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Child's play over the budget
WASHINGTON -- The budget feud on Capitol Hill is looking like those Vietnam War peace talks when negotiators bickered over the shape of the table. House Republicans, after howling for years about Senate Democrats' failure to pass a budget, are...
Tags: Government Health Care, Christopher Van Hollen Jr., Patty Murray, Medicare, White House
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Should Jeb Bush listen to his mother and president?
No offense to Barbara Bush, who seems like a fabulous grandmother and certainly has been a wonderful mother and wife, raising a future president and being married to another one. But Barbara, I hope son Jeb doesn’t take your advice not to run...
Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, Politics, Parties and Movements, Jeb Bush
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Keeping Student Loan Rates Low Benefits All
If it is spring, it is the time of flowers, showers and congressional bloodletting over federal student loan interest rates, set to rise in July. Again. Last year, the federal act expired that had kept federally subsidized Stafford student loan rates...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Teaching and Learning, Joe Courtney, Politics
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Barack Obama, Conan O'Brien skewer media skillfully
Staff writerCould it be that Washington does comedy better than the Hollywood movie studios? Conan O'Brien and Barack Obama provided more laughter Saturday night at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner than you're likely to find this weekend at the...Tags: Downton Abbey (tv program), John Boehner, Al Roker, White House, NPR
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White House Correspondents Dinner: The Obama & O'Brien Show Draws Laughs, Highlights Gaffes
ReutersApr 28 (TheWrap.com) - The White House Correspondent Association dinner Saturday night proved fertile ground for Hollywood stars only this time instead of a target, the stars were often the weapons in jokes wielded by President Obama, Conan O'Brien and...Tags: CNN (tv network), Netflix Inc., White House, Politics, David Axelrod
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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: Hillary Clinton, Executive Branch, Scott Walker, Chris Christie, Joe Biden
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The fights Obama picks over Medicare
The budget that President Obama released Wednesday doesn't include the sort of headline-grabbing initiatives that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) included in his proposal for fiscal 2014, such as a dramatic overhaul of the tax code...Tags: Health Insurance, Government Health Care, Medicare, Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines
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Open thread: The Weeks in Review
Change of SubjectThe "Weeks in Review" feature is now an open thread in which commenters can talk about any current events or cultural phenomena that have caught their attention, including but limited to the topics brought up in our traditional roundup of...... -
LETTER: Austerity Debunked
The debunking of conservative fiscal logic and austerity as a strategy for economic recovery reached the mainstream Tuesday night when "The Colbert Report" featured UMass doctoral student Thomas Herdon, whose paper last week detailed the gross research...Tags: Research, Labor Markets, The Colbert Report (tv program)
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Stephen Goldstein: Boston horror shows tea party way off base on taxation
The 1773 Boston Tea Party was a dramatic milestone on the British North American colonies' road to revolt and independence. So, it is only "fitting and proper" that a backlash against the present-day tea party/GOP — hopefully leading to its demise...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Chris Christie, Sports, Politics, Mitt Romney
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WRAPUP 1-U.S. budget cuts back in spotlight as flight delays mount
Reuters* "We can't do this for long" - airline CEO * FAA says delays not as bad as feared By Mark Felsenthal and Alwyn Scott WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Wednesday backed a plan that would temporarily eliminate...Tags: Raul Labrador, Trips and Vacations, Air Transportation Industry, White House, Politics
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: State of the Union Address, Ayn Rand, Politics, John F. Kennedy, Times Square
May 8, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Apr 29, 2013
|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
May 3, 2013
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Apr 28, 2013
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Apr 27, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 26, 2013
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Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
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|Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Apr 24, 2013
|Story| Reuters
Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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