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Obama’s Teflon Presidency?
Is Barack Obama our nation’s second “Teflon president”? The question has occurred to me before, but it became impossible to ignore after the last week of “Scandalgate.” Even after multiple scandals all vying for the Continue Reading
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Democrats Try to Punch Back at House GOP
It was a long week on Capitol Hill for House Democrats, as the chamber’s Republicans hammered President Barack Obama for agency misconduct under his watch, then topped things off with a House vote to repeal his 2010 health care law. Continue Reading
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GOP, Dems challenge Holder over subpoenas to AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans and Democrats on Wednesday challenged Attorney General Eric Holder over the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation of national security leaks and its failure to Continue Reading
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EDITORIAL: Disclose source of money for all California political ads
May 13–”I’m Barack Obama, and I approve this message.” Voters are used to that tagline on political ads, and most get the idea behind the decade-old law requiring it in federal campaigns. Known as the Continue Reading
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Black Voter Surge Spells Even More Woe for the GOP
The fond hope of the GOP is that the census revelation that for the first time in census history a higher percentage of blacks than whites turned out for the 2012 presidential election is an aberration. The aberration is, of course, President Obam Continue Reading
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Medicaid opposition underscores states’ health-care disparities
WASHINGTON _ Republican opposition in many states to expanding Medicaid next year under the national health-care law _ opposition that could leave millions of the nation’s poorest residents without insurance coverage _ Continue Reading
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McDonnell’s approval dips, but voters shrug at gifts
May 16–RICHMOND — Although Gov. Bob McDonnell’s job approval numbers have declined to their lowest point in two years, according to a poll, his reputation doesn’t seem seriously damaged by questions sw Continue Reading