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Obama is a lame duck who knows how to quack
It's sometimes said that a lame-duck president is a weakened leader from the first day of his last term. The two-term limit of the 22nd Amendment, imposed by wrathful Republicans in 1951 in response to FDR's breach of the George Washington tradition, is...Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, Joe Biden, George Washington
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Panetta, NATO partner, differ on troop numbers
BRUSSELS (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his German counterpart offered conflicting accounts Friday of a discussion about how many U.S. and European forces would remain in Afghanistan after the anticipated end of combat after 2014....
Tags: Barack Obama, International Organizations, Kabul (Afghanistan), Defense, Politics
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Vilsack assures support for ethanol
LAS VEGAS - If the ethanol and biodiesel industries need reassurance of support from the Obama administration, they got it here on Feb. 8 from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. But they also got some advice on how to convince people outside their...Tags: Environmental Issues, Media Industry, Renewable Energy, YouTube, Biofuels
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Hagel wins another GOP vote, others call for nomination to be pulled
WASHINGTON – Fifteen GOP senators called on President Obama to withdraw Chuck Hagel’s nomination to lead the Pentagon, even as support from another Republican increased the likelihood he will be confirmed when Congress returns from recess next...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, U.S. Senate, White House, Richard Shelby
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'They deserve a vote' can be more than rhetoric
State of the Union addresses are traditionally laundry lists of policy proposals. U.S. President Barack Obama's started that way, but it ended as the most emotional speech before a joint session of Congress in modern memory. The theatrics of the event...Tags: Barack Obama, Human Interest, Elections, North Miami, Politics
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Conflict in Syria causing discord
Last August, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and then-CIA Director David H. Petraeus proposed that the United States change its policy and send weapons and other aid to the rebels fighting the Syrian government. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta...Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, U.S. Department of State, White House, Bashar Assad
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Senator on the growl
WASHINGTON -- Lindsey Graham is turning himself into the mad dog of Capitol Hill. First, the Republican senator from South Carolina opposed Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary because of Hagel's foreign policy views. Then he argued that...
Tags: Elections, Lobbying, Politics, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Georgetown
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Hagel and defense
Biography isn't policy. President Barack Obama's choice for secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, former Nebraska Republican senator, has a resume most politicians can envy: a clean senatorial record, no ethical lapses and two Purple Hearts from a war many...Tags: Barack Obama, Iran, Lobbying, Politics, Defense
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Chuck Hagel a petty decision by Obama
It's official. President Barack Obama has named former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., as his nominee for secretary of defense. Hence, we may be in store for the worst defense secretary nomination fight since George H.W. Bush's failed appointment of Sen. John...
Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Lobbying, Politics, U.S. Department of Defense
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The Asia opportunity
Over the past two years, the Obama administration has focused greater diplomatic attention and military resources on East Asia as part of a policy described as a "pivot" or "rebalancing." While American leaders are loath to admit it publicly, this is a...Tags: Barack Obama, Environmental Issues, Asia, Demographics, China
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Dror Moreh's 'The Gatekeepers' sheds light on Israel's Shin Bet
Israel's Shin Bet — think of it as a combination of the CIA and the FBI — prides itself on secrecy. So when documentary filmmaker Dror Moreh approached one of its past leaders some three years ago to discuss the agency's role in the Israeli-...Tags: Barack Obama, FBI, Politics, Government, Hamas
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Lugar still speaking his own mind
Politicians on the Far Right, seeking to turn the Republican Party into an uncompromising, unquestioning cause in their own image, sought to silence Dick Lugar's voice of moderation, promising that Indiana still would send a Republican to the Senate....
Tags: Elections, Barack Obama, Politics, Sharron E. Angle, Richard Mourdock
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Feb 18, 2013
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Feb 21, 2013
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Feb 18, 2013
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Jan 12, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 10, 2013
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Jan 14, 2013
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Feb 1, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Feb 18, 2013
|Column| South Bend Tribune
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