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Jeb Bush calls for education, immigration reform
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Boosting education standards and crafting an immigration policy that recognizes the valuable role newcomers play in creating jobs is essential to long-term economic growth, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said Wednesday....
Tags: U.S. Senate, Politics, Executive Branch, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace
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COLUMN: Sad fates wait for defeated candidates
"There are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, and his line has often been applied to politics. There’s a lot of truth in it, as Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann may be about to discover. In the past week, both made...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Politics, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
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COLUMN: Where's the enemies list?
Who exactly is the enemy in the continuing U.S. war against terrorism? In some cases, the answer is: It’s a secret. When the United States began its war against al-Qaida after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the identity of the enemy was clear:...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Yemen, Terrorism, Crime, Law and Justice
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Government is tracking all U.S. phone calls
WASHINGTON — The federal government has amassed a database for at least seven years containing details on virtually every telephone call made within the United States or between this country and telephones abroad, officials said Thursday,...
Tags: The Washington Post, Mark Udall, U.S. Congress, Politics, Newspaper and Magazine
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House votes to stop deportation deferrals
WASHINGTON - The partisan divide over immigration reform was exposed Thursday as House Republicans voted to stop funding the Obama administration program that has halted deportation of young immigrants who are in high school or college, or have served...Tags: Politics, Polls, Barack Obama, Migration, Parties and Movements
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Sad fates wait for defeated candidates
"There are no second acts in American lives," F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote, and his line has often been applied to politics. There's a lot of truth in it, as Mitt Romney and Michele Bachmann may be about to discover. In the past week, both made news...Tags: Jimmy Carter, Politics, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
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Secret program mines Web data
— The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio, video, photographs, emails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's...
Tags: The Washington Post, Politics, U.S. Congress, Google Inc., Crime, Law and Justice
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Sunnylands presidential summit spotlights estate's public mission
Even when it was just an architectural glimmer in the eye of Walter and Leonore Annenberg, the desert estate where President Barack Obama will greet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday was never in danger of being confused with a mere vacation house....
Tags: Elizabeth II, Camp David, Human Interest, Museums, Condoleezza Rice
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When president checks out, abuses mount
May has been a rough month for President Barack Obama: more Benghazi developments, plus the breaking IRS and journo-bugging scandals. Taken separately, none of these episodes is fatal. They do not reach Watergate levels. Given that previously classified...Tags: U.S. Congress, Politics, Internal Revenue Service, Journalism, Barack Obama
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At White House, liberal hawks ascend
With his decision to elevate Susan Rice to become his national security advisor and the nomination of Samantha Power as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, President Obama is not simply rewarding the loyalty of two women who have backed him from the...Tags: The Washington Post, Politics, Samantha Power, Barack Obama, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Brave new world of government surveillance
There's a lot we don't know about the secret court order giving the federal government access on an "ongoing daily basis" to millions of telephone records, and that's a large part of the problem. But we know enough from a report in Britain's Guardian...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Dianne Feinstein, Verizon Communications, National Security Agency
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Reactions to NSA surveillance: from outrage to cheerleading
This week's riveting scoops in the Guardian and the Washington Post about the data-grabbing driftnet the National Security Agency has cast over the phone networks and the Internet drew hostile fire from four of the country's five largest newspapers, and a...Tags: The Washington Post, Politics, Terrorism, Newspaper and Magazine, Executive Branch
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May 28, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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