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Cherry blossom festival in the pink for 2013
When it comes to spring color, Washington knows how to put on a show. The National Cherry Blossom Festival blossoms each year to commemorate the gift of some 3,000 cherry trees from Tokyo to the nation's capital in 1912. While the festival had...
Tags: Warner Theatre, Dining and Drinking, Japan, Festive Events, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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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: Pulitzer Prize Awards, Saxby Chambliss, John McCain, Bob Corker, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Can Jeb Bush save the GOP?
Amid the wreckage of the Mitt Romney presidential debacle and the Republican scramble to find a new savior, now comes ... yet another Bush! The ruminations of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, son of one former president and younger brother of another, on...
Tags: White House, Immigration, Elections, POLITICO LLC, Migration
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The Internet – you never know where or when stuff will turn up [Editorial]
It's been more than 25 years since Douglas H. Ginsburg asked that his nomination to become a U.S. Supreme Court justice be withdrawn. The prospective high court justice nominated by Ronald Reagan, it turned out, smoked marijuana and ended up admitting...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Marijuana Use, Barack Obama, Recreational Substance Use, Elections
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Rick Scott to voters: Never mind
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Republican Gov. Rick Scott was one of those tea party stars whom voters believed had the courage of his convictions when he promised, as recently as last summer, to block The Affordable Care Act in his state. But last week, writes the...
Tags: Government Health Care, Rick Scott, Medicaid, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Sequesterville
The musical "Annie" is enjoying another revival on Broadway. The show opened during the Carter administration, when America was in need of some optimism. "The sun'll come out tomorrow," sang Annie, and with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, for a...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, U.S. House of Representatives, Painting, Tom Vilsack, Elections
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Sequester vs. social justice: What would RFK do?
With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy -- and 46 years ago, when I was an intern in his Senate office. The nation was going through a difficult time in 1967. America was deeply split over civil rights and the...
Tags: International Military Interventions, Mitt Romney, Unemployment Benefits, Tea Party Movement, Wars and Interventions
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Bay Theatre offers double bill of fear in 'Nightmare' and 'Sister Mary'
Satirical examinations of fear, experienced by an accountant-actor and young students confronting the consequences of sin, are on stage this month at Bay Theatre in two works by playwright Christopher Durang. The fears are revealed in Durang's one-act...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Roman Catholicism, Wit (play), Helen Hayes, John Paul II
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Cutting federal spending now will only compound our problems
The U.S. today has both historically low interest rates and large reserves of ready cash for investment by business. The interest rates and ready cash means businesses already have the maximum incentive to invest in new production that our financial...
Tags: Finance, Business, Money and Monetary Policy, Barack Obama, Consumers
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Chelsea Clinton and 'Rock Center' - The misery continues
The Baltimore SunRemember when Chelsea Clinton and NBC News launched this misadventure featuring her as a "special correspondent" on "Rock Center" with a fanfare of hype and outright lies about what she and the journalistically-challenged NBC News were up to? Steve...Tags: Television Industry, Today (tv program), Media Industry, Journalism, Chelsea Clinton
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Avoiding sequester requires fixing the problems that got us into this mess
Your article on the impending across-the-board spending cuts points out the harm to the nation's economy that will result and the inability of Washington interest groups to come together to find a solution ("Budget-cut blame escalates," Feb. 26)....
Tags: Credit Ratings, George W. Bush, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals
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Elite players with damaged reputations may sink in draft to Ravens
Troubled former Louisiana State star cornerback Tyrann Mathieu is painfully aware of just how much he's damage he's inflicted on his reputation with potential NFL employers, and how his many transgressions with drugs have cost him financially. Mathieu's...
Tags: Kansas City Chiefs, Judges, Florida Gators, Ole Miss Rebels, San Francisco 49ers
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