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Seven Concerns About the New Health Law
The sweeping health care overhaul signed into law his month by President Barack Obama is more than 2,000 pages long and has been dissected by analysts, politicians and pundits. …
Obama Outlines Offshore Drilling Plans for Entire Southern Atlantic Coastline
Washington - President Barack Obama this morning announced an expansion of oil and gas exploration along the entire southern Atlantic coastline, including all of North Carolina. "There will be …
US Recants Claims on “High-Value” Detainee Abu Zubaydah
The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah, the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected …
McChrystal’s Support for Afghan Raids Belies New Image
Washington - Gen. Stanley McChrystal has recently acquired the image of a master strategist of the population-sensitive counterinsurgency, reducing civilian casualties from airstrikes and insisting that troops avoid firing …
Ruth Marcus | No Place to Be a Voyeur
A woman did it. Turns out the Republican National Committee staffer who accompanied a group of donors to Voyeur, a bondage-themed nightclub in West Hollywood, and then turned in …
Jack Bauer: Patriot, Hero, Terrorist-Torturing Badass?
In the weeks following 9/11, the Jack Bauer character in the “24” series is exactly the type of character Americans craved to see on their TV screens, and the …
Fraud on the Street
The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Monday it had begun an inquiry into two dozen financial companies to determine whether they followed accounting practices similar to those recently disclosed …
Democrats Block Republican’s Student Loan Cash Cow
Reining in insurers and expanding health coverage for Americans aren't the only reforms achieved last week by the White House and Congress. The passage of the health care bill …
More Dark Truths From Guantanamo as Five Innocent Men Are Freed
After eight years imprisonment without charge or trial, five former Guantánamo prisoners are beginning new lives this week - two in Switzerland and three in Georgia.
Gulf War Veterans: The VA Takes Important First Steps
Last week, the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) officially recognized several diseases as linked with deployment to the 1991 Gulf War. As Gulf War veterans, we applaud the …