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Obama's 2nd-term blues?
Was President Barack Obama really joking at Saturday's White House Correspondents' Association dinner? Or was he showing, as I suspect, early signs of the second-term blues? It's fashionable for critics — especially if they didn't get invited...
Tags: The Washington Post, Personal Weapon Control, Correspondents (music group), Politics, Barack Obama
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Federal education cuts via 'sequester' will hurt Lincoln County's students
ben@theinteriorjournal.comIt's a television scene familiar to most of us over 20 years old: Wile E. Coyote buys himself an ACME catapult and assembles it, aiming a huge, red rock to land on a black "X" where he anticipates the elusive Roadrunner will pass by. As Coyote lies in...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Harold Rogers, Public Finance, U.S. Congress
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Obama cracks on Rubio's limited experience
Friends and fans of Marco Rubio are quick to point out that by 2016 he will have served in the U.S. Senate longer than Barack Obama did before becoming president. It’s an obvious way to counter the rap that the freshman senator lacks enough...Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), David Axelrod, Correspondents (music group), Politics, Taylor Swift
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How a bill becomes slaw -- an autopsy of gun-control legislation in Washington
Change of SubjectWednesday's print column Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it’s dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let’s take a close look at just how something as popular as...... -
John David Dyche: Democrat hijinks helped McConnell and Paul
Contributing ColumnistLast week was a good one for Kentucky’s U. S. Senators. Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul dominated the news. Despite hostile media’s best efforts to portray recent events as somehow damaging to the ubiquitous Republican duo, both men benefitted...Tags: Elections, Religion and Belief, Politics, Justice and Rights, Howard University
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Sandy Hook Mother Pleads For New Gun Laws In Obama Weekly Address
The Hartford CourantDelivering the weekly White House address in place of President Barack Obama, the mother of a child killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings said the nation needs new gun laws "before our tragedy becomes your tragedy." Francine Wheeler,...Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Politics, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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How a bill becomes slaw
Before we move off the issue of gun control — and it's dead for now, believe me, for reasons this column will make clear — let's take a close look at just how something as popular as expanded background checks failed to pass the U.S. Senate...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Elections, Harry Reid, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Politics
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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: Elections, Personal Weapon Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Politics, Tea Party Movement
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Reorienting the GOP on immigration
The Dallas Morning NewsAmid continuing evidence of the Republican Party's internal tensions, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida has taken the year's most significant step in reorienting the GOP toward a more open and inclusive stance on the crucial issue of immigration. Rubio's...Tags: Candy Crowley, Elections, Personal Weapon Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Politics
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Shame on the Senate; send 'em all home
Let me begin this column with an apology. Once a week, I pick an important issue and offer my reasoned analysis, based on the facts, of what it all means and how we should react. But there are times when the intellect fails and the heart and gut take...Tags: Criminals, Safety of Citizens, Orrin Hatch, Elections, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013)
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Time for McConnell to go
Senator Mitch McConnell is up for re-election next year. It would be the opportune time to retire McConnell and send him back to Alabama, from whence he came. I ask one very simple, but also one very serious question: In these last several years, what has...Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate
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Gun control backers consider strategy after Senate defeat
WASHINGTON — Supporters of stricter gun laws have organization, money and — after the Senate blocked an expansion of background-check requirements — fury. What they don't have is a clear path to changing the political arithmetic of the...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Politics, Max Baucus, Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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