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Biden has the last laugh
Vice President Joe Biden, the Republicans' favorite punching bag, gave his critics nothing to laugh about as President Barack Obama's ultimate fireman in rescuing the country from the fiscal cliff it teetered on as 2012 ended. Mr. Biden's 11th-hour...
Tags: George W. Bush, Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements
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Can Jeb Bush save the GOP?
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 of another, on...
Tags: Regional Authority, White House, Republican Party, Politics, Migration
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Obama intends to go over heads of Congress in gun-control fight
WASHINGTON – A somber President Obama, launching a public campaign Wednesday for a package of gun-control measures that is likely to face very tough opposition in Congress, signaled that he was prepared to go over the heads of lawmakers to push...
Tags: Adam Lanza, Bill Clinton, Personal Weapon Control, White House, Republican Party
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Why annihilate the GOP?
Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled speaker...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Wayne LaPierre, Republican Party, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Politics
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Editorial: Obama Throws Down Gauntlet On Guns
It's "game on" between President Barack Obama and the gun lobby. With parents of a Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victim in his audience Wednesday, Mr. Obama embraced a cause — making the nation less vulnerable to gun violence —...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Health, Politics, Assault, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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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: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, Barack Obama, Politics
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Remembering Richard Ben Cramer and his magnum opus
An old reporter often begins his daily routine by turning to the newspaper's obituary page with mild trepidation, fearing another friend has gone to that great newsroom in the sky. So it was this week in reading of the death in Baltimore, at only 62, of...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Jules Witcover, Authors, Physical Fitness and Exercise, White House
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A weak Boehner is bad for the GOP, Obama and America
Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner, embarrassed by his flock'...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Republican Party, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Politics
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Obama settles for half measures on gun control
For all the clamor from the White House and many in Congress to address the American scourge of gun violence, signs continue to point to a half-measure solution at best. President Barack Obama's State of the Union plea to the nation's lawmakers that the...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, White House, State of the Union Address, Republican Party, Assault
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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: Wars and Interventions, George W. Bush, Republican Party, Richard Lugar, Politics
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Obama to take 23 actions aimed at gun violence
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama is taking 23 executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence that don't require congressional action, including measures to encourage schools to hire police officers, increase research on gun violence and improve...
Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, Gun Control, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Barack Obama
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Obama announces sweeping proposals to curb gun violence
This post has been corrected. See below for details.WASHINGTON -- President Obama on Wednesday unveiled a broad array of executive actions and legislative proposals to curb gun violence, including a new push to ban assault weapons, impose a 10-round limit on ammunition magazines, and expand background...Tags: White House, Barack Obama, U.S. Senate, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Firearms
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