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Obama's challenge
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's second inauguration address, unlike his first one urging general conciliation between the parties, signaled his intention to fight for a more progressive agenda he says was endorsed by his re-election in November. His...Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Gun Control, Personal Weapon Control
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Obama goes big on gun control, but can he deliver?
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- The first general reaction to President Obama's package of gun control ideas seems to be criticism that it's too ambitious. Predictions are being heard that he will fall far short of his aspirations and even fail to restore the ban on...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Assault, Antonin Scalia
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Obama on the couch
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama in his Monday press conference was pressed to defend himself against critics who say he surrounds himself with like-minded friends and doesn't get chummy enough with his political opponents. He fired back with a reverse twist...Tags: Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Gun Control
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The NRA digs in
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- When Vice President Joe Biden invited the National Rifle Association to the White House the other day to join in the Obama administration's post-Newtown talks on ways to counter gun violence, it was like letting the fox into the chicken...Tags: Politics, White House, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Wayne LaPierre
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On Richard Ben Cramer
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- An old reporter often begins his daily routine by turning to the newspaper's obituary page with mild trepidation, fearing another friend has gone to that great newsroom in the sky. So it was in reading of the death at only 62 of Richard...Tags: White House, Politics, Entertainment Events, Republican Party, Authors
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Continuing a foreign policy pivot
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama's nominations of former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel to be his secretary of defense and John Brennan as CIA director, coupled with Sen. John Kerry as secretary of state, underline his determination to pivot from the war...Tags: Politics, U.S. Department of Defense, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Central Intelligence Agency, Barack Obama
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Fine words, delayed action
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama, in his poignant remarks in Newtown, Conn., to the grieving parents and friends of the 20 little boys and girls and six adults slaughtered in the grade-school massacre, pledged to use "whatever power this office holds" to...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), Politics, White House, Dianne Feinstein, Assault
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Biden has the last laugh
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Vice President Joe Biden, the Republicans' favorite punching bag, gave his critics nothing to laugh about as President Obama's ultimate fireman in rescuing the country from the fiscal cliff it teetered on as 2012 ended. Biden's 11th-hour...Tags: Politics, Parties and Movements, Republican Party, Fiscal Cliff, Elections
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GOP: Groping Old Pary
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Only a few days into the new year, the Grand Old Party has a huge political hangover from the events that rang in the tidings of 2013. First came the escape from the fiscal cliff that saw its speaker of the House, John Boehner,...Tags: Politics, Eric Cantor, Tea Party Movement, Parties and Movements, Republican Party
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Obama's 2013 priorities -- and guns
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- President Obama, in his year-end interview on "Meet the Press" Sunday, was asked what his priorities were for the first year of his second term. He listed four: immigration reform, stabilizing the economy through debt reduction and...Tags: Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Assault, Abraham Lincoln
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End of the Susan Rice saga
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- Whether Susan Rice jumped or was pushed from consideration to succeed retiring Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, her removal from the equation clears one bone of partisan contention from President Obama's plate as he heads into his...Tags: Talk Shows (genre), United Nations, Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Crime, Law and Justice
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Goodbye, Joe Lieberman
Jules WitcoverWASHINGTON -- After 24 years in the U.S. Senate, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, the first and only Jewish politician nominated to a national major party ticket, in 2000, had some advice to his colleagues in a farewell speech Wednesday on the Senate floor....Tags: Politics, Sarah Palin, Judaism, Iraq War (2003-2011), Bob Graham
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