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IRS foul-up shows how bad laws breed good scandals
Much to my surprise, I find myself sympathizing with the Internal Revenue Service. Tenderness toward that agency isn't my default position. I'm a British expat living in the United States, with retirement savings locked up in Britain and other cross-...Tags: Social Services, Interior Policy, Crime, Law and Justice, National Rifle Association of America, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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Civil War divided Lehigh Valley
Democrats of the Lehigh Valley opposed the Republican administration's war. They were suspicious of the shifting justifications for it. They weren't interested in fighting to free anyone. They denounced the president's restrictions on civil liberties....Tags: Human Interest, Newspaper and Magazine, Lehigh County, Iraq War (2003-2011), Easton (Northampton, Pennsylvania)
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Pakistan's incoming prime minister turns pragmatic
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — After a resounding victory in Pakistan's national elections, presumptive new Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif could have pressed his populist, hard-line approach that paints the U.S. as hopelessly malevolent and self-interested....
Tags: Nawaz Sharif, National Government, Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, Afghanistan, Times Square
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Pakistanis vote in landmark election
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Millions of Pakistanis braved threats from militants and voted Saturday in national elections that marked the country's first democratic transfer of governance and appeared to put former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on track for...Tags: Bombings, Nawaz Sharif, Emergency Incidents, National Government, Explosions
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GOP, Democrats continue to dispute regarding Benghazi deaths
WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians love few things better than a scandal to trip up their opponents, and Republicans hope last year's fatal attack on U.S. diplomats in Libya will do exactly that to Hillary Rodham Clinton and other Democrats. History...
Tags: Mark Pocan, Trey Gowdy, Ronald Reagan, Government, Gerald Ford
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Pakistan bombing again targets Islamist party
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — For the second day in a row, a bomb blast killed and maimed participants at a campaign rally being held by one of Pakistan's Islamist religious parties, indicating a broadening of targets in the violence that has primarily...
Tags: Bombings, Emergency Incidents, Religion and Belief, Explosions, Politics
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Winners and losers in Venezuela's presidential election
Venezuela's National Electoral Council declared Nicolas Maduro, the handpicked successor of the late President Hugo Chavez, the winner in the presidential election Sunday. But it was a victory in a compromised system that tilted the table in his favor....
Tags: Hugo Chavez, International Court or Tribunal, Elections, Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro
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Gridlock, Tehran-style
With the United States locked in confrontation with Iran, was it good or bad for diplomacy that "Argo," a movie about U.S. spies getting the best of the Iranians, won this year's Academy Award for best picture? Depends on whom you ask. To Iran's...Tags: Tehran (Iran), Doyle McManus, Michelle Obama, National Government, Television Networks
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Guillermo Martinez: Dictators, elected strongmen, still rule in Latin America
As a young man, I realized that in Latin America many of the governments in the hemisphere were ruled by dictators, generals or, as they were known back then, caudillos. Venezuela was governed by Gen. Marcos Pérez Jiménez, Perú by Gen. Manuel Odría;...Tags: Cuba, Venezuela, Fulgencio Batista, Politics, Barack Obama
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Lessons for Both Parties From the 2012 Elections
The 2012 U.S. elections, though they weren’t seminal, revealed much about the nature of the body politic and the direction of American politics. Divided Government May Be Ingrained: At the presidential level, Democrats start with a decided...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Hurricane Sandy (2012), Media Industry, Richard Nixon, POLITICO LLC
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Relentless swing-state focus paid off for Obama
In the aftermath of President Barack Obama's near-sweep of the critical Electoral College swing states last month, post-election analysis of the keys to his decisive victory has paid scant attention to one important factor: Mr. Obama's disproportionate...
Tags: Domestic Travel, White House, Elections, U.S. Electoral College, Politics
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China Stands Out in 2012's Leadership Transitions
The year 2012 will go into the history books as one of contrasting transitions. China's five- year cycle for Communist Party congresses and leadership turnover overlapped with the U.S.'s four-year electoral calendar. And if that once-in-20-years...Tags: Bill Clinton, Political Systems, China, Elections, Culture
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Feb 21, 2013
|Column| South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Dec 31, 2012
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Dec 13, 2012
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Jan 7, 2013
|Column| Allentown Morning Call
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