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The TV Zone(AP) Back, gang, to sober news: The death of an old and cherished acquaintance. Sorry for this late post, but due to circumstances beyond my immediate control - I have been away and the good people at Newsday.com are......Tags: Republican Party, Lyndon B. Johnson, Johnny Carson, Democratic Party, Government
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Tom Ridge: 'Security or politics?'
The Swampby Mark Silva Tom Ridge, the first secretary of Homeland Security, a post and bureaucracy created under the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9/11, says in a forthcoming book that other members of the former president's Cabinet pressured him......Tags: John Ashcroft, John McCain, Tom Ridge, International Military Interventions, George W. Bush
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Mary (Peter and Paul) Travers, Bitter End
The Swampby Mark Silva Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee, Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff, And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy......Tags: Music Industry, John Denver, The Associated Press, Connecticut, Grammy Awards
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'Silent majority:' Health care coming
The Swampby Mark Silva It's been quite some time since we heard from "the silent majority.'' It was then-President Richard Nixon who maintained, 40 years ago, that there were a lot of Americans who did not sympathize with all the protests......Tags: Barack Obama, United States, International Military Interventions, Richard Nixon, Government
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'Kerry Principle:' Obama's non-fatal flaw?
The Swampby Mark Silva This afternoon, President Barack Obama will walk onto a TV set in New York for a taping of the Late Show with David Letterman, the first appearance of a sitting president on Letterman's late-night show and the......Tags: Barack Obama, Government, White House, Medicare, Heads of State
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Nobel Peace Prize: Gandhi never won it
The Swampby Mark Jacob With a Chicagoan -- President Barack Obama -- winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, it's fitting to take a deeper look at the world's most famous awards for peaceful human achievement. The fact that they were founded......Tags: Barack Obama, Howard University, Toni Morrison, Henry Kissinger, Nobel Prize Awards
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Afghanistan another Vietnam?
The Swampby Mark Silva "This is not Vietnam in many respects," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a reported interview during his latest trip to Afghanistan. "We are here in Afghanistan because people attacked us here in the most significant attack......Tags: Afghanistan, International Military Interventions, Opinion Research Corporation, Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Obama: Vietnam's lessons true today
The Swampby Mark Silva They're still talking about the lessons of Vietnam at the White House, where President Barack Obama today awarded a Presidential Unit Citation to Alpha Troop, First Squadron of the 11th Armored Cavalry. At the White House, where......Tags: Jim Jones, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Defense, Massachusetts
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Fort Hood 'terrorist act:' Max Cleland
The Swampby Mark Silva While various members of Congress attempt to sort out whether the mass murder at Ft. Hood, Texas, was an act of terrorism or madness, former Sen. Max Cleland, an extremely wounded and decorated veteran of the Vietnam......Tags: Republican Party, Hospitals and Clinics, Fort Hood Shootings (2009), Defense, PBS (tv network)
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Massachusetts meltdown: Blame game
The Swampby Mark Silva "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts.'' For years, that was the bumper-sticker boast of the Bay State, the only state that voted for Democrat George McGovern for president in 1972, the year when Richard Nixon was swept......Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, Michael Steele, Massachusetts, Democratic Party
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A Memorial Day war story with a happy ending
On Memorial Day 1967, Tom MacDougall was an Air Force fighter pilot who got shot down on his 300th mission in Vietnam. Robert Green was an orthopedic surgeon at an Ohio Air Force base, uprooted from his comfortable West Palm Beach practice when he got...Tags: Holidays, Embry-Riddle University, Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Daytona Beach
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Orb trainer Shug McGaughey has Triple Crown reminders 'every day'
BALTIMORE — Wednesday morning at Pimlico race track was similar to most mornings for Claude McGaughey III. Except there were lots of reporters around, which made it different. McGaughey is a thoroughbred horse trainer, currently the one in the...
Tags: Triple Crown, Kentucky Derby, Sports Illustrated, Preakness Stakes, Pimlico
Jul 20, 2009
|Blog| Newsday
Aug 21, 2009
|Blog| Chicago Tribune
Sep 17, 2009
|Blog| Chicago Tribune
Sep 14, 2009
|Blog| Chicago Tribune
Sep 21, 2009
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Oct 9, 2009
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Oct 19, 2009
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Oct 20, 2009
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Nov 10, 2009
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Jan 20, 2010
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May 25, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 15, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
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