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John Boehner throws cold water on Obama sequester plan — Speaker John Boehner is signaling he will not accept revenue increases that President Barack Obama is expected to propose to delay the automatic spending cuts that take hold at the beginning of March.
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Obama Congress Budget Cuts — WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday called on lawmakers to quickly pass a new package of limited spending cuts and tax changes that can head off the automatic, across-the-board reductions set to begin March 1. — Mr. Obama said Congress should delay …
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Obama calls on Congress to pass spending cuts, tax changes to delay sequester
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The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2013 to 2023 — Economic growth will remain slow this year but is expected to speed up next year. Even so, CBO projects that the unemployment rate will remain above 7.5 percent through 2014. — Read the report — Macroeconomic Effects of Alternative Budgetary Paths
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CBO Sees Rising U.S. Debt, Economic Rebound in 2014
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Erik Wasson / The Hill:
CBO projects $845B budget deficit for 2013
CBO projects $845B budget deficit for 2013
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alan.com, Politico and The Maddow Blog
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Republicans Are Upset That Obama Is Giving Remarks At The Same Time As Eric Cantor's Speech — GOP officials take to Twitter to voice their discontent. — Image by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Images — WASHINGTON — Republican aides are calling out the White House for scheduling President …
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DREAMers Target GOP, Chant ‘Undocumented And Unafraid’ At Immigration Hearing
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Russell Berman / The Hill:
In first immigration hearing, House GOP seeks middle ground on citizenship path
In first immigration hearing, House GOP seeks middle ground on citizenship path
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Stephen Dinan / Washington Times:
Seven million will lose insurance under Obama health law — President Obama's health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage — nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday.
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The Lonely Conservative, The Gateway Pundit and Poor Richard's News
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Elise Viebeck / The Hill:
CBO: Obama health law will cost $1.3T — The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated Tuesday that President Obama's signature healthcare law will cost about $1.3 trillion over the next 10 years. — The figure represents a slight increase since August, when the nonpartisan budget office estimated …
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Memo Cites Legal Basis for Killing U.S. Citizens in Al Qaeda — WASHINGTON — Obama administration lawyers have asserted that it would be lawful to kill a United States citizen if “an informed, high-level official” of the government decided that the target was a ranking figure in Al Qaeda who posed …
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North Korea video shows US city in flames after missile attack — YouTube video shows city ablaze in scenes reminiscent of 9/11, as South Korea claims nuclear test imminent in Pyongyang — It begins benignly enough, with an image of a sleeping young North Korean man …
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Ramesh Ponnuru / Bloomberg:
The Disgusting Consequences of Plastic-Bag Bans — Conservatives often point out that laws, no matter how benign they may appear, have unintended consequences. They can reverberate in ways that not many people foresaw and nobody wanted: Raising the minimum wage can increase unemployment; prohibition can create black markets.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett Declines Medicaid Expansion — Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) announced Tuesday that his state will turn down the Medicaid expansion, becoming the first governor of a blue state to officially say no to the coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act that the Supreme Court made optional.
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MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour of gay marriage - politics live blog — Sort by: — 8.03pm GMT — The carry over motion was passed by 464 to 38 - a majority of 426. — All the votes related to the gay marriage bill are now over. — 8.01pm GMT — Here's a pro-Cameron take on the result.
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Firedoglake, Washington Monthly, Towleroad News #gay and Joe. My. God.
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Michelle Obama's posterior again the subject of a public rant — They're at it again. — The latest public rant against Michelle Obama's effort to promote low-calorie school lunches was recently caught on tape in Alabama — the usual protest against the federal government meddling in local business.
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7-year-old playing an imaginary game at school gets suspended for real — LOVELAND, Colo. — A 2nd grader has been suspended from school in Loveland for a make believe game he was playing. — The 7-year-old says he was trying to save the world. But school administrators say he broke a key rule during his pretend play.
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KRUGMAN: U.S. NEEDS DEATH PANELS, SALES TAXES — Nobel Prize winning “economist” Paul Krugman spoke at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, D.C. last week. During the Q&A session following the lecture, an audience member asked him about the rising national debt.
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Jon Favreau, President Obama's head speechwriter, is departing — Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, who at times lit up social media as well as the president's addresses, is leaving. — President Obama and his head speechwriter, Jon Favreau, work in the Oval Office.
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Chilling legal memo from Obama DOJ justifies assassination of US citizens — The president's partisan lawyers purport to vest him with the most extreme power a political leader can seize — The most extremist power any political leader can assert is the power to target his own citizens …
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Bulgaria Implicates Hezbollah in Deadly Israeli Bus Blast — SOFIA, Bulgaria — The Bulgarian government said on Tuesday that two of the people behind a deadly bombing attack that targeted an Israeli tour bus six months ago were believed to be members of the military wing of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
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City in Virginia Becomes First to Pass Anti-Drone Legislation — Resolution bans all municipal agencies from buying or leasing drones — Charlottesville, Va., has become the first city in the United States to formally pass an anti-drone resolution. — The resolution, passed Monday …
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alan.com and Vox Popoli
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Study: Global Warming Can Be Slowed By Working Less — A new analysis suggests that a more ‘European’ schedule would reduce the effects of climate change — Want to reduce the effects of global warming? Stop working so hard. Working fewer hours might help slow global warming …
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WATCH: TA marks space handicapped and tows car — Security cameras show Tel Aviv municipality workers painting handicapped markings around parked vehicle and then towing it. — The Tel Aviv municipality found itself in hot water on Tuesday, after a Facebook post by a woman whose car …
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Pentagon to extend certain benefits to same-sex spouses — Jeff Sheng/AP - In this June 23, 2012 photo provided by Jeff Sheng, Navy Chaplain Kay Reeb of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America officiates the civil union ceremony of Air Force Tech. Sgt. Erwynn Umali, right …
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Dylan Byers / Politico:
Dick Morris out at Fox News — Fox News has decided not to renew its contract with political commentator and pollster Dick Morris, an industry official tells POLITICO's Mike Allen. — Morris, who was on contract with Fox News throughout the 2012 presidential campaign …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Dems start out ahead in Iowa Senate election — Steve King is the overwhelming favorite of Iowa Republicans to be their Senate candidate next year...and trails every Democratic candidate we tested against him by at least 7 points. It's the story of the last two election cycles for Senate Republicans.
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Stephanie Mencimer / Mother Jones:
The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama Death Squads Targeting Gun-Rights Activists — What do you get when you combine the president's ability to secretly kill American citizens and the recent push to restrict gun access? One of the most bizarre anti-Obama conspiracy theories ever†…
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Scott Johnson / Power Line:
David Horowitz: How Republicans can win — I've known David Horowitz for more than 20 years, from the time he came through town with Peter Collier talking about their invaluable book Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties. As Jay Nordlinger has written …
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Three Flushes for American Capitalism! — In praise of privately operated bathrooms that serve the public. — The greatest city in the world - New York, New York - is home to 8 million souls, a magnet for 52 million tourists a year, and legendary for the grossest public toilets this side of a Turkish prison.
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