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COLUMN: Obama's second term offers recipe for conservative revival
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. President Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-...Tags: Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, The Washington Post, Unemployment Benefits, Energy Resources
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Rethinking our China strategy
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the...
Tags: Nuclear Policy, Iran's Nuclear Program, Robert Zoellick, Elections, Politics
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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...
Tags: Human Interest, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Florida Legislature
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Boys in the back of the class
Every year millions of well-intentioned American kids show up for kindergarten or first grade woefully unprepared to learn. Some can't even tell you their complete name, let alone spell any of it. That's enough reason for me to believe "high-quality...
Tags: Personal Income, Colleges and Universities, Preschools, The Ohio State University, Minority Groups
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Special Report: Class struggle - How charter schools get students they want
ReutersGetting in can be grueling. Students may be asked to submit a 15-page typed research paper, an original short story, or a handwritten essay on the historical figure they would most like to meet. There are interviews. Exams. And pages of questions for...Tags: Human Interest, Lifestyle and Leisure, Roseland, Politics, University of California, San Diego
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Two cheers for rebranding
Ever since Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about how the Republican Party needs to "rebrand" itself. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party." Rep. Paul...
Tags: The Washington Post, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Elections, George H.W. Bush
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Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...
Tags: Afghanistan, NATO, George Washington, John Kerry, David Petraeus
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Torture helped get bin Laden?
"Zero Dark Thirty," the film about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, got a fresh infusion of buzz over the weekend when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed again that enhanced interrogation techniques aided the effort to find...
Tags: Movies, Zero Dark Thirty (movie), Kathryn Bigelow, Central Intelligence Agency, Death of Osama bin Laden (2011)
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Eric Cantor's empty happy talk
WASHINGTON -- Republicans have happened upon a felicitous new strategy for reviving their party from its depressed state: They need only think happy thoughts. At a retreat for Republican leaders last month, former House speaker Newt Gingrich told them...
Tags: Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Government, Republican Party, Elections
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The sequester stand-off
Is this really the best anyone in Washington can do to avert sequestration? President Barack Obama's call for delaying the automatic spending cuts past the March 1 deadline would seem reasonable enough, except he hasn't really offered up a specific plan...Tags: Mitch McConnell, Congressional Budget Office, Elections, Eric Cantor, Politics
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The deficit control policy Democrats and Republicans can love
When it comes to fixing America's ballooning debt problem, there is one policy option that both Democrats and Republicans should be rushing to embrace. It is the proposal to replace the current Consumer Price Index (CPI) with a more accurate measure of...Tags: Personal Income, Congressional Budget Office, Market and Exchange, Republican Party, Politics
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Time for a textbook revolution
Change of SubjectFrom Why are textbooks so absurdly expensive? by Jordan Weissmann, Atlantic: You thought the rising cost of college tuition was bad? Then check out the rising cost of college textbooks. The American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry has put together this....
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