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A filibustered judicial nominee withdraws
New York lawyer Caitlin Halligan, who was first nominated to the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., almost 2 1/2 years ago, has asked President Obama to withdraw her nomination. As The Times noted in an editorial today, Halligan was the victim...Tags: George W. Bush, National Rifle Association of America, Justice System, Washington, DC, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Biden, Bloomberg lean on Congress to act on guns
Vice President Joe Biden, seeking to reinvigorate slowing momentum for gun control legislation, urged Congress on Thursday to be courageous in supporting new laws and insisted that the political risks of supporting such laws were overblown. Biden...
Tags: National Rifle Association of America, U.S. Senate, Elections, Harry Reid, Gun Control
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N.Y. Senate Takes First Step To Tighten Gun Controls
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo won a state Senate vote to toughen gun controls and make it easier to keep firearms away from the mentally ill, putting New York a step closer to becoming the first to take action after the Newtown school massacre. The bill...Tags: Long Island, Adam Lanza, Executive Branch, Gun Control, Politics
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La familia de Noah Pozner pide nuevas leyes para evitar la violencia escolar, responsabilizar a propietarios de armas
El Hartford CourantLos familiares de Noah Pozner, un niño de 6 años quien murió en el tiroteo de la Escuela Elemental de Sandy Hook, hacen un llamado a la Casa Blanca para que apoyen nuevas leyes federales dirigidas a darles a la policía una alerta temprana de posibles...Tags: Adam Lanza
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President's gun control proposal draws praise and skepticism in Virginia
ReporterAndrew Goddard has been working to prevent gun violence in Virginia since his son Colin was wounded at Virginia Tech. He says he was incredibly proud when Vice President Joe Biden recognized his son at the Washington ceremony Wednesday. "And when I asked...Tags: U.S. Congress, Gun Control, Politics, Barack Obama, Personal Weapon Control
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Hillary Clinton's stock is on the rise
In the cease-fire struck between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton got second billing to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's role as the prime go-between, and rightly so. But her highly visible hand-holding on both...
Tags: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Andrew Cuomo, Bill Clinton, Mark R. Warner
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At Forum On Gun Violence, Hartford Residents Say They Know The Problem Well
The Hartford CourantHenrietta Beckman lost her son, Randy, to gun violence in 2002. Samuel Saylor Sr.'s son, Shane Oliver, was fatally shot in October. Randy and Shane weren't in elementary school, were not white and did not live in the suburban town of Newtown. They...Tags: Behavioral Conditions, Health, Gun Control, Politics, Sandy Hook Elementary School
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Is anybody sad that Jim DeMint is leaving the Senate?
In a profession like politics and in a town like the nation's capital, the phenomenon of a U.S. senator voluntarily surrendering his seat for a think-tank job would have been unthinkable some years ago. The decision of Republican Jim DeMint of South...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Olympia J. Snowe, Richard Lugar, Elections, Rush Limbaugh
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Facing the fiscal cliff, Obama can't back down again
As official Washington nervously ponders the approaching fiscal cliff and the potential economic chaos it entails, President Barack Obama faces a precipice of his own in the challenge of making use of his re-election victory. Unless he emerges from...
Tags: Fiscal Cliff, Tea Party Movement, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Immigration, Health Care Reform (2009)
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The year that was in politics
It would be nice to feel, after one of the most costly and abrasive presidential campaigns in our nation's history, that the fog has cleared from the miasma of the year 2012, revealing bright prospects for a better 2013. It would also be nice to know that...
Tags: Paul Ryan, Fiscal Cliff, Health Care Reform (2009), Advertising, Elections
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News and social media run amok
In the Newtown massacre, as in all such tragic events in a free and open society, both the news and social media went all-out to provide the fullest coverage of what happened and why. The latter is not yet fully known. In too many instances, though, the...
Tags: Entertainment, Fakes, Hoaxes, and Impostors, Social Media, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting, Radio
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor. To break the...
Tags: Joe Lieberman, George W. Bush, U.S. Senate, Iraq, Bob Graham
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