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Progress on immigration
Just when Washington looked like it was completely preoccupied with the scandals, real and imaginary, swirling around the White House, a group of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate managed the unexpected (and, these days, extraordinary): They...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Republican Party, Patrick Leahy
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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: Islam, Barack Obama, Biological and Chemical Weapons, George W. Bush, Chuck Hagel
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Boston bombing brings out the new xenophobes
The Boston Marathon bombing has brought out the xenophobes. Often when America suffers some large, inexplicable tragedy, we want to blame "foreigners" and look for ways to fortify ourselves against them. It's more reassuring to believe that an evil lies...
Tags: U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Al-Qaeda, Justice System, Migration, Immigration
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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: John McCain, Immigration, Ronald Reagan, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Jeff Flake
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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: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Terrorism, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Barack Obama
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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, Barack Obama, Jeff Flake, Republican Party, 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: Highlandtown, Republican Party, John McCain, Migration, Immigration
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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: John Brennan, U.S. Senate, Al-Qaeda, Republican Party, U.S. Congress
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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: Richard Burr, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Tom Coburn, Ronald Reagan
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As DGA run ends, O'Malley likely to stay on national stage
President Barack Obama no longer needs Gov. Martin O'Malley as a top campaign surrogate, and the Democratic Governors Association is set to elect someone else as its chairman on Monday when the group meets in Los Angeles. But neither development is...
Tags: Democratic Governors Association, Maryland State Police, Barack Obama, Hurricane Sandy (2012), This Week (tv program)
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...
Tags: The New York Times, Political Candidates, George W. Bush, U.S. Senate, Republican Party
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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: U.S. Department of State, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Susan Rice
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