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GOP to showcase Rubio as new face of party
In the Republican Party's developing effort to put on a new face after November's presidential defeat, the latest gesture is trotting out freshman Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida to deliver the GOP response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Mitch McConnell, Joe Biden, U.S. Congress, Marco Rubio
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COLUMN: Obama's second term offers recipe for conservative revival
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- Happy days are not here again, but they are coming for conservatives. President Barack Obama -- with the lowest approval rating (according to Gallup, 50 percent, four points lower than that of the National Rifle Association) of any re-...Tags: The Washington Post, Upstream Oil and Gas Activities, U.S. Congress, Business, The Wall Street Journal
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Rethinking our China strategy
Senate committees will soon be asked to vote on President Obama's nominees to head the departments of State and Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency. Many, if not most, of the senators' questions will be focused on the nominees' views on the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Iran, Beijing (China), White House, Robert Zoellick
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Two cheers for rebranding
Ever since Mitt Romney lost the presidential election, there's been a lot of talk about how the Republican Party needs to "rebrand" itself. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wants, among other things, for the GOP to stop being "the stupid party." Rep. Paul...
Tags: The Washington Post, Marco Rubio, Eric Cantor, Bill Clinton, Parties and Movements
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Marine takes over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. took over Sunday as the newest and probably last U.S. commander in Afghanistan, tasked with ending America’s longest war even as insurgents continue to challenge the U.S.-backed Afghan...
Tags: George Washington, Afghanistan, Iraq, Armed Conflicts, U.S. Department of Defense
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Torture helped get bin Laden?
"Zero Dark Thirty," the film about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, got a fresh infusion of buzz over the weekend when outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta confirmed again that enhanced interrogation techniques aided the effort to find...
Tags: Leon Panetta, Kathryn Bigelow, Reviews, Movies, Osama bin Laden
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Eric Cantor's empty happy talk
WASHINGTON -- Republicans have happened upon a felicitous new strategy for reviving their party from its depressed state: They need only think happy thoughts. At a retreat for Republican leaders last month, former House speaker Newt Gingrich told them...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Marco Rubio, Eric Cantor, The Happiest News!, Executive Branch
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The sequester stand-off
Is this really the best anyone in Washington can do to avert sequestration? President Barack Obama's call for delaying the automatic spending cuts past the March 1 deadline would seem reasonable enough, except he hasn't really offered up a specific plan...Tags: Tea Party Movement, Mitch McConnell, U.S. Congress, Eric Cantor, Congressional Budget Office
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The deficit control policy Democrats and Republicans can love
When it comes to fixing America's ballooning debt problem, there is one policy option that both Democrats and Republicans should be rushing to embrace. It is the proposal to replace the current Consumer Price Index (CPI) with a more accurate measure of...Tags: Interior Policy, Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Senate, Personal Income, Prices
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Time for a textbook revolution
Change of SubjectFrom Why are textbooks so absurdly expensive? by Jordan Weissmann, Atlantic: You thought the rising cost of college tuition was bad? Then check out the rising cost of college textbooks. The American Enterprise Institute's Mark Perry has put together this.... -
My Predictions for 2013, Audacious and Otherwise
Some things about 2013 are easy to predict. We know that taxes are going to rise, and so will the federal debt. We know that there will be more guns in circulation at the end of the year than at the beginning. We know that Donald Trump will get...
Tags: The Washington Post, Joe Biden, U.S. Congress, Marco Rubio, Japan
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Michigan law shows unions must change or die
Amid the hubbub over the fiscal cliff these past few weeks, an important event happened Dec. 11 that many Americans probably missed: The union movement was struck a critical blow in the state it calls home. That day, a "right to work" law was passed...Tags: Labor Legislation, Employment, Labor Markets, AAA, Fiscal Cliff
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