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Backlash in the Age of Obama
Chapter One: The Cassandra of Lower Delaware At approximately 11 a.m. on June 30, 2009, inside a senior citizens’ center in the rustic rural county seat of Georgetown, Delaware, …
News in Brief: California Judge to End “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and More
A federal judge has ruled the military’s ban on openly gay service members unconstitutional, and will issue an order to halt the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
Want to Combat Climate Change? Ignore Congress
Congress comes back into session next week, but environmentalists and climate change activists have given up on the legislature. Instead, activists are planning to spur popular concern about these …
Rescue, Relief, Reconciliation: Chilean President Sebastián Piñera
On March 11, 2010, Sebastián Piñera was sworn in as the Republic of Chile’s 35th president in a ceremony at the National Congress in Valparaíso. The new president received …
Iraq: The Democrats’ War
The ongoing presence of over 50,000 US troops, many thousands of civilian employees and tens of thousands of US-backed mercenaries raises serious questions over the significance of the partial …
Rahm Emanuel: Expected Departure Could Lead to West Wing Shakeup
The expected departure of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in the next few months, possibly to run for mayor of Chicago, could open the way to a …
Has California Supreme Court Ruling “Wiped Out” Proposition 8 Opposition?
The California Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown have no legal obligation to defend Proposition 8. The 2008 voter-approved measure banning same …
Veterans Exposed to Carcinogen Shed Light on Secret Iraq Contracting Deal
A lawsuit filed by Iraq war veterans against a former Halliburton subsidiary over exposure to toxic chemicals is not the first of its kind, but it has brought new …
Robert Scheer | It’s the Mortgages, Stupid (2)
This week's proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than …