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4 hrs ago | Free Republic

Paula Begala admits Tea Party was right about fear of big government

Wow, when you have Forehead, agreeing with the Tea Party, then you know the IRS scandal is a very serious problem for big government-loving, liberals.

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Related Topix: Tea Party, US News, Bill Clinton

9 hrs ago | Examiner.com

The Garden State's favorite president

A few weeks ago, a Monmouth University/Asbury Park Press poll was taken to gauge whom New Jerseyans view as their favorite president.

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Related Topix: New Jersey, Monmouth University, Asbury Park, NJ, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, Bill Clinton, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama

10 hrs ago | Anorak

Test Your Patriotism: how artists tested their value to the US in 1963

TEST Your Patriotism with the Intelligence Centre Inc., New York, and stand a chance to win a scholarship worth $495! We'd avoid Nikita Khrushchev, who looks the easier draw due to lack of hair and rounded throat.

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Sat May 18, 2013

Star Tribune

Review: 'Guns at Last Light,' by Rick Atkinson

The third book of Rick Atkinson's World War II trilogy tells the stories of the generals and the GIs in the Allied armies' final sweep across Western Europe.

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Related Topix: Entertainment

The Morning Call

Saving soldiers' lives: Tour, exhibit and festival honor Gettysburg work of Daughters of Charity

Daughters of Charity, a nursing order, tended to men wounded at Battle of Gettysburg.

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Related Topix: Gettysburg, PA, Medicine, Nursing, Travel

Arkansas Times

Friday finish - An oldie but goodie for legislature? A rebuttal for Tom Cotton

The state took control of the district yesterday because of fiscal woes. Turner has a long resume of school work, including in the fiscal distress unit of the state department.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Representative Tom Cotton, Healthcare Law, Law, Bill Clinton, Arkansas, Mark Pryor, US Senate, Democrat

Trend

Georgian President awards order to Bill Clinton

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is on a working visit to the U.S., awarded St.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Georgia, Bill Clinton, Mikheil Saakashvili

The Independent

Battle of the bulge on before-breakfast Berlin-bound jet

Simon Calder is Travel Editor at Large for The Independent, writing a weekly column, various articles and features as well as filming a weekly video diary.

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Related Topix: Travel

Fri May 17, 2013

Arkansas Times

Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson, Bill Clinton on lawyer suspension list

On March 8, the Supreme Court suspended the license of state Sen. Jeremy Hutchinson for nonpayment of dues.

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Related Topix: Criminal Defense Law, Law, Bill Clinton, Texarkana, AR, North Little Rock, AR

Hudson Institute

Turkey and the Dream of Ottoman Revival

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently visited Diyarbakir, the most important Kurdish city in Turkey's troubled Southeast.

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Related Topix: Turkey, World News, Middle East, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Religion, Islam, Iran

Real Clear Politics

Republicans and the Long Game

The sudden deluge of scandal which dominates the discussion around President Obama's administration at the moment has handed a golden opportunity to Republicans.

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton, US Politics, John Edwards, US News, Barack Obama

Benalla Ensign

Students reflect on Holocaust survivor tales

Rochester Secondary College students visited the Jewish Holocaust Centre in Melbourne last week and came back with greater knowledge about how the Jewish people suffered while Hitler was in power in Nazi Germany.

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The Beaumont Enterprise

EDITORIAL: Let voters decide term limits

EDITORIAL: Let voters decide term limits Beaumont Enterprise Copyright 2013 Beaumont Enterprise.

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Related Topix: Rick Perry, US Governors, Bill Clinton, Opinion

Thu May 16, 2013

Government Executive

The Myth of Presidential Leadership

The theme of presidential leadership is a venerated one in America, the subject of many biographies and an enduring mythology about great figures rising to the occasion.

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Related Topix: Lincoln, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Bill Clinton, US News, Eric Cantor, Republican, US House of Representatives, US Politics, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Mark Begich

TIME.com

Sorting Out the Scandals

All right. everyone take a deep breath. Now exhale. The rush of Obama "scandals" in recent weeks has been, well, breathtaking, and so has the rush to extrapolate, to discern a larger pattern of failure and incompetence in the Obama Administration--indeed, to make a cosmic argument about the inability of government to "organize a two-car funeral," ... (more)

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton

The Press-Enterprise

Jurupa Valley: Veterans Memorial Wall ceremony set

Three members of a prominent Rubidoux-area family, including a World War I veteran, will have their names placed on the Veterans Memorial Wall in a ceremony on Saturday, May 18.

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Related Topix: Rubidoux, CA, Life, Veteran Affairs, Rialto, CA

The Las Vegas Sun

Obama walking a familiar path on IRS allegations

It's hardly the first time a White House and the Internal Revenue Service have been targets for claims of political meddling and bias.

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Related Topix: Tax, Bill Clinton

Bromsgrove Standard

We track down stone crest from Bromsgrove Drill Hall

A PIECE of Bromsgrove history which became the talk of the town when it completely disappeared has been savalged in a bid to preserve it for future generations to see, The Standard can reveal.

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NewsOne

Henry L. Johnson Fends Off German Captors During World War I On This Day In 1918

United States Army soldier Henry L. Johnson , also known as "Black Death," earned his fearsome nickname in France during World War I . After being ambushed by German forces and taken captive, Johnson freed himself and other soldiers using just a rifle and a knife.

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Related Topix: US Military, US News, US Army, Albany, NY

Wed May 15, 2013

Star Tribune

Obama must take charge of his presidency

Every president picks predecessors as role models. For Ronald Reagan, it was Calvin Coolidge.

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton, US Politics, Barack Obama, Documentary Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Lincoln, Buck, Ska, Opinion

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