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By Yeganeh Torbati DUBAI (Reuters) – Some 100 legislators are demanding a ban on two top independent candidates including ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from Iran's June presidential election in what may be a further move to thwart any brewing challenge to the clerical supreme leader. The petition by parliamentarians to Iran's Guardian Council emerged three [...]

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Immigration Reform & The ‘Rebranding’ of The Republican Party: A Renaming of Intolerance, Racism & Bigotry: http://www.politicalarticles.net/blog/2013/05/09/…

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By Your Colleagues? Jon Stewart targeted Texas senator Ted Cruz over a possible presidential run in 2016 that has people already lining up behind the conserv… Video Rating: 4 / 5

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, has registered to run for president in the Islamic Republic’s June 14 election, the state news agency IRNA said on Saturday. Jalili, a veteran of the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, has since 2007 headed Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and is regarded as a hardline conservative close [...]

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“He has spent less than six months in the U.S. Senate, but Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) fueled speculation about his broader national political ambitions Friday night with a coveted speaking role at a state Republican Party dinner in the early primary state of South Carolina,” the Washington Post reports. Politico: “With this litany of conservative [...]

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Perhaps out of logic, straightforwardness and/or a desire to meet the other halfway, President Obama appears to have a tendency to make commitments that later come back to bite him. In the first instance, on Sept. 25, 2012, the president stated publicly that “containment is not an option” in the event that Iran did not [...]

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First Read: It may seem early but potential presidential candidates are already busy jockeying for position for 2016. Full News here – NBCNews.com: Inauguration Day

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Peggy Noonan, Wall Street JournalBarack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush. On some level he knew this, which is why every time he got in trouble he'd say Bush's name. It's all his [...]

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President Barack Obama stands with former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter, at the opening of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum in Dallas, Tex., April 25, 2013. Former First Ladies Laura Bush, left, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, are also pictured. (Official White House Photo by [...]

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GOP presidential candidate ends political career with a speech promoting the end to partisanship. Video Rating: 3 / 5

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