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Liberal anger only makes Ted Cruz stronger
Rude, entitled, arrogant and off-putting: That's how the conventionally wise in Washington are characterizing Ted Cruz, the conservative new senator from Texas. It's a better description of the critics themselves, who are inadvertently helping Cruz...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Elections, Online Advertising, Ronald Reagan, Periodicals
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Malloy Pays Price For D.C. Hobnob
The Hartford CourantLast weekend, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy tried to give Connecticut the slip to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The dinner is an annual affair at which Washington-based media, politicians and celebrities get all tuxed up and bejeweled and...Tags: Government, Ethics, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, People (magazine)
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Our elected officials are supposed to follow the desires of their electors. Why is it when more than 80 percent of the people want stricter gun control, Republicans refuse to enact it? Be safe. Buy multiple guns for protection. Build a moat around...Tags: Marco Rubio, Parties and Movements, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Immigration
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Gun vote reveals new GOP divide
It pains me to congratulate the National Rifle Association, but the organization's aid to the U.S. Senate's defeat of background checks for gun purchasers was an impressive victory — against common sense. Although there is widespread...
Tags: Marco Rubio, U.S. Congress, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), U.S. Senate, Patrick J. Toomey
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An Alabama senator's lost cause
WASHINGTON — Not since George Wallace, perhaps, has an Alabamian taken as passionate a stand for a lost cause as the one Jeff Sessions is taking now. Bipartisan immigration legislation is making its way inexorably through the Senate Judiciary...Tags: Personal Income, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Christopher A. Coons, Jeff Sessions, Republican Party
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Tail-gunner Ted
WASHINGTON -- Is there nobody who can tell Ted Cruz to shut up? The young senator from Texas has been on the job for about 100 days, but he has already turned upside down the Senate's ancient seniority system and is dominating his senior Republican...
Tags: Marco Rubio, Chuck Hagel, Personal Weapon Control, Patrick J. Toomey, Rand Paul
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One to watch from Michigan
WASHINGTON -- America's most interesting development since November is the Republican Party becoming more interesting. Consider the congressman from Grand Rapids, Mich., who occupies the seat once held by Gerald Ford, embodiment of vanilla Republicanism....
Tags: Marco Rubio, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Patrick J. Toomey, Jeff Flake
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Coats defends his vote on guns
Although polls nationwide and in Indiana show overwhelming support for tightening background checks for gun purchases,Sen. Dan Coats, Indiana's Republican senior senator, voted "no." He says most constituents who contacted him wanted him to do just that....
Tags: Sandy Hook Elementary School, U.S. Congress, Barack Obama, Federal Gun Control Legislation (2013), Mayors Against Illegal Guns
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GOP overplays its hand
WASHINGTON — At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition. It has been only a matter of days since two scandals — the IRS harassment of conservative groups and the...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Gays and Lesbians, Barack Obama, Minority Groups, Rand Paul
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Don't repeal Obamacare -- yet
I've always had mixed feelings about President Obama's health care reform. It offers too many goodies while asking too little of those who will benefit. It assumes expensive prevention services will pay for themselves. It relies on a coercive individual...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Parties and Movements, Health Care Reform (2009), Barack Obama, White House
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McManus: Gun control, DOA
President Obama pleaded with Congress last week to remember the victims of December's schoolhouse shootings in Connecticut and tighten the nation's gun laws. "Shame on us if we've forgotten," he said. "Don't get squishy." But four months after the...
Tags: U.S. Congress, Personal Weapon Control, Rand Paul, Harry Reid, Gabrielle Giffords
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Florida, finally, may set ethics reform trend
NEW ORLEANS –People who have taken a government class are familiar with the Athenian Oath, the two-millennia-old pledge of civic responsibility to "transmit this City not only, not less, but greater and more beautiful than it was transmitted to us."...Tags: Civil and Public Service, Government, Ethics, Rutgers University, Political Fundraising
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