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Louie Gohmert Announces Challenge To Boehner For Speaker Of The House
Grandstanding tea party Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) has announced his intentions to dethrone John Boehner (R-OH) as Speaker of the House.
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Critics of American Sniper Chris Kyle Threatened with Violence and Rape Fantasies
‘It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don’t regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn’t save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I’m not naive, and I don’t romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about…
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A Stroke Of Obama’s Pen Will Lift 10.4 Million Workers Into the Middle Class
If the President simply adjusted the salary threshold for inflation since it was last raised in 1975, it would be a more significant income increase for over 10 million low and low middle-class American workers that raising the hourly wage to $15 per hour for the rest of the poverty-wage workforce.
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President Obama Mourns The Passing ESPN’s Stuart Scott With A Touchingly Fond Tribute
After ESPN had announced that longtime anchor Stuart Scott had passed away after a years long battle with cancer, President Obama expressed his sympathies and mourned the loss of the Sportscenter anchor.
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Senator Announces Democrats Have Enough Votes To Sustain An Obama Veto Of Keystone XL
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced on CBS’s Face The Nation that Senate Democrats have enough votes to sustain the widely expected veto that President Obama will issue after Republicans pass a bill authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Mitch McConnell Lies and Blames Obama and Democrats For His Years Of Senate Dysfunction
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) desperately tried to rewrite history today by implying that President Obama and Senate Democrats were responsible for the campaign of dysfunction and obstruction that he orchestrated.
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First Popularly Elected Black Senator Edward Brooke Dies
The first African American to be elected by popular vote to serve in the U.S. Senate has passed away at the age of 95. Edward Brooke (R-MA) was the first black Senator to win an election after the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, allowing for the direct election of U.S. Senators. His victory came over…
