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Your guide to the 'fiscal cliff'
Are we about to go over a fiscal cliff? It's looking more likely, but it may not be as alarming as it sounds. Here are three things you need to know about the impending crisis over the so-called fiscal cliff, the combination of tax increases and...Tags: Democratic Party, U.S. Congress, Politics, Barack Obama, Fiscal Cliff
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COLUMN: Petraeus, the comeback general
Los Angeles TimesGen. David H. Petraeus, long the most famous overachiever in the U.S. Army, is already on his way to a new career distinction: breaking the land speed record for rehabilitation from a scandal. It was only two weeks ago that Petraeus resigned from his...Tags: Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Nobel Prize Awards, Afghanistan, Police Investigations
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History doesn't bode well for Obama's second term
Los Angeles TimesSecond terms have rarely been kind to American presidents. Our last two-term leader, George W. Bush, ended his tenure with a financial crash so disastrous that his own party has tried to erase him from memory. Bush’s predecessor, Bill Clinton, was...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, U.S. House of Representatives, Philosophy
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Real presidential debate possible
Los Angeles TimesThere are two ways that Wednesday’s debate between President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, could change the course of the presidential campaign. One would be for Romney to find an effective way to frame his pitch to...Tags: Politics, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Primaries
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All's quiet on the war front
Here's an important fact you haven't heard much about in the presidential campaign: The armed forces of the United States are at war in at least four countries, and that number could increase any day. About 87,000 Americans are still fighting in...Tags: Armed Forces, Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Afghanistan
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People, not politicians, killed gun control
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev.Martin Luther King Jr., Congress — on a bipartisan vote — outlawed gun sales to felons and...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Dianne Feinstein, Laws, Politics, Barack Obama
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NRA wins gun battle
Politicians haven't always been allergic to gun control, not even Republicans. In 1968, after the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Congress - on a bipartisan vote - outlawed guns sales to felons and the...Tags: Laws, Dianne Feinstein, Politics, Barack Obama, Gun Control
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Tired of negative ads? They're just getting warmed up
When the Olympic Games began almost 30 centuries ago in ancient Greece, rulers of city-states proclaimed an "Olympic truce," a ban on warfare to allow athletes, poets and spectators to attend without getting speared. It would be nice to think that this...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Republican Party, Hillary Clinton
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Examining Obama's edge
On paper, June looked like a bad month for President Barack Obama. It began with a gaffe, his lighthearted comment that "the private sector is doing fine." Then the Federal Reserve revised its growth forecast downward, making it clear that 8 percent...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Primaries, Advertising
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Romney has math problem
Here's an issue that hasn't been debated much in the presidential campaign, but ought to be: How much should we spend on defense? President Barack Obama has proposed keeping the Pentagon budget essentially flat for the next 10 years. Mitt Romney, by...Tags: Defense, Science and Technology, Economic Indicator, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama
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Swing states under fire
In this pivotal election year, fellow citizens, I give you a chilling vision of two Americas. One America is the swing states, the dozen or so states that don’t fall into the Democratic or Republican camps and will ultimately decide the...Tags: Politics, Advertising, YouTube, Television Stations, Media Industry
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Best and worst of this year's presidential ads
Today's topic: the billions (yes, with a "b") that will be spent on advertising in this year's presidential and congressional campaigns, and what kind of messages that money is sending. Like jazz, blues and musical comedy, the political ad is a...Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Companies and Corporations, Plant Openings, Democratic Party
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