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The most famous umbrella since Neville Chamberlain went to Munich
The Baltimore SunThe public appetite for trivial distraction has always extended to our chief executives. I remember the minor uproar when Lyndon Johnson lifted a beagle by the ears. There was extensive commentary on Richard Nixon's taste for cottage cheese and ketchup....Tags: George H.W. Bush, Politics, Bill Clinton, Dwayne Johnson, George W. Bush
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McManus: The second-term scandal plague
What is it about presidents' second terms that makes them seem so scandal-ridden? Simple: The iron law of longevity. All governments make mistakes, and all governments try to hide those mistakes. But the longer an administration is in office, the more...Tags: White House, Politics, Monica Lewinsky, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan
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La implacable maldición que atormenta a los Angelinos
Previo al arranque de la temporada de 2012 lancé una maldición a los Angelinos de Los Angeles —y en particular a Albert Pujols— que aún sigue atormentando a los serafines y al slugger dominicano. Entonces, un sábado 24 de diciembre de...
Tags: Television Industry, Politics, Rafael Palmeiro, Torii Hunter, Washington Wizards
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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
When the storm of administration scandals first hit President Barack Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS and...Tags: John Boehner, Politics, White House, Political Corruption, Barack Obama
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Voice of the People, May. 17
High scandals This is in response to "Obama and overreach; Americans see evidence of truth-shading, arrogance and intrusion" (Editorial, May 15). There is no doubt that the Obama administration is suffering through an embarrassing scandal at the IRS....Tags: Politics, White House, U.S. Department of State, National Security, Michael G. Mullen
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PASSINGS: Vincent G. Dowling, John La Montaine
Vincent G. Dowling Actor, director gave Tom Hanks early break Actor and director Vincent G. Dowling, 83, who left behind a long career with Ireland's national theater to run a Shakespeare festival in Cleveland where he gave a young Tom Hanks an...
Tags: Republic of Ireland, Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Music Industry
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Casey, Toomey on Senate committee that will investigate IRS next week
Call Washington BureauPennsylvania's two U.S. senators sit on the powerful tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, which will begin its investigation of the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups at a hearing on Tuesday. Republicans and Democrats are...Tags: Robert P. Casey, Jr., Politics, U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means, Elections, Americans for Prosperity
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Historic Vanderbilt mansion gets new life on Miami's Fisher Island
MIAMI - There are many Vanderbilt mansions, all of them grander, and certainly larger, than the relatively modest manse on Miami's Fisher Island that bears the famous family name. Ah, but if only you could see it - the beautifully proportioned stone...Tags: New York City, Personal Service, Gilded Age, Vanderbilt Commodores, The New York Times
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IRS tactics sully rightful hunt for fraud
Detroit Free PressIf "taxes are what we pay for a civilized society" (as the Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes quotation engraved on the facade of the Internal Revenue Service's headquarters asserts), it follows that any partisan abuse of the tax-collecting process is an...Tags: White House, Politics, Republican Party, U.S. Supreme Court, Elections
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AP News in Brief at 5:58 a.m. EDT
Investigations of IRS' targeting of groups is continuing in wake of ouster of top official WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't look for the outcry over the Internal Revenue Service's improper targeting of tea party groups to subside with the ouster of the...Tags: John Boehner, Politics, Samsung Group, Unrest, Conflicts and War, The New York Times
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Making sense of scandals
The Obama administration's first term was remarkably free of scandals. The second term is making up for lost time. Some of the President Barack Obama's harshest critics have even begun comparing him to President Richard Nixon, a byword for corruption,...Tags: Politics, White House, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Karl Rove
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Today's Buzz: Is Obama hostile toward media?
Orlando Sentinel Editorial BoardPresident Obama is coming under (more) criticism after it was revealed that the Department of Justice obtained Associated Press phone records without first allowing the AP a chance to seek a court review of the subpoenas. Administration officials...Tags: Politics, Elections, Barack Obama
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