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Newark Mayor Cory Booker to run for U.S. Senate
Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a rising star in the Democratic party, said he'll run for the seat left open by the death of New Jersey's five-term U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg. Booker, 44, made his bid official in Newark, New Jersey's most-populous city,...Tags: Mark Zuckerberg, Local Government, Pneumonia, Game Shows, Jeopardy!
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Mitt Romney still at work on his next act
PARK CITY, Utah — Inside the ballroom of a posh resort in Deer Valley, the old Mitt Romney was back. Outlining the biggest challenges facing the country before an intimate gathering of 200 of his biggest donors, the man whose political career was...
Tags: Government, John McCain, Economy, Business and Finance, Barack Obama, Politics
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State Spending Cap A Costly Failure From The Start
The Hartford CourantConnecticut's constitutional spending cap is a study in inadvertent consequences. Its flaws are congenital. It was born of the longest, nastiest fight in Connecticut political history, the battle over the state income tax in 1991. It was written hurriedly...Tags: Government, Credit and Debt, Bill Clinton, Taxation, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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Paul Ryan meets with Romney donors: 'Bow and arrow, or shotgun?'
PARK CITY, Utah –One of the intents of Mitt Romney’s Park City, Utah, confab for his major presidential donors was to give them an up-close-and-personal look at the potential candidates to be the Republican party’s next presidential...
Tags: Government, Economy, Business and Finance, Gardens and Parks, Barack Obama, Politics
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John David Dyche: Education Commissioner gets high marks
jddyche@yahoo.comKentucky Commissioner of Education Terry Holliday, Ph. D., has two qualities essential for success in his demanding post: brains and guts. He has recently displayed both by boldly challenging powerful elements on the political left and the political...Tags: Colleges and Universities, The Washington Post, Government, Teachers, Bobby Jindal
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Stephen Goldstein: Tea party leading Republicans to history's dust pile in a hurry
Can the Republican Party become the Party of Yes, or will it wind up on the ash heap of history with the Tea Party of No? Think back to 2010. The tea pot seemed to be boiling. In Wisconsin, Ron Johnson stunningly defeated long-time Sen. Russ Feingold....Tags: Tea Party Movement, Russell Feingold, Joe Walsh, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Charlie Crist
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Kingsley Guy: Is Republican Party really on death watch?
After reading my dueling columnist colleague Stephen L. Goldstein's obituary for the Republican Party, I'm reminded of Mark Twain's quip after hearing his obit had been published in the New York Journal: "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Tea Party Movement, U.S. Senate, Immigration, Obituaries
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Chris Christie picks temporary Lautenberg replacement
(Bloomberg) — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie named state attorney general Jeffrey Chiesa as the interim replacement for the late U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, as politicians began lining up to fill the remainder of his term. Chiesa, who...Tags: Hopewell (Hopewell, Virginia), Government, Pneumonia, Jeopardy!, U.S. Senate
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Christie names New Jersey attorney general to be interim senator
WASHINGTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday said he would appoint state Atty. Gen. Jeffrey Chiesa, a fellow Republican, as the state’s interim U.S. senator, replacing Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who died Monday. Christie said Chiesa...
Tags: Government, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Primaries
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Falling out of love with Obama
If he is not careful, President Barack Obama is in danger of becoming viewed as just another president, a damaging transformation in the image of a man who sailed to office on a wind of big promise. This settled on me in a college classroom near the end...
Tags: Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Education, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Prisons
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Money race for 2016 already underway
PARK CITY, Utah — The field for the 2016 presidential race has yet to take shape, but over private dinners and meetings, and at an intimate retreat this week hosted by 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, the underground money race on the Republican side...
Tags: Bobby Jindal, Hewlett-Packard Co., Bill Clinton, Tourism and Leisure, Political Candidates
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Frank Lautenberg dies at 89; Democratic senator from New Jersey
WASHINGTON — Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey, the last World War II veteran in the Senate and a stalwart Democrat who led congressional battles over three decades to toughen gun laws, ban smoking on planes and crack down on drunk driving,...
Tags: Robert G Torricelli, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Crime, Law and Justice, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Gun Control
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