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Meet the new 'journalists': David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs and Karl Rove
There was a time when the lines between the practices of politics and journalism were clear-cut. Professional politicians did their thing, which was getting elected and getting others elected. Professional journalists did theirs, writing and telling how...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, Rachel Maddow, Television, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Mikulski seeks executive order on pay equality
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski is calling on the Obama administration to prohibit federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss salaries -- a new twist on a key provision of the pay equality legislation the Maryland Democrat...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Elections, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation
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Can Jeb Bush save the GOP?
Amid the wreckage of the Mitt Romney presidential debacle and the Republican scramble to find a new savior, now comes ... yet another Bush! The ruminations of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, son of one former president and younger brother of another, on...
Tags: Elections, Marco Rubio, Scott Walker, Republican Party, POLITICO LLC
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On sequestration, Obama becomes extortionist in chief
At the end of 1995 and stretching into January 1996, the federal government "shut down" because of an impasse between President Bill Clinton and House Republicans led by then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich. The issue was increased taxes vs. less spending....
Tags: Elections, U.S. Congress, Bill Clinton, American Enterprise Institute, Republican Party
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Warming to the subject
As much as this week's bone-chilling temperatures might offer "cold" comfort to those who deny its existence, the threat of climate change earned a prominent spot in President Barack Obama's inaugural address on Monday. That was welcome, if overdue, given...
Tags: Barack Obama, Environmental Politics, Energy Saving, Standards, Hurricane Isaac (2012)
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Our biggest problem is not deficits
"Our biggest problems over the next 10 years are not deficits," President Barack Obama told House Republicans last week, according to those who attended the meeting. The president needs to deliver the same message to the public, loudly and clearly....
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment, Paul Ryan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Republican Party
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Social Security commissioner to leave post
The White House remained silent on President Barack Obama's choice of a successor for the commissioner of the Woodlawn-based Social Security Administration, who announced Monday he would step down next month. Michael J. Astrue, an appointee of former...
Tags: George W. Bush, Social Security, Barack Obama, Conservation
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Obama picks Perez to lead U.S. Labor Department
Senate Republicans criticized the nomination Monday of former state labor secretary Thomas E. Perez to lead the U.S. Department of Labor, signaling the longtime civil rights lawyer will face a contentious confirmation over his approach to the law and...
Tags: Benjamin L. Cardin, Barack Obama, Labor Legislation, Immigration, Dominican Republic
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CNN's Tapper says he aims coverage beyond politics
Jake Tapper's new show on CNN, "The Lead," is premiering at a time when cable TV keeps moving further down the road of partisan news presentation. But ask him about it, and there's no waffling. "I am not a partisan, and I am a journalist — not...
Tags: Television, Diane Sawyer , Peter Jennings, Congressional Medal of Honor Heroes, Barack Obama
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Helen B. Wolfe, advocate of women's rights
Helen B. Wolfe, an outspoken advocate of women's rights who also had been a member of the faculty of McDaniel College for more than a decade, died March 5 from cancer at Carroll Hospice Center's Dove House in Westminster. She was 79.
With a head of thick...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Trinidad and Tobago, Buffalo State College , Teaching and Learning, Jimmy Carter
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Obama has misplaced priorities
We know what President Barack Obama's priorities are. He gives F-16 fighters and big bucks to Egypt and plays golf with Tiger Woods for a weekend; then he closes down the White House for tours. Unbelievable! Lyle Rescott, Marriottsville - Text NEWS...
Tags: Barack Obama, Tiger Woods
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Americans must speak out against Keystone
There are about to be 830,000 barrels of the dirtiest, most inefficient oil piped clear through our country from Canada, straight over an active seismic earthquake zone, through Native American reservations, and all the way to Texas via the Keystone XL...
Tags: Catonsville, U.S. Department of State, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Barack Obama, NASA
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