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Biden Exaggerates Aid to Israel

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Eugene Kiely - Mar. 05 (Fact Check) - Vice President Joe Biden incorrectly told a pro-Israel group that President Obama’s $3.1 billion request for military aid to Israel last year was “the most in history.” The record was set in fiscal 2000, when the Clinton administration secured $3.12 billion for Israel — which is not only slightly more … More >>

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How the NRA Hobbled the ATF

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Alan Berlow - Feb. 11 (News) - Just a month after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, President Obama signed nearly two dozen executive actions and proposed a package of legislative initiatives that together represent the most comprehensive effort in decades to reduce what he called "the broader epidemic of gun violence in this country." Conspicuously absent from the president's agenda, however, is much of anything that might address the stunning and widespread weaknesses that have for years crippled the federal agency responsible for enforcing the nation's gun laws—the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

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Biden Wrong on Police Deaths

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

FactCheck - By Lori Robertson - Jan. 31 (Fact Check) - In an online interview promoted by the White House, Vice President Joe Biden made the false claim that “there were fewer police being murdered … when the assault weapons ban, in fact, was in existence.” But the FBI statistics on killings of law enforcement officers show no such trend. In … More >>

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Obama Moves Climate Change to the Forefront in His Second Inagural Address

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Suzanne Goldenberg - Jan. 23 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama said more about climate change in his inauguration speech — and expressed it more forcefully — than he did at any point in the 2012 election campaign and during much of his first term.

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Obama prepared to use executive action to restrict gun access, Biden says

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Tom McCarthy - Jan. 10 (Special Report) - Vice-president promises swift action from administration at inaugural meeting of national task force on gun control.

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Obama to tap Jack Lew to head Treasury

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Zachary A. Goldfarb, Chris Cillizza - Jan. 09 (News Report) - President Obama is set to nominate White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew as his next Treasury secretary, choosing a longtime expert on the nation’s budget challenges, as the country faces an imminent battle over the debt limit, according to two people familiar with the matter. Read full article >>

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Conservatives run ads vs. McConnell

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Ginger Gibson - Jan. 09 (News Report) - A conservative advocacy group is targeting Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with a series of online ads in his home state for helping to negotiate the fiscal cliff deal.

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Op-Ed Contributor: A Slow Growth Rate Is the Real Threat

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By JARED BERNSTEIN - Dec. 06 (Opinion) - We’ve got to stop setting fiscal traps for ourselves and start taking the steps that can get this economy back up to speed.

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Women Are The Key To The Presidential Debate And Election

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - Oct. 13 (News) - Well before the vice-presidential debate began, even the president had agreed that he had failed to expose Mitt Romney’s lies and had allowed his opponent to present himself as a supporter of universal health insurance, Social Security and Medicare, none

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The Vice Presidential Debate: Joe Biden Was Right to Laugh | Matt Taibbi

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Rolling Stone - By Matt Taibbi - Oct. 12 (News Analysis) - The load of balls that both Romney and Ryan have been pushing out there for this whole election season is simply not intellectually serious. Most of their platform isn't even a real platform, it's a fourth-rate parlor trick designed to paper over the real agenda – cutting taxes even more for super-rich dickheads like Mitt Romney, and getting everyone else to pay the bill.

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Veep Debate Violations

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Brooks Jackson - Oct. 12 (Fact Check) - The Biden-Ryan debate was marked by some spirited claims that didn’t always match the facts.

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Transcript: Vice Presidential Debate

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - Oct. 12 (Interview) - (CNN) - Vice President Joe Biden and Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan met in Danville, Kentucky on Thursday evening for the vice presidential debate.

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Fact-checking the vice presidential debate

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - Oct. 11 (Fact Check) - The vice presidential debate Thursday night began on a somber note, then quickly turned to lively attacks — with both candidates stretching the truth.

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Bill Clinton Daily Show Interview Includes Remarks On DNC Speech, Criticism Of Mitt Romney

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart, Bill Clinton - Sep. 21 (Interview) - Video

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Joe Biden’s flubbed jobs numbers, again

Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Josh Hicks - May. 11 (Fact Check) - The Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed more lackluster jobs numbers in the April unemployment report last week, prompting much discussion on the Sunday talk shows about whether the economic recovery has stalled under President Obama. Vice President Biden defended the administration’s handling of the employment situation by suggesting that the numbers are just fine,considering how bad things had become before he took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 2009, and before “we got our first economic initiative passed.” In a previous column, we awarded Biden two Pinocchios for similar assertions that missed the mark. Let’s take a look at the jobs numbers again to determine whether the vice president avoided past mistakes.

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Hillary Clinton, barefaced and bespectacled, is a refreshing image in politics

Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Suzi Parker - May. 08 (Opinion) - The caption read “Hillary Au Naturale,” and the photo showed the Secretary of state without makeup except lipstick, wearing black-framed glasses.

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Op-Ed Contributor: Chinese Labor, Cheap No More

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Michelle Loyalka, New York Times - Feb. 18 (Opinion) - The cheap labor that has made China’s factories nearly unbeatable is not so cheap anymore.

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In debt talks, Obama offers Social Security cuts

Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Lori Montgomery - Jul. 07 (News Report) - President Obama is pressing congressional leaders to consider a far-reaching debt-reduction plan that would force Democrats to accept major changes to Social Security and Medicare in exchange for Republican support for fresh tax revenue.

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Obama needs to create jobs, not fight for them

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Ezra Klein - Jun. 29 (Opinion) - Let’s agree that what matters isn’t how many jobs you “get caught trying” to create, but how many jobs you actually create. There’s virtually no evidence that if Obama makes more speeches on jobs, his poll numbers will go up or the labor market will improve. There’s lots of evidence that if he passes policies that create more jobs, his poll numbers will go up and the labor market will improve. The question, then, isn’t how Obama can get “caught trying.” It’s how — or whether — he can succeed.

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Scott Powers: How my wait in a closet almost brought down the White Housealmost brought down White House

Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Powers - Mar. 29 (News) - I was kidnapped. That was news to me. My paper and I conspired to cover this up, to protect Vice President Joe Biden and his staff from charges they had imprisoned me at a fundraiser last week. That was news to me too.

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Constitutional firestorm over Libya war and Biden's past impeachment words greet returning Obama

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Andrew Malcolm - Mar. 24 (Opinion) - The ex-state senator who so famously said the U.S. had no business overthrowing the brutal Saddam Hussein poison gas-spewing regime in Iraq is now into ousting Kadafi based on his broadcast threats to "cleanse" Libya of opponents? But it's OK because the U.N. approves and we won't be a leader long? So how then is it not in alleged American interests to police brutality in, say, Sudan, Yemen, even China, whose president Obama instead recently hosted at a White House state dinner? How about Syria where authorities killed 15 protestors Wednesday. Or what about North Korea's Kim clan starving millions to live high?

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Michael Moore: Let's Pass Some Laws Before the Republicans Head Into Town (after all, that's what they'd do)

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Michael Moore - Nov. 16 - Dear Congressional Democrats: Welcome back to our nation's capital for your one final session of the 111th Congress. Come January, the Republicans will take...

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Time for Dems to slam the GOP hypocrites

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Gene Lyons - Oct. 21 (Opinion) - Obama's GOP antagonists offer empty rhetoric even they don't believe. But does he have the heart to call them out?

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White House 'out of the fetal position'

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Glenn Thrush, Kenneth P. Vogel - Oct. 12 (News) - The White House seems to have settled on what one Democratic operative calls “The Spaghetti Strategy,” a throw-anything-against-the-wall approach to attacking a carefully targeted group of Republican heavies ahead of Nov. 2.

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9/11 politicized by Islam controversies

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

MSNBC - Sep. 11 (News) - They will read the names, of course, the names of every victim who died in the Sept. 11 attacks. The bells will ring. And then that moment of unity will give way to division as activists hoist signs and march, some for and some against a planned mosque two blocks from ground zero. More than 2,000 supporters of the mosque project held a vigil Friday night meant to avoid entangling the mosque controversy and the Sept. 11 observance.

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