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3 hrs ago | Anchorage Daily News

Doyle 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.

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton, George Bush, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Tax

8 hrs ago | The Wichita Eagle

Opinion Line Extra

Come on, Eagle – let's get our headline facts straight. Obama did not fire the IRS chief.

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton, Opinion, Entertainment

12 hrs ago | New Hampshire Public Radio -

Is There Really A Second-Term Curse?

President Bill Clinton walks to the White House Rose Garden to deliver a statement on the impeachment inquiry on Dec.

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Related Topix: US News, Bill Clinton, 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, Lyndon Johnson, Iowa

13 hrs ago | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Don't get giddy with Obama scandal fever

Those are the urgent questions Republican leaders face. Their answers depend on a third question: What do they hope to accomplish? It would be so easy to succumb to glee.

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Related Topix: US News, US Politics, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Tax, Hillary Clinton, Opinion

Sun May 19, 2013

Ventura County Star

Paulson: To a president losing my trust

Mr. President, every month since you've been in office, I've sent you a personal letter, as I have with every president since Bill Clinton.

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Related Topix: Bill Clinton

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

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

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

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