Topic - Dick Cheney

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  CURL: Team Obama panics, and it's only May

  It's mushroom cloud after mushroom cloud for President Obama.

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  Obama reverts to 2008 plan: Blame Bush

  No sooner had Mitt Romney effectively locked up the Republican presidential nomination than President Obama began to sharpen his attacks — on former President George W. Bush.

• Inside Politics: Cheney speaks for first time since heart transplant

  Former Vice President Dick Cheney walked onstage in Cheyenne, Wyo., without any assistance and spoke for an hour and 15 minutes without seeming to tire in his first public engagement since he underwent a heart transplant three weeks ago.

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  Eagerness seen as a vice in presidential veepstakes

  While Mitt Romney finally looks to have the Republican nomination within his grasp, the jockeying among the wannabes for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket is only now ramping up.

• Inside Politics: Sotomayor won't let on to Obamacare decision

  Justice Sonia Sotomayor this week gave no hint of what the Supreme Court is going to do on the question of whether President Obama's signature health care overhaul law is constitutional.

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  Cheney released from hospital after heart transplant

  Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released Tuesday from a Northern Virginia hospital after having a heart transplant.

• Discovery TV special to look at White House chiefs

  White House chief of staff can be a thankless job, and the Discovery TV network is poised to explain why.

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  Inside Politics: Aide says Obama reacted as parent to Florida shooting

  A top presidential adviser says President Obama's decision to comment on the shooting death of a black teenager in Florida was motivated by parental instinct more than the incident's emergence as a racial issue.

• Dick Cheney's transplant reopens debate about age

  Doctors say it is unlikely that former Vice President Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart at age 71 that thousands of younger people also were in line to receive.

• Doctors doubt favoritism in Cheney transplant

  Doctors say it is unlikely that former Vice President Dick Cheney got special treatment when he was given a new heart that thousands of younger people also were in line to receive.

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  Aide says Cheney had heart transplant

  Former Vice President Dick Cheney had a heart transplant Saturday and is recovering at a Virginia hospital, his office said.

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  SHIRLEY: Drama of a brokered convention

  As the Republican Party hurtles toward a possible Animal House-like climax at their confab in Tampa Bay in late August, the national discussion has turned to controversial GOP conventions of the past, most missing the meaning of each and how these ideological food fights sometimes changed the face and future of the party.

• Advice urges wider sharing of heart care decisions

  A heart device might save your life but leave you miserable. That awful possibility is the reason for new advice urging doctors to talk more honestly with people who have very weak hearts and are considering pumps, pacemakers, new valves or procedures to open clogged arteries.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Estonia'

  Some of the most interesting travel books happen by accident. If Alexander Theroux's wife had not gone to Estonia on a Fulbright Scholarship, it is unlikely that he would have spent an extended period in the tiny Baltic republic, an experience that impelled him to write this book.

• CURL: The truly dismal state of the union

  There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.

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