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Obama's turkey pardon: Traditional fest
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated with the pardons President Barack Obama hasn't pardoned any people yet -- demonstrating a definitely deliberative tendency in the exercise of his constitutional clemency power -- but today he let a couple of turkeys go.......Tags: Animals, Holidays, Justice System, Turkey (animal), Government
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Obama, GOP: 'Common purpose... faith'
The Swampby Mark Silva With President Barack Obama today identifying a branch of al Qaeda and vowing that all responsible for the attempted attack on a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day will be held accountable, the president also is calling on......Tags: Holidays, Terrorism, Justice System, Yemen, Christmas
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Obama's Oval Office makeover
The Swampby Mark Silva That arc of history which President Barack Obama likes to cite is not limited to rhetoric: A bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sits in the modestly remodeled Oval Office of the 44th president -......Tags: Oprah Winfrey, Government, George W. Bush, New York, Washington (U.S. state)
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Memorial Day: Allied honor, apart on war
The Swampby Mark Silva Finally, something that all the candidates can agree upon: Memorial Day. Their salutes today to those who have served and sacrificed for the nation, and to those who are serving today, follow a common thread. Yet Republican......Tags: Illnesses, Holidays, Health, New Mexico, Doyle Webb
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Hillary Clinton can dream, can't she?
The Swampby Frank James Sen. Hillary Clinton took a break from campaigning in South Dakota for the Democratic presidential nomination to visit Mt. Rushmore. There she posed, like millions of tourists, in front of the famous monument, with the photographers......Tags: Photography, South Dakota, Travel, Elections, Hillary Clinton
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Town Halls: Lincoln-Douglas, or Goldwater-Kennedy
Spin CycleJohn McCain, in a letter to Obama, calls for a barnstorming tour of town hall meetings across the country -- modeled after something Barry Goldwater and John Kennedy had discussed before Kennedy was killed -- in addition to the......Tags: Government, Elections, Warren E Barry, John F. Kennedy, Cartoons
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John McCain challenges Barack Obama
The Swampby Jill Zuckman Baton Rouge, La. - Sen. John McCain challenged his Democratic rival Wednesday to hold a series of weekly town hall meetings across the country to answer voters' questions and change the tenor of campaign discourse. On the......Tags: Local Elections, Government, Elections, New York, Warren E Barry
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Obama changing Washington? Get in line
The Swampby Mark Silva With an American public clearly upset about the way things are working in Washington, President Barack Obama plans to talk about changing the way things work in Washington during his first State of the Union address. How......Tags: Barack Obama, Washington (U.S. state), White House
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Narcissus, men and myths: I, me, my
The Swampby Mark Silva Of all the repetitive talking points at the core of the most rabid criticism for the president of the United States - the suggestion that President Barack Obama is nothing without his TelePrompTer, the suggestion that he......Tags: Sam Rayburn, Google Inc., Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton
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'Snowmageddon:' Obama names a storm
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated Buried by a blizzard that has left hundreds of thousands of homes in the snow-blanketed Washington area without electrical power today, the nation's capital crawled to a near standstill. President Barack Obama, whose motorcade...Tags: Health, Vehicles, Baltimore Weather, Weather, Atlanta Hawks
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Transportation furlough: One man's vote
The Swampby Mark Silva In the Senate, where the GOP holds a 41-59 majority on healthcare, the one-man filibuster of Sen. Jim Bunning, a Kentucky Republican, is putting a couple of thousand federal transportation workers out of work this week. Bunning......Tags: Jim Bunning, Republican Party, Heavy Engineering, Kentucky, Travel
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Obama: Immigration reform 'unwavering'
The Swampby Mark Silva A day of celebrating all that is Irish-American about America ended at the White House this evening with President Barack Obama publicly reaffirming his commitment to immigration reform. "I am pleased that there is bipartisan progress being....Tags: Education, St. Patrick's Day, Massachusetts, Immigration, Symbols and Symbolism
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