Obama, liberals split on security and media issues

New cracks are opening in the relationship between President Barack Obama and his liberal allies in Congress over his desire to continue some Bush-era tactics against terrorism and his opposition to protecting reporters from revealing their sources in national security cases.

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Senate shakeup won't change liberal control

A leadership shake-up announced Wednesday by Senate Democrats due to Ted Kennedy's death will continue to empower the party's more left-leaning members on crucial issues, with Sen. Tom Harkin set to take over health care.

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Liberals push for public health insurance plan

Congressional liberals are telling the Obama administration that a health overhaul bill cannot pass unless it includes a new government-run insurance option.

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Liberals frustrated on gun, Guantanamo issues

Frustrated liberals are asking why a Democratic-controlled Congress and White House can't manage to close the Guantanamo prison or keep new gun-rights laws from passing.

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Ex-scholar becomes leader of Liberal party

The new leader of Canada's once-dominant Liberal Party said Wednesday he will topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government next month if it does not present a federal budget that addresses the country's economic crisis.

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Analysis: Labor-green rift clouds auto aid chances

Watch out for family fights, Mr. President-elect. Though Democrats will control both the new Congress and White House, the battle over a multibillion-dollar auto industry bailout already is pitting two major party constituencies against each other: big labor and environmentalists.

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Liberal activists have long legislative wish list

Gays serving openly in the military. Voting rights for more ex-convicts. Paid sick days and family leave for most American workers.

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Leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party quits

The head of Canada's opposition Liberals announced Monday that he will step down after leading the once-dominant party to one of its worst ballot showings in last week's elections for Parliament.

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Veteran Russian liberal party head steps aside

The veteran chairman of Russia's most prominent liberal political party has stepped aside after internal disputes about the party's direction during Vladimir Putin's presidency, a party official said Monday.

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Liberals Don't Want Convention Fight

Liberals are antsy. They haven't seen Democratic voter enthusiasm like this in a long time and they'd rather not wait until the party's August convention to harness it to the party's presidential nominee.

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Liberals to Spend $150 Million on '08

A loose coalition of liberal and labor organizations expects to spend about $150 million this fall to push its causes and help Democrats win the White House and strengthen their grip on Congress.

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Anti-War Dems Ponder Bold Action on Iraq

The closest thing Congress has to a peace movement — 71 liberals who want to yank Iraq funding and bring troops home swiftly — faces a dilemma: The lawmakers can back a Democratic plan they think is too weak, or they can block it and risk an embarrassing defeat for their cause.

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Canada's Dion Says He'll Honor Kyoto

The new leader of Canada's Liberal Party pledged Sunday to honor the country's commitment to the Kyoto protocol if he unseats Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an election expected next year.

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If Liberals and Conservatives actually knew history, would they come to different and perhaps common conclusions?

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Some where Karl Marx is smiling a big "Told you so"

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After 18 years in Congress, Congressman William Jefferson of Louisiana, a Democrat, will serve 13 years for bribery and if he grins as he stamps out plates, he is still eligible for a guaranteed $50,000 pension in his first year of retirement, which will increase each year.

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Two viruses caused the murders, wounds, and suffering at Fort Hood. The first arises from the fact that although a capacity for evil is inherent in human nature, human beings have, as David Brooks recently observed, a "conscious say" regarding the commission of evil acts.

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OTTAWA–Angry Liberals Wednesday accused the Conservative government of reaching a new political low by circulating flyers characterizing the Liberals as anti-Semitic.

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The Democrats have more political power than they have had at any time since the presidency of LBJ.

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Yes, Virginia, there really are honest liberals, though they may be extinct long before the last polar bear slides off that melting ice floe.

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By Walter Brasch It wasn't unusual that Rush Limbaugh went ballistic on his show, Nov. 13. He does that several times a day.

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A clutch of Senate liberals pressed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to stand firm behind a public insurance option Monday afternoon in the face of filibuster threats from Republicans and Sen. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.).

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And, somehow, it is sickly appropriate that its about masturbation: It's one of those things you wouldn't think anyone needs to learn, but apparently, masturbation is an art in Spain.

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Former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who as a judge presided over a trial stemming from the first attack on the World Trade Center, on Friday warned that the Obama administration's decision to bring Sept.

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The long-run consequence of undermining the positive incentive to work is, of course, the creation of an underclass acclimated to not working; And ObamaCare is perfectly designed to bring the 3rd quintile in to this system.

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The West's policy of delusion — talk to the mullahs, threaten them with boycotts, accept their regime as a legitimate expression of Iran's popular will, but never threaten, let alone use, "hard power" — was continued without a single gesture of goodwill from Tehran. Th …

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America Is Better Off When Conservatives Are In Power and Liberals Are On the Outside Fighting the Power

America seems better off and more balanced when liberals are outsiders "fighting the power", rather than actually being "the power". As an outsider rising up against those in charge, liberals can pretty much say whatever they want without repercussion.

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WASHINGTON — The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation that Democrats are trying to push through Congress.

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Some major cracks have emerged in the "Tea Party" movement's leadership.

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How would Jonathan Swift react to the inanities that for decades have issued from the minds and mouths of far too many recipients of a certain international prize for achievement in literature, economics, or peace? If the past truly is prologue, he would single out one of the tru …

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I was a feminazi-hating, liberal-bashing loudmouth who tried to befriend Bill O'Reilly. Man, I was such a douche Every day I wake up with the same thought: "I used to be such a goddamned idiot."

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"For the most part it's pretty hollow, a toothless tiger," said Paul Dorf, managing director of Compensation Resources Inc., a pay consultant based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

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Where's the liberal cover-up? So far, I haven't heard anyone on the right saying that the authorities shouldn't charge Malik Nidal Hassan with a hate crime because doing so would be a totalitarian, Orwellian criminalization of a thoughtcrime.

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Once again Dennis Kucinich shows what Liberals should be saying but aren't:

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Media Matters says it does not coordinate its efforts with the Obama campaign — the campaign has its own media-criticism Web site, FightTheSmears.com — though some Democratic operatives have, at the least, suggested potential items to Media Matters over the years.

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As Tuesday's vote revealed, Americans are strongly devoted to individualism, one happy aspect of which is that they are possessed of an abhorrence to being told what to think, a truth that explains why people are drawing their own conclusions regarding this question: Which Amer …

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Rep. Todd Akin of Missouri today led a crowd of Teabaggers in front of the Capitol in a rousing recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. He said it "drives liberals crazy" when people say the Pledge. Well, our skin doesn't burn or anything when you say it aloud, Rep.

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In the health care debate, Democrats and their allies have gone after insurance companies as rapacious profiteers making "immoral" and "obscene" returns while "the bodies pile up."

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