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Hold Onto Your Underwear: This Is Not a National Emergency
Let me put American life in the Age of Terror into some kind of context, and then tell me you’re not ready to get on the nearest plane heading …
Cheney Endorses Effort to Repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
On ABC’s This Week today, former Vice President Cheney threw his support behind President Obama’s efforts to change the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, saying that "things have …
Errant Rockets Kill 12 Civilians in Afghan Offensive
Kabul, Afghanistan - Twelve Afghan civilians died Sunday after U.S. rockets mistakenly hit a house during the much-trumpeted offensive to clear the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand province, a …
Climate Change: The Day After Tomorrow Might Have Been Yesterday
Washington - When the 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow” depicted the northern United States buried under tens of feet of snow following an abrupt change in global climate …
Speculative and Lobbying Frenzy; Regulatory Stupor
Barely a year after having saved the banks by devoting colossal sums to their rescue on both sides of the Atlantic - 25 percent of GDP, according to the …
Health Care Summit: More Like a Duel at Dawn Than a Garden Party
The White House has invited congressional Republicans to join Democrats for a health care summit to be moderated by President Obama and broadcast live. But Obama says legislative proposals …
Anthem Blue Cross Delays Rate Hike Pending Review by California Officials
Anthem Blue Cross will postpone by two months a massive rate hike that was set to take effect March 1 pending the results of an outside review launched last …
Pressing the Peace Reset Button
The hopeful energy that resulted in the election of President Obama has run smack into the depressing reality of the largest military budget ever submitted in the history of …
Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History
The Golden Rule is in danger. No, not the famed ethical code - though proponents of selfishness certainly have ignored it - but a thirty-foot sailing ship of the …
Palin, Romney and the GOP Field
It is ridiculously early to even begin discussing the Republican field for the 2012 presidential election - hell, it's still too early to really talk about the 2010 midterms …