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Reagan's 'shining porkopolis on a hill?'
The SwampPresident Ronald Reagan and first lady Nancy Reagan at White House on July 12, 1986 en route to Camp David, Maryland. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) by Rebecca Cole Remember that "shining city on a hill" that President Ronald Reagan alluded......Tags: White House, Ronald Reagan, National Government, Diseases and Illnesses, Government
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Earmarks aren't 'wicked, evil, criminal, wrong'
The Swampby Frank James The debate over earmarks will probably not end until the last day of the Republic, which we hope isn't anytime soon, despite what that Russian "expert" says. The debate sprang to life again because the $410 billion......Tags: State Budgets, Newt Gingrich, Public Finance, Laws, Health
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Obama, health: 'Time for games passed'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 9:20 pm President Barack Obama, offering some concessions to Republicans and yielding some of his own ground on health care, maintained tonight that a "public option'' of government-run insurance is only one option open......Tags: Career and Workplace, Migration, Justice System, Health, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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Obama's 'got game,' and competition
The Swampby Mark Silva For all the war councils lately at the White House -- and that "beer summit'' on the South Lawn -- the big fall basketball game on the first court promises some real stretches. President Barack Obama, who......Tags: White House, National Government, John Shimkus, Alcoholic Beverages, Illinois
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Flake out on Confucius
The Swampby Mark Silva Old saying: "He who spends time passing trivial legislation may find himself out of time to read health-care bill.'' Confucius? No, Flake. Rep. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican, explaining his vote today against a congressional resolution,...Tags: Republican Party, Arizona, Confucianism, Medical Services, Health
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Gabrielle Giffords' story a different kind of profile in courage
Gabrielle Giffords received a Profile in Courage award this weekend at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston. The award is fitting, though she is displaying a different kind of courage than was celebrated by the late president in his 1957 best-selling...Tags: John F. Kennedy, Mary L. Landrieu, Human Interest, U.S. Senate, Interior Policy
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One to watch from Michigan
WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism....
Tags: Religion and Belief, Ron Johnson, Carl Levin, Christianity, Marco Rubio
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Courage in short supply
WASHINGTON -- The gun bill was going down, but Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat who reached a compromise to try to save it, went to the Senate floor Wednesday morning to give it one more try. In an unorthodox tactic, he appealed directly...
Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Harry Reid, Chuck Grassley, The Washington Post, Interior Policy
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Joe Manchin III, Harry Reid, Interior Policy, Glenn Beck
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Ronald Reagan's lead on immigration
Yes, good things still happen in this country. They just don't happen overnight. That lesson was brought home to me again on Current TV this week when I interviewed Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation, about Defense Secretary...
Tags: Migration, Yogi Berra, Marco Rubio, Chuck Schumer, Michael F. Bennet
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Tea party draws wrong conclusion about election
I got the following press release via email Wednesday morning. Leaders of the Tea Party News Network and TheTeaParty.net offered an unflinching assessment of Election Day results. Todd Cefaratti, editor of the Tea Party News Network said, "We're...
Tags: Barack Obama, Chuck Norris, Television, YouTube, MSNBC (tv network)
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Cuba travel crack earns rebuke from Cuban-American senator
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelBy William E. Gibson, Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee didn't ask a single question of Secretary of State-nominee John Kerry about his views on Cuba policy at his confirmation hearing this week. But a meant-to-...
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