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Health Care Rationing for Beginners
“Obama-care kills Medicare as we know it. Obama-care raids $500 billion from Medicare to spend on Obama-care, puts in place a 15-panel board to ration Medicare by unelected bureaucrats. …
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Rumi’s Field
(Photo: Robin Thunholm / Flickr) “Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.” -Rumi Keeping the biggest possible …
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FBI’s Counterterrorism Operations Scrutinizing Political Activists
For at least three years, counterterrorism agents monitored the comings and goings at Scott Crow's home in Austin, Tex. (Photo: Caleb Bryant Miller / The New York Times) …
The Eros Effect and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview With George Katsiaficas
(Photo: Maged Helal / Flickr)
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US Air Strike Kills 14 Civilians in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — The governor of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan on Sunday accused U.S.-led forces of killing at least 14 civilians in a bombing raid called in by …
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Autopen Used to Sign Patriot Act Into Law
WASHINGTON — Generations of children learned the basics of the American legislative process from a “Schoolhouse Rock” cartoon, in which “Bill” sings, “If he signs me, then I’ll be …
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A Memorial Day Massacre
(Photo: chicago.indymedia.org) It's a dramatic, shocking and violent film. Some 200 uniformed policemen armed with billy clubs, revolvers and tear gas angrily charge an unarmed crowd of several …
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E.J. Dionne Jr. | Our Imagination Deficit
WASHINGTON — While the United States remains utterly frozen in a debate about budget deficits and all the things that government shouldn't do, other countries are marrying public and …
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Five Eye-Opening Facts About Our Bloated Post-9/11 “Defense” Spending
(Photo: Staff Sgt. Jeff Kaus / U.S. Department of Defense) This week, the National Priorities Project (NPP) released a snapshot of U.S. “defense” spending since September 11, …
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Remembering the Quiet, Unsung Heroes of America
(Photo: Fouquier / Flickr) This Memorial Day, let's remember and learn from our heroes who are gone from us. For me, my heroes are my parents, both …