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Senate blocks expanded gun sale background checks
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans, backed by a small band of rural-state Democrats, turned away legislation Wednesday to tighten restrictions on the sale of firearms, rejecting repeated appeals from President Barack Obama and personal pleas by...Tags: U.S. Congress, Joe Biden, Washington, DC, Barack Obama, Lobbying
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Rand Paul has lotsa 'splaining to do
Within hours after Sen. Rand Paul's news-making speech at historically black Howard University, someone posted this new definition on the user-driven Urban Dictionary website of an awkward-sounding but quite timely verb: "whitesplain": "The act of a...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon
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Senate votes to consider gun control laws
WASHINGTON — In a lopsided vote, the Senate launched a debate Thursday over the most significant gun legislation in more than a decade, setting up a contest that could last weeks between reinvigorated advocates for stricter laws and conservatives...
Tags: U.S. Congress, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Politics
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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Paul Ryan, Scott Walker, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Christie
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Kass: A Senate battle between a libertarian whippersnapper, crotchety establishment
Republican Sen. John McCain is pushing 80 now, but he still has those jaws and the Teddy Roosevelt teeth that look as if they could chomp through a baseball bat. Yet no matter how vital his bite, the Arizona Republican is getting up in years. So he can'...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Al-Qaeda, John McCain, Services and Shopping, Barack Obama
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Will Obama launch a drone attack on U.S. soil?
Who would have thought that within President Barack Obama beats the heart of a civil rights antediluvian? Could Obama, beloved of the American Civil Liberties Union, be guilty of harboring thoughts of calling down a fatal drone attack on an American...
Tags: Justice and Rights, Interior Policy, Human Rights, American Civil Liberties Union, Barack Obama
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McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics
Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....
Tags: Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Gun Control, Politics, Executive Branch
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: U.S. Congress, Tom Coburn, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Politics
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Tom Coburn, Barack Obama, Gun Control, Politics
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Rubio leads five-way GOP presidential poll
Marco Rubio led the field of Republican presidential prospects in a nationwide poll released on Wednesday, though voters were split among five potential candidates. The Quinnipiac University poll of 712 Republicans found Sen. Rubio of Florida...Tags: U.S. Congress, Quinnipiac University, Republican Party, Tea Party Movement, Politics
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...
Tags: Vice (movie), Joe Biden, Naomi Judd, Mitch McConnell, Barack Obama
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Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Social Sciences, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
Apr 17, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Mar 8, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 12, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Apr 7, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Apr 4, 2013
|Story| Aberdeen News
Apr 3, 2013
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Apr 3, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Apr 2, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
Apr 1, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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