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How Edward Snowden Is Helping Obama
(The Root) — In the annals of American political history, President Barack Obama’s droll remark that “I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker” isn’t going to rank with “Ask not what your country can do for you” or “Nothing to fear but fear itself,” but for a president looking to…
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'George W. Obama'? Not Quite
(The Root) — Ever since the Guardian’s revelation Wednesday that the National Security Agency is gathering millions of Americans’ phone records, and Thursday’s Washington Post report that the NSA tapped into the servers of nine Internet service providers to pry into Americans’ emails and instant messaging traffic, we’ve seen outrage across the political spectrum —…
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Is Eric Holder Really a Liability for Obama?
(The Root) — Hypocrisy abounds when it comes to differing views of Attorney General Eric Holder. Liberals didn’t seem to mind when Holder declined to prosecute New Black Panther Party members on charges that they’d menaced voters at a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 — even though they’d surely have complained if the Justice Department…
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Mr. President, Get a Handle on the Scandals
(The Root) — Last week, with the Dow Jones industrial average breaking 15,000, war raging in Syria, a guilty verdict in the Jodi Arias trial and nearly round-the-clock coverage of the (mercifully) found victims of the Cleveland kidnappings, House Republicans were fighting an uphill battle to make a splash with committee hearings on the Sept.…
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The Other Reason GOP Won't Work With Obama
(The Root) — With so many pundits declaring that President Barack Obama’s second-term agenda is dead on arrival, you could be forgiven if you mistook the last few days for the first week of May … 2009. Back then, there was already angst that in Obama’s first first 100 days, unemployment briefly spiked to 10…
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Ben Carson's Gay-Marriage Misfire
(The Root) — It would be unfair — well, almost — to put the burden of carrying the conservative banner in the “gifted hands” of Dr. Ben Carson. But in the weeks since the Wall Street Journal ran the headline “Ben Carson for President,” he’s been elevated to the status of conservative rock star, and…
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Of Course, Ben Carson Will Never Be President
(The Root) — If you don’t know who Dr. Ben Carson is, you should. He’s a hero and role model to millions who — with hard work and “gifted hands” — traveled from working-class Detroit roots to become head of pediatric neurosurgery at the prestigious Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the first physician…
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How Sriracha Explains the GOP's Problem
(The Root) — The Republican National Committee’s 100-page “Growth & Opportunity Project” report (pdf) came out this week, with the aim of diagnosing what went wrong for the GOP in 2012 and prescribing a fix for Republicans’ stark failure: Ninety-three percent of black voters, 71 percent of Latinos and 73 percent of Asian Americans cast…
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The CPAC Race 'Chaos' Had a Silver Lining
(The Root) — Before you call me crazy for trying to find the silver lining in the storm clouds that hovered over the “Race Card” panel last Friday at CPAC, keep one thing in mind. I was there. And it definitely was, as first covered by Talking Points Memo’s Benjy Sarlin, a “shouting match” that…
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Is TW Shannon the GOP's Next Big Star?
(The Root) — If you don’t know who T.W. Shannon is yet, you will. Sworn in as speaker of the Oklahoma State House of Representatives in January, Shannon will appear at the annual Conservative Political Action Committee convention Saturday on a panel of “10 Conservatives Under 40” as part of conservatives’ efforts to broaden their…
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