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John Boehner: Justice Department Should Pay House GOP To Uphold Defense Of Marriage Act

WASHINGTON — House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Monday the Department of Justice should give the House money to defend the Defense of Marriage Act since the agency is not willing to defend the law itself. Continue reading

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Ronnie Cummins: The Unholy Alliance: Monsanto, Dupont & Obama

President Obama knows that agribusiness cannot be trusted with the policy and regulatory powers of government. On the campaign trail in 2007, he promised: We’ll tell ConAgra that it’s not the Department of Agribusiness. It’s the Department of Agriculture. Continue reading

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Daniel Cluchey: Hard of Hearings: The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Intelligence Gap

Politics has always lent itself well to sports metaphors, so perhaps it is appropriate that one of the rarest and most significant events in the sphere of democratic governance has coincided this summer with its athletic equivalent in the form of the World Cup. Continue reading

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Daniel Cluchey: Hard of Hearings: The Senate Judiciary Committee’s Intelligence Gap

Politics has always lent itself well to sports metaphors, so perhaps it is appropriate that one of the rarest and most significant events in the sphere of democratic governance has coincided this summer with its athletic equivalent in the form of the World Cup. Forget every other delusive sports comparison you may have heard: Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearings are an impeccable doppelganger to soccer’s main event. Within their respective fields, no two spectacles are so alike in terms of their seriousness of purpose, their national consequence, or their ability to simultaneously confuse and bore millions of perennially disinterested Americans. Continue reading

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