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Obama's 'Katrina moment'
It has been a rough week or so for the Obama administration. From Benghazi to the tapping of reporters' phones to the IRS admitting that it targeted conservative groups for extra scrutiny, the press is in a frenzy, and many are questioning President...
Tags: Taxation, Mercedes-Benz Superdome, Polls, Lewis Libby, Benghazi
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Georgian president visits Baltimore
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili visited Baltimore on Wednesday as part of a U.S. tour intended to build support for his country's bid to join NATO. Saakashvili visited the city to meet with Sen. Ben Cardin, a Maryland Democrat. He has also met with...Tags: Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia, NATO, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...
Tags: Timothy McVeigh, Michael Bloomberg, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Rush Limbaugh, World War I (1914-1918)
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Adoption ban elevates politics over protecting kids
Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland recently met with the family of Sergei Magnitsky. The reasons for the meeting: In 2009, Mr. Magnitsky was jailed in Russia for exposing governmental corruption. While in prison, he died after allegedly being tortured. In...
Tags: Family, Adoption, Human Rights, Civil Rights, U.S. Congress
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Johns Hopkins graduate killed in bomb blast in Afghanistan
Anne Smedinghoff wanted to help the people of Afghanistan, those who knew her say. The 25-year-old Johns Hopkins University graduate was attempting to deliver textbooks to school children there when she and four other Americans were killed in a car bomb...
Tags: Emergency Incidents, Bombings, Chicago Tribune, Explosions, Afghanistan
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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: Iraq, The New York Times, International Military Interventions, Culture, Armed Conflicts
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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: Joe Biden, Chuck Hagel, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Congress
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Opening the door to peace
Given how low the expectations were for President Barack Obama's highly publicized trip to the Middle East, it may not be saying much to declare that he exceeded them. But given the precarious state of Israeli-Palestinian relations, it would also be...
Tags: Palestinian National Authority, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Jerusalem (Israel), Israel, Barack Obama
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We should not be aiding Egypt when Maryland needs help
What! I can't believe it. The Sun reports that Secretary of State John Kerry promises to give Egypt $190 million to help the government pay its bills ("Egypt deal with IMF of paramount importance: Kerry," Mar. 2). Last week I heard it was $60 million....
Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Mohamed Morsi, Interior Policy, Egypt, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack
It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...Tags: Joe Biden, September 11, 2001 Attacks, George Washington, Chuck Hagel, U.S. Department of Defense
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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: Joe Biden, Susan Collins, Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, White House
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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: Joe Biden, Lindsey O. Graham, Talk Shows (genre), U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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