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Obama uses 2012 campaign tactics to sell healthcare law
WASHINGTON — Seeking to ensure his landmark healthcare law is successfully implemented, President Obama is reprising his 2012 election strategy in hopes of enrolling millions of uninsured Americans in health plans this fall. The new campaign,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Insurance, Social Issues, Laws, Consumers
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For Minnesota gay marriage sponsors, it's personal
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — As a crowd of thousands roared from the lawn of the state Capitol, Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed the bill Tuesday that makes gay marriage legal here come Aug. 1. "What a day for Minnesota!" the Democratic governor...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Tim Pawlenty, Social Issues, Family, Elections
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Maybe Americans agree about more than they know
WASHINGTON (AP) — Can we agree on this? Americans still think alike much of the time even if our politicians don't. To get heads nodding, just say something worrisome about the economy or dismissive of Washington. Almost all Americans consider...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Social Issues, Parties and Movements, Elections, George W. Bush
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Nan Rich, long shot for governor, says she's undeterred
In her dark-horse campaign to become Florida's next governor, former state Sen. Nan Rich likes to recall the stories of Democratic political legends Reubin Askew, Lawton Chiles and Bob Graham. Each was a little-known state senator when he launched his...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Polk County, Elections, Family, Government
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English and thermodynamics
The Baltimore SunAs a journalist, I gravitate toward the lurid. That's just how we roll. If some post-adolescent crank tries to set up a "white student union" at Towson University, he is guaranteed ink. If some crackpot explains that George W. Bush was behind the...Tags: Barack Obama, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, George W. Bush, Literature
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Spady Museum exhibit focuses on influential families
The Spady Cultural Heritage Museum begins its latest exhibit today featuring four African-American families who influenced Delray Beach's inception in the late 1800s. "The Legacies of Delray Beach Families" focuses on the Quince, Spells, Mitchell and...Tags: Arts, Delray Beach, Arts and Culture, Martin Luther King Jr., Business
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How much tolerance for intolerance?
Tolerance is justifiably one of liberal Democracy's most cherished values. But what do we do when tolerance, with its openness to multiple views, permits and even supports intolerance? This is particularly an issue today when open prejudice against Jews...Tags: Saudi Arabia, Mohamed Morsi, Social Sciences, Arts and Culture, Ethics
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The NRA doesn't deserve my sympathy, or yours
Usually when a senator suffers a big public defeat, he slinks off to lick his wounds. He rarely retwists the arms that didn't bend his way. Colleagues don't like to be seen switching. Were they horribly mistaken the first time? Don't know what they...Tags: Joe Manchin III, Glenn Beck, Kelly Ayotte, Personal Weapon Control, Harry Reid
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Hispanics press for majority district in Orange
A group of Hispanic leaders pressed Orange County leaders Friday to settle a pending federal lawsuit which alleges that newly-drawn political borders have diluted Latino political power. A group of Hispanic leaders pressed Orange County leaders Friday...Tags: Elections, Voting, Trials, Litigation, Politics
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Former GOP Hispanic outreach director jumps to Democrats
The Republican Party of Florida's effort to salvage and build upon its battered image among Hispanic voters has lost the allegiance of the man once hired to lead it. Pablo Pantoja, named by RPOF last year as its state Hispanic outreach director, has...
Tags: Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, Immigration, Social Issues, Heritage Foundation
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Galaxy pursuing trade for Fire's Rogers
Special to the TribuneThe Los Angeles Galaxy have contacted the Fire officially about a trade for the rights to Robbie Rogers, a top Fire executive confirmed Tuesday. But Fire executive Javier Leon said the Galaxy would have to offer value commensurate with Rogers’...Tags: Los Angeles Galaxy, Major League Soccer, Philadelphia Union, Bakary Soumare
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