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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: Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Stranger Than Fiction, Social Media, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Radio
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Susan Collins, Al Gore, Iraq
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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: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Advertising, Politics, Television Industry, Gun Control
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Facing the fiscal cliff, Obama can't back down again
As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Barack Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory. Unless he emerges from...
Tags: Politics, Tea Party Movement, Immigration, Mitt Romney, Elections
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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: U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Politics, U.S. Senate, National Rifle Association of America
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The two tortured political marriages of Richard Nixon
Just as they say that the poor are always with is, so it is with Richard Nixon, arguably the most tormented American president, who comes back to us in the new book "Ike and Dick" (appropriately subtitled "Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage"). The...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Political Dissent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, White House
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Toomey test article
Call Washington BureauOn the eve of the six-month anniversary of the Sandy Hook murders, Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey issued a statement reaffirming his support for expanding background checks on firearms sales and said he hopes the Senate can find the votes to make...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Gun Control, White House, Interior Policy
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Joe Biden touts White House progress on gun control
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate the White House's stalled gun safety push, touted incremental progress Tuesday in nearly two dozen executive actions pledged by the administration in January. In a speech to...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, White House, Science and Technology, Gun Control
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White House pushes gun safety, but it means little without Congress
WASHINGTON -- The White House plans to announce Tuesday that it has improved gun safety in the country by chipping away at 21 of 23 items on an executive to-do list issued in January. But the progress report will also highlight steps that Congress has...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate, Health and Safety at Work, White House, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
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Pennsylvania leads the nation in lost or stolen guns
WASHINGTON — Pennsylvania led the nation in the number of firearms lost or stolen from federally licensed gun dealers last year, according to a new government report released as part of the White House's effort to keep attention on gun issues in the...Tags: Politics, Gun Control, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, White House, Fort Lauderdale
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Michael Hastings dies at 33; his article led general to resign
Michael Hastings, an aggressive and iconoclastic journalist whose reporting exposed the vagaries of the war in Iraq and helped bring down the top U.S. general in Afghanistan, died early Tuesday in a car crash in Los Angeles, according to two of his...Tags: New York University, Entertainment Events, Authors, Iraq, Stanley A. McChrystal
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This is Chris' Test Story
Tribune staff reporterLorem ipsum dolor. In hac habitasse platea dictumst. Etiam sagittis aliquet quam at mollis. Phasellus sed est leo, in eleifend leo. Sed nunc nibh, pretium ut laoreet eu, ultricies sit amet augue. Mauris vehicula faucibus enim, at dignissim augue...Tags: Politics, Health, Values, Washington (U.S. state), Iraq
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