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At Stand Your Ground Hearing, Ted Cruz Argues Florida Law Helps...
Sen Ted Cruz – (R-TX) Credit AP Here are some stats about the Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws compiled by Media Matters: Under SYG, Homicides With Black Victims Much More Likely To Be Found Justified...
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Senators Admit Congress Really Sucked In 2013
Joint Session of Congress The Huffington Post [...] Below are the full reactions of senators, lightly edited for clarity: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) “That’s a good question. We were not attacked, uh,...
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Congress Debunks Congress’s Nuttiest Benghazi Theories
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters The Daily Beast The new House report is tearing apart dozens of GOP claims about the 2012 attack. From Darrell Issa’s ‘stand down order’ to Lindsey Graham’s Hillary slam, see who...
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Republican “Survivor”: A Proposal for Culling the G.O.P. Field
Voters (and viewers) can’t be expected to take fifteen or twenty Republican primary candidates seriously. CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW HARRER/BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY THE NEW YORKER A couple of weeks ago, I...
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Lindsey Graham Challenges Republicans: ‘Tell Me Why’ You Deny Climate Science
Republican presidential candidate, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a No Labels Problem Solver convention, Monday, Oct. 12, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. | CREDIT: AP PHOTO/JIM COLE THINK...
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Search is on for a third-party candidate to take down Trump
Getty Images THE HILL Conservative activists who want a third-party alternative to Donald Trump and Hillary Clintonface one big obstacle: finding the right candidate. Former Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)...
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Trump shifts his tone, promises to make party proud
Getty Images THE HILL Donald Trump sought to reshape his candidacy on Tuesday night, using a teleprompter to deliver a carefully prepared address that cast the presumptive presidential nominee as a...
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Is McConnell facing a mutiny in the lame duck? Over Russia?
Why? Because I said so dammit! | attribution: AP DAILY KOS This lame duck could be getting interesting in a hurry, and maybe not setting up to be not much to Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell’s...
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Nervous GOP senators rooting for Ryan to fail
Photo by Joan Walsh THE HILL A growing number of GOP senators are hoping the House fails to pass its bill to repeal and replace ObamaCare so they won’t be blamed for killing it in the upper chamber....
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GOP torn over what to do next
THE HILL Days after the GOP’s healthcare effort crashed and burned, House Republicans are vowing to give it another shot until they “get it right.” They seem, though, to be largely on their own....
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