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Barack Obama

A Biden-Patrick ticket as a return to novelty

"I'm telling ya. Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know's on third." — Bud Abbott, from Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" Speculation abounds these days that President Obama will endorse

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There goes the neighborhood: Obama’s vision for our cities and towns

Critics deride it as government-backed social engineering, a policy that effectively spells the end of local control over zoning laws. Supporters praise it as a means of racially and economically diversifying America's suburbs and of ensuring, in the words of President Barack Obama, that "a person'

Barack Obama

Memo to the FCC: End, don’t expand, Obamaphone program

The Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline program, intended to offer low-income people access to basic telephone services, has become notorious for its waste, fraud, abuse and lack of strategic planning and oversight. So, naturally, the FCC recently voted 3-2 to expand the program to provide subsidized broadband service. Though

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A victory for Big Labor, but not necessarily for workers

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board gave unions a big win — even by the Obama administration's labor-friendly standards. While that's good news for labor supporters, the so-called new joint employer rule could fundamentally harm a wide range of U.S. businesses. The NLRB, the independent

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Cruz meets with conservative supporters in Boston

BOSTON — Fresh from his victory last week in the Family Research Council's presidential straw poll, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz arrived in Boston on Friday to meet with Massachusetts conservatives before heading up to New Hampshire for a day of campaigning in the Granite State.

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Boehner resignation sets off a race for power

There's another Republican race under way and it has nothing to do with the presidency, although it will have plenty of impact on federal policymaking. John Boehner's abrupt retirement as speaker of the House of Representatives, announced last week, means the GOP will soon select a

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Obama issues new China sanctions threat over cybertheft

WASHINGTON (AP) — Somber against a backdrop of grand pageantry, President Barack Obama laid out a fresh threat of sanctions against China for alleged cybercrimes on Friday, even as he and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached an agreement not to conduct or support such hacking. "It has to stop,"

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Turning a blind eye to Afghan military’s child rape

American soldiers are being punished for blowing the whistle on the systematic rape and enslavement of young boys at the hands of brutal Afghan Muslim military officials. Honorable men in uniform risked their careers and lives to stop the abuse. Yet, the White House is AWOL on the pedophilia epidemic