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The Black Vote is Still the President’s Trump Card
That black voters will again give President Obama a sky-high percentage of their vote in 2012 was never in doubt. What is in doubt is how many will make …
Kenya’s Criminal Assault on Famine-Stricken Somalia
A view of the skyline beyond the northern suburbs of Mogadishu is seen through a bullet hole in the window of a hotel in Yaaqshiid District, where Al Shabaab …
Cop Art: The Rise of the Citizen Satirist
(Image: janie-jones / Casually Pepper Spraying Cop Tumblr) “My name only comes up when some a-hole wants to end an argument..., ” Adolf Hitler yells to his …
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The Heart of a Lion: Botswana’s Bushmen Celebrate 5 Years On
‘The lion and I are brothers,’ a Gwi Bushman from Botswana told a Survival International representative when he was evicted from his ancestral home in the Central Kalahari Game …
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“Vietnam Ambush”: A Cautionary Tale
(Image: PublishAmerica) Vietnam Ambush Daniel Seidenberg Jr. PublishAmerica Baltimore, 2010 In the 1960s, the United States of America conscripted young men …
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A Man in Tunisia, a Movement on Wall Street, and the Soldier Who Ignited the Fuse
Protesters chant slogans against the political party of former President Zine el-Abedine Ben Ali in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, on January 21, 2011. The city was where Mohamed Bouazizi, a …
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Supporters of Accused WikiLeaks Source Rally as Hearing Continues
Washington - Hundreds of people gathered Saturday outside a U.S. military base where evidence against Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking classified information to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks, …
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Vaclav Havel, Dissident Playwright Who Led Czechoslovakia, Dead at 75
Vaclav Havel, the writer and dissident whose eloquent dissections of Communist rule helped to destroy it in revolutions that brought down the Berlin Wall and swept Havel himself into …
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The European Central Bank Fear Factor
The European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany. (Photo: slolee) Panic is beginning to overwhelm the eurozone. Italy and Spain are caught in the maelstrom. Belgium is slipping …
Why a Constitutional Law Professor Should Not Sign an Unconstitutional Military Detention Bill
President Barack Obama speaks at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the U.S. Department of the Interior in Washington, Dec. 2, 2011. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New …