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McClellan: White House 'heads in sand'
The SwampBooks on the president, including McClellan's. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) by Mark Silva The White House isn't fond of having past and present members of the administration testify before Congress, but Scott McClellan, the now-readily-forthcoming former...Tags: Texas, Parliament, Upper House, Heads of State, White House
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Meghan McCain, Liz Cheney: Next gen
The Swampby Mark Silva Time for some new blood in the Republican Party, says Meghan McCain, blood relative (daughter) of the GOP's losing 2008 presidential nominee. But it's not dad she's talking about here. The blogger-writer-daughter of the Arizona senator,...Tags: Parliament, Condoleezza Rice, Newt Gingrich, Upper House, Heads of State
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Lost jobs, higher costs: Obamacare hits home
On this Memorial Day weekend, as we remember with deepest gratitude the sacrifice of America's military heroes, we also offer our thoughts and prayers for the victims of the Oklahoma tragedy. I've dedicated a half-dozen columns to the single most...Tags: Medtronic Incorporated, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., U.S. Congress, Crime, Law and Justice, Career and Workplace
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Hanna, Age 12, Guest Blogger
Hello! My name is Hanna. I live in Farmington and go to school in West Hartford at a great school called Renbrook. I am twelve years old and in seventh grade. For this year, my father lives in Washington, D.C. and works for Senator Rockefeller when he was...
Tags: West Hartford, Joe Biden, FBI, Washington, DC, Mary L. Landrieu
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Supremes waffle on marriage equality
Over the last 40 years, I've been involved in a lot of political battles for a lot of different causes: workers' rights, women's rights, gay rights, environmental protection, anti-war, anti-nuclear power, anti-urban sprawl, animal rights, gun control,...
Tags: Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Joe Biden, Feminism, Family
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'Fiscal cliff' deal delivers $64 billion in tax breaks
When President Obama signed the "fiscal cliff" legislation, the middle class wasn't the only group saved from tax hikes. The new law, which rescinded the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that would have gone into effect beginning Jan. 1,...Tags: Sales, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Tax Credits, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama
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A rally cry to tame spending
"Even victors are by victories undone." -- John Dryden WASHINGTON -- Democrats not allergic to arithmetic must know the cost of their "fiscal cliff" victory. When they flinched from allowing all of George W. Bush's tax rates, especially those on...
Tags: Corporate Crime, Services and Shopping, Mary L. Landrieu, U.S. Congress, Ron Wyden
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Goldberg: Time to grow up, GOP
It's hard for a lot of people, particularly on the right, to recognize that the conservative movement's problems are mostly problems of success. The Republican Party's problems are much more recognizable as the problems of failure, including the failure...
Tags: Richard Nixon, William F. Buckley, Arts and Culture, Radio, Culture
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Wrong answers for Newtown
The film "Casablanca" has many famous lines, but none more immortal than Capt. Renault's order after seeing a Nazi officer shot by Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick Blaine: "Round up the usual suspects." He issues that command to give the impression he'...Tags: Gaming, U.S. Congress, Periodicals, Crime, Law and Justice, Gun Control
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If the U.S. Congress became a carmaker
The Edsel was one of the biggest flops in the history of carmaking. Introduced with great fanfare by Ford in 1958, it had terrible sales and was junked after three years. But if Congress had been running Ford, the Edsel would still be on the market. That...Tags: Vehicles, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Services and Shopping, Bankruptcy, U.S. Congress
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Senate hearing on digital platforms hears calls for new laws
Company TownThe Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing on new video platforms.... -
Sen. Rockefeller says media is 'dumbed down' at FCC hearing
Company TownSen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) used a Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing for two new nominees to the Federal Communications Commission as a platform to do some media bashing. At the end of Wednesday's two-hour confirmation hearing for Democrat...
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