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Taliban has 'momentum,' U.S. goal doable
The Swampby Mark Silva After nearly eight years of war in Afghanistan, where the United States ousted the Taliban from power following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. secretary of defense says the Taliban "has the momentum'' now.......Tags: Taliban, Wars and Interventions, White House, Armed Conflicts, Earthquakes
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Health care: 2010 elections start here
The Swampby Mark Silva With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a health-care bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined: For the Democrats, in......Tags: White House, Executive Branch, Health Insurance, Voting, Health
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Women, Obama and Virginia: Hot race
The Swampby Mark Silva Twenty years ago, in a master's thesis written for the evangelical school that he was attending, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia wrote that working women and feminists are "detrimental'' to the family and government policy....Tags: Newspapers, California, Virginia, Executive Branch, Washington (U.S. state)
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Hillary Clinton: 'Gosh... White House'
The Swampby Mark Silva Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is "shocked'' at how much time she spends over at the White House.these days. And Clinton, a former first lady who knows the place pretty well, recalls just what she......Tags: White House, European Union, Hillary Clinton, Riots, Football
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Obama's New Orleans tour: 3 hrs, 45 min.
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Former President George W. Bush started his day in California, the morning he made his first, albeit aerial inspection of the damage done by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. President Barack Obama will end his......Tags: Janet Napolitano, Charter Schools, Arne Duncan, Meteorological Disasters, U.S. Army
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Obama, hatred, 'angry white guys:' 2009
The Swampby Mark Silva A fourth-grader rose with a question for the president of the United States at a "town hall''-styled assembly in New Orleans. "I have to say, why do people hate you and why -- they supposed to love......Tags: White House, Janet Napolitano, Fox Broadcasting Company, Getty Images Inc., Health
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White House vs FOX News: War in review
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated After a week at "war'' with the FOX News Channel, the White House maintained today that it really isn't too concerned about what FOX says about the administration - and also gave new, high-level......Tags: Wars and Interventions, Newspapers, Mass Media, Wages and Pensions, Voting
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Sarah Palin: Rogue, Joe Biden: Rogaine
The Swampby Mark Silva It's a rite of passage for politicians in Washington: Making fun of oneself. And sometimes politicians do it on purpose - particularly when it's a matter of performing for the Gridiron Club. That's what Sarah Palin, the......Tags: Getty Images Inc., Massachusetts, Bars and Clubs, Joe Biden, National Government
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Health-care fight: Obama vs. insurers
The Swampby Mark Silva A full-bore fight is on to the finish: With a frontal assault on the insurance industry for sponsoring "misleading'' information, President Barack Obama today calls the passage of health-insurance reform "the great test'' of the "change''...Tags: White House, Congressional Budget Office, Business, Budgets and Budgeting, Lobbying
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McCain vs. Obama's 'Left-wing crusade'
The Swampby Mark Silva John McCain has run against Barack Obama before. He's running against him again. With campaign radio ads billing the five-term Republican senator as "Arizona's last line of defense,'' the GOP's nominee for president in 2008 is attempting.......Tags: White House, Illegal Immigrants, State Budgets, National Government, Arizona
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McCain on Palin, Reid: No 'looking back'
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. John McCain is taking a pass on newly reported details about his chosen running mate in the 2008 presidential election - with the authors of that new book, Game Change, revealing more about GOP vice presidential......Tags: CBS Corp., Fox Broadcasting Company, NBC (tv network), Nevada, Matt Lauer
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Obama: Afghan runoff 'important step'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 11:50 am EDT For weeks now, the White House has added a caveat to nearly every public discussion of deliberations underway about the way forward in Afghanistan: The United States must have an effective......Tags: John Kerry, Corporate Crime, Democracy, White House, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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