A question came up at the White House today: Just how much skeet shooting does President Barack Obama do at Camp David? He said in an interview with The New Republic released over the weekend that he and friends go...
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Skeet shooting
More on Obama’s Skeet-Shooting: Camp David for Fun, Not Photos
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Richard M. Nixon.
Magic Number of the Day: 12
That’s the number of consecutive presidential elections in which Ohio has sided with the winner, the longest active streak among the 50 states. Not since 1960, when Ohio backed Republican Richard M. Nixon over Democratic winner John F. Kennedy, has...
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Joseph P. Kennedy II, left, with his son, Joseph P. Kennedy III in Medford, Mass.
Kennedy Name = Campaign Cash
Kennedy. It’s a name synonymous with Democratic political royalty — and ready access to political contributions. Joe Kennedy III, a son of former Massachusetts congressman Joseph Kennedy II and a grandson of the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, raised...
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Henry Clay
Happy 235th to Henry Clay, a 20-Something Senator
No one under age 30 can serve in the U.S. Senate. It says so right there in the Constitution, Article I, Section 3. Only it turns out a few twenty-somethings were able to circumvent that constitutional barrier. You’ve heard of...
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