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All Saints rolls out the welcome mat
When All Saints Church, known for its outreach to faith groups beyond its own Episcopal ministry, announced that it would host the annual convention of the Muslim Public Affairs Council this weekend, it got a rash of hate mail. Officials at the Pasadena...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Israel, Mohamed Morsi, Hamas
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker could enliven New Jersey governor's race
NEW YORK -- The 2012 presidential election is over, Ohio has certified its vote, even Rep. Allen West has conceded. So where’s a political junkie to turn his or her attention throughout the long, cold winter? Perhaps New Jersey, a state known...
Tags: Elections, Regional Authority, Government, Democratic Party, Executive Branch
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Top TV of 2012: Poehler's Leslie Knope shines on 'Parks and Rec'
Amy Poehler has been a comedian of note for some time now — it's already 11 years since she joined the cast of "Saturday Night Live" (and three and change since she left it), and before that there was "The Upright Citizens Brigade" on Comedy Central...
Tags: Upright Citizens Brigade, Preston Sturges, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Christopher Guest, Scandal (tv program)
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How one side misread the electorate
We now know from exit polls and post-election interviews that most supporters of Mitt Romney, including his campaign officials and, apparently, Romney himself, were convinced as Election Day dawned that the election was in the bag. For Romney. Quite...
Tags: Elections, Voting, Mitt Romney, Politics, Barack Obama
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The Stone truth: Left-wingers are boring
When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of...Tags: Entertainment Events, Wars and Interventions, Academy Awards, Jimmy Carter, Occupy Wall Street
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The hypocritical politics of rich left-wingers
When, at long last, will people understand that the left is boring? The question came to mind as I was dipping in and out of Oliver Stone's miasmic 700-plus-page tome. I'll never read the whole thing, and not because it's a left-wing screed full of...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Academy Awards, Jimmy Carter, Democratic Party, Occupy Wall Street
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Obama nominates John Kerry to be next secretary of State
This post has been corrected. See note at the bottom for details.WASHINGTON – President Obama nominated John F. Kerry, the five-term senator from Massachusetts, to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of State on Friday, choosing a longtime political ally who shares much of his foreign policy worldview and...Tags: Elections, Howard Lawrence Berman, Richard Lugar, The Pentagon, U.S. Senate
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Memories of 2012: Long voting lines, too many gun tragedies
A simmering rage was building, with South Florida rallies featuring celebrities wearing hoodies and high school kids holding up bags of Skittles. This was a month after Miami-Dade high school student Trayvon Martin was killed in Central Florida by...
Tags: Elections, Crime, Law and Justice, Trayvon Martin, Prosecution, Government
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Liberal obsession with race is growing old
When will liberals stop living in the past? Specifically, when will they accept that they aren't all that stands between a wonderful, tolerant America and Jim Crow? I was in the room when, during the Democratic National Convention, civil rights hero...
Tags: Elections, Social Issues, Nikki Haley, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy
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The Fugs still riotous after all these years
The Fugs finally return to Chicago on Saturday at the City Winery after a 44-year absence. The reception for the band is bound to be a bit warmer than it was when the counter-culture pioneers last performed here, on Dec. 28, 1968, at the Aragon Ballroom....
Tags: Elections, Central Intelligence Agency, Richard M. Daley, Greenwich Village, William F. Buckley
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Christie's approval ratings soar as reelection campaign begins
NEW YORK -- First he appeared with President Obama, a Democrat, after Hurricane Sandy. Then he and his fleece jacket showed up on “Saturday Night Live,” mocking mayors who ignored his evacuation orders. Now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is...Tags: Elections, Regional Authority, Middletown, Quinnipiac University, Government
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Lawrence Guyot dies at 73; longtime civil rights activist
Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who was threatened, jailed and nearly beaten to death in the Deep South in the 1960s and helped lead a drive to register black voters during the tumultuous Freedom Summer of 1964, has died. He was 73. The longtime...
Tags: Elections, Activism, Crime, Law and Justice, Justice and Rights, Democratic Party
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