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President Obama says the Syrian regime is more interested in holding on to power than in the welfare of its people. Funny, I think the same thing about Obama and the Democrats. To those who think people on Social Security are relying on so-called big-...Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Social Security, Internal Revenue Service, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton
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Glendale schools to take April 24 off
Glendale Unified students and teachers will have next April 24 off in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, following an agreement signed by school officials and the teachers union this week. Thousands of students of Armenian descent typically skip...Tags: Google Inc., Hate Crimes, Massacres, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Sexual assaults in military: 'Little monsters' now in charge
Paula Coughlin was grocery shopping in Jacksonville, Fla., when I caught up with her on the phone this week. If anyone has an interesting perspective on the U.S. military’s absurd inability to deal with sexual assault, it’s Coughlin. She is...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Department of Defense, Assault, Sex Crimes, Abusive Behavior
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Schiff introduces Genocide resolution, again
In what has become an annual exercise, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) this week introduced a House resolution calling on the U.S. to formally recognize the Armenian Genocide, in which roughly 1.5 million Armenians were massacred by Ottoman Turks from 1915...
Tags: Google Inc., Frank Pallone, Jr., Massacres, Hate Crimes, David Valadao
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Ousted IRS chief defends against partisan charges
WASHINGTON — The ousted head of the Internal Revenue Service apologized Friday for the agency's "foolish mistakes" in singling out conservative groups for intrusive and time-consuming scrutiny, but said that the effort was not driven by partisan...
Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Jack Lew, Politics, Republican Party, Diane Black
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In Mexico, immigrants' relatives watch U.S. debate, and hope
TONATICO, Mexico — Armando Guadarrama was navigating his taxi through the narrow streets of this central Mexico pueblo on a recent Saturday morning, some 2,000 miles from the Beltway. But like many here, Guadarrama was up-to-the-minute with the...
Tags: Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Politics, The Happiest News!
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News-Press Editorial: Tending the flame of genocide's victims
Those tending the flame of those who perished in the Armenian Genocide had a bit of a mixed bag this week. In happy news, Glendale Unified and its teachers' union agreed to make April 24 — the day that commemorates the horror — an official day...Tags: Massacres, Hate Crimes, Politics, Turkey, Adam B. Schiff
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President's remarks at Ellicott Dredges
Remarks by President Barack Obama this afternoon at Ellicott Dredges in Baltimore, from the White House. THE PRESIDENT: Hello, Baltimore! (Applause.) Well, it is wonderful to see all of you. Give Duncan a big round of applause for the great...Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Labor Markets, Sports, Apple iPad, Trips and Vacations
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Farm Bill cultivated in Congress
While farmers are struggling to get seeds in the ground and ranchers are moving livestock to pasture, Congress is stepping closer to piecing together the 2013 Farm Bill. Issues, some big and some small, still divide lawmakers and the process will take...Tags: Science and Technology, Harry Reid, Politics, Eric Cantor, U.S. Senate
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Walorski, Upton vote to repeal health care law
U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Jimtown, was among 227 House Republicans and two House Democrats to vote Thursday to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The vote was 229-195 in favor of repeal. Four Democrats...
Tags: Democratic Party, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Jackie Walorski, Republican Party
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Questions on targeting are 'loaded,' IRS official says
WASHINGTON – The acting head of the IRS insisted Friday that he and other agency officials did not mislead Congress by failing to disclose that applications by conservative groups for tax-exempt status were mishandled, and he said to call it...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Politics, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Consumers, Taxation
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'I know it when I see it'
In the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio, Justice Potter Stewart wrote a concurring opinion he hoped would establish a legal standard that protected every American's right to free speech yet guarded community standards against hard core...Tags: Orrin Hatch, Productivity, Politics, Washington, DC, Insurance
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