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House Republicans Settle on Deeper Cuts for Fiscal Year 2011
Last night, the House Republican caucus held emergency meetings in the basement, only emerging late to say they reached an agreement on a spending cut plan for Fiscal Year 2011, one that would cut...
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Contrasting Reports on State Revenues and Spending Tell Us Who’s Paying the...
CBPP Report: Figure 1. An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP),...
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Paul, Leahy Team Up on Amendments to Patriot Act Extension
As I noted yesterday, the Senate passed cloture, by a 74-8 margin, on the motion to proceed for a four-year extension of key provisions of the Patriot Act. Final passage is expected Wednesday, so for...
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Rand Paul Facing Torrent of Fearmongering Over Holding Up Patriot Act Passage...
Rand Paul is using the tools at his disposal to keep the debate going on extending three provisions the Patriot Act, by insisting on all post-cloture time and insisting on votes on his amendments. The...
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Breakthrough on Patriot Act Will Probably Allow for Quick Passage Before...
It appears that Rand Paul has reached some kind of deal on his insistence to get votes for his amendments to the Patriot Act. There will now be votes on the amendments, with a likely 60-vote threshold....
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Rand Paul, Lonely Voice Against War With Iran
Allow me to agree with Rand Paul. We already have significant sanctions on Iran, which mainly hurt the population rather than the regime. The Senate wanted to take another dip with an even more...
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Rand Paul Will Tell RNC Convention to “Audit the Pentagon”
Here’s the revised schedule for the Republican National Convention. Nobody who was previously on the schedule got bumped, though a few may have to truncate their speeches. So Mike Huckabee will still...
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Live Blog: Rubio and Rand Respond To Obama SOTU
11:28 pm: Full Text of Rubio’s Speech —- Full Text of Paul’s Speech 11:11 pm Marco Rubio goes on twitter to laugh off part of speech where he needed a water break [insert watergate joke here] 11:04 pm:...
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BREAKING: Senator Rand Paul Filibuster Breaks 8 Hours
Senator Rand Paul is holding a filibuster on President Obama’s refusal to deny he has the authority to kill Americans on American soil without due process. In a rare, traditional filibuster, Sen. Rand...
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UPDATED: Rand Paul Filibuster For Human Rights Broke 12 Hours
Update 2:00 pm EST: The Obama Administration has issued a response on drones. The U.S. government cannot target an American citizen who is not engaged in combat on American soil, White House Press...
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GOP Splits In Two Over Civil Liberties And Drones
Only a few months after being defeated in the Presidential Election the Republican Party is having an identity crisis. The party has split in two over the issue of civil liberties and presidential...
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McCain-Paul Feud Carries Over Into CPAC
What started as an Obama nominee filibuster has split the Republican Party in two. The principal combatants being Senator John McCain representing the imperialist faction and Senator Rand Paul...
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House Republicans Settle on Deeper Cuts for Fiscal Year 2011
Last night, the House Republican caucus held emergency meetings in the basement, only emerging late to say they reached an agreement on a spending cut plan for Fiscal Year 2011, one that would cut...
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Contrasting Reports on State Revenues and Spending Tell Us Who’s Paying the...
CBPP Report: Figure 1. An article in today’s New York Times tells us about two new reports, one from the Rockefeller Institute (RI), the other from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP),...
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Media Catches Glimpse of Undeclared Covert War With Iran
The media has begun to recognize that the United States is routinely engaged these days in covert wars involving extrajudicial assassinations in foreign countries. Well, they’re not quite putting it...
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US Officials Admit CIA Flew Drone Over Iran
In 25 years, John le Carré or his son or some new spy thriller author will write a hell of a novel based on our undeclared war with Iran. If they’re taking notes now, the next plot point will come when...
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Iran Shows US Drone on State-Run TV
Iran showed off their new toy, courtesy of the CIA, on state-run television, proving their possession of a US surveillance drone. The 2.5-minute video clip of the remote-control surveillance aircraft...
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More Administration Leaks Position Obama as Ruthless
This is the week where the President, through coordinated leaks at the highest levels, admits to the New York Times to ruthlessness when it comes to “fighting the bad guys.” First it was the drone...
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National Security Leaks Symptom of Larger Problem of Covert Warmaking
I recall someone telling me at Netroots Nation that the Justice Department had appointed two prosecutors to investigate recent leaks over the Predator drone program, the foiled Underpants Bomb II...
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AP Twitter Account Hack Leads To Dip In Financial Markets
The Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked reportedly by hackers working for or on behalf of the Syrian government who sent out a disruptive tweet using the account. The tweet, which claimed...
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