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  • Illustration: Kagan and Shariah

    GAFFNEY: Courting Shariah

    Hats off to Sen. Jeff Sessions. The top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee has opened up an important new front in the debate over Solicitor General Elena Kagan's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court: her attitude toward the repressive legal code authoritative Islam calls Shariah and her enabling of efforts to insinuate it into this country.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
Former Colorado House Speaker Andrew Romanoff was approached by White House officials about his Senate race.

    EDITORIAL: Sestak-Romanoff scandal persists

    The liberal media may have lost interest in the Obama administration's sleazy job offers to two potential Senate candidates, but the White House shouldn't breathe too easily just yet. Republican congressmen and alternative media remain on the hunt for answers, and for justice.


  • Fiorina slams stimulus, focuses on jobs

    Republican Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is kicking off her general election campaign by slamming the $862 billion federal stimulus package that was supported by her opponent, Democrat Barbara Boxer.


  • Associated Press
James McGee vacuums oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in Barataria Bay off the coast of Louisiana on Sunday. White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Sunday portrayed Republicans as being overly sympathetic toward BP about the spill.

    Emanuel contends GOP sympathetic to BP

    White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel on Sunday portrayed Republicans as sympathetic to BP, saying that a House Republican's controversial apology to the oil giant is emblematic of the party's views.


  • ASSOCIATED PRESS
South Carolina Republican candidates for governor, state Rep. Nikki Haley, and U.S. Rep. J. Gresham Barrett pause as they are asked questions during a televised debate Thursday in Columbia. They square off Tuesday in a primary runoff election.

    S.C., Utah to tap Republicans

    The calendar says June, but for Republican gubernatorial candidates in South Carolina and Utah, it seems like November.


  • **FILE** Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Associated Press)

    Lieberman: Votes still short for climate bill

    A Senate sponsor of a climate and energy bill says supporters are still short of the 60 votes they need to advance the legislation.


  • Political Scene

    The chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence says she has concerns about someone from the military heading U.S. spy agencies.


  • Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan

    McConnell: Talk of Kagan filibuster premature

    The Senate's top Republican said Sunday it's too early to say whether GOP lawmakers might try to filibuster Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's confirmation, even though hearings are set to begin June 28.


  • In this June 16, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington after meeting with BP executives.

    Obama: GOP making life harder for jobless

    President Barack Obama on Saturday pinned blame on Republicans for making life harder for the unemployed and for those who could lose their jobs without new federal intervention. He did so even as he sought to distance himself from the "dreary and familiar politics" of Washington.


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