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McManus: Are businessmen better presidents?
It's one of Mitt Romney's favorite lines: America needs a businessman in the White House. It's "a basic qualification" for the job, he said in his speech at the Republican convention last month, "one that's essential to [the] task." But what does history...
Tags: C-SPAN (tv network), Economy, Business and Finance, Bain Capital, LLC, Ronald Reagan, Herman Cain
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Hank Williams Jr. hates Barack Obama and the new USA
Country music veteran Hank Williams Jr. is doing his best to become the official troubadour of the we-hate-Barack-Obama crowd. During a performance at the Iowa State Fair on Aug. 17, Williams told the audience, “We’ve got a Muslim president...
Tags: Entertainment, Hank Williams, Jr., Fox News Channel (tv network), Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon
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Oswaldo Paya dies at 60; Cuban anti-Castro activist
Cuban activist Oswaldo Paya, who spent decades speaking out against the communist government of Fidel and Raul Castro and became one of the most powerful voices of dissent against their half-century rule, died Sunday in a car crash in Cuba. He was 60....
Tags: National Government, Raul Castro, Accidental Death, Justice and Rights, Roman Catholicism
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Book review: 'The Obamians' examines a small, powerful inner circle
Back in 2004, when James Mann wrote "Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet," he took full advantage of the sarcastic nickname that President George W. Bush's foreign policy advisors gave themselves. It not only captured their...
Tags: Book, Terrorism, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Elections, Wars and Interventions
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TV’s top 50 sci-fi characters: Mr. Spock, Starbuck and…TOBOR?
Hero Complex - movies, comics, fanboy fare - latimes.comMad scientists and mechanical men, space cowboys and time travelers, man-monsters and man-eating aliens — clearly this is our kind ...... -
PASSINGS: Doris Singleton, Elinor Agnew, Bob Banfield, Patricia Bario
Doris Singleton
Actress worked with Lucille Ball
Doris Singleton, 92, an actress best known for playing Lucy's friend Caroline Appleby on the classic TV comedy "I Love Lucy," died Tuesday in Los Angeles of complications from cancer, according to her...Tags: Obituaries, Economy, Business and Finance, Entertainment, Renal cell carcinoma, Richard Nixon
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Carter Center faults Egypt's presidential elections
World NowAfter observing Egypt’s landmark presidential elections, the Carter Center’s monitoring mission raised concerns that “elements of martial law” obstructed voting and the democratic process.... -
Libya's wild ride: First post-Kadafi elections chaotic, hopeful
World NowIt's been nearly half a century since the people of Libya were consulted about who should lead them. So long that fewer than 5% of Libyans have any memory of voting in an election before Moammar Kadafi seized power in 1969 and banned politics as bourgeois... -
Herman Cain: 'I'm the president of the United States of America!'
Top of the TicketHerman Cain makes news making the round of cable-news shows, has a new book coming out and scores well in a new Fox News poll.... -
Robert Gates warns: 'We are now in uncharted waters' with our dysfunctional politics
Top of the TicketRobert Gates speaks candidly about the troubles in the nation's Capitol.... -
James R. Browning dies at 93; led 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
James R. Browning, the rural Montana native who rose to head the powerful U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and unified its diverse judges in campaigns to enlarge the bench and protect the sprawling circuit from division, has died. He was 93.
Browning...Tags: University of Pittsburgh, Lobbying, Elections, U.S. Supreme Court, Trials
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Wesley Brown dies at 85; first black graduate of Naval Academy
Retired Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Brown, the first African American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, died Tuesday in Silver Spring, Md., the Naval Academy's alumni association announced from Annapolis, Md. He was 85 and had cancer. A 1949 graduate, Brown was...
Tags: College Sports, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Silver Spring (Montgomery, Maryland), Howard University, Wars and Interventions
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