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Policy and privacy: Five reasons why 2012 mattered CNET This was the year of Internet activism with a sharp political point to it: Protests drove a stake through the heart of a Hollywood-backed digital copyright bill, helped derail a United Nations summit, and contributed to the demise of a proposed data ... See all stories on this topic »

Roundtable: This Week in Politics ABC News Home · U.S. · World · Politics · Video · Investigative · Health · Entertainment · Money · Tech · Travel. Most Popular Video. Capitol Hill Gridlock: New Details on Fiscal... Adam Lanza Got Guns From Gun Owning Mother · Woman Wins Prize with Just One ... See all stories on this topic »

Politics roundup: NRA exec continues blame game; will a budget get done? NJ.com NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre took to the airwaves to keep pushing his argument Friday to place armed guards in schools. He said the NRA won't support any call to limit oversized magazine clips and would not support any changes in gun laws. "A gun ... See all stories on this topic » NJ.com

Realigning American Politics: Towards a Mass Party of the Center Huffington Post Like a fog slowly clearing, we can perceive the slow-motion realignment of American politics towards a mass party of the center. This emerging formation, the Clinton-Obama remaking of the Democratic Party, will almost certainly dominate politics and ... See all stories on this topic »

Why Politics Could Spring a Nasty Surprise in 2013 CNBC.com This has been "an exceptionally political year" in the words of one analyst, starting with the problems of the euro zone and concluding with all eyes on Washington as the U.S. teetered atop the "fiscal cliff." While there aren't as many major elections ... See all stories on this topic » CNBC.com

The Politics of Gun Control American Spectator The Newtown, Connecticut massacre of children has changed the gun control debate to an extent no other event has in decades. One of the reasons it has had such an effect is that it came at the time when liberals are at the height of their power and ... See all stories on this topic » American Spectator

The myth of autocracy in Turkish politics Al-Arabiya Besides, leader- centered politics promise more opportunities for those who crave instant political and economic gratification and for careerists of all sorts. For many, it has always been more difficult and uncertain to be promoted under the ... See all stories on this topic » Al-Arabiya

Preachers under fire: politics from the pulpit breaks the law, some say Inland Valley Daily Bulletin So preached Pastor Jack Hibbs of Calvary Chapel Chino Hills in the days leading up to the presidential election. Hibbs has joined with nearly 1,600 pastors across the country and about 140 in California in the Pulpit Initiative, a legal effort aimed at ... See all stories on this topic »

Ex-SC Gov Sanford eyes politics again after affair Winston-Salem Journal COLUMBIA, S.C. — When Mark Sanford walked out of the governor's mansion in 2011, he had been censured by the Legislature over state travel expenses he used for an affair with an Argentine woman, had paid the largest ethics fine ever in South Carolina ... See all stories on this topic »

Analysis: Sandy's impact on Staten Island politics SILive.com rebuild.jpg This photo, taken shortly after Sandy hit, shows a home at the corner of Maple Terrace and Cedar Grove Avenue in New Dorp Beach that was completely destroyed by the storm surge. The questions of how Staten Island should rebuild may be ... See all stories on this topic » SILive.com

Pension Politics: California system plays hard ball in court Las Vegas Review - Journal Another fiscal cliff is coming. Regardless of whether we go over the one created by Washington, a precipice related to state pensions looms in the near term, and hints of how far we might plunge are playing out right now in federal bankruptcy court in ... See all stories on this topic »

With budget battle growing, the tea party disappears Bangor Daily News Yet as groups across the political spectrum seek to influence any deal to avert the cuts and tax increases set to kick in Jan. 1, the tea party has been unusually — and deliberately — quiet. Members still call and e-mail Congress but have held no ... See all stories on this topic »

Anioma - Politics of Chieftaincy Title AllAfrica.com ABOUT two weeks ago, I saw a well packaged television commercial announcing an impending chieftaincy title in honour of Alhaji Dr. Bamanga Tukur. For a self made man who had risen to prominence by hard work, UGO-ONE-NA-ONNE OF ANIOCHA (the ... See all stories on this topic »

The Politics of Diversion Indian Country Today Media Network.com In the 2012 Elections the GOP allowed itself to be led down a path that was based on a strategy that white people could be galvanized to vote Republican if they could be convinced that America was coming under the control of minorities, gays and ... See all stories on this topic »

Senators suggest only fiscal deal remaining is scaled-back compromise Fox News Democratic and Republican senators suggested Sunday the only remaining fiscal deal in Washington before the New Year's deadline is a small-scale plan to stop tax increases for the majority of Americans while leaving spending cuts and other financial ... See all stories on this topic »

Political Winners & Losers for 2012 GoLocalProv Money isn't everything and Raimondo clearly has problems with the public employee unions, but she remains one of the most popular politicians in the state and appears to be a lock to run for Governor in two years. Progressives: A combined effort from ... See all stories on this topic » GoLocalProv

Inside Politics: Is Santa a Democrat or Republican? Fayetteville Observer It's almost Christmas Eve, and a Raleigh pollster has found that Mitt Romney has a better chance of receiving presents from Santa than President Obama. In a tongue-in-check national survey of 500 voters by Public Policy Polling, 63 percent said the ... See all stories on this topic »

Obama attends Inouye memorial in Hawaii Washington Post HONOLULU — President Obama came to a veterans cemetery here on Sunday to honor the late Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, less as the nation's top politician and more as a native son of Hawaii paying tribute to his roots. The president had already formally ... See all stories on this topic »

INSIDE POLITICS: Victims bypass lawmakers by raising funds online Washington Times Some who lost their homes or businesses in Superstorm Sandy have turned to crowd-funding websites to elicit a faster response than they might get from the government or traditional charities. While Congress considers a $60 billion disaster aid package ... See all stories on this topic » Washington Times

Can dishing up dirt clean Israeli politics? One party hopes to find out Haaretz Can dishing up dirt clean Israeli politics? One party hopes to find out. Former lawyer and political hatchet man Eldad Yaniv and his party Eretz Hadasha are using YouTube clips to shine light on the system's dirty underbelly. But can they make it into ... See all stories on this topic » Haaretz

Mitt's Son Says He Never Wanted to be President Anyway The Atlantic Wire If you thought the tale of how Mitt Romney lost the general election was already told, you would be wrong. Because there is so much left to tell, like how Mitt never wanted to be President anyway. At least, that's what Tagg Romney says in this new ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic Wire

Inside City Hall: Wearing Baltimore politics on his back Baltimore Brew For Bob is not only a repository of facts and folklore about local civics ("I'm a political junkie"), but also a living, breathing symbol of its culture. He's a Curran, in other words, a family synonymous with Baltimore politics. There's been a Curran ... See all stories on this topic »

TODAY'S GOP Bringing politics to "crisis point" says report Sky Valley Chronicle (NATIONAL) -- It is a thought about today's Republican leadership and party that may have been in the backs of a few voters minds over the past four years but now Michael Tomasky, a Newsweek/Daily Beast special correspondent lays that mind card on the ... See all stories on this topic » Sky Valley Chronicle

POLITICAL EMPIRE: Nestande still pushing anti-deferral measure Press-Enterprise It didn't get a single hearing last time around, but no matter: Assemblyman Brian Nestande is back with legislation that would prohibit the state from postponing required payments to schools from one fiscal year to the next. So-called deferrals have ... See all stories on this topic »

Filmmakers head to Washington, D.C. as Oscar politics blur with the real world The Verge Critics and members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences are typically the driving force behind a movie's chance for winning an Oscar. This year, however, politicians in Washington may play a large role due to the detours of the campaigns ... See all stories on this topic »

Memorial service for Sen. Inouye held in Hawaii Watertown Public Opinion The late Sen. Daniel Inouye was remembered Sunday as an American hero whose legacy as a war veteran and longtime senator would be felt across Hawaii for years to come. The memorial service at Honolulu's National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ... See all stories on this topic »

Telos 161 (Winter 2012): Politics After Metaphysics Telos Press Still, political modernity is not a panacea; it, too, relied on a metaphysical idealism to organize our public life and so to suffuse it with meaning. In practice, idealism was always shadowed by degrees of realism—politics as "the art of the possible ... See all stories on this topic »

How greed and politics nearly destroyed NJ coast Rochester Democrat and Chronicle A house was washed off its pilings and crashed into another house near 82nd Street in the Brant Beach section of Long Beach Township, N.J., during superstorm Sandy. New sand dunes were not constructed in this section of the township because of ... See all stories on this topic »

Christian-persecuting, Abortion-forcing China loves the Christmas-time business MiamiHerald.com (blog) (registration) Just after the New Year, Florida airwaves were flooded with deceptive political ads that bashed Republican Newt Gingrich for once backing a bill "supporting China's brutal one-child policy." Mitt Romney, the beneficiary of the attack ads, went on to ... See all stories on this topic »

Warfare Accountability: Impact Of Transnational Politics - Analysis Eurasia Review War is conducted in an environment in which activists regularly launch public advocacy campaigns of naming and shaming in order to pressure the belligerents. Yet, the targeted actors can challenge the facts and interpretations and turn the table on them. See all stories on this topic » Eurasia Review

India: Gang Gape, Politics and Sonia Gandhi (UPDATED) The Moderate Voice Sonia Gandhi, the Teflon-coated puppeteer behind the Indian government may have met her Rubicon. Police tried to push it back again today with tear gas, water cannons and batons. But it refuses to quell. The fateful choice came to a head with a 23-year ... See all stories on this topic » The Moderate Voice

NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre Still Thinks Guns Aren't the Problem The Atlantic Wire National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre went on NBC's Meet the Press to further the argument he made on Friday that was poorly received by much of the media. "If it's crazy to call for armed officers in our schools to protect our children, then ... See all stories on this topic »

Senator: Bolster state's oversight of campaign spending Lincoln Journal Star The 1992 law was meant to level the financial playing field in political campaigns. Under the act, candidates for state offices had varying spending limits for primary and general elections. Candidates who agreed to abide by the voluntary limits could ... See all stories on this topic »

Hebrew Video: Kadima Ad Complains Politics is 'Charah' (English Captions Avail) Gestetner Updates Politics is sh*t," explained narrator Uri Gavriel, an actor who appeared in the latest Batman movie and is best known in Israel for portraying "Yigal the Nazi" in mafia serial Haborer. No area is as ungrateful and dirty as politics,With politics, if ... See all stories on this topic »

Spending large sums in state labor battles adds to unions' problem of losing ... Fox News U.S. labor unions dealing with a steady decline in membership are now faced with the additional challenge of having to spend millions to fight Republican-backed, anti-union efforts. The unions remain politically powerful, having helped President Obama ... See all stories on this topic »

Don Walton: What a mess Congress has made Lincoln Journal Star But we will never know whether there is a House majority willing to end this deadlock and act in the interests of the country, because the Congress is ruled by political party caucuses. In the House, where Republicans hold the majority, it is the ... See all stories on this topic » Lincoln Journal Star

Strange Tales from World of Politics Proved Popular This Election Year Patch.com Unpredictable twists and turns in the campaign season and on Election Day made for posts that proved among the most-read at Fridley Patch in 2012. The countdown of Fridley Patch's Top 20 posts of the year begins with two such stories: A dispute over a ... See all stories on this topic »

Outgoing SC Sen. Jim DeMint shook up Washington MiamiHerald.com (registration) Over his final six years in the Senate, DeMint rocked national politics like an earthquake, gaining fame and notoriety that few lawmakers can claim. Reveling in his nickname as "Sen. Tea Party," the Greenville Republican rode that populist uprising ... See all stories on this topic »

NRA doubles down: New gun laws won't work CNN (CNN) -- The National Rifle Association made clear Sunday it will not budge on its opposition to any new gun laws, despite heated criticism of the organization's response to the Connecticut school massacre. "I know this town wants to argue about gun ... See all stories on this topic »

David Cameron cites Gospel of John in Christmas message The Guardian David Cameron has issued one of the most overtly religious Christmas messages of any recent British prime minister, citing in it the Gospel of John. Cameron, who famously said in 2008 that his Anglicanism "sort of comes and goes", said the gospel tells ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Former SC governor Sanford eyes his former House seat USA TODAY The two-term governor was a rising Republican political star before he vanished from South Carolina for five days in 2009. Reporters were told he was hiking the Appalachian Trail, but he later tearfully acknowledged he was visiting Maria Belen Chapur, ... See all stories on this topic »

Roundup of Manatee County political notes Bradenton Herald BRADENTON -- The Women of Manatee County Republican Club will meet Jan. 4 at the Bradenton Country Club, 4646 Ninth Ave. W. Social is set for 11:30 a.m., lunch meeting at noon. The speaker is Cesar Gomez, former executive director of ... See all stories on this topic »

Anti-tax conservatives say no to tax-increase deal Timesonline.com In the city where a protest over tax policy sparked a revolution, modern day tea party activists are cheering the recent Republican revolt in Washington that embarrassed House Speaker John Boehner and pushed the country closer to a "fiscal cliff" that ... See all stories on this topic »

The G2 politics quiz of 2012 The Guardian The G2 politics quiz of 2012. It has been a vintage year for gaffes, cockups, U-turns and backstabbings. Test your politics knowledge with our quiz. Share · Tweet this. Email. guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 December 2012 07.00 GMT. David Cameron and George ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian

Raila-Kalonzo alliance alters the political scene in Machakos Daily Nation Before the PM and the VP reached a deal that saw the two join forces with Ford Kenya's Moses Wetang'ula to form the Coalition for Reform and Democracy (Cord), the politics of the region was in a state of confusion. Leading politicians were sending ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Nation

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