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Defector from the Green Berets: A Review of William T. Hathaway’s Radical Peace
(Image: Trine Day) Instilling the will to kill in Special Forces training is equally important as teaching the skills to kill. Commandos are heavily indoctrinated in the …
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Torture Is Never Legal and Didn’t Lead Us to Bin Laden
Senator John McCain at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Feb. 25, 2009. McCain declared in a speech on the Senate floor Thursday, “It was not torture, or cruel, …
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Health Insurers Making Record Profits as Many Postpone Care
Doctors have noted that patients are becoming more conscious of medical costs. Fewer patients are requesting MRIs. (Photo: Just Us 3) The nation’s major health insurers are …
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Why We Must Sail to Gaza
Israeli soldiers stand next to a ship docked in the port of Ashdod which was part of a flotilla heading to Gaza, in the port of Ashdod, Tuesday, June …
Weapons That Will Never Die: We Need to Stop the Expensive Reincarnations (Part II)
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Obama Pushes for Increase in Domestic Oil Production
Offshore drilling rig at Huntington Beach, California. (Photo: Peter Bo Rappmund) Washington - President Barack Obama is responding to voter frustration over high gasoline prices and oil …
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Actually, “the Rich” Don’t “Create Jobs,” We Do
(Photo: tom.arthur) You hear it again and again, variation after variation on a core message: if you tax rich people it kills jobs. You hear about "job-killing …
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News in Brief: Obama May Bypass War Powers Resolution to Continue War in Libya, and More …
Obama May Bypass War Powers Resolution to Continue War in Libya President Obama and his legal advisers may skirt the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to continue …
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Republican FCC Commissioner Who Approved NBC Merger Becomes Comcast Lobbyist
Republican FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker will leave her position with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in June to serve as senior vice president of government affairs with Comcast-NBC. …
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Some Final Thoughts on the Death of Osama bin Laden
People crowd surf at ground zero in New York City in the hours after President Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden was killed, on May 2, 2011. …