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Chuck Hagel survives
After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...
Tags: Wars and Interventions, Lobbying, Republican Party, Conservation, Joe Biden
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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: Tea Party Movement, Primaries, Democratic Party, Republican Party, John Boehner
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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: Tea Party Movement, Democratic Party, Parties and Movements, Human Rights, Kelly Ayotte
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Richard Mourdock, Tim Huelskamp, Republican Party, Dick Armey
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Residents gather at Towson Library to watch results and share election analysis
Several dozen people turned out Tuesday evening in Towson to share the final stop on the 2012 general election. "Election 2012: Returns After Dark," was held at the Towson Library, and featured a Johns Hopkins professor providing instant insight into...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Voting, PBS (tv network), Libraries
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October surprise: Learning what Republicans really think about rape
Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party usurper who took down Sen. Richard Lugar in the Republican primary, created the biggest political buzz last week by uttering the following sentence in a televised debate: "I think even when life...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Paul Ryan, Parties and Movements
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People, not politicians, killed gun control
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed gun sales to felons and...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, James Holmes, Lobbying, Democratic Party, Personal Weapon Control
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Dick Lugar's warning for America
The hit men of the tea party can carve another notch in their collective gun belts this week with the ouster of Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. Senate. Whatever mojo the conservative firebrands had in the 2010 GOP primaries,...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Primaries, Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Crossroads
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Reports of the tea party's demise are premature: Just ask Senator Lugar
The tea party's waning impact on the country's politics has been continuously reported since the movement's success in the 2010 elections. Well, the tea party has not gone away. In Indiana's primary election May 8, liberal Republican Senator Richard Lugar...Tags: Primaries, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Elections
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Memo to the GOP: Not everyone is a conservative
As the four surviving Republican presidential aspirants fight over which of them is the "true" conservative, are any of them aware that millions of moderates and, yes, quite a few liberals will also be voting in November?
The views emanating from the...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Parties and Movements
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Tea party victories in Ind., Neb., are no boon to the Democrats
If it has accomplished nothing else, the tea party insurgency has made Republicans vastly more newsworthy than Democrats. While the party of the left plods along performing the boring old tasks of governing, the party of the right is engaged in high drama...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Tea Party Movement, Democratic Party, Republican Party, Herman Cain
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The tea party's war on common sense
Tea party advocates in Indiana are congratulating themselves on the Republican primary victory of one of their own, Richard Mourdock, over six-term Senate veteran Richard Lugar. But the rest of the country should be mourning the departure of the epitome...
Tags: Richard Mourdock, Tea Party Movement, Democratic Party, Sam Nunn, Republican Party
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