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The Times' 2012 list of the naughty and the nice
Santa's not the only one who makes lists. As we reflect on 2012, we too have thoughts about who should look forward to a cheerful holiday morning and who deserves a lump of coal. Below, The Times' reflections on who's been naughty and who's been nice....Tags: David Petraeus, U.S. Senate, Government, Mark Zuckerberg, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Column: Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to hear...Tags: U.S. Senate, The Wall Street Journal, Richard Mourdock, Sheldon Adelson, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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10 Spectacular Low Points of the 2012 Election
The 2012 presidential election provided plenty to look back upon: 10. A slew of people you don’t know threaten to move to Canada after the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in favor of the Affordable Care Act. 9. Obama first uses the...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Politics, Elections, Joe Biden, Candy Crowley
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Tea Party's Strength From Grass Roots
The Hartford CourantReports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...Tags: Karl Rove, U.S. Senate, Politics, John Boehner, The Wall Street Journal
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Rape victims 'enjoy it,' Indonesia Supreme Court hopeful suggests
An Indonesian Supreme Court hopeful may have torpedoed his chances at the job after suggesting that women might enjoy being raped, infuriating a wide array of critics. Daming Sanusi made the inflammatory remarks Monday while being interviewed by a...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Rape, Indonesia, Tawakul Karman, Jakarta (Indonesia)
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Semantics
Aug. 22 I do declare! Those big, strong Republican men are out to protect us frail women from our silly selves. That handsome Mitt Romney is already severely anti-abortion, and now we find that his even more handsome young running mate has sponsored a...
Tags: Politics, Birth Control, Elections, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Family Planning
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Political buzzwords of 2012
Pull up an empty chair, folks. (Up to you whether to interrogate it.) It's time to take a look back at the year that was, politically speaking. We won't know the 2012 word of the year until The American Dialect Society's annual conference next week....
Tags: The New York Times, 2012 Republican National Convention, Politics, Clint Eastwood, Government Health Care
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Baltimore duo's fight against 'rape culture' takes on Congress, Victoria's Secret
Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato aren't interested in spilling Victoria's Secret. But the Baltimore-based artists and feminists do want the lingerie giant — and other cultural forces — to tell a different story about sex. Disturbed by...
Tags: Victoria's Secret, Rape, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Politics
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Republican: Akin 'partly right' on rape comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican congressman and OB-GYN says former Rep. Todd Akin was "partly right" when he said women's bodies can avoid pregnancy in cases of "legitimate rape." Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey made the comments Thursday to...Tags: Washington, DC, Politics, Republican Party
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Hashtag crowned 2012 word of the year
And you thought that Notre Dame/Alabama match-up was heated. Wait until you hear how things went down in Boston last weekend when members of the American Dialect Society—linguists, lexicographers, etymologists, writers, editors, scholars—...
Tags: Social Media, Media Industry, Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Fiscal Cliff
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Orange County judge’s rape remarks mirror Todd Akin's
L.A. NOWIn saying that a rape victim's sexual assault was only "technical" because the female body "shuts down" when attacked, an Orange County judge admonished by a state agency expressed a scientifically discredited viewpoint that recently sank the campaign... -
How Republicans win in 2016
Last week's column was all about why certain of us (49 percent nationally) continue to identify with the party of individualism and free markets. This week, a related topic: what it will take to increase that 49 percent to 51 percent in 2016. First,...Tags: Politics, Health Treatments, Richard Mourdock, Social Issues, Malcolm X
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Dec 30, 2012
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Dec 26, 2012
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Dec 19, 2012
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Jan 11, 2013
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Jan 9, 2013
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Dec 14, 2012
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Nov 25, 2012
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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