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Without Concrete Action, New USAF Regulations on Church-State Separation Will Be as Useful as a “Football Bat”
At the very beginning of August 2012, I blasted outgoing (now-retired) Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force (CSAF), Gen. Norton Schwartz, for his lackadaisical and utterly …
Mitt Romney’s Southern Strategy Gambit
On August 3, 1980 GOP Presidential contender Ronald Reagan picked his campaign starting point at the Neshoba County Fair, near Meridian Mississippi. The virtually lily-white, wildly enthusiastic throng that …
The United States’ Clandestine Armies Plunge Us Deeper Into Violence
The US empire's taxpayer-funded secret operatives foment the very instability that allows them to continue to proliferate like cockroaches.
“Courage” in Washington Doesn’t Have the Same Meaning
Last week, Vice President Joe Biden did a courageous thing, he promised an audience in southern Virginia that there will be no cuts whatsoever to Social Security in a …
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Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn’t Get in Their Way
He was already telling me about the very important book — with that smug look I know so well in a man holding forth, eyes fixed on the fuzzy …
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The Government Can Track You by Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant
Civil liberties groups say the broad ruling, handed down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio, could have sweeping impacts on the Fourth Amendment privacy rights of …
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Julian Assange Calls on Obama to End “Witch Hunt“
The WikiLeaks founder took to the balcony of Ecuadoru2019s Embassy in London to address supporters.
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Small Government or Smallish-Sort-of-Mediumish-Nicer-Better Government
It couldnu2019t hurt for the Democrats to have a decent response to the small-government attack line, and that starts with having some kind of understanding of what the federal …
Stand Together as Friends of 30 Million Afghans
Is it at all important, in the midst of the Afghan war and its attendant socio-economic devastation, to wish that two Afghan youth, Ali and Abdulhai, will eventually obtain …
Jeju Island Base Divides Korean, International Green Groups
As construction of a hotly contested naval base on South Koreau2019s Jeju Island advances, thereu2019s a showdown underway.