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The All-Important Obamacare Marketing Funding Gap 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
The refusal of red states to establish their own online insurance marketplaces under Obamacare has impeded the White House's outreach efforts with a month to go before the marketplaces launch on Oct. ...
Behold: The 'Impeachment Store' That Sells All Things Impeachment 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Updated: August 27, 2013, 9:27 AM What good is a conservative fever dream if no one can make a buck off it, right? The people behind WND, perhaps the pre-eminent online purveyor of conservative feve...
Second NM Judge Orders Clerk To Issue Marriage Licenses To Gay Couples 27 Aug 2013 | 03:40 am
Same-sex marriage efforts in New Mexico took another step forward Monday with yet another state judge ruling that a county clerk could issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The ruling, in a Be...
U.S. Will Reach Debt Limit In Mid-October 27 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
The United States' borrowing authority will expire in mid-October, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said Monday, informing Congress that it must raise the debt limit by then to avert a debt default which w...
How Will Boehner Pull GOP Back From Brink Of Default? 26 Aug 2013 | 10:45 pm
A chaotic fall awaits Capitol Hill when lawmakers return to Washington in two weeks and face imminent fiscal deadlines to avoid sending the economy into a tailspin. The spotlight is on Speaker John B...
Report: Judge Went Into Hiding After White Supremacists Ordered Hit 26 Aug 2013 | 07:41 pm
A Colorado county judge spent several weeks in hiding this month, after being warned that a "hit" had been ordered against him by the same white supremacist prison gang that was tied to the killing of...
A Guide To The Latest Flurry Of NSA Revelations 23 Aug 2013 | 10:24 pm
It has been almost three months since the first revelations about the activities of the National Security Agency appeared in The Washington Post and The Guardian. And while the initial scope and parti...
Residents Of Georgia City Won't Be Forced To Own Guns After All 23 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
It was a close call, but the small northern Georgia city of Nelson won't be forcing its residents to own guns after all. The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence announced Thursday that it had settle...
The Birth Certificate Donald Trump Won't Talk About 23 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
In the leadup to the 2012 election, entrepreneur, perennial presidential flirt and reality television star Donald Trump spent a good deal of time loudly spreading the false conspiracy theory that Pres...
How Obama's College Plan Could Get Through Congress 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
Last month's student loan interest rate fix was messy and a long time in coming, but -- for better or worse -- the Obama administration sees that as the model for how to pass the president's plan for ...
