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An Elector Prepares To Ratify Obama's Win
The Hartford Courant"Our marriage is like the Electoral College," says the narrator in "Marooned," a Garrison Keillor short story. "It works OK if you don't think about it." At noon Monday, I will be one of those thinking about the Electoral College, as I have the...Tags: Voting, John Edwards, National Government, Elections, U.S. Electoral College
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PASSINGS: James D. Hodgson, Patrick Moore
James D. Hodgson Former secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, 96, who as secretary of Labor in the early 1970s helped shepherd the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, died Nov. 28 at his Malibu home, his family announced. The cause was...
Tags: BBC, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Work Relations, Heart Problems, Astronomy
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...Tags: Barack Obama, Spiro Agnew, Mitt Romney, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft
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Really Weird and Intense Gaming Out of the 2016 Republican Field
The best part about the end of the presidential election other than the end of a presidential election is speculating about who will run in the next presidential election. In the wake of their sound defeat at the polls, the Republicans are especially...
Tags: Barack Obama, Nikki Haley, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Elections
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New Year's resolutions for Sacramento politicos
SACRAMENTO — From my skimpy research on New Year's resolutions, I've learned that 40% of us make them, and about 90% end in failure. A dismal record of weak will. Yet, New Year's resolutions should be encouraged because they're vital to self-...Tags: Lobbying, Charles Manson, Lynette Fromme, Politics, Executive Branch
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A case for targeted killings
WASHINGTON — President Franklin Roosevelt was truly astonished when told by a reporter that Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, had been shot down by U.S. planes over a Pacific island after Americans decrypted Yamamoto&...Tags: Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan
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Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...
Tags: Psychiatry, Suicide, Garrett County, George Washington University, White House
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Fusing the Ford
Daily Press photographer Rob Ostermaier spent some time chronicling a day in the life of a late-shift welder at Newport News Shipbuilding. The shipyard's welders ensure the structural integrity of the nation's aircraft carriers and submarines. The...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Shipbuilding, Aircraft Carriers, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Man About Town: 'Mormon' fails to make a convert
I’d wanted to take an actual Mormon to see “The Book of Mormon,” but the closest I could come was the lovely and patient older daughter — so well scrubbed and shimmery that she looked like an Irish coin. “Come on, Coin,...Tags: Comedy (genre), The New York Times, Mormonism, Christianity, Entertainment
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3 unconventional picks for secretary of State
With the 2012 presidential election over, attention nows turns to the inevitable shuffling of personnel in the Obama administration. Chief among the vacancies will be at the helm of the State Department, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has...
Tags: William Howard Taft, Elections, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton
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1980 Republican National Convention
FrameworkThe 1980 Republican National Convention nominates Ronald Reagan for president and George H.W. Bush for vice president....
Dec 14, 2012
|Story| Hartford Courant
Dec 10, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 19, 2012
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Dec 11, 2012
|Story| RedEye
Dec 31, 2012
|Column| Los Angeles Times
Dec 9, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
Dec 8, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Jan 2, 2013
| Daily Press
Dec 6, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Nov 28, 2012
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Nov 29, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Aug 27, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
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