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    Feb 20, 2013 |Story| Patuxent Homestead
  1. If Senators want to talk it to death, they should have to open their mouths [Commentary]

    Lately I've been fascinated, like many other folks who pay attention to national politics, by the wranglings in the U.S. Senate relating to blocking legislation via something called a filibuster. My trusty Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, which started out...

    Tags: Elections, U.S. Senate, U.S. Congress, Civil Rights

  2. Mar 7, 2013 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  3. Rand Paul's filibuster worked

    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got a lot of attention Wednesday for mounting an honest-to-God filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan. The nation's political class marveled at his real-life Mr. Smith act, the funny stuff his fellow senators said as they took their turns in support — Sen. Marco Rubio, for example, referenced Jay-Z, Wiz Khalifa and "The Godfather" — and the reason he stopped 11 hours short of Strom Thurmond's filibuster record (it seems the late South Carolina senator was, if not stronger in his convictions, at least stronger in his bladder).
    Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul got a lot of attention Wednesday for mounting an honest-to-God filibuster of President Barack Obama's nominee for CIA director, John Brennan. The nation's political class marveled at his real-life Mr. Smith act, the funny stuff his...

    Tags: Elections, U.S. Department of Defense, Ron Paul, Wiz Khalifa, Anwar al-Awlaki

  4. Mar 2, 2007 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  5. A new twist to an intriguing family history

    Sun Reporters
    Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate 's father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned...

    Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Political Systems, Slavery, John Edwards, Family

  6. Aug 6, 2005 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  7. Body language can translate into tale that's not intended

    Sun Staff
    Rafael Palmeiro sent up an unmistakable red flag about steroid use on March 17, at least in the mind of John Boe, a California body-language expert. That's when the Orioles first baseman testified before a congressional committee and denied ever using...

    Tags: Baseball, University of California, Murder, U.S. Department of State, Pete Rose

  8. Oct 10, 2002 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  9. Senate vote on war resolution delayed by voice of Byrd

    Sun National Staff
    WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate ground to a halt yesterday as one West Virginia Democrat, his hands trembling and his voice raised, refused to yield the floor. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the 84-year-old master of Senate rules and procedures and fierce protector...

    Tags: Executive Branch, George W. Bush, National Security, Government, History

  10. Sep 23, 2004 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  11. CBS News appoints 2 to conduct outside review of report on Bush

    Sun Staff
    CBS News appointed a former U.S. attorney general and a retired chief executive of the Associated Press yesterday to investigate how a botched story about President Bush's military record was researched and approved for broadcast. Network executives...

    Tags: Lawyers, George H.W. Bush, John Kerry, Management Change, Executive Branch

  12. Feb 13, 1999 |Story| Baltimore Sun
  13. Solemn vote ends 'year of agony'

    Sun Reporter
    Suspenseful it was not. And yet, when Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist called for the verdict in President Clinton's impeachment trial, he suddenly placed the weight of history on 100 sets of shoulders in the hushed Senate chamber. "Senators, how say...

    Tags: Ted Stevens, Arlen Specter, Henry J Hyde, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Trials

  14. Jul 11, 2002 |Column| Baltimore Sun
  15. Ehrlich, Steele have some explaining to do

    ROBERT EHRLICH and Michael Steele aim to be Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid for the working-class set. Riding across the state's political prairie, they wish to be perceived as products of their humble origins trying to swipe an election from the...

    Tags: Political Campaigns, Spiro Agnew, Executive Branch, George W. Bush, Government

  16. May 11, 2004 |Column| Baltimore Sun
  17. Plain talk from GOP senator

    Sun National Staff
    WASHINGTON -- Twenty years ago, a young military lawyer defending an Air Force pilot on a drug charge landed himself on 60 Minutes, exposing widespread flaws in the Air Force drug-testing system that led to an overhaul of the program. Today, the same...

    Tags: Interior Policy, Steve Buyer, George W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Government

  18. Jun 6, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times
  19. Joe Biden: Vice president of the nation, but king of the eulogy

    WASHINGTON – Say what you will about Vice President Joe Biden – the man can deliver a eulogy. Just ask him. “I’ve spoken at more eulogies than I’d like to remember,” he said Wednesday at a service for Frank R....

    Tags: Elections, Daniel Inouye, Democratic Party, C-SPAN (tv network), Amtrak

  20. Mar 26, 2013 | Chicago Tribune
  21. Great moments in homina homina homina!

    Change of Subject
    Attorney Charles J. Cooper offers a lame, confused response in the Supreme Court today to the question of, if procreation is to integral to marriage, why do we let prisoners and the elderly marry? JUSTICE BREYER: What precisely is the......
  22. Mar 27, 2013 |Column| Orlando Sentinel
  23. Same-sex marriage can't be stopped by courts

    WASHINGTON -- To see the future of gay marriage, you didn't have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue.
    WASHINGTON -- To see the future of gay marriage, you didn't have to set foot in the Supreme Court chamber Tuesday morning as the justices took up the first of two landmark cases on the issue. You needed only to stand in the plaza in front of the court...

    Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Marriage, John G. Roberts, Jr., George W. Bush, Minority Groups

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