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Obama's red line on Syria gets squiggly
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Barack Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), Lindsey O. Graham, Saxby Chambliss, Barack Obama, Bashar Assad
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Why I quit the Maryland GOP
Breakups are awkward, uncomfortable, difficult experiences. Just recently, I experienced a breakup of sorts, as I initiated the end of a relationship dating back 25 years. The relationship in question: myself and the Maryland Republican Party. People...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Republican Party, Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., U.S. Senate, Elections
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Immigration bill is no compromise
When only one of the extreme sides of each political party is hollering against a bipartisan agreement on any bill, no doubt that side is the only one getting hosed. A true bipartisan bill gets both sides upset. So now begins the spin game by trying to...
Tags: Marco Rubio, Havre de Grace, Immigration, Jeff Flake, Lindsey O. Graham
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Boston bombing suspect belongs in civilian court
A 19-year-old naturalized American citizen is accused of committing a crime of violence in the United States, and a gaggle of elected officials are urging for him to be treated as an enemy combatant and placed in the hands of the military. Not just the...
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Central Intelligence Agency, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, Orrin Hatch, Susan Collins, Jared Lee Loughner, Government
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Getting to yes on immigration reform
The sweeping immigration bill outlined by a bipartisan group of eight senators this week represents the most comprehensive overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in more than a quarter-century. It's also probably Congress' best chance this year to...
Tags: Harry Reid, Lindsey O. Graham, Rand Paul, Barack Obama, Tea Party Movement
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Md. groups rally as immigration deal nears
Immigration reform advocates are organizing thousands of Marylanders to attend a Capitol Hill rally on Wednesday to bring attention to negotiations in the Senate over immigration. The rally, conceived by CASA de Maryland's executive director, Gustavo...Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Marco Rubio, Immigration, Republican Party
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Why is GOP self-destructive?
Why do Republicans keep attacking their members? They bicker and denounce each other. That's not how you win elections. Case in point is the ill-fated 2008 ticket of Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin. Ms. Palin and her family were ruthlessly...
Tags: Sarah Palin
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Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...
Tags: Democratic Party, Barack Obama, Culture, George W. Bush, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Chuck Hagel survives
After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, John Kerry, Joe Biden, Afghanistan, Barack Obama
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What Rand Paul got right
I hope I'm not too late to the fight. Last week, freshman Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, held an old-fashioned filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to head the CIA. Mr. Paul's stated reason for taking to the floor and talking for...
Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, G.K. Chesterton, John Brennan, World War II (1939-1945), Lindsey O. Graham
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: Kelly Ayotte, Ronald Reagan, Lindsey O. Graham, CNN (tv network), Tom Coburn
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