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Daily Kos Elections is pleased to announce our first set of Senate race ratings for the 2013-14 election cycle. Democrats are defending 20 seats (including one in a special election next week), while 15 Republican seats are up for re-election. The overall playing field favors the GOP, though they need to net five seats in [...]
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Daily Kos Elections Senate race ratings: Initial ratings for 2013-14
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
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No Comments »NYC mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn’s memoir so far sells just 100 copies
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
Christine Quinn is vying to be New York City’s first female and first openly gay mayor, but even as polls suggest she still remains the candidate to beat, it appears Quinn will not add the title of “best-selling author” to her resume. The New York Times reports that Quinn’s memoir, “With Patience and Fortitude,” sold [...]
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Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: Bill, Carry, Democratic, Discharge, Dishonorable, many, stigma, Still, undo, veterans', Would No Comments »ESPN Thinks It Can Just Casually Call Something ‘Confed Cup’
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
BRISTOL, CT—Expressing confusion and annoyance upon reading the phrase, sources confirmed Wednesday that someone at ESPN thinks it’s okay to call something the “Confed Cup” with no further context or explanation. The Onion Tweet This Post
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Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
NEW YORK—Though he was once confused by the number of frail, seemingly mentally unstable people concentrated around the Houston and Broadway area of Manhattan, local man Paul Nichols, 38, told reporters Monday that as soon as he figured out there wa… The Onion Tweet This Post
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Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Surveillance bait: Tweet This Post
Wikileaks founder Assange: We are helping NSA leaker Snowden
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Wednesday that his anti-secrecy group has been in touch with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden’s legal team in a bid to help him secure asylum in Iceland. “I feel a great deal of personal sympathy with Mr Snowden,” Assange told reporters on a conference call. He joined the call [...]
Ecstatic American Indians Praise ‘The Lone Ranger’
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
LOS ANGELES—Upon emerging from an advance screening of the Walt Disney Pictures film The Lone Ranger, representatives of the country’s American Indian population enthusiastically praised the action-adventure comedy Wednesday, telling re… The Onion Tweet This Post
Ecstatic American Indians Praise ‘The Lone Ranger’
Posted by admin on June 19th, 2013
LOS ANGELES—Upon emerging from an advance screening of the Walt Disney Pictures film The Lone Ranger, representatives of the country’s American Indian population enthusiastically praised the action-adventure comedy Wednesday, telling re… The Onion Tweet This Post
