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GOP Retains Grip on U.S. House of Representatives
Los Angeles TimesWASHINGTON -- Republicans held on to their House majority in Tuesday's election, leaving Democrats well short of the net gain of 25 seats they needed to take control. "The American people have once again given the House of Representatives to Republicans,...Tags: U.S. House Committee on Ethics, Jeff Landry, Brian P. Bilbray, Larry Kissell, Economy, Business and Finance
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Dark night
Cal ThomasBy now the script should be familiar. A bombing or a mass shooting occurs and the media immediately look for a simple cause. Invariably, they turn to talk radio or some other conservative pit of "intolerance." Within recent memory are tragedies like...Tags: MSNBC (tv network), New York City, Interior Policy, Arts and Culture, Movies
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Fear prompts gun sales, panic after Colorado massacre
DENVER (AP) — Firearms sales are surging in the wake of the Colorado movie theater massacre as buyers express fears that anti-gun politicians may use the shootings to seek new restrictions on owning weapons. In Colorado, the site of Friday's...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Arts and Culture, Movies, Barack Obama
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Obama Accepts Presidential Nomination
President Barack Obama hits the campaign trail on Friday after accepting his party's nomination for re-election by telling the Democratic National Convention and the nation that only the voters in November have the power to secure the change he started....
Tags: 2012 Democratic National Convention, U.S. House Committee on the Budget, Antonio Villaraigosa, Pakistan, Israel
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Obama Tells Americans: 'You Are the Change'
Los Angeles TimesCHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Four years after riding a wave of optimism into the White House, Barack Obama offered a sobering message about the future as he asked Americans for another term to help complete the country's recovery from the worst economic crisis...Tags: Bain Capital, LLC, Osama bin Laden, Iraq, Ronald Reagan, General Motors Corp.
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Gun lobby fires up Obama fear
As with other mass shootings, Friday's killings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., trigger a familiar chain of reactions: horror, remorse, rage and a call for new restrictions on guns. And in the recent past, at least, that call for action has been...
Tags: Gun Control, Civil Rights, Operation Fast and Furious, U.S. Department of Justice, Interior Policy
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The politicization of violence
Jonah GoldbergIf it hasn't completely vanished down the memory hole, you might recall that last week a man walked into the headquarters of the conservative Family Research Council with a backpack full of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and bullets, said something like "I don'...Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Tony Perkins, Barack Obama, Research
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Goldberg: The politicization of violence
If it hasn't completely vanished down the memory hole, you might recall that last week a man walked into the headquarters of the conservative Family Research Council with a backpack of Chick-fil-A sandwiches and bullets, said something like "I don't...
Tags: Gun Control, Interior Policy, Tony Perkins, Barack Obama, Research
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Md. man accused in cannibal case deemed incompetent to stand trial
Alexander Kinyua, the college student accused of killing a family friend and ingesting his heart and brain, has been declared incompetent to stand trial, according to court records. Harford County State's Attorney Joseph I. Cassilly said in an Aug. 13...
Tags: Psychiatry, Career and Workplace, Alexander Kinyua, Punishment, Morgan State University
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The false politicization of the Family Research Council shooting
We do not yet know exactly what led a young man to carry a semi-automatic pistol into the lobby of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian advocacy organization, and to instigate a confrontation that left a security guard with a gunshot...
Tags: Civil Rights, Family, Social Issues, Gays and Lesbians, Christianity
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“The Newsroom” Episode 4 recap: Love, Gun
Channel Guide MagazineBy Matthew Grimm Kathryn Hahn popped up on Episode 4 of The Newsroom, playing a rambunctious, randy, pistol-packing date of curmudgeonly hero Will McAvoy (Jeff Daniels). McAvoy, you’ll recall, is a conservative TV anchorman who, in midlife pique,... -
ABC's Brian Ross and a press that disregards reputations of those it covers
The Baltimore SunJournalistic mistakes are easy to make in the immediate wake of events like the horrific shootings last week in a movie theater in Colorado. Bits and bites of information explode across myriad media. Meanwhile, revulsion at the violence mixes with...Tags: Aaron Sorkin, ABC (tv network), Arts and Culture, Customs and Tradition, Journalism
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Jul 22, 2012
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Aug 22, 2012
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Aug 21, 2012
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Aug 16, 2012
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Jul 21, 2012
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