Cheez-its and Barack on fire: A modest party for the second Obama inauguration:
WASHINGTON—Cheez-its and pretzels. These were the hors d'oeuvres served at Barack Obama’s inaugural ball Monday night.
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WASHINGTON—Cheez-its and pretzels. These were the hors d'oeuvres served at Barack Obama’s inaugural ball Monday night. More
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on January 22nd, 2013 10:13amChief Justice John Roberts’ opinion upholding most of the Affordable Care Act wasn’t as good for liberals as it appears. More
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on June 28th, 2012 4:32pmThe Supreme Court went back to basics with Monday’s decision on Arizona’s controversial immigration law, SB 1070.
In Arizona v. United States, the justices seemed to put rigid ideology aside to reach a 5-3 decision (Justice Elena Kagan did not participate) that three of four challenged provisions in SB 1070 were unconstitutional because they violated the separation of powers between state and federal government. More
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on June 25th, 2012 4:18pmPELLA, Iowa—The state of Iowa wasn’t able to make up its mind.
Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney traded leads into the wee hours of this morning, see-sawing with Romney up by one vote and then Santorum grabbing a lead of four votes. In the end, when the lost precinct of Clinton County finally reported, Mitt Romney finished ahead by eight votes. Ron Paul finished third, on the strength of support from young and independent caucus-goers. More
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on January 4th, 2012 10:03amGRINNELL, Iowa— Neill Goltz, the Democratic vice chair of Poweshiek County, said he was frustrated that many media outlets have reported that the Democrats are not holding a caucus this year, when they simply mean that the Democratic caucus will not be competitive.
He’s “written multiple letters to complain,” he said. So far, he hasn't received any responses. More
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on January 3rd, 2012 8:50pmDES MOINES — Apparently Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney are both top-tier contenders in the same election in the same state. But based on their final events last night on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, it’s hard to place them in the same universe. More
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on January 3rd, 2012 2:27pmDES MOINES, Iowa—In 2008, the youth vote was the story of the Iowa caucuses.
There were questions about whether then-senator Barack Obama would capitalize on the enthusiasm of young people for his candidacy or whether, if deterred by an untimely winter break or innate unreliability as caucus-goers, the young people would simply fail to show up.
In the end, they did, driven in part by a field effort called “Barack Stars” that targeted high school students eligible to caucus, and a campaign that courted college Democrats as avidly as state legislators. More
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on January 3rd, 2012 11:04amDES MOINES—It’s tempting to say that there are no new stories in the Iowa caucuses, and that the likeliest ones to emerge from Tuesday night’s G.O.P. caucuses have been written before.
The first already-written story is from 2004, in which an awkward patrician from Massachusetts manages against expectations to achieve victory, when caucus-goers decide that he is the best bet to defeat a polarizing president. More
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on January 2nd, 2012 12:55pmATLANTIC, Iowa—Newt Gingrich had a cold. He also has a music-education video out with his wife, Callista, and is an amateur paleontologist and is a student of W. Edwards Deming, from whom he once took a 60-hour tutorial.
But none of that mattered to a crowd of about 100 people in the cavernous warehouse of a Coca Cola bottling plant here on Saturday. They just wanted someone who can “take on Obama,” in the words of local resident Barb Herr. More
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on January 2nd, 2012 9:44amMARSHALLTOWN, Iowa—Rick Santorum, whose candidacy was largely ignored in 2011 before a sudden, pre-caucus surge into relevance, still has the campaign trappings of a no-account also-ran. This is now a selling point. More
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on January 1st, 2012 9:37am
