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Obama's 2013 priorities -- and guns
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama, in his year-end interview on "Meet the Press" Sunday, was asked what his priorities were for the first year of his second term. He listed four: immigration reform, stabilizing the economy through debt reduction and...Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Wayne LaPierre, Personal Weapon Control, Assault, Abraham Lincoln
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End of the Susan Rice saga
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Whether Susan Rice jumped or was pushed from consideration to succeed retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her removal from the equation clears one bone of partisan contention from President Obama's plate as he heads into his...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Washington, DC, John Kerry, United Nations
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- 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....Tags: Executive Branch, Judaism, Barack Obama, The New York Times, Lindsey O. Graham
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The other Washington frets over a physical cliff
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- While official Washington remains all atwitter about going over the fiscal cliff, unofficial Washington is all atwitter over a physical cliff. Will an injured RG3 be able to play against the Cleveland Browns next Sunday and keep the...Tags: Dallas Cowboys, New York Giants, John Boehner, Robert Griffin III, National Football League
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The year that was
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- 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...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Democratic Party, Fiscal Cliff, Joe Biden, Gun Control
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John Kerry's second act
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, named by President Obama to be his next secretary of state, could have been a character out of F. Scott Fitzgerald: a Yale man, tall, handsome, aristocratic, the son of a foreign service officer, married...Tags: Executive Branch, Al Gore, Walter Mondale, Democratic Party, Joe Biden
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DeMint: A Senate loss or gain?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint...Tags: Tea Party Movement, John Boehner, Heritage Foundation, Richard Lugar, Sharron E. Angle
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Time to end the politics of class warfare
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One outgrowth of President Obama's re-election, based on my mailbag of reader gripes, has been an intensification of "class warfare" in American politics: the notion of the haves against the have-nots, rephrased more recently as the makers...Tags: John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Republican Party, Joe Biden, Washington, DC
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Not so merry Christmas for Congress, president
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Such is the state of American politics that the president and members of Congress fled home for Christmas Day as an brief escape from stalemate, rather than the customarily joyous return to their happy family hearths. President Obama...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Wayne LaPierre, Santa Claus (fictional character), John Boehner, Personal Weapon Control
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Boehner's gamble
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- In the oft-repeated threat of taking the country over a "fiscal cliff" by failing to reach a compromise on deep debt reduction, both parties in Congress have had to be concerned about public opinion as well as the dollar signs involved. If...Tags: Tea Party Movement, John Boehner, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Fiscal Cliff
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Obama's own cliff
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory. Unless he emerges...Tags: Tea Party Movement, John Boehner, Democratic Party, Joe Biden, Fiscal Cliff
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News and social media amok
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- 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,...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Social Media, Joe Biden, Radio
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