B Media Network Political News Editor’s Home Page: November 2014

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Republican nominee should make a case for presidential self-restraint

WORTHWHILE Congress should support VFW charter change

Congress formally entered lame-duck status after Election Day. Nonetheless, before they wrap up, lawmakers should attend to a little-noticed bill that is that rarest of birds in Washington, something Republicans and Democrats both can agree on.

http://www.paducahsun.com/opinion/113014_PS_Sunday_editorial

New regs could affect W.Va. economy

The Obama administration made a proposition on Novmeber 26 to reduce the amount of smog-forming pollution allowed in the air, which could mean bad news for coal country.

http://www.loganbanner.com/news/news/150702583/New-regs-could-affect-W.Va.-economy

County's GOP women lead a national charge

Republicans looking to make inroads with female voters by electing more women to office would do well to look at Orange County. The state's only female GOP member in the new Congress is from Orange County.

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/women-643764-county-orange.html

John Kasich for president?

At the Republican Governors Association conference two weeks ago, Ohio Gov. John Kasich charmed pundits as he traded points on policy with his colleagues. He also defended his stances on Medicaid expansion and the Common Core educational standards.

http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2014/11/30/Ohio-s-John-Kasich-for-president.html

Taliban overruns an Afghan army base, killing 14

Taliban fighters overran an Afghan National Army outpost in Helmand province in the country's south late Friday night and by Saturday morning had killed as many as 14 soldiers in one of the insurgents' deadliest attacks against Afghan soldiers this year, local officials said. Elsewhere in Helmand province, the army battled for the third day against insurgents who had fought their way onto the army's main base in the south, Camp Bastion.

http://www.tampabay.com/news/world/taliban-overruns-an-afghan-army-base-killing-14/2208400

Obamacare could become insolvent as Americans refuse to sign up for wealth redistribution program

Obamacare's lead federal agency -- eventually some 8 million enrollees signed up for coverage, a goal that the administration had to work feverishly to reach. Since then, HHS says about 7.1 million have actually paid premiums and retained coverage.

http://www.naturalnews.com/047825_Obamacare_insolvency_wealth_redistribution.html

Wesfarmers boss defends CEO pay packets

ANGELINA JOLIE loves her while while no one is even allowed to know her relationship with the Duchess of Cambridge. Meet Tamara Ralph, the Aussie woman taking the world by storm.

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/wesfarmers-boss-defends-ceo-pay-packets/story-e6frfkur-1227140029920?from=public_rss

Leaving lasting impressions

When Gov. Deval Patrick takes his final walk down the State House steps in January, perhaps few initiatives will define his time in the Corner Office more than his focus on the state's life sciences sector. His mark may continue long after.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/11/leaving_lasting_impressions?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bostonherald%2Fnews+%28News+%26+Opinion+-+BostonHerald.com%29

Will: Emperor O's overreach may help rein in executive

America's Newtonian Constitution might again function according to Madisonian expectations if a provoked Congress regains its spine and self-respect, thereby returning our constitutional architecture to equipoise. But this is more to be hoped for than expected.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/11/will_emperor_o_s_overreach_may_help_rein_in_executive?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bostonherald%2Fnews+%28News+%26+Opinion+-+BostonHerald.com%29

Carr: No legacy stands on

His legacy? Gov. Deval Patrick is going on "Meet the Press" this morning to discuss his legacy with Chuck Todd, the Maynard G. Krebs look-alike and Obama-worshipping MSNBC-branded moonbat? OK, I think I figured it out. These silly Sunday morning shows are all about the "get" - luring the biggest fraud available onto the set with you.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/11/carr_no_legacy_stands_on?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bostonherald%2Fnews+%28News+%26+Opinion+-+BostonHerald.com%29

Barone: Pelosi leads House Dems' decline

House rules tend to ensure that the main job of members of the minority is to show up, vote "no" and lose. And in the next Congress, Democrats will have fewer seats in the House than they've had since 1929 and 1930.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/11/barone_pelosi_leads_house_dems_decline?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+bostonherald%2Fnews+%28News+%26+Opinion+-+BostonHerald.com%29

'Professor' Who Assisted Pathologist on Michael Brown...

Shawn Parcells, who assisted pathologist Dr. Michael Baden with the autopsy of Michael Brown that was arranged by the 18-year-old shooting victim's family, may not be all he's claimed to be, a CNN investigation found . Shawn Parcells speaks about the results of a second autopsy done on Michael Brown Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in St. Louis County, Mo.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/11/29/professor-who-assisted-pathologist-on-michael-brown-private-autopsy-may-not-be-all-hes-claimed-to-be-cnn-reports/?#038;#038;#038;

Texas Watch: Zionist group awed by Ted Cruz's support for Israel

More than a few heads nodded approval at last Sunday night's Zionist Organization of America dinner when Cruz noted that the Hebrew month of Kislev had just begun. "The month of Hanukkah, a month of miracles," Cruz went on, recalling the Maccabees' victory over an oppressive Greek king back in the day.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/columnists/todd-j-gillman/20141129-zionist-group-awed-by-ted-cruzs-support-for-israel.ece

Spotlight: European media, experts slam U.S. handling of Ferguson incident

Spanish Cadena Ser radio highlighted the fact that blacks account for 93 percent of all arrests in Ferguson although they make up only two-thirds of the whole population. According to figures from about 1,600 police departments in the United States, black people are seven times more likely to end up in prison than whites, the radio noted.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/europe/europe/2014-11/30/c_133823214.htm

For Obama and the Pentagon, an uneasy relationship

On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official. "I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery.

http://www.minotdailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/615094/For-Obama-and-the-Pentagon---an-uneasy-relationship.html?nav=5010

George Will: A case for self-restraint

AMERICA'S Newtonian Constitution might again function according to Madisonian expectations if a provoked Congress regains its spine and self-respect, thereby returning our constitutional architecture to equipoise.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20141130/OPINION02/141139988

Pat Buchanan: Hagel could not put out the interventionist fires

DEFENSE SECRETARY Chuck Hagel, a Vietnam war veteran and the lone Republican on Obama's national security team, has been fired.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20141130/OPINION02/141139984

President Barack Obama's unpopularity in Louisiana has been an issue in the state Senate race.

Landrieu's biggest hurdle in Louisiana? Obama Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: President Barack Obama may not be on Louisiana's Senate runoff ballot, but it's clear his widespread unpopularity in the state stands as Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu's biggest hurdle to a fourth term. Landrieu led an eight-candidate primary, but her 42 percent was only 16,000 votes ahead of Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy and far short of her 2008 totals when she won without a runoff.

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/election/2014/11/29/landrieus-biggest-hurdle-louisiana-obama/19691121/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

James Pindell's The Back Story: Jimmy Carter set an example for others hoping to win NH

If you told Lloyd Robie that the guy eating a doughnut right in front of him, right there in his Hooksett store, would actually be correct on his bold assertion that in two years he would be President, he probably thought you were crazy.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20141130/NEWS0614/141139997

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Face The Nation : Sen.-Elect Thom Tillis ; Sen.-Elect Gary Peters ; Brown Family Attorney Benjamin Crump ; Ta-Nehisi Coates ; Lehigh University Prof. Dr. James Peterson ; : Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile , Bill Kristol , Bret Stephens and Cokie Roberts .

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/30/1348094/-Sunday-Talk-Thanks-for-nothing?showAll=yes

Obama rift with Defense Department deepens amid search for new Pentagon chief

On a trip to Afghanistan during President Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official. "I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery.

http://www.northjersey.com/news/obama-rift-with-defense-department-deepens-amid-search-for-new-pentagon-chief-1.1143669

Palmetto Politics

U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham first floated the idea that he might run for president in 2016 a month ago, and he recently got encouragement from a likely place: his close friend and political ally Sen. John McCain. "I think he is looking at it, and I am strongly encouraging him to take a look at it," McCain, an Arizona Republican, told ABC News last week.

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20141130/PC1603/141139990/1177

Ben Carson Presidential Campaign Limps Behind Even Mitt Romney's

It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.

http://irregulartimes.com/2014/11/30/ben-carson-presidential-campaign-limps-behind-even-mitt-romneys/

Why have we all forgotten to say - thank you'?

Boil away all the romance of the Thanksgiving origin story and what you get is this: a band of religious separatists on the brink of starvation who celebrated their first successful harvest with a feast. A century and a half later, George Washington proclaimed a day of "public thanksgiving" to acknowledge the "Signal Favours of Almighty God," by which he meant not being annihilated by the British.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/11/30/why-have-all-forgotten-say-thank-you/lm8SiwHcu1cX8T4uaKlflO/story.html

Revamp VA disability benefits

The United States owes an incalculable debt of gratitude to its military veterans.

http://www.loganbanner.com/news/opinion/150664310/Revamp-VA-disability-benefits

Savings Blacks from Liberal Leaders

I get why Blacks turned out in force to elect Barack Obama president. He was their guy - the first Black man to have a shot at the position of most powerful person in the world.

http://townhall.com/columnists/brucebialosky/2014/11/30/savings-blacks-from-liberal-leaders-n1924272

Lower Oil Prices Are a Free-Market Victory

Seldom has so much good news been portrayed so negatively. Oil prices continue to fall in the U.S. and around the world, but near everyone in the media is grumpy about it.

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/larrykudlow/2014/11/30/lower-oil-prices-are-a-freemarket-victory-n1925232

Is NHTSA nominee up to the task?

As an expert on human fatigue, Mark Rosekind is well-suited to steer the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration toward the era of autonomous driving and connected-car technologies. But in the near term, Rosekind will have to prove to members of Congress that he is up to the task of revitalizing an agency beset by lapses exposed in the General Motors ignition switch and Takata airbag scandals.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20141130/OEM11/312019965/is-nhtsa-nominee-up-to-the-task?CSAuthResp=1%3A87355671386054%3A423310%3A17%3A24%3Aapproved%3A1478A539FDC1373C076F484C7257F662&=

Capitol Buzz: Legislator pushes for combination of positions

State Rep. John Bel Edwards, an Amite Democrat who is running for governor next year, attended this month's Southern University System Board of Supervisors meeting and, largely unprompted, encouraged members to consider joining the system president and Baton Rouge campus chancellor positions. He said that the state Legislature would see the move as an effort to operate more efficiently.

http://theadvocate.com/news/10956725-123/capitol-buzz-legislator-pushes-for

Obama Buys 17 Titles At Independent Bookstore

President Barack Obama tried to draw attention to independently owned businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, a day that is increasingly being marketed as one for deal-hungry consumers to remember to patronize these mom-and-pop outlets while doing their holiday shopping. He bought bags of books - 17 titles in all - during a stop at Politics and Prose, a popular Washington bookstore now owned by a former Washington Post reporter and his wife, also a former Post reporter who also worked for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the White House and State Department.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/29/obama-bookstore_n_6242454.html

China leader vows to protect territorial interests

Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a key foreign policy speech that the rising Asian nation would protect its sovereign territory, the Xinhua news agency reported, as it faces maritime disputes with several neighbours. "We should firmly uphold China's territorial sovereignty, maritime rights and interests and national unity," Xi told a Communist Party meeting on foreign affairs held on Friday and Saturday, according to excerpts of his speech released by Xinhua on Sunday.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/world/a/25648706/china-leader-vows-to-protect-territorial-interests/

For Obama and the Pentagon, an uneasy relationship

On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official. "I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said earlier this month as he recounted his discovery.

http://www.goerie.com/for-obama-and-the-pentagon-an-uneasy-relationship

Immigrants' chances tied to their state's policies

If Christian Avila lived a few hundred miles to the west, he would have a driver's license and qualify for in-state college tuition and a host of other opportunities available to young people granted legal status by President Barack Obama two years ago. But Avila lives in Phoenix, and the 24-year-old immigrant who was brought here from Mexico by his parents at age 9 still has to navigate the sprawling city in fear as he drives to school or work.

http://www.goerie.com/immigrants-chances-tied-to-their-states-policies

US lawmaker's aide draws ire over first...

A US lawmaker's communications director was facing social media calls she be sacked after her Facebook rant about President Barack Obama's daughters prompted widespread anger. US President Barack Obama pardons the National Thanksgiving Turkey "Cheese" during the annual ceremony in the Grand Foyer of the White House on November 26, 2014 in Washington, DC Elizabeth Lauten, spokeswoman for Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, wrote a scathing post to her Facebook account scolding Malia and Sasha Obama, 16 and 13, for looking bored while attending a public event with their father on Wednesday.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/446240/us-lawmaker-aide-draws-ire-over-first-daughter-scolding

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During this normally happy holiday period I've been watching some seriously disappointing events unfold around the country. They have to do with the quickly evolving and mind bogglingly incomprehensible protests breaking out across the nation in support of the activists in Ferguson.

http://lucianne.com/main2/?fcnt=811354

visit|article-5925250|interleaved-5924842-tab4|1Feds look at expansion to rail routes

In 25 years, a commuter living in Fairfield County might be able to get on a train in Greenwich and go to Long Island, through a tunnel under Long Island Sound. Or ride to Bradley Airport.

http://m.ctpost.com/local/article/Feds-look-at-big-expansion-to-Connecticut-rail-5925250.php

Ann McFeatters: Perks of the presidency

With President Barack Obama giddily professing his love for Meryl Streep as he fastened the Medal of Freedom around the famous actress's neck, we wondered what other perks of office this president enjoys. The news has been so wretched lately and his hair so much grayer, it's hard not to wonder how anybody could enjoy the high-pressure White House fishbowl existence for a day, let alone eight years.

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/2014/11/30/Ann-McFeatters-Perks-of-the-presidency/stories/201411300099

Made, and bought, in Pittsburgh

If you're in need of an antidote to big box stores and mass-produced gifts, Pittsburgh has the remedy. The nomadic I Made It Market is an indie event for artists and small business owners to bring out their handmade wares.

http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2014/11/30/Made-and-bought-in-Pittsburgh-The-I-Made-It-Market-shows-up-Downtown/stories/201411300106

Asides: Salvation Army kettles, Goodfellows toys, food bank incentives

GENEROSITY IS characteristic of this season of gift giving, and charitable organizations depend on contributions they receive in the key weeks between Thanksgiving and Jan. 1 to sustain them all year. The most visible representation is the Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign, with bell ringers in abundance just as holiday shopping gets into high gear.

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/editorials/2014/11/30/Asides-Salvation-Army-kettles-Goodfellows-toys-food-bank-incentives/stories/201411300100

Fossil-fueled Republicanism: The GOP agenda will be great for Big Energy, terrible for everybody else

Pop the champagne corks in Washington! It's party time for Big Energy. In the wake of the midterm elections, Republican energy hawks are ascendant.

http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2014/11/30/Fossil-fueled-Republicanism-The-GOP-agenda-will-be-great-for-Big-Energy-terrible-for-everybody-else/stories/201411250052

George Will: We don't need a Caesar as president

China's Xi vows to protect territorial interests

China's President Xi Jinping said the country will protect its territory, amid maritime disputes with several of its neighbours. BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a key foreign policy speech that the rising Asian nation would protect its sovereign territory, the Xinhua news agency reported, as it faces maritime disputes with several neighbours.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/china-s-xi-vows-to/1502178.html

Saturday, November 29, 2014

George F. Will: Obama's outrages liken him to Chester Arthur

America's Newtonian Constitution might again function according to Madisonian expectations if a provoked Congress regains its spine and self-respect, thereby returning our constitutional architecture to equipoise. But this is more to be hoped for than expected.

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_27021580/george-f-will-obamas-outrages-liken-him-chester?source=rss

Ruben Navarrette: Obama's plot to kill immigration reform?

A few years ago when President Barack Obama was mucking up the immigration debate with his stall tactics, I said that he should do us all a favor and just stop talking about the subject. Obama still talks about immigration.

http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_27021151/ruben-navarrette-obamas-plot-kill-immigration-reform?source=rss

For Obama and the Pentagon, relations are uneasy

On a trip to Afghanistan during President Barack Obama's first term, Defense Secretary Robert Gates was stunned to find a telephone line at the military's special operations headquarters that linked directly back to a top White House national security official. "I had them tear it out while I was standing there," Gates said this month as he recounted his discovery.

http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/nov/29/for-obama-and-the-pentagon-relations-are-uneasy/

Mona Charen: Obama Regulations Jamming Sticks Into Spokes of U.S. Economy

During the 2012 campaign, President Barack Obama often resorted to his favorite substitute for thinking: ridicule. Before enthusiastic audiences , Obama would mock Republicans by suggesting that "they have the same prescription they've had for the past 30 years.

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/mona_charen_obama_regulations_20141129

Republican Lawmaker's Aide Draws Ire for Scolding Obama's Daughters

A US lawmaker's communications director was facing social media calls she be sacked after her Facebook rant about President Barack Obama's daughters prompted widespread anger. Elizabeth Lauten, spokeswoman for Republican Congressman Stephen Fincher of Tennessee, wrote a scathing post to her Facebook account scolding Malia and Sasha Obama, 16 and 13, for looking bored while attending a public event with their father on Wednesday.

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/republican-aide-scolds-obama/2014/11/29/id/610103/

'PNoy not downplaying ISIS threat'

President Aquino is not downplaying the threats posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria , Malacaang said yesterday as it defended the government's anti-terrorism efforts. "I think anyone who would go back and review the pronouncements of the President on ISIS would not come to the conclusion that the President is downplaying the situation.we know that it's a serious concern and we continue to act," deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte said over radio dzRB.

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/30/14/pnoy-not-downplaying-isis-threat

Op-ed: Internet sales tax would hurt many small businesses in Utah

In 2008, I started Jester's Jerseys, a small online retailer of jerseys and other athletic apparel. At the time, I was just looking for a way to earn some extra cash to supplement my income as a call center manager.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/1873367-155/op-ed-internet-sales-tax-would-hurt

IAN: 11/29/14 - Nothing Interesting

As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, earthquakes, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system.

http://ift.tt/1xV9N8g

PRIORITY Repealing Obamacare will lower health insurance costs

Saving most Americans money on health insurance by repealing the most objectionable sections of the Obamacare law ought to be a priority when the new Congress convenes early next year.

http://ift.tt/1y2wD1L

Hagel a symptom of failed foreign policy

Recent events have not cast a flattering light on President Barack Obama 's approach to military and security matters. The rise of the Islamic State has forced him to reverse his withdrawal from Iraq.

http://ift.tt/1xV9PwW

Kentucky Alzheimer's walks exceed $1 million

"I lost my mother 10 years ago," Fondaw said. "Her death was caused by issues that were brought on as a result of her Alzheimer's.

http://ift.tt/1y2wD1H

Past discrimination may mar future for tribe

This Nov. 25, 2009, file photo shows Pamunkey Councilmen Jeff Brown, left, and Gary Miles, hold a deer as their Chief Kevin Brown presents it to Gov. Tim Kaine, second from left, during the annual tax tribute from the Virginia Indians to the Virginia governor in Richmond, Va. Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus are urging the Obama administration to withhold federal recognition of the Pamunkey tribe in southeast Virginia because of its history of banning intermarriage with blacks.

http://ift.tt/1xV9Pgv

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Recent events have not cast a flattering light on President Barack Obama's approach to military and security matters. The rise of the Islamic State has forced him to reverse his withdrawal from Iraq.

http://ift.tt/1rEDPAw

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Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus are urging the Obama administration to withhold federal recognition of a Virginia Indian tribe because of its history of banning intermarriage with blacks. In January, the Interior Department proposed recognizing the Pamunkey tribe in southeast Virginia, which would make members eligible for special benefits in education, housing and medical care - and allow the tribe to pursue a casino.

http://ift.tt/1rEDPkc

N.Y. Military Museum Recognizes the Harlem Hellfighters

Lt. James Reese Europe and the jazz band of the 369th Infantry Regiment, also known as the Harlem Hellfighters, upon their return from Europe on Feb. 17, 1919. They were in heroes in France during World War I, only to be treated as second-class citizens when they returned to New York.

http://ift.tt/12eEwEi

Rethinking The Cost Of Western Intervention In Ukraine

RETHINKING THE COST OF WESTERN INTERVENTION IN UKRAINE By Katrina vanden Heuvel November 25 Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, recently cautioned Americans against intervention fatigue: "I think there is too much of 'Oh, look, this is what intervention has wrought' .â~@~I.â~@~I. one has to be careful about overdrawing lessons."

http://ift.tt/1FEPnon

NY dinner puts wealthy and homeless at same tables

Some well-off Manhattan residents paid $100 Friday for the honor of eating a candlelit holiday dinner with homeless people at a church, an intersection of two worlds that left one down-on-his luck man thinking the seemingly impossible. "What if a love connection happened tonight between the haves and the have-nots?" 44-year-old Craig James said before guests arrived.

http://ift.tt/11DrtfC

Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

ABC's "This Week" - St. Louis alderman Antonio French; former New York police commissioner Ray Kelly; Jelani Cobb, writer and University of Connecticut associate professor. NBC's "Meet the Press" - Gov. Deval Patrick, D-Mass.; Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund CBS' "Face the Nation" - Benjamin Crump, attorney for Michael Brown's family; Sens.-elect Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Gary Peters, D-Mich.; Blase Cupich, archbishop of Chicago.

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France honors Bloomington vet with Legion of Honor Medal

At his home in Bloomington, Jim Carroll received the French Foreign Legion of Honor award, the highest award bestowed on a foreigner by France. That momentous day, the young U.S. Army paratrooper took his first combat jump, landing 13 miles inland from the beach at Normandy with orders to cut off enemy troops trying to repel the Allied beach invasion.

http://ift.tt/1rDPBv6

Central California Butcher Takes Meat Processing Truck Direct To Local Ranches

CBS San Francisco Connect With Us At KPIX 5 PROGRAM GUIDE: KPIX 5 TV Schedule WATCH: A Glimpse Inside The Working KPIX 5 Newsroom Breaking News Send news tips, video & photos, and video to the KPIX 5 [] CONNECT WITH KCBS Welcome to KCBS All News 740AM & 106.9FM on CBSSanFrancisco.com! LIKE KCBS Radio On Facebook: KCBS is the Bay Area's only all news station, serving listeners with local, national and world news around the clock, [] SAN FRANCISCO - Beef steaks, lamb, even hamburger - Jim Fogle can pretty much tell you anything you'd want to know about every cut of meat for sale at his Central Coast Butcher shop, J & R Natural Meats.

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Did ObamaCare Cost The Democrats The Election?

As I wrote at Forbes yesterday , New York Senator Charles Schumer has placed the blame for the Democrat's disastrous defeat in this fall's election squarely at the feet of the Affordable Care Act . Speaking at the National Press Club the other day, the third-ranking Democrat in the US Senate said that whatever the merits or demerits of health reform, it was bad politics.

http://ift.tt/1ytHqBX

Who'll Be Looking Down On Baker?

Governor Deval Patrick will be leaving his office on the third floor of the State House in a few weeks. It's a good bet that Governor John Andrew will be leaving at the same time.

http://ift.tt/1ytHr8X

Coble bids farewell to Congress

The end of the year will mark the final time a man whose career spanned five presidencies and the fall of communism must return to a place he never embraced as home. At 83-years-old, the Triad's most popular Republican congressman is calling it a career.

http://ift.tt/1FEYxmt

Is America Too Caucasian?

With just two years left in the Obama Administration's "fundamental transformation" of the United States of America, maybe it's time to take a look at what Barack Obama meant to achieve with his "fundamental transformation". At the time I thought it was rather curious, why would someone say "We live in the greatest country on the face of the earth, join me as we fundamentally transform the United States of America"? It begs the question why - if something is "the greatest" there is - would anyone want to "fundamentally transform" it? Transform it into what? What could possibly be better than "the greatest"? It doesn't make a lot of sense does it? Then again not much of what this administration has done has made a lot of sense.

http://ift.tt/1ytHvFy

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The Mojave National Preserve might be young but it already could be out of time. The threats posed by a proposed transportation network at the California-Nevada Stateline have settled on the horizon and the future of the desert does not look good.

http://ift.tt/125I2BT

Protesters Disrupt Christmas Tree Lighting In Seattle

In Seattle, a crowd gathered to watch the lighting of a Christmas tree. A group of children ages seven to 10 were on stage, preparing to sing.

http://ift.tt/125HbkL

Republicans gain control offering real hope and change

There's been a big blow to Barack Obama's presidency overnight - with Republicans gaining control of the U.S. Senate in midterm elections. Joey Jones reports.

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visit|article-5923507|interleaved-5923137-tab2|1Despite gains, gender gap remains

In Connecticut's richest towns, women who work full time make half as much as men. Statewide, women who work as physicians earn 56 percent as much as a man in the same job.

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Hagel's departure bad news

President Barack Obama does not seem to have very good luck in keeping secretaries of defense. The third one of his administration, Chuck Hagel, is resigning.

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How to run for president from the Senate

They would seem to have big advantages going into the 2016 presidential race -- prominent jobs in Washington, access to major donors and the ability to influence the major national issues of the day. But being a member of the Senate hardly paves a clear path to the White House.

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Mia Love's Immigrant Rhetoric

Mia Love's first race was close. Two years ago, Love, a Haitian-American who was then thirty-six years old and a Republican rising star, finished seven hundred and sixty-eight votes behind her opponent, Jim Matheson, a six-term Democratic incumbent, in a hard-fought battle for Utah's newly minted Fourth Congressional District, which was created after redistricting in 2011.

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Opinion: Obama's - Horrible Bosses 3' Audition

Vice President Joe Biden lamented earlier this year that there were too many Americans stuck in a "dead-end job." If only he had noted how many work near his office.

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Mona Charen: Sticks in spokes of economic wheel

During the 2012 campaign, President Obama often resorted to his favorite substitute for thinking: ridicule. Before enthusiastic audiences , the president would mock Republicans by suggesting that "they have the same prescription they've had for the past 30 years.

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Rare optimism ahead of climate talks in Lima

Negotiators from more than 190 countries will meet in the Peruvian capital for two weeks to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. Getting all countries aboard will be a crucial test for the U.N. talks, which over two decades have failed to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for global warming.

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Insomniacs' Vent Hole with Craig Ferguson

SPOILER WARNING: A latenight gathering for non-serious palaver that does not speak of that night's show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked.

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Reopened thread on municipal pensions

Hello! I started a thread on municipal pensions and cities a while back when I wasn't able to respond to comments ... wanted to repost with some additional questions because the comments were so good... more feedback welcome! On Election Day, while canvassing, it happened again - good solid liberal Democrat. He comes to the door, and we start talking about things to work on.

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GOP to Review Immigration Bill

Republican leaders may respond to President Obama's executive order next week, which could curb deportations for millions of immigrants living in this country illegally. Leaders have encouraged house Speaker John Boehner to bar the Obama administration from carrying out the immigration bill.

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Mitt Romney is out front, but says he's not running again

There's no clear Republican presidential front-runner for 2016 - except, maybe, Romney.

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Energized by new targets set by China and the United States, the world's top climate polluters, U.N. global warming talks resume Monday with unusual optimism despite evidence that human-generated climate change is already happening and bound to get worse. Negotiators from more than 190 countries will meet in the Peruvian capital for two weeks to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris.

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Annoyed Neighbor Gets the Short End of the Stick After His Attempt at ...

A man who broke into his neighbor's apartment to silence a barking dog ended up getting bitten and arrested, New Hampshire police said. They said a brawl erupted Friday morning when Roger Pelletier forced his way into the Portsmouth apartment because he was frustrated by the constant barking of his neighbor's Shih Tzu, Oreo.

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Is Rick Perry Readying a 2016 Run?

Texas Gov. Rick Perry is inviting hundreds of well-known Republican donors and policy experts to meetings next month for the purpose of sprucing up his image and setting up a possible 2016 presidential campaign, Politico reported , citing fundraisers and organizers. This Nov. 19, 2014, file photo shows Texas Gov. Rick Perry at the Republican Governors Association annual conference.

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Demonstrators Deploy Mass 'Die In' Tactics at Major U.S. Malls

Several stores lowered their security doors or locked entrances as at least 200 protesters sprawled onto the floor while chanting, "Stop shopping and join the movement" at the Galleria mall in Richmond Heights a few miles south of Ferguson, where officer Darren Wilson fatally shot Brown, who was unarmed, in August. Protesters lie on the floor at the St. Louis Galleria, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014, in St. Louis.

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Kid Holding 'Free Hugs' Sign at Protest Attracts...

Kid Holding 'Free Hugs' Sign at Protest Attracts Cop's Attention. What Happens at the End of Their Encounter Goes Viral.

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Anti-American: Barack Obama says only Native Americans can decide U.S. immigration policy

Speaking in Chicago yesterday, Barack Obama said that U.S. citizens have no right to control who comes into the U.S. and that the only people who can rightfully control that are Native Americans. In so doing, Obama denied the sovereignty of the United States and denied the very laws and structures that made him president in the first place.

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We must solve Erie's looming fiscal woes: John Evans

Erie County Executive Kathy Dahlkemper recently proposed a 7 percent increase in property taxes. That proposal was subsequently replaced by the idea of reducing the county's reserve funds to meet expenses instead of raising taxes.

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Goldberg: Obamacare was hardly transparent

I understand we've turned the page to the next controversy -- President Barack Obama's unconstitutional immigration pander -- but I'd like to dwell a little longer on the previous travesty. Obama administration health-care consultant Jonathan Gruber was discovered to have boasted that Obamacare was designed to exploit the "stupidity" of American voters and elude honest accounting by hiding both its cost and the taxes necessary to pay for it.

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Rabbi's 'savages' blog post draws ire

Several major U.S. Orthodox Jewish figures this week slammed a leading Orthodox rabbi who called Israeli Arabs "enemies," said stone-throwing Palestinians should be shot and proposed that a contested Muslim holy place in Jerusalem should be moved. Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, leader of an 800-member modern Orthodox synagogue in Teaneck, N.J., published last week on his blog a post, "Dealing With Savages," that focused on the recent murders at a Jerusalem synagogue.

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Obama doesn't deserve my respect

Why shouldn't I disrespect Barack Obama? The man took an oath to honor the most ingenious governing document ever devised by inherently flawed humans, then spent six years spitting on it. Obam-nesty is just his latest slap in our collective face.

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Immigrants' chances tied to their state's policies

If Christian Avila lived a few hundred miles to the west, he would have a driver's license and qualify for in-state college tuition and a host of other opportunities available to young people granted legal status by President Obama two years ago. Immigrants' chances tied to their state's policies If Christian Avila lived a few hundred miles to the west, he would have a driver's license and qualify for in-state college tuition and a host of other opportunities available to young people granted legal status by President Obama two years ago.

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NY dinner puts wealthy and homeless at same tables

In this photo provided by Saatchi & Saatchi Wellness, some of New York City's wealthier residents sit down to a holiday dinner with some of the city's homeless at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Wealthier New Yorkers paid $100 a plate to sit with some of their less fortunate neighbors to a dinner, which included roasted turkey, buttered mashed potatoes, red velvet cake and pumpkin cheesecake.

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Republicans closing in on ninthSenate pickup in Louisiana

The Republican Party stands on the brink of putting an exclamation point on its hugely successful midterm election with the GOP challenger for U.S. Senate in Louisiana well-positioned to dislodge the Democratic incumbent in a runoff election early next month. A Dec. 6 win by front-running Rep. Bill Cassidy over Sen. Mary Landrieu would give Senate Republicans their ninth pickup and stretch their advantage in the chamber to 54-46 over Democrats when the new Congress is sworn in next year.

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GOP Govs Starting To Strut Their Stuff For 2016

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GOP May Increase Government Surveillance in Lame Duck

A lame duck Congress is always fraught with danger for those who want to restrain government. Inevitably there will be one or two pieces of legislation that "must pass" before the end of the year.

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2016: Mag Issues Casting Call for Hillary Alternative

One of the top progressive magazines has put out an open casting call for a left-wing primary challenger to Hillary Clinton in 2016. even the most ardent Hillary supporters should acknowledge that the Democratic Party, and the country, will be better served if she has real competition in the primaries."

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Deal with Iran would adorn Obama's legacy as a Nixon-to-China moment: FT

In an article published on the Financial Times website on November 27, the writer David Gardner said a comprehensive nuclear deal with Iran would "adorn" President Barack Obama's "legacy as a Nixon-to-China moment". Following is an excerpt of the article entitled End to Middle East turmoil depends on bringing Iran in from the cold: The failure to meet this week's deadline for a definitive nuclear deal between Iran and the so-called P5+1 is ominous.

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Friday, November 28, 2014

Pentagon imposes standards on security firms

The Pentagon is for the first time requiring private security contractors to meet a series of certifiable standards that govern how their businesses are run and how they operate overseas, a move that some say is long overdue. Sparked in part by the fatal shooting of 14 unarmed Iraqis in 2007 by Blackwater Worldwide guards, the effort gives the Pentagon the ability to more easily hold accountable companies that go rogue and is designed to improve the performance and image of an industry often seen as run by mercenaries.

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Warthog "Dilgermobile" to Iraq

Then he gave $100-billion in military equipment to the Iaqi Army. Who gave $30-billion of it to ISIS.

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IAN: November 28, 2014 Black Friday edition

Hello, another Friday has come to visit us. I don't know about any of you but I'm not leaving the house barring emergency today.

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Giving Thanks in the Insomniacs Venthole with Craig Ferguson

SPOILER WARNING: A late night gathering for non-serious palaver that does not speak of that night's show. Posting a spoiler will get you brollywhacked.

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Texans hope for new life for bills as GOP takes over Senate

Before the recent congressional elections, Republicans hammered home the complaint that Senate Democrats had blocked nearly 400 bills approved by the GOP-run House, including more than two dozen authored by Texans. Few if any of these proposals will see progress before the current Congress finishes its lame-duck session.

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Calm comes to troubled Ferguson; protests dwindle ...

Tensions eased in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson on Thursday after two nights of violence and looting sparked by racially charged anger over a grand jury's decision not to charge a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager. In New York, where protesters had vowed on social media to disrupt the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade through Manhattan, at least seven people were arrested during the event, police said.

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Scot Lehigh: Probing the soul of a nation's VPs

In addition to penning three syndicated columns a week, that is. Most of us probably wouldn't sit down to read an individual biography of each of this nation's 47 second-in-commands.

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No Decision Yet in Arizona Lawsuit Over Vote Tally in Very Close U.S. House Race

This article describes the arguments on both sides in federal court on Wednesday, November 26, in Congressman Ron Barber's lawsuit over whether certain voters unlawfully had their ballots rejected. A decision might come on Friday, November 28.

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Southern Democrats trying to recover lost ground

In this Nov. 4, 2014 file photo, Democratic Georgia U.S. Senatorial candidate Michelle Nunn concedes the election to Republican David Perdue during her election night in Atlanta. Many Democrats say the way to recover lost ground in the conservative South is to reclaim the partyis lost identity as a champion of the middle class.

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Obamaa s immigration action fuels worrying

SAN DIEGO – Advocacy groups barely waited for President Barack Obama to finish speaking about sweeping changes to the U.S. immigration system to start warning about scams. “We hear horror stories about people getting taken advantage of horribly,” attorney Ginger Jacobs told several dozen people who watched the president's speech at Alliance San Diego offices.

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Burma Constitution Summit - Impractical': Presidential Spokesman

A summit of political leaders proposed by Burma's parliament to debate constitutional change is "impractical" and unlikely to happen, the president's spokesman said in a further setback to hopes for full democracy after 49 years of military rule. A semi-civilian government took office in 2011 and undertook a rapid series of reforms but the pace of change has slowed, raising international concern that the military is not yet ready to submit to the authority of a parliamentary democracy.

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President Obama pardons Ohio turkeys Mac and Cheese

Two Ohio turkeys lived it up in Washington this week before finding out which one would receive a presidential pardon. Cooper Farms in Mercer County provided the turkeys to the White House this year because owner Gary Cooper is chairman of the National Turkey Federation.

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Enviro Meltdown Over "Unpatriotic" and "Irrational" Republicans

Uh oh The evil, hate filled, GOP now has control of the US Senate. Clearly the world will soon end.

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Get Ready for a Two-Year Brawl Between GOP Congress, Obama, and the Last of the Left

If you thought the bare knuckled, no-holds-barred, midterm elections were rough, the last two years of Barack Obama's presidency will make that look like a Frustrated by the slow, plodding pace of democracy, the Constitution's checks and balances, and the pertinence of Republicans to want a say in their government, Obama's preparing for all out war in next year's GOP Congress. He has taken to writing his own immigration laws, and by implication, erased Article I, Section 1 of our governing document that says "All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States" And he has been sharpening his veto pen, vowing that the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline won't be completed as long as he is president.

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Somebody's tracking you

GPS devices in motor vehicles tell you where to turn to reach your desired destinations. But those new-fangled gadgets can also tell strangers where you're going - and where you've been.

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Obama gets the bill for White House Thanksgiving

There's no free lunch - or breakfast or dinner - for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day for that matter.

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Immigrants Social Security eligible in Obama plan

Many immigrants in the United States illegally who apply for work permits under President Barack Obama's new executive actions would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits upon reaching retirement age, according to the White House. Under Obama's actions, immigrants who are spared deportation could obtain work permits and a Social Security number.

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Race for Democratic chairman intensifies

A former Toledo and Perrysburg resident has entered the contest for Ohio Democratic Party chairman, claiming a successful record of getting Democrats elected. Antoinette Wilson, a Columbus political consultant and former Ohio assistant secretary of state who got her start working on the 1988 campaign of Ohio Supreme Court Justice Alice Robie Resnick, joins an already crowded field.

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Hagel goes, dysfunction stays

Barack Obama's decision to replace Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel raises once again a question about this president's continuously strained relationship with the Department of Defense and the U.S. military establishment. That relationship, now testified to by Mr. Obama's three previous choices to head the Pentagon, will make the choice, and the role, of a new defense secretary particularly difficult.

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'Special' waste raises stink near Boone County landfill

'Special' waste raises stink near Boone County landfill Odor complaints at landfill skyrocket, state authorities step in Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1xNXaMe A truck arrives at Bavarian Waste landfill. Odor complaints about the facility have increased dramatically the past few years after Bavarian began accepting greater quantities of what is called "special" waste, including sewage sludge and oil drilling mud.

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Executive orders a courageous way to protect people's rights

Presidential executive orders are hardly the way to change laws and build consensus, or goodwill, with the legislative branch or allow states a say in policy through their elected leaders. They're unilateral directives to federal agencies to enforce measures never voted into law.

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Ayotte, Shaheen, join conservation fund effort

A group of U.S. Senate members, including New Hampshire's Kelly Ayotte and Jeanne Shaheen, is seeking a way to find a permanent funding solution for the Land and Water Conservation Fund before the end of the year. The fund, which has helped preserve thousands of acres of land in New Hampshire and across the country for 50 years without using taxpayer dollars, is scheduled to expire in 2015.

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Cornel West: The Age of Obama Is Over

On CNN Wednesday, leftist Professor Cornel West, given the chance to bloviate about the non-indictment of Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown, decided to impart his perspective with a vengeance, even targeting President Barack Obama and blurting that the Ferguson affair signaled the "end of the age of Obama." West began, "Ferguson signifies the end of the age of Obama.

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On Native GroundVERMONT Shows How to Keep Alive the Lost Art of Civility in Politics

BRADENTON, Fla., Jan. 10, 2011 -- It was just about this time last Sunday night when I tuned into WFLA 970-AM here in Tampa Bay to hear George Noory and got Bill Cunningham instead. Seconds later, his guest was saying of President Obama, "He's a Marxist! He's a socialist! He's a Communist!" I was shocked.

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Market MoverGIVE Me Liberty or Give Me Vodafone

BRADENTON, Fla., Updated Jan. 29, 2011-- Americans don't ask their country to get involved in the internal political struggles of the nations it interacts with, and the general rule is that we don't. But prior to the last decade, we were surely too involved in such struggles.

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Obama's action fuels worry about immigration scams

Advocacy groups barely waited for President Barack Obama to finish speaking about sweeping changes to the U.S. immigration system to start warning about scams. "We hear horror stories about people getting taken advantage of horribly," attorney Ginger Jacobs told several dozen people who watched the president's speech at Alliance San Diego offices.

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Calm comes to troubled Ferguson

Democratic Rifts Surface in Wake of Midterm Election Defeat

Long-muted tensions within the Democratic Party over policy and strategy are beginning to surface publicly, a sign of leaders looking beyond President Barack Obama's tenure in the aftermath of the party's midterm election defeat. A prominent example came this week, when Sen. Chuck Schumer , a member of the Senate leadership, gave a rare public rebuke to Mr. Obama over the centerpiece of his presidency: the health-care overhaul of 2010.

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Calm comes to troubled Ferguson; protests dwindle in other US cities

Tensions eased in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson on Thursday after two nights of violence and looting sparked by racially charged anger over a grand jury's decision not to charge a white police officer for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager. Protests also dwindled elsewhere in the United States as the Thanksgiving Day holiday and wintry weather kept many indoors.

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SD producers: Keystone XL pipeline not a cure-all for rail delays that have plagued farmers

South Dakota farmers are nearing the end of a record corn harvest this week, but they have serious concerns about grain prices, storage options and rail congestion heading into spring. And they're looking for more options than the Keystone XL pipeline to help.

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Make My DayKARL the Curmudgeon Journals his Feelings

ATLANTA, Ga., Ga., Nov. 7, 2011 -- I am a serious person, seeking the opportunity to do a serious and very important job. Our nation has very serious problems, particularly of an economic nature, and Barack Obama does not have the skill, knowledge or will to solve them.

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Thanksgiving volunteers come through in Paterson, Englewood

The mood was festive Thursday as local and federal lawmakers carted plates crammed with traditional Thanksgiving fixings to rows of talkative diners at Eva's Village, an anti-poverty non-profit in Paterson with a full-time staff of 90 people and a budget of $10 million. But meanwhile at a senior citizen low-rise 15 miles east in Englewood, where the much smaller non-profit Bergen County Resource Center hosted its annual holiday meal, some wondered where the politicians were this Thanksgiving.

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Michael Barone: The Diminished Minority Leader

House rules tend to ensure that the main job of members of the minority is to show up, vote "no," and lose. And in the next Congress, Democrats will have fewer seats in the House than they've had since 1929 and 1930.

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Howard Dean: On Hillary as the 'inevitable nominee'

On USA TODAY's Capital Download, Howard Dean discusses why he ran in 2004, why Democrats lost in 2014, and what Hillary Clinton replied when he told her he would support her for president. Howard Dean: On Hillary as the 'inevitable nominee' On USA TODAY's Capital Download, Howard Dean discusses why he ran in 2004, why Democrats lost in 2014, and what Hillary Clinton replied when he told her he would support her for president.

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An Ar AppealTHANK You for Your Help! We Made it

It shouldn't come as a surprise that that the far right is not just opposed to abortion, but contraception, too. Allowing women to have control over their bodies has never been allowed in their universe.

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Being president is hard. Six reasons pols run anyway

Running for president is hard, and actually being president is even harder. Yet politicians are lining up around the block to consider bids for the White House.

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Obama's action fuels worry about immigration scams

A presidential palate: The Obama family's Thanksgiving menu

President Barack Obama spent a quiet Thanksgiving at the White House where the belly-stuffing menu featured all the holiday's basics. He also continued a tradition of telephoning members of the armed forces to thank them for their service.

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Make My DayTHE Feller is a Smeller

It's always time to worry when you hear that something has to be done, and done right away, or else a calamity of unimagined proportions will strike. And it's definitely time to worry when the people saying something has to be done right away are members of the Bush Administration.

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The WilliesHOW to Pass Out a Bailout Bill

It was Monday evening and the phone rang - again. It was probably the fifth time in two hours.

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On Native GroundMcCAIN, Obama Both Come Up Short on Global Issues in Debate

With $700 billion dollars - about $2,400 for every man woman and child in America - Congress has just about paid back all those American and foreign banks for every bad loan they've ever made. All those credit card debts that people didn't feel like paying will soon be paid for by taxpayer money, courtesy of Congress.

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The CrisisWHAT You Really Lost Today

Last week's presidential debate was supposed to cover foreign policy issues, but the ongoing market meltdown was too big to ignore. Just the same, when the debate turned to global matters, John McCain and Barack Obama responses were merely a reinforcement of the conventional wisdom.

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Obamaa s action fuels worry about immigration scams

SAN DIEGO Advocacy groups barely waited for President Barack Obama to finish speaking about sweeping changes to the U.S. immigration system to start warning about scams.

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The WilliesDEBATING While the House Burns

After President Bush, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke pressured congressional leaders to approve a $700 billion bailout of the financial markets as soon as possible to prevent a global economic panic, lo and behold, we still ended up with a global panic. Perhaps it eased a bit with Monday's 936-point gain, but that remains to be seen.

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MomentumPOET of the Air

Despite Sen. John McCain's belief to the contrary, the situation in Iraq has become increasingly twisted and convoluted. It is almost like Milo Minderbinder, the wheeler-dealer from Joseph Heller's World War II novel "Catch-22," is in charge.

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Market MoverDEAR Andrew: There's this Guy Named Obama

It's from a game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the New York Giants played on Nov. 20, 1960 at Yankee Stadium. Trailing the Eagles 17-10 late in the game, the Giants were driving for a touchdown.

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Pakistan's general stance on terrorists pleases US

Gen Raheel Sharif is an extremely articulate spokesperson for Pakistan's interests, says Dan Feldman, US Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. In an interview with Dawn, ambassador Feldman also said that US forces staying in Afghanistan after 2014 would only fight the Taliban only if they directly threatened them, supported al-Qaeda or posed a strategic threat to the Afghan National Security Forces.

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Make My Day'Twas the Month Before Christmas

While John McCain and Sarah Palin were refighting the culture wars of the 1960s, Obama turned his campaign into a referendum on deregulation, trickle down economics and tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporations. He offered a break with the policies that have dominated mainstream economic discourse since Ronald Reagan.

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Afghanistan was never an easy country to leave

It was one of the longest continual stints I spent with the mujahideen during their decade of resistance against the Red Army in the 1980s. Exhausted and desperate to get out, I recall asking the commander of the group - who later became the governor of Herat Province - when he could arrange to smuggle me back over the border into Pakistan from where I could begin my journey home.

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I have a question about psychiatry

As someone who is a medical student and has had a passion about the brain since childhood, what do you think makes a successful psychiatrist versus one that has a bad reputation? I would appreciate an honest insight from psychiatrists who love their job and are content despite obvious emotional, financial, and mental challenges from all angles What would be important challenges I will go through regardless of where I would go for a psychiatry residency and regardless of where I would practice? I have a huge passion for mental health having gone through undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome and the undiagnosed mental health issues that came with it for 24 years . I never had behavior problems or academic problems.

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More Detainees Set for Release From Guantanamo

More detainees are slowly and quietly being released from U.S. detention in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, The Wall Street Journal reports. Five captives were released last week and more are set for December, although defense officials have been vague about numbers, the Journal said.

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Foreign ministers from U.S.-led coalition against IS to meet early Dec

PanARMENIAN.Net - Foreign ministers from up to 60 countries forming the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State militants will hold their first meeting next week in Brussels, U.S. officials said on Wednesday, Nov 26, according to Reuters. The Dec 3 meeting, chaired by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, is expected to review progress in the fight against Islamic State and to discuss how coalition members will coordinate politically in future.

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USDA technology grant connects schools

BRATTLEBORO >> The U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing almost $500,000 in a distance learning project in four Vermont school districts that will use Marlboro Graduate Center as a training hub for the technology. The USDA Rural Development Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant will help 19 Vermont schools purchase videoconferencing equipment and software that will allow students and teachers in the schools to take part in distance learning classes and trainings.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Stent Implanted Into Heart

Summary: Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had heart surgery on Wednesday morning to have a stent implanted in her heart due to a blockage. The oldest member of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, had a stent implanted in her heart on Wednesday, according to USA Today.

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The Wall Street Journal: EPA proposes stricter ozone air-pollution standard

The Obama administration is preparing for the release of a series of energy regulations over the coming weeks in advance of a Republican-controlled Congress next year that will prompt pushback from industries and lawmakers, testing President Barack Obama's commitment to his environmental agenda. On Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed lower limits for ground-level ozone, or smog, in the atmosphere, setting off a nearly yearlong regulatory process for setting a new standard.

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National Turkey Federation Presents National Thanksgiving Turkey to President Obama

The National Turkey Federation today presented the National Thanksgiving Turkey to President Barack Obama from National Turkey Federation Chairman Gary Cooper of Cooper Farms. This marks the 67th presentation to U.S. Presidents since 1947 by the National Turkey Federation.

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Stricter Smog Standard Sought

The Obama administration took unilateral steps Wednesday to cut levels of smog-forming pollution linked to asthma, lung damage and other health problems, making good on one of President Barack Obama's original campaign promises while setting up a fresh confrontation with Republicans and the energy industry. In a long-awaited announcement, the Environmental Protection Agency said it prefers a new, lower threshold for ozone pollution of 65 to 70 parts per billion, but left open the possibility it could enact an even lower standard of 60 parts per billion demanded by environmentalists.

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Mayor Collins to speak to U.S. Senate panel

Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins is scheduled to testify Dec. 3 before the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry regarding the city's water crisis in August caused by a toxic algal bloom in Lake Erie, said U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow , committee chairman. Guidelines: Please keep your comments smart and civil.

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LA Mission's Thanksgiving dinner brings out the best in LA's top chefs and celeb

LA Mission Board member Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr. and Four Seasons Hotel Owner Beverly Collins said, "We giving the homeless a second chance and it's a blessing to serve here." What better way to get into the season of giving this Thanksgiving Holiday weekend than to head downtown to Los Angeles and volunteer to serve turkey dinner with all the trimmings to more than 3,000 homeless on Skid Row.

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Pentagon Denies Ransom Paid For Bergdahl's Release

Washington, D.C. Update on army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl who was released - in a prisoner swap with the Taliban earlier this year. There are still plenty of questions about how Bergdahl was captured and how the Obama administration tried to get him back.

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Ministers from anti-IS coalition to meet Dec 3

Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the town of Suruc in this file October 18 Reuters file photo. Foreign ministers from up to 60 countries forming the US-led coalition against Islamic State militants will hold their first meeting next week in Brussels, US officials said on Wednesday.

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Immigration surely enriches you and me

A book, "The Christian Examiner," warns that "ill-clad and destitute" immigrants are "repulsive to our habits and our tastes." A former mayor of New York City cautions that they bring disease, "wretchedness and want" to America.

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Obama pardons Ohio turkeys

President Barack Obama, right, with daughter Sasha, carries on the Thanksgiving tradition of saving a turkey from the dinner table with a "presidential pardon" of an Ohio turkey, "Cheese," in the Grand Foyer of the White House on Wednesday.

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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

The Obama presidency was supposed to revive America's image in the eyes of the world, but results on that score have been mixed at best. Recent blunders show the White House struggling to manage relationships with our closest allies.

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Thu. Nov 27th, 2014

University of Findlay sophomore Hannah Tong and redshirt freshman Nickyla Garverick were named first team all-Midwest Region by the American Volleyball Coaches Association.

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Immigrants eligible for Social Security, Medicare under Obama plan

WASHINGTON >> Many immigrants in the United States illegally who apply for work permits under President Barack Obama's new executive actions would be eligible for Social Security and Medicare benefits upon reaching retirement age, according to the White House. Under Obama's actions, immigrants who are spared deportation could obtain work permits and a Social Security number.

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Will President Obama's Immigration Policy Hurt America's Unemployed?

President Barack Obama tried to put a positive spin on his decision to issue an executive order to give several million illegal aliens clemency but his move also may have an unintended consequence of creating heightened job competition for America's unemployed. Despite President Obama's historic role as the country's first African head of state, his new policy actually may hurt unemployed African Americans as much as any segment of the U.S. population.

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Judge Rules Fewer Political Groups Can Keep Their Donors Secret

The US Capitol building as seen from the Cannon House Office Building in Washington. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption A U.S. district court judge awarded a victory to campaign finance reform advocates on Tuesday when she ruled the Federal Election Committee was too loosely enforcing a campaign finance regulation passed in 2007 , allowing some big-money donors to remain anonymous.

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Never mind: A House panel debunks the Benghazi claims

Of all the scandals laid at the feet of the Obama administration, none has been the subject of greater obsession than the attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, in 2012. With official treachery assumed, the word Benghazi has come to crystalize all that critics think is wrong with the White House.

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E.J. Dionne Jr. / Thank a politician today

It's a mistake to be nostalgic for some golden age in politics when everyone was nice to each other. Such a time never existed.

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Let's Give Thanks; The Nation Is on the Rebound

Yes, there were the predictable riots in the streets of Ferguson, as thugs took advantage of the situation to loot stores and destroy property. And yes, our nation has suffered both from ill-conceived domestic policies and no real foreign policy over the past six years.

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Thanksgiving in and out of Prison

In December 2001, I wrote my first column urging President George W. Bush to commute the sentence of Clarence Aaron, a federal drug offender who, at age 24 in 1993, was sentenced to life without parole for a first-time nonviolent drug conviction. Aaron has been part of my holiday season every year since Bush left the Oval Office and Barack Obama succeeded him.

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Today in History

Today is Thursday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 2014. There are 34 days left in the year.

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Judge Rejects Chris Kyle Widow's New Trial Request in Controversial ...

A judge rejected a request made by Navy SEAL Chris Kyle's widow to order a new trial or throw out a jury's verdict in the controversial defamation lawsuit filed by former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura. Ventura was ultimately awarded $1.8 million in the lawsuit, which alleged Kyle lied about punching Ventura after the former governor said Navy SEALs "deserve to lose a few" in Iraq while they were both at a California bar in 2006.

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Video: Two Ferguson Protesters in D.C. Quickly Ended Their Interviews After Admitting This

Two protesters in Washington, D.C., upset with the Ferguson grand jury decision endorsed the rioting that had rocked the Missouri suburb earlier in the week. "I'm supporting the people of Ferguson and their reaction to the indictment," one unidentified woman told the Media Research Center's Dan Joseph Tuesday night.

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In Brief: Court tosses ruling that shielded Arias witness

An appeals court has thrown out a ruling that barred the public from watching the first witness called by Jodi Arias at the convicted murderer's sentencing retrial. The decision Wednesday by the Arizona Court of Appeals overturns the Oct. 30 ruling by Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens and suggests that the previously unidentified witness may have been Arias herself.

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recovering after stent implant

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who vowed this year to stay on the Supreme Court as long as she could go "full steam," announced Wednesday that she had undergone a "coronary catheterization procedure" to have a stent put in her right coronary artery. Justice Ginsburg, 81, was said to be resting comfortably at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and was expected to be discharged within 48 hours.

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Texas Congressman Frustrated by WTU Complaints

An NBC 5 Investigation found hundreds of injured soldiers have complained of mistreatment, harassment and verbal abuse inside the Army's Warrior Transition Units that were designed to help active duty soldiers heal. Republican Congressman Michael Burgess says he's frustrated to see the hundreds of active soldiers complain of harassment and abuse at the Army's WTU.

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George F. Will: Government's legitimacy falls short given recent Wisconsin raids

The early-morning paramilitary-style raids on citizens' homes were conducted by law enforcement officers, sometimes wearing bulletproof vests and lugging battering rams, pounding on doors and issuing threats. Spouses were separated as the police seized computers, including those of children still in pajamas.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Bizarre US tradition: Turkey pardoning

US President Barack Obama symbolically "pardoned" a turkey Wednesday on the eve of the US Thanksgiving holiday, in what has become an annual White House tradition. It is an odd tradition, to be sure.

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Shoppers Urged to Remember Small Businesses

As the holiday shopping season gets into full swing, officials are reminding people not to forget their neighborhood businesses on Saturday. U.S. Sen. Tom Carper visited several Milford businesses on Wednesday to promote this weekend's fifth annual Small Business Saturday.

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Obama gets the bill forWhite House Thanksgiving

ThereA s no free lunch - or breakfast or dinner - for President Barack Obama on Thanksgiving Day. Or any other day for that matter.

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A perverse loophole in the Affordable Care Act will soon make illegal immigrants more affordable to hire than native-born Americans. Once millions of people living in the U.S. illegally receive resident cards and work permits, they will be eligible to hold jobs and earn wages.

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Senator Rand Paul links Ferguson tragedy to harms of the modern drug war

Regular readers know I am always interested in Senator Rand Paul's distinctive perspective on criminal justice issues. This new Time op-ed , headlined "The Politicians Are To Blame in Ferguson," has Senator Paul touching on broader themes as he connects recent events in Ferguson with his belief in the need for systemic reforms to the US criminal justice system.

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Everyday Heroes: Carson Magee

It's a big day for Carson Magee. On a chilly November morning, Carson is getting ready to ride 3.5 miles on his unicycle from Coeur d'Alene's McEuen Park all the way to Riverstone to raise awareness for a disease he's been living with the past four years.

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Michele Flournoy out of running to be Defense secretary: Top prospects now

MichA le Flournoy has taken herself out of the running to be the next secretary of Defense, a prospect that would have made her the first woman to hold the job. She was widely considered a top pick for the position, having previously served as the Pentagon 's undersecretary for policy for former Defense secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta.

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Smog check: EPA proposes tougher regs for ground-level ozone pollution

In a controversial move that could impact the US economy as well as the health of millions of Americans, the Obama administration wants to tighten ground-level ozone pollution standards. Environmental and health advocates welcome the proposed improvement in standards for what is commonly known as smog.

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Turkey wars in Washington: Obama pardons, Boehner brines

Lots of gobbling in Washington on Wednesday. At the White House , President Obama did the traditional thing and pardoned the national Thanksgiving turkey.

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Teen homelessness increasing dramatically

Now, the city is trying to make homelessness a thing of the past. FOX 32 reports, though, that the fastest growing segment of homeless youth is actually in the suburbs.

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Hillary Clinton Equates Unfriendly Media to Cows

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is saying "moo" to reporters who fail to write propaganda stories to support her bid for the White House. She refused to invite a Washington Free Beacon reporter to a press conference, because it was not a "cattle call."

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Fournier: 'Asinine' Schumer Trying to Help Hillary on O-Care

National Journal Senior Political Columnist and Editorial Director Ron Fournier said that Sen. Chuck Schumer's attempts to distance himself Obamacare were "asinine" attempts to help Hillary Clinton on Wednesday's "Special Report" on the Fox News Channel. "It's asinine...First, have they forgotten that we now all have videotape we don't have to rely on Fox News that we can just on YouTube ourselves and see what he said? He's obviously contradicting himself" he stated.

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Tom Hanks And Rita Wilson To Co-Host National Tree Lighting

The Hollywood power couple will be in Washington D.C. to host annual ceremony which takes place on December 4th. The National Christmas Tree Lighting event will this year be co-hosted by actor Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson.

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Pomona forum focuses on President Obamaa s immigration program

POMONA >> President Barack Obama's recent announcement that he would move forward with an executive action that would provide some immigration relief for about 4 million undocumented immigrants was welcome news to Juan Rojas. But before getting too excited, Rojas and his wife want to make sure he qualifies for the president's immigration program.

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Storm delays: Ditch the plane and take the train?

A messy mix of rain and snow is causing massive delays Wednesday, during one of the busiest travel times of the year.

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Ferguson businesses destroyed after fires and looting

"Together, we are all focused on making sure the necessary resources are at hand to protect lives, protect property, and protect free speech," Gov. Jay Nixon said ahead of the announcement of the grand jury decision Monday. We first met Ibrahim Rammaha back in August as he was cleaning up Sam's Meat Market after looters hit it for the second time, taking the store's air conditioning unit and generator.

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Brown family attorney: Officer Wilson is lying

Reacting to Officer Darren Wilson 's first televised interview, attorney for Michael Brown 's family said he has "no doubt" that Wilson is lying. "When you read his initial statement to his supervisor this whole incident boiled down to two words according to him.

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Happy Thanksgiving from the kitty's

A tag is a way to search for this diary. If someone is searching for "Barack Obama," is this a diary they'd be trying to find? Use a person's full name, without any title.

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The Hate Of The Union Address: Right-Wing Nutjobs Want To Ban Obama From Congress

You may have thought that you've seen it all, but when it comes to overt expressions of rancid hatred today's Republican politicians and pundits are just getting started. It's apparently not enough that they have spent the last six years breaking all records for partisan obstructionism and openly displayed racist attitudes toward President Obama.

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Looking at the Fault Lines, Reading the Tremors - Is a Split Coming in the Democratic Party?

Over at Digby's Place , Gaius Publius has a couple of recent postings looking at the Senate and speculating over schisms on the Democratic side. It's of interest, I suspect, to many here at Daily Kos because a number of us are torn over where to put our energies and loyalties when we have a putatively Democratic Party that time and time again asks for our money, and then turns around and slaps us in the face, or pats us on the head while telling us to keep quiet while the adults are making deals.

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Blast from the Past

One of the most amazing episodes in modern American journalism has emerged from a flagrantly inaccurate and misguided Time magazine column by Joe Klein. He's a political writer whose work in this case may become Exhibit A for what's wrong with the craft today.

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Americans are in for a rough ride with the Republican-led Congress

United Steelworkers president Leo Gerard said prior to the midterm elections that this election was about survival: survival of Social Security, survival of Medicare and survival of the labor movement. He hit the nail right on the head, but apparently the two groups who will be hurt the most didn't care or voted against themselves.

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Dan Simpson / Giving thanks for this and that

We are going out for Thanksgiving dinner, partly because my wife told me in advance that I would be eating crow instead of turkey for having called this month's elections almost entirely wrong. The one contest I got right was Tom Wolf's defeat of Tom Corbett for governor of Pennsylvania.

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Obama should be lauded for immigration action

Thank goodness we have a president who is willing to accept the responsibilities of his elected office. President Barack Obama's initiative will move the United States toward comprehensive immigration reform, a much-needed reality.

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Hagel's departure: The nation needs a top-flight leader at Defense

Although the whole story behind Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel's resignation, announced Monday, has yet to be told, the public is free to draw its own conclusions about his service and departure. Given the importance of the issues handled by the secretary of defense, most Americans would probably prefer to hear that Mr. Hagel is leaving President Barack Obama's Cabinet over policy differences and not some personal dispute.

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10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Demonstrators in Ferguson, Mo., New York City, Seattle and elsewhere shut down bridges and roads one day after a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer in the shooting death of a black 18-year-old. Their attorneys vow to push for federal charges against Officer Darren Wilson who killed Michael Brown, saying the grand jury process was rigged.

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Silver meets with Milwaukee officials on arena

Silver and Wes Edens, one of two New York billionaires who bought the Bucks from Former Sen. Herb Kohl last April, said they were optimistic that progress was being made. "We accomplished a lot today," Silver said.

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Stasi: Digesting racial talk at the dinner table

Quick: How many movies can you name that take place over a family's dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner? Is it because all that abundance that we're supposed to be thankful for instead brings out the worst in us, or is it because we're stuck with the relatives on that one day that we avoid every other day? If you're lucky enough not to be forced into slave labor Thursday and can instead spend the day with your family , chances are good that hot topics stuffed down your throat along with Gramma's frightening cranberry compote are guaranteed to kill off any goodwill that the warmth of family togetherness has racked up.

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Schumer calls Obamacare a mistake for Dems

Sen. Chuck Schumer hit President Obama and party leaders in a speech Tuesday, saying they focused on Obamacare rather than bills to aid the middle class, inviting the backlash that cost Democrats in the past two midterm elections. WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Schumer second-guessed President Obama's top legislative accomplishment Tuesday in a speech that drew quick fire from fellow Democrats.

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Can Hillary Clinton Count On Religious Voters For Consistent Support?

Rep. Peter King: It Would Be 'Very Helpful' If President Obama...

Rep. Peter King has a suggestion for the White House in dealing with the latest developments in Ferguson - invite Officer Darren Wilson over. "I think it would be very helpful if President Obama went and met with the police officer, or invited him to the White House and said, 'You've gone through four months of smear and slander, and the least we can do is tell you that it's unfortunate that it happened and thank you for doing your job,'" the New York Republican told Fox Business on Tuesday.

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President's Immigration Plan Praised, Panned

How President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration will affect Ohio or Michigan Latinos is yet unknown, but the president's actions are being both praised and panned by both sides of the reform debate. Cleveland immigration attorney David Leopold called the reforms long overdue, because it will give peace of mind to many undocumented immigrants and their families.

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Rep. Peter King Suggests Obama Invite Darren Wilson to the White House

Republican Rep. Peter King thinks it would be a great idea for President Obama to invite Darren Wilson to the White House . "I think it would be very helpful if President Obama went and met with the police officer or invited him to the White House and said, 'You've gone through four months of smear and slander and the least we can do is tell you that it's unfortunate that it happened and thank you for doing your job.'

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Obama appears to be seeking a more forceful Defense secretary

Two leading prospects - former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed - took themselves out of the running to replace Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. Ashton Carter, right, a former deputy Defense secretary, appears to be a likely... Two leading prospects - former Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy and Sen. Jack Reed - took themselves out of the running to replace Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.

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Shorten lays out Labor vision

THE loss of jobs at the nation's internationally renown research centre, CSIRO, will "lobotomise" Australia, says a leading science writer. THERE are calls for Defence Minister David Johnston to resign after his attack on government owned shipbuilders - including from one high-profile Liberal.

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Obama tackles Immigration, Ferguson at Chicago rally

President Barack Obama traveled to his adopted hometown of Chicago on Tuesday to continue his week-long campaign of garnering support for his executive action on immigration reform, but he led his speech by remarking on the deadly riots in Ferguson . "The frustrations that we've seen are not just about a particular incident.

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10 Things to Know for Wednesday

Schumer: Election Results Show That Dems Need to Go Further Left

An Associated Press story late this afternoon has New York Senator Chuck Schumer saying the darnedest things, with only a tiny bit of pushback from reporter Charles Babington. In the wake of a midterm election rout which saw Republicans win at least eight Senate seats, increase their House majority, and take gubernatorial races in at least three deep blue states , Schumer now says that Democrats erred in pushing passage of the Affordable Care act, aka Obamacare, at the supposed expense of economic issues.

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Tough to make a case against police in shootings

A Missouri grand jury's decision not to indict a policeman for the killing of Michael Brown illustrates the difficulty of bringing criminal charges against officers in fatal shootings and points to the likelihood of a similar outcome for a federal civil rights probe of the case. The panel concluded Monday that the Aug. 9 shooting of the unarmed black 18-year-old was legally justified and that no charges were warranted against Officer Darren Wilson.

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U.S. Supreme Court to review EPA power-plant standards

The U.S. Supreme Court is stepping into a new case about Obama administration environmental rules, agreeing to review a ruling that upholds emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants.

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Officer Darren Wilson Speaks Out on Ferguson Shooting for the Very...

Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson has broken his silence and is speaking out about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown for the very first time. In a captivating interview with ABC News, Wilson explained how he feared for his life as Brown allegedly assaulted him.

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New York Times Defends Decision to Publish Street Name of Officer...

The New York Times defended on Tuesday their decision to publish the street name of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's home, contending the information had already been reported on. "The story mentions only the name of the street where the couple have a house and that street has been widely reported on," the Times' head of communications Eileen Murphy told the Washington Examiner .

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CNN Anchor Likely Wasn't Expecting This to Happen Live on the...

As CNN anchor Miguel Marquez reported on "peaceful" protests in New York City supporting 18-year-old Michael Brown, the man killed by Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, he was likely caught off guard by the chants that quickly drowned out his own voice. "This is a very peaceful protest," he reported.

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After You Read Ferguson Column Penned By Ivy League Prof., You'll...

An Ivy League professor penned a column Tuesday in which she accused America of having a "racist God" that "requires black people's blood to atone for the sins committed by its followers." Reacting to the grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson, University of Pennsylvania religious studies professor Anthea Butler wrote that "this time, the blood shed in sacrifice to this god of white supremacy was Michael Brown's."

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Congressman Dingell with Medal of Freedom

A legendary politician and a legendary musician are among the recipients of the highest civilian honor awarded in the U.S. President Obama gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Congressman John Dingell and Motown legend Stevie Wonder Monday. The 87-year-old Dingell, a Dearborn Democrat, is retiring after the current session of Congress after 59 years in office.

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Obama: No excuse for violent, destructive protest

President Barack Obama sharply rebuked protesters Tuesday night for racially charged violence in Missouri, saying there was no excuse for burning buildings, torching cars and destroying other property after a grand jury declined to indict the white police officer who shot a black teenager. As darkness fell in Ferguson, Missouri, where authorities hoped to avoid a second night of chaos in the streets, Obama said destructive actions are criminal acts and those who responsible should be prosecuted.

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Is Chuck Schumer cutting Republicans' attack ads for them?

Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says his party made a mistake by pushing to pass Obamacare in 2010. That's right: The third-ranking Democrat in the Senate says that expending legislative energy on President Obama 's health-care bill was an unforced error.

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Peter King: Obama Should Meet With Darren Wilson

Representative Peter King said it would be "very helpful if President Obama went and met with the police officer [Darren Wilson], or invited him to the White House" on Tuesday's "Opening Bell" on the Fox Business Network. He stated "I think it would be very helpful if President Obama went and met with the police officer, or invited him to the White House and said, 'you've gone through four months of smear and slander, and the least we can do is tell you that it's unfortunate that it happened and thank you for doing your job.'

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Stricter smog standards coming soon, say sources

A layer of smog can be seen above Manhattan through the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York, in this file photo taken May 21, 2009. Coming full circle on a campaign promise, the Obama administration will propose Wednesday to reduce the amount of smog-forming pollution allowed in the air.

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Colorado: Senators Udall and Bennet ask President Obama to use...

Citing gridlock in Congress, Colorado's U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet have asked President Obama to consider designating Browns Canyon, in Chaffee County, as a national monument under the Antiquities Act. The request comes as Congress has all but ignored a huge backlog of public lands bills primarily based on ideological opposition to land protection measures by House Republican committee chairs.

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver meets with Milwaukee officials about new arena for Bucks

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver met with Milwaukee officials and local business leaders on Tuesday about a new arena for the Bucks. Silver and Wes Edens, one of two New York billionaires who bought the Bucks from Former Sen. Herb Kohl last April, said they were optimistic that progress was being made.

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Your VP photos and videos wanted

Vice president Joe Biden and his family arrived on the island Tuesday night for their annual Thanksgiving visit. If you happen to see the VP out and about during his stay, the I&M would like to know about it.

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Stile: Christie pressured by Iowa interests to veto N.J. ban on pig crates

Animal-welfare advocates have tried virtually every lobbying tactic at their disposal to get Governor Christie to outlaw the practice of locking pregnant pigs in metal "gestation" crates for most of their child-bearing lives. They commissioned polls.

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Ferguson Protests Around The Country Block Streets

Hundreds of protesters angry with a Missouri grand jury's decision to not indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson marched through Times Square in New York on Tuesday night, shutting down traffic on 7th Avenue, one of the city's busiest streets. The demonstrators also directed their anger at New York police.

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Democrats Vow To Thwart Emerging Republican Budget Plan

Democrats in Congress on Tuesday vowed to reject an emerging Republican effort to split immigration-related funding from a full-year government spending bill that avoids a government shutdown. The plan, being pushed by some conservative Republicans including incoming House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, would provide a short-term funding extension only for immigration agencies as a way to exert leverage against President Barack Obama's immigration order last week.

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In Milwaukee, NBA commissioner touts impact of new arena

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Pope urges Europe to accept migrants

Pope Francis sought Thursday to inspire an old and "haggard" Europe to find its vigor and greatness once again, urging European governments to welcome migrants, care for the elderly and create jobs for the unemployed. Francis outlined his vision for the continent in a pair of speeches to the European Parliament and Council of Europe a quarter-century after St. John Paul II travelled to Strasbourg to address a continent still divided by the Iron Curtain.

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NDP MP says she gave no 'explicit' consent to Liberal's alleged advances

Allegations of harassment against two Liberal MPs have shaken Parliament Hill in recent weeks. Now, one of the complainants, who has asked her identity not be revealed, is speaking to media.

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Letter: Don't fault scientists for avoiding pay for play

In an otherwise excellent editorial urging Rep. Chris Stewart to have more "faith" in science, you make one astounding statement: "He still gets more campaign money from the energy sector. The scientists may be brainy, but they apparently don't know how to play this game."

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