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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...Tags: Executive Branch, Religion and Belief, Lindsey O. Graham, Elections, Judaism
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Obama plays his high cards
As President Barack Obama nears the end of his first term, has he finally found an inner LBJ to channel? His recent words and actions suggest he has turned a corner from his earlier wishful thinking about playing nice with obstruction-minded Republicans...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Mitt Romney, Elections, Talk Shows (genre), The New York Times
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...Tags: Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Mitt Romney, Elections, Tea Party Movement
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On eve of Biden gun report, NRA digs in
When Vice President Joe Biden invited the National Rifle Association to the White House the other day to join in the Obama administration's post-Newtown talks on ways to counter gun violence, it was like letting the fox into the chicken coop. The NRA...Tags: White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress, Weaponry, U.S. Senate
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Remembering Richard Ben Cramer and his magnum opus
An old reporter often begins his daily routine by turning to the newspaper's obituary page with mild trepidation, fearing another friend has gone to that great newsroom in the sky. So it was this week in reading of the death in Baltimore, at only 62, of...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, George H.W. Bush, Elections, Entertainment Events, Authors
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Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?
There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...Tags: Christopher Stevens, Lindsey O. Graham, Mitt Romney, Elections, Republican Party
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At Forum On Gun Violence, Hartford Residents Say They Know The Problem Well
The Hartford CourantHenrietta Beckman lost her son, Randy, to gun violence in 2002. Samuel Saylor Sr.'s son, Shane Oliver, was fatally shot in October. Randy and Shane weren't in elementary school, were not white and did not live in the suburban town of Newtown. They...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Interior Policy, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Personal Weapon Control
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Biden has the last laugh
Vice President Joe Biden, the Republicans' favorite punching bag, gave his critics nothing to laugh about as President Barack Obama's ultimate fireman in rescuing the country from the fiscal cliff it teetered on as 2012 ended. Mr. Biden's 11th-hour...
Tags: Elections, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Dick Cheney, Democratic Party
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Why did Obama defend and then drop Susan Rice?
Whether Susan Rice jumped or was pushed from consideration to succeed retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her removal from the equation clears one bone of partisan contention from President Barack Obama's plate as he heads into his second term....Tags: Civil Rights, Lindsey O. Graham, Scott P. Brown, Elections, Justice and Rights
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Why annihilate the GOP?
Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled speaker...Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Mitt Romney, Tea Party Movement, Migration, Elections
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Noah Pozner's Uncle Says Family Speaking With White House On Guns
The Hartford CourantThe uncle of one of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting blamed "unintended miscommunication" for the failure of the White House to seek his family's input in the development of proposals to reduce gun violence. Alexis Haller said Friday that he has...Tags: White House, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting
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States Provide Lucrative Subsidies For Gunmakers
The Hartford Courant— Governments in nine states have awarded at least $49 million in subsidies in the past five years to gun and ammunition makers whose products are under scrutiny after the school shootings in Newtown. Almost 85 percent of those tax breaks or...Tags: Executive Branch, Local Government, Economic Policy, West Hartford, Companies and Corporations
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Jan 9, 2013
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