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Tim O’Neal watched carefully, head down, as his pitch from just off the green rolled perfectly into the cup on the ninth green at Tradition National Golf Course last month.
“T-O. That was great,” cheered playing partner David Robinson at the eGolf Professional Tour event.
O’Neal smiled back, a nice shot on a good day. There just [...]
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is out and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is in as keynote speaker at a Republican dinner this spring.
Palin, the party’s 2008 nominee for vice president, had been slated to address the annual Senate-House Dinner in Washington on June 8. The dinner, sponsored by the House and Senate Republican campaign committees, [...]
A freshman U.S. congressman says he may break ranks with the Republican Party when the House votes on President Barack Obama’s budget proposal later this week.
Rep. Joseph Cao, R-La., told The Hill his constituents are divided about the $3.6 trillion budget, but he said he wanted more information before deciding on how he will vote.
“At [...]
The State Department says the United States will seek election to the U.N. Human Rights Council, the Obama administration’s latest reversal of President George W. Bush’s foreign policies.
The department says the Obama administration wants to participate in the council’s activities as part of a new era of U.S. engagement with the world.
The Bush administration boycotted [...]
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday that mayors should take control of big-city school districts where academic performance is suffering.
Duncan said mayoral control provides the strong leadership and stability needed to overhaul urban schools.
Mayors run the schools in fewer than a dozen big cities; only seven have full control over management and operations. That includes [...]
