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Steve Brodner Can Rand Paul Learn to Tell the Truth?
The Kentucky senator and presidential hopeful has charisma, fundraising power, and new ideas. Now if can only resolve his sticky habit for bending the facts.
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Reuters Republicans Couldn't Stop Obamacare, but They've Done Plenty to Wound It
The GOP lost the shutdown fight, but the health-care law is much weaker—both in theory and in execution—than it might have been.
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Reuters Obama Says He’s Not Worried About Style—but He Should Be
Staying aloof to appearances could endanger both Democratic chances in 2014 and the president's legacy.
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Would Marco Rubio Really Shut Down the Government Over Obamacare?
The Florida Republican was an establishment favorite on immigration. Now he's an insurgent with a new cause.
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What's Keeping Women from Getting Presidential Buzz? Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a bigger obstacle than sexism for presidential prospects Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar.
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The Senate Deal Doesn’t Help Obama on Judges, and That’s What Matters Most
Obama is getting his administration picks, but what about the federal judges who will carry his legacy into the future?
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Do Women Make Better Senators Than Men?
They make up a fifth of the body. It doesn't look anything like parity (or America), but they believe they can do what the men can't -- namely, get things done.
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Is It Time to Take Martin O'Malley Seriously?
The Maryland governor is determined to be part of the 2016 conversation. If Hillary Clinton lets him, that is.
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Bachmann Showed Female Politicians the Wrong Way to Seem Tough
And other lessons about women in politics today from the retiring Minnesota representative
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Don't Hold Your Breath Waiting for Public Opinion to Turn Against Obama
The president has a base of loyalists that won't quit and, at least for now, there's no evidence he was involved in any scandals.
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Obama Goes on the Offensive, Hold the Charm
The president's flurry of activity includes a challenge to the GOP on embassy security.
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How Obama Could Start Fixing the IRS
Step one, name a Republican--preferably a prominent one--to head the agency.
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Is This the End of Eric Holder's Tenure at the Justice Department?
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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Terry McAuliffe's Woman Problem
Will Virginia be willing to elect a governor who once said of his wife, "Listen, her credit cards are paid and all that"?
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The Most Bogus Argument Against New Gun Laws
Proposals should be judged on their merits, not on whether they would have prevent a single given attack.
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Paul Ryan's Budget Still Relies on the Fantasy of Obamacare Repeal
The GOP budget guru's plan to balance a budget would require a nearly impossible swing of seats in 2014. How can anyone take it seriously?
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National Journal Veering Is Jeb Bush's Real Immigration Issue
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National Journal Mass Exodus Leaves Obama Administration with Dearth of Diversity
The Obama administration is sorely in need of binders full of Latinos.
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Who Are You Calling Antisocial? GOP Skipped 'Lincoln' Screening, Dinners
The president found himself on the defensive about mixing outside his social circle, but the record says Republican leaders spurned his invitations repeatedly.
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Why Obama Isn't the 'Life of the Party'
President Obama said at his press conference Monday that he'd like to socialize with Republicans, but they aren't responding to his overtures. So which is it, a remote president or an opposition party that refuses to hang out with him?
