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They failed to 'buy' the US election in 2012: will conservative donors ever open their wallets again?

Source: The Telegraph, Nov 10 2012, 11:54am CST

An unprecedented amount of money was spent in the 2012 election — some $6 billion in total. But the real slumbering scandal was how much of that was an infusion of cash from Super PACs – supposedly independent “political action com ...

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This week in science: Perspective

Source: Daily Kos  |   May 25 2013, 8:12am CDT

My skeptical peers and I were buoyed to see the hundreds of millions of people on earth who do not profess belief in religion given some positive attention in the media this week thanks to the Pope's hopeful statemen ...

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The Fish Rots from the Head

Source: The New Media Journal  |   May 25 2013, 8:03am CDT

The mainstream media apparently have Republican leaders so gun-shy that they are rarely able to speak the truth in response to Democrat attacks. Anyone who doubts that should have watched Meet the Press on Sunday, May 19, wh ...

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Improving economy changes political landscape

Source: WRAL  |   May 25 2013, 7:48am CDT

WASHINGTON — Alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies gives the GOP something else to talk about and investigate as the economy clearly, if slowly, recovers on President ...

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GOP: Party of crybabies

Source: Salon  |   May 25 2013, 6:43am CDT

It’s time to call out a major Republican theme of how politics should be practiced in a democracy: the supposed right to be free from criticism. It may sell wonderfully inside the conservative closed-information loop, but it’s a nasty idea that ...

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Special interests, half truths must go

Source: Lowell Sun Online  |   May 25 2013, 6:10am CDT

The frustration is setting in; when you're losing games that you should be winning, it's time for a new game plan. You can't score points on defense as your opponent buys time for the election. Every time they tell an untruth, Republicans must have the c ...

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Oklahoma needs our support and empathy, not ideology

Source: Lowell Sun Online  |   May 25 2013, 6:10am CDT

Oklahoma, he spent years in loyal service to the Republican Party, including a stint as state party chair in the 1980s. Back then, he was a straight-talking source for many journalists around the country (including me). He was never anything but ...

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Obama says nation must do more for fallen heroes

Source: Mail.com  |   May 25 2013, 5:04am CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the nation must do more than just remember its fallen heroes on Memorial Day. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the country must care for the loved ones the fall ...

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Improving economy alters political landscape

Source: Kens5.com San Antonio  |   May 25 2013, 3:01am CDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The economy is clearly, if slowly, recovering on President Barack Obama's watch and robbing Republicans of a central argument against Democrats. But the alleged misbehavior by the Internal Revenue Service and other ...

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Obama nominates 2 Senate aides as SEC commissioners

Source: Los Angeles Times  |   May 25 2013, 2:20am CDT

Kara M. Stein would replace Elisse B. Walter as a Democratic commissioner and Michael S. Piwowar would succeed Troy A. Paredes as a Republican appointee on the five-member commission that oversees the country's capital markets ...

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Rolly: Matheson confounds GOP and Dems

Source: Salt Lake Tribune  |   May 25 2013, 2:01am CDT

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, Congressman Jim Matheson is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The only Democrat in Utah’s congressional delegation is befuddling in the sense that he not only is a constant target o ...

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