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Hillary Clinton Has The Most To Lose From Obama's Scandals
It's not just Benghazi. By tying herself closely to Obama, she'll have trouble distancing herself if his political standing worsens.
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It's not just Benghazi. By tying herself closely to Obama, she'll have trouble distancing herself if his political standing worsens.
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One guy in an office sat on Tea Party tax-exempt applications for 13 months after they were improperly selected for review.
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If the enemy already benefited from a serious leak, why can't he tell us the details that they already know?
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53 percent of U.S. adults now favor marriage equality.
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Republicans are hoping to fold the three scandals into a single narrative of an unaccountable and overreaching White House that cannot be trusted.
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From appointments to gun control to the budget and taxes, Washington had reverted to its gridlocked self well before the latest scandals broke.
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Benghazi, the IRS, and now the AP phone-records bombshell: If Obama wants a symbol of accountability in a time of scandal, the attorney general is the only one left to fire.
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Some conservatives are still clinging to the idea, but it's a foreign-policy critique that can't succeed.
Senators bravely overcome a filibuster -- so that they can filibuster a bill.
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Government officials need a refresher course in the First Amendment "anti-retaliation" principle.
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Over and over, members of Congress asked the IRS to scrutinize 501(c)4 groups for their political activity—and also to scrutinize the agency's scrutiny of those groups.
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The attack that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens targeted a CIA operation, not a 'diplomatic post.'
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The story of our nation is writ small in how we describe ourselves -- as a unified whole or a group of communities. Lately, it seems to be the latter.
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Caught playing politics with tragedy, what's next for the Obama administration and GOP investigators?
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Gallup pollsters report that the Kermit Gosnell case is "one of the least followed news stories Gallup has measured."
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Any attempt to understand the Tsarnaevs's terrorism will fail unless it considers the simmering despair of America's twentysomethings.
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The secret to what ails both parties, and our politics, is a return to the 2000s, the days of compassionate conservatism and culture-war compromises.
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"Deep-seated individual and group differences in abilities" and "what implications they might have for a democratic society" were the subject of a 2009 book review.
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Some legislators want to upend the system of military justice, which led to 238 convictions last year out of an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults within the Armed Forces.
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The country has made great recent strides in gay rights, but LGBT advocacy groups remain as essential as ever.
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The president's critics are willfully ignorant of both recent political history and the checks and balances in our system.
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A state law provides for takeover of cities with troubled finances. It just happens that the worst-hit places are also the poorest and blackest.
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The strongest criticism he'll make of Team Obama is that they aren't transparent enough. But its targeted killing policies are problematic for many additional reasons.
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A Harvard study finds the president only outperformed Romney by 1.6 points in swing states. But is that good or bad news for the GOP?
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After Boston, just like after 9/11, the nation is likely to adopt new anti-terror laws. But done wrong, law enforcement can undermine society.
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The left dare not answer conservatives by simply saying government is good. Instead, it must make special interests a rallying cry.
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He urged Ohio State graduates to trust their fellow Americans to exercise "awesome authority." Mistrust is more prudent.
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President Obama is making history beholden to the institution that has the biggest incentive to distort it.
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The former S.C. governor, famous for going AWOL to visit his Argentine mistress, defeated Democrat Elizabeth Colbert Busch in a special election.
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A Marine and CIA agent explains why he has had enough.
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