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In Budget Plan, Obama Seeks Cuts and Higher Taxes

Apr 13, 2011 - 4:55 PM |AP

WASHINGTON -- Forcefully rejecting Republican budget-cutting plans, President Barack Obama on Wednesday proposed lowering the nation's future deficits by $4 trillion over a dozen years and vowed he...

Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy

Apr 13, 2011 - 7:10 AM |AOL News

The State / MCT

A century and a half after the opening shots of the U.S. Civil War, nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the Confederacy. That's according to a new CNN poll released on the...

Collective Bargaining: Do SAT Scores Prove States Need It?

Feb 24, 2011 - 6:20 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

Does collective bargaining make for better or worse test scores? With Republican-controlled legislatures and state houses from Wisconsin to Oklahoma attempting to strip state workers of collective...

Sarah Palin to Glenn Beck: 'I Hate Violence'

Jan 10, 2011 - 2:47 PM |AOL News

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Sarah Palin is fighting back against speculation in some quarters that her often-fiery partisan rhetoric may have contributed to a climate that encourages political violence. Allison Shelley,...

Clarence Dupnik: The Anti-Joe Arpaio Sheriff in Arizona

Jan 9, 2011 - 11:55 AM |AOL News

Chris Morrison, AP

Until Saturday's rampage against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords left her battling for her life and ended the lives of six others, Clarence Dupnik was not the most famous sheriff in Arizona. But after a...

Constitution Is Read Line By Almost Every Line on House Floor

Jan 6, 2011 - 4:46 PM |AOL News

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WASHINGTON -- As political theater, the unprecedented reading of the Constitution on the floor of the House of Representatives today was mostly lacking in drama. Yes, there was the birther who...

House GOP Might Want to Skip Over Some Parts of Constitution

Jan 5, 2011 - 6:54 AM |AOL News

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WASHINGTON -- It's Constitution Week on Capitol Hill. As the newly divided Congress files into town, incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner is making sure the tea party knows Republicans heard...

2010: The Year Sarah Palin Became Queen of All Media

Dec 30, 2010 - 1:00 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

Wade Payne, AP

Move on over, Oprah. There's a new media queen in town. In a feat that may have seemed impossible at the conclusion of 2009, Sarah Palin became an even more visible national personality in...

2010 Was the Year of the Tea Party Movement

Dec 26, 2010 - 7:46 PM |AOL News

WASHINGTON -- This was the year of the tea party. What began as a rant on cable TV morphed into a populist movement and political juggernaut in 2010 as conservatives turned against the status quo....

Tea Party Pushes Amendment to Veto Congress

Dec 1, 2010 - 2:12 PM |AOL News

Alex Brandon, AP

ANALYSIS WASHINGTON (Dec. 1) -- First there were angry town hall meetings and rallies. Then a voter wave that elected dozens of tea party Republicans to Congress. And now, as conservatives vow to...

Nation Breathlessly Awaits DWTS Results: Will Bristol Win?

Nov 23, 2010 - 2:20 PM |AOL News Surge Desk

(Nov. 23) -- The finale has aired, the results are being tallied, and the nation is waiting. Can dark horse "Dancing With the Stars" contestant Bristol Palin pull off an unlikely run toward taking...

Barbara Bush Hopes Palin Stays in Alaska

Nov 21, 2010 - 6:00 AM |AOL News

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(Nov. 21) – Asked what she thinks about Sarah Palin, the matriarch of the Bush family responded with characteristic diplomacy. "I sat next to her once. Thought she was beautiful," Barbara Bush...