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Kinsley: The more things change ...
Bill Clinton became president on a platform of "change." Not change in any particular way — just change in the abstract. Like characters in a Chekhov play, Americans found daily life unbearable in some usually unspecified way, and dreamed of escape....
Tags: Kevin Phillips, Mitt Romney, Health Care Reform (2009), Medicare, Paul Ryan
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McManus: The GOP looks inward
No political party enjoys losing an election, but a healthy party reacts to defeat — after a suitable period of grieving — by trying to figure out what went wrong. That's what Democrats did in the late 1980s after a string of failed...
Tags: Tea Party Movement, Culture, Barack Obama, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Elections
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'Les Miz,' 'Argo' win Golden Globes; Jodie Foster is talk of show
The epic musical “Les Miserables” dominated the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night with three trophies, including one for best musical or comedy. But the evening belonged to Ben Affleck. Affleck’s political thriller “...
Tags: Anne Hathaway, Kevin Costner, Meryl Streep, Ben Affleck, Adele (music artist)
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Asian Americans turn Democratic
As the dust settles on the presidential election, there seems to be a new theory daily as to why Mitt Romney lost and what it signals for the future of the Republican Party. Common to nearly all the speculation are the partisan implications of demographic...
Tags: Iraq, International Military Interventions, Labor Markets, Social Sciences, Culture
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Martin Scorsese to direct Bill Clinton documentary
Martin Scorsese has found his next film subject: Bill Clinton. The Oscar winner will produce and direct a documentary on the former president for HBO, the network announced Monday. The documentary will explore the 42nd president's perspective on...
Tags: The Departed (movie), Entertainment, Goodfellas (movie), George Harrison, Martin Scorsese
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The many what-if's of Richard Nixon
A century ago on Jan. 9, Richard Nixon was born in a Southern California agricultural subdivision dubbed Yorba Linda, in a 900-square-foot mail-order house assembled by his father. The centennial of America's 37th president won't be met with much...
Tags: Government, Richard Nixon, FBI, U.S. Congress, Satellite and Cable Service
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Jon Stewart picks apart conservative case against gay marriage
“The Daily Show” broadcast its last new episode of 2012 on Thursday night, and Jon Stewart closed the year by looking forward – specifically, to the two historic gay marriage cases going before the Supreme Court in 2013. Stewart...
Tags: Laws, Piers Morgan, Marriage, Lindsey O. Graham, Jim DeMint
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Which Oscar nominees will receive a bounce from Globes?
So it turns out that even delivering former President Bill Clinton as a Golden Globes presenter isn't enough to persuade the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. to vote for your "brilliant" film. Does this mean "Lincoln" is no longer the front-runner for...
Tags: Celebrities, Anne Hathaway, Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Jennifer Lawrence
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Paying for Obama's party
Getting elected president costs a lot of money, and so does being inaugurated. In 2009, President Obama's inaugural committee spent $45 million to kick off his first term. Even with scaled-back festivities (two balls instead of 10), this year's...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Human Interest, Occidental Petroleum Corp., Finance, Judges
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McManus: Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?
Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...
Tags: Government, Andrew Cuomo, Same-Sex Marriage, Brian Schweitzer, Regional Authority
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Inauguration 2013: Beyonce, Kelly Clarkson, deliver big
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticAmid the pomp of Monday’s inaugural ceremonies were a number of visual non-sequiturs, and most of them involved Jay-Z -- at least those not involving the sight of a former American Idol winner up there. There he was, in the same frame as Sen....Tags: Kelly Clarkson, Beyonce, Entertainment, Joe Biden, Al Franken
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Filling the federal bench
The federal judicial bench is dangerously understaffed: 10% of district judgeships lie vacant and 8% of appellate judgeships languish unoccupied. Meanwhile, the press of federal judicial business has become so great that the Administrative Office for...
Tags: National Economic Council, John G. Roberts, Jr., White House, U.S. Senate, Judges
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