Report: Emails show Ron Paul campaign negotiated to buy Iowa senator's endorsement.

  • Chuck Todd: U.S. influence in the world waning under Obama

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/08/13 07:45 AM

    MSNBC’s Chuck Todd explained Thursday morning on “Morning Joe” that the influence of the United States around the world was “waning” during the Obama presidency. “This has been a rough six months for this...

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  • Justin Amash: Yes, Mr. President, we do have a domestic spying program

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/08/13 07:20 AM

    Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., explained on Fox News Wednesday night that President Obama was wrong when he told Jay Leno Tuesday that the United States didn’t have a “domestic spying program.” “I would say that it...

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  • Rick Santorum shouldn’t be seen as a serious 2016 contender

    By PHILIP KLEIN | 08/08/13 06:20 AM

    Rick Santorum hasn’t been taken seriously as a contender for the 2016 Republican nomination. On Wednesday, my colleague Byron York posted a recent interview he conducted with the 2012 GOP runner up, and questioned this...

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  • Darrell Issa is winning the Internets

    By ASHE SCHOW | 08/08/13 06:04 AM

    The California Republican has figured out how to use social media probably better than anyone else in Congress. Here's a look at how he does it, cat photos and all.

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  • Bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the right thing to do

    By MICHAEL BARONE | 08/07/13 07:20 PM

    I couldn’t disagree more strongly with my Examiner colleague Timothy Carney when he argues that we should not have dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. My reading of the history of World War II has...

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  • Report: Emails show Ron Paul campaign negotiated to buy Iowa senator’s endorsement

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/07/13 04:10 PM

    Former presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign negotiated to purchase the endorsement of an Iowa state senator who had previously endorsed Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., according to emails obtained by...

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  • Obama comforts young people: I used to live in my mother-in-law’s house

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 02:00 PM

    President Obama reminded Americans Wednesday afternoon that he didn’t come from a “fancy background” and actually had to live in his mother-in-law’s house while he was saving for a down payment for a home....

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  • Zillow.com backs Obama, Obama promotes Zillow.com

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 01:30 PM

    President Obama was interviewed by Zillow.com CEO Spencer Rascoff on Wednesday about the housing market, using the online real estate website to help promote his economic agenda.

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  • MSNBC hosts fight about whether MSNBC is a liberal ‘mouthpiece’

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/07/13 01:30 PM

    MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski thinks that Democrats don’t have a media network analogous to Fox News, which she regards as “a mouthpiece for the Republican Party.”

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  • In defense of populist rhetoric

    By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/07/13 12:50 PM

    Populism rhetoric can be used in destructive and evil ways, but it can also be used well.

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  • It was wrong to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/07/13 11:45 AM

    The tens of thousands of Japanese non-combatants we killed 68 years ago this week with two nuclear bombs were not “collateral damage” of military strikes. They were the intended targets.

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  • Taxes rising faster under Obama than under any other president

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/07/13 11:20 AM

    President Obama bragged during his Tuesday speech in Phoenix, Arizona, that “Our deficits are coming down at the fastest rate in 60 years.”

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  • Jeff Bezos buying the Washington Post is a good thing

    By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/07/13 10:50 AM

    Whenever a journalism enterprise succeeds, I cheer — even when it’s a competitor of the Examiner, or when I dislike the ideology involved. Whenever a journalism enterprise fails, I’m saddened.

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  • Why isn’t Rick Santorum the GOP 2016 frontrunner?

    By BYRON YORK | 08/07/13 10:40 AM

    This week Rick Santorum returns to Iowa for the first time since last year’s presidential campaign. For Santorum, whose victory in the 2012 caucuses started an improbable run at the Republican nomination, the visit will...

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  • Buy a shotgun: 14 celebrity PSA's promoting Joe Biden's shotgun campaign

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 09:36 AM

    Earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden heavily promoted the idea of Americans buying shotguns to defend themselves, their homes, and their families. But America already has a rich tradition of shotgun ownership and...

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  • President Obama defends his love of broccoli

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 09:00 AM

    Comedian Jay Leno questioned President Obama about his professed love of broccoli Tuesday night, jokingly accusing the president of lying to children. “Can you put your right hand on a Bible and say,...

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  • Obamacare and the shift to part-time work

    By PHILIP KLEIN | 08/07/13 08:25 AM

    Ever since President Obama’s health care program was signed into law, there have been anecdotal reports of business executives pledging to shift more workers to part-time to get around the law’s mandate that larger...

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  • Morning Examiner: The path to a Republican Senate majority just got easier

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/07/13 08:25 AM

    Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., announced he is officially challenging Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., Tuesday, vastly improving Republican chances to win control of the United States Senate in 2014.

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  • September doesn’t need to be last stand of Obamacare opponents

    By PHILIP KLEIN | 08/07/13 07:20 AM

    With Congress in recess during August, the political world is focused on Oct. 1 – the date that President Obama’s health care law starts signing up participants and that the government will shut down without a budget...

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  • Jay Leno thanks Obama for helping his shop workers get health care

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 07:10 AM

    Comedian Jay Leno may be a multimillionaire, but he thanked President Obama during an appearance on his show Tuesday night for helping him get health care for his shop employees. “The guys who worked at my shop for me...

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  • VIDEO: On Leno, Obama explains ‘bromance’ with John McCain

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/07/13 06:50 AM

    Comedian Jay Leno asked President Obama Tuesday night about the new “bromance” that he was having with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. “I remember you two had that lover’s quarrel for a while and oh, now you’re best...

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  • Colleagues rally to support Larry Summers

    By MICHAEL BARONE | 08/06/13 05:40 PM

    Two former colleagues have come to Summers’s defense, Harvard Law professor (and former director of the Obama White House regulatory office, OIRA) Cass Sunstein and New York investment banker and Obama auto bailout...

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  • 'War on coal': 207 coal plants will close in the next decade

    By ASHE SCHOW | 08/06/13 04:20 PM

    Whether due to environmental regulations or cheap natural gas (which the Environmental Protection Agency is also eying suspiciously via potential fracking regulations), these coal plants will close their doors, resulting...

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  • FLOTUS does victory dance: Kids are losing weight because of Let’s Move

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/06/13 04:00 PM

    First Lady Michelle Obama hailed a new government report that shows a slight decline in obesity among low-income preschoolers, which she regards as a vindication of her efforts to fight childhood obesity.

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  • Jay Carney praises Washington Post’s ‘storied history’

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 03:20 PM

    White House Press Secretary Jay Carney received news of The Washington Post sale warmly Tuesday during a press briefing on Air Force One. “I was surprised, as a lot of people were, by the news,” Carney said, when...

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  • Megabanks are a creature of government, not of unbridled capitalism

    By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/06/13 02:40 PM

    How could a free-marketeer want to break up the big banks? In part, because the megabanks are not the creatures of capitalism, but of government.

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  • Defense Department slashes furlough days again

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/06/13 02:25 PM

    Defense Department officials cut the number of furlough days yet again, dropping the number of total furlough days for 800,000 civilian employee to about one quarter of the 22 days the Pentagon projected.

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  • Marco Rubio: Maybe Obama had a phone in the golf cart to deal with terror threats

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 01:15 PM

    The Florida Republican explained on the Mark Levin show Wednesday night that he was concerned about President Obama’s tepid reaction to terror threats in the Middle East.

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  • Poll: GOP challenger begins Arkansas Senate race with slight edge

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/06/13 01:05 PM

    Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. — who is expected to announce his Senate candidacy at a barbecue in Arkansas today — leads Sen. Mark Pryor 43-41 with 16 percent of voters undecided, according to survey from Harper...

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  • Hipster Rick Perry was creating jobs before it was cool

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 12:41 PM

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry showed up at the RedState convention in Louisiana last Friday wearing brand new "hipster glasses." Thanks for having me. I'm hipster Rick Perry.

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  • Gallup: Confidence in economy takes a dive in July

    By ASHE SCHOW | 08/06/13 12:00 PM

    Americans' economic confidence fell in July, diving to its lowest point since April, according to the latest Gallup poll.

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  • Higher education is a government-created cartel

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/06/13 11:35 AM

    On Monday, after reporting on the closure of an online community college partnership, I tweeted the story to Slate’s Matt Yglesias, hoping he might recognize higher education accreditation as one of those areas where an...

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  • DeMint: I don’t think Lindsey Graham would call himself a Jim DeMint conservative

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 10:00 AM

    Former-Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., – now the president of the Heritage Foundation – indicated on MSNBC Tuesday morning that his former senate colleague Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is not a “Jim DeMint conservative.”...

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  • Washington Examiner reporter Mark Flatten exposes fake wounded vets ripping off program to help heroes

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 09:35 AM

    On Fox News, the Washington Examiner’s Mark Flatten reports on the alarming trend of fake wounded veterans ripping off a government program to help military heroes. Read the first of his five-part investigative series...

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  • Morning Examiner: Amnesty activists push discharge petition for nonexistent bill

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/06/13 09:15 AM

    Amnesty activists frustrated by a lack of progress in the House are pushing Democrats to sign a discharge petition that would force Republicans to vote on the Senate immigration bill. Problem is, Senate Majority Leader...

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  • VIDEO: Obama ‘pivots more than a ballerina doing pirouettes,’ says Ted Cruz

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 08:00 AM

    Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, joked about President Obama’s reaction to the economy during a Q&A session at the RedState Conference in Louisiana on Friday.

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  • Dan Rather reacts to Washington Post sale: ‘Holy online news, Batman!’

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/06/13 06:55 AM

    Former CBS newscaster Dan Rather admitted he was shocked by the news of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos purchasing the Washington Post. “Make no mistake, when I heard this news this afternoon, my reaction was ‘holy online...

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  • Monday meme

    By ASHE SCHOW | 08/05/13 04:15 PM

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  • Regulator shuts down award-winning school, strands students

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/05/13 04:00 PM

    Tiffin University, a small, private non-profit university in northwest Ohio, announced last week that it has been ordered to stop its Ivy Bridge College associate degree program by the university’s regional accreditor,...

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  • Ted Cruz: ‘Y’all know Buzzfeed?’

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/05/13 03:30 PM

    During a Q&A session at a RedState convention on Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, explained that more and more Americans were understanding that Obamacare was bad for America.

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  • Another underwhelming Hillary Clinton poll showing

    By MICHAEL BARONE | 08/05/13 02:25 PM

    Monmouth University in New Jersey has a new poll out pairing Hillary Clinton against four Republicans – Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz.

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  • Patrick Leahy: Gun control is dead and Michael Bloomberg killed it

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/05/13 01:00 PM

    The New York City Mayor damaged the recent push for gun control through his aggressive advocacy of the legislation, according to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.

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  • RNC says NBC, CNN won’t get 2016 debates if they air Hillary Clinton programs

    By BRIAN HUGHES | 08/05/13 12:30 PM

    The Republican National Committee on Monday told NBC and CNN they would not partner with the networks for 2016 presidential debates unless the television channels dropped plans to air programs focused on the life of...

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  • VIDEO – Chris Christie reveals the lowest point in his life

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/05/13 12:10 PM

    Gov. Chris Christie revealed the lowest point in his life during a Las Vegas conference, recalling a moment with his mother after she learned she had three large brain tumors. “I kind of thought my mother was...

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  • Pat Leahy: NSA ‘carried away with what is technologically possible’

    By JOEL GEHRKE | 08/05/13 12:00 PM

    Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said that National Security Agency officials have “gotten too carried away with what is technologically possible” with respect to security, adding that he fears the agency...

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  • Gallup: Just 26 percent of the world works full-time for an employer

    By ASHE SCHOW | 08/05/13 11:25 AM

    Only 26 percent of working-age adults 15 and over around the world were employed full time by an employer in 2012, according to Gallup's latest Payroll to Population metric.

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  • 10 House Republican talking points against the Senate immigration bill

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/05/13 10:15 AM

    Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gave House Republicans an “Immigration Resource Kit” Friday, including these 10 talking points against S. 744, the citizenship for illegal immigrants bill passed by the Senate this June.

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  • Graphic: The US is worse off than Detroit

    By CHARLIE SPIERING | 08/05/13 09:50 AM

    Heritage releases the graphic above showing how the United States government is actually worse off than the now bankrupt city of Detroit.

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  • Christine Todd Whitman writes op-ed advancing her client's interest --- NYT runs it

    By TIMOTHY P. CARNEY | 08/05/13 09:40 AM

    An op-ed in the New York Times in favor of federal regulation of greenhouse gasses is nothing special. The Times‘s editors presumably thought these authors would have extra credibility with a certain audience segment...

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  • Morning Examiner: Immigration talking points signal House to move on legalization soon

    By CONN CARROLL | 08/05/13 08:40 AM

    House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gave House Republicans an “Immigration Resource Kit” Friday, and the document hints that Republicans will take up legislation providing legal status to some...

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