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Recipe for conservative revival
WASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-elected...
Tags: Hurricanes, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Global Warming, Unemployment Benefits, American Enterprise Institute
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Singapore, a land without entitlements
SINGAPORE -- While the U.S. unemployment rate "dropped" to 7.7 percent last month -- a figure even The Washington Post acknowledged was due "in large part because the labor force fell by 350,000" -- here in this modern and prosperous city-state of...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Pension and Welfare, The Washington Post, Asia, Singapore
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Mail Call - Jan. 28
“The most memorable answer I ever read from Dear Abby was in response to the woman who wanted to go to law school, but hesitated because she would be 50 by the time she finished. Dear Abby wrote, ‘And how old will you be if you don’t go?...Tags: Elections, U.S. Postal Service, China, Barack Obama, Brownsville
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Food stamp use further grows; state initiates anti-fraud controls
Sun SentinelThe number of people on food stamps continued to grow in 2012 in South Florida and the state as a whole despite a falling unemployment rate and a recovering economy, according to Florida records. Some of the increase might stem from fraud: A study...Tags: Unemployment, Labor Markets, Media Industry, Career and Workplace, Employment Opportunities
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The budget: What to cut and what to keep
I totally disagree with Richard L. Ottenheimer's comments that Republicans are trying to blow up the economy ("Chickenomics: A winning GOP strategy?" Jan. 22). It's not a Republican or Democratic thing, it's an American thing, or just smart economics....Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Finance, Republican Party, Parties and Movements
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House GOP seeks to defuse debt crisis
WASHINGTON (AP) — With tacit support from President Barack Obama, House Republicans were moving Wednesday to try to defuse a potential debt crisis with legislation to prevent an economy-rattling fiscal crisis for at least four months. The GOP...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Unemployment Benefits, Paul Ryan, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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Guillermo Martinez: New Cuban migration law causes questions, skepticism
The anxiously-awaited new Cuban migration law went into effect Monday. Now the questions begin. Will Cuba allow doctors, professionals, and dissidents to take advantage of its new law, or will it still pick and choose who it allows the benefits of the...Tags: Personal Data Collection, Crime, Law and Justice, Migration, Politics, Interior Policy
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The vast left-wing conspiracy
I'm not big into conspiracy theories. I never bought into the grassy knoll in Dallas or the anti-Obama birther movement. And it will take a lot of convincing for me to believe Oakland Raiders coach Bill Callahan took a dive in Super Bowl XXXVII to...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Same-Sex Marriage, Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation
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End hunger in a SNAP
In his recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama said "we can't just cut our way to prosperity" ("Obama outlines ambitious agenda for second term," Feb. 13). I could not agree more. More than 12.5 percent of households in Maryland and 50...Tags: Barack Obama, State of the Union Address, U.S. Congress, Severna Park
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Rubio's claim about 'working-class neighborhood' holds water
Fittingly, when I went to check out Marco Rubio's neighborhood on Friday, there was water — water everywhere. Water falling from the sky, water in the senator's pool, water collecting in puddles on the street. "Do you need an umbrella?" his wife...
Tags: Miami International Airport, Government Health Care, Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, Florida Gators
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Child abuse cases on the rise in Michigan and region
Staff WriterChild abuse cases in Northern Michigan are growing. The latest data released for confirmed child abuse cases in Emmet and Charlevoix counties shows steady increases in overall child abuse and neglect cases during the recession. But, while those...Tags: Family, Rick Snyder, Child Abuse, Rentals, Abusive Behavior
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Mail Call - Jan. 17
“I so want to thank the lady who found my pocketbook in a cart, that I had forgot to put in the car at (a store) in Hagerstown last Friday. She will never know how much I appreciated that. I’m an elderly lady, and everything I own was in...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, National Rifle Association of America, FBI, Politics, U.S. Congress
Jan 28, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Dec 14, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 27, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 23, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Jan 17, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Feb 3, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Feb 17, 2013
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Feb 16, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Feb 15, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Jan 16, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
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