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Sheila Krumholz -- she follows the money
It was a California politico, Jesse Unruh, who nailed the relationship between dough and democracy: "Money is the mother's milk of politics." Where does it come from, and where does it go? Sheila Krumholz makes it her business to tell us. As executive...
Tags: Library of Congress, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Federal Election Commission, Upper East Side
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How Obama can rescue his candidacy
Here's the White House view of the current trilogy of so-called scandals: Republicans are trying to destroy President Barack Obama's second term by magnifying bureaucratic miscues and distorting policy realities. This isn't without some merit. On none...
Tags: Lawyers, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger
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NM abortion complaint highlights privacy concerns
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A woman from New York came to New Mexico to terminate her pregnancy at one of the nation's four late-term abortion clinics after she found out the fetus she had been carrying for more than eight months had severe brain...Tags: Politics, Lawyers, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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The scandal of loyalty
WASHINGTON -- President Obama hasn't even begun his second term, yet already he has been ensnared by scandal. Republicans have uncovered a shocking level of wrongdoing in the Oval Office, and I'm afraid what they say is true: The president is brazenly...
Tags: Substance Abuse, Lawyers, Jack Lew, Eric Holder, Mike Johanns
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Gov. Nixon's second term starts with icy ceremony (read his short speech here)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon's second term began with a chill. The air was 24 degrees on Monday as the governor took his oath of office. Earlier, he and the first lady rode in an inaugural parade to the Capitol, then watched as a...
Tags: Republican Party, Droughts, Human Interest, Politics, Festive Events
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Nothing unique in Akin's nonsense
Rep. Todd Akin's fame — more accurately, his infamy — now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of “The Vagina Monologues” and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter...
Tags: Republican Party, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Politics, The Miami Herald
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Trash collection time
Paul GreenbergWho is this Todd Akin and why is everybody, it seems, paying so much attention to what he has to say? Answer: He's a congressman from Missouri who's running for the U.S. Senate in a race that could prove critical for control of the next Congress. And he'...Tags: Republican Party, Politics, Bette Davis, Mitt Romney, John Cornyn
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Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr.: Ignorance hardly unique
Rep. Todd Akin's fame - more accurately, his infamy - now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of ''The Vagina Monologues'' and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter castigating last week's...Tags: Republican Party, Feminism, Politics, Planned Parenthood, The Miami Herald
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Akin's ignorance hardly unique
Leonard PittsRep. Todd Akin's fame -- more accurately, his infamy -- now reaches all the way to the Congo. There, Eve Ensler, the award-winning American author of "The Vagina Monologues" and herself a survivor of rape, wrote an open letter castigating last week's...Tags: Republican Party, Feminism, Politics, Planned Parenthood, The Miami Herald
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Police, FBI Investigate Reported Threat Against Rep. Akin
CNNWASHINGTON -- U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a reported threat against Rep. Todd Akin, the Missouri congressman who has been criticized for comments he made recently about rape. There is "an active, open investigation, Lt. Kimberly Schneider said,...Tags: Mitt Romney, Abortion Issue, Rape, Paul Ryan, Primaries
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Aug 24, 2012
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Aug 23, 2012
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