Joe Wilson

Congressman's Experiment Aims To Reverse Role Of Big Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- In the age of super PACs and K Street fundraisers, the hunt for grassroots donors, those giving small sums, has become less and less imp...

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Lawmaker Faces Ouster Over Duel Threat

Easley Patch | Carolyn Farr Smith and Greg Hambrick | Posted 05.14.2012

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Folks' links to his own 2010 post, where he noted that Haddon claimed, via Facebook, that Knotts had challenged him to a duel. Folks alleges that the ...

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Wife Of 'You Lie' GOP Rep Angrily Confronts State Lawmaker

Posted 05.08.2012

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Roxanne Wilson, wife of U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), confronted a South Carolina Republican state senator on Tuesday after the lawmaker blocked a me...

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Tea Partiers Should Seriously Consider Holding Their Applause

Karl Frisch | Posted 12.03.2011

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You know things are bad when you look back on the rancor and race-baiting of 2008 with nostalgia.

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Lawmakers Seek To Delay DADT Repeal

AP | By DONNA CASSATA | Posted 11.16.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Two top Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee have asked Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to delay the new policy allowing gay...

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GOP Congressman Hospitalized

AP | Posted 10.25.2011

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COLUMBIA, S.C. -- U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina has gone to the hospital because of an extended fever. Wilson's office said in a short state...

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Republicans Introduce Bill Aimed At Crippling Labor Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 09.18.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans introduced a bill Tuesday afternoon aimed directly at scuttling a controversial complaint issued by the National Labor...

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Obama Accused Of Using 'Human Shields' In Debt 'Bluff'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 09.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- President Obama is "bluffing" about the impacts of a debt default and holding troops and the elderly as "human shields" in the deadlock ...

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South Carolina Republican: Obama, Labor Board Engaged In 'Regional Warfare'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Republicans escalated their attacks on the federal labor board under Obama Friday afternoon, as House Oversight Committee Chairman Darre...

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Joe Wilson To Sit With Democrats At State Of The Union

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the infamous "you lie" heckler, announced Monday that he'll be joining a number of representatives in taking up a bipartisan...

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After Tucson

Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Too much too soon, too sad, too quickly. The news out of Tucson is only days old, but already it seems as if we've known the place, known the major...

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Joe Wilson 'You Lie' Slogan Etched Onto Line Of Assault Rifle Components

Posted 05.25.2011

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Rep. Joe Wilson's (R-S.C.) health care-era "you lie" interruption of President Obama is now reportedly being commemorated with a place on a new, limit...

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Judith Miller Got it Wrong... Again

Doug Liman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Judith Miller demonstrated in her recent Wall Street Journal story about my film, Fair Game, the same cavalier attitude towards the facts that led to her departure from the New York Times in disgrace.

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President Obama: It's Not Our Fault

Nida Khan | Posted 05.25.2011

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President Obama is angry, and rightfully so.

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In The Chamber: Joe Wilson, Joe Lieberman And The Politics Of The Standing O

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

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The House chamber was on edge before President Obama's State of the Union address began Wednesday night. It's typical to have ambulances on hand when ...

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George Bush's Deception Points

Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 05.25.2011

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George Bush calls the controversy that followed the publication of my op-ed "What I Didn't Find in Africa" a "massive distraction." But nowhere does he acknowledge that the "distraction" was self-invented.

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Secrets

Jameel Jaffer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Government secrecy is increasingly the norm. At the same time, government surveillance is pervasive, reversing the proper relationship between a democratic government and its citizens.

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The Making of Fair Game

Doug Liman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Fair Game has taken me on a wild journey around the globe, including a treacherous shoot in Baghdad. And now I'm happy to share with you the final steps of this amazing journey.

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Valerie Plame's Story 'Fair Game' Film Screening With Producer Q&A

Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 05.25.2011

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What: Fair Game screening and a panel discussion with film critic Stephen Farber and producers Jerry and Janet Zucker. This event is part of Farber's ...

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Valerie Plame And Joe Wilson: Dick Cheney Never Apologized

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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Seven years after top officials in the Bush administration turned their world upside down in an attempt to convince the public to support the war in I...

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Valerie Plame's Husband: Dick Cheney Is A Traitor

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

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Joe Wilson, husband of outed CIA agent Valerie Plame, kept his criticism of ex-Vice President Dick Cheney and Cheney's former chief of staff Scooter L...

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Three Years After the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act, It's Time to Do More

Rob Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's time for every Washington lobbyist to disclose not just every time they speak with a member of Congress or a staffer, but for which client they were lobbying, and on what issue.

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One Year Later, Joe Wilson Is More of the Same

Rob Miller | Posted 05.25.2011

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From his childish outburst, inserting lobbyists' words in the Congressional Record as his own, and an ethics investigation over taxpayer-funded trips, Wilson represents everything wrong with Washington today.

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'You Lie' Joe Wilson Faces Wider Ethics Probe Into Travel Expenses

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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The congressional ethics investigation into U.S. Representative Joe Wilson of South Carolina is broader than previously disclosed, investigating beyon...

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Proposition 8 Dispatch From the Culture Wars Front

Bill Lichtenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

There is a side to gay America that is rarely seen and takes place in conservative, often deeply religious small towns and rural communities where those strive to fit in rather than to stand out.

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