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In tea party response to Obama, Paul embraces immigration reform
WASHINGTON – In his tea party-sponsored rebuke to President Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday night, Sen. Rand Paul will say Republicans should be the party that embraces immigrants as “assets, not liabilities.” The...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Herman Cain, Immigration, Elections, State of the Union Address
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Rand Paul gives tea party response to Obama
WASHINGTON – In the tea party rebuke to President Obama’s vision of the state of the union – and some in his own party – Republican Sen. Rand Paul laid out a deeply conservative alternative that includes cutting corporate taxes...
Tags: Personal Income, Parties and Movements, Herman Cain, Immigration, Personal Weapon Control
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War will be hell for women too
Last week, when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta decided to allow women in the military to occupy combat positions that had once been forbidden to them, I joined in the general jubilation. This seemed to be yet another step forward for society and, of...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Leon Panetta, Carly Fiorina, Armed Conflicts, Hillary Clinton
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McManus: The GOP's tactical retreat
A well-organized retreat is said to be one of the most difficult military maneuvers: You're under enemy fire, your troops are likely to be demoralized, and you've got to avoid a rout. That why House Republicans' orderly withdrawal last week from an...Tags: John Boehner, Parties and Movements, Public Finance, Eric Cantor, Medicare
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AIG Nearly Bites The Hand That Fed It
The Hartford CourantSometimes you don't know where to begin. OK, let's start with AIG. Remember when the mega-insurer was on the brink of collapse and the government bailed it out to the tune of billions? Remember how the loan saved the company, along with thousands of...Tags: Islam, Methamphetamine (drug), Donald Trump, Personal Weapon Control, Lindsay Lohan
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Religious tensions play out in inaugural
There may be no clearer reflection of this moment in American religious life than the tensions surrounding prayers at President Barack Obama's inauguration. Efforts by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to bridge the conservative-liberal divide by...Tags: Justice and Rights, Protestantism, Elections, Politics, Same-Sex Marriage
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Congressman: Obama aided Al Qaeda, or maybe he didn't
One would think that a U.S. congressman accusing the president of the United States of maneuvering to aid Al Qaeda — an act verging on treason — would be headline news around the nation. That’s how I heard Rep. Louie Gohmert’s...Tags: Al-Qaeda, Libya, Barack Obama, John McCain, Louie Gohmert
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McManus: The perils of political punditry
Back in 2011, at the dawn of a long presidential campaign, I established a fine baseline for my credentials as a political prognosticator: I told readers that Mitt Romney's strongest challengers for the Republican nomination would be Texas Gov. Rick Perry...
Tags: Immigration, Personal Weapon Control, Karl Rove, Rob Portman, Elections
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GOP's biggest problem is itself
"How ya like me now?" -- Barack Obama OK, so President Obama didn't really say that, but surely he must have thought it behind a private smile at some point Tuesday night. There are no smiles among the Republicans, however, only a pressing question:...
Tags: John Boehner, Parties and Movements, Herman Cain, Donald Trump, Barack Obama
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Older, wealthier Americans get plenty of 'free stuff'
In the days following Barack Obama's re-election, we learned that Mr. Obama didn't win because voters trusted him more than Mitt Romney on the economy, or because he ended the Iraq war and killed Osama bin Laden. He didn't win because he started to turn...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Rush Limbaugh, Health and Safety at Work, George W. Bush, Democratic Party
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GOP uses association with Chicago against Obama
Once there was an aspiring young political strategist who disrupted a Chicago campaign event for a rival party candidate by inviting homeless to it with promises of free food, drink and more. Republicans this election season have been attacking "Chicago-...Tags: Chris Christie, Karl Rove, Rod Blagojevich, George Ryan, Bain Capital, LLC
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Ryan Reader Redux
Change of SubjectFound in the surf (Part One is here) The pitch is that these two men are a kind of Geek Squad for the nation: efficient problem solvers who love numbers and analysis. Romney has the executive skills and Ryan knows......
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