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One more Bush?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Amid the wreckage of the Mitt Romney presidential debacle and the Republican scramble to find a new savior, now comes ... yet another Bush! The ruminations of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, son of one former president and younger brother...Tags: Jeff Flake, Ronald Reagan, Government, Executive Branch, Jeb Bush
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Obama signs Violence Against Women Act
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed into law Thursday the Violence Against Women Act, formally ending a battle fought in Congress in the last year over controversial changes to the act. In a public ceremony in Washington, Obama said this year&...
Tags: Politics, Abusive Behavior, John Boehner, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Few states find narrow route to gun control laws
From Colorado to Connecticut, a handful of very different states have advanced new gun control laws over opposition that has made such legislation a struggle nationally and a non-starter in most legislatures. How did they do it? Culture and...
Tags: University of Illinois Springfield, Democratic Party, Government, Executive Branch, Mental Health
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Efforts to avoid gov't shutdown move to Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — Efforts to stave off a late March government shutdown shifted to the Senate after House Republicans swiftly passed legislation to keep federal agencies running, while also easing some of the effects of $85 billion in budget cuts....
Tags: Kelly Ayotte, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate
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Hillary Clinton returns to public stage as 2016 watch begins
— Hillary Rodham Clinton returned to the public stage Tuesday night for the opening scene in what many expect to be a carefully plotted performance concluding with another presidential try. The high-profile venue: the Kennedy Center in the nation'...
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Entertainment Events, Hillary Clinton, Violence Against Women Act
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Democrats missed their chance with Ashley Judd
Wiser Democratic heads prevailed last week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race to unseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky's senior Republican senator. Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in "Double Jeopardy," one of the great damsel-in-...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Ronald Reagan, Entertainment, Ashley Judd, Barack Obama
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Can the GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Is the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...
Tags: Democratic Party, Iraq, Barack Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton
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Chuck Hagel survives
After all the thunder and lightning signifying nothing but more Republican obstructionism, former Sen. Chuck Hagel has taken over at the Pentagon, vowing a realistic approach to America's military role in the world. Not surprisingly, he indicated he...
Tags: Conservation, Environmental Issues, Iraq, Barack Obama, John Kerry
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How to close our National Schmoozing Deficit
In my Wednesday column, I wrote that President Obama and most leading members of Congress know what a solution to the fiscal crisis looks like; they just can’t get there from here because they don’t trust one another much. Obama is trying to...
Tags: Mitch McConnell, Politics, Barack Obama, Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff
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Obama's limited war on guns
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- As a consensus has slowly built that Congress will at best settle for half a loaf on tough new gun-control legislation, President Obama continues to do a version of a Muhammad Ali rope-a-dope dance on the issue. At the White House on...Tags: Interior Policy, Weaponry, Gun Control, Jules Witcover, Barack Obama
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Can GOP reverse the damage done by Iraq?
Jonah GoldbergIs the Iraq war to blame for the mess we are in? Now, I should qualify that question by explaining "mess" and "we." By "mess," I mean the dawn of Barack Obama's second term, the predictably catastrophic rollout of Obamacare, the exploding debt and...Tags: Democratic Party, Iraq, Barack Obama, Armed Conflicts, Iraq War (2003-2011)
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Obama makes impassioned plea for gun control legislation
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama attempted on Thursday to inject fresh momentum into efforts to pass gun-control legislation, pleading with U.S. lawmakers not to forget those shot to death in Newtown, Connecticut three months ago. Amid...
Tags: Gun Control, Barack Obama, Univision (tv network), U.S. Senate, Lobbying
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Mar 29, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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