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Sarah Palin is being prepped for prime time
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSarah Palin arrived at the site of the Republican National Convention on Sunday night and has hardly been seen since. The Alaska governor has not visited her home-state delegation, nor did she make a much-anticipated appearance Tuesday before the...Tags: Reproduction, Hillary Clinton, Al Groh, George H.W. Bush, John McCain
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On foreign policy, Biden is respected but not always popular
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersSen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. joins the Democratic ticket as an acknowledged foreign policy sage whose 36-year record has won him bipartisan praise as a liberal internationalist who generally hews close to his party's center. But he has sometimes found himself...Tags: Saddam Hussein, Maine, Nevada, Carl Levin, Kansas
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Shame-filled Edwards admits affair with video producer
WASHINGTON - Former presidential candidate John Edwards, who won nationwide praise and sympathy as he campaigned side-by-side with his cancer-stricken wife, Elizabeth, admitted in shame Friday he'd had an extramarital affair with a woman who produced...Tags: Andrew Young, New York Times, Jon Stewart, Road Accidents, Hillary Clinton
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Truth about Helms
Conservative Republicans adulating Jesse Helms tell us as much about themselves as they do about the late senator. Helms was an unabashed racist and enthusiastic gay basher, one of the vilest political specimens of the past several decades. We're... -
Jesse Helms' tobacco legacy
The late pro-life Sen. Jesse Helms outlived my WWII veteran dad by 12,363 days, or 34 years. Sen. Helm's legacy must include his political faithfulness to serve the best interest of pro-death tobacco. This is manifested by 4,306 unhealthy tobacco... -
Jesse Helms funeral
Mourners have gathered at a North Carolina church to view the body of former Sen. Jesse Helms, who died on the Fourth of July. The longtime conservative leader lay Monday in the sanctuary of Hayes-Barton Baptist Church in Raleigh, where he worshipped for...Tags: Christianity, Baptist, North Carolina
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Independent Helms
It is appropriate that longtime former U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) passed away on Independence Day in the heat of a presidential election campaign. Helms is one who knew the meaning of the word "independence," consistently fighting against the powerful...Tags: Political Candidates, Elections, North Carolina
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He'd rather quit than lower flag for Helms
The Associated PressA longtime North Carolina state employee has chosen to retire instead of lowering flags to honor former Sen. Jesse Helms, writing in an e-mail that the late conservative had a "doctrine of negativity, hate and prejudice." U.S. and state flags flew at...Tags: Executive Branch, Civil and Public Service, Employees, Martin Luther King Jr., Regional Authority
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Former U.S. Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86
Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. Former Sen. Jesse Helms, who built a career along the fault lines of racial politics and battled liberals, Communists and the occasional fellow Republican during 30 conservative years in Congress, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86....Tags: Minority Groups, Thomas Jefferson, Mental Illness, Richard Lugar, Illnesses
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Jesse Helms
Oct. 18, 1921: Born in Monroe, N.C. 1941-45: Joins the Navy and spends the war in North Carolina as a recruiter 1972: Wins first race for U.S. Senate 1983: Leads a filibuster against the establishment of a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther...Tags: Epidemics and Plagues, Minority Groups, California, Martin Luther King Jr., Ronald Reagan
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5-time senator 'great patriot' who held fast to his beliefs
Tribune NewspapersWASHINGTON — Jesse Helms, the former U.S. senator from North Carolina who for half a century infuriated liberals with his race-baiting campaign tactics and presidents of both parties with his use of senatorial privilege, died Friday. He was 86....Tags: Newt Gingrich, Georgia, Mental Illness, Illnesses, Strom Thurmond
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