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Fresh Subpoenas Issued in Edwards Hush Cash Inquiry
(Newser) - John Edwards' political career is dead but the federal probe into whether he used campaign funds to keep his mistress quiet has shown public signs of life for the first time in more than a year. Federal prosecutors have issued a fresh round of subpoenas for witnesses to appear before... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Panel: White House Blocked Worst-Case Gulf Spill Figures
(Newser) - The White House's response to the Gulf oil spill was sluggish and flawed by "a sense of over-optimism," according to a presidential panel investigating the Deepwater Horizon disaster. The panel discovered that the White House budget office rejected a request from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists for... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Naked Cowboy Announces for Presidency
(Newser) - Times Square's Naked Cowboy, Robert Burck, announced today that he plans to run for the US presidency. His platform includes closing borders, requiring drug tests for welfare recipients, abolishing unions for government workers, cutting capital gains and income taxes and reversing Obamacare health legislation. No word on whether the Naked... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Todd Palin: Email Flap Just a Misunderstanding
(Newser) - Todd Palin acknowledged today that he sent angry emails to Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller, but he brushed it off as a misunderstanding being exaggerated by the media. "My family has worked hard in supporting Joe Miller, so when I heard he'd said something less than supportive of my... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Growing Income Gap Is Killing US
(Newser) - Plenty of time and space has been and will be devoted to figuring out why the income gap between the rich and poor has gotten so big in the US, writes Steven Pearlstein. Today, though, he focuses on the very real consequences: "Runaway inequality," he writes, "undermines... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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How Is Christine O'Donnell Different From Alvin Greene?
(Newser) - Christine O’Donnell and Alvin Greene have a lot in common. “Like O’Donnell, Greene has no experience in office, a controversial back story, and a propensity for saying crazy things in public,” observes Cord Jefferson of the Root . Both seem spectacularly unfit for office. So it seems... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Clinton Squashes VP Rumors
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton forcefully dismissed the bubbling rumors that she would replace Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s running mate in 2012. Time magazine’s CEO asked Clinton about the rumors at a professional women’s conference today, according to Andrea Mitchell of NBC . Clinton replied that Biden was doing “... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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It's Tough to Be Conservative Enough in 2010
(Newser) - When Dana Milbank had the temerity to call Lisa Murkowski and Bob Bennett “faithful conservatives,” readers let him have it. These weren’t conservatives, they argued—just look at their American Conservative Union scores! So Milbank did. “What I found was astonishing,” he writes in the... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Meghan McCain: Quit Asking Me About Sarah Palin!
(Newser) - Sarah Palin plays a relatively small role in Meghan McCain’s book—after all “I was on the road for 18 months as opposed to Sarah Palin’s 60 days,” she writes in the Daily Beast . Yet in every interview she gave, Palin was the No. 1 topic... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Glenn Beck: Firefighters Right to Let Home Burn
(Newser) - Liberals and conservatives are in a standoff over the firefighters who let Gene Cranick’s home burn down because he hadn’t paid a $75 fee for fire services. Glenn Beck weighed in yesterday—mimicking, for a moment, Cranick’s Southern accent—and he’s on the firefighters’ side, ThinkProgress... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Tea Party Getting Its Act Together
(Newser) - Has the Tea Party grown up? The movement is “turning professional,” according to the Wall Street Journal , pushing a real legislative agenda and coordinating with the Republican establishment it supposedly threatens. The Virginia Tea Party Patriots, for example, has managed to push legislation to blunt the impact of... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Dems Look to Light Up Stoner Vote in 2012
(Newser) - Democratic strategists think they might be able to float to victory in 2012 on a cloud of Mary Jane. If California’s Proposition 19—the ballot initiative to legalize pot in the state—does a decent job of driving liberal young stoners to the polls, expect to see similar initiatives... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Final Bailout Tab: $29B
(Newser) - So it's not exactly zero, but the $388 billion the feds dumped into bailouts is going to end up with a final price tag of ... $29 billion, reports the New York Times. Most of Treasury's losses are focused in housing rescues ($46 billion) and the Detroit bailout ($17 billion), while... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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Woodward: Clinton May Move to VP
(Newser) - Rumors have been swirling around the Beltway that Hillary Clinton might replace Joe Biden on the 2012 ticket, and Bob Woodward gave them a little stir last night on CNN . Asked by John King if he thought Clinton would step in, Woodward readily replied, “It’s on the table.... More » Newser located this story for you on Thursday, October 7, 2010 7:01 AM. The story matched your section(s) Politics.
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