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Pelosi Has 'Strong Concerns' Over Federal Crackdown On Medical Marijuana

The Huffington Post | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.03.2012

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U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday released a statement pushing back against the Obama administration's interference with...

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GOP Candidate Defends Obama Against Santorum's 'Snob' Comment

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 02.29.2012

President Obama got support from an unlikely ally against GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum's "snob" comment -- namely, Newt Gingrich. Gingr...

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GOP Lawmaker's Solar Energy Hypocrisy

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 02.15.2012

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Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has been among the most vociferous opponents of the Obama administration's energy policies. On Tuesday, he stood on the othe...

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Barrage Of Pot-Related Questions Ignored In Obama's Online Chat

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 01.31.2012

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WASHINGTON, DC -- President Barack Obama in an online "conversation" with American voters on Monday, failed to answer a barrage of questions about mar...

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White House To Republicans: 'Get The Job Done'

The Huffington Post | Chris Gentilviso | Posted 12.18.2011

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With some Republican opposition toward a short-term payroll tax cut extension out in the open, the White House responded on Sunday with its own intent...

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Remembering JFK's Tragic Assassination

Posted 11.22.2011

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Tuesday marks the 48th anniversary of one of the most tragic events to take place on American soil -- the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. ...

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Thousands Gather In Lafayette Park In Culmination Of Tar Sands Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 02.26.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The fight over the construction of TransCanada's Keystone XL reached a pivotal moment on Sunday when an estimated 10,000 demonstrators g...

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Consumer Confidence Rattled By Debt Deal's 'Dire Economic Consequences'

Posted 09.28.2011

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Consumer sentiment fell in July to its lowest point in more than two years, as anxieties over stagnant wages and rising unemployment deepened, a s...

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Mexican Man Executed In Texas Despite Appeal By Obama

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 12.01.2011

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Texas executed a Mexican man on Thursday night after shrugging off concerns voiced by Obama administration lawyers and a broad cross-section of legal ...

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The Power of Both

Christopher Holshek | Posted 07.23.2011

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It's no secret that success is greatest in synergy. Most of us can recall how Sesame Street taught us the importance of neighborhood cooperation. Th...

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Egypt Democracy Advocate Calls For Election Boycott

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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CAIRO — One of Egypt's leading democracy advocates on Wednesday slammed recent parliamentary elections as a farce and warned about the possibili...

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WikiLeaks Week In Review: Cablegate Highlights (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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It was, without question, the story the defined the first week of December 2010: last Sunday, online whistleblower WikiLeaks began an unprecedented re...

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Scientific Proof of Obama's Popularity

Sunil Adam | Posted 05.25.2011

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Colbert To Eliot Spitzer: You're Honest Because 'You've Got No Public Image To Uphold' (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | David Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer was a guest on "The Colbert Report" Tuesday for the first time since February of 2008, just weeks before his in...

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White House Plans $8 Billion For High Speed Trains

AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is pitching his $8 billion high-speed rail program to Americans as a jobs generator that will revitalize the...

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America Absolutely Needs a National Manufacturing Policy, Urges Senator Sherrod Brown

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

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Over the past year, Brown held a series of hearings examining ways to rebuild U.S. manufacturing and is also fighting to ensure that our nation's trade laws work for domestic manufacturing and American workers.

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Watchdog's Fate In Senate Key To Financial Reform

Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011

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The tag on U.S. financial regulation reform may as well say "Made on Wall Street" if bank lobbyists manage to gut the Obama administration's proposed ...

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Wall Street Follies: The Next Act

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 05.25.2011

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It certainly sounded good. Hoping, perhaps, to persuade a dubious public that curbing reckless business practices is indeed a Washington priority, t...

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Dawn Johnsen Nomination Sent Back To White House For 'Reconsideration'

The Washington Post | Ed O'Keefe | Posted 05.25.2011

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If passing health-care reform was the Senate's Christmas present to President Obama, then the confirmation of more than 30 of his nominees might as we...

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Berry: Why Obama Admin Is Denying Lesbian Couple Benefits

Bil Browning | Posted 05.25.2011

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Much has been made of the Obama administration's decision to defy a California judge's order that they enroll a lesbian federal employee's partner as her health-insurance beneficiary.

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Health Care Debate: Beware of Foreign Objects

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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If the Angrys could just settle on one country to hold up as their agreed-upon despicable example, we could finally have a coherent conversation about things

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GOP: Shameful Opposition

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 05.25.2011

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The GOP should learn the difference between a loyal opposition that raises serious objections in a sensible manner -- and a crazed one that is foaming at the mouth.

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The First 100 Days and Guns

Josh Sugarmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent incidents of gun violence are just discrete examples of the estimated 84 Americans who die on average each day in our nation from guns. Yet in the White House, the response remains muted.

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Obama's Team Of Heavyweights

International Herald Tribune | Al Hunt | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barack Obama will surround his presidency with powerful men and women. The models of Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan are ...

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