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George W. Bush joins public service elite
Los Angeles TimesFormer President George W. Bush was joined by President Obama and three living former presidents in the dedication of his library last week in Dallas. It's important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still...Tags: Libraries, Government, Politics, George W. Bush, Malaria
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Why is the Pentagon exempted from scrutiny?
The most common complaint from people who email me about my columns is that the federal government is horrible: Too big and growing too fast, too corrupt and wasteful, and providing too many benefits to too many Americans. If we just shrink the...Tags: Government, Politics, Bribery, Career and Workplace, Money and Monetary Policy
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Local authorities drop theft charges against imprisoned Dixon official
Tribune reporterLee County authorities today dropped 60 counts of felony theft against Rita Crundwell, the former Dixon treasurer already headed to federal prison for nearly 20 years for a massive fraud scheme. After a brief hearing in the Dixon courthouse, Lee...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Theft, Justice System, Trials, Lawyers
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Virginia's first black U.S. judge to become senior judge
Virginia's first African-American federal judge will step down from full-time active status next year. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer will become a senior judge on March 25, 2014. The move from active...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Judges
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Photographer Jeffrey Milstein captures poetry in motion at airports
Photographer Jeffrey Milstein has been fascinated with aviation and flying since he was a young boy building toy models. At 15 he would sweep hangar floors at the Santa Monica Airport on Sunday mornings in exchange for flying lessons. He passed his pilot'...
Tags: Military Equipment, Daniel Day-Lewis, Frank Gehry, Fashion Shows, Entertainment Events
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Military Notes
South Bend TribuneNavy Petty Officer 3rd Class Eric T. Arnold has graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power School at Naval Nuclear Power Training Command in Goose Creek, S.C. Arnold is the son of Rod Arnold, of Granger. He is a 2011 graduate of Penn High School....Tags: Army National Guard, U.S. Navy, Nuclear Power
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Rubio confronts myths and fears on immigration bill
No, immigrants who cross the border illegally would not get free cellphones paid for by American taxpayers. That's just one of the rumors, objections and just plain myths that U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is confronting while promoting his immigration-...
Tags: Laws, Politics, Tea Party Movement, International Law, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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O'Connor questions court's decision to take Bush v. Gore
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor hasn't given much thought to which was the most important case she helped decide during her 25 years on the bench. But she has no doubt which was the most controversial. It was Bush v. Gore, which...
Tags: Politics, George W. Bush, Lobbying, U.S. Supreme Court, Elections
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Presidential alumni an elite (and small) club
At the dedication Thursday of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, President Barack Obama appeared with all four living ex-presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. That raised a question: What is the record...Tags: Government, Lyndon B. Johnson, Franklin Pierce, Richard Nixon, John Tyler
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Bush library should be nonpartisan
— In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon's presidential materials from the Washington, D.C., area, where they had been kept as federal property...
Tags: Libraries, Government, Museums, Politics, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Back Story: Presidents say the darnedest things
Paul Dickson, a Garrett Park resident, loves the origins of words and is a compiler of word books and dictionaries. So imagine my delight and pleasure when my friend, Mary Garson, who is also fascinated with etymology, gave me a copy of Dickson's...
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Politics, Vietnam War (1955-1975), State of the Union Address, Richard Nixon
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Our Laguna: Rohrabacher makes the rounds
"Getting to Know You" has been U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher's theme song since new areas were added last year to the 48th District that he represents. Last weekend, he lunched with the Laguna Beach Rotary Club on Friday at Aliso Creek Inn and brunched...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Politics, European Union, U.S. Congress
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