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Fox News Largely Ignores Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal
Yesterday marked the end of Don’t Ask, Don’t — an 18-year-old policy that prohibited gays and lesbians from openly serving in the military and forced more than 14,000 qualified …
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Graphic Foreign Policy
Living in Japan in the late 1990s, I was struck by the sheer number and variety ofmanga or comic books. You could go to a manga store and find an entire aisle …
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Perry Used Taxpayer Money to Subsidize Family Vacations, Presidential Campaign Events
During the last slash-and-burn legislative session, presidential contender and Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) approved draconian budget cuts for everything from education to Medicare. But one area where he …
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A Surprise Morning March on Wall Street
In the newly-renamed Liberty Plaza, the place that hundreds of protesters have come to call home for the last three days, nothing is quite predictable. At around 6:15 in the morning, …
Four Trillion-Dollar Tax Cuts = Four Trillion-Dollar Budget Cuts
This past Monday, September 19, President Obama revealed his proposals for how to pay for his $447 billion tax cut/jobs bill announced last week. In the same speech, he …
Can Solyndra’s Breakthrough Solar Technology Outlive the Company’s Demise?
The politically charged investigation into Solyndra's collapse has overshadowed the fact that the fate of a groundbreaking technology hangs in the balance. The politically charged investigation into …
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Assassination Deals Blow to Peace Process in Afghanistan
Kabul Afghanistan - An assassin with explosives hidden in his turban was ushered into the home of the head of Afghanistan’s peace process on Tuesday, embraced him and then …
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Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: The AP Releases Misleading Analysis of Obama’s Tax Plan
As part of his deficit reduction plan, President Obama has proposed some tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, which would come via allowing the Bush tax cuts for the …
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Resisting the Corporate Theft of Seeds
We are in a food emergency. Speculation and diversion of food to biofuel has contributed to an uncontrolled price rise, adding more to the billion already denied their right …
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Poll: Obama Expected to Lose But Still Tops Any Republican One-On-One
Washington - Look out President Barack Obama, even Sarah Palin's gaining on you. A new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that Obama looks increasingly vulnerable in next year's election, …