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TILTON, NH — The daughter of the high school principal who died during the Sandy Hook shooting walked out of a town hall with Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) on Tuesday after the event erupted in chaos over the lawmaker’s answer to a question about gun regulations.

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Massachusetts State Rep. Dan Winslow (R) Massachusetts State Rep.

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Nine Congressmen — all male Republicans — voted Wednesday against a resolution to allow the U.S. House to consider re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)

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Republicans are now resorting to their often-used kitchen-sink strategy , this time in an effort to prevent Chuck Hagel from becoming Secretary of Defense. There’s no real substantive reason Hagel shouldn’t lead the Pentagon but that isn’t stoping the GOP from playing politics with national security ( again ). Sen

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Pastor Louie Giglio A chorus of right-wing leaders Thursday decried the withdrawal of Pastor Louie Giglio from President Obama’s second inauguration ceremony, suggesting a left-wing conspiracy to force him off of the program.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) Sen

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Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform announced Wednesday that Speaker John Boehner’s (R-OH) proposed “Plan B” to extend expiring tax cuts on the first $1 million in annual income would not really be a “tax increase,” and thus would not violate the ironclad oath nearly all Congressional Republicans have taken to never vote to raise taxes. In so doing, the group effectively also conceded that President Obama’s proposed extension of tax cuts for the first $250,000 of income would also not violate the Norquist pledge

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Former FEMA Director Michael Brown offered criticism of President Obama’s early responses to Hurricane Sandy yesterday, including a dig at the administration’s response to last month’s attack in Libya. Yesterday, ahead of the storm’s pummeling of the eastern seaboard, Brown gave an interview to the local alternative paper, the Denver Westword, on how he believed the Obama administration was responding to Sandy too quickly and that Obama had spoken to the press about Sandy’s potential effect too early. Brown turned then to a reliable right-wing attack on the President’s response to the attack on a U.S.

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Retired Israeli Brigadier General Shlomo Brom Two Israeli security experts said on Friday that they could envision a deal between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany) over the former’s nuclear program that would include a provision allowing Iran to enrich low-grade uranium for civilian use.

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