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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Ted Cruz, Michael Bloomberg, New York City, U.S. House of Representatives, Interior Policy
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: Ted Cruz, Michael Bloomberg, U.S. House of Representatives, Interior Policy, Tea Party Movement
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Rubio leads five-way GOP presidential poll
Marco Rubio led the field of Republican presidential prospects in a nationwide poll released on Wednesday, though voters were split among five potential candidates. The Quinnipiac University poll of 712 Republicans found Sen. Rubio of Florida...
Tags: Government, Polls, Paul Ryan, Quinnipiac University, Republican Party
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...
Tags: Joe Biden, Vice (movie), Mitch McConnell, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement
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Stephen Goldstein: Think NRA was winner? Not so fast
The NRA has won the battle but lost the war. The best thing that happened to gun control is its defeat in Congress. Today's losers (Obama, Democrats, the 90 percent of Americans who support sane legislation) will be tomorrow's winners. Today's winners...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Lobbying, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, Mitt Romney, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Republicans try real hard, but they still don't understand
The Republicans will rise again. It doesn't seem so today, but they will because such are the dynamics of American Democracy. A few weeks ago I wrote about Republicans' delusional claim that their message was improperly packaged, or as their...Tags: Ted Cruz, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Ethics, Abortion
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McManus: SCOTUS-induced chaos on gay marriage?
If the Supreme Court decides the two gay marriage cases it heard last week the way most court watchers believe it will, expect legal and political chaos. The court seems ready to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, while ruling quite...
Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Political Candidates, Same-Sex Marriage, Proposition 8 (California, 2010), Social Security
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Can GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Jonah GoldbergIs the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...Tags: Joe Biden, Iraq War (2003-2011), Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, The New York Times, Republican Party
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Supremes waffle on marriage equality
Over the last 40 years, I've been involved in a lot of political battles for a lot of different causes: workers' rights, women's rights, gay rights, environmental protection, anti-war, anti-nuclear power, anti-urban sprawl, animal rights, gun control,...
Tags: Suicide, Civil Rights, Laws, Mark Begich, Anglicanism
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Usual suspects using terror attacks to bludgeon immigration reform
Mary SanchezThe newly unveiled George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has occasioned a lot of reflection on our last president's accomplishments and failures. There are lessons within those walls. In the case of immigration reform, especially, we'd do well...Tags: Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Steve King, Mary Sanchez, Lu Lingzi, Interior Policy
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Boston Bombing Only A Pretext To Scuttle Immigration Reform
The Hartford CourantThe newly unveiled George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has occasioned a lot of reflection on our last president's accomplishments and failures. There are lessons within those walls. In the case of immigration reform, especially, we'd do...Tags: Bob Goodlatte, Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Steve King, Republican Party, Lu Lingzi
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Thune being watched in sales tax vote
PIERRE -- This week, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on Internet sales-tax legislation that is strongly supported by retail businesses in South Dakota. If it eventually becomes law, the state treasury and municipal governments throughout South...
Tags: Government, Justice System, Computing and Information Technology Industry, National Government, Marco Rubio
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