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Contrasting the candidates: Same-sex marriage
Who's the bigger flip-flopper on same-sex marriage, Mitt Romney or President Obama? When it comes to hot-button issues like this one, both politicians appear to have tailored their views according to the political winds -- but that doesn't mean they don't...
Tags: Politics, Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy Repeal (2010), Career and Workplace, Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage
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Newt Gingrich, Jon Huntsman square off in friendly debate
Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich and rival Jon Huntsman Jr. squared off Monday afternoon at a Lincoln-Douglas-style debate on national security and foreign policy.
The event, sponsored by the St. Anselm College Republicans and hosted by...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, U.S. Senate, Abraham Lincoln, Nuclear Weapons
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Edward Derwinski dies at 85; first VA secretary
Edward Derwinski, who represented Chicago's south side and adjoining suburbs in Congress for nearly a quarter-century before becoming the nation's first secretary of Veterans Affairs, died Sunday of cancer at a nursing home in Oak Brook, Ill., his...Tags: Politics, American Legion, Veterans Affairs, U.S. Senate, 2016 Olympic Games
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Dan Rostenkowski dies at 82; former U.S. representative from Chicago
Dan Rostenkowski, an old-style Chicago ward boss who became one of the nation's most powerful legislators during the Reagan era before a stunning fall to corruption charges that left him branded a political anachronism, has died. He was 82.
Rostenkowski,...Tags: Crimes, Regional Authority, U.S. House of Representatives, George H.W. Bush, Richard M. Daley
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Chicagoan President Obama votes early, but only once
Top of the TicketAh, but how many times will his ballot be counted back home in Cook County?... -
Another Obama White House party, this one a midweek soiree to watch Da Bulls
Top of the TicketRepublican fans will be outnumbered there, and so will North Carolina's Bobcat boosters.... -
Vermont town weighs cat leash law
L.A. UnleashedBARRE, Vt. — A clause in a city law that requires cats to be on leashes has sparked a hissing match among fans of free-roaming felines. A City Council meeting with cats on the agenda drew an unusually large crowd...... -
In campaigns, as in basketball, the refs get worked
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPhil Jackson huffed along the sidelines and unleashed a post-game rant: His Lakers were manhandled, but the Celtics got all the calls. Basketball is not a bad primer, it turns out, on how our political ballclubs carry on. Team McCain has been...Tags: Saturday Night Live (tv program), Politics, Political Campaigns, John McCain, Phil Jackson
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Negative campaigning -- what's new?
In 1800, Thomas Jefferson endured a presidential campaign in which supporters of his opponent, President John Adams, labored mightily to convince the public that the then-vice president was an atheistic coward hell-bent on ripping Bibles from the homes of...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, John Adams, Abraham Lincoln, Adultery, George H.W. Bush
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Candidates ring in 2008 on the trail
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersFaced with conflicting polls, single-digit temperatures and a merciless calendar, the top candidates for the two major-party presidential nominations entered the new year at a frenzied pace today, with several candidates parking campaign buses and...Tags: New Year's Day, Hillary Clinton, Dennis J. Kucinich, Regional Authority, Mike Huckabee
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Obama said oops on 6 state Senate votes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBarack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed. "I was not aware that I had voted no," he said...Tags: Republican Party, Interior Policy, Politics, Laws, Hillary Clinton
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