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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: Gun Control, Polls, Republican Party, Jeb Bush, Mike Huckabee
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Obama's inaugural speech provokes rattled Republicans
The complaints of congressional Republicans that President Obama’s inaugural address sent them no bouquets and love letters show a lot of gall, given the history of the last four years. Obama’s inauguration speech in 2009 was crammed with...
Tags: U.S. House of Representatives, Sarah Palin, Jeff Sessions, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Tea Party Movement
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Parsing Republican paranoia on the disability treaty
Paranoia strikes deep. That’s the bottom-line explanation for the failure of the U.S. Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. But it was more than a generic fear of black helicopters (or black wheelchairs) that...
Tags: Mike Lee, Geneva (Swiss Confederation), Abortion, Central Intelligence Agency, Social Issues
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Senate Republicans block U.N. disabilities treaty
This post has been updated, as indicated below.The Senate rejected a United Nations treaty aimed at banning discrimination against individuals with disabilities Tuesday, falling five votes short of the two-thirds needed in a 61-38 vote. The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons With...Tags: John Kerry, George W. Bush, Mike Lee, Geneva (Swiss Confederation), Republican Party
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George McGovern dies at 90; liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72
George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while...
Tags: Social Sciences, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bill Clinton, International Military Interventions, Finance
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Newt's swan song in the key of F, as in Florida?
Opinion L.A.I'm kind of missing Newt Gingrich already. It's pretty obvious that the Republican sachems are putting the citrus state death-squeeze on his choleric, solipsistic, haymaker-swinging, high-concept, low-road, zany Nicolas Cage-style presidential campaign.... -
Obama on deficit talks: 'I have bent over backwards to work with the Republicans'
Top of the TicketIn 6,102 words Obama seeks to portray himself as the compromiser-in-chief on the stalemated deficit reduction talks.... -
Gabrielle Giffords' not the first sickbed-to-Capitol Hill vote
Opinion L.A.It was high drama on Capitol Hill –- and I don’t mean about the debt-ceiling debate, for which "low" is a more apt adjective. I mean the startling appearance in the House of Representatives of one of its honorable members,...... -
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Norma Zimmer
Singer was Welk 'Champagne Lady'
Norma Zimmer, 87, the "Champagne Lady" of television's "The Lawrence Welk Show" and a studio singer, died Tuesday at her home in Brea. Her son, Larry, did not give the cause of death.
Zimmer performed on...Tags: Tom Johnson, Television, College Basketball, Athletes, Richard Riordan
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Alexander M. Haig dies at 85; secretary of State to Reagan
Alexander M. Haig's life threaded through some of the most tumultuous episodes of the second half of the 20th century. An Army officer in Vietnam, a presidential advisor during the Watergate scandal and a key Cabinet member during the attempted...Tags: Television, Disasters and Accidents, Wars and Interventions, Gerald Ford, AOL LLC
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Q&A with Max Blumenthal, author of ???Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party???
Top of the TicketAuthor Max Blumenthal says the Republican Party has become a party of extremists that is losing touch with America.... -
Weekly remarks: GOP Sen. George LeMieux and President Obama debate healthcare
Top of the TicketNew Republican senator from Florida and the freshman president argue over healthcare again still....
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