May 5, 2010
WASHINGTON -- No one doubts the sincerity or power of the tea party movement anymore. We get it: free market principles, limited government and individual liberty. Those are the three fundaments of the tea party's "Contract from America," to whi...
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April 28, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Once you've gone viral, there's no turning back. That's the hard lesson for a Seattle cartoonist who sketched some doodles and unwittingly launched a movement.
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April 21, 2010
MOUNT VERNON, Va. -- It was fitting that the buzz around George Washington's homestead recently was about the first president's overdue library books, just as the estate's guardians were plotting a new presidential library in the founding father's name.
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April 17, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The upcoming 15th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people in the nation's worst act of terrorism before 9/11, has prompted renewed concerns about growing anti-government sentiment. Is the political environment becom...
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April 14, 2010
WASHINGTON -- One of President Obama's consistent education themes has been the wish that every child cross paths with that one teacher who hits the light switch and changes one's life.
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April 13, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Paging Dr. Khalilzad. That is, Zalmay Khalilzad, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan and now a wandering consultant on all things Afghan and Middle Eastern. Might we impose on him one more time?
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April 7, 2010
WASHINGTON -- When you're Michael Steele, there's no waking up and thinking: Ahhhh, at least the worst is over. Whatever the week, Monday is the start of another very bad one. No exception to the trend, this week began dramatically.
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March 31, 2010
What a difference $2,000 in a lesbian bondage strip club makes. Then again, the latest Republican National Committee scandalita (that's Spanglish for "small scandal") is, alas, just that -- the latest in a string of problems plaguing the RNC whe...
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March 24, 2010
Stupak. Etymology: Eponym for Congressman Bart Stupak. Function: verb
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March 3, 2010
WASHINGTON -- For all our bemoaning the tortures of health care reform, the debate has been healthy for the nation. Everybody's crazy aunts and uncles have been let out of their respective attics and basements, and it's good to know who they are. It's als...
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February 24, 2010
WASHINGTON -- The RINO hunt is back on and the coveted trophy is Scott Brown. Inevitably and predictably, the new senator from Massachusetts -- Mr. 41, Mr. I-Drive-A-Truck, tea party poster dude -- has disappointed his base by, alas, representing his cons...
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February 17, 2010
WASHINGTON -- A hurdle familiar to any mother is learning to view her baby as separate from herself. How many of us have answered questions about our babies in first person plural? -- How old is your baby? -- Oh, we're 22 months now.
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February 10, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Repealing "Don't ask, don't tell" may be the right thing to do, but there's only one reason to do it: military effectiveness.
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January 27, 2010
WASHINGTON -- In the run-up to Barack Obama's State of the Union address tonight, the so-called narrative question is whether the president will be -- pick a curtain -- party leader, president, conciliator or fighter.
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January 20, 2010
WASHINGTON -- There will be much harrumphing and punditry in the next few days about the meaning of Scott Brown's victory and his phenomenal campaign for Ted Kennedy's U.S. Senate seat. How, in the final days of an election all but certain to go to the De...
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January 13, 2010
WASHINGTON -- Ask yourself: Who is likely to be the first female president of the United States? Anyone? Anyone? Despite our assumption that a female president is inevitable, and likely soonish, it's surprisingly difficult to come up with a name.
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January 4, 2010
As the new year commences, two facts emerge: George W. Bush is officially retired as the fault-guy for the nation's ills, and Barack Obama owns the game. Whether he wants to or not.
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December 9, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Is Rick Santorum running for president of the United States, or isn't he? I caught him by phone on a people mover at Dulles Airport and posed the question: He's not running, then again, he's not NOT running.
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December 2, 2009
The feeding frenzy over Tiger Woods' tiny run-in with a fire hydrant has taken voyeurism to new depths.Where was he going at 2:25 in the morning? Why wasn't he wearing shoes? Why was his wife smashing his Cadillac Escalade's window with a nine-iron?
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November 25, 2009
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- On Monday, as news filtered out that beleaguered South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was being charged with 37 ethics violations, the woman who wants his job spoke of restoring public pride in her home state.
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November 11, 2009
WASHINGTON --One of the few incontrovertible assertions one can reasonably make is that no one supports forced abortion.
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November 4, 2009
WASHINGTON --Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.
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October 21, 2009
WASHINGTON --In an act of merciful sanity, the Obama administration has made good on its promise to stop interfering with states that allow the medical use of marijuana.Clink-clink, hear-hear, salud, cheers, et cetera, et cetera.
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October 7, 2009
WASHINGTON -- For those whose lives revolve primarily around real people in real time and real space, hurry, go hide. Here's what you missed in the social networking universe the past few days: the twittered miscarriage. The banality of twittery just out......
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September 23, 2009
WASHINGTON -- No one was more delighted by the recent ACORN pimp 'n' prostitute, hidden-camera sting than Marcel Reid, the former ACORN board member who was booted in summer 2008 when she tried to examine the organization's books. "If we'd known all...
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