Politics
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RNC Chairman Defends Gov. Christie and Slams President Obama
NBC host David Gregory got into a heated debate with Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus about Priebus’ forgiving views toward New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the role Christie played, if any, in the traffic-jam scandal reported last week. In a Sunday morning interview on Meet the Press, Priebus argued that Americans would forgive…
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War on Poverty: Deep Divide in Congress on How to Help
Bipartisan differences over dealing with issues of poverty were readily apparent on Wednesday, the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s declaration of a “war on poverty,” NPR reports. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) called Johnson’s effort a success. “The national poverty rate has gone down from 26 percent in 1967 to 16 percent in 2012,” she said,…
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Haiti: 4 Years After the Earthquake
Haitian President Michel Martelly called for residents to reflect Sunday on the devastating earthquake that swept through the small nation four years ago, killing tens of thousands and leaving scores of people homeless after it decimated buildings and houses, the Associated Press reports. The Haitian flag was flown at half-staff, and clubs were to remain closed.…
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Obama Administration Drops Company Behind HealthCare.gov
It seems as if the Obama administration is intent on doing everything it can to ensure that the HealthCare.gov debacle remains in the past, with no more mess-ups to threaten any progress that has been made. According to an unnamed source, the administration has decided to drop CGI Federal, the company behind the site, the…
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Christie Contrite, Fires Aide Involved in Traffic Jam Scandal
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey has begun to attempt to clean up the mess left behind after it was revealed that key members of his staff had plotted to jam traffic by closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge at Fort Lee, N.J., as revenge against the city’s Democratic mayor, the Associated Press reports.…
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Shaquille O’Neal Still Supports Chris Christie Amid Bridge Scandal
Despite the bridge traffic-jam scandal surrounding New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the many scathing remarks about his character—ranging from implications that he knew about the set-up to accusations of bullying—he still has one huge supporter: Shaquille O’Neal. O’Neal, who surprised a few people when he appeared in an ad endorsing the governor for his…
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Fox News Hosts ‘Heart’ Don Lemon
Even Fox News is confused as to which channel Don Lemon works for. On Thursday, Fox News’ The Five aplauded CNN’s Lemon for the smooth way he dragged the president’s name into New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s bridge scandal, Mediaite reports. One of Christie’s top aides allegedly sent emails asking that traffic jams be created, by…
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Cory Booker and Rand Paul: Why Are These 2 New BFFs?
In the current political environment, it appears as strange a mismatch of bedfellows as any in recent memory. But something in the water on Capitol Hill is connecting freshman senator and social media maven Cory Booker (D-N.J.) with ranting Tea Party and libertarian idol Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.). At first glance, it’s the Odd Couple…
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Christie Scandal Could Cost GOP Its Great Black Hope
2014 is barely a week old, and yet the year has already given us its first political scandal—one that potentially has ramifications for years to come. A string of emails published Wednesday by the Bergen Country Record suggest that staffers in the office of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie coaxed a Port Authority staffer to…
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Texas Mega-Church Pastor Says Obama Is Paving Way for Antichrist
In a new book, one fundamentalist Christian pastor claims that the president is paving the way for the Antichrist through his policies, the Raw Story reports. “Although President Obama is certainly not the Antichrist, his policies are paving the way for the Antichrist,” wrote Robert Jeffress—the pastor of Dallas’ 11,000-member First Baptist Church—in a press…