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Another Watergate gap
The Nixon Presidential Library and Museum opened a new exhibit in Yorba Linda and online Feb. 15, "Patriot, President, Peacemaker." It covers Richard Nixon's entire life, like the permanent installation there, and claims to present "a fuller picture" than...
Tags: Yom Kippur, Libraries, White House, Museums, Henry Kissinger
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Panel hears pros and cons of American-US Airways merger
Critics and supporters of a merger of American Airlines and US Airways to form the nation's largest carrier testified for the first time Tuesday in a hearing before a congressional panel. The merger, announced Feb. 14, would cost $1.2 billion in one-...
Tags: Air Transportation Industry, Spencer Bachus, U.S. Department of Justice, Labor Legislation, American Airlines, Inc.
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L.A. County honors World War II Marines who broke racial barriers
L.A. NOWAs part of Black History Month, L.A. County honored a group of U.S. Marines who broke down racial barriers.... -
McManus: President Obama 3.0
We got a good long look at the second-term edition of Barack Obama last week, and he's sounding more like Bill Clinton every day. It's not all that surprising. Over the last two years, Obama has turned repeatedly to Clinton for counsel. And Obama was...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, White House, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Jesse Jackson Jr. charged with misusing $750,000 in campaign funds
Federal prosecutors in Washington on Friday charged both Jesse Jackson Jr. and his wife, Sandi, alleging the former congressman misused $750,000 in campaign funds while she understated their income on tax returns for six years. Attorneys for Sandi...
Tags: Bruce Lee, Jesse Jackson, Prisons, Barack Obama, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Stale ideas, not a drink of water, sank Marco Rubio's speech
It is no wonder Florida Sen. Marco Rubio needed to grab a bottle of water in the middle of delivering the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. The speech he was given to recite was like a hunk of stale, dry...
Tags: Government, Ronald Reagan, Entertainment, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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Obama to push for expansion of preschool programs
DECATUR, Ga. – President Obama is due to visit a pre-kindergarten class in the Atlanta area Thursday to push for his proposal to make preschool available to all children, an idea he argues would do more to improve competitiveness of the American...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, White House, Education, Barack Obama, Republican Party
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In 'Lincoln,' a historical lapse
Steven Spielberg's "Lincoln" has been acclaimed not just by critics but by historians as well for its acute and realistic portrayal of the 16th president as he maneuvered to pass the 13th Amendment, which abolished slavery in the United States. But the...
Tags: Entertainment, Steven Spielberg, Fiction, Elections, Osama bin Laden
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Short of voters, Republicans gerrymander their way back to power
Republicans have become a devious party that believes if you cannot win by following fair rules, there is nothing wrong with rigging the game. To their constitutionally endorsed advantage in the Senate, they have added a manipulated advantage in the House...
Tags: Barack Obama, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Mitt Romney, Elections
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Letters: Rigging the vote?
Re "GOP faces hurdles in changing voting laws," Jan. 27 Republican lawmakers in several swing states want to replace their winner-take-all system of allocating presidential electoral votes with a "proportional" system. Their proposals, however, are...
Tags: Barack Obama, Vicodin (drug), Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Elections
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Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a liberal stalwart, won't seek reelection
Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, a liberal Democrat and a champion for Americans with disabilities, announced Saturday that he will not run for reelection next year, deciding that 40 years in Congress is enough. Harkin’s retirement gives Republicans a chance...
Tags: Tom Harkin, Republican Party, U.S. Senate, Michael F. Bennet, Elections
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Obama needs to do more for D.C. than change his license plate
I used to think that adding the slogan “Taxation Without Representation” to District of Columbia license plates was tendentious and tacky. But after a decade of being unable to vote for a member of Congress, I have more sympathy for the...
Tags: Interior Policy, Personal Weapon Control, White House, The Washington Post, Barack Obama
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