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  • Hoping To Raise Money From Tech Industry, Rand Paul Defends Apple’s Tax Dodging

    21 May 2013, 4:00 pm by: Scott Keyes

    Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) vociferously defended Apple during a Senate hearing on Tuesday, as the tech giant fought against accusations that it used foreign subsidiares to dodge billions of dollars in taxes. The Tea Party favorite, who is openly considering a 2016…
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  • Cuccinelli Endorses Running Mate, But Won’t Defend Anything He’s Ever Said

    21 May 2013, 2:09 pm by: Josh Israel

    Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II (R), the Republican nominee for governor, endorsed his newly-nominated running mate, Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr., but refused to say whether he agreed with Jackson’s myriad controversial comments. Cuccinelli told a…
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  • Congressman Who Gets Millions In Farm Subsidies Denounces Food Stamps As Stealing ‘Other…

    21 May 2013, 1:29 pm by: Aviva Shen

    Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-TN) agitated against food aid for poor Americans included in the Farm Bill during last week’s House Agricultural Committee debate, accusing the government of stealing “other people’s money.” Funding for the Supplemental…
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  • Before Deadly Tornado Hit, Oklahoma Senators Worked To Undermine Disaster Relief

    21 May 2013, 11:01 am by: Rebecca Leber

    Oklahoma residents will now turn to government assistance for emergency disaster aid after a tornado ripped through the state on Monday, leaving dozens dead and tearing apart hundreds of buildings. But the same night that many residents lost their homes, Sen.…
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  • GOP Aides Mock House Republicans’ ‘Crazy’ Benghazi Witch-Hunt

    21 May 2013, 10:11 am by: Ben Armbruster

    GOP aides are criticizing the House Republicans’ partisan witch-hunt over the Obama administration’s handling of the attacks on a U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, Libya last year, arguing that the Party should focus more on substantive issues, such as…
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  • Oklahoma Senator Won’t Support Tornado Relief Without Budget Cuts

    21 May 2013, 9:10 am by: Igor Volsky

    The tornado that hit Oklahoma on Monday resulted in more than 20 deaths and is expected to cost the federal government untold billions of dollars in aid and recovery. But Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), who has long objected to federal funds being spent on everything…
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  • Posters In Washington State Capitol Claim Gun Laws Are Just Like Anti-Gay Discrimination

    21 May 2013, 9:00 am by: Ian Millhiser

    A series of posters appeared around the Washington State Capitol in the last several days linking gay rights and opposition to gun laws. One poster even suggests that laws intended to prevent gun violence are the moral equivalent of discrimination: Another…
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  • 7 Very Wrong Things About Climate Science And Energy In House Science Chair Lamar Smith’s WashPost…

    20 May 2013, 6:20 pm by: Ryan Koronowski

    Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), the new chair of the House Science and Technology Committee, wrote an op-ed in Monday’s Washington Post that contains several misrepresentations of fact. He argued for increased fossil fuel production, against the scientific…
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  • Senator Undertakes $3-Per-Day Food Stamp Challenge As Congress Readies Cuts

    20 May 2013, 3:45 pm by: Alan Pyke

    As the farm bill approved by the Agriculture Committee last week reaches the Senate floor Monday afternoon, Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) will be a few hours into an experiment: eating for a week on the meager food budget afford by the Supplemental Nutrition…
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  • ‘We May Have To Close Schools’: Five Districts That Are Grappling With Sequestration’s Budget…

    20 May 2013, 2:30 pm by: Bryce Covert

    While many public schools will be able to stave off some of the harshest impacts of sequestration with other sources of revenue, those that serve military families and Native American communities are in a much more difficult situation. That’s because they…
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  • Arizona Congressman Wants To Expand His DC Abortion Ban To Restrict Reproductive Rights Nationwide

    20 May 2013, 1:36 pm by: Tara Culp-Ressler

    Not content with attempting to impose his anti-abortion agenda upon the women who live in the nation’s capital, Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) now intends to push for a nationwide bill to criminalize abortions after 20 weeks. Franks, who invoked the illegal…
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  • Will Yahoo Buying Tumblr Mean Less Privacy for Users?

    20 May 2013, 1:11 pm by: Andrea Peterson

    Tumblr announced on Monday it was being bought by tech giant Yahoo! for $1.1 billion in one of the largest social media buyouts in years, but while the purchase will make Tumblr’s founders rich, it may bode poorly for the privacy protections of Tumblr users.…
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  • What PBS’s Treatment of Two Movies About The Kochs Says About Which Money Counts In Public…

    20 May 2013, 12:23 pm by: Alyssa Rosenberg

    In this week’s New Yorker, Jane Mayer, who has covered the industrialists Charles and David Koch extensively, chronicles the fate of two documentaries produced for PBS, Alex Gibney’s Park Avenue, which explored the lives of both wealthy residents of a…
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  • Congressman Promises To Give Up Government Health Insurance After Voting To Repeal Obamacare

    20 May 2013, 12:03 pm by: Scott Keyes

    One congressman is so vehemently opposed to Obamacare that he’s willing to sacrifice his own health insurance in order to make a point. Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV), who entered Congress in 2011, was asked last week prior to the House’s vote to repeal Obamacare…
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  • How Lotteries Are Bad For Players, Winners, And States

    20 May 2013, 12:00 pm by: Bryce Covert

    The highest Powerball jackpot in history, $590.5 million, is waiting to be claimed by the winner in the small town of Zephyrhills, Florida. While the lucky winner may feel a sense of exhilaration, there can be huge down sides of the lottery for those who play,…
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  • Canadian Government Pursuing Aggressive Lobbying Push On Keystone XL

    20 May 2013, 11:43 am by: Tiffany Germain, Guest Blogger

    Tiffany Germain is a Senior Climate/Energy Researcher in the Think Progress War Room. The Canadian government has nearly doubled its spending to promote the Keystone XL pipeline to $16.5 million, up from $9 million a year ago. This dramatic spending increase…
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  • Yet Another Piece Of Evidence That Obamacare Is Already Positively Impacting The Health Sector

    20 May 2013, 10:45 am by: Tara Culp-Ressler

    There’s new evidence to suggest that Obamacare is impacting the health industry for the better by successfully encouraging a greater emphasis on primary care. Ensuring that Americans are receiving regular preventative care is an important tenant of the…
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  • UPDATED: Virginia GOP Nominee For Attorney General Introduced Bill Forcing Women To Report Their…

    20 May 2013, 10:35 am by: Ian Millhiser

    If a woman in Virginia has a miscarriage without a doctor present, they must report it within 24 hours to the police or risk going to jail for a full year. At least, that’s what would have happened if a bill introduced by Virginia state Sen. Mark Obenshain…
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  • Congressmembers Work To Prevent Anti-Choice ‘Crisis Pregnancy Centers’ From Misleading Women

    20 May 2013, 9:05 am by: Tara Culp-Ressler

    At the end of last week, three Democratic legislators renewed their efforts to protect women from right-wing crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs), anti-abortion front groups that often use misleading advertising to market themselves as women’s health clinics.…
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  • Columbia University Tries To Alter Scholarship Fund For Students ‘Of The Caucasian Race’

    20 May 2013, 9:00 am by: Ian Millhiser

    Columbia University asked a Manhattan judge to allow them to change the requirements of a scholarship fund which limits recipients to members “of the Caucasian race.” The Lydia C. Roberts fellowship was created in 1920 when a woman donated her $500,000…
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  • What’s Next For Kaitlyn Hunt, The Teen Charged With A Felony For Same-Sex Relationship With…

    19 May 2013, 6:36 pm by: Judd Legum

    On Friday night, 18-year-old Kaitlyn Hunt and her family went public with their story: Kaitlyn was charged with a felony stemming from a relationship she had with a 15-year-old girl at her high school. The response in the 48-hours that followed, Kaitlyn’s…
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  • Virginia GOP Nominee Believes Gays Are ‘Very Sick’ And Democrats Are Worse Than The KKK

    19 May 2013, 1:00 pm by: Nicole Flatow

    The Virginia Republican Party this weekend nominated for lieutenant governor a minister who has a history of virulent anti-gay statements, accuses the Democratic Party of enslaving African Americans, and criticized President Obama for having “Muslim…
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  • 1,200 Harvard Students Demand Investigation Into Jason Richwine’s Thesis On Hispanic IQ

    19 May 2013, 12:41 pm by: Jeff Spross

    Over 1,000 Harvard students want to know how and why Harvard University’s JFK School approved a 2009 doctoral thesis arguing that Hispanics have lower IQs. The thesis was written by Jason Richwine, a co-author of a paper by the conservative Heritage…
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  • VIEWPOINT: Ambassador Chris Stevens Deserved Better Than What Benghazi Became

    19 May 2013, 12:00 pm by: Hayes Brown

    I didn’t know Chris Stevens. I admit that the first I’d heard of the U.S. Ambassador to Libya was the morning of Sept. 12, when I woke up and, along with the rest of the country, learned that he and three others had died in an attack on a diplomatic…
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  • Rand Paul Struggles To Tie Obama To IRS Scandal

    19 May 2013, 12:00 pm by: Zack Beauchamp

    Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) went on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday to use the IRS scandal to attack the Obama administraiton, but flubbed a key part of his case: he couldn’t defend the claim that IRS was targeting conservative groups as part of a political…
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