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Extraordinary things do happen. Of course, extraordinary occurrences are rare. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be extraordinary. But they do happen, and their happening is important to the course of history
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Watching TV last night, I finally saw the ad that the Barack Obama campaign has been running to counter the “you didn’t build that” furor in the conservative echosphere
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I’d eat at Chick-fil-A again, calories and gastrointestinal challenges be damned. Here’s how I go back: Chick-fil-A issues a statement telling us that it won’t give any more money to anti-LGBT groups
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The Democratic members of Virginia’s congressional delegation backed out of a scheduled Wednesday meeting with Gov. Bob McDonnell after the governor’s office scheduled a Republicans-only news conference at the conclusion of the meeting
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Local Democrats were quite active on the political scene four years ago, and their hard work paid off
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Is the Barack Obama campaign’s full-court press on Mitt Romney’s tenure at Bain Capital and his tax returns fair and balanced? Plenty of ink and cyberspace have been devoted in recent days to answering that question. What about the impact of the line of attack on the 2012 campaign?
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This is my last political campaign, and it got me a little nostalgic. So I started thinking about some of my early campaigns – when I was running as a state senator, when I was running for U.S. senator back in my home state of Illinois
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The president is getting strong backing from his party. His election opponent is mainly getting the support of people who don’t like the president. The challenger is a Massachusetts liberal with a record of flip-flopping on key issues. Is it 2012 … or 2004
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Although a child of the ’70s, my parents did not subject me to the music revolution of the ’60s. God love them, but hippies they are not. Rather than Janis Joplin, I listened to Karen Carpenter. In lieu of The Beatles, I listened to the Statler Brothers
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Few people saw the split decision of the Supreme Court on the 2010 health-care reform law coming, both in terms of the substance of the ruling, that the individual mandate is indeed constitutional, and in the makeup of the 5-4 majority
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