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Boston Bombing No Excuse To Hold Up Immigration Reform
Congress should not listen to the hotheads and the anti-immigrant mischief makers who want to delay action on pending immigration reform because the two suspects in the Boston bombing case were immigrants. The United States would no doubt be less safe,...
Tags: Barack Obama, Migration, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Immigration Reform Legislation (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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Tail-gunner Ted
WASHINGTON -- Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up? The young senator from Texas has been on the job for about 100 days, but he has already turned upside down the Senate's ancient seniority system and is dominating his senior Republican...
Tags: Migration, Gun Control, Lindsey O. Graham, Marco Rubio, Primaries
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Boston Marathon bombing suspect is charged
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill — a crime that carries a possible death sentence. Tsarnaev, 19, was accused by federal...
Tags: Krystle Campbell, U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Shootings, Police Investigations
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Boston bombings to dominate Sunday morning shows
Staff writerTHIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED: Discussion about the Boston Marathon bombings and the suspects will fill the Sunday morning talk shows. A look at the guest list, which has been very fluid this weekend: ABC's "This Week" features Mayor Thomas Menino, D-...Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Lindsey O. Graham, Fox News Channel (tv network), September 11, 2001 Attacks, This Week (tv program)
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Twelve steaks and an arugula salad: Obama takes the GOP to dinner
President Barack Obama had a dinner date last week with a dozen of his worst enemies, thus proving that the governmental stalemate in Washington, D.C., is driving him to unusual acts of political creativity -- or desperation. The president personally...
Tags: CNN (tv network), Barack Obama, Saxby Chambliss, Republican Party, Tom Coburn
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At new phase in budget fight, Obama reaches out to GOP lawmakers
WASHINGTON -- President Obama appears to be trying to thaw chilly relations with lawmakers as he pushed through the latest budget battle while moving on to other parts of his second-term agenda. Obama will head to Capitol Hill next week to visit...
Tags: Barack Obama, Gun Control, Republican Party, Tom Coburn, Lindsey O. Graham
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, Tom Coburn, Lindsey O. Graham, U.S. Senate
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A filibuster fit for Joe McCarthy
WASHINGTON -- Chuck Hagel's confirmation as secretary of defense ended as it began -- with a smear. "Senator Hagel has accused Israel of quote 'playing games' and committing, quote, 'sickening slaughter,'" Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said before...
Tags: Joe McCarthy, Barack Obama, Thomas R. Carper, Carl Levin, Tom Coburn
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Passionate debate goes on
Last Sunday's Opinion pages offered eight perspectives from local sources on President Barack Obama's recommendations for curbing gun violence in the nation. Today, we share our readers' comments on the issues. End madness I learned to shoot as a...Tags: Barack Obama, Elections, Gun Control, Judges, Defense Equipment
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Sandy relief package swells aid for past disasters
WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives and watchdog groups are mounting a "not-so-fast" campaign against a $50.7 billion Superstorm Sandy aid package that Northeastern governors and lawmakers hope to push through the House this coming week. Their...
Tags: Barack Obama, Manhattan (New York City), Tim Huelskamp, Tom Coburn, Smithsonian Institution
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Scaling the fiscal cliff
The optimism expressed early in the week on both sides of Washington’s political aisle for a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, lamentably, has waned. If last November’s failure of the “supercommittee” to reach a grand...Tags: Fred Upton, Fiscal Cliff, Joe Donnelly, Joe Donnelly, U.S. Congress
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Indiana's U.S. Senate Race going down to the wire
Indiana's U.S. Senate race is on the minds of many Hoosiers going into Election Day. This race could help decide which party controls the U.S. Senate. It pits State Treasurer Richard Mourdock and U.S. Representative Joe Donnelly. Both candidates are...
Tags: Elections, Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Evan Bayh, Joe Donnelly
Apr 23, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Apr 22, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 22, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Apr 20, 2013
| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 12, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 7, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Feb 27, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Jan 27, 2013
|Story| South Bend Tribune
Jan 12, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Nov 29, 2012
|Story| South Bend Tribune
Nov 5, 2012
|Column| WXIN-LTV
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