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Jindal: GOP must stop being 'stupid party'
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal called on the Republican Party to "stop being the stupid party" on Thursday as GOP leaders promised fundamental changes to help stave off future losses. In the keynote address at the Republican...
Tags: Elections, Reince Priebus, Government, Arts and Culture, Culture
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New Year's resolutions I'd like to hear
Arianna HuffingtonHappy New Year! May your 2013 be filled with love, laughter, passion and 365 full nights of sleep. Through the years, I've discovered something about New Year's resolutions: While it's not so easy to keep them, it's very easy to make them for other...Tags: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Randy Travis, Gun Control, Michael Bloomberg, David Cameron
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Baltimore duo's fight against 'rape culture' takes on Congress, Victoria's Secret
Rebecca Nagle and Hannah Brancato aren't interested in spilling Victoria's Secret. But the Baltimore-based artists and feminists do want the lingerie giant — and other cultural forces — to tell a different story about sex. Disturbed by...
Tags: Elections, Assault, Twitter, Inc., Rape, Arts and Culture
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Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to...
Tags: Elections, Richard Mourdock, Republican Party, Heritage Foundation, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Semantics
Aug. 22 I do declare! Those big, strong Republican men are out to protect us frail women from our silly selves. That handsome Mitt Romney is already severely anti-abortion, and now we find that his even more handsome young running mate has sponsored a...
Tags: Elections, Abortion, Health Treatments, Politics, Social Issues
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Political buzzwords of 2012
Pull up an empty chair, folks. (Up to you whether to interrogate it.) It's time to take a look back at the year that was, politically speaking. We won't know the 2012 word of the year until The American Dialect Society's annual conference next week....
Tags: Elections, Democratic Party, Chicago Tribune, The Huffington Post, Clint Eastwood
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Hashtag crowned 2012 word of the year
And you thought that Notre Dame/Alabama match-up was heated. Wait until you hear how things went down in Boston last weekend when members of the American Dialect Society—linguists, lexicographers, etymologists, writers, editors, scholars—...
Tags: Elections, Media Industry, Twitter, Inc., Family, Illegal Immigrants
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Another GOP politician talks about rape
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) is gaining fame in the Twittersphere today for comments he made partly defending former Senate candidate Todd Akin's (R-Mo.) claim that victims of "legitimate rape" rarely become pregnant because... well, I'... -
10 Spectacular Low Points of the 2012 Election
The 2012 presidential election provided plenty to look back upon: 10. A slew of people you don’t know threaten to move to Canada after the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in favor of the Affordable Care Act. 9. Obama first uses the...Tags: Elections, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Halloween, Joe Biden, Politics
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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: Abortion, John Ashcroft , Republican Party, Entertainment, Crime, Law and Justice
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Here's my predictions for Tuesday's election. Now share yours
The obvious drawback to offering predictions about Tuesday's election is that you might be wrong about key races and thus dent whatever reputation you have for political insight. "I don't know" is always a correct answer. "We'll see. Time will tell. It...
Tags: Elections, Michael Bloomberg, Colin Powell, Justice System, Judy Biggert
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Column: Tea party down but not out
Reports of the death of the tea party are greatly exaggerated. For about two years now, certain observers have been declaring the demise of this insurgent tendency within the Republican Party. However, despite recent headlines, we should expect to hear...Tags: Elections, Heritage Foundation, Richard Lugar, Parties and Movements, Primaries
Jan 25, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
Jan 2, 2013
|Column| Tribune Media Services
Dec 19, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Dec 30, 2012
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Dec 30, 2012
|Story| Orlando Sentinel
Dec 26, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jan 9, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Jan 11, 2013
| Chicago Tribune
Dec 31, 2012
|Story| S-S
Aug 26, 2012
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Nov 4, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Dec 11, 2012
|Story| Aberdeen News
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