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Sarah Palin's TEA Party: A third party?
The Swampby Mark Silva Mark this as the week in which one of the potential players for 2012 set out to brand herself: Sarah Palin, the "common-sense conservative.'' Three years from now -- think about that phrase a moment -- we'll......Tags: Barack Obama, Politics, Religious Conflicts, Economic Policy, Richard Nixon
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Project Runway: Guess who's coming to dinner? Tim Gunn!
Reality CheckWell kids, I'm Kevin Van Valkenburg, sports writer in my spare time, but Project Runway blogger at heart. And as my favorite cheesy Swedish heavy metal band, Europe, would say...It's the final countdown! (Da da da daaaaa! Da da da......Tags: Barack Obama, Crime, Law and Justice, Football, Barbie (fictional character), Armed Forces
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Republicans pass Democrats: Swing '09
The Swampby Mark Silva Here's another sign that something is happening among independent voters this year: Republicans have edged ahead of Democrats by a margin of 48-44 percent in the latest measure of how registered voters say they are inclined to......Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Politics, Voting, Mitch McConnell
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Republican: anti-Obama birthers 'crazy'
The Swampby Mark Silva Sen. Lindsey Graham , the Republican senator from South Carolina who helped Sen. John McCain of Arizona campaign for president, has a suggestion for some of the more radical elements of his own party challenging President Barack......Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Glenn Beck, George W. Bush, National Government
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Obama: Human rights key to Asian future
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, delivering the first major public address of his Asian tour, told an audience in Tokyo -- Saturday morning there, Friday evening here in Washington -- that the United States "will always stand on the......Tags: Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Politics, Values, Economic Organization
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Chicago, 'a city that works:' Obama
The Swampby Mark Silva and Christi Parsons and updated at 11:45 am, 1:10, 3:15 and 4:40 pm EDT All that planning, all that lobbying, all that spending. And Chicago has lost its bid for the 2016 Olympic Summer Games. On the......Tags: Government, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance
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Sarah Palin: 'Catastrophic' for GOP in '12
The Swampby Mark Silva The chief strategist of Sen. John McCain's failed campaign for president has this to say of the notion that McCain running mate Sarah Palin might run for president in 2012: "Catastrophic.'' Now, there was a certain division......Tags: Government, Barack Obama, Politics, White House, Glenn Beck
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Health care: 2010 elections start here
The Swampby Mark Silva With the Senate's 60-39 vote to proceed to debate, after Thanksgiving, on a health-care bill that the president is seeking by year's end, the debate of the 2010 midterm elections has been joined: For the Democrats, in......Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Voting, Local Elections, Medical Services
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SNL's Obama: 'Nothing, nada'... Problem?
The Swampby Mark Silva Several years back, when Saturday Night Live made fun of Democrat Al Gore's plodding debating style in a televised skit between the first couple of face-offs between Gore and Republican George W. Bush, the Gore campaign took......Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, National Government, Dining and Drinking
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Taliban has 'momentum,' U.S. goal doable
The Swampby Mark Silva After nearly eight years of war in Afghanistan, where the United States ousted the Taliban from power following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. secretary of defense says the Taliban "has the momentum'' now.......Tags: U.S. Department of State, George Washington University, CNN (tv network), Government, Hillary Clinton
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Women, Obama and Virginia: Hot race
The Swampby Mark Silva Twenty years ago, in a master's thesis written for the evangelical school that he was attending, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia wrote that working women and feminists are "detrimental'' to the family and government policy....Tags: Politics, Barack Obama, Bob McDonnell, Colleges and Universities, Local Elections
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Hillary Clinton: 'Gosh... White House'
The Swampby Mark Silva Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says she is "shocked'' at how much time she spends over at the White House.these days. And Clinton, a former first lady who knows the place pretty well, recalls just what she......Tags: U.S. Department of State, Barack Obama, Nuclear Weapons, Riots, Politics
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