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• Gay and lesbian service members sue government

  Fri Oct 28, 2011
  • So Elaine Donnelly, president Center for Military Readiness, which opposed the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," says that the lawsuit filed on behalf of legally married gay and lesbian service members is designed to undermine the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act and "impose a minority view on the …

• While Super-Rich Get Tax-Cut Extension, Middle Class Get Rude Surprise: A Tax Increase

  Tue Jan 25, 2011
  • I stand corrected on the Democrats' control of the House during the Reagan years. But the Republicans controlled the Senate for the first six years of the Reagan presidency, until the Democrats took it back in 1986.

• First Thoughts: A game of leverage

  Fri Jul 29, 2011
  • The bottom line is, the House Republican Caucus has been hijacked by a group of ideological extremists who will not settle for anything less than the total crippling of the federal government by financially starving it to death -- and to hell with the consequences.

• Obama endorses 'Gang of Six' deficit plan

  Tue Jul 19, 2011
  • The House Republicans pushing for a balanced-budhget amendment are totally out of touch with political reality. Not only does the amendment have absolutely ZERO chance of passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate, it cannot pass the Republican-controlled House, either.

• Murdoch empire left shaken as deal collapses

  Tue Jul 12, 2011
  • Lloyd Grove, editor at large for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, told CNBC Monday that the allegations have left the Murdoch news brand tarnished. “We really don’t know where this is going,” Grove said. “People are comparing it, rightly, to Watergate.”

• UK tabloid in phone-hacking scandal bids farewell to readers

  Sat Jul 9, 2011
  • I have a feeling that the controversy that has brought down The News of the World won't be limited to the Murdoch media holdings in the United Kingdom.

• Boehner: Big deficit reduction deal won't work

  Sat Jul 9, 2011
  • Get real! There's no way that the Democrats and the Republicans are going to budge on taxes.

• Glenn Beck goes there, compares President Obama to Hosni Mubarak (Video) - National Political Buzz | Examiner.com

  Wed Feb 2, 2011
  • Glenn Beck is the real-life version of Howard Beale, the former network news anchor played so brilliantly by the late actor Peter Finch in Paddy Chayefsky's 1976 movie, "Network" -- who transformed himself into "The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves" by turning into a ranting and raving lunatic.

• While Super-Rich Get Tax-Cut Extension, Middle Class Get Rude Surprise: A Tax Increase

  Tue Jan 25, 2011
  • Another example of denial of reality. Here's the PROOF:http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/01/senate-republicans-vow-block-dem-legislation-tax-cuts-budget-pass/#ixzz1C37wGwFI

• While Super-Rich Get Tax-Cut Extension, Middle Class Get Rude Surprise: A Tax Increase

  Tue Jan 25, 2011
  • You're obviously in deep denial. Senate Republicans sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid that warned bluntly that they would use their filibuster power to block all lesiglation unless and until the Bush tax cuts are extended. Here's the report from no less than FOX NEWS: