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Leon Panetta Warns Against Budget Cuts Despite Reported Pentagon Spending Spree

HuffingtonPost.com | David Wood | Posted 11.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As the military brass and congressional hawks issue dire warnings about the "disastrous'' effects of cutting the defense budget, a new s...

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You Bet It's Class Warfare

Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.19.2011

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The truth is, the rich have been waging war on the poor and middle class for decades now, and it's time the tide turns. Income inequality in the United States has never been more glaring.

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Stars of a Different Kind for Gen. Petraeus

Dorian de Wind | Posted 10.15.2011

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David Petraeus will be trading the honor of a possible fifth silver star for the solemn responsibility -- and honor -- of ensuring that the ultimate sacrifices represented by the more than 100 stars forever carved on that Memorial Wall will not have been for naught.

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Obama Slams GOP On Immigration Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Jennifer Bendery | Posted 07.10.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a show of his return to full campaign mode, President Barack Obama used a Tuesday speech in El Paso, Texas, to rally his base on the ...

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Don't Ask, Don't Tell Opponents Taking Revenge On Russian Arms Treaty

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- The repeal of the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy over the weekend was a major victory for the White House, but it is now imperi...

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Politics Trumping Visa Reform

Ed Hooper | Posted 05.25.2011

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Legislators now say it could be 2012 before any reform bill is passed, which means the U.S. will continue to hemorrhage entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists.

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Lindsey Graham Gay? Conservative Group ALIPAC Demands Senator 'Admit Homosexuality'

Posted 05.25.2011

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William Gheen, head of the conservative, anti-"amnesty," anti-illegal immigration group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), spoke at a Green...

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Weekly Mulch: BP Oil Spill Stalls Climate Bill

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger "There's a dead dolphin on this beach," Mother Jones' Mac McClelland, wrote yesterday in Louisiana. It's one...

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Now Onto Immigration

David Gray | Posted 05.25.2011

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Now that the main legislative push on health care is completed, the oxygen should return to the legislative process on a host of other domestic issues. Prime among them is immigration.

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Lindsey Graham: Pelosi Has Dems 'Liquored Up On Sake' To Make Health Care 'Suicide Run'

Posted 05.25.2011

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took the anti-health care reform rhetoric to another level Monday, comparing the Democrats' final attempts at legislative...

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Lindsey Graham Censured By Another South Carolina County Party

AP | SEANNA ADCOX | Posted 05.25.2011

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham says a county Republican Party's decision to censure him is misguided and the result of fringe support...

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Sen. Graham: Let's Not 'Rumsfeld' The War In Afghanistan

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — A Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee says more troops are needed in Afghanistan and is warning that the U.S. must no...

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GOP Sen. Graham To Support Sotomayor

AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he will vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, breaking with his party'...

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Empathy For The Devil

Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 05.25.2011

Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216 was the venue for a skirmish that at times got awfully mean. Judge Sonia came in earnest, her cards laid out on the table.

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Running the Gauntlet

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Running the gauntlet is a form of physical punishment wherein a man is compelled to run between two rows -- a gauntlet -- of soldiers who strike him...

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Republicans and Immigration

The Progress Report | Posted 05.25.2011

Republicans are still finding their "way out of the wilderness" when it comes to immigration.

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Toyota Republicans Should Cut Their Own Pay

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

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Clearly the allegiance of the Republicans who opposed the loan to save GM and Chrysler is not with the US, which would lose 900,000 jobs if just GM closed, and more than 2.1 million if the Big Three did.

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