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Can the Obama administration be trusted?
— Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the U.S. Postal Service may record "mail cover," i.e., what's written on the outside of an envelope — the addresses of sender and receiver. The National Security...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Government, PRISM (surveillance program), National Government, Barack Obama
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J Street without spin
J Street describes itself as the "pro-Israel, pro-peace" lobby, and many news outlets accept that self-portrait without scrutiny. That's a mistake. Rabbi Daniel Gordis challenged J Street's 2011 leadership mission to Israel and the Palestinian Authority....Tags: Iran, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Wars and Interventions, Lobbying, Barack Obama
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COLUMN - What war on the press?
Reuters(Jack Shafer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Jack Shafer May 24 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has declared war on the press, say writers at Slate, the Daily Beast, Reason, the Washington Post (Jennifer Rubin, Dana Milbank...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Lobbying, Government, White House, Barack Obama
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COLUMN - It's not Watergate, it's Whitewater
Reuters(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 21 (Reuters) - The trifecta of scandals - Benghazi, the IRS and snooping on journalists - that has broken upon the heads of the Obama administration is...Tags: Taxation, Barack Obama, White House, Tea Party Movement, MSNBC (tv network)
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Obama's love of big government
WASHINGTON — The media herd is stunned to discover that Barack Obama is a man of the left. After 699 teleprompted presidential speeches, the commentariat was apparently still oblivious. Until last week's inaugural address, that is. Where has...
Tags: Washington, DC, Government, Bill Clinton, Social Security, Barack Obama
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Immigration: Fence, then amnesty
WASHINGTON — Immigration reform is coming. Let's get it right. What counts as getting it wrong? The 1986 Simpson-Mazzoli Act, signed by President Ronald Reagan. It granted amnesty to the then 3 million illegal immigrants and promised border...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, The Washington Post, Marco Rubio, Illegal Immigrants, Politics
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Romney can give allies love they've lacked from Obama
A generation ago, it was the three I's. A presidential challenger's obligatory foreign trip meant Ireland, Italy and Israel. Mitt Romney's itinerary is slightly different: Britain, Poland and Israel. Not quite the naked ethnic appeal of yore. Each...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Iran, Russia, Woody Allen, Barack Obama
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How Obama lost the war
WASHINGTON — Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq War from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaida in Iraq had been routed, driven to...Tags: Ayad Allawi, Iraq War (2003-2011), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Washington, DC, Government
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This is Obamaland: Bad luck, bad faith
"We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy moving again. … But over the last six months, we've had a run of bad luck." President Barack Obama, Aug. 15 WASHINGTON — A troubled nation wonders: How did we get mired in...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Politics, Elections
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Return of the real, soak-the-rich, class warrior Obama
![In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: "Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness."](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2011-09/65003255-25153102.jpg "In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: "Well, Charlie, what I've said is that I would look at raising the capital gains tax for purposes of fairness.\"")
In a 2008 debate, former ABC News broadcaster Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result. Obama persevered: "Well, Charlie, what I've said...Tags: The Washington Post, Upper West Side, John Updike, Washington, DC, Economy, Business and Finance
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Face it: Obama is plum out of ideas
Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama's game. Tuesday, it was the essence of his State of the Union address. The visionary of 2008 — purveyor of hope and change, healer of the Earth, tamer of the rising seas — offered an hour of...Tags: The Washington Post, Productivity, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Obama embraces democratic realism abroad
It was gratifying to hear a despotic leader blame the United States for the rise of a democratic protest movement against his regime. Vladimir Putin, the Russian prime minister, wants his people to think that those who have taken to the streets to...Tags: U.S. Department of State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Osama bin Laden
Jun 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jun 11, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 24, 2013
|Story| Reuters
May 21, 2013
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Jan 28, 2013
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Feb 5, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jul 29, 2012
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Nov 7, 2011
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Aug 22, 2011
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Sep 26, 2011
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Jan 28, 2012
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Dec 13, 2011
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