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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...
Tags: Joe Biden, American Enterprise Institute, Eric Cantor, Bobby Jindal, Republican Party
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Bring on the midterms: GOP still has plenty of opportunity for gains
Last week's column chronicled a dire set of circumstances regarding our economy and culture at the onset of Obama II. This status quo is complicated by an aggressive liberal establishment attempting to take advantage of the president's post-election...
Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Polls, Voting, Personal Weapon Control, Migration
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Reform for people or for politics?
In 2006, the last time Congress took a serious look at comprehensive immigration reform, hundreds of thousands of immigrants, legal and illegal, marched through the streets of the nation's cities. The resulting media coverage was filled with stories about...
Tags: Immigration, U.S. Congress, Migration, Same-Sex Marriage, Republican Party
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Two cheers for rebranding
Ever since Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about how the Republican Party needs to "rebrand" itself. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party." Rep. Paul...
Tags: American Enterprise Institute, Sociology, Eric Cantor, The Washington Post, Bobby Jindal
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Greener power
For all the hysteria generated by climate-change deniers over how reducing greenhouse gas emissions would be disastrous for consumers and the economy, Maryland and the other eight states in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative are demonstrating that...
Tags: Ecosystems, Electricity Production and Distribution, Global Change, Metal and Mineral, Mining
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A 'path' to meaningful reform
The road to meaningful U.S. immigration reform will no doubt prove rocky and difficult, but at least Washington has taken its first big step on the most critical part of the route — down the so-called "path to citizenship" that now has bipartisan...
Tags: Government, Jeff Flake, Migration, Paul Ryan, Executive Branch
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A divided GOP looks inward
No political party enjoys losing an election, but a healthy party reacts to defeat — after a suitable period of grieving — by trying to figure out what went wrong. That's what Democrats did in the late 1980s after a string of failed...
Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Sociology, Democratic Party, Paul Ryan
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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: Rush Limbaugh, Joe Biden, American Enterprise Institute, Scott P. Brown, Democratic Party
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GOP's biggest problem is itself
"How ya like me now?" -- Barack Obama OK, so President Obama didn't really say that, but surely he must have thought it behind a private smile at some point Tuesday night. There are no smiles among the Republicans, however, only a pressing question:...
Tags: John Boehner, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Michele Bachmann, Republican Party
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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: John Kerry, Physical Disabilities, Polio, Tea Party Movement, Human Rights
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Maybe give sanity a try
The Baltimore SunIt has been a fallow interval at the blog because of some hectic days at the paragraph factory, domestic exigencies, and the like, but I am back today to advocate, in my small way, sanity. Immediately after the late election, the outbreaks of...Tags: Nuclear Power, Roman Catholicism, Charles Darwin, Applied Physics, Christianity
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Immigration advocates rally at White House
The Baltimore SunWASHINGTON -- Hoping to build on their success in Maryland, about 200 immigration advocates rallied in front of the White House on Thursday in support of a comprehensive overhaul of U.S. immigration policy. The effort to revive a national conversation...Tags: White House, Maryland Dream Act, Voting, Migration, Republican Party
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