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The TV Zone(AP) Back, gang, to sober news: The death of an old and cherished acquaintance. Sorry for this late post, but due to circumstances beyond my immediate control - I have been away and the good people at Newsday.com are......Tags: Democratic Party, NASA, David Brinkley, NBC (tv network), Lucille Ball
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Tom Ridge: 'Security or politics?'
The Swampby Mark Silva Tom Ridge, the first secretary of Homeland Security, a post and bureaucracy created under the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9/11, says in a forthcoming book that other members of the former president's Cabinet pressured him......Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, Heads of State, John Ashcroft, John McCain, Tom Ridge
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Mary (Peter and Paul) Travers, Bitter End
The Swampby Mark Silva Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee, Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff, And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy......Tags: New York, California, Manhattan (New York City), Noel Stookey, Gordon Lightfoot
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'Silent majority:' Health care coming
The Swampby Mark Silva It's been quite some time since we heard from "the silent majority.'' It was then-President Richard Nixon who maintained, 40 years ago, that there were a lot of Americans who did not sympathize with all the protests......Tags: Barack Obama, Health, Wars and Interventions, Richard Nixon, Government Health Care
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'Kerry Principle:' Obama's non-fatal flaw?
The Swampby Mark Silva This afternoon, President Barack Obama will walk onto a TV set in New York for a taping of the Late Show with David Letterman, the first appearance of a sitting president on Letterman's late-night show and the......Tags: New York, Marketing, Barack Obama, Heads of State, White House
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Nobel Peace Prize: Gandhi never won it
The Swampby Mark Jacob With a Chicagoan -- President Barack Obama -- winning the Nobel Prize for Peace, it's fitting to take a deeper look at the world's most famous awards for peaceful human achievement. The fact that they were founded......Tags: California, Barack Obama, Applied Physics, Applied Science, Health
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Afghanistan another Vietnam?
The Swampby Mark Silva "This is not Vietnam in many respects," Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) said in a reported interview during his latest trip to Afghanistan. "We are here in Afghanistan because people attacked us here in the most significant attack......Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, White House, Wars and Interventions, Afghanistan, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
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Obama: Vietnam's lessons true today
The Swampby Mark Silva They're still talking about the lessons of Vietnam at the White House, where President Barack Obama today awarded a Presidential Unit Citation to Alpha Troop, First Squadron of the 11th Armored Cavalry. At the White House, where......Tags: Massachusetts, California, Barack Obama, Jim Jones, White House
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Fort Hood 'terrorist act:' Max Cleland
The Swampby Mark Silva While various members of Congress attempt to sort out whether the mass murder at Ft. Hood, Texas, was an act of terrorism or madness, former Sen. Max Cleland, an extremely wounded and decorated veteran of the Vietnam......Tags: Fort Hood (military base), PBS (tv network), Max Cleland, Health, Veterans Affairs
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Massachusetts meltdown: Blame game
The Swampby Mark Silva "Don't blame me, I'm from Massachusetts.'' For years, that was the bumper-sticker boast of the Bay State, the only state that voted for Democrat George McGovern for president in 1972, the year when Richard Nixon was swept......Tags: Massachusetts, Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Health, Health Care Reform (2009)
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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: U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Barack Obama, Parliament, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Paul Ryan
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A woman's fantasies and fears take wing in 'Amelia'
It's heartening to see area college and university music programs taking up the slack with respect to significant recent American operas Chicago's professional opera companies have ignored. A little more than a week ago, student singers and orchestra...Tags: Roosevelt University, Pilsen, Flight (movie), Teaching and Learning, Human Interest
Jul 20, 2009
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Aug 21, 2009
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Sep 17, 2009
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Nov 10, 2009
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May 8, 2013
|Column| Orlando Sentinel
Mar 3, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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