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Hagel hearings: Is Israel more important than Afghanistan?
This post has been corrected, as indicated below. Although they aren’t infallible, “word clouds” -- graphic representations of the frequency with which certain words occur in a text -- can be instructive. Yousef Munayyer of the...
Tags: Lobbying, Religion and Belief, Iran, Chuck Hagel, U.S. Military
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Senators use hearing to air CIA controversies
WASHINGTON - The confirmation hearing Thursday of John Brennan to be CIA director reopened scrutiny of a wide range of controversies that have dogged the country for more than a decade, ranging from the Obama administration's embrace of targeted...Tags: Laws, Al-Qaeda, Leon Panetta, Civil Rights, Saudi Arabia
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Hagel defends record, spars with critics in Senate hearing
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON -- Making his first public comments after his nomination to lead the Pentagon, former Sen. Chuck Hagel said Thursday he stood by his record but also urged senators to look beyond controversial votes and statements he has made, which critics...Tags: Nuclear Weapons, U.S. Senate, Chuck Schumer, Leon Panetta, Thad Cochran
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Chuck Hagel, an antiwar secretary of Defense
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Defense, wasn’t the most articulate candidate ever to appear before a Senate committee on Thursday. Hagel fumbled his way through questions about policy and his own past...
Tags: Armed Forces, International Military Interventions, U.S. Department of Defense, Chuck Hagel, Iran
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Hagel to stress opposition to a nuclear Iran in Senate testimony
WASHINGTON -- President Obama’s nominee for secretary of Defense, former Sen. Chuck Hagel, will stress at his confirmation hearing Thursday that he opposes letting Iran acquire nuclear weapons and will focus on developing military options to set...
Tags: U.S. Senate, John Kerry, Leon Panetta, John Cornyn, Thad Cochran
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The challenging math of passing immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Senators from both parties are expressing enthusiasm for pushing a comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s immigration system. But while immigration politics appears to have changed in the wake of sweeping Republican rejection...
Tags: Maria Cantwell, Parties and Movements, Johnny Isakson, Orrin Hatch, Chuck Schumer
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Inauguration 2013: The orderly transition of Jay-Z and Paul Ryan
In the weeks after President Jimmy Carter lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan, when I was a young reporter at the Washington Post, I was assigned to cover a luncheon on Capitol Hill honoring Patricia Derian, Carter’s assistant secretary of...Tags: Human Rights, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Civil Rights, Beyonce
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Pentagon opens combat roles to women
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is lifting its ban on women serving in combat, opening hundreds of thousands of front-line positions and potentially elite commando jobs after generations of limits on their service, defense officials said Wednesday....
Tags: Armed Forces, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Leon Panetta, The Pentagon, U.S. Department of Defense
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'Zero Dark Thirty's' torture implication prompts Senate inquiry
WASHINGTON — After complaining for weeks that the movie “Zero Dark Thirty” erroneously implies that torture yielded key information in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, a trio of senior senators now want to know whether CIA personnel...Tags: Sony Corp., Dianne Feinstein, David Petraeus, Movies, Osama bin Laden
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Right-to-work debate heats up ahead of Michigan vote
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Even with the outcome considered a foregone conclusion, the heated battle over right-to-work legislation in the traditional union bastion of Michigan shows no sign of cooling. Authorities in Lansing were bracing for an...
Tags: Rick Snyder, Laws, Executive Branch, Parties and Movements, General Motors Corp.
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Northern lawmakers follow through on campaign pledges on right-to-work, despite divided state
Staff WriterAny question about how Northern Michigan lawmakers might vote on a divisive right-to-work law was answered Thursday. Local House and Senate lawmakers stuck to their campaign pledges to pass right-to-work legislation in Michigan to outlaw closed union...Tags: Executive Branch, Parties and Movements, Media Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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Senate leaders Feinstein and McCain condemn 'Zero Dark Thirty'
A trio of Senate leaders have condemned the Kathryn Bigelow movie "Zero Dark Thirty," calling elements of its dramatization of the Osama bin Laden manhunt “grossly inaccurate and misleading.” In a letter to Sony Pictures chief Michael Lynton...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Dianne Feinstein, Peter T. King, Sony Corp., Movies
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