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Office of Congressional Ethics could soon be silenced by those it investigates

Mary Katharine Ham — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:11:26 +0000

Oxymorons.

Formed in 2008 as part of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s laughable promise to “drain the swamp” when she gained the gavel in 2006, the Office of Congressional Ethics is an independent group that investigates ethics complaints about Congress. Here’s the catch: the Congress it investigates must actually go about the business of nominating its appointees, reauthorizing [...]

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Bad news from Politico columnist: Our Supreme Court has lost its honor

Allahpundit — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:05:50 +0000

Heart-ache.

Just a little preemptive strike from the left on the eve of the big announcement. If the mandate goes, you’ll be slogging through concern-troll sewage like this for the next week. Might as well put your hip-waders on now. This is the same guy, by the way, who once dismissed scientific polling as tantamount to [...]

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Congressional Black Caucus Chair calls “war on women” rhetoric “wrong”

Tina Korbe — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:01:35 +0000

"I've never said it, not one time."

Missouri Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver today defended the president’s Christianity and said it makes no sense to accuse him of waging a “war on religion.” His remarks — presumably inadvertently — led him to also denounce Democrats’ repeated refrain that Republicans are waging a “war on women.” The Daily Caller reports: “If you believe that [...]

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Video: Mia Love, the next conservative superstar?

Tina Korbe — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:30:09 +0000

Wife, mother, mayor, runner.

She’s been compared with Marco Rubio and called “the next big thing in conservative politics.” Meet Mia Love, a wife, mother, mayor and runner who is, er, running for Congress in Utah’s newly-created fourth congressional district. Here, she introduces herself in a video that makes it easy to see why she’s attracted such positive attention [...]

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CBC’s Cleaver: We would be ‘marching on the White House’ if Obama weren’t president

Tina Korbe — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:45:42 +0000

What's different about Obama?

The members of the Congressional Black Caucus continue to be outraged at the “unconscionable” rate of unemployment among African-Americans — but they’re not employing the same tactics to force the president to pay attention to their complaints as they would ordinarily, CBC Chairman Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) admitted in comments published today in The Miami Herald. As chairman of [...]

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