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Senate votes to consider gun control laws
WASHINGTON — In a lopsided vote, the Senate launched a debate Thursday over the most significant gun legislation in more than a decade, setting up a contest that could last weeks between reinvigorated advocates for stricter laws and conservatives...
Tags: Mitt Romney, Richard Blumenthal, Joe Manchin III, U.S. Congress, Max Baucus
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Letters: The GOP's fresh faces
Re "The GOP's fantasy lineup," Opinion, April 7 It is hard to understand why political pundits talk about the demise of the Republican Party when it has such a strong group of future young leaders, as mentioned in Doyle McManus' column. To wit: Kentucky...Tags: Chris Christie, Joe Biden, Scott Walker, Government, Hillary Clinton
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Kass: A Senate battle between a libertarian whippersnapper, crotchety establishment
Republican Sen. John McCain is pushing 80 now, but he still has those jaws and the Teddy Roosevelt teeth that look as if they could chomp through a baseball bat. Yet no matter how vital his bite, the Arizona Republican is getting up in years. So he can'...
Tags: Eric Holder, Barack Obama, John McCain, White House, U.S. Senate
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Will Obama launch a drone attack on U.S. soil?
Who would have thought that within President Barack Obama beats the heart of a civil rights antediluvian? Could Obama, beloved of the American Civil Liberties Union, be guilty of harboring thoughts of calling down a fatal drone attack on an American...
Tags: Eric Holder, Barack Obama, John O. Brennan, White House, U.S. Senate
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McManus: Let's talk GOP and fantasy politics
Almost four years ago, long before the 2012 presidential campaign heated up, CNN took a poll to learn who Republicans might choose as their party's next nominee. There were two clear front-runners: former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov....
Tags: Mitt Romney, White House, Government, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party
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Column: National Rifle Association winning gun battle
President Barack Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December’s schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation’s gun laws. "Shame on us if we’ve forgotten," he said. "Don’t get squishy."...Tags: Television Industry, U.S. House of Representatives, Harry Reid, U.S. Congress, Assault
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Television Industry, Harry Reid, U.S. Congress, Assault
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Rubio leads five-way GOP presidential poll
Marco Rubio led the field of Republican presidential prospects in a nationwide poll released on Wednesday, though voters were split among five potential candidates. The Quinnipiac University poll of 712 Republicans found Sen. Rubio of Florida...Tags: Elections, Quinnipiac University, Government, U.S. Congress, Tea Party Movement
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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: Elections, Barack Obama, Movies, Karl Rove, Naomi Judd
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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: White House, Hillary Clinton, Democratic Party, Iraq War (2003-2011), The Wall Street Journal
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Republicans try real hard, but they still don't understand
The Republicans will rise again. It doesn't seem so today, but they will because such are the dynamics of American Democracy. A few weeks ago I wrote about Republicans' delusional claim that their message was improperly packaged, or as their...Tags: Elections, Mitt Romney, John McCain, U.S. Senate, Religion and Belief
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McManus: SCOTUS-induced chaos on gay marriage?
If the Supreme Court decides the two gay marriage cases it heard last week the way most court watchers believe it will, expect legal and political chaos. The court seems ready to strike down the federal Defense of Marriage Act, while ruling quite...
Tags: Elections, Marriage, Manhattan (New York City), Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Marriage
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Mar 31, 2013
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