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Obama's Former Campaign Org Shaking Up Leadership

Obama's Former Campaign Org Shaking Up Leadership

The head of Organizing for Action (OFA), Obama’s former campaign apparatus, is resigning his position, causing a shake-up in the group’s top staffers. OFA Director Jon Carson is resigning his position to go to work for an undisclosed solar power

Ebola nurse on defensive gets call from Obama

Ebola nurse on defensive gets call from Obama

ATLANTA (AP) — A nurse who fueled Ebola fears by flying to Cleveland after being infected by her dying patient was released Tuesday from a hospital isolation unit, where doctors defended her as a courageous front-line caregiver. Another nurse, held

Maine Ebola Nurse Refusing to Self-Quarantine

Maine Ebola Nurse Refusing to Self-Quarantine

Maine Ebola nurse and staunch Obama supporter Kaci Hickox is now refusing to place herself under voluntary temporary quarantine to make sure she is free of the Ebola virus, her lawyer says. Last Friday New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced

Earnest Compares Soldiers Ebola Quarantine to Getting Haircuts

Earnest Compares Soldiers Ebola Quarantine to Getting Haircuts

Tuesday at the White House press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest compared the military considering mandatory quarantine for returning soldiers who were working to end the Ebola outbreak in West Africa to getting unflattering haircuts. Unlike the unnecessary “burden” Earnest

Second Texas Nurse Amber Vinson Ebola Free, Coming Home

Second Texas Nurse Amber Vinson Ebola Free, Coming Home

HOUSTON, Texas – Texas second Ebola infected nurse, Amber Vinson, has been confirmed to be Ebola free and is returning home to Dallas. Vinson joins Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital’s Nina Pham as the only two people to both contract and recover

Democrats Unload: 'Obama Has Stepped In It'

Democrats Unload: 'Obama Has Stepped In It'

Top Democratic strategists are blasting President Barack Obama for putting the Democratic Party in a precarious position heading into the midterm elections.  “It’s puzzling–and to the Kay Hagans of the world, infuriating–the number of times President Obama has stepped in

Democrat’s Criticism of Obama Still Growing

If the conventional wisdom has been Democrats in general are dissatisfied with Barack Obama and his administration, if anything, said dissatisfaction appears to be growing as we approach the mid-term elections. The complaints seen to be across several fronts, from

Judicial Watch's Fast and Furious Breakthrough

Judicial Watch's Fast and Furious Breakthrough

Judicial Watch has finally forced the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) to provide a detailed listing of all the records it has withheld from Congress and the American people about the deadly Operation Fast and Furious scandal and its cover-up.

CNN: White House Keeping Ebola Czar 'Behind the Curtains'

CNN: White House Keeping Ebola Czar 'Behind the Curtains'

Monday night on CNN’s “OutFront with Erin Burnett,” Burnett asked CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta why the Obama administration’s new Ebola czar, Ron Klain, has been conspicuously silent on recent disease-related issues like quarantines. “Where is Ron Klain

Democratic Attack Ads Aim to Save Senate Majority

Democratic Attack Ads Aim to Save Senate Majority

WASHINGTON (AP) — Their majority in jeopardy, Senate Democrats unleashed a late-campaign round of attack ads Monday accusing Republicans in key races of harboring plans to cut Social Security and Medicare. The commercials in Iowa, New Hampshire, Louisiana and elsewhere

Earnest: Quarantines Unduly 'Burden' Health Care Workers

Earnest: Quarantines Unduly 'Burden' Health Care Workers

Monday at the White House daily press briefing, press secretary Josh Earnest said quarantines for health care workers who are returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa, like nurse Kaci Hickox was over the weekend, would be an “unduly