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It's official: Obama, Biden win second term
President Obama was declared the winner of the 2012 presidential election Friday in a special joint session of Congress, finally closing the book on the tumultuous and expensive campaign. Vice President Joe Biden, serving as president of the Senate,...
Tags: Barack Obama, U.S. Electoral College, Justice System, Politics, Joe Biden
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President Obama inauguration TV coverage
Channel Guide MagazineUpdated Jan. 20, 2013, 1:29pm CT On Monday, Jan. 21 (officially on Jan. 20), Barack Obama will be sworn in to begin his second term as President of the United States, along with Joe Biden as Vice President. The oath of office will formally be administered... -
Winter book preview
Looking ahead to books in 2013 is a little like predicting the Los Angeles weather: sunny, pleasant, better than average. The fiction fields are fertile, the nonfiction skies clear and the young adult books are fresh like spring rain. We'll see new...
Tags: Orson Scott Card, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (movie), Books and Magazines, Thom Mayne, Soups
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A warrant to draw blood?
The Supreme Court was asked this week to rule that police never need to obtain a search warrant before drawing blood from a motorist stopped for drunk driving. The court should reject that claim. In 2010, Tyler G. McNeely was stopped by a Missouri...
Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Breyer, Antonin Scalia
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Weekend Talk: Antonio Villaraigosa; Colin Powell; Sonia Sotomayor
Click here to download TV listings for the week of Jan. 13 - 19, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC Chris Matthews Howard Fineman; Liz Marlantes; John Harris; Kasie Hunt....
Tags: Chuck Hagel, Interior Policy, Stanley A. McChrystal, Politics, Golden Globe Awards
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Katie Couric lands Manti Te’o; Soledad O’Brien talks to Sonia Sotomayor
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelOprah Winfrey landed the supposedly big interview last week: Lance Armstrong. Katie Couric is getting the big interview this week: Notre Dame football star Manti Te'o, who says he is the victim of a hoax about a woman he called his late girlfriend. Te'o... -
Justices wary of mandatory blood tests in drunk driving cases
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded wary Wednesday of giving the police a free hand to forcibly take blood from motorists suspected of drunk driving. "It's a pretty scary image of somebody restrained, and a representative of the state...
Tags: Lawyers, Medical Procedures and Tests, Justice System, Los Angeles Times, Judges
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Democratic society dying in the U.S.
The French philosopher Alexis de Toqueville (1805-1859) had many interesting things to say about democracy. One of the most noteworthy being: “The American people will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the people with the...Tags: Planned Parenthood, Social Issues, Lobbying, Family Planning, Fiscal Cliff
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Defending the insanity defense
The Supreme Court refused this week to review the murder conviction of an Idaho man who was prevented by state law from offering an insanity defense. The court's abdication of its responsibility encourages other states to dismantle a central principle...
Tags: Justice System, Laws, Criminal Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephen Breyer
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In Orlando-only Spanish ad, Obama campaign blasts Romney over Sotomayor
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando SentinelThe re-election campaign of President Barack Obama is launching a new Spanish-language TV commercial in Orlando only that blasts Mitt Romney for saying he would not have supported Justice Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. The ad,... -
SUPREME COURT: High court rejects part of Arizona immigration law; Health care ruling due Thursday
WASHINGTON (AP)— The Supreme Court threw out key provisions of Arizona's crackdown on illegal immigrants Monday but said a much-debated portion could go forward — that police must check the status of people stopped for various reasons who...
Tags: Lawyers, Health, Barack Obama, National Government, Jan Brewer
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Dog day at the Supreme Court
WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court has a Lemon Test (for church-and-state separation), a Miller Test (obscenity) and a Smith Test (religious freedom), not to mention the late Justice Potter Stewart's pornography test: He knew it when he saw it. To this...
Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Lawyers, Elena Kagan, Justice System, Judges
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Jan 11, 2013
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Jan 11, 2013
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Jan 20, 2013
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Jan 9, 2013
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Jan 3, 2013
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Nov 28, 2012
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Sep 14, 2012
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Jun 25, 2012
|Story| Petoskey News
Nov 1, 2012
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
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