tale of Atticus Finch, a lawyer who fights mob hysteria in a small Southern town to obtain a fair trial for an unpopular client. Li …
Israel Blames U.S. for Media Reports About Iran Strategy - The Daily Beast
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 9:28 PM EDT ()
Top officials in Israel are charging that national-security leaks coming from the U.S. government are undermining Israel’s military options against Iran. “The problem is the Iranians are certainly paying close attention to these reports,” a senior Israeli offici …
Controversial Media Matters Analyst Leaving Rather Than 'harm' The Site Over Israel Criticism | Fox News
Seeded on Fri Apr 6, 2012 9:13 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)
A controversial senior analyst with the liberal activist group Media Matters is leaving the organization to start his own blog, saying he doesn't want his criticism of Israel to "harm" Media Matters. MJ Rosenberg, who also got into hot water for mistakenly accusing the Drudge Re …
Holder Says Court Power To Review Laws 'beyond Dispute' | Fox News
Seeded on Thu Apr 5, 2012 9:06 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)
Attorney General Eric Holder assured a federal appeals court Thursday that the Obama administration believes judges have the authority to overturn federal laws, after President Obama's comments earlier this week raised concerns from the bench about his view of judicial power. Ho …
Appeals court upholds Calif. affirmative action ban - Washington Times
Seeded on Wed Apr 4, 2012 4:54 PM EDT (The Washington Times)
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by minority students to overturn California’s ban on affirmative action in admissions to state colleges and universities, saying the 1996 initiative approved by California voters already had passed the court’s legal mus …
Why Justice Kennedy should rule 'no' – USATODAY.com
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 11:46 PM EDT (USA Today)
Justice Anthony Kennedy is, in a sense, the king of the United States of America. As the deciding vote on the U.S. Supreme Court in dozens of important cases where the liberals and conservatives are evenly divided, he has become, in effect, a jurisprudential monarch (hence column …
National Archives swamped by traffic for 1940 Census data
Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2012 7:50 PM EDT (USA Today)
The National Archives website was so overwhelmed by people eager to examine newly released 1940 Census records that the systsem almost ground to a halt today. In this photo provided by the Library of Congress, a poster for the 1940 Census is shown.
Congress' ability to pass a budget grows more doubtful each year - Washington Times
Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2012 8:53 AM EDT (The Washington Times)
House Republicans powered their 2013 budget through their chamber Thursday, marking the high point for the $3.5 trillion spending plan, which would have created a deficit of nearly $800 billion next year. That’s still better than almost every other choice on the table: Pre …
John Yoo: What Conservative Legal Revolution? - WSJ.com
Seeded on Mon Apr 2, 2012 5:44 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
This week's Supreme Court arguments over ObamaCare have left opponents of the law quietly crossing their fingers. Questions from the bench hint that the court's conservative wing may hold together to strike down the individual mandate, which requires all American adults to purcha …
NBC to do 'internal investigation' on Zimmerman segment - Erik Wemple - The Washington Post
Seeded on Sun Apr 1, 2012 10:19 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
NBC told this blog today that it would investigate its handling of a piece on the “Today” show that ham-handedly abridged the conversation between George Zimmerman and a dispatcher in the moments before the death of Trayvon Martin. A statement from NBC: “We hav …
Breitbart TV
Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:22 PM EDT ()
Piers Morgan concluded the interview saying, "I like to think of myself as a professional journalist, Touré. I think that you are something else."
Legislators renew push for bill authorizing federal oversight of racing | Daily Racing Form
Seeded on Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:06 PM EDT ()
The two co-sponsors of a bill introduced during last year’s Congress that would subject horse racing to federal regulation have said they will renew an effort to push for adoption of the legislation this year. Late Tuesday, Rep. Ed Whitfield, a Republican from Kentucky, re …
Bolton Accuses Administration Of Leaking Story On Israeli Planning Along Iran Border | Fox News
Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 10:44 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)
Former U.S. diplomat John Bolton alleged Thursday that the Obama administration leaked a story about covert Israeli activity in order to foil potential plans by the country to attack Iran's nuclear program. Bolton, who served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in the Georg …
Scott Brown's election reverberates in court fight - The Boston Globe
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 8:39 PM EDT (The Boston Globe)
Senator Scott Brown was elected in 2010 with a promise to be the 41st vote against President Obama’s health care overhaul. But Democrats in the Senate found a way to deny the Republican senator that opportunity, using parliamentary maneuvers to push the bill through witho …
Justices poised to strike down entire healthcare law - latimes.com
Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:34 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)
By David G. Savage March 28, 2012, 8:35 a.m.
Alveda King | Trayvon Martin | Jesse Jackson | Al Sharpton | The Daily Caller
Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:30 PM EDT ()
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece is criticizing the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson for politicizing the Trayvon Martin shooting and leveraging racial tensions to rile up Americans. Conservative activist Dr. Alveda King, now the director of African-American o …
Obama's Solicitor General, Donald Verrilli, has rough start at health care oral arguments | The Lookout - Yahoo! News
Seeded on Tue Mar 27, 2012 8:05 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Supreme Court justices battered Obama's solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., with questions today, prodding him to explain why the government could compel Americans to buy health care insurance and not, for example, force them to purchase broccoli or burial insurance. Verrill …
Supreme Court dives into health care debate – USATODAY.com
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 6:32 PM EDT (USA Today)
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court opened three days of historic oral arguments on the fate of President Obama's health care law by skeptically questioning whether an 1867 law should bar them from even considering whether the government can require Americans to purchase health insura …
Trayvon Martin | Jesse Jackson | Al Sharpton | The Daily Caller
Seeded on Mon Mar 26, 2012 3:59 PM EDT ()
Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.” “His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inf …
Group offers $10,000 to 'capture' Trayvon Martin's killer - NY Daily News
Seeded on Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:06 PM EDT (NY Daily News)
The new Black Panther Party offered a bounty of $10,000 Saturday for the “capture” of a Florida neighborhood watch captain who killed unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” leader Mikhail Muhammad said after announcing the …
Witness: Martin attacked Zimmerman
Seeded on Sun Mar 25, 2012 9:48 PM EDT ()
ORLANDO - A witness we haven't heard from before paints a much different picture than we've seen so far of what happened the night 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot and killed. The night of that shooting, police say there was a witness who saw it all. Our sister station, FOX …
Report: Iran planned to bomb Israeli ship in Suez Canal - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News
Seeded on Sun Mar 25, 2012 10:14 AM EDT ()
Report: Iran planned to bomb Israeli ship in Suez Canal Egyptian paper Al-Ahram reports that two Egyptian citizens received instructions from Iranian agents to attack an Israeli ship, and offered a third man 50 million Egyptian pounds to carry out the act. By Avi IssacharoffTag …
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Why Did The Black Community Allow The Media And Al Sharpton To Turn The Trayvon Martin Killing Into A Black Vs. White Racial Issue?
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