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Real 'fixer' behind 'Scandal' steps into spotlight
When actress Kerry Washington was preparing for her role as Olivia Pope, the high-octane Beltway "fixer" on the new ABC series "Scandal," one of the first things she did was launch a Google search for Judy Smith, the real-life crisis consultant on whose...
Tags: Off the Map (tv program), Bill Clinton, Monica Lewinsky, Alcoholic Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Republicans refuse to confirm leader for ATF despite its troubles
Congressional Republicans have been upset at the management at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which authorized a botched sting operation near the Mexican border that put guns in the hands of drug criminals.
But Republican...Tags: Interior Policy, Republican Party, Politics, Laws, Personal Weapon Control
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Sen. John Ensign had said resigning 'would be admitting guilt'
Top of the TicketJust recently, Republican Sen. John Ensign had this to say about an ethics investigation and the possibility that he would resign: “If I was concerned about that, I would resign. That would make the most sense, because then it goes...... -
Brand X Files: 'Harry Potter' pedophile case. Obama jabs GOP. Naomi Campbell's 'blood diamond' link.
Brand XPedophile who superimposed photos of 'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson's face onto the bodies of naked children to be sentenced: Judge Anthony Hammond said: "Miss Watson will be very distressed to learn what you have been doing." I'll bet! (Music Room) Fran... -
Someone's dumping a Charlie Crist portrait on eBay, but Florida Republican Party says, Not us
Top of the Ticket4 Sale used portrait of ex-Republican gov. As is. How fleeting is fame.... -
Letters to the editor
The issue of jobs Re “Talk at 10: Leno to get new NBC show,” Dec. 9 It is great that Jay Leno gets to save his job by moving to 10 p.m. while hundreds of good-paying union jobs -- acting, writing and otherwise -- will be lost as more...Tags: Republican Party, Crimes, Political Corruption, Tim Mahoney, Regional Authority
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Thanks for the memories, Arlen
Opinion L.A.The conventional wisdom -- which is sometimes correct -- is that Arlen Specter lost the Democratic Senate nomination in Pennsylvania because he switched parties -- an act of opportunism exploited by his opponent Joe Sestak in a devasating TV ad. But as... -
Bring on the bling: Making politicians wear their true colors
Opinion L.A.There's a hue and cry right now about members of Congress being beholden to their largest campaign supporters -- Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Labor, Big Buns, Big Ag -- and it's only going to get bigger now that the Supreme Court has essentially relocated... -
Blagojevich's corruption: a warning for Democrats
How dumb can you get?
Very [expletive] dumb, to use the vernacular favored by newly indicted Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich. With obscenity-laden bravado, Blagojevich continued to discuss new corruption schemes on his bugged phone long after...Tags: Upper House, Politics, Local Elections, Regional Authority, Ethics
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Patt Morrison: Border Fence Is Borderline Insanity
WHAT, no land mines? If the United States really means business with that fence along the Mexican border, why flinch at installing things that go blooey? If we're going to stop illegal immigrants by taking borderland hundreds of miles long and nearly...Tags: Hilda L. Solis, Natural Resources, Defense, Immigration, Local Government
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Sex, lies and editorials
Everybody loves a good political sex scandal — the ritual apologies, the jokes, the schadenfreude, the self-righteousness (from everyone else, of course). But The Times editorial boards of old tended to stay out of the graphic, cheeky media hype, refusing...Tags: Local Elections, Political Corruption, Sex Crimes, Sexual Misconduct, Antonio Villaraigosa
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Obama's gospel mistake
Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...Tags: Republican Party, Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, James Baldwin, Billy Strayhorn
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