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New Year's resolutions for Sacramento politicos
SACRAMENTO — From my skimpy research on New Year's resolutions, I've learned that 40% of us make them, and about 90% end in failure. A dismal record of weak will. Yet, New Year's resolutions should be encouraged because they're vital to self-...
Tags: Charles Manson, Government, White House, Politics, Lynette Fromme
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Bronzeville among city sites seeking Obama library
The site where Michael Reese Hospital once stood isn't much to look at, just a 37-acre swath of overgrown land in Bronzeville, behind a shoddy chain-link fence. Developers are itching to build a casino or perhaps a sports entertainment complex on the...
Tags: Barack Obama, Willie Dixon, Hawaii Legislature, Rahm Emanuel, Buddy Guy
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An Elector Prepares To Ratify Obama's Win
The Hartford Courant"Our marriage is like the Electoral College," says the narrator in "Marooned," a Garrison Keillor short story. "It works OK if you don't think about it." At noon Monday, I will be one of those thinking about the Electoral College, as I have the...Tags: U.S. Electoral College, U.S. Congress, John Adams, Richard Nixon, Voting
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Really Weird and Intense Gaming Out of the 2016 Republican Field
The best part about the end of the presidential election other than the end of a presidential election is speculating about who will run in the next presidential election. In the wake of their sound defeat at the polls, the Republicans are especially...
Tags: Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, U.S. Electoral College, Ron Paul
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PASSINGS: James D. Hodgson, Patrick Moore
James D. Hodgson Former secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, 96, who as secretary of Labor in the early 1970s helped shepherd the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, died Nov. 28 at his Malibu home, his family announced. The cause was...
Tags: Heart Problems, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Astronomy
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A case for targeted killings
WASHINGTON — President Franklin Roosevelt was truly astonished when told by a reporter that Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, had been shot down by U.S. planes over a Pacific island after Americans decrypted Yamamoto&...Tags: Armed Forces, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), Osama bin Laden, U.S. Military, Military Equipment
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Six decades later, sons seek answers on death of Detrick scientist
First, the Army told Frank Olson's sons that the Fort Detrick scientist's death in a fall from a 13th-floor window of a New York hotel had been an accident. Then a presidential commission revealed that the CIA had given an unwitting Olson LSD as part of...
Tags: Dick Cheney, Armed Forces, LSD, Psychiatry, U.S. Senate
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Man About Town: 'Mormon' fails to make a convert
I’d wanted to take an actual Mormon to see “The Book of Mormon,” but the closest I could come was the lovely and patient older daughter — so well scrubbed and shimmery that she looked like an Irish coin. “Come on, Coin,...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Waffles, Comedy (genre)
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SoCal Close-Ups: A date with the Coachella Valley
Sure, you could go to the beach again. Or you could turn your back on the Pacific and head instead for a desert land of date shakes and camel races, jumbo windmills and creationist dinosaurs, native palms and gay parties, mountain views and midcentury...
Tags: Highway Transportation, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pottery Barn, Arts, World War II (1939-1945)
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Coachella Valley attractions, restaurants, lodging
Cabazon Outlets, 48750 Seminole Drive, Cabazon; (951) 922-3000, http://www.cabazonoutlets.com. About 15 stores and a few snack spots. Desert Hills Premium Outlets, 48400 Seminole Drive, Cabazon; (951) 849-6641, http://www.premiumoutlets.com. About 130...Tags: Museums, Gucci Group NV, Arts and Culture, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Arts
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Presidential pillows: Famous hotels where U.S. chief executives have bedded down
Warren Harding died here" doesn't quite have the tourist draw of "Washington slept here," but for the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, the distinction of being the only hotel where a president of the United States drew his last breath is enough to put it...Tags: Charles Evans Hughes, U.S. Senate, Italy, Trips and Vacations, Madison Square Garden
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The real reason Obama won
Baltimore's Fifth Regiment Armory is a good place to start for some perspective on the recent presidential election. Within its gray stone walls, the tumultuous 1912 Democratic National Convention played a major scene in the political drama that...
Tags: Barack Obama, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Feminism, Jimmy Carter
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