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| Dems shift tactics, pound Wis. governor on probe 2012-05-17T11:35:47Z
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| Kochs help Republicans catch up on technology 2012-05-17T10:04:53Z
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| Romney Raises $40.1 Million in April 2012-05-17T07:05:02Z Mitt Romney and the Republican National Committee raised about $40.1 million in April, almost matching President Obama's haul, The New York Times reports. |
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| Republicans Weigh Rev. Wright Attack Against Obama 2012-05-17T06:55:23Z A group of Republican strategists and a conservative billionaire have devised an advertising attack on President Obama that highlights his connection to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a controversial figure in the 2008 campaign, The New York Times reports. |
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| No sure thing for GOP: a tight battle for Senate 2012-05-17T04:09:05Z
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| Calif. congressional candidate accuses Democratic operatives of stalking 2012-05-17T03:18:06Z The campaign of 25-year-old California congressional candidate Ricky Gill is accusing Democratic-aligned trackers of stalking him after uncovering several YouTube videos showing the Republican candidate being secretly followed. |
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| Biden attacks Romney tenure as venture capitalist 2012-05-17T02:56:33Z
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| Confrontation brews in Congress over detainee law 2012-05-17T02:36:20Z WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers moved toward a confrontation over the government's power to detain suspected terrorists on Wednesday as the Republican-led House of Representatives began debate on a defense policy bill the White House has threatened to veto. Representative Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, sought to amend the law to guarantee people arrested in the United States on terrorism charges could not be detained indefinitely without trial or transferred to military custody. ... |
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| Jim Abdnor, former US senator from SD, dies at 89 2012-05-17T01:11:43Z Former U.S. Sen. Jim Abdnor gained fame nationally as the South Dakota Republican who ousted George McGovern from the Senate, but he was known in his home state as the farmer-turned-astute-politician who loved talking with people and never let the trappings of office get to him. |
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| Obama, Republicans clash over U.S. debt limit increase 2012-05-17T00:56:05Z
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| US Senate rejects budgets by Obama, Republicans 2012-05-16T23:57:37Z
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| Oklahoma welfare applicants to face drug screening 2012-05-16T23:27:47Z OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - Oklahoma will require welfare applicants to submit to screening for illegal drug use under a bill signed into law on Wednesday by Republican Governor Mary Fallin. Oklahoma became the fourth state this year to approve such a measure, joining Utah, Georgia and Tennessee. Fourteen other states had similar proposals pending, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. The law takes effect on November 1 for adults who apply in Oklahoma to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program for benefits. ... |
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| Is Romney's 'Mormon Problem' Actually a Problem? 2012-05-16T23:06:40Z
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| House Passes Violence Against Women Act 2012-05-16T22:51:48Z The House voted this evening to approve the Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act, also known as VAWA, 222-205. The bill would have failed had it not won the support of six Democrats. Twenty-three Republicans voted against the bill with most of the... |
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| Former FBI agent drops out of House race in CT 2012-05-16T22:46:27Z A former FBI agent who helped send elected officials to jail, including a governor, is dropping out of the Republican race in Connecticut's 5th Congressional District. |
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| Divided U.S. House approves domestic violence bill 2012-05-16T22:32:47Z WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passed a bill on Wednesday to renew the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, despite a White House threat to veto the measure on the grounds it is inadequate and would undermine existing law. Republicans insisted their measure would bolster needed protections to combat domestic abuse. They also accused Democrats of opposing the bill merely to rally their liberal base as women's issues already have been prominent in advance of the November 6 congressional and presidential elections. ... |
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| Wisconsin's Walker holds recall lead despite attacks 2012-05-16T22:26:46Z (Reuters) - Republican Governor Scott Walker's lead widened slightly over Milwaukee Democratic Mayor Tom Barrett in the run-up to the Wisconsin recall election, according to a poll on Wednesday that showed almost all Wisconsin voters have made up their minds. The Marquette Law School poll showed Walker had a 50 to 44 percent lead over Barrett, who lost by a similar margin to Walker in the 2010 governor's race. The recall vote is June 5. Only three percent of likely voters are undecided, according to the poll conducted from May 9 to 12. ... |
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| Republicans Scapegoat Obama for Right Wing Errors 2012-05-16T22:20:00Z COMMENTARY | A new series of attack ads aimed at President Barack Obama will air in 10 states considered hotly contested in the presidential election, according to CNN. The ads will slam President Obama as the cause of the housing crisis and health care problems. These ads have a glaring flaw: They're inaccurate. |
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| Romney, GOP Turn Attention to Iowa Despite Party Troubles 2012-05-16T21:52:00Z Iowa is an important swing state for the presidential election, and Mitt Romney and the Republican Party have turned their attention to the state. There are some obstacles for conservatives in the state. |
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| The Republican Party Has Become Fear Itself 2012-05-16T21:37:00Z COMMENTARY | Nearly 80 years ago, President Franklin Roosevelt gave an inaugural speech wherein portions have reverberated down through history, but none so much as when he cautioned Americans the "only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Although he was warning not to give in to the economic and sociological woes of the Great Depression, his words could describe the soul of the Republican Party today. It has come to embody fear itself. |
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| Lampooning video of New Jersey's Christie, Booker goes viral 2012-05-16T21:28:50Z
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| GOP Primary: Where Are They Now? 2012-05-16T21:18:10Z
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| Senate, Harry Reid Take the Easy Way Out on Filibusters 2012-05-16T21:01:00Z COMMENTARY | Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, clearly frustrated by what he perceives to be obstructionist Republican tactics, renewed his call this week to change the Senate rules on filibusters. |
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| Obama warns opponents over debt ceiling showdown 2012-05-16T20:47:47Z
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| Fact Check: Crossroads Ad Hits Obama for 'Broken Promises' 2012-05-16T20:25:45Z Crossroads GPS, the pro-Republican advocacy group co-founded by Karl Rove, is attacking President Obama over four “broken promises” in a new $25 million TV ad campaign across 10 battleground states. The one-minute spot juxtaposes clips of Obama in 2008-2009 making claims about his economic policies... |
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| Romney inches closer to clinching GOP nomination 2012-05-16T20:17:59Z
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| Wisconsin governor releases better 2011 jobs data 2012-05-16T20:15:13Z Republican Gov. Scott Walker released better 2011 jobs figures on Wednesday in an attempt to rebuff a central argument of those trying to recall him from office that Wisconsin's economy has suffered under his leadership. |
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| Boehner Discovers the Best Debt Limit Fight Is an Imaginary One 2012-05-16T20:12:42Z
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| Herman Cain Evolves, Endorses Mitt Romney 2012-05-16T19:54:45Z
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| Boehner, Obama clash over debt limit increase 2012-05-16T19:46:26Z
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| US spends more per person than Portugal, Italy, Greece, Spain 2012-05-16T19:46:06Z The Republican Senate Budget Committee released a chart Wednesday afternoon showing that governments in the United States spend more money per person than those in Portugal, Italy, Greece, or Spain. |
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| Crossroads announcing $25 million ad push 2012-05-16T19:27:29Z
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| Romney joins congressional Republicans in debt attack 2012-05-16T19:23:00Z ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Mitt Romney joined congressional Republicans on Wednesday in attacking President Barack Obama's handling of debt and deficits, a strategy that carries both risks and rewards for the likely Republican presidential nominee. As a new battle looms in Washington, Romney put the deficit at the heart of his campaign at an event in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he spoke in front of a counter that clocked up the constant increase of America's debt of $15.685 trillion. ... |
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| Don't bet on Mitt Romney winning in Massachusetts 2012-05-16T19:17:57Z
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| Republican-Led House Approves Reauthorization of Its Own VAWA Bill 2012-05-16T18:56:23Z The Republican-led House on Wednesday approved in a mostly partisan 222-205 vote its own version of a bill to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act, rejecting Democratic requests to also permit a vote on the version passed in the Senate with bipartisan support. |
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| Is Nebraska Senate Candidate Deb Fischer a Politician or Not? 2012-05-16T18:49:00Z COMMENTARY | In the wake of Deb Fischer's stunning upset in the Nebraska Republican primary, a banner from her campaign reads "Sarah Palin Endorses Deb Fischer, U.S. Senate. Conservative. Small Businesswoman. Not A Politician." |
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| What Matters in Virginia This Election Year? Housing, Unemployment, Gay Marriage 2012-05-16T18:23:00Z ANALYSIS | Over the next few months, President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, will spend inordinate amounts of time and money to secure Americans' votes in the upcoming presidential election. |
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| Pro-Republican group plans $25 million anti-Obama ad blitz 2012-05-16T18:20:47Z
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| Think Herman Cain's Romney Endorsement is Weak? #GetOverIt 2012-05-16T18:15:35Z
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| Romney giving up on home state of Massachusetts 2012-05-16T17:49:31Z
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 17, 2012 is:
maffick • \MAF-ik\ • verb
: to celebrate with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious behavior
Examples:
Fans mafficked for hours outside the stadium, celebrating the team's dramatic victory in the division championship.
"In half an hour, after the mildest of mafficking, the last visitors of the exhibition's last day had gone out of the gates and the staff began their final acts of closing up shop." — From an article in The Guardian (London), October 1, 2011
Did you know?
"Maffick" is an alteration of Mafeking Night, the British celebration of the lifting of the siege of a British military outpost during the South African War at the town of Mafikeng (also spelled Mafeking) on May 17, 1900. The South African War was fought between the British and the Afrikaners, who were Dutch and Huguenot settlers originally called Boers, over the right to govern frontier territories. Though the war did not end until 1902, the lifting of the siege of Mafikeng was a significant victory for the British because they held out against a larger Afrikaner force for 217 days until reinforcements could arrive. The rejoicing in British cities on news of the rescue produced "maffick," a word that was popular for a while, especially in journalistic writing, but is now relatively uncommon.