Source: The Independent
Four years after America elected its first black President, there was a milestone for another minority group as the state of Wisconsin voted the country's first openly gay politician in to the Senate. But Tammy Ba ...
Nov 7 2012, 6:01pm CST
Full article at: The Independent
Source: Swing State Project
Voters in a variety of races around the country are headed to the polls today. Here's a list of some of the most notable, in order of poll closing times: • Pittsburgh, PA mayoral Democratic primary Polls close at 8 PM ET i ...
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Source: Daily Kos
ABC's Jonathan Karl moves past "fake but accurate"-gate and demands answers from White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about why President Obama didn't stop the IRS from targeting of conservative 501(c)(4) groups: JON KARL: H ...
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Source: Accounting Today
(Bloomberg) Douglas Shulman, the former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, said he was “dismayed” and “saddened” to learn that IRS employees had singled out small-government groups for tougher scrutiny. In his first public stat ...
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Source: Mercedes Sun-Star
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Republicans are trying to win what has been a Democratic state Senate seat in a special election Tuesday, a coup that would eat into the supermajority that Democrats won just six months ago. Democrat Michael Rubio of ...
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Source: MarketWatch
Want to see how this story relates to your portfolio? Just add items to create a portfolio now: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint 10 people to the Presidential Commission o ...
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Source: Big Government
President Barack Obama believed that opposition to Obamacare would actually fade after the 2010 election. Former Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME), the moderate Republican who retired when her term ended at the beginning of this year, said on Mon ...
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Source: FOX Sports
As the White House works to contain the political fallout over its knowledge that the IRS had targeted conservative groups applying for nonprofit status, the outgoing agency chief and IRS inspector general will joi ...
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Source: Swing State Project
Leading Off: • Referred to gays and lesbians as "perverted," "degenerate," "spiritually darkened" and "frankly very sick people psychologically, mentally and emotionally." In fact, RWW has an entire "E.W. Jackso ...
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Source: United Press International
Post-election survey: Partisan polarization persists. U.S. President Barack Obama is sworn-in for a second term by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during his public inauguration ceremony at the U.S. Capitol Building i ...
Full article at: United Press International
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