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From Sun Magazine: First look -- 'VEEP' set visit
It's a cold, gray Friday afternoon in a dark and drafty concrete warehouse at an industrial park in Columbia. Not exactly the setting in which anyone would expect to find glamour, wit or the next big thing in pop culture.
But through a series of doors...Tags: Improvisational Comedy (genre), Vice (movie), The Pentagon, Sarah Palin, U.S. Department of State
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For Republicans, moderation is the only vice
Meet Nathan Fletcher, candidate for mayor of San Diego. He will lose, at least if the polls are right. But he has raised a minor stir through a video posted online a few days back. In it, he explains his decision to leave the Republican Party and...
Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Elections, Politics, The Miami Herald, Personal Weapon Control
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Republicans block Senate proposal to keep student loan rates low
Los Angeles Times & Q13 FOX News OnlineThe political battle over President Obama’s plan to keep student loan interest rates from skyrocketing escalated Tuesday as Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal to tax wealthier earners to pay for it. Republicans stopped the effort...Tags: Harry Reid, Republican Party, Patty Murray, Democratic Party, Loans
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Lugar loses Indiana GOP primary to tea party rival
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar was ousted Tuesday by a tea party-backed challenger in Indiana's Republican primary, abruptly ending the nearly four-decade career of a popular politician who built a reputation as a diplomat but whose...
Tags: The Associated Press, Elections, Politics, Tea Party Movement, Joe Donnelly
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Memo to the GOP: Not everyone is a conservative
As the four surviving Republican presidential aspirants fight over which of them is the "true" conservative, are any of them aware that millions of moderates and, yes, quite a few liberals will also be voting in November?
The views emanating from the...Tags: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Elections, Sociology
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Thinking about Congress
Sure we know we have a presidential election coming up in November but there's plenty at stake in the races for Congress — and what that will mean for continued gridlock. All the members of the House are up for election and here in Michigan,...Tags: Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Political Fundraising, Joe Scarborough, Elections
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The purge of bipartisans continues
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelThe latest casualty is Indiana's Richard Lugar, the longest serving Republican in the U.S. Senate. He got his hat handed to him Tuesday in the state's Republican primary, losing 60-39 to an opponent who attacked him for unpardonable sins like voting for... -
GOP foe of reason
Meet Nathan Fletcher, candidate for mayor of San Diego. He will lose, at least if the polls are right. But he has raised a minor stir through a video posted online a few days back. In it, he explains his decision to leave the Republican Party and...Tags: Miami (Miami-Dade, Florida), Pulitzer Prize Awards, Politics, The Miami Herald, Tea Party Movement
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Judicial filibuster: Not so 'extraordinary' after all
Remember the "Gang of 14"? That was the bipartisan group of senators who six years ago agreed not to filibuster judicial nominees except under "extraordinary circumstances."
Well, looks like some people have decided to redefine "extraordinary" to...Tags: Judges, Patrick Leahy, John McCain, Chuck Schumer, Chuck Grassley
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Consumer Confidential: Amazon fallout, hybrids galore, Ford recall
Money & CompanyBusiness news from around the Internet, Dec. 9, 2011. Sen. Olympia Snowe calls out Amazon.com. Exxon predicts a trend toward hybrid and other alternative-fuel cars. Ford announces a recall.... -
Another moderate bites the dust
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelThis week's retirement announcement from U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine isn't just bad news for her Republican Party and its prospects of taking control in Congress' upper chamber. It's bad news for anyone, Republican or Democrat or independent, who... -
A harsh judgment on obstructionism in the Senate
Opinion L.A.The delay in Senate confirmation for President Obama's judicial nominees is symbolic of the partisan gridlock that drove Sen. Olympia Snow back to Maine....
Mar 21, 2012
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Mar 6, 2012
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|Column| Petoskey News
May 9, 2012
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Apr 8, 2012
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Dec 7, 2011
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 9, 2011
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Feb 29, 2012
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Mar 13, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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