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World According to Dick Cheney dates, times, preview
Channel Guide MagazineWhen is The World According To Dick Cheney on? Below details the Showtime air dates and times, as well as gives a preview of the highly anticipated documentary. Supporters and critics will find much to debate and insights to be learned in Showtime’s... -
Ron Kaye: Democracy wins a round
The setting was beautiful: a hill high above the intersection of the Santa Monica (10) and Long Beach (710) freeways, with panoramic views of downtown L.A. and much of the San Gabriel Valley, even on this dark and misty Thursday night. But the scene...Tags: Elections, Highway Transportation, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Local Government, Voting
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Kenyan presidential loser Raila Odinga contests result
NAIROBI, Kenya -- In a setback for Kenya’s efforts to cement its democracy, presidential contender Raila Odinga on Saturday refused to concede defeat in a close election he said was fraught with fraud and irregularities. But he called for calm and...
Tags: Nairobi (Kenya), International Criminal Court, Elections, International Court or Tribunal, Political Systems
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Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...
Tags: George Washington, Bowling, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Belief and Faith, Gun Control
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Stephen Goldstein: We're supposed to be a democracy
According to legend, outside of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, at the end of the Constitutional Convention in 1787, a Mrs. Powel asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin answered, "A republic, if...Tags: Elections, National Rifle Association of America, Gun Control, Political Corruption, U.S. Electoral College
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'Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism' looks at the president's moral evolution
The evolution of President Abraham Lincoln's thinking about emancipation is clearly marked out in his speeches and public documents. The evolution of his views about suffrage for black people is harder to trace. The two issues are intimately linked, and...
Tags: Poverty, Elections, Sociology, Unions, Religion and Belief
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Al Gore, still energized
Al Gore hails from Tennessee, but when he comes to California next week, he'll be coming back to his spiritual home. In 2000, Californians gave him a double-digit lead — 1.3 million votes — over George W. Bush for president. His documentary,...
Tags: George W. Bush, Entertainment Events, An Inconvenient Truth (movie), Google Inc., Prices
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The problem with direct democracy
Last week, top Maryland Democrats announced their intention to make it more difficult to put statewide policy referenda on the ballot. The move is a clear response to Republicans' success last year in putting to referendum policy questions in the hope...
Tags: Referenda, Elections, Social Issues, Voting, Parties and Movements
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Democracy activist arrives home after release by Vietnam
L.A. NOWAn American democracy activist accused of trying to overthrow the Vietnamese government returned home to Southern California on Wednesday night, more than nine months after he was first detained in Saigon. U.S. citizen Nguyen Quoc Quan was met by a...... -
Time to act, Obama declares, taking oath second time
The Associated PressTurning the page on years of war and recession, President Barack Obama summoned a divided nation Monday to act with “passion and dedication” to broaden equality and prosperity at home, nurture democracy around the world and combat global...Tags: Government Health Care, Jack Lew, Environmental Issues, John Brennan, Abraham Lincoln
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Congress and the lost art of compromise
Twenty-six years ago, I walked into the U.S. Capitol as a newly elected congressman, representing a district that stretched from Simi Valley to Gorman to Catalina Island. This month, I cast my last vote in Congress, joining 84 other Republicans and 172...
Tags: New Year's Day, U.S. Army, U.S. Congress, Government, Fiscal Cliff
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Disdain all around
WASHINGTON -- While accusing the Supreme Court's conservative justices of "disdain for democracy," Pamela S. Karlan proves herself talented at dispensing disdain. The Stanford law professor is, however, less talented at her chosen task of presenting a...
Tags: Planned Parenthood, Justice System, Elections, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, John G. Roberts, Jr.
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Feb 17, 2013
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Jan 21, 2013
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Dec 31, 2012
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