The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops said a modification offered by the White House did not go far enough in protecting religious liberty.

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Bishops Criticize Proposal on Birth Control Coverage

A White House consultant’s report said Friday that the Energy Department should bolster its ability to assess loan guarantee risks in the wake of the Solyndra bankruptcy, and urged the department to “aggressively strengthen its position” before more borrowers turn to the government for relief. Read full article > >

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A Republican fund-raising advantage among outside groups has led the White House to change course and use surrogates to encourage donations to a “super PAC.”

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The author of a new tell-all book claims she lost her virginity to President John F. Kennedy when she was a 19-year-old White House intern, and that the affair lasted 18 months.

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President Obama will announce details Friday for a $1 billion Veterans Job Corps that the White House says will put up to 20,000 veterans to work over the next five years on projects to preserve and restore national parks and other federal, state and local lands. Read full article > >

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…instead of the rest of albeit, The United States of Self-Interest.  Oh, and those moronic brain donors, the teabaggers (with no gray matter) to donate can go fuck themselves too! When exactly did America become the land of of the free as long as your income, bank balance and stock/mutual fund portfolio are worth a minimum of one million dollars (rhetorical question, and for those of you tea bag idiots who don’t what rhetorical means, GO LOOK IT UP).  We’ve only truly just begun the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign but I’m already beyond political bulimia.  One of the saddest and most pathetic aspects of this race to the White House is that people who in all likely-hood will never be wealthy, let alone in the true one percent continue drinking the koolaid that the likes of Newt and Mitt and that shit-bag Santorum continue to serve them.  Remember that somewhat famous line fro FORREST GUMP, “Stupid is as stupid does.”  This is the quintessential  essence of this ‘race to bottom’ — these poor saps truly believe that the likes of Newt, Mitt and Santorum give two shits about them.  I repeat, stupid is as stupid does.  Card carrying members of the United States of Morons — Sad, very sad not to mention disgusting at the most primal of levels.

At two parks near the White House.

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Occupy D.C. Vows to Flout Ban

Yes, comedian Ali Wentworth is turning into her mother. “She’s not as out there as I am,” Wentworth told us about her mom, Muffie Brandon Cabot , Washington hostess, former White House social secretary and font of pithy one-liners. “But I definitely have her values and morals, even though I talk a funny game.” Read full article > >

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Aneesh Chopra , tapped to serve as the first White House chief technology officer, is stepping down and is widely expected to announce that he will run for lieutenant governor in Virginia, according to Democrats familiar with his plan, but not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Read full article > >

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Newt Gingrich is basing his bid for the Republican presidential nomination, in large part, on one premise: He is the candidate best equipped to debate President Obama . If he becomes the nominee, Gingrich asserts, he will challenge the president to seven Lincoln-Douglas-style debates , three hours apiece. He says the president’s ego would compel him to accept, but if he doesn’t, Gingrich promises, “I’m going to say, ‘The White House is now my scheduler,’ and wherever he goes, I will show up within four hours to take apart whatever he said — that’s how Lincoln got Douglas to debate.” Read full article > >

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I n the 15 states that are likely to decide who controls the White House and the Senate in 2013, Hispanic voters will represent the margin of victory. For the Republican Party, the stakes could not be greater. Just eight years after the party’s successful effort to woo Hispanic voters in 2004 , this community — the fastest-growing group in the United States, according to census data — has drifted away . Read full article > >

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THURSDAY NIGHT’S Republican presidential debate produced more equivocation from former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney about when he would release his tax returns and how many he would release. He was asked by moderator John King if he would follow the standard set by his own father, George, the former Michigan governor who was the first presidential candidate to release his tax returns . He put out 12 years’ worth in November 1967, as he prepared to run for the White House in 1968 — a point also being made in a Democratic National Committee video. All Mr. Romney could muster was an awkward “Maybe.” Wait until April, he said. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Republicans are falling short of the Romney standard

The Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank closely aligned with the White House, is embroiled in a dispute with several major Jewish organizations over statements on Israel and charges that some center staffers have used anti-Semitic language to attack pro-Israel Americans. Read full article > >

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Smoke bomb thrown over White House fence.

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‘Occupy Congress’ Rallies in D.C.

Abortion provider Merle Hoffman called a news conference at the National Press Club on Tuesday morning to announce the results of an alarming new study she commissioned: Abortion rates have exploded since the economic collapse, she warned, as nearly three-quarters of women ending their pregnancies say they simply can’t afford to have a baby. Hoffman expanded on that trend to forecast a “dim future” for women if a Republican wins the White House: a world of abortion “slave states” and “underground railroads” and “pre-Roe reality.” Read full article > >

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