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Slow-Rolling Massacre Unfolds in the Shadow of Shocking High-Profile Shooting Sprees
What happened in Newtown isn't supposed to happen anywhere.
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Shooting Is Business, and Business Is Good
William Rivers Pitt: It is the way we exist as a nation that has been at permanent war for more than 70 years, the way violence is our calling …
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Back to the trenches
I spent the day at the Capitol today with about 20,000 of my nearest and dearest friends. Labor came out in force to protest the new Right to Work …
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Republicans Debating Republicans: Social Welfare Cuts
President Obama has given in to Republicans over and over again during his first four years in office. We need to remind him that he's the President.
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Nationalists Bask in a Rising Sun
A new day is dawning in Japanese politics, or so its next prime minister, the nationalist Shinzo Abe, whose grandfather served in the Tojo war cabinet, would have us …
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Education and National Security
The last week of September, 1938 was deemed “American Education Week” and for the occasion President Franklin Delano Roosevelt released a message to the citizenry. He noted that there …
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Occam’s Razor Is Needed To Explain Murder-Suicide in America
The recent tragic events at Sandy Hook elementary begs the question as to how can we ever define the type of people capable of mass murder?
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The Original 007
John Morlino speaks on his Uncle Mike, a policeman with a fading memory who holds the title as the
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North Korean Missile Test Reveals US Double Standard
Europe and the US condemns North Korea's attempts at a nuclear regime while ignoring the danger of their own nuclear investments.
Washington’s Revolving Door: As Old as Lincoln
The revolving door is lucrative; of the 119 members of Congress who left after the 2010 elections, roughly a third wound up in the lobby business.