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Column: Obama's plan to avoid lame duckery
For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington’s inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on...Tags: Elections, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives
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Diane K. Sallee
Richardson, Texas: Diane K. Sallee, 68, of Richardson passed away, May 7, 2013, from an extended illness. Â She was born in the Groton area on June 21, 1944, to Orval and Bernice Smith. Â Diane was married to David D. Sallee on July 6, 1985. Â Diane...
Tags: Groton, Watertown, Carrollton
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Obama's plan to avoid lame-duckery
For the last two months, President Barack Obama has been mired in Washington's inside game, caught up in backroom congressional politics as he tried unsuccessfully to pass a bill on gun control and nudge Republican senators toward compromise on the...Tags: Elections, Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives
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Heritage commencement speaker a champion of higher ed
Yakima Herald-Republic, Wash.David Warren has given hundreds of commencement speeches in his long career as a crusader for private colleges and increased financial aid funding for all college students. But he's never written one of them in advance. So Saturday morning he'll go on a...Tags: Colleges and Universities, White House, Teaching and Learning, Students, Washington State University
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Art Callaham: O'Reilly's book on Kennedy a good read
I was never a “Kennedyphile” — lifelong southern conservative Republicans usually are not. Sure, I was a starry-eyed 15-year-old who understood “Camelot,” liked the pictures of bikini clad Jackie-O (as she was later to be...Tags: Fidel Castro, Vietnam War (1955-1975), John F. Kennedy Assassination (1963), Elections, Interior Policy
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Obama's 2nd-term blues?
Was President Barack Obama really joking at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues? It's fashionable for critics — especially if they didn't get invited...
Tags: Ceremonies, C-SPAN (tv network), Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate
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Author of book that inspired 'Lincoln' visits Norfolk
The Virginian-PilotLet us imagine that you have 20 minutes to interview Doris Kearns Goodwin about her upcoming talk at the Norfolk Forum. You catch her on her cellphone in Boca Raton, Fla., on her way to the airport, where she may or may not be allowed to fly home to...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore, Entertainment Events, Daniel Day-Lewis, William Howard Taft
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OPINION: Good at campaigning, bad at governing
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewCHALK HILL, Pa. The old house leans unnaturally westward along a back road, as if chasing the setting sun into a surrounding meadow. Wildflowers splinter its wooden porch planks; a lonely patch of red paint marks an exterior long ago bleached by weather...Tags: Elections, Interior Policy, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Personal Weapon Control, U.S. Senate
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The Root: Why the GOP won't work with Obama
The RootWith so many pundits declaring that President Barack Obama's second-term agenda is dead on arrival, you could be forgiven if you mistook the last few days for the first week of May 2009. Back then, there was already angst that in Obama's first first 100...Tags: Iraq War (2003-2011), Interior Policy, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Gun Control, Same-Sex Marriage
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'The Butler' puts a new spin on LBJ, says Liev Schreiber
The new trailer for Lee Daniels’ “The Butler” shows an up-from-his-bootstraps man moving, Zelig-like, through U.S. presidential history, demonstrating how “one man overcame his past.” But for at least one of the actors...
Tags: The Weinstein Company, Celebrities, Oprah Winfrey, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire (movie), Goon (movie)
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At George W. Bush library, five presidents meet in harmony
DALLAS — The five men who have held the title of president gathered to celebrate the dedication of George W. Bush's presidential library at Southern Methodist University on Thursday, a rare reunion that focused on praising his achievements and...
Tags: Condoleezza Rice, Dick Cheney, Libraries, Chris Christie, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013)
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Rand Paul gets schooled at Howard
Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it. Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so bad at all. He...Tags: Teaching and Learning, The Miami Herald, Elections, Coca-Cola Co., Howard University
May 10, 2013
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May 1, 2013
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Apr 29, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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May 7, 2013
|Story| The Root
May 8, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
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Apr 21, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
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