So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’s devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.

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“Iam not an ideologue,” protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.

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NAR President Vicki Cox Golder sits down with Chief Lobbyist Jerry Giovianello to discuss NAR’s response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

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The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane — that can happen to any administration, as it surely did to the Bush administration — but what happened afterward when Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was captured and came under the full control of the U.S. government.

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That cheaters never win.

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Newly declassified docs show Margaret Thatcher as a woman with “high standards, a short temper and a taste for whisky.”

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In this season of retrospection, a poll from Gallup asking respondents to identify the winners and losers in politics from 2009.

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On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama’s latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring that Iran “will continue resisting” until the United States has gotten rid of its 8,000 nuclear warheads.

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