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Big Biz Pays Chamber of Commerce to Fight Its Battles
(Newser) - The foreign money that's been funneling into the Chamber of Commerce looks like small potatoes in light of a new analysis from the New York Times that found nearly half of the Chamber's $140 million in 2008 contributions came from 45 anonymous corporate donors who step up the spending when... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Invisible Mexican Border Fence All But Doomed
(Newser) - If the "virtual border fence" being constructed along the Mexican border was visible, there still wouldn't be much to look at. The high-tech project has been allocated $1 billion over the last 5 years, but has produced just 53 miles of unreliable coverage along the 2,000-mile border—a... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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YouTube Yanks Grisly Tea Partier's Abortion Ad
(Newser) - A Tea Party campaign ad featuring graphic images of aborted fetuses is so grisly that it's being blocked from YouTube. The 30-second spot for Washington congressional candidate Missy Smith is, however, running two dozen times on various TV stations in the DC area. But the images are so disturbing that... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama Meets With Steve Jobs, Google VP
(Newser) - President Obama met with Apple's Steve Jobs in California yesterday, the New York Times ' notes. The two talked tech, innovation, and education, before the president took his leave to meet another tech titan: Marissa Mayer of Google. Mayer hosted the president and about 50 others at her home for... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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GOPers Say Palin Is Tough to Deal With
(Newser) - Politico today paints a lengthy, unflattering portrait of Sarah Palin's efforts to help fellow conservatives and Republicans on the campaign trail. "She offers little notice about her availability, refuses to do certain events, is obsessive about press coverage and sometimes backs out with as little lead time as she... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Dem Governor: ObamaCare Tempts Firms to Dump Plans
(Newser) - If you crunch the numbers, President Obama’s health care plan is a great incentive for employers to stop providing coverage and put their workers in the hands of government-subsidized plans, meaning “much greater cost” for the US, writes Democratic Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen in the Wall Street Journal... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Attack Ad Rips Wrong Lawmaker
(Newser) - A Denver TV station has dropped a GOP congressional candidate’s ad, saying it got its facts “blatantly wrong." Cory Gardner’s ad attacks Democratic Congresswoman Betsy Markey for voting for the 2010 budget, when in fact she didn’t—Ed Markey of Massachusetts did. The Gardner campaign... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Obama's Dumb Strategy Is Hurting Democrats
(Newser) - President Obama is “overseeing one of the worst White House midterm strategies in American history,” writes Karl Rove in the Wall Street Journal . Even though the economy is foremost on voters’ minds, Obama continues to focus on immigration reform, the “Ground Zero mosque,” and “an... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Tea Party Steeped in Global Warming Doubt
(Newser) - The Tea Party movement is highly skeptical of the threat posed by—and, in some cases, the existence of—global warming, finds a New York Times /CBS poll. Just 14% of Tea Partiers believe warming is currently taking effect, as opposed to 49% of the rest of Americans. More than... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Juan Williams Flap a Shirley Sherrod Rerun
(Newser) - The Juan Williams controversy ought to seem awfully familiar—because it’s a complete rerun of the Shirley Sherrod debacle . Only this time, it’s left-wingers promoting an edited, misleading clip, writes William Saletan for Slate . The video, which was quoted by the New York Times, Washington Post and NPR,... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Democrats: McCain Violated McCain-Feingold
(Newser) - Democrats are accusing John McCain of violating the campaign finance law he championed based on some new ads in which he supports GOP congressional candidates Ruth McClung and Jesse Kelly. This, says the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in a complaint to the Federal Election Commission, represents an “in kind”... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Black Councilman Told to Work in Cotton Field
(Newser) - A racially-charged exchange at a small city council meeting in Georgia has grabbed the attention of the national media and the NAACP. In the caught-on-tape exchange, Warner Robins Councilman Daron Lee, who is black, complains, “I was disrespected on Monday. I’m getting tired of you all, talking to... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Yet Another Blackwater Case Collapses
(Newser) - Legal cases against Blackwater employees accused of committing murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan have been collapsing one by one, the New York Times reports. This week, the Justice Department dropped a case against an armorer accused of killing a guard to an Iraqi official; the move... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Was Obama's Dad Murdered?
(Newser) - The official story is that President Obama’s father died after crashing his car into a tree—but Obama’s family in Kenya fears foul play had a hand in his death, according to a book Peter Firstbrook is working on about the Obamas. Though Barack Sr.’s car... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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O'Donnell Has Trouble Naming Democratic Senators
(Newser) - Christine O’Donnell seemed stymied when asked during last night's debate to name a Democratic senator she’d feel comfortable working with. She gave two names—but neither is currently a Democratic senator. First she mentioned Hillary Clinton, acknowledging “she’s not a senator any more.” Then she... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Palin Under Fire for Flag 'Desecration'
(Newser) - Sarah Palin appears to have desecrated Old Glory at a Tea Party Express rally in Reno. Video from the event shows Palin signing a flag handed to her by a fan, thereby violating a section of the US Flag Code that states the flag "should never have placed upon... More » Newser located this story for you on Friday, October 22, 2010 7:02 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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