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Barack Obama, Conan O'Brien skewer media skillfully
Staff writerCould it be that Washington does comedy better than the Hollywood movie studios? Conan O'Brien and Barack Obama provided more laughter Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner than you're likely to find this weekend at the...Tags: Larry King, Tracy Morgan, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, MSNBC (tv network), PBS (tv network)
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White House Correspondents Dinner: The Obama & O'Brien Show Draws Laughs, Highlights Gaffes
ReutersApr 28 (TheWrap.com) - The White House Correspondent Association dinner Saturday night proved fertile ground for Hollywood stars only this time instead of a target, the stars were often the weapons in jokes wielded by President Obama, Conan O'Brien and...Tags: Netflix Inc., David Axelrod, Barack Obama, House of Cards (tv program), U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Stephen Goldstein: Boston horror shows tea party way off base on taxation
The 1773 Boston Tea Party was a dramatic milestone on the British North American colonies' road to revolt and independence. So, it is only "fitting and proper" that a backlash against the present-day tea party/GOP — hopefully leading to its demise...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Chris Christie
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Occupy Wall Street, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Ayn Rand, New York City
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What's Left For Gun-Control Advocates After Crash-And-Burn In U.S. Senate?
The Hartford CourantOne of the phrases repeated often by advocates of stricter gun laws since the Dec. 14 Newtown school massacre has been: "If not now, when?" That rhetorical question became a literal one Wednesday when a federal gun-control bill crashed and burned in the...Tags: Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut), National Rifle Association of America, Gabrielle Giffords, Voting, Primaries
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Republican lawmakers show their division on immigration reform
WASHINGTON — The divide within the Republican Party over immigration reform was on full view Monday, as top party leaders made a case for overhauling the laws even as conservative senators argued that the Boston bombings showed the need to go slow....
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Rand Paul, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Justice System, Immigration
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Rep. Paul Ryan warns governors on Obama health care plan
Clout StreetThe chairman of the U.S. House Budget Committee said Monday he has been warning governors not to count on high federal reimbursement rates for expanding Medicaid coverage to low-income families under President Barack Obama’s health-care reform. U....Tags: Government, Government Health Care, Mitt Romney, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama
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Ryan, Gutierrez say immigration reform work not deterred by Boston bombings
Clout StreetRepublican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, appearing today alongside Chicago Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez, said the terrorism events at the Boston Marathon last week have not and should not deter work on immigration reform. After an appearance at the City...Tags: Immigration, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Luis Gutierrez, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, FBI
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Maryland GOP elects new chairman
The Baltimore SunMaryland Republican Party interim chairman Diana Waterman fended off challenges and won election as head of the state GOP this past weekend, taking the reins as the party faces a shortened fundraising session for state lawmakers and challenges from...Tags: Gun Control, Alex X Mooney, Queen Anne (Talbot, Maryland), Political Fundraising, Queen Anne's County
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The fights Obama picks over Medicare
The budget that President Obama released Wednesday doesn't include the sort of headline-grabbing initiatives that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) included in his proposal for fiscal 2014, such as a dramatic overhaul of the tax code...Tags: Government Health Care, Health Insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, Drugs and Medicines
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Now on the table: Entitlements
At a Republican presidential debate in 2011, all eight candidates on the stage said they would reject a budget deal that raised taxes even if it had $10 of spending cuts for every dollar of tax increases. At Tuesday's protest, I put the reverse question...
Tags: Public Finance, Breads, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Congress, Elections
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How an Excel error fueled panic over the federal debt
One of the most fearsome statistics in the war against the federal deficit has always been the country's ratio of debt to gross domestic product. When this ratio reaches 90%, the argument goes, watch out -- lower economic growth is on the horizon. And...
Tags: Gross Domestic Product, Public Finance, Productivity, Economic Indicator, Politics
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