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Rosenthal: Food fights that can color an entire industry
Kraft Foods Group, you may have heard, is engaged in a dust-up with more than 275,000 online petitioners unconvinced by the food giant's assertion that dyes used to produce the distinctive orange hue in one version of its Macaroni & Cheese pose no...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Consumer Goods Industries, Interior Policy, Kraft Foods Group, Inc.
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Before we sail into Ponce land, let's salute some milestones of 2012
We're about to plunge into a mega-anniversary year, marking 500 years since Ponce de León named Florida in 1513. But before we leave 2012, let's tip our Flashback bonnet to a couple of milestones noted this year. A century of 'leavening the loaf' Like...
Tags: White House, William Howard Taft, Orlando Health, Politics, Feminism
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McManus: The death of the moderate Republican
Republicans just lost eight seats in the House. But if you'd wandered into the House of Representatives last week without reading the election returns, you might have concluded that the GOP won big on Nov. 6. "We have the second-largest Republican House...
Tags: Richard Hanna, Conservation, Fiscal Cliff, Demographics, U.S. House of Representatives
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On the Media: Tea party, Occupy Wall Street share a moment
You likely saw the quirky signs and heard some protesters talk about how they would just as soon disband the government. Then a reporter dutifully informed you that these people had gathered en masse but didn't really know what they wanted. Some in the...Tags: Mass Media, Social Media, Republican Party, Activism, History
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Occupy Wall Street shifts from protest to policy phase
How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment?
One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or as (that all-purpose insult) "un-...Tags: Building Material, Economy, Business and Finance, Herman Cain, Racism, Jamie Dimon
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For once if not for all, election will offer a real choice
Change of SubjectSupporters of the tea party movement and I find ourselves in a rare moment of agreement: This is shaping up as the election we want. By asking wonky, far-right Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to be his running mate, presumptive...... -
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Change of SubjectThe Southtown Star reports: Steve Balich said the Will County Tea Party movement he helped organize is disbanding in name, but not spirit, after gains by Democrats in the Nov. 6 election.... Balich, of Homer Glen, blamed the movement’s demise...... -
Occupy Wall Street
Orlando Opinionators - Orlando SentinelAs of this writing (October 12, 2011), it has been 26 days since the Occupy Wall Street movement has been going on. A while back, I wrote a blog about campaign finance reform and the proliferation of money in politics. At the time, I talked about money... -
Timeline: Events in IRS 'Tea Party' scrutiny scandal
ReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A controversy at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service involving extra scrutiny in 2010-2012 of politically conservative groups is dominating the political agenda in Washington, with congressional hearings set for Tuesday and Wednesday....Tags: Political Fundraising, Barack Obama, Republican Party, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements
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REFILE-Virginia governor's race to test Tea Party Republicans' allure
Reuters(Adds dropped word, "movement," in paragraph 9) By Gary Robertson RICHMOND, Va., May 17 (Reuters) - The most nail-biting U.S. governor's race this year is centering on whether a Tea Party Republican can win Virginia, the southern state that has twice...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, Government, Bob McDonnell, Republican Party
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CORRECTED-Virginia governor's race to test Tea Party Republicans' allure
Reuters(In 22nd paragraph, corrects to show that Johnson, Saban are top McAuliffe donors, not that McAuliffe is his own top donor. Removes reference to McAuliffe giving almost $300,000, as that was for a previous fundraising cycle.) By Gary Robertson RICHMOND,...Tags: Government, David Koch, Monroe (Fairfield, Connecticut), Chesterfield County, Politics
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Essay: Collins' coming out could accelerate gay acceptance
There was a time, in 1947 and before, when the mere presence of an African-American on a Major League Baseball team was enough to shake the game and the nation alike. Six years after Jackie Robinson smashed the sport's color barrier that year, still...Tags: HIV, College Baseball, Jackie Robinson, NAACP, National Collegiate Athletic Association
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