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Can Hagel reshape the Pentagon?
Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska who survived a stormy confirmation hearing to become the new secretary of defense, had a coming-out party of sorts last week before the National Defense University, the government's graduate...Tags: Parties and Movements, U.S. Department of Defense, Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Republican Party
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Biden, Bloomberg lean on Congress to act on guns
Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate slowing momentum for gun control legislation, urged Congress on Thursday to be courageous in supporting new laws and insisted that the political risks of supporting such laws were overblown. Biden...
Tags: New York City, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Congress
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Obama goes big on gun control, but can he deliver?
The first general reaction to President Barack Obama's package of gun control ideas seems to be criticism that it's too ambitious. Predictions are being heard that he will fall far short of his aspirations and even fail to restore the ban on assault...
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Republican Party
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N.Y. Senate Takes First Step To Tighten Gun Controls
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a state Senate vote to toughen gun controls and make it easier to keep firearms away from the mentally ill, putting New York a step closer to becoming the first to take action after the Newtown school massacre. The bill...Tags: Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, Republican Party, U.S. House of Representatives, Regional Authority
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The demise of moderate Republicanism
Among the casualties of the 2012 presidential election, along with Mitt Romney, was the vanishing breed of moderate Republicans of which he once was a star, until his embarrassing lurch into conservatism. Mr. Romney first failed to win the GOP...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Culture, Ronald Reagan, Arts and Culture, Gerald Ford
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La familia de Noah Pozner pide nuevas leyes para evitar la violencia escolar, responsabilizar a propietarios de armas
El Hartford CourantLos familiares de Noah Pozner, un niño de 6 años quien murió en el tiroteo de la Escuela Elemental de Sandy Hook, hacen un llamado a la Casa Blanca para que apoyen nuevas leyes federales dirigidas a darles a la policía una alerta temprana de posibles...Tags: Adam Lanza
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The year that was in politics
It would be nice to feel, after one of the most costly and abrasive presidential campaigns in our nation's history, that the fog has cleared from the miasma of the year 2012, revealing bright prospects for a better 2013. It would also be nice to know that...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Television Industry, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party
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News and social media run amok
In the Newtown massacre, as in all such tragic events in a free and open society, both the news and social media went all-out to provide the fullest coverage of what happened and why. The latter is not yet fully known. In too many instances, though, the...
Tags: Entertainment, Social Media, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Radio, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control, Interior Policy
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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Politics, White House, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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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: National Rifle Association of America, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Senate, Crime, Law and Justice, Laws
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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: Parties and Movements, Rick Scott, West Hartford, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice
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