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Are the Obama-Nixon comparisons valid?
The ultra right wing, and the folks at Fox News — one and the same, actually — would have you believe this is a slam-dunk comparison. Barack Obama is the second coming of Richard Nixon. Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, and many others...
Tags: Fox News Channel (tv network), Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh
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Newton R. Russell dies at 85; veteran California legislator
Newton R. Russell, a veteran state senator known as an expert on California's complex public pension system and a stickler for upholding legislative rules, died Saturday of lung cancer at his La Caņada Flintridge home, his family said. He was 85. A...
Tags: Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Republican Party, Politics, Richard Nixon
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Doyle McManus: Second-term scandal plague catches up to Obama
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: Republican Party, Al-Qaeda, Steve King, Tea Party Movement, Hillary Clinton
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John Dean: Obama's scandals are more like Harding's than Nixon's
During President Barack Obama's May 16 news conference, reporter Jeff Mason asked as part of his question: "And, more broadly, how do you feel about comparisons by some of your critics of this week's scandals to those that happened under the Nixon...Tags: Benghazi, MSNBC (tv network), Tea Party Movement, Barack Obama, Politics
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Diamond anniversary
Miami Beach's oldest Conservative synagogue recently celebrated its 75th anniversary with a gala that drew more than 300 people, including community leaders. Among the highlights of Temple Emanu-El's 75th Diamond Anniversary Gala were honoring its past...Tags: Human Interest, Miami Beach, Religion and Belief, Values, Ethics
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Chan Lowe: The Oklahoma tornadoes
Having spent nine years in Oklahoma, I found much about that state’s people to respect and admire—particularly their faith and their resiliency, which are intertwined in ways not understood by those who have never lived in the Bible Belt. They...
Tags: Republican Party, Tom Coburn, James Inhofe, Politics, Primaries
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Orlando area group packs thousands of meals for Oklahoma tornado victims
Working to the pulsing beat of dance music, dozens of volunteers filled thousands of small plastic bags with lentils, rice and dehydrated vegetables at the Feeding Children Everywhere warehouse in Longwood Tuesday night. When mixed with water, each...
Tags: Banking, Natural Disasters, Tornadoes, Bank of America Corp., Campbell (Osceola, Florida)
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Melissa Joan Hart says Kickstarter failure 'started out wrong'
Not every Kickstarter film-funding effort ends in multimillion-dollar success, a la actor-writer-director Zach Braff's recent campaign or that achieved by the cast and creators of the canceled CW show "Veronica Mars." Just ask actress Melissa Joan Hart,...
Tags: Entertainment, The CW (tv network), Nickelodeon (tv network), Celebrities, Movies
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Ben Jealous: Black farm ownership overcoming decades of discrimination
There is no way to make up for decades of discrimination that crippled the proud history of black farm ownership. But we can do our best to move forward. In 1999 the U.S. Department of Agriculture agreed to settle the civil rights lawsuit Pigford v...Tags: FBI, Discrimination, Barack Obama, U.S. Congress, Justice and Rights
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Top item on Obama's agenda: damage control
As it must come to all American presidents, it seems, Barack Obama's policy agenda is being crowded out of the headlines by the imperative of damage control against administration scandal. The allegations of incompetence or worse in the IRS' targeting...Tags: Benghazi, Politics, Barack Obama, White House, U.S. Congress
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'The Roberts Court' captures an important transformation
At his confirmation hearings for the position of chief justice of the United States, John G. Roberts Jr. parried skeptics with a reassuring metaphor: "Judges are like umpires," he memorably testified. "Umpires don't make the rules, they apply them. The...Tags: Justice System, Healthcare Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Book, Barack Obama
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Scurrying away from Obamacare
''Like rats leaving the ship" would be the fitting description of members of Congress now wanting to exempt themselves from the Obamacare law. Now that the law is starting to unravel and they just realized it includes them, they want protection from...Tags: Interior Policy, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Personal Weapon Control, Global Warming, Global Change
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