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Obama Tries to Balance Oil and Environmental Interests

Obama Tries to Balance Oil and Environmental Interests

The Obama Administration appears to be trying to balance its embrace of pro-carbon elimination of restriction against exporting U.S. domestically produced crude oil with an embrace of anti-carbon demands for radical increases in public investment and regulatory restrictions to combat

Obama Mocks Republicans over Global Warming

Obama Mocks Republicans over Global Warming

US President Barack Obama mocked Republicans who reject global warming as a “liberal plot,” as he pumped up a crowd of environmental activists in Washington. Obama compared climate change deniers to patients who ignore the science that shows they have

Chait: How Hillary Became Marie Antoinette

Chait: How Hillary Became Marie Antoinette

New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait lays out how, in just 6 short years, likely-2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton went from being an  economic populist looking out for the working class to Marie Antoinette.  It was, Chait writes, “Hillary Clinton who

Hillary Confesses: 'Dead Broke' Comment Was 'Inartful'

Hillary Confesses: 'Dead Broke' Comment Was 'Inartful'

Former Secretary Hillary Clinton admitted that she probably made a mistake when she suggested that she and Bill Clinton were “dead broke” after leaving the White House. Clinton made her comments during an interview with PBS anchor Gwen Ifill. Clinton

Boehner: Congress Must Act to Stop 'King-Like' Obama

Boehner: Congress Must Act to Stop 'King-Like' Obama

Republican Speaker John Boehner offered his most forceful words yet regarding President Barack Obama’s aggressive use of executive orders to enact liberal policies, outlining the reasoning behind a planned lawsuit and saying Congress must act to avoid Obama from acting

Archivist: IRS Didn't Follow Law with Lost Emails

Archivist: IRS Didn't Follow Law with Lost Emails

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service did not follow the law when it failed to report the loss of records belonging to a senior IRS executive, the nation’s top archivist told Congress on Tuesday, in the latest development in

Celebrating a Kidnapping

Celebrating a Kidnapping

The Hamas abduction of three Israeli teenagers last week has elicited impressive solidarity all across Israeli society. But Israelis are also paying close attention to the reactions from near and far to this terror crime, and they are not impressed.

Bill Clinton: We Really Were 'Dead Broke'

Bill Clinton: We Really Were 'Dead Broke'

In a new interview with NBC, former President Bill Clinton has now joined wife Hillary Clinton in claiming that they were “dead broke” when they left the White House in 2001. He also said his wife is “not out of