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We can't trust Obama
Jonah GoldbergThe contradictions at the heart of the Obama presidency are finally out in the open. As a result, a man who came into office hell-bent on restoring faith in government is on the verge of inspiring a libertarian revival. There have always been (at least)...Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, National Security Agency, Mining, Metal and Mineral
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Defending NSA spying puts GOP establishment on wrong side of debate
Yes, President Big Brother has been hurt by the National Security Agency domestic spying scandal. He once campaigned for the White House as a champion of civil liberties, and now he haplessly defends the NSA's secret data mining of the American people,...
Tags: Karl Rove, National Security Agency, George W. Bush, Edward Snowden, Chris Christie
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Obama urges Massachusetts voters to back Markey's Senate bid
ReutersBOSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, fighting to protect his party's margin of control in the U.S. Senate, urged Massachusetts voters on Wednesday to back fellow Democrat Edward Markey in a June 25 special election that could gauge Americans'...Tags: The Boston Globe, Polls, Lifestyle and Leisure, Primaries, Foods and Beverages
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Sequester closed IRS offices on Friday
Sun SentinelThe Internal Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers that, due to the current budget situation including the sequester, the agency will be shut down on Friday. That includes the Plantation, West Palm Beach and Miami offices as well as toll-free hotlines....Tags: Taxation, Politics
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Rep. Cummings and the IRS: Washington politics to the core
Baltimore Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings says the investigation of the IRS has been concluded ("Cummings calls for end to IRS probe," June 9). Yet only last week Congressman Cummings was outraged because the people on his street were struggling while...
Tags: Taxation, Politics
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Editorial: Surveillance in the war on terror
The disclosure of the federal government's hugely expansive monitoring of phone calls and online communications as part of its fight against terror came as a surprise even to people who pay attention to these things. It's amazing, in fact, that any...
Tags: National Government, National Security Agency, Pakistan, George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Obama makes Massachusetts swing to boost Markey's Senate bid
ReutersBy Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON, June 12 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama travels to Massachusetts on Wednesday to offer a boost to U.S. Senate candidate Edward Markey in a special election this month that could be a gauge of public reaction to...Tags: Polls, Primaries, Washington, DC, Parties and Movements, Scott P. Brown
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NSA surveillance in perspective
President Barack Obama is under harsh attack for stating the obvious: No amount of government ingenuity will guarantee the American people 100 percent security, 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. He was answering a burst of more heated...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, National Security Agency, Justice System, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Political Corruption
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Michael Smerconish: The teacher who opened a mind
The Philadelphia InquirerIt's the time of year when our attention turns to graduates and their commencement speakers. But at a lunch with a friend last Friday, our conversation was about the often unacknowledged: the teachers for whom we're grateful. I said that I'd been...Tags: Ron Paul, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Entertainment Events, Lehigh University, Federal Election Commission
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NSA debate pits far left, right against the middle
WASHINGTON (AP) — Revelations of massive government collections of Americans' phone and email records have reinvigorated an odd-couple political alliance of the far left and right. A number of Democratic civil liberties activists, along with...
Tags: Ron Paul, Computer Networking and Internet, Bernard Sanders, Rand Paul, Freedom of the Press
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Letters to the Editor: Seminole schools, Trayvon Martin, The Villages
Fix Seminole schools I read with amazement the Sentinel article on the need for Seminole County schools to fix its facilities problems using the recently passed millage increase ("Seminole schools chief urges fixes using tax hike, but board skeptical,"...
Tags: Immigration, Illegal Immigrants, George Zimmerman, Golf, Jesse Jackson
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LETTER: Didn't Like Apple Editorial
The editorial "Bad Apple" on June 4 sure hit into a triple play: 1. Apple is no more greedy than The Courant or me. Their scale is just different. We all pay the taxes we owe and not a dime more. I challenge you to demonstrate The Courant...
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