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Frida Berrigan | Enough Already: Close Gitmo
Remember way back when? President Barack Obama promised to close the Guantánamo prison, restore the United States' moral standing, and end the practice of torture. It was two years …

Parents Unite Across Violent Borders
Jerusalem - With Middle East peace talks at a standstill, a group of activists is taking matters into its own hands. The Parents’ Circle Families Forum, a group comprising …

Representative Steve King: All Life Is Sacred … Except for the Womans Life That Is
Rep. Steve King, a Republican representative from Iowa, has it all figured out - life, that is. It's simple, he says, according to Lynda Waddington writing on the Iowa …

Ray McGovern | Obama Should Read WikiLeaks Documents
Perhaps President Barack Obama should give himself a waiver on the ban prohibiting U.S. government employees from downloading classified cables released by WikiLeaks, so he can better understand the …

China’s Economy Not Looking So Hot
These days, China seems to play much the same role in American public discourse that Japan did two decades ago. We Americans look at our own economic follies — …

Haley Barbour’s Revisionist History
In a recent article in The Weekly Standard entitled “The Boy from Yazoo City,” Mississippi governor Haley Barbour, chairman of the Republican Governors Association (RGA) and a potential 2012 …

New Orleans Dumps FEMA Trailers – and Maybe the People in Them
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu delivered on his promise to shut down the remaining FEMA trailers in the city, though not in the way struggling residents would have hoped. …

Eugene Robinson | Health Care Melodrama
Washington - If the incoming Republican leadership in the House of Representatives is serious about trying to repeal health care reform, there's only one appropriate Democratic response: "Make my …

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Administration Prepares to Defy Efforts to Limit Obama’s Options for Guantanamo
Obama administration officials say they plan to reject Congressional efforts to limit the president's options on Guantanamo, setting the stage for a confrontation between the president and the new …