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The double threats
Just as Lenin's body remains on public display in Russia, because one never knows when he might be useful to rally the masses, so, too, does the ghost (but thankfully not the body) of the late Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., remain a useful symbol for Democrats...Tags: State of the Union Address, Barack Obama, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Robert H. Bork, Elections
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'They deserve a vote' can be more than rhetoric
State of the Union addresses are traditionally laundry lists of policy proposals. U.S. President Barack Obama's started that way, but it ended as the most emotional speech before a joint session of Congress in modern memory. The theatrics of the event...Tags: Gabrielle Giffords, Labor Legislation, State of the Union Address, Unions, North Miami
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Senator on the growl
WASHINGTON -- Lindsey Graham is turning himself into the mad dog of Capitol Hill. First, the Republican senator from South Carolina opposed Chuck Hagel's nomination to be defense secretary because of Hagel's foreign policy views. Then he argued that...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Lobbying, Fox News Channel (tv network), Libya, Hillary Clinton
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Lugar still speaking his own mind
Politicians on the Far Right, seeking to turn the Republican Party into an uncompromising, unquestioning cause in their own image, sought to silence Dick Lugar's voice of moderation, promising that Indiana still would send a Republican to the Senate....
Tags: Richard Lugar, Karl Rove, State of the Union Address, Radio, Joe Donnelly
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Letters: Republicans' revenge on Hagel
Re "For Hagel, opposition from GOP is personal," Feb. 15 Despite the fact that a Cabinet nomination has never in history been blocked by a minority filibuster, Republicans are filibustering Chuck Hagel's appointment as secretary of Defense....Tags: Elections, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Harry Reid, John McCain, Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Sen. Marco Rubio is the new savior of the Republican Party. In his response to the State of the Union speech, his redeeming ability showed that he can talk on water. Barack Obama is so passionate about gun control, gay marriage, women in combat roles,...
Tags: Government, State of the Union Address, National Government, U.S. Congress, Gun Control
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Dick Cheney tells CBS: Obama wants to do serious damage to military
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelIn an interview Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” former Vice President Dick Cheney derides the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense. “With respect to Chuck Hagel and – and [John] Brennan, at Defense and... -
Hagel nomination for Defense secretary hits more roadblocks
WASHINGTON – Efforts to confirm Chuck Hagel as the nation’s new secretary of Defense hit another roadblock Thursday, with Senate leaders saying a vote to move forward with his nomination could be delayed in the face of a “full-scale...
Tags: Lindsey O. Graham, Wars and Interventions, Washington, DC, John McCain, U.S. Senate
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Hagel nomination vote in Senate likely delayed until after recess
WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans vowed Thursday to block a final vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary until after next week’s Presidents Day recess, arguing Democrats were unnecessarily rushing a vote on a controversial choice....
Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, Lindsey O. Graham, Harry Reid, John McCain
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Real questions for Hagel and Brennan
Whether Chuck Hagel and John Brennan are the ideal men to lead the Pentagon and CIA remains to be seen. We need the exercise of a through vetting in Senate confirmation hearings, and certainly an examination of the nominees' past statements and actions is...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Terrorism, Wars and Interventions, Lobbying, John Brennan
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Republicans begin filibuster against Hagel
WASHINGTON -- Senate Republicans refused to allow a vote Wednesday on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to lead the Defense Department, staging the first filibuster against a president’s choice to head the Pentagon since the agency was created. ...
Tags: Elections, Parties and Movements, Ted Cruz, Harry Reid, Republican Party
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Obama: Half of US combat troops home within 1 year
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's decision to bring home within a year about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan will shrink the force to the size he found it when he entered the White House vowing to reinvigorate a stalemated...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Fox News Channel (tv network), North Korea, Elections, Armed Forces
Feb 18, 2013
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Feb 17, 2013
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Feb 15, 2013
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Feb 11, 2013
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Feb 14, 2013
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Feb 14, 2013
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Jan 7, 2013
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Feb 13, 2013
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Feb 12, 2013
|Story| Petoskey News
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