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Republicans right to seek answers about Benghazi
In general, presidents should appoint whomever they want to serve in their cabinets. But that doesn't mean that re-elected President Barack Obama will — or even should — appoint U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice to replace the soon-departing...
Tags: Elections, Lindsey O. Graham, Interior Policy, John McCain, Barack Obama
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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: Elections, Parties and Movements, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Barack Obama, Joe Biden
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The Asia opportunity
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has focused greater diplomatic attention and military resources on East Asia as part of a policy described as a "pivot" or "rebalancing." While American leaders are loath to admit it publicly, this is a...
Tags: Demographics, South Korea, Barack Obama, Values, Japan
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Foreign Service welcomes Kerry to Foggy Bottom
In greeting new Secretary of State John Kerry, members of the Foreign Service were welcoming one of their own. They hope his arrival at Foggy Bottom will mark new understanding of — and support for — the work they do around the world....
Tags: The Washington Post, John Quincy Adams, Christopher Stevens, U.S. Senate, United Nations
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Friday
WEATHER: Afternoon snow showers, with temperatures in the 20s. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS Senate president Miller proposes local gas tax, leasing ICC: Baltimore and Maryland's counties could impose their...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Ozzie Newsome, Under Armour Inc.
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No Labels has a solution for gridlock, debt crisis
The problems we face were foreseen for decades. For decades, Congress has let foreseeable problems grow until they reached a crisis point. They left no time for reasonable debate. Instead of outlining the facts and the options, they endlessly repeat the...Tags: U.S. Congress, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, Jon Huntsman, Jr.
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Bob Dole and the GOP's disability
Much ink has been spilled in recent weeks criticizing the Republican Party and its failed presidential candidate for a lack of compassion and obvious antipathy toward "47 percent" of the electorate (if not a bit more), so it was reassuring to see two of...
Tags: Parties and Movements, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, Barack Obama, United Nations
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GOP is attacking Rice to land another Senate seat
Your article, "New concerns arise after Rice, GOP senator meet," (Nov. 29) fails to mention what is generally accepted by insiders in Washington and that is that the Republican strategy behind the character assassination of Susan Rice is an attempt to...Tags: Susan Rice, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Scott P. Brown, Susan Collins
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What has Ben Affleck got above his fireplace?
The Baltimore SunI pay no more attention to the Academy Awards than to the Miss America pageant and other reality shows, but the heavy-breathing coverage of the Academy Awards sometimes sparks a faint interest. This from Slate: Now that Ben Affleck’s Iran...Tags: Television Industry, Miss America Pageant, Movies, Ben Affleck, Academy Awards
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A roadblock to rights for the disabled
On July 26, 1990, when President George H. W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on the lawn of the White House, I was too young be in attendance, or even understand the impact that this monumental law would have on the United States by...
Tags: Laws, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Human Rights, Barack Obama
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Mitt Romney has no future in the GOP
As if Mitt Romney's defeat weren't a cross enough to bear, the kind of campaign he ran could make him uniquely a man on the outside of his party looking in. His chameleon-like shades of Republicanism — he presented himself as "severely...
Tags: Elections, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Government, Richard Nixon
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Campaign's over, time to vote
Having just observed dozens of my fellow citizens standing in line for more than an hour to vote, I started to feel good about the country again. Some 430,000 Marylanders took advantage of five days of early voting this year, so many that Sandy Rosenberg,...
Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party, DREAM Act, Mitt Romney
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