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Napolitano: In Two Years We
On Monday, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano told a gathering in El Paso what is not new news, but what is staggering every time it’s repeated. “In both …
Clashes Erupt in Cairo Between Mubarak’s Allies and Foes
Cairo - President Obama’s calls for a rapid transition to a new order in Egypt seemed eclipsed on Wednesday as a choreographed surge of thousands of people chanting support …
Science Is Not a Four-Letter Word
By labeling climate science “the greatest HOAX perpetrated on the American people” and recently claiming “the fix is in,” Sen. James Inhofe is charging scientific experts with not mere …
Ronald Reagan, Enemy of the American Worker
The 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth is coming up in February, and before the inevitable gushing over what a wonderful leader he was begins, let me get in …
Reagan’s Solicitor General Charles Fried: “I Am Quite Sure That the Health Care Mandate Is Constitutional“
In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today on “The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act,” President Ronald Reagan’s former Solicitor General — Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried — tore …
Dear John, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?
With millions of Americans out of work, House Republicans are focusing in on real priorities: decimating private abortion coverage and crippling public funding for abortion, as Jessica Arons reports …
Will Companies and Organizations Step Up to the Challenge in the New Green Economy?
Problem: Changing the US and other countries in the world to create a green-based economy, while phasing out fossil fuels. Solution: It will take more than government programs and …
News in Brief: Senate to Vote on Health Care Repeal as Experts Eye Supreme Court, and More
Senate to Vote on Health Care Repeal as Experts Eye Supreme Court
Marjorie Cohn | US Chickens Come Home to Roost in Egypt
Barack Obama, like his predecessors, has supported Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to the tune of $1.3 billion annually, mostly in military aid. In return, Egypt minds US interests in …
Saad’s Revolution
A largely unheralded hero of the Egyptian revolution is a mild-mannered academic who endured imprisonment and then exile for daring to criticize the Mubarak family’s increasingly dynastic ambitions.