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Sequester is proof of Obama's incompetence
Regarding your recent editorial on the impending across-the-board cuts in federal spending, since the "sequester" plan originally was introduced by the White House, to call it a "GOP sequester" is a misnomer ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). If we had any...Tags: Elections, White House, U.S. House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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The president's feeble gesture
"President Obama plans to give up 5 percent of his salary this year to draw attention to the financial sacrifice of more than 1 million federal employees who will be furloughed." -- The Washington Post, April 4 "Here's the plan. We get the warhead and...
Tags: Elections, Polls, Amputation, The Washington Post, White House
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Dianne Feinstein
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Connecticut governor signs tough gun-control law
Four months after a lone gunman shattered the normal morning activities of a Connecticut elementary school in a fearsome shooting spree of 154 bullets in less than five minutes, that state’s governor on Thursday signed a tough gun-control law, the...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Regional Authority, U.S. Congress, Periodicals, Colleges and Universities
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U.S. Senators Blumenthal, Murphy Say CT Will Give Them Momentum in Washington, D.C.
The Hartford CourantSaying that Connecticut can help the national effort on gun control, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy came to the state Capitol in Hartford to congratulate Democratic senators for passing one of the strongest gun control bills in the...Tags: Elections, National Rifle Association of America, Washington, DC, Assault, Periodicals
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...Tags: National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Dianne Feinstein
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Bad luck for Mitch McConnell: Ashley Judd bows out
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell will not be facing a challenge from actress Ashley Judd when he runs for re-election next year. Though he may be happy to have avoided the physical comparison -- she, after all, played Marilyn Monroe in a movie,...
Tags: Elections, Tea Party Movement, Celebrities, Mitch McConnell, Alec Baldwin
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On guns: Too little, too late
WASHINGTON -- "Don't get squishy because time has passed," President Obama told members of Congress. But they already have. "Now is the time," the president said. But the time was actually three months ago. Obama made an impassioned bid last...
Tags: Elections, White House, National Rifle Association of America, Washington, DC, U.S. Congress
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Group wants background checks for firearm buyers
holly.shok@herald-mail.comOne hundred days after the second-deadliest school shooting in United States history, community members gathered at the Boonsboro Free Library on Thursday to sign a petition advocating universal background checks for firearm sales. Hosted by public...Tags: Organizing for Action, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, National Rifle Association of America, Arts and Culture, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Let's be grown-ups on gay marriage and assault weapons
Given the lack of interest in Congress in protecting children from guns, it was nice to hear a grown-up in Washington speak on behalf of kids, any kids — in this case, the nearly 40,000 kids who live with same-sex parents in California. "They want...
Tags: Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, National Rifle Association of America, Family, U.S. Congress
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Congressman brings common sense to gun control debate
SACRAMENTO — As the national firearms debate reaches a crescendo, a Northern California congressman is proving that you can be both a gun lover and a gun controller. Rep. Mike Thompson of St. Helena, a moderate "blue dog" Democrat who represents...
Tags: Elections, U.S. Supreme Court, National Rifle Association of America, Mike Thompson, Substance Abuse
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Obama summons congressional leaders to White House
WASHINGTON – President Obama plans to convene a meeting with the top leaders in Congress on Friday at the White House, congressional aides confirmed. The president’s confab with House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), Senate Majority...
Tags: Elections, White House, John Boehner, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
Feb 28, 2013
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Apr 8, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Apr 4, 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
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Apr 3, 2013
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Apr 2, 2013
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Apr 1, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 27, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Mar 27, 2013
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Feb 27, 2013
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