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VIDEO: CARVILLE: ‘Ted Cruz Is the Most Talented and Fearless Republican Politician I’ve Seen in 30 Years’ | NewsBusters
By MB Snow at May 6, 2013 | 1:00 am
By Noel Sheppard | May 05, 2013 | Democratic strategist and former Bill Clinton adviser James Carville said something about Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tx.) on ABC's This Week Sunday that is guaranteed to raise eyebrows on both sides of the aisle. "I think he is the most talented and fearless Republican politician I’ve seen in the last 30 years." via Carville: 'Ted Cruz ... Go To Article
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THE HOUSE: CANTOR promises House vote to repeal ObamaCare soon – TheHill’sFloorAction
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 11:08 am
By Pete Kasperowicz - 05/03/13 01:05 PM ET Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) told House Republicans on Friday that they will soon get a chance to vote a full repeal of ObamaCare. "While we have not locked in the timing, I expect that the House will vote on full repeal of ObamaCare in the near future," he told members. Many Republicans have been eager to vote ... Go To Article
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MARCO RUBIO: The Immigration Reform Opportunity – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 2:15 am
By MARCO RUBIO, May 2, 2013 Several Senate colleagues and I drew up a reform bill, and now Americans' input will help us improve it. Next week, the Senate will begin making changes to and, hopefully, improve the immigration-reform legislation I introduced with several colleagues last month. This part of the process is a chance to fix America's broken immigration system ... Go To Article
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STIREWALT: Boston Bombings May Doom Immigration Deal | FoxNews
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 1:35 am
By Chris Stirewalt, Power PlayPublished May 02, 2013FoxNews.com "At the time of re-entry there was no derogatory information that suggested this individual posed a national security or public safety threat." -- Department of Homeland Security spokesman Peter Boogaard explaining to FOX News that Azamat Tazhayakov, accused of aiding the suspected Boston Marathon ... Go To Article
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STRASSEL: About Those Conservative ‘Squishes’ – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 2, 2013 | 5:07 pm
By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, POTOMAC WATCH Updated May 2, 2013, 7:00 p.m. ET The GOP is split between those who insist on making a point, and those who want to make some progress. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recently gave a speech to some FreedomWorks activists, delivering a fascinating retelling of the Senate gun-control fight. After taking credit for killing the bill with ... Go To Article
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MARC THIESSEN: Miranda rules must be revised – WaPo
By MB Snow at April 30, 2013 | 1:10 am
By Marc A. Thiessen, Published: April 29 Attorney General Eric Holder is defending the decision to read Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect, his Miranda warning, telling CNN that cutting off his questioning “was totally consistent with the laws that we have.” That may be true. But three years ago, Holder admitted that “the laws we ... Go To Article
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U.S. ECONOMY: Krugman’s Story – TheNewYorkSun
By MB Snow at April 30, 2013 | 12:15 am
The above is but one of many warnings against “austerity” turned up by a machine called the Ironotron, a hand-operated contraption we keep around the offices of the Sun. It turns up ironical mentions in editorials of an earlier time. In this case we fed into the Ironotron Paul Krugman’s latest column denouncing “austerity,” and out spewed a trove of editorials ... Go To Article
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TED CRUZ: Republican Senators Yelled At Us for Threatening to Filibuster Gun Control Bill (Video) | TheGatewayPundit
By MB Snow at April 29, 2013 | 4:20 pm
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) told a group of patriots at the FreedomWorks Texas Summit that fellow Republican Senators yelled at him and Rand Paul and Mike Lee for threatening to filibuster the Democrats’ gun control legislation. “We’ve had probably five or six lunches with a bunch of Republican senators standing and looking at Rand and Mike and me and yelling at us at ... Go To Article
REVIEW & OUTLOOK:: Exempting Congress From ObamaCare – WSJ
By MB Snow at April 29, 2013 | 10:24 am
The Politico website broke the story Thursday morning that Congressional leaders were in hush-hush talks to exempt themselves and their staff from the wonders of ObamaCare. The story succeeded in blowing up the talks, but there's a bigger story here about Congressional intentions that is worth telling. House Speaker John Boehner quickly took to Twitter after the ... Go To Article
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INTERVIEW: STEVE KING Vows to ‘Pull out the Real Truth’ About Pigford
By MB Snow at April 28, 2013 | 4:30 pm
by LEE STRANAHAN 28 Apr 2013, 2:01 PM PDT 7 POST A COMMENT VIEW DISCUSSION Iowa Republican Representative Steve King has been sounding the alarm about fraud in the Pigford black farmers' settlement for close to a decade and has been ruthlessly attacked by settlement advocates as well as nearly every media outlet that covered the story. When the April 26h edition of ... Go To Article
