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There was certainly no lack of angst or passion among gun-control advocates in the wake of their devastating defeat in the Senate. The problem, as President Obama correctly diagnosed, will be to summon that level of intensity on Election Days of the future – and stoke some of it among the massive numbers of rank-and-file [...]
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Mayors Against Illegal Guns will counter NRA grades of congresspeople with its own report cards
Posted by admin on April 10th, 2013
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No Comments »US to Add More Missile Interceptors to Counter North Korean Steps
Posted by admin on March 16th, 2013
Concerned by North Korea’s long-range missile advances, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced today that the United States is bolstering its missile defense system by adding 14 more ground-based missile interceptors. The additional missiles will be in place by 2017 and will bring the number of… Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Counter, interceptors, Korean, Missile, more, North, Steps No Comments »Republican ‘counter offer’ is to continue holding middle class tax cuts hostage
Posted by admin on December 12th, 2012
Apparently Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner didn’t get the message—from the voters on November 6 or from President Obama who has repeatedly said that keeping the tax cuts for the rich is a non-starter: Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Class, continue, Counter, cuts, holding, hostage, Middle, offer, Republican No Comments »Egyptian group calls protest to counter Muslim Brotherhood
Posted by admin on December 5th, 2012
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian leftist opposition group urged its supporters to head to the presidential palace on Wednesday in response to the Muslim Brotherhood’s call for a protest there in support of President Mohamed Mursi, a spokeswoman said. The Popular Current, led by ex-presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahy, said its members would back other protesters [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Brotherhood, calls, Counter, Egyptian, Group, Muslim, protest No Comments »Obama aides seek to counter Republican charges on “fiscal cliff”
Posted by admin on December 1st, 2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Obama administration sought to counter Republican charges on Friday that President Barack Obama’s plan to avoid a year-end “fiscal cliff” is light on spending cuts and too reliant on tax increases. Administration officials said the overall plan, offered to Republicans on Thursday and quickly rejected by them, would achieve $ 4.5 [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: aides, charges, cliff, Counter, fiscal, Obama, Republican, Seek No Comments »US officials counter reports on Benghazi attacks
Posted by admin on November 2nd, 2012
Just days before the presidential election, U.S. officials are striking back at allegations they failed to respond quickly or efficiently against the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, detailing for the first time a broad CIA rescue effort. Tweet This Post
Exclusive: Rothschild forms consortium to counter Bakrie buyout – sources
Posted by admin on November 2nd, 2012
HONG KONG/JAKARTA (Reuters) – Financier Nat Rothschild is forming a rival consortium, including a contender for Indonesia's presidency, to launch a counter-offer to the $ 1.4 billion Bumi Plc buyout proposal from the Bakrie family, in a deal that would pour fuel on an already smoldering relationship. Sources familiar with the matter said Rothschild – [...]
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Bakrie, buyout, consortium, Counter, exclusive, Forms, Rothschild, Sources No Comments »Republicans try to counter Democrats’ convention
Posted by admin on September 4th, 2012
WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Republicans prepared a counterpunch to the Democratic National Convention this week by introducing their new line of attack with a not-so-new question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent time on his boat in New Hampshire on Monday, his running [...]
Republicans try to counter Democrats’ convention
Posted by admin on September 3rd, 2012
WOLFEBORO, New Hampshire (Reuters) – U.S. Republicans prepared a counterpunch to the Democratic National Convention this week by introducing their new line of attack with a not-so-new question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?" While Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spent time on his boat in New Hampshire on Monday, his [...]
