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U.S. Population 2013: More Than 315 Million People
Tweet Share on Facebook December 28, 2012 CommentThere will be more than 315 million people in the United States when the calendar flips from 2012 to 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Yes, Virginia, the Sun’s 'Santa Claus' Editorial Is the Best Ever
Tweet Share on Facebook December 24, 2012 CommentWell over 100 years ago, shortly after her eighth birthday in July, 1897, a young New Yorker named Virginia O'Hanlon put pen to paper in hopes of settling an argument she'd been having with some of her little playmates: Is there in fact a Santa Claus? She sent her brief letter to the New York Sun because, she explained, "Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it's so.'"
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Axelrod Explains Obama's New Approach With Congress
Tweet Share on Facebook December 13, 2012 CommentIf you think President Obama is taking a different approach to dealing with Congress as he prepares for his second term, you're right according to David Axelrod, the architect of his re-election.
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Is Boehner Pushing Off a Fiscal Cliff Deal to Save His Own Skin?
Tweet Share on Facebook December 12, 2012 CommentWhile the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee said this morning that a deal has to be cut by Christmas in order to avoid the fiscal cliff, he added that House Speaker John Boehner may be planning to push the country over that pecuniary precipice in order to save his own political skin.
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House Dems Ready to Follow Obama Over Fiscal Cliff
Tweet Share on Facebook December 7, 2012 CommentHouse Democrats are prepared to follow President Obama over the so-called fiscal cliff rather than extend the Bush tax cuts on the wealthiest Americans, the number two Democrat on the House Budget Committee said Friday morning. She also said that any such deal that doesn't include an increase in the debt ceiling would be a nonstarter.
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Inside the 2012 Super PACs
Tweet Share on Facebook December 7, 2012 CommentCAMBRIDGE, MASS.—The so-called "super PACs" had quite a year. They were initially painted as the Bond villains of the 2012 campaign: mysterious figures with apparently unlimited resources determined to dominate the political world. Then after the election they were written off in some quarters as political wastrels, burning through enormous sums of money without apparent return. To hear the masters of the super PAC universe tell it last week however, neither descriptive applied.
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Herman Cain's Campaign Says It Knew of Sexual Harassment Charges
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentCAMBRIDGE, MASS.—As Herman Cain's improbable presidential campaign imploded a year ago over allegations of sexual harassment when he was head of the National Restaurant Association, one question that lingered was why his team wasn't better prepared to deal with the charges. Did they not know what was in his past? They did, it turns out, they just didn't think it would matter.
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Rick Perry Miscalculated Timing of GOP Race
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentCAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Texas Gov. Rick Perry either should have gotten into the 2012 presidential race much sooner or much later, his top strategist said last week.
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Farewell, Dave Brubeck
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentSeveral years and a few jobs ago—way back in the early '00s—my boss called me into his office and asked if I had any interest in tickets he couldn't use to see the Dave Brubeck Quartet perform at George Washington University. I expressed amazement that Dave Brubeck was still alive—and then eagerly snatched up the tickets.
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Ron Paul and Mitt Romney Really Didn’t Have a Primary Alliance
Tweet Share on Facebook December 5, 2012 CommentCAMBRIDGE, MASS.—Really, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney did not have an alliance during the 2012 Republican presidential primaries. That was the word from both camps last week at a campaign 2012 postmortem at the Institute of Politics at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
