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The Heat win Game 6 103 to 100 in O/T…..

The overtime was not pretty, but the Heat managed to do just enough as Allen scored 4 of Miami’s 8 points, the last two coming from the free throw line. Bosh blocked the Spurs’ Danny Green’s 3-point attempt at the buzzer to end it.

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Red Racing Horses June Governors Ranking Map…..

Three GOP + and Four + for Dem’s since March….

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Immigration Reform Bill = Money…..Over a Hundred Billion and More!

The Congressional Budget Office estimated Tuesday the Senate immigration bill would reduce deficits by $197 billion over 10 years, handing supporters a new economic argument for the bill as the upper chamber marches toward a final vote.

The CBO said the bill would increase spending by $262 billion between 2014 and 2023 by requiring new border security measures, but would increase revenue by $459 billion as those given legal status and newly admitted temporary workers pay taxes.

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Democrats questioning the President may be the reason for his numbers dropping…Nate Silver…

I’m less concerned about the outcome of my “prediction” on Mr. Obama’s approval ratings than about my reasoning behind it. My claim that if an issue divides awkwardly across the partisan spectrum, a president may be protected from a decline in his approval ratings. I think my point may have been quite wrong.

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The U.S. and the Taliban may have dirrect talks on Afghanistan….

The U.S. seems to have to given up on a request that the Taliban formally reject al Qaeda, a key sticking point in previous negotiations. Instead, the Taliban will agree to “oppose the use of Afghan soil to threaten other countries,” an indirect acknowledgment of international terrorism — and the reason the U.S. invaded in the first place.

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Is Fed Reserve Chair Bernanke on the way out?

President Obama suggested that he was likely to nominate a new Federal Reserve chairman later this year, saying in a television interview aired late Monday that the current chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, had “already stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to.”

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America to Syria’s ‘Non-Lethal’ Aid Is Stuck on U.S. Shelves

The State Deparment is working with the Syrian Opposition Coalition and the Syrian Military Coalition on the aid but that there isn’t any specific timeline, a spokesman for State told FP. “The process can take from several weeks to several months,” he said…..

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Newt Gingrich 2016?

Think Newt Gingrich is out of politics?

Think again.

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Political Roundup for June 18th, 2013…Christie won’t help GOP Senate guy…Red Racing Horses

Governor Christie has no plans to actively help the likely Republican nominee, saying he has his own campaign to run, Steve Lonegan. Lonegan of course fought with Christie back in 2009 in a bitter primary campaign with Lonegan as the conservative chioce.

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Daily Real Clear Politics Polling Numbers 6/14/13 thru 6/18/13….

President Obama Approval, NJ Senate, NJ Gov, Mass Special Senate, Colorado 2016 Pres, Florida Gov….

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Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest 6/18/13: Exercise caution with optimistic generic congressional polls

So far this year, most reputable pollsters have given Democrats a small lead, but every so often, one has shown a much bigger gap. The latest is PPP, which put Dems up 47-40 in their most recent poll. Last month, the Washington Post found Democrats in front by 8 points, and Quinnipiac also once came up with a D+8 result earlier this year.

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The Military will move to open top combat slots to women….

Under the schedules military leaders delivered to Hagel, the Army will develop standards by July 2015 to allow women to train and potentially serve as Rangers, and qualified women could begin training as Navy SEALs by March 2016 if senior leaders agree.

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The NSA comes out with more info…There is more crazy shit going on then we knew…So What?

The program also helped them thwart a plan to bomb the New York City subway system–as previously reported–and a plan to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, he said.

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On Christine Quinn…Who’s running for NYC Mayor….

…..a review of Ms. Quinn’s early career in the city suggests that she has preferred the insiders’ game from the start. During her first decade after college, when she worked as an advocate on housing and gay rights issues and as an aide to the city’s first openly gay councilman, she honed the work-the-system strategy that has brought her both criticism and praise in more recent years.

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Claire McCaskill is for Hillary Clinton in 2016….

Saying that “it’s important we start early,” Sen. Claire McCaskill on Tuesday endorsed Hillary Clinton for president in one of the first major moves of the 2016 cycle.

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Teacher training programs get poor marks?….What about the increased testing?

I was in shock, really,” said Grelck, whose undergraduate semester as a student teacher in an affluent school did not prepare her for her first full-time job teaching in a high-poverty classroom in Chambord, Ill. “I really loved the [university] program, while I was in it. But I really felt like I needed more of the realities of teaching…….

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