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Fiscal trench warfare
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As the clock ticks down on the sequester solution to the nation's budget mess, it's looking more and more like a descent into World War I trench warfare. The two partisan sides are dug in, declining to surrender inches of policy and...Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, Pension and Welfare, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Democrats retiring may portend gloom in 2012 congressional elections
Tribune Media ServicesWASHINGTON -- The decision of Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts to retire next year after 32 years in the House is a blow to the Democratic Party, to the cause of liberal politics and to the effort bring public responsibility to Wall Street. It's also...Tags: Elections, Barney Frank, Mitt Romney, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Gail MarksJarvis: Economic uncertainty to linger, even after election
No matter who emerges victorious in the Nov. 6 election, most analysts are expecting only a short-term calm in the stock market for the remainder of this year. Investors typically cast their votes in the market based on what they imagine the newly...Tags: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., Elections, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Public Finance
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Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
Jonah Goldberg"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the umpteen conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through...Tags: Elections, James Cameron, Mitt Romney, Abortion, Norman Lear
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Obama's blunt challenge to Congress
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Of all the words spoken, written about, broadcast, googled, tweeted or even just mused over in President Obama's State of the Union address, none were more pointedly delivered than the four in his direct appeal for tighter gun-control...Tags: Elections, Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, State of the Union Address
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Balanced budget amendment still a terrible idea
Frustrated by the persistence of large deficits and alarmed by the long-term gap between spending and revenue, congressional Republicans are promoting a constitutional amendment to require balanced budgets. Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, tells...Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Justice System, Federal Reserve
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Goldberg: Leave liberal Hollywood to the liberals
"We need to buy a movie studio." Amid the conferences, panels, meetings and informal conversations in the wake of the presidential election, this idea has been a near constant among conservatives who feel like the country is slipping through their...
Tags: Avatar (movie), James Cameron, Elections, Mitt Romney, Abortion
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In defense of losing
Paul GreenbergThese are the times that try conservatives' souls. A presidential election has been lost by a convincing margin. The winner has taken the result as a mandate, a license to do ... whatever he wants to do. It is the people's will! Laws, regulations,...Tags: Marco Rubio, Elections, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Barack Obama
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A stain on the Democratic brand
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- One consequence of presidential nominee Mitt Romney's loss last November was an internal autopsy on the reputation of the Republican Party itself. Questions were raised whether its "brand" had been seriously damaged as excessively...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Mitt Romney, U.S. Department of State, Republican Party, Benghazi
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Why annihilate the GOP?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled...Tags: Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jules Witcover, National Rifle Association of America
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Republicans' push to tilt elections will backfire
Imagine if the 2012 elections had turned out this way: President Barack Obama won the popular vote by five million votes and almost 4 percent, taking seven of the eight largest states, as he did, yet the Republican candidate, former Massachusetts governor...Tags: Elections, Reince Priebus, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Barack Obama
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Dueling dozens
For the past year, left-leaning Tribune columnist Eric Zorn has regularly been trading views on the presidential race with writers from the other side of the political spectrum, looking for trends, points of agreement and areas of divergence. For the last...Tags: Mitt Romney, Gays and Lesbians, Abortion, Barack Obama, Executive Branch
Feb 22, 2013
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Nov 1, 2012
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Feb 20, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 19, 2013
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Feb 11, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
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Jan 29, 2013
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Nov 2, 2012
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