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How the welfare state has grown — and sapped America's economy and culture
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." — Thomas Jefferson My recent column on the challenges associated with the Social...
Tags: Social Issues, Labor Legislation, Elections, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Poverty
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OPINION: Good at campaigning, bad at governing
The Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewCHALK HILL, Pa. The old house leans unnaturally westward along a back road, as if chasing the setting sun into a surrounding meadow. Wildflowers splinter its wooden porch planks; a lonely patch of red paint marks an exterior long ago bleached by weather...Tags: Justice and Rights, White House, Gun Control, Interior Policy, U.S. Senate
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Presidential alumni an elite (and small) club
At the dedication Thursday of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, President Barack Obama appeared with all four living ex-presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. That raised a question: What is the record...Tags: Ulysses S. Grant, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, Franklin Pierce
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Bush library should be nonpartisan
— In 2007, I had the privilege of becoming the first director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. My job was to move Nixon's presidential materials from the Washington, D.C., area, where they had been kept as federal property...
Tags: Iraq, White House, Unrest, Conflicts and War, International Military Interventions, Wars and Interventions
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Viola McFerren fought, won Fayette County civil rights battles
Commercial AppealViola Harris McFerren emerged as a powerful advocate for black residents of Fayette County, Tenn., in 1960, helping organize voter registration drives for them and eventually helping inspire President John F. Kennedy to intervene on their behalf when they...Tags: Justice and Rights, Minority Groups, Somerville, Elections, George H.W. Bush
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Head Start facing cuts
The Evening News and the Tribune, Jeffersonville, Ind.The federal sequestration will slash classes and programs designed for impoverished and working-class residents and children in Southern Indiana unless Congress approves a budget soon. Officials with Community Action of Southern Indiana confirmed that...Tags: Head Start, U.S. Congress, Interior Policy, Budgets and Budgeting, Public Housing
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After 46 years, storied military career closes
The Tampa TribuneDuring a career that began in the battlefields of Vietnam, Army Col. Warner "Rocky" Farr helped revolutionize special operations medicine, prepared for a Soviet invasion of Germany and found himself quoted by writer Noam Chomsky for his research into...Tags: Armed Conflicts, V (tv program), Unrest, Conflicts and War, Colleges and Universities, Rocky (movie)
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Bush presidential library set for Thursday's dedication
Fort Worth Star-TelegramThe journey starts simply enough. "The presidency is more than an honor. It is more than an office. It is a charge to keep and I will give it my all." Those words written on an entryway wall -- first spoken by George W. Bush on Dec. 13, 2000, in...Tags: Ceremonies, Financial Markets, Al Gore, Elections, Jimmy Carter
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50th Night of Champions honors FCA athletes
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.Lyndon Johnson was the new president, the Beatles had just made their first appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show," a gallon of milk cost $1.06 and the Ford Mustang had just been introduced when the local Fellowship of Christian Athletes named its first...Tags: Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Religion and Belief, Christianity, Human Interest, Awards and Prizes
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'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'
"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...Tags: Rush Limbaugh, Entertainment, Elections, Michael Bloomberg, John Kerry
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Ferdinand Nadherny, executive recruiter, 1926-2013
Ferdinand Nadherny helped create anti-poverty programs as a member of President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration and later started a Chicago office of the executive search firm Russell Reynolds Associates. Mr. Nadherny had a hand in a number of high-...
Tags: Social Issues, R. Sargent Shriver, Cabot Corporation, IBM, Poverty
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With new presidential library, George W. Bush back in public eye
WASHINGTON — President Obama, the four living ex-presidents and thousands of others head to Dallas on Thursday for the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum. The challenge facing library officials will be to keep the...
Tags: Sports, Elections, Jimmy Carter, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Television Industry
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