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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: Afghanistan, Lobbying, Wars and Interventions, John McCain, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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From pride to disillusionment: a black leader sours on Obama
I can hear 'em now. "He's a good guy"; "He's a family man"; "He'll govern like a moderate"; "It will be so good for the country"; "He's post-partisan." That the election of a mixed-race candidate for president sent positive messages about America around...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Hillary Clinton, Employment Opportunities, U.S. Department of State, State of the Union Address
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Wrong to blame GOP for showdown
What a joke your editorial regarding pending federal budget cuts is ("The GOP sequester," Feb. 22). Do you not research information anymore, or do you just call up some liberal Democrats for advice? Maybe you're just blind and believe anything that...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, Budget Control Act of 2011, Christopher Van Hollen Jr.
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
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 of South...
Tags: Olympia J. Snowe, Marco Rubio, John Boehner, Primaries, Rush Limbaugh
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Remembering Richard Ben Cramer and his magnum opus
An old reporter often begins his daily routine by turning to the newspaper's obituary page with mild trepidation, fearing another friend has gone to that great newsroom in the sky. So it was this week in reading of the death in Baltimore, at only 62, of...
Tags: Authors, White House, Physical Fitness and Exercise, George H.W. Bush, John F. Kennedy
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Since when does it take a political campaign to become secretary of state?
There was a time when a president and the opposition party in Congress could agree on certain basics, such as the right of the chief executive to select members of his cabinet with no fuss or bother. The president's most important choice in this...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Christopher Stevens, United Nations, U.S. Department of State, John McCain
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O'Malley lays out liberal agenda in State of State address
Gov. Martin O’Malley urged the General Assembly on Wednesday to approve an unabashedly liberal agenda that includes repeal of the state’s death penalty, new curbs on guns and spending for construction projects that create jobs. Asking...
Tags: Andrew Cuomo, Regional Authority, Hillary Clinton, Harford County, Nancy Jacobs
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Biden has the last laugh
Vice President Joe Biden, the Republicans' favorite punching bag, gave his critics nothing to laugh about as President Barack Obama's ultimate fireman in rescuing the country from the fiscal cliff it teetered on as 2012 ended. Mr. Biden's 11th-hour...
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Fiscal Cliff, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, U.S. Congress
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Facing the fiscal cliff, Obama can't back down again
As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Barack Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory. Unless he emerges from...
Tags: John Boehner, Fiscal Cliff, Parties and Movements, Tea Party Movement, Health Care Reform (2009)
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The year that was in politics
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 nice to know that...
Tags: Television Industry, Gun Control, Fiscal Cliff, Parties and Movements, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Why did Obama defend and then drop Susan Rice?
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 Barack Obama's plate as he heads into his second term....
Tags: Civil Rights, Hillary Clinton, United Nations, U.S. Department of State, John McCain
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Why annihilate the GOP?
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 speaker...
Tags: John Boehner, Gun Control, Migration, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, John McCain
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